Sentences with phrase «us public fears»

However, despite public fear and criticism of Steinbrenner's controversial decisions, eventually he led the team to an amazing comeback, with six World Series entries between 1996 and 2003, and a record as one of the most profitable teams in Major League Baseball.

Since then the government has banned virtually all GMO seeds in China because of public fear.

Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg today (April 4) outlined the company's latest moves to address public fears over the extent of data scraping in a rare live Q&A with the media; updates that come as its privacy scandal rumbles on.

While Schakowsky's bill was welcomed by school cafeteria managers and food - safety advocates, industry officials said the dissemination of safety records could stoke unnecessary public fears and prove difficult for cafeteria managers to interpret.

Yes, Trump's offer was in some ways similar, though he didn't talk much about the sanctions - US - Russian trade is miniscule compared to EU - Russian trade - and concentrated on what the US public fears post 9/11 - international terrorism.

The home secretary said he hoped to find a middle way between heightening awareness of the terrorist risk and causing exaggerated public fears about the nature of the threat.

The EU has now re-nationalised the rights of member states to determine whether to grow GM crops, while retaining the responsibility for determining crop safety, and this should go someway to allaying public fears about GM.

«Public fears around immigration are like fears around crime.

Problem number two is the omni - shambles that undermines the general claim of competence: «If I can't trust the government to manage public fears over petrol shortages, why should I trust it on anything else?»

The government is in danger of acting uncritically on public fears about law and order, a leading criminologist has warned.

«The reforms have created widespread public fear about the scale and impact of public spending cuts and the privatisation of public services.

Due to scientific and public fears about food safety and concern about export markets, China has decided not to grow GM food crops on a commercial scale, even though China is the world's biggest producer of GM cotton.

The Second Amendment was written to calm public fear that the new national government would crush the state militias made up of all (white) adult men — who were required to own a gun to serve.

Statue destruction, hence, is a part of disgusting anti-social behavior of Ukrainian authorities raising public fear and unrest.

Both Ministers of Defence and the Interior dispelled the public fears and debunked claims by the Minority that the agreement is paving way for the US to set up a base in Ghana.

This suggests the budget, which left little impression at Westminster, has distilled public fears about the economic situation, with Labour taking the blame.»

After the 1979 accident at Three Mile Island — a nuclear power plant in Pennsylvania — stricter regulations driven by public fear prompted TVA to shut down its two nuclear reactors.

But more than a century after a distraught Georgia man mowed down six of his fellow citizens, research on mass violence still takes a backseat to public fear and outrage.

West Africa's 2014 Ebola epidemic demonstrated what can happen when a contagious virus emerges amid a population served by a broken medical system, and where cultural practices, public fears and porous borders fuel the spread of disease.

An Indian clinic's claim of totally untreatable TB ignited public fears, but experts say poor disease management is the real threat

The paper inflamed public fears about vaccines, but it was retracted in 2010 after the UK General Medical Council (GMC) concluded that Wakefield had a charge of serious professional misconduct to answer, in part because it found that his team did not have proper ethical approval for tests performed on the children.

Firstly, for many years they did not make public fears about the potential danger BSE posed to human health — concerns of an economically damaging public over-reaction took precedence.

At the same time, the new outbreak puts public fears of bioterrorism and ballooning biodefense budgets into perspective by reasserting the impact of naturally occurring diseases, says Marjorie Pollack, who is monitoring the outbreak for ProMED, a worldwide electronic reporting system.

In addition, more precise genome editing may allay public fears, especially if the resulting plant or animal is not considered transgenic because no foreign genetic material is introduced.

All seem to suggest that a new study, released yesterday, has found that nanoscale materials, used in everything from medical imaging to cancer treatment, can damage genetic material in our bodies, feeding public fears.

Speaking at a seminar on public confidence in biomedical science at the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Prof Wilmut warned there was a danger in missing scientific opportunities because of public fears and misunderstandings.

There's a public fear of saturated fat and cholesterol, and many companies and organisations have a vested interest in maintaining the status quo.

This leads the mayor (the voice of Kunichi Nomura) to whip up public fear so that he can deport all the city's dogs to a garbage dump, where they are forced to live on food scraps.

«Despite our public fear of China, what our politicians do is go to China,» Bontoi says with a chuckle.

While the likes of Midnight Cowboy and Dog Day Afternoon focused on the city's seedy underbelly, The French Connection and Serpico contributed to the mounting public fears around police corruption and violence.

In 2008's The Dark Knight especially, Nolan toyed with the notion of Gotham City as a locus for international economic corruption by plugging public fears around the time of the 2007 - 2008 financial crisis into a subplot involving a self - preserving accountant who flees to Hong Kong with a small fortune.

As public fears about terrorism hit their highest levels in a decade and anti-Islamic sentiment surges, schools should take extra steps to ensure that Muslim, immigrant, and refugee students feel safe and free from discrimination, the U.S. Department of Education said last week.

One type of dog or another tends to be perceived as dangerous at any given time; Dobermans, rottweilers, and German shepherds have all gone through periods when they were seen as the ultimate «tough» dog, and that reputation heightened public fears.

The goal is to provide information and resources to aid public fears and opinions by showing a positive storyline.

You have the right to be informed of the dogs actual breed or breed mix, and if not known, to receive the best guess from a shelter professional, with no euphemisms or avoiding breeds that conjure up public fear (e.g. Pit Bull, Chow, etc..)

In all cases, those with a fiduciary charge to protect their investors ultimately resorted to exaggerated claims about costs, relying on public fear to help slow the rate of policy response.

There is just no incentive in the scientific community to kill the remarkably fertile global warming goose, a beast that feeds on public fears.»

To see the impact of fears on the ground in Japan, I recommend watching «In Japan, a Portrait of Mistrust,» a short «Op Doc» produced for The Times on public fears of contaminated food.

He examines Japan's difficult and costly cleanup, the resulting pulse of public fears about radiation there (and elsewhere) and corporate and government decisions that resulted in the construction of such a vulnerable power plant complex in a tsunami zone.

«I recognize the increased public fear about nuclear power,» IEA chief Nobuo Tanaka, who is Japanese, told a news conference in Oslo.

· Vietnam had worked patiently for 20 years to build public support for a major nuclear build - out before abruptly scrapping those plans in response to rising public fears and costs last year.

As long as the focus is «public fear about residing near nuclear power plants» and doesn't venture into the impacts of climate science denial and it's excessive allaying of public fears about excessive fossil fuel burning — it won't address the single most significant political impediment to nuclear.

For myself, I'd place exploitable public fears in the column of costs of AGW, as actual mitigation c0uld only decrease vulnerability to scaremongers and demagogues.

e.g., True / False: «If, through misunderstanding of the underlying science and through misguided public fear and hysteria, mankind significantly rations and restricts the use of hydrocarbons, the worldwide increase in prosperity will stop.

He has said that public fears around fracking are exaggerated and that responding to public pressure is «pandering.»

Yet public fear led Japan's prime minister to intervene unnecessarily, prompting a panicked and needlessly large evacuation, which led to the deaths of over 1,500 people.

And the reason the learning rates stalled abruptly was due to regulations and public fear raising the cost, the construction time and the risk for investors.

Global warming alarmists are like the wizard of Oz, asking the public fear the spectacle, but not to pull back the curtain and unmask them for the charlatans they are.

It's sad, since they're repeating long - failed attempts to arouse public fear of climate change by statements beyond... Continue reading The record closes on 2014.

In fact, climate science will probably remain easily misconstrued by alarmists of all stripes — both environmentalists eager to stoke public fears and antiregulatory activists and politicians fearful of any impediment to unbridled enterprise.