Sentences with phrase «greater public concern»

While this is a disappointing outcome the High Court has recognised that the alliance was right to bring the case to court and this was an issue of great public concern.

«The fact that the decision to release was taken by the Scottish justice secretary does not preclude you, as the prime minister of the United Kingdom, from now expressing your opinion on a subject that is of great public concern, and which affects Britain's international reputation and our relations with our allies,» he wrote.

In particular, Dr. Zucker and Mr. Seggos suggested that the E.P.A. had taken «no less than three different positions regarding PFOA,» causing «great public concern, frustration and anxiety.»

Michael Martin said there was «great public concern» after revelations in the Daily Telegraph which published details of leaked expenses claims.

The safe and secure burial of CO2 is the most difficult part of the process — and prompts the greatest public concern

During these times of great public concern over academic achievement, we're still sending a double message to students: Athletics matter; academics do not.

The welfare of dogs housed in commercial breeding facilities is of great public concern.

Unusual or extreme weather and climate - related events are of great public concern and interest, yet there are often conflicting messages from scientists about whether such events can be linked to climate change.

Not exact matches

These big companies have security and compliance concerns that made public cloud, which relies on resources shared by many companies, not the greatest option.

«This is of particular concern to members of the public who travel in a wheelchair or who have visual impairments, and have greater difficulty seeing and avoiding (or moving) Powered Scooter Share Scooters blocking their path,» the proposal states.

While a great change for Facebook users, this new algorithm is a cause of concern for many businesses as Zuckerberg states, «you'll see less public content like posts from businesses, brands, and media.»

Even when the petitions of the Old Testament concerning public matters are not vindictive, they are commonly nationalistic, as, for example, the Isaian plea for divine interposition in Israel's desperate need, (Isaiah 63:15 - 64:12) or Daniel's great prayer for his people, (Daniel 9:4 - 19) or the ejaculatory supplications of Ezekiel, (Ezekiel 9:8; 11:13) or the elaborate petitions in the Books of Ezra and Nehemiah.

13) The above claims have public relevance because they concern the public good; they are no more or less discriminatory than other bona fide claims about the public good, and their contraries or alternatives have no greater prima facie claim to public consideration.

I am as concerned with the great pool of public sentiment out of which the laws arise and are applied — the «ethos» of the people that is the subject of «ethics» — as I am with the legal issues.

The first sort of irresponsibility is the kind which appears in the «public - bedamned» attitude once explicitly adopted by some great corporations and still somewhat in vogue, as when great manufacturing or financial concerns resist the right of the public to be given an accounting for human and monetary values.

Given his concern in a period of great danger to protect both Catholic worship and the Jewish population, Pius in his public acts inclined more to prudence than to prophecy.

It is possible that stations which did not accept payment for air - time for religious programs reflected a greater concern for public - service programming and therefore presented a wider representation of other programming such as network and local programs.

Protestants as they view the development of Catholicism have good reason to assume that as it becomes more mature culturally and theologically it will have more flexibility of mind and that there will be greater tolerance and breadth in dealing with non-Catholics and with the public issues that concern Protestants most.

Frederick the Great banned it in Prussia in 1777 for nationalistic and economic reasons; concerned about the price of import, he sought to force the public back to consuming beer.

6.58 The committee recommends that the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) review its approach to publicly releasing information about its investigations, with a view to providing greater general information about its current enforcement activities and relevant issues of particular public concern.

Public opinion is widely varied, while some think it's a great idea and would love to get their little tyke one, others are concerned that it's the start of a new sexual revolution of youngsters.

It has been a matter of great concern among public health activists who work on child health and nutrition that the issue of malnutrition was being converted into a marketing opportunity to be addressed through products that big corporations could sell as the answer, instead of being seen as a basic lack of access to food caused by structural inequities in food distribution.

The results reveal that most U.S.moms understand breastfeeding is the best way to feed their babies, but state their greatest concern is breastfeeding in public.

Members of the union will be attending the commission's annual public board meeting tomorrow (22)- at the Abbey Conference Centre, in Great Smith Street, London, from 3 pm to 8 pm - to highlight their concerns.

The second point is that mutualism in the public sector raises issues concerning equity similar to those posed by localism: how can equal access and quality of service be maintained nationally if there is much greater variation in how services are delivered locally.

Their concerns are further cemented by greater public awareness of corruption in both the state and non-state sectors.

This image is a great way to muddy the moral waters and in the process soothe the concerns of people who'd rather this incident not linger in the public mind, since if Martin is not a perfect angel, then his killing is somehow not as much of a problem, regardless of the circumstances.

This has been a welcome bounce back from the poor conditions experienced during the winter months, but there remains a great deal of concern regarding the year ahead given that we have not yet seen the full impact of the public sector cuts and the Association forecasts that construction output will fall in 2011 and 2012.

«The fact that you and your agents at the Thruway Authority have still not released a full financing plan — and instead are relying on a secret piecemeal fiduciary strategy in this massive public undertaking — raises concerns of great magnitude for me,» Perkins wrote.

We need to make sure that we are in control over the things that affects us.Anytime there is flood and people loose their life, most of the blame goes to sitting presidents.I am not saying that the central government does not have responsibility to ensure that enabling environment is created.They have a great work to do but as citizens what is our quota?When you move around Accra, sometimes i becomes angry within myself because i am in doubt as to whether our sanitation laws exit.People because of the tax they claim they pay waits for zoom lion workers to come and clean the choked gutters before our houses and shops either than that, it will remain like that.Is it modernity or civilization that has turned us to forget our traditional values or duties of ensuring that our environments is clean?Everybody in our Ghanaian setting knows the responsibility of men and women in making sure that our environments are clean not waiting for flood to occur and we start blaming sitting presidents.To the media, though your responsibility is to keep governments on it toes, you equally have a mandate in educating the public of what we are expected to do as citizens in other to ensure that our dear nation is a better ecosystem for all of us to live.The attention of the media should be shifted from making politicians popular to making us aware as citizens of our responsibilities.I sometimes get confused to hear journalists calling opponents to comment on issues concerning the sitting governments and the only thing that comes to my mind is what do the journalist want to hear from the political opponents?Nothing.They will end up criticizing without giving an alternative.The media should rather resort in questioning people directly to where the problems are coming from.Let us build our institutions.When it comes to energy issues.Citifm will call Hon.KT Hammond who was a deputy minister living who he worked under (His boss at that time) and I always become confused because what can we expect from him?nothing.

«On this note, we the Concern Group condemned in very strong term Dino Melaye's assault on Senator Oluremi Tinubu and therefore call on him to tender unreserved public apology to the hallowed chamber of the Senate and more importantly to the person of Senator Oluremi Tinubu and the entire Nigerians which he has brought into great disrepute.»

Although it had previously been opposed to giving Holyrood greater tax powers amid concerns it could diminish the role of Scottish MPs at Westminster and lead to «independence by the back door», Labour confirmed its intention to support income tax devolution shortly before details of the Commission's report were made public.

That success represents a dilemma for neuroscience, said bioethicist Hank Greely of Stanford University: «When you make a chimera with human cells in its brain, the closer the resulting brain is to human» in structure and function and «the greater the ethical and public concern.»

Steele worries such studies will set off a great deal of needless public concern.

«Our findings show that terrorism shifts public attitudes towards greater loyalty to the in - group, less concern with fairness, and greater prejudice against Muslims and immigrants, but it seems that this effect is stronger on those who are politically left - leaning than those who are right - leaning,» explain psychological scientists from the Center for the Study of Group Processes at the University of Kent.

«Along with other research released recently from Western Australia showing increased harms on nights when people consumed energy drinks, it is becoming more apparent about how associations between energy drink consumption and greater levels of intoxication and harm can be explained, and that the concerns of researchers regarding social order and public health appear to be warranted, despite industry lobbying to the contrary.»

Kevin Wilson, ASCB's director of public policy, said his group's greatest concern is that NIH's budget may be cut further in 2014 as part of new sequestration cuts.

They are further highlighted by the recent advances of the Human Genome Project, which has made genetics an issue of great concern to the public.

Of greater concern is poor quality of care that plagues public health facilities.

(1) Given these shocking predictions, mental health conditions, once written off as «personal failures» or «weaknesses,» are now garnering greater attention as significant public health concerns.

Not surprisingly, this film stirred up a great deal of controversy even before it aired; some Jewish leaders and prominent Holocaust survivors worried that Hitler might come off as being sympathetic (a concern that may have dictated altering the film's title, which was to have been Hitler: The Early Years); and one of the film's producers was summarily dismissed after issuing a public statement which seemed to compare Germany's blind, unthinking allegiance to Hitler to America's rallying behind George W. Bush during the Iraq crisis.

This shift has been stimulated by a combination of influences, including greater demand by families at all economic levels, increased public understanding of the importance of early learning, greater support for investment in programs for low income children as a matter of equity, and growing concern about the threat of economic globalization and the need to enhance the nation's human capital by building a strong foundation early in life

Attitudes: support for diversity (racial integration), a perception of inequity (that the public schools provide a lower quality education for low - income and minority kids), support for voluntary prayer in the schools, support for greater parent influence, desire for smaller schools, belief in what I call the «public school ideology» (which measures a normative attachment to public schooling and its ideals), a belief in markets (that choice and competition are likely to make schools more effective), and a concern that moral values are poorly taught in the public schools.

Mobilize for Education September 22 A coalition of organizations, calling itself the National Mobilization for Great Public Schools, is asking people to meet at house parties September 22 to discuss education concerns and possible solutions.

I think you're seeing not only greater innovations on the public school side through partnerships but also greater accountability from their partners, and therefore a greater concern for marrying excellence and equity.

Trac objectives In response to these concerns, the «Transparency Review» was established by the government following the 1998 comprehensive spending review in order to develop a better understanding of the shortfall in funding across all university activities, and to ensure a greater level of accountability for public funds.

Colorado Public Radio's Jenny Brundin did a great job distilling the hopes and concerns of all involved with the recent Manual, East and Washington plans.

Raise Your Hand Texas has some great ideas and seems to want to help real public schools, but I am concerned about their leadership programs and the discussion about entrepreneurship for leaders.

It means talking with parents and community activists worried about children with greater needs having access to fewer resources, local business leaders concerned about protecting the critical contributions of public schools to their local workforce and economy, and many others who have a stake in public education and our country's future.

The FEA provides local education agencies (e.g., public schools), including magnet and charter schools, a set of extended services to address an educational problem, concern or practice to provide greater opportunity for every learner to receive high quality instruction and educational supports to be academically successful.