Sentences with phrase «created public alarm»

It has grown haphazardly, with isolated successes and failures... To have a political effect, the «extended peers» of science have traditionally needed to operate largely by means of activist pressure - groups using the media to create public alarm

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These «harmful activities» include anything with a risk of public disorder, a risk of harassment, alarm or distress, or creating a «threat to the functioning of democracy».
Dr David Carslake, the study's lead author and Senior Research Associate from the MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit (IEU) at the University of Bristol, said: «An alarming increase in obesity levels across the world which have risen from 105 million in 1975 to 641 million in 2014, according to a recent Lancet study, create concern about the implications for public health.
We should not forget that apple juice is a useful source of vitamin C, and no good public purpose whatever is served by creating quite unnecessary public alarm and confusion.»
The defendant either intended to cause public inconvenience, annoyance or alarm, or recklessly created a risk of public inconvenience, annoyance or alarm.
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