Sentences with phrase «robust debate over»

Arguing in favor of the law banning lying is the sad irony that quite often those with their hands on the very levers of democracy, free elections and the right to vote — candidates, their handlers, public and special interest groups — don't trust the public to make the right decision based on an honest and robust debate over the issues, but instead find it incumbent to win by smearing the opposing candidate.

Over at Idealawg, Stephanie West Allen plays host to a robust debate over whether Generation Y lawyers — or «millennials,» lawyers under 30 — who seek work / life balance to the exclusion of focusing on client needs are unrealistic slackers or serious professionals with different priorities than previous generations.

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).

Despite the robust debate over its merits, however, the proposal went down to defeat with only 41 percent of the vote.

While there is robust debate over whether loot boxes should be considered gambling, the fact that they are both expensive habits and use similar psychological principles suggest loot boxes should be treated with extra scrutiny.

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

This idea of the Fed switching gears came amid a robust debate over the impasse of fiscal policy.

Not exact matches

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.

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.

Debate over what it means to be «intelligent» and whether or not the IQ test is a robust tool of measurement continues to elicit strong and often opposing reactions today.

As a simple report on the charter community, the data won't settle any debates over demographics, backfilling, or network vs. independent charter school performance, but it does help paint the picture of NYC's robust charter sector.

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.

Rather than public evaluation of the evidence, independent validation of the models, and robust public debate over adaptation vs mitigation, climate alarmists like Lewandowsky et al. try to frustrate the scientific method, prevent debate, and impose their incredibly expensive mitigation policies.

I encourage the bunnies to hop on over and freely engage him in robust debate.