Sentences with phrase «growing public concern»

Growing public concern about college costs has led several states to propose or enact «free college» plans.

The demographic divide between teachers and students is of growing public concern.

While the agency routinely approves such transfers as matter of course, AT&T and Time Warner would likely face stiff opposition at a time of growing public concern over media consolation.

«Amid growing public concern in the past weeks that Facebook has mishandled users» data, our investigation shows that Facebook also allows and even encourages its paid advertisers to discriminate using its vast trove of personal data,» said Lisa Rice, NFHA's president and CEO, in a statement.

These measures clearly reflected growing public concern about animal mistreatment.

Amid growing public concern over extending the use of credit scores to domains beyond lending (2, 3), we find that credit scores modestly but significantly predict risk for cardiovascular disease in a cohort of adults entering midlife.

To draw attention to the worsening global crisis — and perhaps to ease the sting of growing public concern surrounding its use of genetically - modified ingredients and other unfun exposure — General Mills Canada has strategically yanked Buzz, its iconic mascot.

«Most people will see this bill for what it is — a cynical attempt to deflect growing public concern about the behaviour of rich corporate lobbyists representing hedge funds and private health companies, many of whom donate substantial sums to the Conservative party,» general secretary Frances O'Grady said.

(NaturalHealth365) Food additives are on the rise despite growing public concern over the safety of these toxic substances.

This shift in orientation occurred for diverse reasons, including growing public concern about the level of violence and disorder in public schools, the changed political climate following the end of the Vietnam era, and a pattern of increasingly conservative judicial appointments during the Nixon, Reagan, and Bush administrations.

The effort to strengthen property rights in Georgia is just one sign of growing public concern nationwide that municipalities are overstepping their eminent domain authority.

In the face of growing public concern about price promotions and underage drinking the government has taken steps to reduce alcohol - related harms on health and crime and disorder, which together cost over # 10 billion every year.

Winery Backlash Spawns Sonoma County Study Group In response to growing public concern over too many winery events, if not too many wineries, the county Permit and Resource Management Department has spun off a Winery Working Group to investigate the problem and the process, come up with ideas, and present a proposal to the Planning Commission early next year...

There are signs of a growing public concern in America, too, where a much higher percentage of the population is connected with one or the other of the churches.

Shadow communities secretary Eric Pickles said: «There is growing public concern that plastic bags cause environmental damage and endanger our wildlife.

Gordon Brown has responded to growing public concern over knife crime by lowering the minimum age teenagers can be prosecuted for carrying knives from 18 to 16.

Theresa May reacts to growing public concern over allegations of a Westminster paedophile ring with an inquiry which falls short of being full and public - but retains the power to do so if its chairman demands it

He noted the growing public concern with brain injury incurred through sports and warfare.

In 2011, in response to growing public concern about the possible environmental and human health effects of fracking wastewater, Pennsylvania's Department of Environmental Protection requested that the discharge of fracking fluids and other unconventional oil and gas wastewater into surface waters be prohibited from central water - treatment facilities that release high salinity effluents.

With the national health care debate continuing to rage and the growing public concern about rising health insurance premiums, the actual impact of sedentary workplaces on medical insurance markets should be closely examined, according to the authors.

The growing public concern with climate change and CO2 emissions further increases the pressure for coal plant closures.

The defeat of two high - profile charter initiatives at the ballot box on Tuesday signals a growing public concern about the impacts, and rapid proliferation of charter schools across the country.

In response to growing public concerns and emerging scientific data, Multnomah County Library is now exclusively using receipt paper that does not contain the chemical Bisphenol A (also known as BPA).

City staff and software company Ecotagious Inc. examined the electricity consumption of 225,000 homes in Vancouver over 12 years in response to growing public concerns that empty homes were driving up prices and leaving some neighbourhoods nearly abandoned.

We just wanted to write you directly to put real human faces behind the growing public concerns over your policies.

«There has been growing public concern about the Sheriff's immigration enforcement rhetoric and actions.

It has now been three years since Alan Milburn — in his Fair Access to Professional Careers report — reported the «growing public concern» that social mobility in Britain had been «stagnant for far too long».