Sentences with phrase «get public understanding»

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A small expression of favor the laborer would be able to get through his head; it would be understood in the market - town by «the highly respected cultured public,» by all ballad - mongers, in short, by the 5 times 100,000 persons who dwelt in that market - town, which with respect to its population was even a very big city, but with respect to possessing understanding of and sense for the extraordinary was a very small market - town — but this thing of becoming the Emperor's son - in - law was far too much.

You get the Obama administration's contraceptive / abortifacient mandate on steroids and a full - scale legal assault by Clinton Administration 3.0 on the capacity of religious institutions to be themselves as they understand themselves to be: communities of religious conviction with a right to their own moral integrity, not mere instruments for delivering whatever the government deems to be a public service or a public good.

From what I understand, when an overweight Type II diabetic remains overweight and is unable to get his or her disease under control with diet and exercise (which clearly, she hasn't, given her weight and her now - public relationship with Novartis), such a person becomes even more susceptible to the dangerous metabolic syndrome, which includes diabetes, as well as heart, kidney and liver disease.

If these are brought together, he claims that the company gets an understanding of what would be a great offering for the public.

Wedderspoon has twisted the general public's understanding of Manuka honey's antibacterial activity by misleading their customers into thinking that they were getting more than what they paid for»

«You probably won't see them go into the public supermarkets, but as people start to understand the heat mechanisms and respect them, they'll get more comfortable with hot peppers.»

OT: I understand the reasoning behind Wenger keeping his cards close to his chest regarding players with the price hikes and all, but why is it when other clubs want a player the go and get them even after making it public knowledge?

I can understand why the public doesn't expect much from Texas this season, but they're a potentially dangerous team that could get to.500.

You are also right that changing lunch culture is a a battle within a larger battle — the larger battle is about getting the public to truly value public education, understanding that it is the single-most important public program in our nation, the one that has the power to shape the future in our best (or worst) interests.

I never understood the need for some lactivists to be as public as possible with breastfeeding and why they get SO offended when asked to cover up or be more discrete in any fashion.

Regardless of any looks you get, your child doesn't understand your embarrassment, so remember that public tantrums aren't meant to humiliate you.

«I think that public understanding of engineering and science is incredibly important, both to continue getting support for these fields, but also to inform people as they make decisions about lots of issues that are confronting our world today,» he said.

Ok, i only have one child, so no one to compare him to, but my son is well behaved in public, understands he doesn't always get the toy he wants, says «thank you», and is generally well mannered.

The formula companies agreed to encourage mothers to go to physicians to get advice about infant feeding, and not advertise directly to the public (though this part of the understanding has fallen by the wayside recently), while the physicians helped market the new products.

It's hard enough for nursing moms to have their rights respected in public places, in the workplace, and elsewhere, and it gets even harder as their children get older, because people still struggle to understand that breastfeeding isn't sexual.

«We try to help kids understand they «ve got to take that step forward, to take more responsibility for their own development, «said Don Hellison, a University of Illinois at Chicago physical education professor who developed a basketball program for children living in the Cabrini - Green public housing complex.

But a better understanding of public commercial assets — defined as government property that generates profit, such as state - owned firms, real estate, and forests — could help yield significant amounts of wealth for economies struggling to get back on track.

The public don't like police commissioners - but that doesn't mean they'll understand Labour's frantic attempt to get rid of them

The widespread misreporting of these cases under the guise of «Christian persecution» when they are anything but has undermined the chance of the public to get a really clear understanding of what the issues engaged by these cases really are.

This public understanding of republicanism looks set to only get worse, with the French centre - right UMP party, last year, successfully renaming itself Les Républicains.

«There is also a lack of public understanding about how vaccines work — and again, this misunderstanding seems to be getting worse.»

Ministers are understood to have been enraged by the Met's failure to get a grip on the situation on Monday but there was widespread understanding of why it would have adopted a public order approach to fast - changing and unique circumstances, even if it proved ineffective.

With more than 20 years of private sector experience in public finance, he understands what it takes to get our economy moving again.

Stout said his biggest concern was maintaining community services while keeping the town below the tax cap, adding that his 40 years of experience in public service have helped him to understand how to get things done in government.

Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg says the public would find it «impossible to understand» why MPs should get a pay rise of up to ten thousand pounds.

«We understand the government's determination to deliver a substantial programme of reforms across the public sector, but we can not afford to get policing wrong, and unless greater clarity emerges in the very near future I fear that we run the risk of compromising the safety of citizens for reasons of expediency,» he will say.

But I really can't understand why you wouldn't want people to get off public assistance and be self - sufficient.

Ed Miliband is reported as saying «the most important thing for the unions is to get the public to understand what their argument is.

«But I don't understand how he gets those things or better public education with this strategy.»

We've never understood why anyone in public office, or with aspirations for it, would risk their reputation by forwarding racist chain e-mails, but for whatever reason — maybe they're just too hilarious not to share — they keep doing it and they keep getting in trouble for it.

«It's about trying to get as much advance understanding to the public about what, why, when and where,» says Larson, «and having full transparency about the benefits and risks.»

The new figures, however, will help public health experts better understand the spread of the disease, who is getting sick and what it will take to reverse the trend of infections.

Gammage: It's hard to get the public to understand all those things.

«Once the public understands that no one is getting sick from these methods,» he said, «then there's likely to be great support for them.»

In addition to public utilities, startup companies like Ocean Renewable Power Co. are now getting involved with the tacit understanding that even if tidal energy's potential is limited, it can still be profitable.

Lomborg claims in his rebuttal that «Holdren could find little but a badly translated word and a necessary specification for nuclear energy production in this chapter».8 Actually, as my original critique indicated to the extent practical in the space available, and as Lomborgs rebuttal and this response make even plainer, his energy chapter is so permeated with misunderstandings, misreadings, misrepresentations, and blunders of other sorts that it can not be considered a positive contribution to public or policy - maker understanding, notwithstanding its managing to get right a few (already well known) truths about the subject.

Richard Wiseman, professor in the Public Understanding of Psychology at the University of Hertfordshire, commented: «This is a huge rise, and the results are extremely worrying because getting less than seven hours sleep a night is below the recommended guidelines, and is associated with a range of problems, including an increased risk of weight gain, heart attacks, diabetes and cancer.»

Public health officials and AIDS researchers may soon get a much better understanding of exactly how and where HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, is spreading in the United States.

I think we need a better word to get the public to understand this danger.

Awareness helps the public understand that symptoms like irregular periods and pelvic pain are not something to be ignored and getting it checked is necessary.

The Focus: Changing diets, public opinion, getting in touch with your own needs, understanding your desires and cravings, moving forward on a path of empowerment.

Wedderspoon has twisted the general public's understanding of Manuka honey's antibacterial activity by misleading their customers into thinking that they were getting more than what they paid for»

This is also the point that public health authorities, physicians and nutritionists almost religiously refuse to accept or even understand, because one implication of what I'm saying is that the good Dr. Atkins was right all along, and they just can't get it through their head, as Oz can't, that a diet of the kind Atkins recommended might be not only healthy but the medically appropriate treatment for the condition — in this case, obesity.

For the ignorant public who have no real understanding on how the scams operate it's very easy to get caught with your pants down and ripped off.

Margolis and Skibba understand how boosting technology skills often gets kicked to the bottom of an already long list of needs in our nation's public schools.

A 2014 Center on Reinventing Public Education (CRPE) survey found that while 55 percent of public school parents participated in choice, nearly one - third of families had some difficulty understanding which schools their children were eligible to attend, a quarter had trouble getting information to choose a school, and one in five reported difficulty in transporting their child to the school of their cPublic Education (CRPE) survey found that while 55 percent of public school parents participated in choice, nearly one - third of families had some difficulty understanding which schools their children were eligible to attend, a quarter had trouble getting information to choose a school, and one in five reported difficulty in transporting their child to the school of their cpublic school parents participated in choice, nearly one - third of families had some difficulty understanding which schools their children were eligible to attend, a quarter had trouble getting information to choose a school, and one in five reported difficulty in transporting their child to the school of their choice.

«We tried to push that, and it never really got done because I don't think anyone understood how the federal government could create carrots,» says Kress, pointing out that the feds contribute a small portion, about 12 percent, of the public school budget.

A new report from the National Public Pension Coalition (NPPC) reminded me of Upton Sinclair's famous line, «It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.»

And it seems, for whatever reason, very hard to get the public to understand that charter schools are not a single entity with one kind of culture or philosophy; they vary and, as with everything else in existence, produce both good and bad outcomes.

Spin Cycle: How Research Gets Used in Policy Debates: The Case of Charter Schools (Russell Sage Foundation, 2008) focuses on the controversy surrounding the charter school study by the American Federation of Teachers and its implications for understanding politics, politicization, and the use of research to inform public discourse; it won the American Educational Research Association's Outstanding Book Award in 2010.