Sentences with phrase «public preferences for»

Public preferences for interventions to prevent emerging infectious disease threats: a discrete choice experiment

Ash, S.J. and Adams, C.E., «Public Preferences for Free - Ranging Domestic Cat (Felis catus) Management Options.»

We have had a little polling on that already — the YouGov / Sunday Times poll at the weekend (results here) asked the general public their preferences for Labour leader.

Anelka may show a public preference for the role of joint striker, but his ability to finish has been called severely into question, many times.

If the Government has money to spare, most of us would prefer income tax cuts to higher welfare benefits; and if the Government has to raise more money, there is a clear public preference for limiting welfare payments to big families, rather than imposing a «mansion tax».

There have been widespread digitization efforts elsewhere in the world given the public preference for digital copies of printed texts and the sense of urgency surrounding preserving rare volumes.

Between the poor profits, the greater risk, the apparent public preference for more flexible products and the general lack of enthusiasm means that loans that are unsecured come some way down the pecking order.

Not exact matches

His preference to stay out of Uber's spotlight has spared him from public humiliation amid a year of bad press for the company.

The rub is the public's apparent preference for giving public funds to small companies.

Last year, ECU was listed as the first - preference choice for 34 per cent of Year 12, the highest of WA's public universities.

What was once deemed their broad preference for public transit may have always been a now - reversing inability to afford cars.

Privacy advocates, however, questioned whether it was wise for a company that had recently faced a public loss of trust over its handling of people's data to enter the sensitive world of dating preferences.

In addition, we believe that certain institutional investors, including sovereign wealth funds and public pension funds, could in the future demonstrate an increased preference for alternatives to the traditional investment fund structure, such as managed accounts, smaller funds and co-investment vehicles.

Because there is no public market for our common stock, our board of directors determined the common stock fair value at the stock option grant date by considering several objective and subjective factors, including the price paid by investors for our preferred stock, our actual and forecasted operating and financial performance, market conditions and performance of comparable publicly traded companies, developments and milestones in our company, the rights and preferences of our common and preferred stock, the likelihood of achieving a liquidity event, and transactions involving our preferred stock.

This includes the splitting of pension income for seniors, (to make amends for breaking its promise on the taxation of family trusts); special tax preferences to support participation of youth in sports activities, arts and cultural activities; tax breaks for people who take public transit; and, tax breaks to help volunteer firemen.

An advertisement is any public form of announcement about any entity, usually but not exclusively a commodity, aimed to promote the acceptance or purchase or at least a toleration of, if not a preference for, the entity.

While the Justice made clear his own preference for pro-life public policies, he argued that in itself democracy is neutral as between competing positions on issues such as abortion and euthanasia.

The conference was spearheaded by Michael Davidson, a man of God who came out of the homosexual life many years ago and heads up a group called Core Issues Trust («a non-profit Christian ministry supporting men and women with homosexual issues who voluntarily seek change in sexual preference and expression») and by Andrea Williams, dynamic barrister and CEO of Christian Concern (an organization that seeks to be «a strong Christian voice in the public sphere») and the Christian Legal Centre (a legal defense team for British Christians persecuted for their faith).

«I believe in an America where the separation of church and state is absolute — where no Catholic prelate would tell the President (should he be Catholic) how to act, and no Protestant minister would tell his parishoners for whom to vote — where no church or church school is granted any public funds or political preference — and where no man is denied public office merely because his religion differs from the President who might appoint him or the people who might elect him.

The Sermon on the Mount does not limit politics; in the best of circumstances, it transforms public life by inverting our preference for the powerful over the weak.

Our analysis suggests that one of the emerging coalitions will be united by belief in God, an understanding that such belief has implications for public life, and a preference for religious language in political discourse.

The Conseil begins by stating that laïcité forbids «any display by public authorities of signs and symbols showing a public recognition or a preference for a given religion.»

Display of a crèche by a public authority is therefore legal, the Conseil declares, «only» where the crèche «has a cultural, artistic or festive purpose, but not if it expresses» recognition of or preference for a religion.

This shift helped to create a world in which — not only for better but also for worse — equality rather than special preference moved to the center of public consciousness.

In January 2013 the non-governmental organisation Sustain, supported by 61 health organisations, called for a 20 pence per litre excise duty on sugar sweetened drinks.4 In February, the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges called for a 20 % tax on sugar sweetened drinks as part of its enquiry into clinical and public health solutions to the obesity epidemic.1 Although the UK government has indicated a preference for voluntary approaches to the control of obesity, it has not ruled out fiscal measures.14 Clearly, the idea of a sugar sweetened drink tax is gaining traction in the UK, but its effect on health remains uncertain.

While the sharps have mostly stayed off this game, the public have a slight preference for Southern Miss..

My case for unrestricted political advertising is based on three elements: an ideological preference for freedom, the practical consideration that it would reengage the public, and that it would boost the competitiveness of the political market.

The suggestion here is that people believe a vote for the Conservatives indicates a preference for personal gain over public good and are therefore less likely to admit voting Conservative.

And Melissa Mark - Viverito's preference for an exciting arts community over another public school does make one wonder what her vision for New York really is.

In a report, published today, the Public Accounts Committee warns that: «the preference that many older people have for face - to - face advice should not be sacrificed in the department's drive to achieve efficiency savings.»

He uses it first to prevent any new spending commitment, having put aside the understanding of the damage caused by austerity that he showed in his Bloomberg speech in favour of a preference for building an image of fiscal conservatism — though by doing so he has allowed the government to win the battle for public opinion.

Cuomo also backs a ban on confidentiality agreements for sexual assault or harassment in all public entities and branches of government at the state and local level unless the victim expresses a different preference.

A general preference will be given to veterans and to persons on public housing waiting lists for all units.

Those issues could threaten the peace at City Hall, where both sides have exhibited a preference for compromise over any public breach, most notably exemplified by the complete absence of mayoral vetoes of council legislation up to this point.

It substituted a political insider's preference for a public choice on the merits of the candidates.

In Florida, where the national party has signaled its preference for centrist Gov. Charlie Crist in the GOP Senate primary, tea party activists are lining up behind former state House Speaker Marco Rubio in reaction to Crist's public backing for President Barack Obama's stimulus package.

Voters showed a preference for public spending cuts rather than tax rises.

Both sides say their disagreements remain amicable, but Ms. Mark - Viverito's proposals are plainly in tension with the mayor's preferences: Besides adding 1,000 officers, which she says is essential to retraining the police force, she has also called for creating a public fund to help low - income defendants make bail.

On one hand, we need to acknowledge that individuals bear some responsibility for their health, and on the other hand recognise that today's food environments exploit people's biological (eg, innate preference for sweetened foods), psychological (eg, marketing techniques), and social and economic (eg, convenience and cost) vulnerabilities, making it easier for them to eat unhealthy foods,» explains Dr Christina Roberto, from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, USA.

One advantage of looking at «scientific culture» rather than «public understanding», is that it allows for preferences and interests as well as the substance of what is taught.

First, researchers identified «clusters» of drinkers in New Zealand, based on how much alcohol they drank, their beverage of choice, and a preference for public or private drinking locations.

i find that people who have either personal interests in the meat and dairy industry or who simply have a preference for eating meat and meat products because it tastes good and they feel they can not live without it are the ones determined to put down people like Dr. Campbell who's interest is for the good health of the public.

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There are a few ways for you to discover and interact with other people which are based on your public preferences.

You can scan for key interests and age groups in perfect anonymity without expressing your preferences «in public».

It's often sensationalized to the public in TV and cinema as to simply mean bondage sex, but it's a catch - all for a wide list of sexual preferences — often accompanied by taking up roles which set two or more people at different levels of power.

Some of them are listed below: • The possibility to upload video content to your profile; • A fetish checklist and kinky search, so you can easily find your favorite; • The presence of live chat and live webcams, a rarity when it comes to such types of couples websites; • You can find a group and join it based on your interests, and you can also start a group as well, which will gather persons with the same preferences; • There are filtering options for the displayed content, when you are accessing ALT.com in public areas;

The prospect of «your movies in the cloud» does nothing for me and the public has voiced their preference for hard files digital copies over streams that rely on networks and multiple companies.

The low public regard for teacher unions is, I would argue, a result of public perceptions that concern for student outcomes ranks very low relative to the income, convenience, and preferences of the teachers themselves.

Public school lunches must be nonsectarian, which has historically meant accommodating religious preferences rather than ignoring them: having nonmeat alternatives on Fridays for Catholics, and, to a lesser extent, giving Jews — and now Muslims and Hindus — alternatives every day.