Sentences with phrase «changing public role»

Beyond the question of change in religion in general, the issue of religion's changing public role in contemporary societies has been of particular interest, especially because of the political implications of these changes.

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The events of 2008 and 2009 changed the role of central bankers in public life.

Maternal mortality review committees can play a key role in this process, public health experts say, by identifying pregnancy - related deaths that might otherwise be overlooked, analyzing the factors contributing to those deaths, and translating the lessons into policy changes.

While the impact on the R&D tax credit would mostly impact large public companies at first, those changes will over time play a role in how future startups spend money on innovation.

In her prior role as the Director of Shareholder Activities at the Foundation, Laura successfully engaged public corporations on topics ranging from climate change to corporate governance.

Through 70 years, Butcher said the couple have had to persevere and also cope with the divorce of three of their children and the changing role of the royal family in the public eye.

For another example, in these five years there has been a marked change in thinking about church - state relations and, more generally, about the role of religion in public life.

An outstanding policy briefing paper Understanding Fatherhood in the 21st Century A Policy Briefing Paper for Northern Ireland written by Colin Shaw and Maria Lohan summarises the research evidence to support father involvement and makes a series of recommendations for changes in public policy and practice in Northern Ireland to facilitate the changing role of fathers today.

It remains to be seen whether the nature and the depth of feeling that resulted in a «leave» vote will now translate to a decline in public support for international development and a desire to change the nature of the UK's role on the global stage.

While Ed Miliband floats around the country playing the role of a man with integrity, it's worth noting that despite «marching for the alternative» a few years ago with the people he claims to represent, he turned his back on public sector workers and those on «Workfare», whilst allowing changes to employment law to go through virtually unchallenged, allowing the coalition to force through it's anti-worker agenda.

The statistics keep changing, the series aren't the same, the functions and the roles keep altering and nothing is constant — particularly not the people who run the machine, for ministers and now senior public servants too live in a «here today gone tomorrow» world where they're no sooner settled in than they're out.

Top attorneys led by New York State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman and former Vice President Al Gore announced a collective effort to investigate Exxon Mobil over environmentalist claims that the company misled the public about its role in climate change.

Commenting on the topic of the symposium, Comrade Sunmonu noted that the NLC chose the topic - «the change Nigeria needs and the role of workers in the process of change» to educate and enlighten the public on the role of government to effect positive change they voted for.

Government is often resistant to change, but the Public Advocate's role is to push our bureaucracy to become more responsive and hold our elected leaders accountable to the needs of the people.

BHA Head of Public Affairs Pavan Dhaliwal commented, «We are seriously concerned that this change will lead to religious Academies employing individuals to teach not because they are qualified for the role, but because they are prepared to teach in line with narrow and unshared visions which are inappropriate for state - funded schools.

A PLP that currently lacks a leadership role and has been undermined and weakened by political and cultural changes, public disapproval of politicians in general, and the control freakery and internecine battles of the New Labour years.

Arguing for the need to focus on «solutions rather than on catastrophic consequences of climate change,» Wibeck suggests effective methods for moving forward with climate change communication, emphasising a need for strategic interaction between communicators and educators, arguing that it is necessary if the public role in challenging global climate change is going to increase.

In collaboration with many researchers (graduate students, postdocs, and faculty elsewhere), we have examined the role of cross-immunity on the evolution and dynamics of influenza; the impact of behavioral changes, long periods of infectiousness, variable infectivity, co-infections, prostitution, social networks, and vaccine efficacy on HIV dynamics; the role of exogenous re-infection, variable progression rates, vaccination, public transportation, close and casual contacts on tuberculosis dynamics and control; the impact of life - history vector dynamics on dengue epidemics; and on the identification of time - response scales for epidemics of foot and mouth disease.

«Now the public has to take a more active role and push for change.

There was much public debate about the role of climate change in the aftermath of Harvey, and many Republicans were quick to dismiss links to global warming, pointing out that states like Florida and Texas have a long history with deadly storms.

As Jeffery D. Sachs argues in this month's issue of Scientific American, the failure to play a more active role is policy proposals — namely in health care and climate change control — has created weak policies and a suspicious American public.

Twenge and colleagues were interested in understanding how cultural change over the last 40 years has affected social capital — the cooperative relationships that are critical for maintaining a democratic society — in which public trust plays an important role.

«In addition to a proper diet, the results suggest that in order to achieve a profound change in the behaviour of citizens towards healthy lifestyles, public bicycle systems such as Valenbisi play a strategic role in promoting health, as they favour the increase in the levels of physical activity and the reduction of body weight», concludes Javier Molina.

We've got OpenSciLogs bloggers interested in exploring how the concept of science news has changed over time, what role journalists may play in the public health management of infectious disease outbreaks, and live science reporting from the Global South.

The public health community plays a critical role in developing strong climate change strategies and interventions that protect human health.

The Polaris Climate Change Observatory (PCCO) aims to inform public perception of the role of science in issues of major social importance.

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In the much buzzed - about film «Top Five,» opening in South Florida theaters this weekend, director and star Chris Rock plays a comedian who wants to become a serious actor and change public perception about his one career - defining role.

Roman J. Israel, Esq. (** 1/2) Denzel Washington delivers a typically fine performance as an on - the - spectrum attorney whose sheltered life as a legal researcher changes when his managing partner dies and he's thrust uncomfortably into a more public role (working for slick attorney Colin Farrell).

Many roles are to change in the legislative blueprint for reforming the Chicago Public Schools that is now awaiting the signature of Gov. James M. Thompson.

Senior Lecturer Thomas Payzant, former superintendent of the Boston Public Schools, played a significant role in the development of a report released last week calling for major changes to the American education system.

It examines the reasons for choosing different business forms and then the reasons for changing them (including sole traders, LTD and PLCs, mutuals and the public sector); the role of shareholders and their reasons for investment (including market capitalisation, dividends and ordinary shares); the key influences on share prices and why these are important for a company; and finally the effect of ownership on mission, objectives, decisions and performance.

Posted: December 21, 2006 PayzantSenior Lecturer Thomas Payzant, former superintendent of the Boston Public Schools, played a significant role in the development of a report released last week calling for major changes to the American education system.

The principal's role — increasingly recognized as critical to a school's vibrancy, its prospects for innovative change, and its overall success — is a pressure - filled job that is at once highly public and extremely isolating.

The principalship has always played a key role in public education; however ~ the position itself has experienced a fundamental change in recent decades.

Nor does the current political weight of evangelical Protestantism change the fact that our political and constitutional development has pretty much reduced religion to a private matter, even if there remain energetic efforts to make religious concerns play a larger role in public affairs.

A new report by Public Impact's Daniela Doyle and Tim Field, The Role of Charter Restarts in School Reform: Honoring our Commitments to Students and Public Accountability explores a variation on school closure in which a charter school's operator and board change, while the school continues to serve the same students.

It may have taken longer than many would like to integrate the military, expand the roles of women in the armed forces, and end «don't ask, don't tell,» but we were able to achieve all of those through an open, public process of changing laws and regulations.

Ted Kolderie writes that the current arrangement of K - 12 public education is an obstacle to school and district improvement and that state leaders have an important role to play in shaping system - wide change.

In a new series of vignettes and an accompanying video from Public Impact, the principals tell what they did and how their roles as principal changed when they could rely on their MCL teams to spread great instruction throughout the schools.

A new spate of documentaries and media coverage have all centered on the role teachers unions play in blocking necessary change and innovation in public schools.

(7/9/2014) Principals and teachers from 17 D.C. public schools are gathering this week to identify challenges they want to tackle in the coming school year and the leadership roles teachers can play in driving this positive change.

He oversaw a vigorous expansion of the federal role in the nation's 100,000 public schools, largely bypassing Congress to induce states to adopt landmark changes, including new teacher evaluations and academic standards.

The group recruits accomplished teachers who want to take on leadership roles within their schools or to advocate for public policy changes without leaving their classrooms.

These same spheres of influence have also had a significant role in legislative initiatives directed at the «reform» of public education, resulting in a number of innovative structural changes, the charter and contract school movements being prominent examples.

Thursday, CTC board members held their first public discussion of the program that will likely thrust the agency into a leadership role for carrying out the many proposed changes.

Until then, it is premature to believe there will be any change until we see a fundamental shift in the values and goals that are supportive of public education in which standardized testing plays a diminished role in our nation's public schools.

Referring to his role, he made a number of comments, including that somebody had to be the leader, somebody had to bring the discussion to communities, and that somebody had to emphasize we needed to change direction in public education.

The decentralization experience of the Chicago public school system also contributed to the current interest in the role of districts as a positive force for change.

In light of the New York Public Library's ongoing plan to move many of its books away from its main branch into offsite storage with 24 - hour advance request required, Bell wonders to what extent libraries really need to keep books around anymore, and what the changing role of the library might mean in years to come.