Sentences with phrase «so public attitudes»

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This attitude has also been held among scientists until recently, when the creationist pressures on public education and policy became so threatening that some scientists founded a new journal, Creation / Evolution, a «Committee of Correspondence» and a Creation / Evolution News letter, aimed at defending evolutionary science and dismantling creationist arguments.

While culture war issues make headlines galore, an exhaustive study of Americans» religious attitudes shows the public as a whole might not find the debate so enticing.

Another tactic to insure real debate would be to ask candidates to confront one another on TV for three hours; after the first hour or so, candidates could no longer dodge questions or avoid revealing their real attitudes and thinking processes to the public.

This rights - based ethic is being challenged by the growing recognition among feminists that the notion of «choice» may be a myth; that not only social attitudes but public policies that promote so - called «free choice» can be subtly coercive.

Even more notably, with its sponsors and broad fan following, the league has so transformed public attitudes that many disabled Cambodians, athletic and not, now wear shorts to show off their prostheses.

So perceived attitude or behavioral concerns are less important in the MLB draft than NFL or NBA when a guy immediately becomes the face of a franchise and in the public eye.

I think women are becoming more comfortable in telling others that they are still nursing older babies so hopefully there will be a shift in attitudes but I have recently «lost» a few facebook followers after posting a status regarding full - term breastfeeding (I think they were most likely from a giveaway I did ages ago and not on the same page re: bf etc) Apart from that, I love telling Mums on the ward (I'm a bf peer supporter) I'm still feeding as it opens their mind to that possibility and I think I look pretty normal so it mostly doesn't freak them out My son is far too busy to nurse out and about and prefers juice so we've not nursed in public (apart from support group) since he was 18 mths and that was as I had a blocked duct!

Does anybody ever perhaps consider that the reason they have so little trust with the public is that they continue to be proven catastrophically wrong, and yet continue to persist in taking a derisive attitude any time their ideas are challenged?

I have been at presentations and discussions of UK attitudes to Europe where studies of UK public opinion seem to have found (perhaps counterintuitively) that there is relatively little sense among the public of there being a pro-EU so anti-US (or pro-US so less pro-EU) constituency among the public, though both are fairly common positions among certain elite opinion former groups on left and right.

A survey published by the Department for Transport on «Public attitudes towards road congestion», which was carried out between November 2009 and February 2010, found that over half of adults agreed that the current system of paying for road use should change so that the amount people paid was based on how often, when and where they used the roads.

A further unrealistic attitude which both political leaders and the public encourage with equal enthusiasm is an exaggerated notion of what any government can achieve so that nothing unfortunate happens for which the public will not blame the government and for which politicians are not prepared to assume responsibility or at least, if in opposition, to blame the government.

But it was the public's differing attitudes towards public sector workers and the government which really shows why Cameron is so wrong to pick this particular fight.

«That is not the attitude you take to public office where you are paid by the tax payer... so we are calling on His Excellency, the President, to as a matter of urgency, recall the High Commissioner with immediate effect, and he must be given the sack because he doesn't have the temperament, he doesn't have the qualities to represent all of us in South Africa,» Mr Ablakwa stated.

«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.

«What makes it even more disturbing is that he was secretly taped by a friend of his who claimed that he was so disturbed by his past racist comments and his past racist tirades that he felt he should tape him and make his attitudes, and make his views, known to the public,» said Brown.

«We looked into the question of whether — and if so, to what extent — the public's attitude to climate policy and the risks of climate change can be influenced,» explains Thomas Bernauer, professor of political science at ETH Zurich.

Almost all did so, they said, to help educate the general public and to promote a more positive attitude toward research.

In a letter to the Guardian, the scientists wrote that «the ACMD clearly recommended — for the third time in the last six years — that cannabis remains a class C drug, and did so after examining all the available and latest evidence on short - and long - term health risks, as well as social harms, public attitudes and policing priorities.»

So I'm not okay with the argument or attitude that reformers should either replace all of the traditional public schools with charter schools or just «let districts be districts,» as Mike Petrilli recently argued.

Finally, an individual student's academic success depends not so much on whether he or she attends a private or public school but rather on a complex interaction of abilities, attitudes, and strengths or problems brought to school; the skills and knowledge of teachers; and the quality of the learning environment.

Nowhere is this «so sue me» attitude more in display than in Connecticut, where those pushing education «reform,» Gov. Dannel Malloy and Education Commissioner Stefan Pryor, are, like Joel Klein, lawyers who never worked in a public school.

Islamic education on the rise in US, struggle for acceptance Anti-Muslim attitudes in public schools contribute to growth, but so do improving academic standards

Islamic education on the rise in US, struggle for acceptance Anti-Muslim attitudes in public schools contribute to growth, but so do improving academic standards MSNBC

It is this attitude that continues to discourage so many good authors from trying alternate routes to getting their work into the hands of the reading public.

Doing so allowed them to approximate what national public opinion is about climate change while also revealing Americans» different beliefs, attitudes, and what policies they support.

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!

If NASA is so concerned with public relations that posting a correction to a blog before notifying them is enough to get them into a tizzy, they need a serious professional attitude adjustment.

I agree, and I agree the costs can not come down quickjly even if it was possible to quickly change public attitudes to nuclear and to quickly removing the regulatory and legislative impediments that have cause it to become so costly.

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So a public relation person should have more patience and nice attitude towards the people coming to file complaint or asking specific question about their issues.

It considers customer values and attitudes so that when you do go and hand out your business cards you can understand what your customer values are and reflect that in your conversation, or business card, or website, basically everything that comes into contact with the public.