Sentences with phrase «useful debate on»

Her ideas will spark useful debate on our approach to kids» food, and she deserves the widest possible audience.»

Not exact matches

It's useful in debate, but it also arouses critical thinking, which is sometimes in short supply on a Facebook discussion.

On the other hand, if you keep a light touch and don't try to «win», it might be useful to remember that the party you're most likely to reach isn't the one you're having the debate with.

There are a number of useful early chapters on the historical context of the debate between science and religion, where the authors juxtapose and compare the differing positions taken by various prominent psychologists / neuroscientists during the last century.

I agree that arguments based solely on religious beliefs are not useful or persuasive to those with different beliefs and should be kept out of the debate.

Childress» argument is an interesting thought experiment, useful if there were no tradition of just war from which contemporary debate on war and morality might take its bearings, but his argument takes no account whatever of that tradition.

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.

This is new territory for me, doing a book - length study of Jesus and the origins of Christianity, but I have read everything I could get my hands on, weighed all the scholarly debates, and hope my book will be useful to the book - reading public in explaining what we can really know, historically, about Jesus.

Placher performs a useful service when he corrects misconceptions and deflates rhetorical hyperbole on both sides of the revisionist - post-liberal debate.

Unfortunately, the Guide dates back to the first wave of electoral reform in the UK in 1999, but the Democratic Audit website also includes lots of useful material on recent voting system debates and controversies.

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.

«The report provides a useful contribution to the debate on high speed rail, and echoes a number of the messages coming out from the responses to the public consultation.»

Nonetheless the debate about climate change crosses national borders so I believe I can still contribute a useful answer on one of your points.

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:

While it can not decisively resolve the debate, we hope it delivers useful statistical information on the Viking Age in Ireland.»

There is no question that it was stuffed full of imaginative and useful events — schoolchildren debating genetics or drawing posters, teachers discussing space science, and young people making videos on environmental topics.

And for those of us who've had the privilege, or [the] accident of living in small places, we have something useful to add to this debate, and Vermont is a really interesting exception to a number of American [rules], including the fact that it takes seriously the idea that it's supposed to govern itself locally and so on.

Programme highlights From early years practice to high - level debates on the provision of music education for all, the programme aimed to provide a balance of practical, advice - led sessions, useful practice - sharing workshops and discussion to broaden thinking both on practice and the broader political context of musical and cultural education.

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.

UPDATED: now includes link to useful CNN debate on YouTube.

When they insist that ideas like school choice, performance pay, and teacher evaluations based on value - added measures will themselves boost student achievement, would - be reformers stifle creativity, encourage their allies to lock elbows and march forward rather than engage in useful debate and reflection, turn every reform proposal into an us - against - them steel - cage match, and push researchers into the awkward position of studying whether reforms «work» rather than when, why, and how they make it easier to improve schooling.

This is a separate debate to which others have made very useful contributions on this site useful contributions on this site; but suffice to say becoming too bogged down in the detail of content misses the much bigger point about how we best prepare our young people for life after school.

Daisy said: «OUP have a great reputation for publishing thoughtful, useful and practical contributions to important education debates, and I am delighted that my next book, on assessment, will be published with them.»

«That was quite useful because it reduced the time for debate about a person's qualifications to be on the List and, instead, made the debate more about where on the List people should be», said Little.

And author Susan Meissner gave us another writer's experienced retort, useful for those on both the literary and genre side of the debate:

In this article, you will find useful hints for writing a good term paper on pro-life debate of abortion.

To make the debate more useful, I asked everyone to indicate on a slip of paper their best estimate of the number of months that would be needed to bring the project to a well - defined stage of completion: a complete draft ready for submission to the Ministry of education.

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.

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).

A useful political debate centered on science would center on just how much of the taxpayers dollar should go to NASA, the NIH, our state universities, Fermilab, corporate research, and of course, our military.

I thought the Obama White House had brought something useful to the budget debate with its visual depiction of United States spending — which revealed the profound growth in politically untouchable programs and the almost invisible dimensions of programs on education, research, innovation, development assistance and the like.

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.

Room for Debate has posted a useful new discussion on whether and how nuclear power can safely contribute to advancing energy options without climate regrets.

I tweeted on another useful primer on gasoline basics during the debate:

This is to say that the «consensus» has political, rather than practical utility: it is more useful to the task of mobilising towards «action on climate change» than it is informing the debate about what kind of problem climate change is, and what the options for dealing with it are.

It is not useful on either side of the debate.

This is a useful idea for airing the issues, although I doubt that further discussion on blogs would add much to the sort of debates we already see.

That said, debates, whether live or on paper, can be useful devices for identifying the issues.

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.

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.

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

One thing I learned in being at the NAS shindig is that it is possible and even useful for people on opposite sides of the debate to get together and talk.

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.

Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, arrested last Christmas for trying to explode a bomb on a plane arriving in Detroit, has begun talking again to authorities, officials said Tuesday, a development that only ratcheted up the debate over whether he should be tried in federal court or before a military tribunal...» My understanding is that he is cooperating,» she said, «that they have gotten useful information out of him.

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.

Reviews of the empirical literature and the opportunities for public debate should prove to be particularly useful» - Suzanne Bennett Johnson, University of Florida, Gainesville, USA This journal is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).