Sentences with phrase «wide debate on»

There is a wide debate on how often you should clean your dog's teeth.

MPs are currently debating the Lisbon treaty and Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg confirmed yesterday his party would use the opportunity to push for a wider debate on Britain's role in Europe.

On 12 June 2008, Davis resigned from the Shadow Cabinet and announced his resignation as an MP, in order to force a by - election, and cause a wider debate on the single issue of what he believed to be the erosion of civil liberties.

The contributors discuss the place of the body in their own work, and in relation to wider debates on the body in philosophy, science, medicine, anthropology and the arts.

As part of a much wider debate on trade and environmental / labour protection, progressive voices have long argued that environmental and labour provisions in trade agreements should be properly enforceable, meaning that non-compliance should have foreseeable consequences.

But that's only a small part of what Coldin is seeking, and the Supreme Court doesn't seem likely to open up a wider debate on the topic.

Facebook «will dig through this hole» even though doing so is likely to «take a few years,» co-founder and Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg said in a recent interview with Vox's Ezra Klein, referring to the company's issues which started with the Cambridge Analytica scandal in mid-March and have since snowballed into a wider debate on digital privacy and the manner in which Facebook should and shouldn't be regulated.

Not exact matches

Two particular EU policy initiatives worth highlighting in the context of European responses to China's growing economic footprint in the region are: 1) the Europe's Connectivity Strategy and 2) the on - going debate on a potential EU - wide investment screening mechanism.

Russia is late to the bitcoin party, still debating its legality even as one of the people who helped popularize the digital currency globally says the software that it relies on is too rigid to gain wide adoption.

«The Church is as keen as ever to encourage wide debate and discussion on the issues which matter - social justice, poverty, education, peace.»

«I think this rule does touch on this much wider religious freedom debate going on in our country,» said Father John Sims Baker, Chaplin of Vanderbilt Catholic.

The pro-con format of the Times feature supplies anecdotes, but it doesn't answer the question of how people are applying the Bible to the debate on a wider scale.

After a brief discussion on his situation, the conversation turned onto the wider transgender debate.

You do remember, I mentioned, on one of the articles the other day that we were debating on, that at some point, like in «chess,» you often leave yourself wide open....

The landscape of the missional debate is filled with questions, assumptions, and opinions - along with hard pressed critiques on wider issues such as leadership styles, congregation sizes, vocational / bi-vocational ministry, building church - based or house church - based as well as core theology.

The survey's broader validity may be up for debate, given the small size of the respondent group, but, if taking into account wider reporting on the snacking trend, it does seem to fall into a general indication of the snack market rising to the fore in place of conventional meals.

We have a pretty wide divergence on the Sam vs Shane debate though, so there are definitely some key differences.

But for those of you who can perhaps broaden this out a little and see what title winning teams around Europe have been doing for the past 5 seasons, and also acknowledge the shift in emphasis with many teams relying more now on goal - scoring potency from wide forwards, wingers, second strikers and attacking midfielders then I think the debate is a little more subtle than the «cut and paste a # 40M «guaranteed 25 goal» centre forward with no possible downside» proposition.

The blogging community has a wide and diverse range of views and sometimes one can feel like the lone voice on any given subject but the blog exists to allow debate and the airing of those views.

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

It was such an emotive debate, with a wide variety of people involved, but it was wonderful to hear all the MPs speak about their own experiences, the experiences of their constituents and also on the fantastic work that the various baby loss charities do.

What makes him so trenchant is his ability to find himself on the inside of variegated debates, to pass through them with «eyes and ears wide open», and to return «to the outside to think and write».

«If you believe the debate on our schools system should be wider than just Westminster... vote for the motion, because... the motion was carefully crafted to recognise that being in coalition should not require us to abandon our basic principles,» he pressed.

On primaries, I think this exchange highlights that we need to root this debate in a wider argument for party reform - and how thay might lead to primaries and / or other reforms.

The conference «Fuel Poverty: Our Vision for the Future» is supported by National Grid and Northern Powergrid and will focus on six key vision statements exploring the wider issues of fuel poverty including; energy efficiency programmes, fuel poverty and health, the heat or eat debate, hard to treat properties, energy behaviour and a fairer energy market.

The recent plebiscite on Scottish independence has triggered a much wider debate in the UK about the organisation of state power in institutional and territorial terms.

Although timetabled for discussion, on the day of the debate this composite was mysteriously dropped from the agenda, in an effort to prevent a vote and even the mere broadcasting of the issue to delegates at the conference and to the wider media.

Devolution in Scotland followed a decade - long debate involving a wide range of organisations in civil society; «devo Manc» is the result of confidential bargains between the Treasury and a small group of local deal - makers, mostly on the City Council.

There is a good discussion of the wider issues raised by Chris Grayling's responses during that debate by Mark Elliot on the Public Law for Everyone blog.

There was a wide debate, with people speaking on both sides of the arguments.

The BHA contributes to debate on a wide range of ethical issues from stem cell research to sex education.

«As third party we will be called at every Prime Minister's Questions (PMQs), every debate and also serve on a wide range of committees.

In a House of Commons debate on the riots Home Secretary Theresa May stated that the riots were symptomatic of a «wider malaise» including worklessness, illiteracy, and drug abuse but also stated that «Everybody, no matter what their background or circumstances, has the freedom to choose between right and wrong».

However, in what turned out to be a disastrously misguided gesture, some MPs nominated Corbyn despite preferring someone else in order to «widen the debate» and, presumably, increase the mandate of the eventual victor on the grounds that the party had been given a wide range of options and picked who they did.

As debate about the Living Wage goes on this week, much of it will revolve around whether or not more businesses can afford to pay it (an early salvo published today by Unison concludes the LW will be a win - win for low paid people and the wider economy).

He mentioned the four debates he had initiated on arms industry corruption, though appeared to develop amnesia when quizzed about arms industry subsidies, forgetting for example, that a pamphlet written by him in September 2009 had said that government insurance for arms exports was an indirect subsidy to the arms industry «difficult to justify on wider policy grounds».

Thirdly, we will look into the future and comment on emerging issues, again, to contribute to wider thinking and debate.

What I find striking about the mayoral control debate is the false assumption that there exists a wide consensus on the need for it.

We will host a discussion around economic policy over on our new blog dedicated to social liberal economics, PlanC.socialliberal.net, and there will of course be a full an open debate on ownership, democracy and power, at the SLF Conference in Manchester on July 13th — here, we will focus on the wider politics of social liberalism.

The BHA contributes to debate on a wide range of ethical issues from stem cell research to sex education, and acts as a unique watchdog and lobbying organisation.

A diverse group of voters will learn about the options for Brexit, hearing from a wide range of experts and campaigners from all sides of the debate, and deliberate on what they have heard.

«Better we have a general election on the issue and all the other issues because then you have a wider debate as well.»

The debate is still out on whether or not the bill is the same as proposed by Jacqui Smith in 2008 (when she ruled out a central database), but if it was to become law then the wider impact could be catastrophic.

Lib - Lab coalition For all the differences that Labour and the Liberal Democrats might claim during debates and on the campaign trail, it seems probable that a deal to put AV + to a referendum as part of wider constitutional reform would be one of the first measures of a Lib - Lab coalition.

The general election race was thrown wide open today as polls showed that Nick Clegg's mould - breaking performance in the first of the televised leaders» debates had dramatically boosted his party's support, prompting the two major parties to vow to train their guns on its «eccentric, surprising» policies.

The debate rages on about the wide health - care reform legislation passed last year, but a forum at the Flushing branch of the Queens Library Friday featured no rancor — only people determined to explain the new law and express concerns about its impact.

The MP for Islington North and a prominent figure on the left of the party, Jeremy Corbyn, made it on to the ballot with minutes to spare after MPs who do not intend to give him their vote nominated him in order to ensure a wider debate.

Other highlights from the debate: Williams being asked whether he would release his internal poll — which POLITICO New York reported on back in December — showing the race was «wide open,» since none of the candidates were well known to voters.

Better to bring that vigour to bear on a wider debate aimed at shedding light on the nature of a truly sustainable energy policy for the UK — and, for that matter, the world.

Reflecting on the film's release as the Me Too and Time's Up movements dominate debate in Hollywood and the wider world, she said: «It's a strange thing, the themes this film touch on, the themes that we wanted to focus on and discuss and let an audience discuss during the process of seeing the film have to do with class - ism and abuse towards women and if they are believed when they come forward.