Sentences with phrase «robust debate in»

Why this happens is a topic of robust debate in nutritional circles.

«I welcome a robust debate in Congress on this issue, and I welcome scrutiny of the details of this agreement,» U.S. President Barack Obama said today.

What emerges in Kind of Blue is Ken's enjoyment of robust debate in itself and as a way of refining arguments and seeking a decision.

«We have had robust debate in the House on several occasions, but it has frequently been the case in my constituency, after I won it from the nationalists, that they have attempted to shout me down.»

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

I mean if we got back to robust economic growth, maybe we could even talk about it, but at this point in the economy, it just seems crazy to even be debating this.»

This week was meant to be dedicated to robust and open immigration debate — a promise Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell made to Senate Democrats to end the three - day government shutdown in January.

The killings in Florida have also revived the debate over whether teachers should be allowed to carry guns in schools — an idea DeVos, while careful not to outright endorse it, said in an interview last week with conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt should «be part of the broader, more robust conversation about how can we avoid these things in the future.»

«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.

With interest and debate on these issues growing, FamilyFarmed is taking the lead in presenting a robust discussion of regenerative and organic agriculture on Friday, March 23.

A number of peers belonging to the All Party Parliamentary Humanist Group (APPHG) gave a robust defence of the rights of those who do not hold to any religious beliefs during a debate in the House of Lords last night.

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.»

«The increase in anti-semitic incidents recorded by CST in the early part of last year is deeply troubling and I want to be unequivocal today; I am a proud friend of Israel and welcome a robust debate about how we ensure both a secure Israel and a viable Palestinian state existing side by side,» the prime minister said.

«The county executive looks forward to robust debate with whomever emerges from the Democratic primary in the fall,» he said.

«The independence debate has been robust but overwhelmingly good - natured and it would prove a disservice to those who have participated in it thus far to suggest that with 17 days to go, Scotland is about to disintegrate into absolute carnage on the back of making the most important decision in the country's history.

Our best hope now is that today's parliament debate lacks piety and furiously questions her legacy in a manner which is personally respectable but politically robust.

Following one of the more robust debates so far this year, the state Senate approved legislation that would consolidate state and federal primaries to a single date in August.

Ekiti governorship election is coming in 2018, let there be robust debates.

«The people of NY deserve a robust, detailed debate on the issues that matter most,» Smith said in a tweet.

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

The commission, large and diverse, is dealing with complex subjects and has robust debates, as it should, but acts as a whole and reaches full unanimity in all strategic decisions.»

WNYT Vice President and General Manager Steve Baboulis says, «I am very pleased that WNYT and WAMC will be broadcasting and streaming this debate live in prime time, and I expect robust social media involvement.

They would be in uproar upon learning that a mob had tried to physically force its way into an American television studio and blocked the roads outside, trying to prevent the filming of a political debate which featured a robust and forthright atheist.

«In my view, this Parliament is enhanced when we have people of different experience taking part in our robust debate and when people who have held senior ministerial office continue to contribute to the decisions we have to make,» he addeIn my view, this Parliament is enhanced when we have people of different experience taking part in our robust debate and when people who have held senior ministerial office continue to contribute to the decisions we have to make,» he addein our robust debate and when people who have held senior ministerial office continue to contribute to the decisions we have to make,» he added.

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.

The idea is to have a robust debate over what will work best in Connecticut.

Where is the robust and sustained Conservative engagement in public discussion, debate and consultation?

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

In the end, its staying power may derive from the fact that the debate rests not so much upon numbers as upon an abiding faith in the value of a robust scientific enterprisIn the end, its staying power may derive from the fact that the debate rests not so much upon numbers as upon an abiding faith in the value of a robust scientific enterprisin the value of a robust scientific enterprise.

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.

Still, he doubts even Allentoft's team's «robust data set» will settle the debate about the role people played in the birds» extinction, simply because «some have a belief that humans would not have» done such a thing.

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

The purpose of our publications is to present scientifically robust knowledge in a form accessible to any reader, and thus to serve all those who wish to engage actively and knowledgably in debate on the issues surrounding marine science.

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.

The government appears to be running down university - led training without a robust system in place to replace it and with little public debate.

There needs to be discussion, debate and robust research about interventions in education to make sure we're focusing on things that we know work.

The whole point of this debate is this: As we begin to pick up steam in this new generation of gaming, the experiences are becoming more and more lifelike; more and more robust.

As intended, the project has set off a healthy and robust debate about the realities of race, class, and gender privilege within the art world, culminating in the decision of the Yams Collective to withdraw from the Biennial.

There's nothing there — unless we're talking about some recycled quasi-pseudointellectual garbage from the early days of the global - warming debate, stuff that was rotting in the landfill of rejected ideas even before the superannuated George Bush the Elder was forced, in consequence of his own robust incompetence, to give up the perks and comforts of his presidential lifestyle to tough it out in the chilly autumn of his old age.

Either stop complaining about robust debate and language, or stop indulging in it yourself.

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.

That case is supported by multiple, robust lines of evidence, including several that are completely independent of the climate reconstructions debated in the emails.»

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.

In an interview with Time Magazine last week, Pruitt said he planned to model his red - team, blue - team debate on Cold War - era discussions of the Soviet nuclear threat and suggested that he believed his agency did not «engage in a robust, meaningful discussion» about the threat posed by carbon dioxide before adopting the endangerment findinIn an interview with Time Magazine last week, Pruitt said he planned to model his red - team, blue - team debate on Cold War - era discussions of the Soviet nuclear threat and suggested that he believed his agency did not «engage in a robust, meaningful discussion» about the threat posed by carbon dioxide before adopting the endangerment findinin a robust, meaningful discussion» about the threat posed by carbon dioxide before adopting the endangerment finding.

Darwin's theory is 150 years old, but robust debate over fundamental characteristics still dominates the literature regarding biological evolution (e.g. in recent decades the tussle between the selfish gene emphasis and the group / multi-level evolution emphasis).

The journal also welcomes analyses of practical applications of environmental, energy technology, regional, and urban policies, as well as theoretically robust discussions of common arguments that appear throughout debates on environment and energy policy, either in the scholarly literature or in the broader civic sphere.