Sentences with phrase «robust debate for»

Implementing SRM would require overcoming a series of technical, political and ethical challenges, which have been the subject of robust debate for some time.

Sir Okiro, the author, said in an interview that the book is his little contribution to the robust debate for a better Nigeria.

Not exact matches

Culture secretary Matt Hancock added: «Robust high quality journalism is important for public debate and scrutiny - but as print circulations decline and more readers move online, the press faces an uncertain future.

A return to robust internal debate and a party - first mentality would be a good start for a Labor Party in decline.

«The conflict in Lebanon has ignited a robust debate on jihadist Web sites over backing for Hezbollah, the Shiite group that set off the crisis when it seized two Israeli soldiers on July 12.

The congressman said he's glad to see the small - d democratic process unfold, and is prepared for a robust debate once his general election opponent emerges.

«Governor Cuomo is looking forward to a robust discussion of ideas at both debates and we want to thank the sponsors for making these events possible,» said Cuomo campaign spokesman Matt Wing.

I will return to the detail of those legalities because that has occupied much of the afternoon's debate, but it is for that reason and in the interest of avoiding a long judicial process that we concluded that the quickest way to reduce and, we hoped, eliminate cruelty to wild animals in our circuses would be a robust licensing system, which might well result in circuses deciding to stop keeping such animals.»

A spokesman for Cuomo's campaign says the governor is «looking forward to a robust discussion of ideas at both debates».

Cooper is also planning a more upmarket fundraising push for the good of the party, offering a # 300 - a-head night of «robust debate to define our policy stance» at the lavish Sway restaurant in London.

Let Susan and Randall have a robust and vigorous debate, raise the dialogue, look deeper into issues and how they might be solved for the betterment of our community rather than disenfranchising voters.

In a statement, Lis Smith, a spokesperson for the Cuomo campaign said, «We look forward to a robust debate.

They also argue NE should establish a transparent process for evaluating the various advanced reactor concepts it supports across key performance requirements, in order to enable robust debate on the economic, safety, security and waste implications of various designs.

Not much can be done to create artificially the atmosphere for debate, though the enterprising convener can plant suitably robust questioners in the audience.

But the recommendations for robust public engagement and debate feel a bit vacuous and vague, aspirations untethered to a concrete framework.

All of the reports on genome editing call for robust public debate, but the simple fact is that embryo research has proven highly divisive and resistant to consensus, and it is far from clear how to know when there is enough thoughtful deliberation to make policy choices.

This pre-assessment will allow for placement of individuals into groups that will perhaps challenge their beliefs or preconceptions and stimulate a robust discussion or bring together like - minded individuals for a strong debating side.

This report brings data from the newly - released 2016 National Survey of Children's Health (NSCH) to the robust policy and research debate over the extent to which differences in aggregate special education participation rates over racial and ethnic groups represent differences in underlying needs for special education.

The CALS construct is defined as a constellation of the high - utility language skills that correspond to linguistic features prevalent in oral and written academic discourse across school content areas and that are infrequent in colloquial conversations (e.g., knowledge of logical connectives, such as nevertheless, consequently; knowledge of structures that pack dense information, such as nominalizations or embedded clauses; knowledge of structures for organizing argumentative texts) Over the last years, as part of the Catalyzing Comprehension Through Discussion Debate project funded by IES to the Strategic Educational Research Partnership, Dr. Paola Uccelli and her research team have produced a research - based, theoretically - grounded, and psychometrically robust instrument to measure core academic language skills (CALS - I) for students in grades 4 - 8.

But there's a large, robust community of people that have accepted the science for a long time, and have interesting debates over the best way to proceed.

What lags what might seem like a good debate to have and one that has to be answered to as the skeptics for good scientists to set up sites like this to argue the cause but come on the evidence is clear, it is not the SUN that has caused the current warming and we have a perfectly robust argument for stating that it is greenhouse gases (all of which has increased).

Whether or not Mann's work shows all that he has claimed is not the question, for the First Amendment protects robust discussion and debate of scientific matters and the freedom to express wrong - headed opinions in inartful ways.

Unfortunately, some organizations like the Center for Biological Diversity have weaponized the ESA in order to manipulate the debate on energy policy and climate change by petitioning the courts to designate perfectly robust species as endangered or threatened from future climate change.

In a speech on the Senate floor this past June, he said, «Climate change is one of two or three of the most serious threats our country now faces, if not the most serious, and the silence that has enveloped a once robust debate is staggering for its irresponsibility.»

Considered a top state for solar energy potential — and home to a robust rooftop solar sector — Arizona's current net metering policy debates started in 2013, when utility Arizona Public Service sparked controversy with a fee proposal for rooftop solar customers that regulators ultimately scaled back to

Considered a top state for solar energy potential — and home to a robust rooftop solar sector — Arizona's current net metering policy debates started in 2013, when utility Arizona Public Service sparked controversy with a fee proposal for rooftop solar customers that regulators ultimately scaled back to a $ 5 grid access charge.

For real blood and guts debate on AGW, you now need the Telegraph where the «robust» Mr Delingpole wields his sword of ridicule with characteristic panache.

For those who want to know the difference between Mann's sue - you - into - silence approach and genuine «robust debate» in keeping with «scientific principles», Dr Curry's brief lays them out:

That this House welcomes the Prime Minister's decision to ask the Shadow Committee on Climate Change for early advice on the Climate Change Bill to inform the final stages of debate in Parliament; congratulates the Committee and its chair Lord Turner for providing robust advice despite the time pressure; welcomes their recommendation that the United Kingdom should be more ambitious in its target with cuts in greenhouse gas emissions by 2050; further welcomes Lord Turner's further statement that this should include all emissions, including aviation and shipping; and urges all parties to support amendments to incorporate these changes in the Climate Change Bill.

Long - time IPCC Chairman Rajendra Pachauri has resigned in disgrace, after saying manmade climate change is «my religion, my dharma» (principle of the cosmic order), rather than a matter for honest, quality science and open, robust debate.

Note, for example, his emphasis on the principle that public debate should be «uninhibited, robust, and wideopen,» even though one result might be «vehement, caustic, and sometimes unpleasantly sharp attacks» on government and its officials.

It's healthy for a democracy, and for a profession that values rights and freedoms, to have these kinds of robust debates.»

Their refusal to subject these proposals to full public scrutiny, robust debate and up - or - down votes is a compelling reason for them to hand back control to local governments, where it has always belonged.