Sentences with phrase «substantive debate with»

Dietl's presence derails Malliotakis» chances of a one - on - one, substantive debate with de Blasio — he is a pugnacious, unpredictable character in the vein of Donald Trump — but also threatens to further cut into votes that Malliotakis hopes to win.

Not exact matches

The NDP could have framed this debate as one of protecting Alberta jobs and an Alberta - based company, rather than just about cancelling a contract with a giant Australian company (it was later announced that an appeal panel determined that Alberta Health Services breached its duty of procedural fairness in the RFP process in a substantive manner).

If the long story of the Trinitarian debate in Christendom is to be re-enacted in our present time its outcome may result in somewhat different formulations from those of the past, but scarcely in a substantive change of the affirmation that God is One and that however the doctrine of the Personae is stated it must still be affirmed that the Father is not the Son and the Son is not the Father and the Spirit can not be equated with either.

And lately Brigette, I have found that fundamentalists identify anyone and everyone who disagrees with their particular brand of dogma as the enemy and seek to discredit them, rather than engage in any substantive debate.

I wish to respond up front to these two objections, since I know all too well the effectiveness of ad hominem attacks used to discredit a voice, avoiding debate and thus dispensing with substantive analysis of the issues.

At least with Lazio as the opponent, there will likely be a substantive policy debate.

«I am sure he is well familiar with Erskine May [the parliamentary bible] page 396, which specifically states there can not be a debate on the conduct of an individual member other than on a substantive motion.

You never know with him, but Paladino's campaign manager tells the Times that they see «the debate as an opportunity for him to reintroduce himself to skeptical voters and, perhaps, surprise them with his grasp of substantive issues,» so it seems as if he might embrace this opportunity to appear like a serious person to voters, for once.

Polanco, a television personality who sparred with James in the most substantive and civil debate of the election cycle, argued his campaign «wasn't one that should have been taken lightly by anyone.»

But Democratic Sens. Ben Nelson of Nebraska, Blanche Lincoln of Arkansas, and Mary Landrieu of Louisiana along with Democrat - turned - Independent Sen. Joe Lieberman of Connecticut have all expressed substantive concerns about various provisions of the bill crafted by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and now set for debate before the Senate.

Regardless of specific tenure policies, debates like this reinforce the importance of ensuring that all educators are evaluated fairly using multiple measures, provided with high - quality professional development that helps them improve their practice, and given substantive leadership roles that allow them to share their strengths with their colleagues.

If you have any substantive comment on them I am very happy to debate them with you on the thread from whence they came at Bishophill — probably best not here as Gavin has already said this is OT and I agree with him.

I think it's fair to say that the Democratic leadership let us down and didn't fight as hard as they should, or with as much parliamentary skill as necessary, but still, flat out it was Republican obstructionism that killed this bill and killed all substantive debate on the issues.

The more substantive problem with the argument, if we take it at face value, is it's own inability to understand the terms of the climate debate.

Quirke: Geoffrey, MIT recently had a high profile debate on this topic — this was a very different reaction towards the divestment movement than that of Harvard, which has kind of rebuffed a substantive dialogue with students on the topic instead of embrace one like MIT.

While I'm sure a number of folks will disagree with me on what is spurious vs. substantive, I think it would be useful to outline which parts of the debate I feel are relatively certain, are somewhat uncertain, and quite uncertain.

Furthermore, while the Court does, to a limited extent, engage with the proportionality of the measure, it fails utterly to engage with the underlying substantive debate: is it justifiable to deny prisoners or convicted individuals electoral rights and, if so, on what basis?

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).

Only in Ontario was there substantive debate on the topic, with fears expressed by one opposition critic that apologies would be used strategically to persuade victims of negligence to settle for less than they deserved.

But for some White House officials, the moment was jarring: Trump had melted down Capitol Hill and roiled the markets with zero substantive internal debate.

An acceptance in the majority PJC report that the standard of equality at international law incorporates substantive equality distinguished the dialogue with the PJC from public debate during the amendments to the NTA in 1998.