Sentences with phrase «speech opening the debate»

In his speech opening the debate on the Lords reform bill, he hinted that the election of the second and third tranche of elected peers, in 2020 and 2025, could be subject to a referendum.

He was unusually open in removing the glamour of intelligence in his speech opening the debate, openly acknowledging it was just not possible to be «100 % certain» that it was the Assad regime behind the attacks.

Some audio clips from that coming up a bit later, but right now I'm going to focus on the speech opening the debate by Treasury minister Greg Clark.

Not exact matches

«The U.S. places great importance on free speech and the value of open public debate,» Hamilton said.

He asserted in his speech the need to conclude as early as possible the first review of the bailout in order to open the debate on the debt and also to obtain the necessary funds for bank recapitalization.

Would David Cameron and Philip Hammond have ever succeeded in convincing the House of Commons to extend bombing into Syria in that crucial debate on 2nd December 2015 if both had not used the key parts of their opening and closing speeches respectively to remind the house that the purpose of the mission was to cut off «the head of the snake in Raqqa?»

Parliament should indeed have a say in what a Brexit outcome should look like, but as Ken Clarke (Con, Rushcliffe) rightfully lamented in the opening of his heroic speech in the Commons debate:

In his resignation speech, Miliband called for such an open and honest debate.

He says Theresa May's opening speech took up an hour and a half of the limited time set aside for debate.

In the Commons debate to decide the issue, Mr Corbyn opened from the Labour front bench to speak against intervention before Mr Benn won widespread plaudits for his closing speech making the opposite case.

Twelve schools from across the UK will meet at the British Library for the Institute of Ideas» Debating Matters competition, a weekend of tough yet open debate on difficult contemporary topics where, most importantly, free speech is encouraged.

«To be absolutely clear, I believe in free speech in our universities and in having an open and vigorous debate on Brexit,» Heaton Harris insisted.

Opening the Queen's speech debate on foreign affairs, Ms Beckett told MPs that with the transfer of Najaf in December and Maysan, where some UK troops are based, in January, the process of handing over control to the Iraqi forces was «well underway».

In his speech on Monday to open the two - day Commons debate on Lords reform, the deputy prime minister said he was willing to allow MPs to debate at the committee stage of the bill whether to pause the legislation after the first elections in 2015.

It is a great pleasure to open the second day of this debate as it gives us an opportunity to look at the detail of the Budget and then to highlight the things the Chancellor chose to omit from his speech yesterday.

Universities will lure their speech police into safe spaces, lock the door behind them and throw away the key — and declare their campuses fully open to freedom of expression, thought and debate.

In his opening speech in the opposition day debate, which was peppered with angry heckles from the Labour benches, Salmond said Blair should be held to account for what was «very much a personal campaign, unbeknownst to cabinet and indeed to parliament», citing the memo sent to the then US president, George W Bush, from the prime minister saying: «I will be with you whatever.»

Open debate and free speech are important.

The conference opened with a policy forum which included influential speeches from the most significant representatives of the conference; the second day passed around the theme «Participation for Protection», using panels and round tables as a way to share knowledge and to engage in constructive debates.

When I served as Chairman of Texas Business Leaders for Educational Choice during the 1998 - 99 Texas legislative biennium, I began most of my speeches and debates across the state with the following opening:

«You can have a society with free speech where I call you names, and you do rude drawings of me, and I say you're a hater, and we hatey - hatey - hate each other,» said Steyn on my TV special, «Censorship in America,» but «the alternative is the Muslim world where there's no open debate, and so there's nothing left to do but kill and bomb and shoot.»

You say «What sickens me is the hypocrisy of people who claim to be in favour of speech, claim to believe in empiricism, claim to be sceptics yet refuse to accept room for an honest, open debate on one of the most important political issues of our time.»

What sickens me is the hypocrisy of people who claim to be in favour of speech, claim to believe in empiricism, claim to be sceptics yet refuse to accept room for an honest, open debate on one of the most important political issues of our time.

Fortunately, unlike him, she understands the concepts of free speech and open debate.

Scientists with dissenting views on climate must now fear life - threatening hostility and psychological intimidation that up to now has been unprecendeted in the USA — a nation that has traditionally prided itself in its freedom of speech, open debate and alternative ideas.

Mann's Tweet links to the respected climate - science site Daily Kos, whose correspondent dislikes the fact that «extremist pundit Mark Steyn and his New York Super Lawyer, Daniel J. Kornstein» think that Dr Mann's attempt to shut down open debate on a critical public - policy issue is fairly obviously a free - speech issue.

Having secured the debate, the Liberal Democrat MP Tom Brake asked in his opening speech whether the government could be confident that nobody from Vote Leave who now worked for the Conservatives was going to be charged with electoral offences.

I supported Milo Yiannopoulos in the hope and expectation that his expression of views contrary to the social mainstream and his spotlighting of the hypocrisy of those who would close down free speech in the name of political correctness would promote the type of open debate and freedom of thought that is being throttled on many American college campuses today.

Of Yiannopoulos, he said: «I supported Milo Yiannopoulos in the hope and expectation that his expression of views contrary to the social mainstream and his spotlighting of the hypocrisy of those who would close down free speech in the name of political correctness would promote the type of open debate and freedom of thought that is being throttled on many American college campuses today.

«I supported Milo Yiannopoulos in the hope and expectation that his expression of views contrary to the social mainstream and his spotlighting of the hypocrisy of those who would close down free speech in the name of political correctness would promote the type of open debate and freedom of thought that is being throttled on many American college campuses today,» Mercer wrote.

Ms. Welker — My junior high English teacher who opened my eyes to the world of classic literature, writing, speech and debate.