Sentences with phrase «role in political debate»

The surface temperature data set plays a central role in the political debate over climate change.

Religion can have a role in political debate, but its adherents must stop trying to gain special privileges.

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It's possible, however, that Zuck «may choose to play a stronger role in the political system and political debates,» the source said.

Opposing views of right and wrong are best addressed and accommodated in a democratic political debate, with the judiciary serving the vital but secondary role of ensuring that basic rights are protected to prevent oppression of minorities by majoritarian rule.

Research into how se - xual orientation in males may be determined by genetic or other prenatal factors plays a role in political and social debates about ho - mose - xuality, and also raises concerns about genetic profiling and prenatal testing.»

He endeavours to assert a core and important role for Christianity in shaping our ethical debates surrounding these issues, and deplores the contemporary perception that religion ought to play no part in contemporary political debates and discourse.

According to this understanding, the role of religion in political debate is not so much to supply these norms, as if they could not be known by non-believers — still less to propose concrete political solutions, which would lie altogether outside the competence of religion — but rather to help purify and shed light upon the application of reason to the discovery of objective moral principles.

It was inevitable, perhaps, that the «culture wars» — the debate that continues to rage over the impact of political correctness, multiculturalism, and their allied ideologies — would spawn a genre of liberal apologetics designed to exonerate liberalism itself from its role in abetting the establishment of radical doctrine as a mandatory standard of judgment in mainstream cultural life.

Building on her role as de facto leader of the out - of - work and out - of - luck on James Turner Street, Dee has emerged as something of a spokesman for the many people whose voice is rarely heard in the national political debate.

This blog series aims to inform public and policy debate on the role of public assets in our political economy.

The current proposals are bound to meet a largely partisan reception, and will be depicted by some as a politically motivated attempt to create difficulties for a future Labour administration (though it should be noted that Labour's catastrophic performance in Scotland in the general election alters the territorial political dynamic that underpinned debates about EVEL quite considerably), and by others as an attempt to diminish the role of Scottish MPs.

C.E.O.s are speaking out on social and political issues in sometimes startling ways, recasting the role business plays in the national debate.

@DoritoStyle Because this is a question of an «intergenerational contract», and in the political debates it plays a role if younger generations believe that they will be fairly treated by older generations (and vice versa).

Nevertheless, the idea of a historic break — a political switch - it - off - and - on - again - plays a massive role in the debate on Scottish independence, as our report this week discovered.

Explaining his views on the Church's involvement in politics, he said: «While St Paul's is not on any particular political side — that is not its role — it does have an important part to play in providing a place for reasoned debate within a moral and spiritual context.»

There is a political debate going on this fall about government's role in supporting entrepreneurship and innovation.

The Labour Party in opposition needs to present itself as an alternative government, but just as importantly the role of the main opposition party in a parliamentary democracy is to seek to influence the decisions of government, and shape the political debate.

Jones pays particular attention to Cameron's years working for Norman Lamont and Michael Howard in the 1990s (when he was covering those politicians» activities for the BBC on a daily basis) and later in the book - after dealing with the 2005 Tory leadership election, Brown replacing Blair, the political attitudes of the Murdoch press and Expenses-gate - he devotes whole chapters to both the TV debates and the role of the leaders» wives in a modern British election campaign.

looks at the role charter schools are playing in Boston and at political debates over whether there should be more charter schools there.

Commenting on the report, David Laws, chairman of EPI, said: «For too long the debate about «academisation», the possible roles for local authorities in school improvement, and the impact of structural reform on our school system has been dominated by political ideologies, half - truths and hunches, rather than by evidence and careful analysis.

Her claim that she is somehow above engaging in «political debate» suggests that she doesn't know the meaning of the term, doesn't understand the role of the Board of Education or apparently feels that the obligation of democratic governmental systems simply don't apply to her.

Perhaps the Superintendent missed the college class when students were taught that political debate is the discussion of policy options and, in this case, the role of the Board of Education to make appropriate policy decisions as the formal legislative body of Hartford's school system.

Each grade had a role: 6th grade were the non-committed class of voters who had to learn the issues to vote; 7th graders represented a political issue through the lens of one of the four political parties; the 8th graders represented the political parties and politicians in town hall debates in 6th and 7th grade classrooms.

Forcefully examining what it means to be a civilian teaching literature at a military academy, Samet also considers the role of women in the army, the dangerous tides of religious and political zeal roiling the country, the uses of the call to patriotism, and the cult of sacrifice she believes is currently paralyzing national debate.

As much as it is a significant challenge, I see artists playing a huge role in shaping dialogue around issues affecting our environment and political processes — and South Florida is at center stage of many of those debates.

* The role of the US in global efforts to address pollutants that are broadly dispersed across national borders, such as greenhouse gasses, persistent organic pollutants, ozone, etc...; * How they view a president's ability to influence national science policy in a way that will persist beyond their term (s), as would be necessary for example to address global climate change or enhancement of science education nationwide; * Their perspective on the relative roles that scientific knowledge, ethics, economics, and faith should play in resolving debates over embryonic stem cell research, evolution education, human population growth, etc... * What specific steps they would take to prevent the introduction of political or economic bias in the dissemination and use of scientific knowledge; * (and many more...)

It may be time to do the same thing for the hybrid debate over the role of climate change in propelling food price spikes and political instability in Egypt and other turbulent places.

What he finds may surprise you and raise questions about the role of science in political debates.

To address the scientific, cultural, health, and social issues arising from climate change requires an in - depth and cross-disciplinary analysis of the role of uncertainty in all of the three principal systems involved: The physical climate system, people's cognitive system and how that construes and potentially distorts the effects of uncertainty, and the social systems underlying the political and public debates surrounding climate change.

«We also respect and understand scientists» role in society, including adding their voices to political debates that relate to scientific issues.

Obfuscation has always been their weapon of choice, Gavin handled him best when he was here, there is no debating a leader of a political movement who understands science as much as his role in the house of Lords.

The debate may largely be drawn along political lines, but the human role in climate change remains one of the most controversial questions in 21st century science.

«Political philosophy has a legitimate role in policy debates, but not in the underlying climate science,» a group of scientists, including seven members of the National Academy of Sciences, has written to all members of the U.S. Congress at the start... Continue reading →

Moving forward, is there a better role for climate scientists in political and policy debates, and if so, what would it look like?

What role Cambridge Analytica, Russia, the mainstream media's mistakes, and the unvarnished desires of the American electorate played in garnering enough support for Trump, a political outsider, to win in the US electoral college remains a subject of debate more than 16 months later.

The role that land rights and native title land might play in achieving this objective became the focus of public and political debate in the reporting period.

Those kind of debates are central to many 2016 political races, in which Planned Parenthood is playing an increasingly active role.

Publication of the results of the PoNDER Trial is therefore extremely timely, particularly as the role of the health visitor is under renewed scrutiny in the context of a wider political debate about how best to provide support to vulnerable families.