Sentences with phrase «prevents open debate»

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WHERE IS THE LOVE OF GOD IN ALL THIS??? This is an open forum, an invitation to debate... it isn't a place for name calling, or put downs... it isn't a place for closed mindedness... its a place to exchange ideas, and perhaps to come to a greater understanding of scripture and one another and when someone puts someone down or is dogmatic about another's beliefs it prevents dialogue.

The National Union of Teachers (NUT) has spoken out against the government's Prevent strategy to combat extremism, claiming it shuts down open debate in the classroom.

Prevent has made too many children and teachers wary of open debate and discussion in schools.

The debate over whether spay and neuter actually reduces the claimed «overpopulation problem» is ongoing but preventing a pet from straying is not open to debate.

Though scientific consensus must always be open to responsible skepticism given: (a) the strength of the consensus on this topic, (b) the enormity of the harms predicted by the consensus view, (c) an approximately 30 year delay in taking action that has transpired since a serious climate change debate began in the United States in the early 1980s, (d) a delay that has made the problem worse while making it more difficult to achieve ghg emissions reductions necessary to prevent dangerous climate change because of the steepness of reductions now needed, no politician can ethically justify his or her refusal to support action on climate change based upon a personal opinion that is not supported by strong scientific evidence that has been reviewed by scientific organizations with a wide breadth of interdisciplinary scientific expertise.

Almost immediately, a small group of influential state bars exerted tremendous political pressure and succeeded, not in defeating the concept in an open and reasoned debate, but from preventing the Commission from even considering the idea.