Sentences with phrase «than substantive issues»

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The issues he raises are technical rather than substantive.

They are not governments - that kind of deal - making comes in December (or rather in the glacial negotiating sessions throughout this year), so I see no problem with them having earnest conversations deep into the night about the relative merits of carbon taxes over cap and trade, or any other issue, that have no substantive outcome other than to generate more research proposals, newspaper column inches and comments in well - meaning blogs.

There are more substantive issues to be discussing in a race for Congress than what Rep. Dan Maffei and challenger John Katko are talking about, Miner said.

Might be worth clarifying some of the very basic concepts («reasonable,» «extreme,» «more than likely») a bit if for no other reason than to avoid having some semantics issues masquerade as substantive disagreements during the course of the workshop.

He concluded that journalists rarely criticize foundations on substantive issues and are far more likely to laud them than to question their strategy or their impact.

The issues now animating advocates, dreamers, and disrupters on both sides are more symbolic than substantive.

But they know not to talk about substantive education issues that affect these children like the one reported by the Civil Rights Project: «Based on evidence from several important measures of segregation, the Civil Rights Project stands by its strong contention that re-segregation has occurred, and that African - American and Latino students are experiencing more isolation in schools than they were a generation ago — and further, that this segregation is deeply linked to unequal educational opportunities.»

Rather than focusing on such stuff, and on mudslinging, and (in some cases) on bizarre logic, why doesn't the paper (including the columnists) focus on the real, vital, substantive issues?

I can confidently predict that of the thousands of «sceptics» who made great play of the CRU email hack, no more than a handful will change their views, either on the substantive issue or on the credibility of people like Carter and institutions like Heartland, over this.

Look no futher than Manns own page where he has posted up substantive corrections (based on errors McIntyre pointed out) without A. crediting steve B. issuing a correction in the literature.

We can only hope those who currently skulking on other websites might come and contribute to the process of opening up climate science, and debate the substantive issues rather than passing comment among their own coterie on Judith's motivation, competence, expertise and integrity.

It was stated from the start that it was likely we would have «talks about talks» rather than solve substantive issues.

Your acceptance of Tamino's criticism is to me more indicative of your own biases than a substantive understanding on your part of actual issues with the original graph.

Might be worth clarifying some of the very basic concepts («reasonable,» «extreme,» «more than likely») a bit if for no other reason than to avoid having some semantics issues masquerade as substantive disagreements during the course of the workshop.

That means trying to focus attention on substantive issues rather than trivialities,» http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2013/12/agu-talk-on-science-and-advocacy/

While John Quiggin isn't a climate scientist and doesn't have to respond to your absolute nonsense, I quite sure several willing sorts on this blog, who know far more than you or I on this issue, will readily demolish any substantive argument that Monckton has made.

Aaron Street: Yep, and so, in this case, rather than having a month's long committee process to decide what we could build, and how to do it, and who should do it — a group of lawyers without the help of non-lawyers — was able to knock out a project in a day, and a couple days later ABA President Linda Klein highlighted it both for its innovation work, but also because of the importance of the substantive issues at play.

Sometimes this process anxiety is even more distracting and disconcerting for the client than the substantive legal issues, and frequently the «hand - holding» that is required to deal with these issues is the kind of work that lawyers avoid, not realizing the potential it has to strengthen the client relationship.

In my experience, in the instances where ADR was used, it prolonged and complicated the proceedings since the focus shifted to procedural wrangling rather than dealing with the substantive issues.

Mandatory mediation in the civil context is perceived as more of a procedural goal to reduce the issues in dispute or find a reasonable settlement, rather than a substantive objective of conciliation.

In England and Wales, the rules of criminal procedure are what govern the issue raised in the question, rather than the substantive laws relating to the various charges which might be brought; and while the substantive laws in England and Scotland are often fairly similar, the procedures are usually very dissimilar.

My comment is directed at the issue of process leading to the decision rather than substantive content (although I do have a substantive comment view) of the outcome of the decision.

The key differences between signatures on paper and the electronic kind are evidentiary rather than substantive: a signature has to perform similar functions whatever its medium, but demonstrating how an electronic signature was created and how it was linked to the text alleged to be signed presents new issues.

The provisions of CPR 57.7 which requires that the claim form contains a statement of the claimants» and defendants» interest in the estate is a useful starting point but this case clarifies that this is in fact a substantive law point rather than a simply procedural issue.

New Comment (19) to RPC 1.6 instructs that the disclosure may not take place until «substantive discussions regarding the new relationship have occurred» and «should ordinarily include no more than the identity of the persons and entities involved in a matter, a brief summary of the general issues involved, and information about whether the matter has terminated.»

Green J. reviewed the caselaw on the issue, and concluded that in that case, where the intention of the judge was to impose two years (24 months) and not twenty - five months incarceration, and where the error, although not clerical or administrative in nature was «an error, a slip of the tongue or clerical change rather than a substantive change,» he concluded he still had jurisdiction to make the necessary amendment to the sentence.

Other than KRE 614, Lawson's observation of the practice, and the Slaughter case, there was not much in the way of modern case law or authority in Kentucky to instruct trial judges and litigators on any particular procedural or substantive considerations for allowing juror questions, until the Kentucky Supreme Court issued its opinion in Fraser v. Miller, 427 S.W. 3d 182 (Ky. 2014).

Education about the availability of programs and information about other wellness issues needs to be provided in new judge education and regularly reiterated at judicial meetings in substantive sessions rather than just a five - minute reminder.