Sentence examples for societal debate from inspiring English sources

These questions arise amid a broader political and societal debate about gun control.

I'm happy for that to be at the restrained end [of the pay scale], albeit in a societal debate I can't win," Hester said.

Opposition from some EU states to draft GM authorisations is "usually not based on science but on other considerations reflecting the societal debate existing in the country," the commission argues.

"The potential scale of such a deep transformation will require a wide societal debate in Europe," says the document, which was jointly prepared by the European commission and its foreign office, the European external action service.

In Liberia, gender issues are becoming a greater part of societal debate; in 2013, a high-level UN panel argued that gender equality will play a major role in poverty alleviation and any future development goals for the country.

Paul Voosen, who's one of my favorite science journalists these days, has written a fine piece examining the scientific and societal debate over the Anthropocene, the proposed term for this era in which human decisions (or indecision) will leave a durable mark in planetary systems and even in the planet's stratified rock.* (The video above explores the Anthropocene as environmental meme).

Spitzer said: "Our societal debates right now are debates between Rawls and Nozick and Keynes and Ayn Rand.

As three former presidents of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, we know how important it is for scientists to engage meaningfully in societal debates about their work.

The findings of researchers are often cited in custody disputes involving gay or lesbian parents and swept up into larger societal debates over a variety of gay rights issues, including same-sex marriages and gay adoptions.

But even as she signals that this is no "two-for-one" deal in the Clinton mold, Mrs. Obama and her husband's campaign are drawing some lessons from Mrs. Clinton's experience as the target of intense partisan attacks and a symbol of broad societal debates about how women should juggle sometimes conflicting roles and expectations.

Kasperson et al. (2001) warn of the influence large organizations have on the context and terms of contemporary societal debates on risk.