Sentences with phrase «at public attitudes»
Leading the Stanford research team was Jon Krosnick, a professor of communication and political science, who has been looking at public attitudes on environmental issues since the late 1990s.
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While it's still unclear if Session's views will translate into changes in policy or enforcement, this attitude shift at the federal level doesn't align with public opinion on the issue.
«It used to be that Silicon Valley had the attitude that Washington was inconvenient,» Vivek Wadhwa, an entrepreneur and researcher of public policy at Stanford Law School, says, but over the last few years Silicon Valley has reached a turning point, and that perspective has changed drastically.
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.
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.
Roger Harding, head of public attitudes at the National Centre for Social Research who produced a report into the findings, was quoted by The Times as saying: «It suggests people are taking their moral views from elsewhere.»
The case is similar, as probably no one will really deny, in the domains of social policy, culture and education, in the attitude of Christians to thermo - nuclear and other modern weapons and in innumerable similar questions of public life at the present day.
While the American Republic had no established church, the American state took a positive and benign attitude toward the full, free, and quite visibly public exercise of religion, not least at major state functions and national celebrations.
Further, with the exception of attitudes toward abortion, there is evidence that general public opinion is not polarizing at all.
Secularism wants religious practice, especially Christian practice, banished to a private world of feelings and attitudes, while at the same time the realm of the public is to be expanded to include every aspect of one's life.
At several points he touches upon the paradoxes of modern urbanism and the tragic ironies of our cultural attitude toward cities: although we now have more individual freedom, technical ability, and, arguably, social equity, we do not live in places as hospitable to human beings as were our cities of the past; we are pragmatists who build shoddily; our current obsession with historic preservation is the flip side of our utter lack of confidence in our ability to build well; while cultures with shared ascetic ideals and transcendent orientation built great cities and produced great landscapes, modern culture's expressive ideals, dogmatic public secularism, and privatized religiosity produce for us, even with our vast wealth, only private luxury, a spoiled countryside, and a public realm that is both venal and incoherent; above all, we simultaneously idolize nature and ruin it.
At first there was public resistance to their use, but she said that during the last ten years there has been a change of attitude regarding Aboriginals and their foods.
A: The Children's Rights Council (CRC) is a nationally recognized nonprofit organization serving families and at - risk youth for more than 30 years, long working to promote a society where laws, attitudes and public opinion affirm that «The Best Parent is Both Parents» ®.
Part of the criticism of «choice» from the left is that it allegedly fosters a purely consumerist attitude to public services at the expense of citizenship.
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.
In a statement, he said the plan would be «destructive to public service» and is «symptomatic of the selfish I - got - mine attitude» that has allowed the wealthy to flourish at the expense of the remaining «99 percent».
The public, whose default attitude towards politicians is one of deep suspicion, are at their most sensitive when our elected representatives cry.
If there were to be a re-examination of attitudes towards MPs from the public at large, it would be a sign that the 2010 intake has learnt the lessons of the last Parliament and is managing to change perceptions of this one.
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.
Expressing disappointment, Sammy Awuku warned that Mr. Ahomka Lindsay's attitude at the conference could chip away the goodwill towards the government and lead to disenchantment among the voting public.
For him, the damage caused by the expenses row was a direct result of the untrusting attitude which politicians have had towards the public being thrown back at them.
«We'll look down the road at how much money does Live Nation make and does the public have a different attitude about whether we should be promoting,» Mahoney said.
He added, «it aims at cultivating in the youth of Ghana improved civic participation, knowledge and attitudes, and the practice of critical and objective analysis of public issues as well as the effective use of freedom of expression and association to build more peaceful, tolerant and open societies in Ghana especially towards the 2016 elections.»
«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.
«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.
«What's striking about these findings is that politics sometimes is at the center of the story about public attitudes and sometimes politics has very little to do with the way people think about science issues in the public arena.
Lo says he didn't worry about negative public attitudes toward immigrants when he came in 2011 from Hong Kong, China, to work with Fauchet, then at the University of Rochester in New York.
«Our findings show that terrorism shifts public attitudes towards greater loyalty to the in - group, less concern with fairness, and greater prejudice against Muslims and immigrants, but it seems that this effect is stronger on those who are politically left - leaning than those who are right - leaning,» explain psychological scientists from the Center for the Study of Group Processes at the University of Kent.
At the same time, public attitudes towards online dating have grown more positive in the last eight years:
Here's a look at three different measures of public attitudes toward public education.
As the 2017 PDK Poll of the Public's Attitudes Toward the Public Schools revealed, 77 % of Americans strongly support after - school services, 76 % strongly support providing mental health services at school, and nearly two - thirds strongly support providing health services.
In the Tigard - Tualatin School District (TTSD), it's about «never giving up; nothing matters as much as teaching every child to read at grade level,» said former district superintendent Rob Saxton, newly appointed in September 2012 as Oregon's first Deputy Superintendent of Public Instruction.1 TTSD's mission to educate every child is operationalized through a collective commitment to focused work; continuous improvement and refinement in instructional practice on a district - wide basis; and a pervasive attitude on the part of district and school personnel to ensure that all students leave TTSD able to be highly successful adults.
Starting as a teacher and chess coach at Vaux Middle School and through his years as principal at several traditional public and charter schools, Thomas - EL has transformed the attitudes and strategies of school staff, parents, and members of the community to help hundreds of troubled children not only graduate from high school but go on to earn higher degrees from major colleges and universities.
Sadly, this attitude of thumbing one's nose at the public and ignoring the law are the hallmarks of today's education «reformers.»
The 2014 PDK / Gallup Poll on attitudes toward public education found that a majority of Americans favor charter schools, while at the same time, not fully understanding how they operate (Bushaw & Calderon, 2014).
We're pleased to announce that NSBA executive director Thomas J. Gentzel was part of a select cadre of experts who presented, reviewed and discussed the results of the 2014 PDK / Gallup Poll of the Public's Attitudes Toward the Public Schools on Wed., Aug. 20, 2014, at The Gallup Building in Washington, DC.
Some of the data about actual library use was very positive, showing people's attitudes towards their public libraries — and therefore, the support for public libraries — at a steady high:
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.
Treat people and animals with respect; contribute to effective teamwork; and foster public relations beneficial to MAR and its programs; promote a humane and caring attitude toward all animals and treat all animals humanely, properly and with compassion at all times, regardless of circumstances including those that are sick, injured, feral or aggressive.
While it was beyond the scope of this study to determine the reasons for this change in attitude, it is likely that greater awareness prompted by considerable multimedia public education about the county - sponsored voucher program instituted in 1993 bore at least some responsibility.
Have a mature and respectful attitude towards staff, the public, and animal residents at all times
Though he was included in pioneering exhibitions — Germano Celant's «Im spazi» (1967), Harald Szeemann's «When Attitude Become Form» at Kunsthalle Bern (1969), Wim Beeren's «Op Losse Schroeven» at the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (1969), and Kynaston McShine's «Information» at MoMA, New York (1970)-- throughout his career he made relatively few works, most between 1967 and 1972, and rarely appeared in public.
While reporting a story at the time on the intensifying battle over climate attitudes, between those trying to convince the public to embrace cuts in greenhouse gases and those fighting such a move, I interviewed David Hawkins of the Natural Resources Defense Council, who said the group was eagerly seeking such photos.
I'm sorry if I missed something, and I do agree that some people act like «availability entrepreneurs» in the negative sense that the phrase conveys, but if the media can't restrict their reasonable use of that term to people who approach a public problem with a completely selfish attitude, for their own benefit, then I would suggest not using the term at all.
Thus, the old attitude — we produce science and it is up to the public to figure out how to use it — has reappeared at NCAR and the NSF unit that supports it at a time when most other science organizations around the globe have sought to incorporate social science into their research and application agendas.
Still, environmental groups have known since 2000 that efforts to link climate change to natural disasters could backfire, after researchers at the Frameworks Institute studied public attitudes for its report «How to Talk About Global Warming.»
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).
Van Butsic, a land system scientist at U.C. Berkeley, is the author of a new report by the Public Policy Institute of California that recommends some changes in state law and a shift in public attitude when it comes to how California handles its drought - induced tree mortPublic Policy Institute of California that recommends some changes in state law and a shift in public attitude when it comes to how California handles its drought - induced tree mortpublic attitude when it comes to how California handles its drought - induced tree mortality.
Actions aimed at the incitement of national, racial, or religious enmity, abasement of human dignity, and also propaganda of the exceptionality, superiority, or inferiority of individuals by reason of their attitude to religion, national, or racial affiliation, if these acts have been committed in public or with the use of mass media, shall be punishable by a fine in the amount of 500 to 800 minimum wages, or in the amount of the wage or salary, or any other income of the convicted person for a period of five to eight months, or by restraint of liberty for a term of up to three years, or by deprivation of liberty for a term of two to four years.
A professional attitude and a true concern for the public's safety is of the highest priority at SDS, as well as providing quality instruction and ensuring customer satisfaction.