Sentences with phrase «hope for public action»

There was ample reason at that time for Johnson and Moynihan to hope for public action, because a powerful tide of American liberalism was then cresting at an unprecedentedly high level.

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Organisations are hoping for action on everything from public spending to child poverty in the chancellor's pre-Budget report.

«I applaud those students for speaking up, I applaud the students for taking action and I think the calls of the students and parents have captured the attention of the administration of the Buffalo Public Schools and the teacher's union and I'm hoping that those two entities can come together in the best interest of the education of the children at City Honors,» he said.

But with the conviction of the Assembly Speaker, the conviction of the former Deputy Senate Majority Leader, and the ongoing court proceedings against the former Senate Majority Leader, the governor can not hope that the public demand for action will melt away.

Trevor Tompson, director of the AP - NORC Center, said the bipartisan agreement on climate change's existence could be reason to hope for policy action: «Public opinion around many energy issues tends to be fluid, with people often defaulting to partisan starting points.

Marquez continued, «We hope this bill becomes a model for all public schools, including traditional public and district magnet schools, and that they will follow the lead demonstrated by this charter school action and examine their own potentially exclusionary admissions and disciplinary policies.

Although the suits differ in some ways, all three agree that the school finance program in Texas is so fatally broken that the public's only hope for relief from current political actions is through the courts.

But unless they take action similar to what I've described here, those rights may be the best that public libraries can hope for as the e-book market expands.

For Araújo, in the absence of credible state action, any hope of taking action on climate change will require grassroots work by the public.

But even if one believes such actions are justified in principle I don't think it is appropriate for someone in Gleick's position to do what he did because if scientists are seen to do anything which undermines their personal integrity then it can cast doubt in the public's eye about their scientific work and that of their colleagues and makes it harder for them to counter the anti-scientific antics of the fake skeptics, although I would hope that the stinking hypocrisy of the latter would also be apparent to the public.

Like the tobacco industry, climate change deniers devote great time and energy to keeping the «debate» alive hoping that the general public will believe that the science is unsettled, thereby minimising public support for taking action to address greenhouse gas emissions.

Public Health Association of Australia CEO Michael Moore talks about the key messages to emerge from the summit, what can be expected in policy reform, and his hopes for action on prevention from the new Health Minister Greg Hunt.