Sentences with phrase «sides in the policy debate»

While answering questions after an Oct. 1 speech — in which he avoided taking sides in the policy debate — McChrystal challenged a popular alternative to the approach that President Obama sent him to Afghanistan to pursue.

Not exact matches

In fact, many of the issues currently debated on both sides of the Atlantic have been highlighted in EU policy statements on China dating back several yearIn fact, many of the issues currently debated on both sides of the Atlantic have been highlighted in EU policy statements on China dating back several yearin EU policy statements on China dating back several years.

Using Pakistan as a case study, this article analyzes the ongoing debate and concludes that while there is merit to arguments on both sides, prudent policy recommendations for the governance of the United States» covert drone program fall somewhere in between.

He also notes that she led the «2 - percent side» in the Fed's monetary - policy debate of whether the Fed should be targeting 2 - percent inflation or zero.

And while I didn't think the administration's policy was very smart on that — I'd been on the losing side in the internal debate — this was the administration's policy and I was coming out of the administration.

There are highly partisan policy debates in which I have gladly joined on the conservative side — on federal enterprise zones, on a youth opportunity wage, on educational vouchers for low - income students, on stimulating ownership among responsible public - housing tenants, on requiring work from able - bodied welfare recipients, on dealing sternly with those who violently brutalize their neighbors.

To Teachout, who became a progressive beacon when she unsuccessfully challenged Cuomo from his left in 2014, electing people who are willing to listen to other sides of the debate and work vertically with those of a similar mind both are key in advancing policies in hyperpartisan Washington.

Though a subject of debate for years in Albany, raising the age of criminal responsibility is among the side policy issues that, if resolved, could break other logjams this week.

Pielke has been something of a lightning rod in climate debates, sometimes drawing attacks from all sides as a result of his views on research and policy.

«Twenty - two brilliant and experienced leaders coming from the scientific community, policy - makers, industry, and NGOs from both sides of the Atlantic, sitting together in a small room for a day, engaging in a lively, open debate without any taboos, and coming up with recommendations on the do's and don'ts in providing science - based advice to policy - makers.

The more completely and directly you try to prevail in a policy dispute the more you mobilize the other side to oppose you — if not at the time of adoption, then later in implementation or when the debate is re-opened.

In light of the news, AAE Executive Director Gary Beckner issued the following statement: «While both sides blame the other for failing to make concessions in this debate, this Chicago clash comes amid a highly volatile education policy environment nearly nationwidIn light of the news, AAE Executive Director Gary Beckner issued the following statement: «While both sides blame the other for failing to make concessions in this debate, this Chicago clash comes amid a highly volatile education policy environment nearly nationwidin this debate, this Chicago clash comes amid a highly volatile education policy environment nearly nationwide.

Still, Edwards and White don't see eye - to - eye on major education issues and were often on the opposite sides of debates over policy when Edwards was in the Louisiana Legislature.

Currently, education - policy debates in the United States are divided between two warring camps: On one side are «school reformers,» who argue that efforts to improve equity for low - income youngsters must focus on fixing failing schools.

NEW YORK — State lawmakers from Illinois to Tennessee are considering laws that could change what it means to be a teacher, as labor policy has become the heart of a pitched education debate — one in which each side claims that the other doesn't put students» interests first.

I have been amazed at the level of knowledge and debate that occur at road side tea shops and noodle shops in India and China on complex issues like the economy, fiscal policy, foreign investment and education / job opportunities.

In the debate, each side talks past the other, because each cares more about gaining a political advantage than a policy achievement.

Michele wanted to get both sides of the global warming debate represented in the discussion, so her first guest was Jay Drake - Hamilton, science policy director for Fresh -LSB-...]

Thus as far as the science goes, there is little to advance the case of any side in the debate over climate policy.

As analysts and journalists, we are all free to take sides and express support for a specific outcome in a policy debate and there is an important role for voices like Bill McKibben or Grunwald in doing so.

The sands of the climate debate are surely shifting rapidly, with major implications for those who are active in the public debate — scientist / advocates on both sides, environmentalists and the libertarian think tanks, the media, and policy makers and politicians.

Hundreds of scientists, economists, and public policy experts are set to meet in Manhattan next month to discuss the other side of the climate change debate that the establishment media prefers to pretend does not exist.

Remember: the goal of political debate is not to establish scientific truth, or even to establish which side is closer to it, but to triumph in the realm of public opinion and public policy.

What we see operating in Hickman's thinking is the tendency to turn the climate debate into sides, or binary, opposing categories: true and false, good and bad, ideology and science... because ultimately, it's easier to lump «policy sceptics» in with «climate sceptics», and link climate sceptics to «ideology» than it is to deal with the arguments in currency.

«There is a «false sense somehow that there is a two - sided debate going on in the scientific community» about the origins of climate change, said Bob Ward, the senior manager for policy communication at the Royal Society.

Scott, their «side of this debate» has put in place policies that are actively hurting, impoverishing, and killing the poor.

But there's no indication that the two sides of the climate change debate will reach any common ground in the near future on what scientific evidence is showing, or what policy decisions should be adopted.

In a debate over policy where on side is claiming that science is on their side, the last thing you want to do is attack science or call it hot air.

Climate change skeptics like James Taylor, environmental policy fellow at the Heartland Institute, a conservative think tank, said the pushback in schools and legislatures reflected public frustration at being told «only one side of the global warming debate — the scientifically controversial theory that humans are creating a global warming crisis.»

I can imagine reading really good treatises 20 years from now on «availability cascade»; and still the majority of influence in public policy debate will be to persuade people that «the other side» is giving in to cognitive fallacies.

The government has also secured commitments from a diverse range of organizations, many of whom have stood on opposite sides of agricultural and environmental policy debates in the past, to work together to improve pollinator survival rates.

I am in favor of both disclosure of funding sources and disclosure of financial conflict of interest, but it should apply to everyone and the unclear, inconsistent policies to date should certainly not be used to silence people on only one side of a scientific debate.

Though the authors have strong opinions on some controversial subjects (such as the legality of downloading in Canada), they politely constrain them to the Practice and Policy sections at the end of the book — an approach that would be unthinkable for their U.S. counterparts on either the maximalist or minimalist side of the copyright debate.