Sentences with phrase «general public attitudes»

The challenge of finding a point of balance between these two worlds can be exacerbated by general public attitudes concerning «real Aborigines» and the motives for people choosing to identify as such, or by having to face the racism that often manifests in their contact with the wider society.
According to a 2013 report by the Pew Research Center that examined general public attitudes towards online dating, 59 percent of all Internet users agreed that seeking romance or companionship digitally is «a good way to meet people.»

Not exact matches

Less than a year after making public his concept for a «Hyperloop» high - speed transportation system — essentially saying, «have at it, developers» — the erstwhile PayPal co-founder, current CEO of Tesla Motors and SpaceX, and general poster boy for successful geeky entrepreneurs has made another bold declaration of his laissez - faire attitude toward intellectual property.
Softening attitudes among police lags general public acceptance but seems to confirm an inexorable social trend.
Nonetheless, it is true that activists» attitudes are often more polarized than the general public's, and activists often express those attitudes in more uncompromising language than many people feel comfortable with.
Further, with the exception of attitudes toward abortion, there is evidence that general public opinion is not polarizing at all.
As an institution, marriage is ordered toward public recognition, which makes its redefinition something different and more threatening than the general attitude of license.
It reflects both the «success - God's blessing» attitude as well as an opportunistic strategy by broadcasters to increase their own influence and promote their own cause in the presence of general public gullibility and naivety.
«Formal discourse becomes politically powerful when it becomes ideology; when it articulates and fuses into effective formulations opinions and attitudes that are otherwise too scattered and vague to be acted upon; when it mobilizes a general mood, «a set of disconnected, unrealized private emotions,» into «a public possession, a social fact»; when it crystallizes otherwise inchoate social and political discontent and thereby shapes what is otherwise instinctive and directs it to attainable goals, when it clarifies, symbolizes, and elevates to structured consciousness the mingled urges that stir within us.
These perceived barriers include the difficulty and embarrassment of breastfeeding in public, the problem of maintaining personal identity whilst breastfeeding and general attitudes towards breastfeeding and women's bodies in wider society — as well as those held by mothers, fathers and families.
«It's a separate thing being a public servant in terms of doing budgets and constituent work,» said Sen. Jim Tedisco, a Republican from the Capital Region, who as a member of the Assembly tangled infamously with Eliot Spitzer, a governor who failed to overcome the hard - charging attitude he carried as the state's popular attorney general.
In truth, the general election after this one may be the most critical, for if a new group of politicians come into Parliament, and the public, after five years, sense that little has changed, then public attitudes to politics and politicians may plummet still further.
Surveys show that Anglicans do not differ much from the general public in their attitudes to same - sex marriage.
About 79 % of persons appointed to various positions by our Presidents are people they have no knowledge about their competence, incompetence and general attitude, they are fixed there through manipulations by the various lobbyist groups in our parties, friends, cronies, family members, party executives etc to serve their parochial interests and these are the people who spearhead corruption in our public institutions.
Last week, the head of the army, general sir Richard Dannatt, said the British public are not supportive of troops, contrasting their «dismissive and indifferent» response with the attitude to homecoming troops in America.
«Each week when I drive up to the state Legislature... I often feel like I'm driving three hours north and 30 years back in time because attitudes toward women in the Legislature are so out of date and out of sync with actual understanding of the general public,» said Democratic state Sen. Liz Krueger of Manhattan.
«If you look at the internal research and polling which suggest Labour could lose up to three million of the people that voted for us at the last general election, that same research shows that one of their principal concerns is security and the nuclear deterrent and the party's attitude towards it — to know that and to knowingly go and worsen the perception of the party in the eyes of the voting public will precipitate a response which will not help the Labour party not just for this election but the for general election after that and for who knows how many elections after that.
He further stated that for such an incident to be avoided in future a change in attitude is required from the general public.
Almost all did so, they said, to help educate the general public and to promote a more positive attitude toward research.
The British society, just like many other countries with a mixed culture and race in the populace which have entrenched beliefs and antagonistic attitudes towards the other race especially the coloured from a minority group.The general public and the society are not used to seeing mixed couple a fact that has been in practice for some from uninspiring stories passed on from their forefathers.
The Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies, in Washington, has been tracking attitudes and views on education among African - Americans and the general public for six years through a series of national opinion polls.
These insights come from surveys conducted at the end of 2011 and beginning of 2012 to gauge people's general reading habits, their consumption of print books, e-books and audiobooks, and their attitudes about the changing ways that books are made available to the public.
By watching indexes and keeping track of their movements over time, you can get a good handle on the investing public's general attitude toward companies of all different sizes and from varying industries.
animal welfare; attitudes; gender; general public; producers; survey; welfare indicators; welfare issues
«There have been very substantial changes in the attitudes of the pet owning public, not only in the reduction of animals destroyed, the number of injured animals that have had to be serviced, the high claim rate by the pet owning public, but also a general atmosphere of more responsible pet ownership.
The situation is very complicated as the general public's attitude is mostly against the dogs living in their streets.
In 2012, via Luntz Global, Best Friends conducted a focus group in Baltimore to gain insight into the general public's feelings and attitudes about pit bull terriers.
Inform and shape the current attitude towards feline nutrition and raw feeding with the general public by promoting the health benefits, safety, and ease of a raw meat diet.
In seeing the general public's interaction and with both cats & dogs, I believe your explanation regarding the attitudes that people have towards cats is very accurate.
Complementing the residency and exhibitions will be panel discussions intended for the general public, university students, and faculty in which the exhibiting artists, art historians, and activists will explore topics such as attitudes toward feminist art among women of different generations; the role of artists as agents of change; and the representation of women in the contemporary art world.
So if you have an interest in the arts, and a positive alert and attitude when dealing with the public and general visitors, we would love to hear from you!
Reliable operation and continuous engagement with the public are reflected in the figures that measure the general public's attitudes towards nuclear energy.
And that betrays an attitude to openness and the scientific method that are at odds with what governments are being told by the IPCC and what the general public believes scientists are like (think of cuddly Brian Cox, sweet Jim Al - Khalili, logical Steven Hawking, et al — none would hurt a fly and they're all doing science for the good of humanity).
Perceived expert consensus plays an important role in the formation of public attitudes towards and the acceptance of general scientific principles, including climate change [15, 16].
I don't believe any such candidate would win, because of the current public climate (i.e. a general «wait - and - see» apathy, IMO), but it would serve an important purpose in moving people from that attitude towards a more concerned, and educated, position.
The Ceres poll, conducted by Hart Research Associates and the GS Strategy Group, focuses on public attitudes toward the EPA in general, and then on two proposed rules that would would prevent different kinds of pollution.
Starting today — April 22 — until July 13, the worldwide display hits New York City, transforming 12,000 of the city's square - feet (including the South Street Seaport, World Financial Center, and Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian) into a virtual Brazilian Amazon jungle — and if Eugenio's master plan works out — it'll transform both the children's and the general public's distant and indifferent attitude towards the forest, into consciousness and concern.
The partner with Hamilton, Ont., litigation firm Evans Sweeny Bordin LLP, took over the presidency from Toronto lawyer Lee Akazaki last week, and his mission to change attitudes is targeting lawyers as well as the general public.
The general purposes of the AODA are to change attitudes and environments in the private and public sectors toward persons with mild to severe disabilities and to relieve the burden of requesting accommodation from persons with disabilities by obligating organizations to provide accommodation pre-emptively on or before January 1, 2025.
The «public interest» includes «a consideration of the principle of general deterrence with attention being paid to the gravity of the offence, its incidence in the community, public attitudes towards it and public confidence in the effective enforcement of the criminal law.»
Over time, however, a relaxed governmental attitude towards cryptocurrency could filter through to the general public.
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Individuals who are the object of stigma may experience negative attitudes from the general population (public stigma) or from themselves (self - stigma).
I work in my business full time and I am fully cognizant of the general public's attitude towards sales people.
May I also remind you that all pots (of public interest) need constant stirring by interested, knowledgeable passers - by to hopefully (against all odds) stop them from boiling over with the foam of public discontent due mainly to the too - many hired crooks»... I mean cooks»... negligence, apathy and general incompetent inward - looking selfish «let's - eat - now; it'll - be-OK (I hope)» attitudes / actions, all fostered by ORE..
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