Sentences with phrase «richer debate about»

A June 30 report calling for the termination of Los Angeles County's experimental public health nurse program has sparked a rich debate about the role of such nurses in child...

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So when debates about embryo freezing, manipulation, or killing arise, moral philosophers and theologians have rich resources for identifying the wrongs involved.

Our national debate about marriage would be richer if we asked just what it is that God intends for us in marriage.

Perhaps his famous declaration about preferring a «poor Church for the poor» may be interpreted to mean that he prefers a Church light in structure, and with limited emphasis on philosophical debate, but rich in pastoral love.

A great strength of the present work is that it places current debates and confusions about gender roles, mutual service, and self - fulfillment within a rich tradition of Christian reflection that is theocentrically shaped by the concept of covenant.

And spectacles like last night's three - hour test of human willpower only underscore a big problem: Traditional news outlets have made presidential debates — arguably our country's most important televised forum and exchange of ideas — into mind - numbingly boring talk - a-thons, where a bunch of rich, powerful people needle each other for hours about past career decisions while dodging any question of substance.

It's where close to a hundred passionate food bloggers join me in our gorgeous So Cal mountains to study food, talk about food, debate food, write about food, photograph food and EAT FOOD... like this yummy - rich Irish Potato Soup.

The debate is one that has occupied researchers for over a century now, with quantitative researchers arguing that statistical analysis of data generates objective knowledge, while qualitative researchers believe that quantitative methods do not provide rich data about phenomena.

Two best political books I read this were «Nixonland» by Rich Perlstein (which covers the eclipse of American liberalism and rise of conservatism between 1964 - 1972) and «The Persistence of Poverty» by Charles Karelis, which is short, witty and will change the way that you think about the whole debate around welfare and poverty issues (get»em on Amazon if they aren't in the shops).

The debate about fairness is complex; after the financial crash voters are as resentful about the very rich as they are about benefit cheats.

Incumbent Democrat Ted O'Brien and Republican challenger Rich Funke didn't have anything positive to say about each other during the half - hour long debate at the Joseph Floreano Riverside Convention Center.

Beneath the shouts of protesters and the political barbs that have marked the debate over New York's $ 152.3 billion budget is a nerdy economic dispute about the effects of raising taxes on the rich.

But the true battle consuming leaders from 198 governments at a U.N. global warming conference that concluded yesterday after two weeks of negotiations and 32 hours of overtime debating was really about just one thing: balancing responsibilities between poor, rich and richer nations.

There's a conversation, a serious one, to be had about fracking, about the machinations of energy corporations, about capitalism — but it's rich that these wealthy white guys think the best way to go about inspiring debate is by presenting straw men at play in the heart of hicksploitation U.S.A..

Their case study constitutes a rich description of teaching approaches that engage students through research, debate, critical thinking, interpretation and analysis of sources beyond the textbook, stimulating class discussion and dialogue, personalizing the material, raising controversial issues, and conveying excitement about the content.8

In trying to discern better, myself, what we have and could have and should have today in terms of criticism — and to be blunt about it, how to make something richer and less tied to consumerism palatable to the average reader — I welcome Douglas» interest, as I think my colleague in some of these debates, Bethanne Patrick, will, too.

United by the common use of Pop's rich visual strategies, the artists made bold contributions to conceptualism, performance and new media art, as well as social protest, justice movements and debates about freedom.

UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown said, «I think the great thing about the Commonwealth conference is that we could find nations that were rich and poor, nations that were facing directly now climate change and nations who were debating it but hadn't felt the full impact of it, all coming together to agree something that, you know, if a third of the world can agree at the Commonwealth conference, then perhaps the whole of the world can agree at Copenhagen.»

«The People Who'll be Most Hurt by Climate Swings Did the Least to Cause Them, Study Says» (Chris Mooney, Washington Post) «There has been a lot of debate about how rich countries can help poor countries to adapt, but they have overlooked this aspect — that the impacts of climate variability change might be worse in the poorer countries,» said Sebastian Bathiany, a climate change researcher at Wageningen University in the Netherlands who led the research published in Science Advances....»

Let me be clear that I'm not talking here about the long philosophical debate on the relative merits of growth — that rich countries getting richer does not improve their quality of life.

It seems to have occurred to few of the louder voices on the right that the rich might not have a coherent and uniform set of ideas and interests in population, less still that it might be completely unconnected with debates about climate change.