Sentences with phrase «exploit public fears»

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It allowed her to woo NDP supporters who feared a slash - and - burn Tory government, while also exploiting the Conservative plan to cut 100,000 public sector jobs to balance the budget as an economic apocalypse only she could stop.

Unfortunately, the FDA and other agencies exploit the fear of fish to distract the American public from the dental issues.

As we demonstrated in our 2015 analysis of the Common Core debate on Twitter, the dispute about the standards was largely a proxy war over other politically - charged issues, including opposition to a federal role in education, which many believe should be the domain of state and local education policy; a fear that the Common Core could become a gateway for access to data on children that might be used for exploitive purposes rather than to inform educational improvement; a source for the proliferation of testing which has come to oppressively dominate education; a way for business interests to exploit public education for private gain; or a belief that an emphasis on standards reform distracts from the deeper underlying causes of low educational performance, which include poverty and social inequity.

Create a fear in the public, and then exploit that fear for money.

Yet in an atmosphere of vast economic uncertainty and Republican fear - mongering about government spending, the rhetoric of green jobs has been unable to motivate widespread public support for addressing climate change and has opened the door to predatory attacks from those seeking to exploit scientific uncertainty for political ends.

«The climate scientists fear that their results could be properly interpreted in public and exploited by interest groups seeking to understand what is really correct.»

Moreover, the climate scientists fear that their results could be misinterpreted in public or exploited by interest groups.