Sentences with phrase «speaking in a debate about»

But today, speaking in a debate about the Iraq Inquiry, Stewart failed to oblige.

Speaking in the debate about the party's policy document, A Fresh Start for Britain, the work and pensions spokesman, Steve Webb, said talk by Clegg of «savage cuts» in the recession was needlessly gloomy.

Not exact matches

But the debate in Nevada speaks to a larger issue with the Republican party's grip on the issues the electorate cares about.

-------- bob, your comment about the cofc pastor you knew of and putting me in the same box as him, in a previous debate, spoke volumes.

You say you don't know gods will because to try and think like god is too hard (which for the record I think is a cop out in any debate or discussion about god that I understand you really believe it and are not trying to duck around a question, but to say I don't know, god is too powerful to understand sort of halts discussion from there) but you also are saying to speak with him on a daily basis.

At one level, it appears to be spoken about all the time — in the classroom, the debating chamber, the pub — but discussion seldom goes beyond platitudes, soundbites and emotionally charged rants.

He spoke of the prestige of science in our culture and the corresponding lack of respect for religion («If it's a science programme it's a documentary, if the subject's politics there's a debate, but a religious programme, unless it's hymns for granny, will have people talking about their feelings»).

CNN: My Take: It's time for evangelicals to speak up about guns Pastor and author Daniel Darling urges evangelicals to participate in the debate over access to guns, and to acknowledge that there is «no clear - cut Christian position on gun control.»

Concerned that the civility and decorum exhibited by many LGBT rights advocates might make their arguments more persuasive, Anyabwile suggests that the key to «winning» the same - sex marriage debate is speak more graphically about gay sex in order to induce the «gag reflex.»

I've spent far more time than I care to admit combing through complementarian literature, reading debates about whether women can read Scripture aloud in church, whether female missionaries should be permitted to give presentations on Sunday evenings, what age groups women should be allowed to teach in Sunday school, whether women can speak in small group Bible studies, what titles to bestow upon worship leaders and children's ministry coordinators so that they don't appear too authoritative, and on and on and on.

I accepted an invitation to speak at a conference in Vancouver six months after my surgery, published a book about my life, and debated Michael Brown — how is that keeping quite about your past and being a private person?

In this vision, he seeks to move beyond debates about the «welfare state» or East / West power politics and to find a way of speaking about a reliable, humane, and caring form of civil society.

The Council's official documents also speak about human rights generally — demonstrating, once again, how important the idiom is in contemporary debate.

I even thought top clubs were in for him.Some three or 2 seasons back many here were debating why he should be our main striker.As soon as you mention any other strikers name people would come out with stats and many things defending him.Even Wenger has defended him blindly in the past.People say Wenger's stubborn yeah.But don't we know that there's a reason why everything happens?Honestly speaking he's the reason why Arsene Wenger has failed to sign a top notch striker because he still believes in him.The funny thing is we signed Welbeck at that time who to me did nothing before to be the main man here.People keep saying Welbeck is hardworking and that he works his socks off.But the question is was that our reason for signing him.Welbeck being signed to challenge Giroud tells me a lot about Giroud's quality.Even Walcott (no offence to him) who has zero CF qualities was even chosen over him for a string of games and all in all I think he did well but has too many defeciencies for that role.We've compromised as a club and it'll come back to bite us.

Whether you are Jamie Oliver trying to show support for breastfeeding and rightly recognising a genuine problem — that women who want to breastfeed in this country often face barriers that mean they can't — or a new mother just blogging or tweeting about her personal experiences, speaking out puts you in the direct path of the opinion juggernaut which careers headlong into anyone who dares to take a stand on either side of the polarised infant feeding debate.

But their distinctive experience among the groups who came to the US in this period speaks to today's debates about immigration — and especially to the ways immigrants integrate into new societies.

Speaking in an emergency debate about the conflict in Aleppo, he added: «Let's be clear now, if you don't shape the world, you will be shaped by it.»

Speaking in Phoenix, Az., President Donald Trump last night fiercely defended his response to violence in Charlottesville, Va., at his first public rally since his remarks ignited a national debate about whether he had emboldened racists.

Speaking in a Westminster Hall debate on Future UK Fisheries Policy last week, Mr Thomas said there were growing concerns amongst more than 160 members of the Newlyn - based Cornish Fish Producers Organisation (CFPO) about the terms of the UK Government's proposed implementation period for Brexit and its «potentially disastrous implications on the fishing industry.

After the debate, we spoke with John Liu about his consistently low showing in public polling.

«Mr Christopher Chope (Christchurch)(Con): I had not intended to speak in the debate, but I must say that I am disappointed that the Minister was not more forthcoming about the commitment in the coalition agreement to establishing a commission.

Here's GOP gubernatorial hopeful Carl Paladino speaking at the YNN studios in Buffalo earlier today about Rick Lazio's reluctance to face off against him in a pre-primary debate.

He then debated with Conservative MP Nick Hurd and Labour MP Chuka Umunna in the Daily Politics studio, where they spoke about the policies of their parties.

One of the first debates I spoke in after my election just over a year ago was about immigration.

Jones was one of a handful of MPs who spoke out about their battles with depression in a landmark Commons debate three years ago.

Speaking the day after talking with victims of crime in Bristol, the prime minister called for a «national debate» about how the criminal justice system could be reformed which required a reassessment of where its priorities should be.

Speaking in Calabar, at the retreat held by the Southern Senators» Forum, Saraki insisted that «we must always put Nigeria first» in the ongoing debate about restructuring of the country and other similar agitations.

The fluency with which Cameron speaks in front of his parents about empowerment contrasts with his less assured performance in Thursday's leaders» TV debate when he barely mentioned the Tories» big society.

(Again speaking to Progress, in an interesting forthcoming interview which has been prominently reported for rather loose language in asserting that Labour «lied» about immigration, unwisely extending the popular mythology of a conspiracy theory that this endlessly noisy debate has been silenced from above).

Errol Louis, a Time Warner Cable News NY1 anchor who helped to moderate the Democratic primary debate in April in Brooklyn, spoke at the Paley Center about the grueling preparations that Holt was likely also undergoing.

4.20 pm: Craig Murray, the former ambassador who resigned after he complained about Britain condoning the use of torture in Uzbekistan, has just finished speaking in the debate on human rights and terror.

Mr. Lamb had just arrived from a debate in Utica with incumbent Rep. Richard Hanna, and spoke about his efforts to compete in the unlevel playing field.

We're doing well with the economy we've got a good set of messages but they're all about your head and what people are worried about here [in Thurrock, where Doyle - Price is MP], you'll hear people talking about immigration, they say to us we've not done enough about immigration, we've not done enough about welfare, actually we've done a lot, but what we need to do is talk in a narrative that people understand and can engage with because too often our political debate looks managerial and bland and that's why people here don't think that politicians speak for them.

Ex-minister speaks out against Labour leader as Blairite peers express fury about Corbyn's position on Brexit in Lords debate

She also spoke about the relevance of the first past the post voting system with more parties in the field, and TV election debates where she has not been offered a seat in any of three line - ups planned by the BBC, ITV, Sky and Channel 4.

I hope that this period for reflection should allow mature debate about how we get these reforms right and that it should be possible for me to speak out and say what I think should happen — evolution not revolution — and in that way I think the Government can get itself off the hook that it's on at the moment.

The scammer detection software provider will speak alongside other industry experts to engage in a debate about some of the dating industry's biggest challenges.

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At the dynamic Education Fast Forward 12 Debate on January 19, I spoke with Stefan Dercon (Chief Economist Department for International Development in London) and Andreas Schleicher (Special Advisor on Education Policy OECD in Paris) about their opinions on the issues raised in the «Turning School Performance to Economic Success» discussion.

Speaking to a full house, the three powerfully elucidated and clarified some of the fault lines in the heated debates about teacher unions.

Maxine McKew speaks with John Hattie about what we need to be doing to improve the quality of education in Australian schools — and the kind of debates we really should be having.

Third, it will speak to contemporary debates about «deep» poverty in American cities and schools.

Much in the same way that Colbert broke through the cheap dialogue about «patriotism» and «strength» that surrounded the Iraq War, Louis C.K.'s plain speaking about his daughter's education seared through the bland rhetoric about «standards, expectations, and achievement» that dominates the debate about education policy.

About 40 people on both sides of the issue asked to speak at the public hearing in Sacramento before the board voted, and numerous letters on both sides of the debate were delivered to the state board.

At the crux of the debate are questions about who gets to speak on behalf of racial minorities and low - income children, and what school accountability should look like in the age of Donald Drumpf.

With so much coverage given in the past two years to the so - called «death of books» due to the on - going digital vs print debate, it's interesting that not many pundits have spoken out about a fact that parents and educators have feared for generations, that books apparently are in competition with all of the electronic devices that young students have access to.

• Speaking of debates, what do you think about BuzzFeed's tongue - in - cheek list of 25 favorite books that should raise red flags?

When the City of Woonsocket was debating a pit bull ordinance in June 2009, the animal control supervisor in Pawtucket, John Holmes, spoke about the enormous success of Pawtucket's 2003 pit bull ban:

After about an hour or so of thoughtful debate and conversation, the lone woman in the back raised her hand to speak.

The essay «Painting and Countenance» is, as is much of my writing on painting, discursive by nature, an attempt to try to find another way to speak about painting beyond the overbearing arc of formal judgemental criticism, which has been, and continues to be so detrimental to any meaningful debate around painting, especially abstract painting in this country.