Sentences with phrase «political debate and discussion»

Strong protections for the right to protest are essential to meaningful and informed political debate and discussion.

«Providing more live coverage of the key political debates and discussions has meant that during 2015, a dramatic year in politics, we've seen a surge in people using BBC Parliament to follow proceedings.

Not exact matches

Recent confusion at the political level and a philosophical discussion with some friends has prompted a revisit to the taxi debate.

But the charge puts me in mind of the colloquium discussion in the January issue of First Things which treated the debate between so - called «liberal» and «radical» Catholics, perhaps because my contribution to that discussion has elicited similar accusations of political irresponsibility or moral cowardice from people sympathetic to the liberal line of thought.

You and Sam are the ones who turned the discussion into a debate over the quality of the observable and verifiable evidentiary sociological implications of generalized political affiliation in relation to spiritual and cognitive self identification.

Campaign finance reform will not itself make the political process a full and free discussion and debate.

I also think it appropriate for them to cite those reasons in public discussions and debates about those political issues.

Martin Kettle of The Guardian who was a respondent to Gary said that he had not yet read the PES manifesto, but that the discussion would make him to do so, and that he certainly favoured a more political debate in Europe.

The Politics in Spires blog series «A Separate or United Kingdom» has attempted to contribute to an expanded discussion of the independence debate with voices from across the social sciences, including law, economics, sociology, psychology, human geography, political philosophy, and more.

Political disagreement still remains in Kenya on whether suspected perpetrators of the post-election violence should have been tried under a local tribunal or the ICC, and Kenyatta and Ruto have spun this ongoing discussion into a debate over whether others believe them to be guilty or not.

«Too often debates about AV are less like political arguments, and more like scientific discussions, where people get lost in a language of proportionality and preferences, probabilities and possibilities.

Cults, then, tend to close down more detailed or complex discussion, reducing political debate to content free slogans and faith in the qualities, real or imagined, of leading individuals.

It is certainly worthwhile staying tuned for future debates and discussions, which aim to «look at the underlying questions that face us in the political sphere».

This hierarchy is often reflected in political priorities, and one current debate where this may be seen is the discussion over prioritising house building over the protection of the countryside.

A deadly, ISIS - inspired attack that came just a week ahead of the New York City mayoral election turned a political debate into a fiery discussion over the city's approach to terrorism and policing.

America's Debate - News, Government & Political Debate «A free and easy - to - use discussion forum for debating serious issues seriously.

Debates between isolationism and intervention abound throughout the film, as do discussions about the treatment of people of color, such as the political agenda of Killmonger that is closely tied to racial inequality.

I was recently introduced to FORA.tv, a new Web site that aggregates videos of discussions and debates on interesting political, social, and cultural issues.

Programme highlights From early years practice to high - level debates on the provision of music education for all, the programme aimed to provide a balance of practical, advice - led sessions, useful practice - sharing workshops and discussion to broaden thinking both on practice and the broader political context of musical and cultural education.

The political screech of today's overheated K — 12 debate drowns out discussion of plodding, bipartisan measures, and our infatuation with shiny new initiatives — Blended learning!

Supporters rushed the standards» adoption, used whatever political channels were most convenient, eschewed public debate and discussion, and in doing so triggered a massive backlash that either caused states to reject the standards outright or led them to water down the initiative to such an extent that there's little left of the original vision, which called for the careful alignment of standards, tests, curricular resources, and teaching strategies, all to be shared across state borders.

Perhaps the Superintendent missed the college class when students were taught that political debate is the discussion of policy options and, in this case, the role of the Board of Education to make appropriate policy decisions as the formal legislative body of Hartford's school system.

Remember, I'd lived and breathed politics my entire life — had political discussion and debate served like mashed potatoes with dinner every night since I was a little kid.

It was The Club that provided the informal yet critical format for panel discussions which included various topics: painting, sculpture, philosophy, music, anthropology, and on some occasions even heated political debates.

Although many over emphasize the social aspects of such an event, I found the most stimulating conversations I've had in years happening in the auditorium tent where borders — political, spatial, ideological and imagined — were debated and stretched to their limits through heady discussion from artists and the public alike.

Three themes are emerging from the newly released emails: (1) prominent scientists central to the global warming debate are taking measures to conceal rather than disseminate underlying data and discussions; (2) these scientists view global warming as a political «cause» rather than a balanced scientific inquiry and (3) many of these scientists frankly admit to each other that much of the science is weak and dependent on deliberate manipulation of facts and data.

The seven month delay, sources within the government say, came after discussions late last spring between Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sibelius» office and officials linked to Valerie Jarrett at the Executive Office, who were debating the political implications of approving the GM salmon.

The Weekend Australian lead editorial on «Global warming facts must give us all pause to think» references Judith's work and concludes after considering the pause that «The gatekeepers of scientific media and political debate should not be afraid of a discussion about the facts and their ramifications.

But AGW probably doesn't exist, and if it does, it's effects in 50 years are utterly unknowable, so no rational discussion is possible, so political debate is non-existent, and those who propose it are demonised as deniers.

The Dunlap / Brulle book acknowledges that the dominant scientific and economic discourses framing the climate debate «reinforces the existing socio - politico - economic status quo» and «removes moral and political considerations from the discussion» (Brulle.

In public discussion, scientific publications, political debate and economic analysis alike, climate engineering is always presented in a certain way which alleviates the importance of some aspects of it and neglects others — climate engineering is framed.

Very few politicians supporting any meaningful legislation on climate change, limited discussion in the Press and political debates, projections for increasing fossil fuel use as far out as the eye can see, etc..»

Given the often invoked rationale underlying the use of the living tree metaphor, it is ironic indeed that in constitutionalizing these political and social issues, the courts have «frozen» those issues in time, and thereby immunized those issues from future and evolving civic engagement, discussion and debate.

As late as 1975, the British Columbia Court of Appeal could state with confidence that, unlike the United States, Canadian courts were concerned solely with the text of a statute and were not permitted to reference «things said in debates,» or engage in «a philosophical and political discussion that extends progressively beyond the ordinary meaning of the words.»

Perhaps it ill - behooves a lawyer and law professor to say so, but I think this is a dangerous mistake, especially when this kind of approach to argument increasingly emigrates from the courts and colonizes public and political discussion and debate.

Weekly KCRW's political podcast emulates the classic debate setup: someone on the left, someone on the right, and someone in the center to moderate the discussion.

As regular readers of this blog now, there is an on - going debate about balancing Social Emotional Learning interventions with ensuring that these practices don't act as a replacement for needed economic, social and political policy changes (see The Best Resources Showing Social Emotional Learning Isn't Enough and, in particular, my Washington Post piece, The Manipulation of Social Emotional Learning, to learn more about this discussion).