Sentences with phrase «useful debate as»

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Although there is some debate as to whether the top - down approach is better than the bottom - up approach, many investors have found the top - down approach useful in determining the most promising sectors in a given market.

As this debate proceeds, some specialists in human rights law have suggested that it might be useful to rethink the whole process of innovation that the United Nations system constantly presents to us.

At a day conference on the «Multi-verse» at Emmanuelle College Cambridge, the Cape Town Professor George Ellis, as agnostic bio-chemist from South Africa, suggested that the theory of multiple, even infinite, universes, of which our finely tuned one is just one, might be useful as an explanatory tool but not in terms of contributing to the theistic debate.

It would be useful to debate the vision of politics according to which facts must become law — that is, that the law must change as soon as polls reveal that a majority of the public favors an opinion.

While it is true that colonial exercises in state - building vary both in a practical and in a moral sense from those of contemporary international actors, these chapters provide useful historical background to the debate as well as an opportunity to look at how various exit strategies influenced the long - term trajectories for the countries concerned.

I certainly do not have the professional expertise (or the «standing») to offer any useful comments about the likely shape of a British «constitutional convention,» as interested as I am in following the debate now taking place.

Within this remit, Chakrabarti found it more useful to provide a discussion on the forms that antisemitism can take (as reported by those who have been victim to it), rather than setting a concrete single line definition that will likely be subject to debate.

Mr Davis goes on to suggest some of the ways in which he would find savings; several, such as abolition of ID cards and abolition of regional government, are already party policy - but others are not and therefore act as a useful contribution to the debate on the issue of how to tighten the nation's belt:

These ongoing internal debates may not have been resolved to either side's satisfaction, but they have died down much more of late, as Conservative Future has got down to the less idealistic but far more useful work of recruiting members and organising events.

[10] Also in 2007, Cameron used the website to challenge Gordon Brown to a live televised political debate as he prepared to succeed Tony Blair as Prime Minister, arguing the format had proved useful for discussing «serious policy issues» during the 2005 Conservative leadership election.

Protein shakes become more useful when you factor in nutrient timing; however, there's some debate as to the length of time of these nutrient windows, or even if they exist at all.

I'm going to be brief on this point, and mostly sidestep it, because I think the debate is about as exciting as sleep medication, and really, it's not all that useful to you.

This resource contains 100 debates for A2 Psychology students (also useful for AS preparatory work).

It's too large to be easily carried anywhere, and it is a matter of debate as to how useful a tablet that big will be.

A useful debate guide with a balanced view of the topic, this book in the Video Games and Society series discusses the conflicting research regarding physical and social costs and benefits associated with gaming, as well as how gaming can become an addiction.

There are pros & cons to debate for all of the above, and there's no reason to pick just one from the welter of valuation metrics / ratios / techniques available... In fact, while it's more demanding, I'd argue that assessing a variety of valuation approaches and results is far more useful to you as an investor.

The site serves as a useful primer — courtesy of some very nice visuals — for those not already familiar with TNR and the larger «cat debate.»

CALLISTO website is mentioned as a useful tool for this kind of cooperation providing direct access to scientific research and debates on zoonotic diseases transmitted by companion animals.

The practical and moral aspects of DRM is a debate for another day, but as it stands, Steam can be very useful in maintaining your game library.

The practical and moral aspects of DRM is a debate for another day, but as it stands, Steam can be very useful...

As interpreted by Michel Foucault, Das Narrenschiff (The Ship of Fools), a fifteenth - century satire by Sebastian Brant, imagines a world in which knowledge belongs squarely in the realm of madness, useful only to those who would debate idly and apply nothing to experience.

Whether it's useful to think of Richter's wonderful photo - based figure paintings as portraits is a matter for debate, but they have certainly been influential on younger artists such as Glenn Brown (pictured).

If Mr Klaus is coming from a place of hard earned experience and understands that you need some form of population control as well as an absence of proletariat free market restraint then his debate with Gore may prove genuinely useful for all of us.

But you are on the right track; ice extent in the Arctic is much more useful symbolically in the great AGW debate, than it is scientifically as a proxy for global temperatures.

What is troubling about this continuing debate is that anyone who suggests that additional R&D might prove useful in dealing with the mitigation challenge is castigated by Joe Romm as in cahoots with people wanting no action.

Framing climate - change costs as the equivalent of a hidden rising tax could be useful in debates over a climate response.

As I heard Penn State climate scientist Dr. Richard Alley during his talk at Climate One meeting at the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco last December, «Scientists are no longer debating (whether humans are causing) climate change because that is no longer a useful discussion.»

What useful purpose is served when group of scientists involved in the debate accuse the other of religious thinking as an insult, as a negative comment (since religious belief is the opposite of reason in all contexts where it occurs, but especially in the realm of science)?

For example, the question may be more revealing in a setting such as the first debate and useful than in the upcoming town - meeting format which is probably going to draw out time - limited pre-canned answers.

As for the publication metric, it is a useful tool for discussing and debating science, but my spouse and numerous friends in the academic world have left me with the impression that it is also very useful for maintaining positions, advancing towards tenure and gaining funding.

RICO is a useful law for handling organized crime on a national level, but it has, in the past, been used as a weapon to strangle public debate, bankrupt or eradicate companies whose products or ideology run counter to the particular group intent on using the law.

Your framing as «availability cascade» is very useful in the debate on climate risks.

This allows the appropriate cost benefit analysis (maybe this is getting to far into politics) that should be significantly more useful for the main debate than these temperature predictions that we have and takes many unpredictable factors out of the equation and if we have a full chain of logic it should be easier to find — because time as opposed to amount of carbon related models leave you asking questions like «what will happen to technology»

(And that's a surprising number of folks, I think — in that sense even the denialists play a useful role as foil in the public space: they stimulate the debate, which provides seemingly unending opportunities to educate.

See Brugger, supra n. 141, at 647 (stating that while Tucker's moot court was «no innovation in legal training,» Tucker enjoyed using it); Butler, supra n. 143, at 29 (stating that «with the higher view of preparing students for speaking and writing on legal subjects, it will be useful to exercise their minds by forensic debates in moot courts, and by requiring from them written opinions on questions of law, and readings and dissertations on statutes and other themes, as circumstances permit»); Laub, supra n. 144, at 14 (quoting Reed's letter to the Dickinson College Trustees on a course of study); Barrow, supra n. 148, at 289.

As our goal was to step away from the purely theoretical debates we academics are often criticised for, and to create guidelines and tools that could be implemented by those within the legal community, we deemed it useful to use our presence on Slaw to introduce our research to court administrators and decision makers so that interested parties could benefit from the fruits of our seven - year labour.

In assuming this position, he stated that:» a useful role for SCL is to act as a focal point for a debate about the ways in

But as to how useful they are in the moment - to - moment navigation will be up for debate.