Sentences with phrase «with political debate in this country»

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The obsession with the political centre which has so reduced debate in this country since 1997 was noticeably shaken by the financial crisis, and one might hope that the stage is set for a new generation of politicians to emerge who occupy a political spectrum without the baggage of the seventies and eighties, even if those were the times that formed them.

Deep in their hearts, they recognise that Labour is not simply a debating society, or a pressure group, but a political party with the objective of winning power and transforming the country.

Some American critics took issue with Arnold's ugly - beautiful portrait as a kind of inauthentic burlesque of their country, skewed by foreign preconceptions and blind spots — though not as many as those who took against Martin McDonagh's Oscar - winning Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, which weathered a firestorm of political and moral debate, backlashes and counter-backlashes, between its rapturous first reception in Venice and the Academy Awards.

Other countries might counter these of course, but the information needs to be out there and debated, as presently we are being forcibly enrolled in a giant social enterprise into which we currently have no input because, as you say, all three major political parties in the UK are all on board with the IPCC policy.

He said that while evangelical churches typically don't have endowments, he has been watching the divestment campaign with interest and expects church leaders across the country to grow more vocal as global warming resurfaces in political debate.