Sentences with phrase «than a debate along»

We need a dialogue rather than a debate along with the understanding everyone's perception is relevant Racial rivalries and referring to folks as «them» and «they» all the time is not appropriate this day and age.

Not exact matches

Whenever I debate a believer, in a calm rational debate it usually devolves into the person defending religion getting angry because he or she can not simply answer any question other than by saying stuff along the lines of, «well our brains are too small to understand» or «god works in mysterious ways» or my personal favorite «God will judge you for you unbelieving ways».

In contrast to their one - on - one televised debates, which have consisted largely of Stringer alluding to the «black socks» prostitution scandal that ended Spitzer's career as governor (and Spitzer countering by pointing to the array of entrenched financial interests who along with Lena Dunham are backing his opponent), the candidates used this forum (co-hosted by Democracy for NYC, Living Liberally, and ACT NOW) to fill out their visions for how the office might be more of a progressive force than it has been under incumbent John Liu, the longshot Democratic mayoral hopeful.

The scenarios were always real, some better known than others, and these sessions provoked demanding debate especially along the blurred line of what you would do to win, or to ensure fairness.

Today I was featured at the New York Times «Room for Debate» blog, along with five others more notable than me.

-- Obama has also failed to challenge fossilized foes of meaningful action on energy and climate change, from Senator James Inhofe to the many conservative columnists — along with some liberals — who've distorted the American discourse on climate into an either - or debate over beliefs little different than that on abortion or gun rights.

This, along with wildly exaggerated climate damage scenarios, is needed to justify aggressive short - term interventions such as the Al Gore or Stern proposals.14 Since calculated net benefit results for a two - hundred - year horizon are extremely sensitive to the choice of a discount rate, the debate over the discount rate is far more than technical.

Support for the ethanol industry, which blossomed because of a system of tax breaks followed by the fuel mandate, has long been bipartisan, and the current debate is split more along regional than partisan lines.

This is as it should be, although I don't think people just citing the differing conclusions of a paper (eg B&V) rather than identifying why the differences arise is going to move the debate along.