Sentences with phrase «substantive debate over»

Clearly, there exists in the church today the possibility of genuine, reasoned, substantive debate over the rightness of same - sex marriage.

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The discussion highlighted the need for a substantive parliamentary debate on the current abortion legislation since medical science and practice is raising serious questions over when the foetus becomes viable outside the womb, the current twenty - four week limit for «social» abortion and the growing number of doctors in the UK who are refusing to perform abortions because of the aforementioned.

These definitions, and the «regular and substantive interaction» language embedded in them continue to be at the heart of debate over the financial aid eligibility of both competency - based education (CBE) and online education.

Here impact can only be demonstrated over time and must bring about some substantive change in the character of the debate.

The spending cuts were mostly political theater — the debate over cutting either $ 40 or $ 60 billion out of a $ 3.5 trillion budget isn't exactly a substantive one.

Perhaps if you (and the criticism would apply equally to Omar, since he and I have had this debate here before, as well as numerous other benchers and law society bureaucrats) actually addressed the substantive concerns — perhaps actually cited a source for the purported obligation to promote equality, diversity and inclusion generally — rather than dismissing the critics of this proposal for being inadequately woke, you might win over critics like me (and many of the people I've spoken with).