Sentences with phrase «public controversy about»

Public controversy about peanut bans at schools notwithstanding, legal protections for severe food allergies in schools has been consistently enforced.

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What South Korea could teach Canada about the importance of design - led innovation in public policy The ongoing plans behind Canada's 150th anniversary celebration for 2017 have already been met with controversy.

Brittany Maynard, the 29 - year - old woman whose public announcement that she intended to end her life ignited a storm of controversy about Oregon's right - to - die act, chose to end her life on Saturday.

Marty, long a defender of «public religion,» does not address this controversy explicitly, but his observations about the practical realities of religion in public life have clear relevance to the topic.

As controversy about religion at the academy became more and more public, Focus on the Family jumped into the fray and created a video, shown at its headquarters, that attempts to frame the debate.

But although the controversy helped bring conversations about abortion back into the cultural spotlight, it appears that much of the outrage failed to make a real or lasting impact on public opinion.

Luther's attacks on the Pope continued, but besides the public controversy, he also worked to make his teaching known to «common people» and set about translating the New Testament into German, which was a brilliant piece of work and one which had a deep influence on the German language.

The anecdotes, sayings, parables, controversies coming down from the period of Jesus» public ministry are told and retold because they are anecdotes about and teaching given by the one who is to be «the judge of the living and the dead.»

The public, meanwhile, felt something was terribly wrong, but they lacked the organizational structure to do anything about the degree of violence, which continued to mount even while the controversy raged.

Surprisingly, there's not even any negative content about breastfeeding in public on the page, something that's always a cause of controversy.

Over the past few months there has been a lot of controversy about breastfeed babies in public.

He also criticised Grayling for the «absurd» rules of the IEP and said his public comments about the controversy were «misleading».

In her testimony, Katz said the controversy brought about by these reports illustrated the need for the Queens Library to become more open to the public about how it decides to spend its money, the vast majority of which is made up of taxpayer funds allocated to the Library by the City of New York.

There are also controversies about the public's understanding of the term «organic».

«I do not wish to become involved in political controversy but I must take issue with what you said about violent crime statistics, which seems to me likely to damage public trust in official statistics,» Sir Michael wrote in a letter to Mr Grayling yesterday.

«It's all about rewarding political power and favored groups, and then you add on top of it the controversies and scandals,» said Blair Horner, legislative director of the New York Public Interest Research Group.

Gov. David Paterson had a lot to say about the mosque controversy during a radio interview with Ron Kuby on WOR this morning, but he clamed right up when asked about the hearing this week where the Public Integrity Commission argued he had knowingly violated state law by accepting free World Series Yankees tickets in 2009.

In an effort to restore public trust in Facebook, Zuckerberg is set to testify about the controversy before Congress Tuesday and Wednesday.

The controversy that surfaced at the budget's public hearing Thursday evening was about ownership changes for Van Duyn Home and Hospital, the county's nursing home.

Others say that a made - to - order human genome is inevitable anyway, hoping to seize the publicity and controversy it creates as an opportunity to educate the public about synthetic biology.

In Japan, which unlike the United States has had several outbreaks of H5N1 in birds, «not much» controversy has surrounded this study, he said, as «the public has concerns about a genuine risk that exists in nature rather than a potential risk by bioterrorism.»

Fouchier, who has been in close contact with Kawaoka during this controversy, welcomed his colleague going public with his thoughts about the issues.

How about: 1) Heath Hens back and all birds genetically treatable; 2) Passenger Pigeons back; 3) Great Auks back; 4) Black - footed Ferrets disease - free; 5) Northern White Rhinos back; 6) Genetic - rescue tools in wide and responsible use; 7) Asian elephants liberated from lethal herpes; 8) Woolly Mammoths back; 9) Islands liberated from invasive rodents; 10) Lyme disease rare; 11) Hawaiian birds liberated from malaria; 12) A debate tool in use by the general public to work through controversy about new technologies.

However, underlying these public assurances about PUFA is a lot of controversy among respected nutrition scientists.

Salinger passed away in 2010, raising controversy about whether the public would have access to his hidden body of work.

Media reports of courthouse controversies involving school prayer, the posting of the Ten Commandments, and ACLU challenges to Nativity scenes on public squares — coupled with challenges about the types of music the school choir is permitted to present during the holiday season — often skew rational thought about the importance of teaching about religion.

As the controversy raged in the late 1990s, a group of philanthropists created the New York School Choice Scholarships Foundation (SCSF), which offered three - year vouchers worth up to $ 1,400 annually to as many as 1,000 low - income families with children who were either entering 1st grade or were public school students about to enter grades two through five.

We see this playing out in public controversies, for example, about whether government is spending too little (about $ 2,500 a year per child in Florida, [2] the nation's largest state program) or too much (about $ 16,500 in the District of Columbia).

But the patience and fortitude in this book about the New York Public Library and its most recent step into controversy may be better attributed to those who campaigned against what looks remarkably like a real - estate boondoggle, at least from the outside looking in.

There had been alot of controversy and public outrage about their kill rate.

Art in Context: Hear ideas from contemporary thinkers about art, the business of art, the history of art, and the controversies and challenges of public art.

Generating controversy and passion, Gormley's public sculptures raise key issues about the relation between art, society and the environment as a metaphysical and political realm.

His homoerotic photographs caused a national controversy involving the American Family Association which sparred a debate about censorship and public funding of the arts.

The exhibition does, however, shed light on the past twenty - two years of contemporary art in Britain, on that art's relationship to the public, and - not least - on what kinds of artwork typically garner and then benefit from what journalist Laurence Marks, writing of the first competition in 1984, characterized as «a great cloud of fuss, feuding, gossip, theatrical controversy, dismissive remarks about the great modernists, and so forth.

One of his paintings is an image of Philando Castille that should have generated a public conversation about police killing black men, but its impact has been muted by the controversy over a Dana Schutz painting of Emmett Till in his coffin, that also appears in the biennial exhibition.

Candidate, George Philip LeBourdais, penned a timely editorial for Artsy discussing how Serra shaped the discourse about public art with the controversy over his Tilted Arc art piece in the Jacob K. Javits Federal Building in lower Manhattan.

«Forecast the Facts» tries to stir up controversy about one of the projects described in the fake memo circulated by disgraced climate scientist Peter Gleick, characterizing it as an effort to «infiltrate public schools» with a climate change curriculum.

It is an insightful analysis of important trends in our society, revealing much about the dynamics of several important public policy controversies of our time.

Climategate considerably broadened public awareness of the hockey stick and the associated controversies, making it an icon for concerns about climate science and scientists.

Whereas he was saying that the public are too vulnerable to be exposed to discussions about uncertainty in scientific debates with implications for policy, the Guardian journalist — as is Guardian journalists» want — read it as a message that there was no uncertainty or controversy in climate science.

Even despite public controversies over the inclusion of climate change in state science standards, «Americans overwhelmingly support teaching our children about the causes, consequences, and potential solutions to global warming — in all 50 states and 3,000 + counties across the nation, including Republican and Democratic strongholds,» according to the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication (April 11, 2018).

Which is all fine and good — I entirely support the actions Forest Ethics recommends Fortune 500 companies take — but I'm not entirely sure there's yet a controversy about the Alberta tar sands, at least not in the public consciousness.

To counter this, Maibach argues, it's important that scientists themselves speak out and let the public know that, at least in terms of the geophysics, there is no controversy about climate change.

As we know from other controversies over GM Crops and MMR, by the time science hits the headlines, and therefore the public consciousness, it's always about much more than the science.

Those PhD's then proceed to dwell on the manufactured controversies around the politics, as if J&J Public can meaningfully parse a 12 part series about the politics of science over morning coffee, further muddying the public perceptions of the objective reality we face by opening the discussion to opinion in the name of «balance&rPublic can meaningfully parse a 12 part series about the politics of science over morning coffee, further muddying the public perceptions of the objective reality we face by opening the discussion to opinion in the name of «balance&rpublic perceptions of the objective reality we face by opening the discussion to opinion in the name of «balance».

By taking a unified stand and claiming the individual mandate was unconstitutional, the Republican Party, conservative think tanks, right - wing media and Republican activists helped create a climate of controversy about the legislation, which then pressured the mainstream media to report on the controversy, which then created a cloud of doubt among the public, which ultimately created an environment in which the right - leaning members of the Supreme Court could make a judgement that may have looked radical or outrageous if not for the contextual cover provide by permission structure.

One thing that has occurred to me in debating those who fall for anti-science propaganda is that there is a need for public school science curricula to include more emphasis on the basic principles of the scientific method, and how one can go about figuring out what's true and what isn't when faced with media controversies about science.

While there is little controversy over EPR for hazardous items which have no economic value and pose threats to public health and the environment, there is grave concern about EPR... Read More

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«Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation (SLAPP)» means a claim that arises from a form of expression or public participation, by the person against whom the claim is asserted that was made in connection with an official proceeding or about a matter of public interest; Purposes of this Act: 2 The purposes of this Act are to a) Establish a statutory right to public participation for every individual; b) Encourage individuals to express themselves on matters of public interest; c) Promote broad participation in debates on matters of public interest; d) Discourage the use of litigation as a means of unduly limiting expression on matters of public interest; and, e) Preserve the right of access to the courts for all proceedings and claims that are not brought or maintained for an improper pupublic opinion, or promoting further lawful action by the public or any government body, in relation to an issue of public interest; «Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation (SLAPP)» means a claim that arises from a form of expression or public participation, by the person against whom the claim is asserted that was made in connection with an official proceeding or about a matter of public interest; 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b) Encourage individuals to express themselves on matters of public interest; c) Promote broad participation in debates on matters of public interest; d) Discourage the use of litigation as a means of unduly limiting expression on matters of public interest; and, e) Preserve the right of access to the courts for all proceedings and claims that are not brought or maintained for an improper pupublic interest; «Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation (SLAPP)» means a claim that arises from a form of expression or public participation, by the person against whom the claim is asserted that was made in connection with an official proceeding or about a matter of public interest; Purposes of this Act: 2 The purposes of this Act are to a) Establish a statutory right to public participation for every individual; b) Encourage individuals to express themselves on matters of public interest; c) Promote broad participation in debates on matters of public interest; d) Discourage the use of litigation as a means of unduly limiting expression on matters of public interest; and, e) Preserve the right of access to the courts for all proceedings and claims that are not brought or maintained for an improper puPublic Participation (SLAPP)» means a claim that arises from a form of expression or public participation, by the person against whom the claim is asserted that was made in connection with an official proceeding or about a matter of public interest; Purposes of this Act: 2 The purposes of this Act are to a) Establish a statutory right to public participation for every individual; b) Encourage individuals to express themselves on matters of public interest; c) Promote broad participation in debates on matters of public interest; d) Discourage the use of litigation as a means of unduly limiting expression on matters of public interest; and, e) Preserve the right of access to the courts for all proceedings and claims that are not brought or maintained for an improper pupublic participation, by the person against whom the claim is asserted that was made in connection with an official proceeding or about a matter of public interest; 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In blogs, law professors have the opportunity to educate the public about the law, especially in areas of controversy (as with the Supreme Court of Canada's decision in the Leo Teskey case).