Today's vote not to move the Coast Guard was similarly arranged by a Republican committee chairman, and members of both parties on the Appropriations Committee approved an unusually harsh rebuke to the administration over the issue of shifting funds.
While some scientific areas (e.g., genomics, bioinformatics) have experienced a data deluge, many areas of global change, including the issue of shifting plant quality, have been hindered by chronic data scarcity.
If we are going to make our way through the tangle of modern issues on shifting moral ground, we would be wise to orient ourselves to him.
While she is popular in Arizona, Republicans have scoffed at her maneuvering on issues, accusing her of shifting with the political winds rather than standing on deep principles.
The issue is not only one of shifting definitions, but also a persistent distinction between musical style and audience identification: Ian Christe describes how the band "became the stepping-stone that led huge numbers of hard rock fans into heavy metal perdition".
Mr. Kerry's rival Democrats point to a series of shifting stands on issues, like his qualified praise for the 1994 Republican takeover of Congress and his vote authorizing President Bush to use force in Iraq.
The limited analyses that address the issue of a shifting socioeconomic effect over time suggest that shifts in the social class of smokers has less effect on trends in adenocarcinoma than for the other types of lung cancer [ 19].
But this misses the larger issue, which says Webster, is one of shifting social norms on carrying and using a gun in the first place.
Mr. Romney bristles when he is accused of shifting on the issue, as he has on abortion, pointing out that he has been consistent in personally opposing both marriage and civil unions between people of the same sex.
These findings raise a number of important issues around the shifting of blame and enactment of personal responsibility for care as well as the balance between hope and rational choice that we examine in this section.
