Sentences with phrase «very little public debate»

Still, those groups criticized much about the process — particularly that there was very little public debate surrounding what are major changes to the elected office.

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And there is, in fact, very little evidence that champions of ecclesial pluralism have bent over backwards to insure that their opponents are given a fair hearing on occasions of public debate, nor are they conspicuously tolerant or open - minded when they happen themselves to be in positions of extra-ecclesial authority — as journal editors, perhaps, or as deans of theology faculties.

Yet we know very little about these local leaders, and we seldom hear their voices in debates about the role that their organizations do and should play in public education and school reform.

The significance of the Common Core is that the advocates for the Common Core and the people who are designing the test talk very explicitly about, as Carol said, these instructional shifts, which have not been publicly debated, which got little public airing as 40 - odd states rushed to adopt the Common Core in 2009, 2010, and which portend a dramatic shift in how we teach 50 million children reading and math.

There is very little open and public debate regarding Infinite Banking.

There is a lot of public debate around the rates utilities charge solar customers, but very little of it shows an awareness of the embedded technical and philosophical issues.

But when even the fundamental greenhouse effect can take days of debate to sort out (if indeed that has been achieved), Joe Public might reasonably take the view that an awful lot of his money has been spent on climatology for very very little actual return.

There was very little discussion of the lack of employment status for those on zero hours contracts during the parliamentary debates or evidence given to the Public Bill Committee.