Sentences with phrase «wider debates in»

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.

He said the government was keen to encourage a wide debate in parliament, political parties and across the country as a whole.

«We need to have a much wider debate in Britain about how a Parliament works, how we elect our representatives and how we can transform more power to people themselves,» he said.

And Mr. Rice culminated each chapter of American history with a class - wide debate in which we each assumed the role of a different figure from that period, bonus points for showing up in costume.

The school discipline discussion has paralleled the wider debate in urban America over «broken windows» or «quality of life» policing, which entails aggressive enforcement of low - level crimes if they threaten to disrupt the social order — vandalism, turnstile jumping, public drinking, and the like.

Not exact matches

The debate sparked a wide discussion over government interference in a technology company's data.

«While his contributions to deep questions in physics were profound, he also contributed to a wide array of extremely important contemporary debates and issues — things such as artificial intelligence, the building of a fair society, pitfalls and problems thrown up by disruptive technologies of tomorrow.

Alice Hill, who directed resilience policy for the National Security Council in the Obama administration, said the wider debate over cutting climate - warming emissions may have distracted people from promptly pursuing ways to reduce risks and economic and societal costs from natural disasters.

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.

Dublin's campaign to ratify the eurozone fiscal discipline pact is failing to build momentum against a backdrop of weakening economic growth and a wider European debate about austerity, with almost one - in - five Irish voters still undecided.

While these debates are wide ranging, they all have the potential to redefine industries in the year ahead.

«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.

A culture of bullying has taken over in this area, and the idea of academic freedom, wide enquiry, and genuine debate and analysis is no longer seen as essential in university life.

The initiative has sparked a campus - wide debate about biblical interpretation and the roles of women, as well as a second group called Students for Egalitarianism in Marriage.

However, if you should begin to feel that - in the words of your reply to Mr Skarpa - «the debate is going nowhere», just let me know: I too have a concern for the patience of the wider readership.

As a curious side note, this fits in with the wider theology of the New Testament, that of the dramatic inclusion of the Gentiles in God's Kingdom plans — see the debates in the Book of Acts between Paul and Peter, and its refraction in the second chapter of Galatians.

I think the show depicts real people who debate their own cultural expectations and show that there are wide variations in any cultural group.

He might not, as Pete Spiliakos says, prove ten foot tall in debate, though he is approaching ten foot wide.

While debate over the understanding of Biblical interpretation lies at the heart of current evangelical discussions concerning women, differences in theological tradition lie at the center of discussions over social ethics, and disagreement over one's approach toward the wider secular culture is surfacing as the focus of controversy regarding homosexuality.

In a wide - ranging interview with John Buckeridge, Michael Nazir - Ali, the Anglican Bishop of Rochester encourages Christians in general, and evangelicals in particular, to be more confident about witnessing, debating theology, defending Christian ideals and loving people — whoever they may bIn a wide - ranging interview with John Buckeridge, Michael Nazir - Ali, the Anglican Bishop of Rochester encourages Christians in general, and evangelicals in particular, to be more confident about witnessing, debating theology, defending Christian ideals and loving people — whoever they may bin general, and evangelicals in particular, to be more confident about witnessing, debating theology, defending Christian ideals and loving people — whoever they may bin particular, to be more confident about witnessing, debating theology, defending Christian ideals and loving people — whoever they may be.

The public is then encouraged to join in this wide - ranging debate.

I write not only as one engaged in the wider debate but also as a theologian of one of the communions I hope to see involved in this effort.

Although many of his latter - day prophets ignore this, Smith taught that the social benefit of the free market would be realized only in the wider public sphere, with the populace actively debating matters of common concern and expressing its will through the state.

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....

Paul's letter attempts to rise above the fray, saying that what makes us indispensable to one another, and what distinguishes Christians from the wider world, is not what we eat, or our ability to win a theological debate, or our moral superiority, or the utility of our practices, but our baptism, our unity in the gospel which demands that we remain with one another precisely in those places where we disagree.

It's a conversation that I believe reflects a shift in the wider cultural debate — at least in certain groups.

The Cappadocian Fathers crystallized the trinitarian debates that followed the Council of Nicaea with formulations that found wide favor in ensuing epochs.

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.

«In terms of the wider competition debate, all stakeholders would be well minded to keep what's best for customers at the forefront of their minds.»

NFL scouts endlessly debated Brees's height (again), his arm strength and the possible skewing effect of playing in Tiller's wide - open offense (which would be pedestrian by today's standards, just a decade later).

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.

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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.

Although this post did not set out to complete a full linguistic analysis of language around «citizens» and citizenship, its initial descriptive findings do link with some of the debates and conversations already happening in both this series and wider scholarship.

The Lib Dem leader accused Labour and the Conservatives of «colluding» to steer the debate away from the wider issue of Britain in the EU.

«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.

Drawing upon evidence from the debates over healthcare reform in both the U.S. and the U.K., where Palin's propagation of the idea of death panels and Labour's insistence that Gove's reforms constituted privatisation «pure and simple» served only to confuse and scare the wider public, Thompson argued that misleading and emotive language is making political reform and compromise harder to achieve.

As various debates about employer intimidation and control remind us, we too are well acquainted with a wide range of concerns that labour contracts put workers in relationships of arbitrary power and domination with respect to their employers.

What is fascinating about this evolution — and especially most of the academic analysis (and in some cases advocacy) of it has been the degree to which it has ignored wider debates about presidential versus parliamentary forms of government.

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.

Allowing Nick Clegg to be treated as an equal in all three debates while no other party was (why not UKIP, for example, they outperformed the Lib Dems at the last UK - wide poll and might have done the same to Cameron as Clegg has done to Labour) was a decision.

The break up of a UK wide national minimum wage could see England and Wales which, as we know has an in - built Tory majority, scuppering any attempt to increase it, driving wages down not up with Scottish MPs barred from taking part in debates or votes which don't affect Scotland.

The Scottish Tories will then have a leadership contest that should be an opportunity for a wider debate about the party's position in Scotland.

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.

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.

Planting bulbs may seem a far cry from a discussion about the role of the state, but reconnecting with people, in a soggy trousers, dirty hands sort of a way, is essential if we want to engage in a wider debate about what the party should do in power.

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».

«So, please, as we engage in yet another community - wide debate about consolidation, dust off your history books,» she said.

In some cases, amateur governors interviewed for the research said decisions were presented to the wider governing body as faits accomplis rather than being debated first to arrive at a consensus.