Sentences with phrase «system changes debate»

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Compare that to the dogmatic stance of religion — a phony belief system that starts and end with unproven manmade tribal myths, not open to true debate, and that only changes in order to maintain power over the gullible.

Michael Croft, President of the Australian Food Sovereignty Alliance (AFSA) will argue at a St James Ethic Centre debate on 4 March 2014 that foreign investment in agricultural land and infrastructure works against Australia's national and best interests unless the regulatory system and current model are changed.

OMG, our mates are strengthening and we here debating how to keep obviously average players like walcot, elneny, wilshere et all, Antonio conte had the balls to tel a world class striker like diego costa to f *** off and we here debating mediocrity, we seem to have short memory as arsenal fanz, thumb me down d way u like, y ’ all gon protest nd moan and groan like last season coz as at now i see no phantom changes, still d same old system, same old players nd d deluded one probably closed for the transfer market after signing just one out of the numerous we actually need to compete.

One of the leading topics of conversation for many months was the healthcare debate and the proposed changes to the healthcare system.

But despite this new space for a major public debate about fundamental change, serious political challenges to the system — from «Occupy» protestors, community activists, environmentalists and others — have thus far been contained by the continuing sense of a lack of viable alternatives.

I still believe, as I put it in chapter two, that «software», not «hardware» — the long, slow waves of cultural change, not the more obvious technological and economic changes that figure so prominently in public debate and academic social science — hold the key to the British predicament; that our ills form an interdependent system or, in medical language, a «syndrome»; and that they reflect the bewilderment and disorientation of a people who have forgotten the history that shaped them, and who therefore no longer know who they are.

For those looking for more nuance, detail and depth in analysing the changing position of China and Africa in the international system, I recommend visiting the website of the Oxford University China - Africa Network, which I convene and is currently hosting a series of debates between African public intellectuals on what Chinese investment means for local economic conditions from Mauritania to South Africa.

While Lords debate #tax credits, IFS and Resolution Foundation tell MPs only way of mitigating tax credit changes is in tax credit system

The changes to the teacher evaluation system that the New York state legislature and Gov. Andrew Cuomo enacted received much attention in this year's budget debate.

The sun is out, the constituency has been the centre of national debate for months and voters have a real feeling of being able to inflict change on the political system.

This will provide MPs with the opportunity to debate the current lack of protection for pubs, the fact that local communities have so little say over the future of their local, despite clear «moral ownership» of their local pubs - and will also suggest ways in which the planning system can be changed to ensure that local residents have the powers they need to protect their local pubs.

In the debate Woolas told MPs that he wanted to review the system by the summer recess and that if it turned out that the government had overestimated the number of Gurkhas who would meet the criteria allowing them to remain into the UK under the new rules, «we will, of course, change the guidelines».

Tenney said she supports taking a look at the federal background check system and argued that the shooting should not change the dynamics of the debate over gun control in her district which encompasses cities like Utica, Rome and Binghamton.

At a London debate the argument for changing Britain's voting system was narrowly voted down and OurKingdom's Co-Editor was on the losing side.

Gerrymandering: at the moment, the system is biased towards Labour; the other changes as I understand them, which are not subject to the referendum and therefore irrelevant to this debate, will reduce (but not eliminate) this bias.

Highlights of the first of a series of all - night sitting in the House of Lords where peers debate government attempts to change the voting system.

We need to include a change from the Presidential system to Parliamentary in this debate.

I believe this result settles the debate over changing our electoral system for another generation.»

The recent slowdown in global warming has brought into question the reliability of climate model projections of future temperature change and has led to a vigorous debate over whether this slowdown is the result of naturally occurring, internal variability or forcing external to Earth's climate system.

A remarkable feature of the recent debates over climate change, energy systems, infrastructure rehabilitation and health care reform is the lack of detailed forward - looking government proposals and plans.

De Montjoye says this, combined with legal systems which notify individuals when their data has been searched, and auditing systems that record who is searching for what information and when, could change the privacy debate.

While the economics of any cap - and - trade system are worthy of debate, it's clear something has to be done about climate change and Chao has shown no interest in any alternative.

When the International Astronomical Union changed its definition of what constitutes a planet in our solar system in 2006, demoting hapless Pluto to a dwarf planet, the decision sparked fierce scientific debate and an outcry from the public.

The theory, which is still debated by scientists but gaining credence among many, is based on pressure changes and other factors that cause the jet stream to plunge and weather systems to get stuck.

Amidst the debates on how best to strengthen our educational system, there is clear consensus on what motivates the need for change: many of our country's children and adolescents are being left behind, falling out of the educational system and further into cycles of systematic disadvantage.

With changes taking place across the UK school system at an almost unprecedented pace, from academisation to assessment changes, it is essential that school leaders have a space to come together, debate ideas and share their experiences and best practice.

The new degree program will be a «catalyst to drive change,» McCartney said, producing a new generation of education leaders who are expected to alter education policy debates, forge powerful public - private partnerships, and restore public confidence in the US school system.

Let's change the debate to defining quality and equity and getting a system that transparently holds all schools accountable on those dimensions.

Given the political climate and opportunities for change — the availability of stimulus funds (including Secretary of Education Arne Duncan's commitment of $ 350 million in stimulus funding to support assessment work), the movement toward common standards, and the upcoming reauthorization of No Child Left Behind — we can bypass the debate between the two flawed options of either maintaining the status quo or returning to performance - based assessment systems of the 1990s.

Teachers will also be debating changes to the national curriculum and the qualifications system.

Doug Reeves suggests that leaders start the conversation with a discussion of the principles on which all stakeholders can agree; make clear what will not change under the new grading policy; be accurate in their risk analysis; and engage in systems thinking to reframe the grading debate from «my grading policies for my classroom» to a collegial responsibility for the decisions of every teacher and administrator in the system.

Lawmakers continue to debate a bill that would change the state's school - accountability system.

One of the biggest, recurring debates in the push to revamp public schools is how to change the system for grading schools, which was launche...

Their goal is to help influence the debate now taking place in New Jersey over efforts by Republican Gov. Chris Christie to change the way teachers are evaluated and to overhaul the tenure system.

The debate we should be having is about which changes are worth trying — not about saving a failed system.»

It has not opened up the necessary debate on the fundamental design of the assessment system, and proposes virtually no change at KS2.

Power steering fluid system flush: there's a lot of debate over how often power steering fluid needs to be changed or the system flushed.

The change sparked a debate about whether the system could be manipulated to provide higher COAs, and the accompanying recruiting advantage, for some schools.

With tentative agreement between the provinces and federal government to enhance the Canada Pension Plan (CPP), it appears that long - debated changes to the venerable government pension system are on track to become reality.

Hardcore Pokemaniacs may debate me on this issue, saying tweaks to the metagame like the split of attacks into physical and special categories or the recent Mega-Evolutions changed the way how people play competitively but at its core, Pokémon's battle system has not changed in over 10 years and it needs a good revision to stay current.

Now let's talk about the progression and Star Card system that's been a very hot topic of debate around the web lately and admittedly sort of confusing since it has gone through a couple changes.

Over the years, changes to the themes, mechanics, and other systems have often been the subject of debate among fans.

Much has changed since the artist's death during the epidemic in 1996, and yet here we are today, with Rose Garden overtures to the Religious Right at the White House last month and debates, fiercer than ever, over our health care system.

Chantal Akerman and Julie Mehretu reflect upon shifting geographical borders and changing political systems, while Postcommodity and Wolfgang Tillmans reference recent debates on the Mexico - US border and Brexit, respectively.

To help «climate change communication» in the public debate, I have been trying to create a natural - language - style flow - chart cartoon language that illustrates the principles of the lack of precise prediction in complex systems, for purposes of elementary pedagogy.

So this is now where the climate debate is headed, towards the non linear dynamics of the earth system and whether they can magnify climate change to make it suddenly flip to a new state.

The AGW true believers apparently have, by their sad reaction to Gleick's failings, helped Gleick make some more very poor decisions: «Gleick's lawyer John Keker, «Heartland no doubt will seek to exploit Dr. Gleick's admitted lapse in judgement in order to further its agenda in the ongoing debate about climate change, but if it wants to pursue this matter legally, it will learn that our legal system provides for a level playing field.»

To address the scientific, cultural, health, and social issues arising from climate change requires an in - depth and cross-disciplinary analysis of the role of uncertainty in all of the three principal systems involved: The physical climate system, people's cognitive system and how that construes and potentially distorts the effects of uncertainty, and the social systems underlying the political and public debates surrounding climate change.

This increased exposure for CDR approaches, which encompass both biological (e.g. afforestation, ecosystem restoration, land management, biochar, and bio-CCS) and chemical (e.g. direct air capture, enhanced mineral weathering) techniques — is a good thing for the climate change debate: we will likely need to have scalable, sustainable, cost - effective CDR systems as well as ways to reduce our emissions to avoid catastrophic climate change.

There's a real debate that needs to be had on the values, economics, and politics associated with the risks of climate change; lets have that debate in the context of a rational backdrop of what we understand about the climate system, along with the uncertainties and unknowns.