It's cute to call for a more civil political discourse.
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And Lomborg's on the more civil end of Thunberg's critics.
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There's no magic fix to making our political culture more civil.
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The more civil the protest, millions began to feel, the less effective.
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We're in a new era; the top artists should be more civil.
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Pushing for more civil discourse on social media is a good thing.
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All of us can bring a more civil tone to our political speech.
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He has in recent months urged Americans to engage in more civil discourse.
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Twitter's goal with the feature is to encourage more civil conversation on its platform.
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"This should involve more civil-society participation," says Cui Zhiyuan of Tsinghua University in Beijing.
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There is no guarantee that the debate will become wiser, more conclusive or more civil.
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"At the APA, we've taken the position that we need more civil discourse," Shilling said.
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It's a state that prides itself on Midwestern "nice" and a more civil political discourse.
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If President Trump can be defended, surely they can make a more civil, reasoned argument.
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It didn't keep big money out of politics & didn't result in a more civil election.
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"I think when he has worked at being more civil, I appreciate it," she said.
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And to think we always considered this match-up the more civil of the two. 2.
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Police officers, politicians and citizens can work together to create a safer, fairer, more civil society.
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His departure from Janus Henderson was a good deal more civil than what happened at Pimco.
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More "civil" lines of attack from Mexico against on our attempts to regulate immigration are manifold.
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Many want to change their country — to make it more compassionate, more civil and more just.
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Research shows there are a number of ways that to be more civil this holiday season.
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Pushing the trial back by even a few weeks might lead to a more civil discourse.
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" Jeh Johnson, former Obama homeland security secretary, says voters should demand leaders "adopt a more civil tone.
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Until recent years, however, the committee was able to operate in a far more civil bipartisan manner.
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The president condemned the attempted attacks shortly after they occurred, calling for unity and more civil rhetoric.
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It didn't keep big money out of politics & didn't result in a more civil election #mepolitics pic.twitter.
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An oncology unit was opened in Al Hoceima, and the government agreed to hire more civil servants.
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They will engage in fiery debates with Trump supporters; other times they will try being more civil.
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Instead, a will offers concrete directions that allow the family to mourn in a more civil manner.
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We'll surely see more civil legal action come up as guests are notified and more information becomes available.
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Recent events across our country clearly highlight the need for a more civil, respectful, and inclusive national conversation.
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Modern chambers, such as Scotland's, are arranged in a horseshoe—and are noticeably quieter and, frankly, more civil.
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And there is much that should (and will) be done to make these places (this place) more civil.
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Some say that leading by example or setting a more civil tone does not come naturally to him.
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If that happens, we should see more civil-military conflicts and political instability in the years to come.
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" Former Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson said on ABC that "the attack yesterday and the attempted pipe bombings over the course of last week should be a wake-up call for all Americans to demand change," and those demands should include "a more civil discourse, and a more civil environment generally.
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But here's the thing: You're right that Johnny Carson represents a more civil, gentle era of late-night television.
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He did not name Biden, who has pledged to return to an earlier and more civil era of politics.
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Twitter is here to serve the entire public conversation, and we intend to make it healthier and more civil.
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Women also do well with ranked choice voting, in part because campaigns usually cost less and are more civil.
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In essence, Mastodon is an experiment in whether individually moderated communities can make a social network like Twitter more civil.
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Why it matters: The most successful Democratic politician of his generation is breaking with precedents from a more civil era.
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Maybe if you worked in a restaurant that catered for a nicer, more ethical demographic, everyone would be more civil.
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America is having a much more civil discourse than in 1860 and 1861, on the eve of the Civil War.
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My research has shown that the more civil religious a person was, the more outraged they were about Clinton's actions.
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The time is ripe for leaders to support and unite their workforce by promoting a more civil and inclusive environment.
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It was more civil on Monday — just a tight defensive game with numerous contested shots and a few hard screens.
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One study demonstrated that the increase from 140 to 280 characters made discussion about politics more deliberative and more civil.
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One leaked note from a consultancy portrays a flailing government that needs up to 30,000 more civil servants to manage Brexit.
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Still, the president and the president-elect have been much more civil toward each other than they were during the campaign.
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From what we hear here, it's clear where Sarah stands ... we can all be a little more civil to one another.
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In keeping with the app's more civil-minded approach, you can ban people from following your account and viewing your shows.
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Better education and a more civil society should help people become more tolerant of one another, and also of their differences.
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The president also condemned Saturday's shooting at a Pittsburgh synagogue that killed 11 people, calling for unity and more civil discourse.
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Biden said the tenor of the debate on the Democratic side has been much more civil than the Republican primary fight.
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You may know McCain as the 2008 Republican presidential nominee, a Vietnam war vet, or an advocate for more civil politics.
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If our society as a whole were to hold to the same principles, our national discourse undoubtedly would become more civil.
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"Twitter is here to serve the entire public conversation, and we intend to make it healthier and more civil," Dorsey wrote.
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"We have to be a lot more civil in the way we engage one another," Biden told reporters in Mount Pleasant.
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Politics may be more civil today, but information posted online lives forever, and harassment over politics is no mere historical relic.
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It's more civil than the N.F.L.; there are fewer concussions per team per season, perhaps because the players are generally smaller.
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The drafters of the "Stand By Your Ad" rule thought they would bring about a more civil brand of campaign discourse.
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It seems more "civil," in this view, to honestly state disagreements with individuals, even impolitely, than to try to trick them.
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We can stop it by disciplining ourselves to be more civil and by respecting the inherent psychological challenges of social media use.
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Even the anti-war movement was more civil in tone but certainly the civil rights movement among the people who were protesting.
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Sanders apologized, and one of the women targeted said that, after that, the kinds of tweets they were getting seemed more civil.
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Kyanka: There was more civil discourse because you had to basically have a certain level of intelligence to be on [the web].
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The ruling could also pave the way for more civil suits against Trump at the state level while he's still in office.
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It could set the stage for religious views intruding further and further on laws designed to make society more civil and more open.
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"What the president says matters, and it he were to take a more civil tone, it would make a difference," Flake told CNN.
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After 156 years of British rule, Hong Kongers are accustomed to significantly more civil freedoms than the communist Chinese government has hinted toward.
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The Ethics of the Biomass It's not just that online ethics help facilitate more reflective, more empathetic, and indeed, more civil online interactions.
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"Harriet Tubman, Rosa Parks and millions more black Americans who made America what it is today," Trump added, naming more civil rights icons.
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And what light could we shed to try to get people to understand each other better, and perhaps have a more civil conversation.
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Harris targeted Biden for invoking his ability to work with segregationist senators as an example of a more civil time in the US Senate.
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His campaign started the day by defending his nostalgia for a more civil Washington -- when getting things done meant working with segregationists on occasion.
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"I believe that good things can come out of bad," Gianforte said, calling for more civil discourse after the politically motivated shooting of Rep.
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But more than anything, the hope was that ranked-choice voting would encourage more civil campaigning, more engagement with voters, and better coalition-building.
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Last summer, he criticized Trump's remarks about MSNBC personality Mika Brzezinski's appearance as "inappropriate" while calling for a more civil tone in political discourse.
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The anti-war movement in Vietnam, the civil rights movement in the 26s and early '203s, both of those were more civil in tone.
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But if Raya's price and exclusivity lets people be both vulnerable and accountable, it could forge a more civil way to make a connection.
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The calls for a more civil discourse also clashed with the tone of some of Mr. Trump's supporters who came to see Ms. Trump.
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Thousands of court employees will stop receiving paychecks, some workers are expected to be furloughed and more civil cases could grind to a halt.
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Read More Civil rights icon: We must break barriers again in '16 But it could also backfire because it is far from a perfect comparison.
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The event reportedly became so contentious that Stewart told attendees he would walk out unless it became more civil, which brought it back in line.
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Silicon Valley needs to look at other examples of other cultures, Singapore and Estonia in particular, which are beginning to develop more civil digital societies.
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It's my observation that the interaction between members of the Python community are much more civil and constructive than in the Linux community, in particular.
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" Such a sensible, iterative American public life contained, Katz wrote, "the … tantalizing … possibility that technology could fuse with politics to create a more civil society.
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Hayhoe is right to push for more civil dialogue, and if Republicans want to increase investment in renewable energy, the Democrats surely would work with them.
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You wouldn't even need a real camera, as just the perception of being observed is enough for most people to act in a more civil manner.
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They made their will and desires known, only to be chastised—by the party that claimed to represent them—to act in a more civil manner.
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But the policies raise a tough question: When one person's beliefs sound like hate speech to another, how do you ensure a more civil political debate?
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Zoe Lofgren, a Democrat from California, had said she wanted to add amendments to the legislation that would inject more civil liberties protections, and Georgia Rep.
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This spotlight on their real lives tends to make them far more civil and self-policing because their professional reputation and military honor is at stake.
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At a time of the year when Americans are encouraged to have empathy for others, we could all benefit from being just a bit more civil.
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"We need a more open discussion on trade, and more than anything, a more civil discussion on trade so that folks can make informed decisions," he said.
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At the same time, Trump can use this address to pursue a more civil discourse, one that ensures respect for opponents and paves the way for collaboration.
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The party's past efforts to push through similar patriotic education programs in Hong Kong, a Chinese territory with more civil liberties than on the mainland, have failed.
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To promote economic growth, digital inclusion and a more civil society, we need broadband infrastructure that can connect the unconnected and deliver new opportunities for all Americans.
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When it becomes personal, I think we need to call out our side and say, this is not how we have more civil discourse in the public arena.
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Wevorce provides an alternative to the traditional American divorce process, aimed at keeping things less expensive, less time-consuming and perhaps most importantly, more civil for the pair.
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On Wedneday, Biden cited two former Democratic colleagues — the white supremacist segregationists James Eastland and Herman Talmadge — as examples of how the Senate used to be more civil.
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Mr. Nikitin said that while changing the city's appearance would not solve Russia's many deep problems, it had encouraged new and more civil codes of behavior among residents.
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While negative campaigning has its place, we can only hope for a more civil and rational discourse about the future of our nation in the years to come.
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" In another—"Comments should get more civil and substantive, not less, as a topic becomes more divisive"—they changed the phrase "civil and substantive" to "thoughtful and substantive.
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So by breaking the debate down into its component parts and looking at points of agreement, there is a path toward a more fruitful and more civil debate.
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Making America more civil again does not require that the various forces at work in this arena surrender or adjust their views, even if those views are passionately held.
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"Against this bleak backdrop, the recently scheduled April elections could prove to be the catalyst for more civil strife and economic sanctions that would further erode output," Croft said.
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WILLIAMS: And I think this is a problem that all of us want to have more civil debate and discussion, but to say that Maxine Waters is calling for violence?
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"The movement has grown a lot: There's much more civil activism and grassroots activism, the movement has many more allies, we organize our festivals and sometimes even rallies," Andrianova said.
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Calm start The showdown began in a more civil and calm way than the two previous debates, in which Trump and Clinton repeatedly flung sharp, bitter jabs at one another.
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" Handel issued a call for civility, saying that "we also need to lift up this nation so that we can find a more civil way to deal with our disagreements.
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While she did not say that it was time for Mr. Sanders to quit, she expressed hope in an interview with Fox News that the tenor would be more civil.
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Mr. Biden routinely characterizes that era and those relationships as more civil and functional, with less demonization of the other side, even amid vigorous clashes over explosive issues like race.
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Biden's pledge to return government to a more civil era comes at precisely the time when more Americans than ever before want Washington to change its stagnant and stale ways.
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"And that requires us to be more civil, to support politicians who have the courage to take risks and to reward those who reach across the aisle in search of compromise."
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"Part of this is, I just think we have to be a lot more civil in the way we engage in things," he told The Washington Post's Dave Weigel on Tuesday.
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The U.S. killing of Iranian military mastermind General Qassem Soleimani in Baghdad this month has raised the spectre of more civil strife in a country torn by years of sectarian conflict.
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After moderate early success as mayor—a funding boost for local services, a plan for affordable homes—he is running for the Senate with a promise to make Washington more civil.
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Just this month, Santa Fe elected its new mayor and city officers with RCV — joining cities like San Francisco, Oakland, and Minneapolis — and voters hailed a more civil and meaningful campaign.
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Twitter said it expected to increase its workforce by 2280 percent to 15 percent in 2018 to make discussions on the service more civil, increase ad sales and meet other priorities.
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The latest endorsement for Trump followed a Republican debate in Miami on Thursday night at which Trump and the remaining three candidates in the Republican race struck a markedly more civil tone.
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The cantor had sent Ms. Kelman a 19-page letter of grievances, which seemed certain to worsen the rancor, so the lawyer began paring it down to a more civil two pages.
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The company has made several high-profile moves over the past two years to make the service feel more civil, but continues to draw criticism for its opaque policies and inconsistent enforcement.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Justice Department said on Wednesday it was planning to ramp up efforts to bring more civil rights lawsuits against municipalities that try to discriminate against houses of worship.
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It will be hard for Twitter to become more civil and holistic given that in January it instituted a world leaders policy exempting a certain head of state from any tempering efforts.
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Catch up quick: Booker called Biden out for citing two former Democratic colleagues — the white supremacist segregationists James Eastland and Herman Talmadge — as examples of how the Senate used to be more civil.
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Such analogies are likely to be perceived again in the tributes to Bush, who was almost universally regarded as a gentleman and a throwback to a more civil and magnanimous era of politics.
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His comments also came just hours after Mr. Trudeau had tried to paint a more civil picture of the summit meeting, which was held in a quiet resort town north of Quebec City.
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And yet, the #MeToo reckoning is far from over, so until everyone feels safe and the industry becomes more civil, female founders may end up further perpetuating the gender gap in VC funding.
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I could be one of the gatekeepers, the socially responsible leader who removes the rampant hate speech and sexism and bigotry, bans repeated rule-breakers, and guides the community to more civil interaction.
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Dorsey said that Twitter's 336 million monthly active users should expect a series of other changes over the next several months as the company explores ways to encourage tweets that are more civil.
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The S&P 500 hit a record high as a more civil tone between the United States and China lifted hopes for a possible trade deal and investors looked toward a Fed rate cut.
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Candidates are more civil when they have an incentive to appeal to voters as a second or third choice, said David O'Brien, a staff lawyer with FairVote, an organization that promotes ranked-choice voting.
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With previous assaults on Trump having failed to knock him down, Rubio and U.S. Senator Ted Cruz of Texas chose a more civil approach, raising questions about Trump's policy positions without attacking him personally.
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A 2014 analysis of civil forfeiture regimes in BC and Ontario in the Western University's Journal of Legal Studies argued that incentives built into civil forfeiture programs can encourage police to pursue more civil forfeitures.
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I found that voters were three times more likely to favor the candidate who appeared more civil religious and 2.5 times more likely to vote for the candidate whose civil religious views matched their own.
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But Luján and Stivers said taking a more civil tone shouldn't have to wait until control of Congress is settled, even as the two men spoke over one another to get the final point in.
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Many Democrats and the libertarian wing of the GOP, of which Paul belongs, worry about extending broad surveillance authorities without more civil liberties protections and have threatened to oppose any measure that doesn't include them.
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New Delhi (CNN)Protesters in India have vowed more civil action against a new citizenship law, even as the Indian government extends sweeping controls on protests and imposes internet shutdowns following deadly country-wide demonstrations.
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It also calls for new laws to combat environmental discrimination, more civil litigation from the Environmental Protection Agency, and direct the federal government to proactively protect low-income communities and communities of color from pollution.
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"I hope the constructive resolution of this incident reinforces for all the importance of respecting the freedom of the press and the first amendment and encourages more civil and thoughtful discourse in our country," Jacobs said.
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The question will be whether one-off, niche social networks can succeed in the face of massive networks like Facebook and its Groups feature by focusing on thwarting abuse and creating a more civil discussion space.
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Why it matters: Previously, he defiantly refused to apologize for citing segregationists James Eastland and Herman Talmadge as examples of how the Senate used to be more civil, saying his comments were taken out of context.
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Driving the news: The former vice president has been criticized for citing 2 former Democratic colleagues — the white supremacist segregationists James Eastland and Herman Talmadge — as examples of how the Senate used to be more civil.
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Mark Zuckerberg has long professed beliefs that representing oneself through more than one identity indicates a lack of integrity, and that conversations held under one's real name are more civil—despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary.
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Nadler said the measure would include more civil liberty protections for Americans whose names may be mentioned during conversations between individuals overseas who are monitored by intelligence officials for counterintelligence purposes under the current surveillance law.
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The new efforts raise a question that has only grown more intractable since President Trump took office: When one person's beliefs sound like hate speech to another, how do you ensure a more civil political debate?
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"Although Bell probably has more civil helicopter headwinds in 2016, the improving defense environment should be a longer term offset for both this division and Systems going forward," RBC Capital Markets analysts wrote in a note.
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In part because he favors more liberalization of Iran's economy and greater engagement with the West, Rouhani has broad support among Iran's youth, who want more civil liberties and less government intrusion in their private lives.
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But already they're doing their best to dismantle one of the most tiresome and inaccurate stereotypes in politics: that women lawmakers are inherently more civil, more collaborative, less power-hungry and less personally ambitious than men.
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It is hoped that by managing its own affairs, the region will have more power, budget and political will to address the shortfalls, employ more civil servants, and attract more private investment, especially in agriculture and mining.
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With previous assaults on front-runner Donald Trump having failed to knock him down, Rubio and U.S. Senator Ted Cruz of Texas chose a more civil approach, raising questions about Trump's policy positions without attacking him personally.
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If we not only want to provide meaningful diversity on the Supreme Court, but also ensure a more civil confirmation process, Republicans and Democrats alike should seriously consider nominating more military veterans to our nation's highest court.
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In commemorating the speech — one of the major historic moments of the civil rights movement — lawmakers said the anniversary of King's remarks underline the need to rectify racial inequities and work to make political rhetoric more civil.
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JANESVILLE, Wisconsin — A week after House Speaker Paul Ryan implored the GOP presidential candidates to take a more civil tone, Donald Trump went to the Republican's hometown, spat in his face and defended his controversial campaign manager.
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He said the country had lifted hundreds of millions of people out of poverty, yet companies that do business there "have nothing to point to" showing that Chinese people have been granted more civil or political rights.
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Attendees of the screening in Medina would, in one breath, say they longed for a time when political opponents were more civil and respectful, and in the next moment describe Democrats as morally depraved and anti-American.
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"I hope the constructive resolution of this incident reinforces for all the importance of respecting the freedom of the press and the First Amendment and encourages more civil and thoughtful discourse in our country," Mr. Jacobs said.
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It's a big week for Marvel on late night TV: Kimmel will follow up the Civil War clip with a first look at the trailer for Doctor Strange on Tuesday evening, plus more Civil War treats all week.
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Columbia, South Carolina (CNN)Joe Biden spent the past week simmering in controversy after he used his ability to work with segregationist senators he disagreed with as an example of a more civil time in the US Senate.
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Photo: Sam Rutherford (Gizmodo)But we're not done yet, because instead of reaching for a sky-high 4K resolution, the GS65 keeps things more civil at full HD, before adding a 144Hz refresh rate to make things spicy.
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"If you think the answer is that women need to be more sober, more civil, more upright, that girls must be better at exercising fear, must wear more layers with eyes open wider, we will go nowhere," she wrote.
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However, critics argue that this supposedly more civil age in politics should not be idealized — because it was in fact dominated by white men who were happy to minimize or trade away nonwhite voters' concerns to retain political power.
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"I hope the constructive resolution of this incident reinforces for all the importance of respecting the freedom of the press and the First Amendment and encourages more civil and thoughtful discourse in our country," Jacobs said in a statement.
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With previous assaults on front-runner Donald Trump having failed to knock him down, Rubio and U.S. Senator Ted Cruz of Texas chose a more civil approach on Thursday, raising questions about Trump's policy positions without attacking him personally.
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Former Department of Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson said on Sunday that voters should demand leaders "adopt a more civil tone" in the wake of an attack on two mosques in New Zealand that left dozens of people dead.
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Romanticizing Bush's supposedly charming moments is more than irksome ahistorical blather: It illustrates that in the Trump era, there's no figure so noxious they can't be turned into a Resistance hero and a symbol of a more civil era.
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Nowhere is this more apparent than in the company's "conversational health" initiatives, which are focused on finding ways to measure and support healthy conversations, steering Twitter discourse away from a rats' nest of trolls and abuse and toward something more civil.
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Under President Barack Obama, the Justice Department took on more civil rights investigations of local police departments than Obama's two predecessors — including President Bill Clinton, who signed the law in the 1990s allowing these types of investigations by the Justice Department.
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Mr Biden's greatest strength is his ability to be a voice for the sort of angry, blue-collar worker who drifted away from the Democrats in 2016, while also promising to be a more civil, hopeful and upbeat sort of leader.
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Plenty of members of Congress, shocked at what happened Wednesday morning at baseball practice in suburban Alexandria, Virginia, and deeply concerned about their own safety are now talking about the need to conduct political debate in a more civil way.
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But while the purges at home may continue - Monday's action at Cumhuriyet came a day after 10,000 more civil servants were dismissed and 15 media outlets shut down - the strident words on foreign policy may not translate so readily into action.
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A less energy-friendly British Columbia will also embolden activists, many of whom voted Green or NDP, with Greenpeace expecting more protesters and possibly holding more civil disobedience workshops, said Keith Stewart, who heads the organization's Canadian climate and energy campaign.
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Booker Booker comes into Wednesday night's debate with more momentum than his campaign has experienced to date, propelled by a public spat with Biden over the former vice president's comments about working with segregationist senators in what he described as more civil times.
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Sources told the WSJ that the Common Ground project would have brought together several different projects "meant to minimize toxic content and encourage more civil discussion," which included changes to how the News Feed was ranked, and to de-emphasize "hateful" comments.
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Of course, no one could seriously argue that such a priority resetting by a president was an "obstruction of justice" because the feds might be now pursuing fewer drug dealers, money launderers, and bank robbers to go after more civil rights offenders.
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Now of course Whole Foods is obviously owned by Amazon and that's another story, but consumers have been much more demanding and I think we can have better-quality products, more civil products, but we all have a responsibility to behave ourselves.
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If our leaders cannot model a more civil behavior, if our media is interested only in capturing our attention at any cost, if our young people channel this type of behavior to get ahead, there will be no cornerstone of democracy to protect.
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" Mr. Shapiro had offered an hour of his time, $10,000 that Ms. Ocasio-Cortez could keep for her campaign or give to charity, and the opportunity, as he put it in a taped request, to make "America a more civil and interesting place.
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And if Dorsey is forced to produce growth numbers at all costs, he might have to abandon his calibrated improvements to make Twitter more civil and more useful without alienating its fans, and do just about anything to, um, jack up the numbers.
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All he has to do is change his ways, to turn himself into a new-and-improved Donald Trump; a "Donald Trump 2.0" — a more likable, more civil, more empathetic, more decent, more humane, less confrontational, less narcissistic, less mean-spirited Donald Trump.
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He is still topping the polls, but the former vice president arrives for the state's biggest Democratic gathering of the year overshadowed by his boasts about his ability to work with segregationist senators during what he has described as a more "civil" time in politics.
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"If we want to stop demagogues, we have to start governing again, and that requires us to be more civil, to support politicians who have the courage to take risks, and to reward those who reach across the aisle in search of compromise," he said.
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"I hope the constructive resolution of this incident reinforces for all the importance of respecting the freedom of the press and the first amendment and encourages more civil and thoughtful discourse in our country," Jacobs said Wednesday in a statement noting he accepted Gianforte's apology.
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Today's civility debate William Chafe, a history professor at Duke University and author of "Civility and Civil Rights: Greensboro, North Carolina and the Black Struggle for Freedom," said that recent calls for people to be more civil to each other misunderstand the history of civility.
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"Racist" is seen as such a deep personal attack that it's safer and more civil — particularly in the eyes of mainstream media organizations — to refer to things as racially charged, or tinged, or explosive, or divisive, or (when all else fails) just plain racial.
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Many people in Hong Kong, a semiautonomous territory with far more civil liberties than the mainland has, fear that the legislation would put anyone in the city at risk of being detained and sent to China for trial by the country's Communist Party-controlled courts.
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The passage of the bill would unmistakably be interpreted as the start of a crackdown on dissidents in Hong Kong, a special administrative region which has a separate political system and where residents enjoy substantially more civil and economic liberties than the rest of the country.
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Leonard LanceLeonard LanceBottom Line Push for 'Medicare for all' worries centrist Dems Incoming Dem lawmaker: Trump 'sympathizes' with leaders 'accused of moral transgressions' MORE for saying both Trump and Democratic leaders should be more civil: "There are not Democratic leaders who are calling women 'horseface,' " Malinowski said.
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There is an added bonus for all the beleaguered voters who aren't quite ready to dive back into a divisive political process: A campaign where you're trying to bring more people into your party tends to be more civil and less toxic than what we just experienced.
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The key question is whether Trump can establish more civil relations with the RNC and set a more sober-minded tone in general — while also not disenchanting supporters who were drawn to the businessman as a brash voice unwilling to pay deference to the powers-that-be.
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The project "involved several potential products meant to minimize toxic content and encourage more civil discussion," per the Journal:One idea was to change the ranking of news-feed posts to give a boost to those liked, commented or shared by people across the political spectrum, the people said.
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Over the course of the group discussions, some called for a more civil discourse among the two sides of the debate, while others said that the divergent approaches were not actually mutually exclusive and that both approaches could be executed if the factions could agree upon a timeline.
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From spending on border agents to paying for more civil servants to process asylum claims, government dollars can be used to boost the human power that is available to protect against illegal entries and also to deal in humane fashion with people who are desperately trying to enter.
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" The Ecumenical Leaders' Group of Maryland, which includes Christian community leaders, said in a letter to Trump his tweets were "horrible, demeaning and beneath the dignity of a political leader who should be encouraging us all to strive and work for a more civil, just and compassionate society.
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The revisions will also undo some of the ethnic group quotas that had been put in place to stabilize the country after its brutal 240-year civil war, and rearrange the branches of power at the executive level, raising concerns that the new constitution could lead to more civil unrest.
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" The Ecumenical Leaders' Group of Maryland, which includes leaders of the state's Christian communities, sent Trump a letter calling his tweets on Baltimore "horrible, demeaning and beneath the dignity of a political leader who should be encouraging us all to strive and work for a more civil, just and compassionate society.
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Eight years later, at a more civil if also divided Republican convention in Kansas City, Mo., Ronald Reagan ended his challenge to the incumbent president, Gerald R. Ford, with a triumphant speech that essentially ignored Ford and laid out a future course for what would be Reagan's 20083 presidential race.
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And one of the chapters I go to and I have two kind of middle chapters in the book, one in Estonia and one in Singapore, and both these countries, which have very different political cultures and histories, they have much more civil cultures, people are behaving themselves much more.
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Ronald Reagan, who still reigns as a totem of a more civil conservativism, attacked benefits for the elderly, people with disabilities, and the poor, first by restricting welfare eligibility and then by adopting a policy that counted non-cash assistance as welfare, reducing the amount of federal assistance a person could receive.
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The dispute over how fast to go and over the scope of the Democratic impeachment case spilled over -- in far more civil and respectful terms than the bitter exchanges between lawmakers -- in a debate between four renowned law professors asked to testify to the committee on the mechanics and justifications of impeachment.
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The show examined the contested presidential election of 2000, where Republicans, guided by James Baker, launched an all-out political campaign to win the public relations war over the presidential election vote recount, while Democrats, headed by Warren Christopher, tried to handle the controversy in more civil fashion, treating it as a purely legal battle.
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We need more civil and agricultural engineers who are focused on specifically this, but the first thing we need is more education, because for most people this subject is still new, and the best way for people to find the most actionable response to a crisis is if they understand what it actually is.
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In addition to his famous pledge to make America great again, President TrumpDonald John TrumpFacebook releases audit on conservative bias claims Harry Reid: 'Decriminalizing border crossings is not something that should be at the top of the list' Recessions happen when presidents overlook key problems MORE might want to put more effort into making America more civil again.
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If the same morass of laws were being applied to a President Hillary ClintonHillary Diane Rodham ClintonTop Sanders adviser: Warren isn't competing for 'same pool of voters' Anti-Trump vets join Steyer group in pressing Democrats to impeach Trump Republicans plot comeback in New Jersey MORE, civil libertarians would be up in arms about their ambiguity.
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A China that contributed to uncertainty in a world where Donald Trump is US president, the UK is trying to leave the EU, where the Middle East looks like it is perpetually inflamed by unrest, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo seems to be slipping toward yet more civil war would be a truly scary place.
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Bernie SandersBernie SandersJoe Biden faces an uncertain path Bernie Sanders vows to go to 'war with white nationalism and racism' as president Biden: 'There's an awful lot of really good Republicans out there' MORE's (Vt.) win in Michigan and with the polls confirming that the back-and-forth will likely continue between Clinton and Sanders — but with a significantly more civil tenor than the GOP.
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If only, confused Americans have been saying all year, revisiting the moment of shock with the same kind of cyclical, magical thinking Didion mimics in her late work — if only the campaign had gone another way, if only we'd spotted the trend line years earlier, if only people were more civil, if only someone had said the right thing, given the right money, if only, if only.
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It's fine to demand a more civil dialogue when discussing our leaders, but wrong to elevate that demand above more pressing concerns -- because the truth is, no matter how many unwarranted insults Scott has to endure, he'll still be a US Senator, one of the most powerful people in the world, while the already-vulnerable on the wrong end of policies by Trump and Sessions must endure real suffering.
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Leaning heavily on the skills that made her so effective both as a prosecutor and as an interrogator of Trump nominees in Senate hearings over the past few years, she began quietly by alluding to the controversy that Biden stirred last week at a fundraiser when he noted that he had worked with segregationist senators in the 1970s and 1980s during what he framed as a less polarizing, more civil time in politics.
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