Sentences with phrase «public arguments about»

The decade between the cloning of Dolly the sheep and the election of Barack Obama was rife with heated public arguments about embryo research, cloning, assisted reproduction, and other matters bioethical.

For either of them to engage in a public argument about who would win a in a violent fight is reckless and irresponsible.

The corollary would be that a diminution of the public honor accorded to those who died in combat might be desirable in helping Mr. Hayes win his next round of foreign policy disputes with John McCain - disputes that he might otherwise lose in public argument about the merits of the military operation in question.

The government can not win a public argument about why it is increasing VAT but refusing to renew the bank bonus tax.

So, there is little public argument about God and nature in «Creation,» no actual manifestation of the intellectual and spiritual tumult his theories would inspire.

Not exact matches

The core of any argument about stories of this kind is that they are protected by the First Amendment because there is a clear public interest in having the information released that outweighs the fact that it was classified, or may have been obtained by illegal means.

No doubt, an interesting argument could be had about whether a future of self - driving, electrically propelled automobiles could be as clean and efficient as better public transit.

The paper reports that Tamerlan grew more intense and confrontational about Islam, picking arguments in public and even in the mosque which he attended: arguments which eventually drew him to the attention of the FBI.

Uhlmann of the Ethics and Public Policy Center in Washington, D.C., has put together a remarkable range of information and arguments bearing on continuing debates about the end, and ending, of life.

Today in Public Discourse, Maggie Gallagher, Blankenhorn's friend (and former employee), writes a moving personal piece about the Blankenhorn's decision and the ongoing argument over marriage.

Worth noticing is that his public argument is about the consequences of assisted reproductive technologies, how they result in embryo killing, freezing, and other abuses.

At oral arguments about whether public prayers at a New York town's board meetings are permissible, the high court took a broad look at the country's church - state history and even the Supreme Court's own traditions.

At Wednesday's oral arguments, the court's conservative majority appeared to have the votes to allow the public prayers to continue in some form, but both sides expressed concerns about the level of judicial and government oversight over prayers presented by members of a particular faith.

«Lewis wrote in a time when, among the educated British public if not among their professional philosophers, there was considerably more agreement than there is now about what constitutes a valid and rational argument for a given case.»

His arguments about journalism transcended the left - right divide; on the subject of the press, he said, «It is not an organ of public opinion.

During an intense hour of oral arguments, Massachusetts officials said the issue was more about public safety and pedestrian access on local sidewalks.

Here enters the second caveat about the rule that public arguments be made in a way that is publicly accessible.

We need to make public arguments that touch directly upon the truth about human nature as available to human reason.

Even if you want to lay to one side the very valid concerns about the porn industry's links with human trafficking, or the connections between hard - core pornography use and sexual violence, there's a strong argument that this is, in fact, a public health issue.

His argument falls short, however, when it comes to discussing the proper social or institutional role for religion in the public square, about which he seems to harbor serious misgivings.

Liberals and conservatives alike have resorted to religious arguments in defense of claims about public morality and the role of the state in defending public morality.

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The second is that public debates about science represent a messy clash between two, not just different, but diametrically opposed approaches to argument: scientific argument and advocacy.

Using the example of the current debate surrounding anthropomorphic climate change, Thompson sought to evaluate the argument from authority through a single prism, the way in which science is handled in argumentation about public policy.

By bringing together 50 randomly - selected members of the public, weighted to reflect the EU vote, it has shown what a diverse sample of the UK electorate feel about the Brexit options when they have had the chance to learn about them, listen to the arguments, and reflect on their own preferences and those of their fellow members.

Labour's argument was rejected - or failed to get across (partly because it all seemed about # 6 billion this year)- but against opponents who said cutting waste was important, but in David Cameron's case that he would reject any ministerial plan to cut public services.

A federal appeals court upheld a New York law requiring nonprofits to report identifying information about their largest donors to the state Attorney General's office, rejecting arguments that donors would fear «public backlash, financial harm and worse.

These are the arguments we need to be using; it has to be about cuts impacting on the delivery of key public services, services that people all too often take for granted and that they don't yet realise they're set to lose unless they're prepared to fight for them.

In other words, instead of just defending the public sector, the arguments should be reframed to talk about those whole economy in general.

How often have we heard such arguments in public debates about planning?

Clearly, taking care in any form about the homeless incur costs and I find the only reasonable argument for denying public funds.

Take the personal allegiances out of it, and policy differences about public service reform are not an ideological argument to cascade down the generations.

What I can't stand about Blonde's argument over public services, is his failure to realize that private property in healthcare budgets is regressive because it lowers the quality of care for the sickest and poorest by depriving them of resources they need, and removes democratic accountability from healthcare.

This is a bit rich from an organisation whose news values seem to think that Labour's false claims, systematic lies about Labour's opponents and a one sided presentation of the public spending argument is what constitute journalism here in the UK.

The argument made about gay men still buying the drug but under unregulated conditions has probably been accepted by the Home Office behind closed doors — but it can not accept it in public, because it is one of the key general arguments for drug legalisation.

He told a listening event for health leaders at Downing Street that «your organisations, which are hugely trusted and understood by the public and by users of your organisations, can help us make the argument that change, that choice, that diversity is not about privatisation, it's actually about improving healthcare».

First and most obviously is the argument that after the expenses scandal, and new questions being asked about politicians» pay, it's highly doubtful whether the public would approve of their tax revenues going towards political parties, especially in the amounts needed to make an impact.

But in an interview with WBEN Radio, Paladino again reiterated his argument that he was removed for disclosing information about the new teachers contract that been in the public domain for three months.

Couching the argument in psephological number - crunching about the shifting class structure, they are playing out a deeper existential question about the party's strategy and public identity.

State Senator Rev. Ruben Diaz, Sr., sent out a press release this morning to «set the record straight» about his very public argument with fellow Senator Kevin Parker, of Brooklyn.

Ed Miliband does have a strategic sense of where he wishes to take the party, but needs to build on his arguments about the squeezed middle to articulate how he believes the party's public argument, as well as its organisation, should change.

This seems to indicate that the recent criticisms of his performance — and arguments about the best way to respond to public spending cuts - have had most impact among his own party base.

I understand the arguments about the lack of public transport as an alternative and that the car is often the most realistic mode of transport.

Most of the public will not engage in arguments about the size of the state, but public sector workers (who did not cause the current crisis) will feel its effects.

However the budget process shakes out, Erie County's cultural groups can be confident that they made every effort, and every argument about their worthiness as a public investment.

He said: «We are convinced that the economy is a much more dominant issue than in 2001 or 2005 when essentially growth was presumed and the argument was about public services.

«These survey findings show the American public is closely split in their views about the protesters» goals — a sizeable share of the public is aligned with the protesters» arguments but a roughly similar share are either opposed to the goals of the protesters or have yet to be convinced.»

Some initiatives are the subject of rigorous evaluations here, but more interesting than the case studies are the big - picture observations and arguments about the blending of public and private.

Despite President Johnson's personal interest in his arguments, Moynihan said, the years that immediately followed his report — the era of the Great Society — brought an approach to social science and to public policy that made the problem he had diagnosed much more difficult to address effectively, and even to talk about honestly.

While they're funded with public money, they generally operate outside of collective bargaining agreements (only about one - tenth of charter schools are unionized) and other constraints that often prevent principals in public schools from innovating for the good of their students (so the argument goes).