Sentences with phrase «political debate about»

The combination of the deficit, the need to increase the US credit limit (aka the debt ceiling) and the fragile economy have lined up to force a major political debate about the relative mix of spending and revenue.

Publication of the results of the PoNDER Trial is therefore extremely timely, particularly as the role of the health visitor is under renewed scrutiny in the context of a wider political debate about how best to provide support to vulnerable families.

«Bring it on,» says Dismore's committee, make sure it adds to and does not detract from the European Convention, call it a UK Bill rather than get caught in all the problems involved in using the contentious term «British», and get stuck into a major and creative political debate about what rights the public would want to have.

But the debate (as I discuss here) is a political debate about science, not a scientific debate.

That's where the focus of the political debate about waste products should be.

... [O] ngoing political debate about global energy policy should not stand in the way of common sense action to reduce societal and environmental vulnerabilities to climate variability and change.»

And in case anyone is in doubt that the whole «2500 scientists of the IPCC» thing isn't common currency in political debate about the state of the planet...

What should have been a political debate about energy policy, environmental quality, and reducing vulnerability to weather and climate disasters, became a debate about the nuances of climate science, with climate scientists as the pawns and whipping boys.

More to the point, it was wielded in a public and political debate about global warming policy.

«At some point, we think this will trigger a political debate about how the grid fees and renewables subsidies should be paid for.

Straight from the horses mouth... the «consensus» has political, rather than practical utility: The public's perception of that scientific consensus is necessary to stimulate political debate about solutions.

It's one thing to have a political debate about the level of danger posed by the building greenhouse effect.

Heinzelmann, an art historian, stated: «Within this intensive cultural - political debate about the future of the museum... we've made a significant step.

At the same time, we've heard a lot of political debate about Common Core, mostly about the involvement of the federal government in our classrooms.

«Given that billions of dollars are being disbursed,» says Dennis Van Roekel, president of the National Education Association, the country's largest teachers union, «it is reasonable that people are starting to raise concerns about how this flow of money is shaping our political debate about education reform and to ask if a handful of individuals are having undue influence in one of our nation's most important institutions.»

After the events of Ultron, there's a political debate about the need to oversee the Avengers» missions.

Private foundations don't have the mandate or incentive to mediate political debate about a controversial technology that rouses the politics of abortion.

THE continuing political debate about the direction of the Australian government's pulp and paper research programme looks set to heat up.

The government's flagship Free Schools are under greater scrutiny than most because their very existence is part of a huge political debate about the direction of education policy.

However, the end of transitional controls on January 1st next year, so that those from the two most recent EU members have the same rights as citizens of the other western and east European member states, has created a heated political debate about immigration from the two countries, which is likely to run on into next year's European elections.

With the political debate about whether or not to leave the EU closed, one can concentrate on the best way to implement Brexit.

Now, more than ever, we need you to stay loud, as political debate about live export intensifies in the lead up to the election.

Denmark would be wise to follow suit and we need a serious political debate about the issue, so we can get the ball rolling.»

We can see that while there are debates about how best to serve the god of economism, there has thus far been no serious public or political debate about this religion as a whole.

The upshot is the suppression of political debate about the common good, which is why thorough - going libertarians are such a destructive force in our political culture, perhaps as much so as contemporary liberals whose main vice is the serene smugness that assumes that all we have left is administration because everybody worth talking to already agrees with them about first principles.

But Trump's suggestions for keeping these high prices in check through a bidding process for Medicare could re-invigorate the nastiest political debates about «care rationing» that surrounded the Affordable Care Act, aka Obamacare.

But what struck me was that the whole nine - week session was a microcosm of so many political debates about poverty and families.

Many new laws would need to have been passed to fine tune the system throughout that period, political debates about such issues can be helpful only if they are constructive debates about the substance.

The paper's authors note that the findings are situated within some broader political debates about education systems in general.

Add to that the aim of reducing the country's carbon dioxide emissions by 80 per cent from 1990 levels before 2050, and an economy emerging from its longest recession since the second world war, and it is easy to see why political debates about the...

Our political debates about stem cell research in recent years have stood in a peculiar relation to public opinion.

Most political debates about decarbonizing our energy sector focus on decarbonizing our electricity system and electrifying transport,» said Hans Korteweg, managing director of COGEN.

Since leaving Tyndall — and as we found out in a telephone interview — he has come out of the climate change closet as an outspoken critic of such sacred cows as the UN's IPCC, the «consensus», the over-emphasis on scientific evidence in political debates about climate change, and to defend the rights of so - called «deniers» to contribute to those debates...

Supporters said the accord puts off for now fierce political debates about how or even whether to reduce emissions of carbon dioxide, methane and other gases that collect in the atmosphere and create a greenhouse effect that warms the earth's surface.

Not exact matches

«In recent months, there have been complaints about the political sensibilities of speakers invited to address a corporate audience; debates over the appropriate length of paternity leave or work - life balances,» Moritz wrote.

That growth has fueled an already heated debate about political spending by corporations.

In the eight months since Benghazi, the debate about what happened in Benghazi has become deeply political, as Republicans continue to challenge the White House's actions during and after the attacks, which left four Americans, including U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens, dead.

As environmental issues and concerns become a center issue in political debates around the world, it's becoming apparent that 2017 is the year that green initiatives will have the opportunity to become more than what crunchy granola hippies talk about and become fully mainstream.

Some Swift Life users took to Twitter to complain about the heated political debates taking over the app — and to call for a focus on more Swift - ian discourse.

Despite the fact that Trump was widely viewed as having lost the recent debate with Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton, and that the election itself is just over a month away, the candidate chose to tweet not about the political issues in the campaign but about his dislike of former Miss Universe contestant Alicia Machado.

Trump, known for his use of Twitter to drive political debate, tweeted about an Indiana air conditioner maker he featured in his election campaign as an emblem of trade deals he said were unfavorable to American workers.

I will leave it to The Sun's political reporters to write about who «won» or «lost» this cooked - up and dumbed - down TV cartoon of a debate between Gov. Martin O'Malley and his Texas counterpart Rick Perry Wednesday on CNN's «Crossfire.»

Aside from the political spin, I welcome a wider public conversation and am excited about the potential for a real debate about downtown.

Many people think political debate and what goes on in the legislature is only about politics and political wrangling.

Now that the Republican and Democratic Conventions are over with, we can move on to the actual debate portion of the election, which means that your Facebook feed is about to get stormed by a barrage of thoughtful, reasonable, measured political opinions that will never be inflammatory hyperbole packed to the brim with dubious facts.

Forty - nine percent said they think churches should have a say in public debates about political and social questions.

Research into how se - xual orientation in males may be determined by genetic or other prenatal factors plays a role in political and social debates about ho - mose - xuality, and also raises concerns about genetic profiling and prenatal testing.»

Today much of our debate about marriage comes from a similar hope to score political points.

But because of political circumstances and the way Gingrich parried a question about the accusation during Thursday's CNN debate, the episode may cause relatively little fallout among evangelical voters, who are expected to make up about 60 % of the vote in Saturday's South Carolina primary.

I feel insecure about some of my political positions, so I only start debates I know I can win.