Sentences with phrase «imagination of a public in»

«This is about a national movement to Save Them All that is capturing the imagination of the public in Los Angeles and across the country,» Battista said.

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On the eve of his second federal budget, Finance Minister Bill Morneau doesn't loom large in the public imagination.

In recent years, the statuette has gone home with lesser - seen movies, often from off the mainstream radar — offbeat or «prestige» titles that captured the imagination of Academy voters if not the American public — to the near - total exclusion of big budget Hollywood blockbusters.

But the years of fighting changed the place of the military in the Canadian public imagination — and Canadian political calculations.

While wearable fitness trackers and calorie counting apps have caught the imagination of the public, they account for a relatively small portion of the dollars invested in the space.

But the absence of God from our public life and imagination may, in the end, be even more thorough.

research; since most of the reports have concentrated on justifying the creation of cloned human embryos for research into and treatment of neurodegenerative diseases such as Parkinson's, «stem - cells» has become synonymous with «embryonic stem - cells» in the public imagination.

This position signifies a failure of theological and moral imagination, and raises the question of why the church reacts automatically in public debates instead of helping to advance the discussion.

A full defense of this intuition as true (i.e., as «public») demands the kind of argument and modes of reflections which I have attempted in my recently completed work on systematic theology (The Analogical Imagination).

Indeed, a «sociological imagination» is slowly transforming all theologies — sometimes with unsettling and explicit power, as in the use of critical social theories in political and liberation theologies; sometimes with more implicit but no less unsettling effect, as in the increasing use of sociology of knowledge to clarify the actual social settings (or publics) of different theologies.

The idea of broadcasting as a force in the public interest, a display case for the best of America «s creative arts, a forum of public debate — advancing the democratic conversation and enhancing the public imagination — has receded before the inexorable force of audience maximization.11.

Perhaps because Cicero happened to translate that particular dialogue for his aristocratic Roman public and thereby unintentionally made it one of the few texts from Plato available to the Latin West in the early Middle Ages, this image of God as Artificer proved to have a tenacious hold on the medieval imagination.

In the same way, public nakedness is shameful because it incites lust, and se.xual sin is rooted in desire (the imagination of a sinful act), as implied in Exodus 20:17 and addressed by Christ in Matthew 5:2In the same way, public nakedness is shameful because it incites lust, and se.xual sin is rooted in desire (the imagination of a sinful act), as implied in Exodus 20:17 and addressed by Christ in Matthew 5:2in desire (the imagination of a sinful act), as implied in Exodus 20:17 and addressed by Christ in Matthew 5:2in Exodus 20:17 and addressed by Christ in Matthew 5:2in Matthew 5:28.

In how many Christian imaginations and theologies, private and public, does Jesus the Christ swoop through the 33 years of his life, dipping briefly into the world of matter before soaring off toward the real point, the resurrection?

Singular psyches are better conceived, in the view I have been sketching, as fleeting nodes in a multi-layered semiotic network whose connectivities are both ensured and characterized by shared modes of symbolization, or signification, such as language supplies.24 Here the «We» often claims the last word, but so long as some vestige of radical imagination remains, singular psyches are not subservient to public customs, institutional definitions, entrained instincts, ingrained habits, and soon.

Retreating to the countryside will do very little to stave off the left's increasing domination of academic discourse, which in turn has very real consequences on the way in which the public's philosophical imagination is shaped.

If the public had the imagination to see the opportunity, and knew that the best professionals want to work on teams and not in isolation, this would be an ideal time to bring some of them back to hospitals and centers.

It is possible that a new momentum may be found through the conception of a new type of broadcasting which captures the public imagination as Oral Roberts did in 1970, or through the emergence of new personalities.

In recent years, Thomas and other alternative scriptures (and books about them) have captured the public imagination and the interest of members of mainline churches.

«If President Clinton came in from his running and ate french fries that are baked, healthy and low in fat, that would capture the imagination of the American public,» said Peter Kwiterovich, professor of pediatrics at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.

So I had to get deep I had to get spiritual I had to get all sorts of things and the first six weeks of me breastfeeding my first son was so emotional for me, because I had to deal with a lot of things and I'm saying all this because once I got over that nursing in public was empowering beyond imagination.

If the referendum educates the public in the power of their voice, and if it educates masses and elites to expand their moral imagination enough to recognize the complaints of the other side, this experiment, although probably not the best outcome, has the epistemic value desired by proponents of deliberation, and its long - term effect may be more electoral stability and a renewed aversion to change for the sake of change.

Miliband himself has now begun to outline how he believes Labour will triumph come 2015, stating that the party «must regain its economic credibility, have a credible program of reform for public institutions, and capture the imagination of the majority of Britons to want to get on in life and see their families prosper».

The public must know that our client, in discharging his duty to his principal, General Ibrahim Babangida, GCFR can not by any stretch of the imagination be said to have committed a crime that warrants such negative publicity.

IMAGINATION The minister will warn that the country needed to wake up to the «hideous reality of austerity Conservatism» in which Mr Cameron's party planned to hack billions of pounds from vital public services.

In his piece trumpeting the election as proof that «a different kind of progressive politics can capture the imagination of a public ground down by economic crisis», Ed Miliband's strategy adviser, Stewart Wood, admitted that «New York City is not the UK, and a mayoral race is not the same as a British general election».

Once the news of Dolly's birth became public, in February 1997, she made headlines and captured the imagination of commentators, politicians and headline writers across the planet.

This was in keeping with the Victorian ethos of divinely created perfection, and when Bentley's photos appeared in magazines, they caught the public imagination.

He captured the public imagination with visions of alien life and intelligence, shattered stereotypes of scientists and undoubtedly inspired many to consider a career in science.

And an everlasting impression was left in the public's imagination by Mary W. Shelley's Frankenstein (1818), in which Eramus Darwin gained a place for his advocacy of therapies based on electric discharges.

Berberine is not a fully documented herb; there's a ton of scientific studies on it but the supplement has not caught on in the public imagination yet.

Locked in on Vega's radiance, Lelio follows Marina through the trials of public grief, the abusive streets of Chile, and the back rooms of her imagination, where escape can be a kaleidoscopic memory or a full - blown dance number.

Having thrived and evolved for eight consecutive decades in the public imagination - in prose and graphics, on the big screen and small, in games and properties of all kinds - Conan's exploits in the Hyborian Age now come alive like never before in a colossal 3D action - adventure film.

It's World War II London, and Cartin's in search of a creative outlet as well as a way to support herself and her artist husband, which means she's going to take this job, helping to write a script for a film that, in Swain's words, will «capture the public imagination and trust.»

In a time of depression, it was this horse that captured the public's imagination and gave a nation something to cheer for.

Even that's not the end of it, because once the public embraces a character, and the performance takes on a life of its own in the popular imagination, the character is beyond the reach of the writer, the producer, the director, and even the actor.

The book is set in Baltimore, a city that already looms large in the public imagination as a model of postindustrial urban decay.

Within this context, it stretches the imagination to believe that improving the wellbeing of poor children (the professed beneficiaries of choice programs) is the Administration's motive for seeking a $ 158 million increase in charter school grants, a new $ 250 million program to research private school vouchers, and a $ 1 billion public school choice program under Title I.

Within this context, it stretches the imagination to believe that improving the well - being of poor children (the professed beneficiaries of choice programs) is the administration's motive for seeking a $ 158 million increase in charter school grants, a new $ 250 million program to research private school vouchers, and a $ 1 billion public school choice program under Title I.

Jaguar had a very good go at wrestling the public imagination away from its German rivals on the eve of the Frankfurt Motor Show by getting a man called Terry to do a loop - the - loop in the new F - Pace.

According to the survey report, «Libraries loom large in the public imagination, and are generally viewed very positively: 90 % of Americans ages 16 and older say that the closing of their local public library would have an impact on their community.

The static e-book has become embedded in the public's imagination as an exemplar of the future of reading on the screen.

The new Amazon Kindle Paperwhite is the latest eBook reader to capture the essence of the Kindle in its best form to date.When it comes to eBook readers, the Kindle has captured the imagination of the public.

I mentioned that roaches have held a large sway in the public imagination as the villains of horror films.

More recently, the dizzying array of color morphs in captive - bred ball pythons has captured the public imagination.

However, the stunning aquarium designs that are regularly featured on Tanked have gone a long way in capturing the imagination of the viewing public — hopefully, helping to turn the tide for the hobby.

From singular in - room touches to captivating installations in public spaces and stunning interior themes and motifs, each SO / Sofitel playfully embraces the imagination of their very own signature designer.

Design Bridge, which has studios in London, Amsterdam, New York and Singapore, was brought in to the project to mark the opening of the archives» new major exhibition The world of the Dutch East India Company, and looked to design a campaign that would «capture the public's imagination by revealing the influence this vital part of national heritage has had on shaping Dutch life today.»

In one sustained series, she uses an appropriated visual lexicon of 276 images gleaned from diverse sources (books on biology, phrenology, and physics; tattoos, stamps, and cartoons; etc.), reconfiguring public information into the private space of the imagination.

Conceived as a radical think tank in the shape of an artist community, 18th Street supports artists from around the globe to imagine, research, and develop significant, meaningful new artworks and share them with the public to foster radical imagination, empathy, and positive social change.