Sentences with phrase «by public indifference»

(The first Reggie bar, introduced in 1978, was melted by public indifference.)

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Deregulation of broadcasting in the U.S. and the Federal Communications Commission's apparent indifference to the practices of broadcast licensees and cable operators in effect seem to legitimize the operation of these media as businesses like any other business, disregarding the public trusteeship that is required by the Communications Act.

Rather than stimulating Jewish identity, observance, and pride, the national Jewish organizations have promoted Jewish ignorance, indifference, and insecurity by their determined campaign to eliminate religion from public life.

The attrition of the public realm; the remorseless growth of inequality; the social pathologies associated with its growth; the humiliations suffered by those at the bottom of the economic pile; the callous indifference of those at the top; the penetration of state institutions by corporate interests; the decline of public trust; and, not least, the hubristic irresponsibility of a sometimes criminal financial sector — all the stigmata of pre-crisis Britain — loom as large as they did before 2008.

It takes place in the early 1990s, following a group of grassroots activists in Paris trying to combat public and bureaucratic indifference with regard to the AIDS epidemic, for which potential pharmaceutical remedies are being sidetracked by sociopolitical obstacles.

It is troubling when individual works or entire movements are hidden from public view (in some cases for decades), accompanied by denials or implied denials, or by indifference, of the existence of those works; and assertions that imply those works don't exist.

Since being longlisted for the Aesthetica Art Prize, Gurrey has had his first work acquired by a public collection at The Mercer Art Gallery, and has collaborated with Norwegian based artist Jonathan Herbert on the book Writing and Indifference.

His indifference to the harm done to the public mind by the AGW deniers is perhaps why so many skeptics find comfort in Pielke's message, and why so many casual observers mistake him for a global warming skeptic.

The piece, «The Nerd Loop: Why I'm Losing Interest in Communicating Climate Change,» is a long disquisition on why there's too much thumb sucking and circular analysis and not enough experimentation among institutions concerned about public indifference to risks posed by human - driven global warming.

The indifference reflects widespread public doubt that human activities play a significant role in global warming, a tone set by President Vladimir Putin, who has offered only vague and modest pledges of emissions cuts ahead of December's U.N. climate summit in Paris.

Congress and the public were misled by skewed numbers, painting a dishonest picture of court dynamics and displaying an indifference to public safety and national security.

Indifference towards the plight of Blacks in Canada is probably the primary manner this is displayed by the legal community and the public at large.

As a licensed agent I am dismayed at the indifference our representatives and regulators have shown the industry and the public through their inactivity in correcting this pretense by these companies and the Bureau in this reckless crusade to create change.