Sentences with phrase «in public attitudes»

Combined with a transformative manifesto, the shift in public attitudes in a six - week campaign was unprecedented.

Academic studies are providing new insights into the human - animal bond, while opinion surveys reveal trends in public attitudes toward spay / neuter and other pet - related issues.

Over the last 40 years, there has been a revolution in public attitudes to sexual behaviour.

«As well as protecting people from the deadly effects of passive smoking, we've also seen big changes in public attitudes towards smoking.

A measure that would remove roughly $ 6 billion in annual ethanol subsidies just passed the U.S. Senate, signaling, among other things, a shift in public attitude towards the once - heralded alternative fuel.

Indeed, the Crime Survey of England and Wales (previously the British Crime Survey) has shown positive shifts in public attitudes across key measures since 2007.

Ipsos Mori's research over many years has found fairness hard - wired in public attitudes towards public services (think «postcode lotteries») and welfare.

But government officials also value the information about long - term trends in public attitudes that can be gleaned from the current survey.

As long as ethical principles and biomedical advances are in tension, it is hard to see how the deep internal contradictions in public attitudes could resolve themselves, and therefore how today's biotechnology debates could come to any stable end.

Safe Is Not Enough Michael Sadowski There has been a sea change in public attitudes around gender and sexuality, yet progress on LGBTQ issues in schools has moved slowly, writes Michael Sadowski, Ed.M.»

Van Butsic, a land system scientist at U.C. Berkeley, is the author of a new report by the Public Policy Institute of California that recommends some changes in state law and a shift in public attitude when it comes to how California handles its drought - induced tree mortality.

Hitting those carbon goals would, however, as Campbell's advisors warned, require nothing short of a revolution in thinking: «What we are driving... is perhaps the largest and most significant shift in public attitudes ever,» the Climate Action Team wrote in 2008.

The Report documents the astonishing level of stability in public attitudes — with individuals of diverse political outlooks being highly divided, and only about 50 % of the population accepting human - caused global warming overall — for over a decade.

One year of winter ice ceover is clearly not enough to predict a change in the ice mass trend, but I think one year may be enough to sense a change in public attitude with regard to the reality and seriousness of AGW.

Differentiating Between Trust and Legitimacy in Public Attitudes Towards Legal Authority.

The study, led by researchers at the Rudd Center for Food Policy & Obesity and published in the research journal Obesity, the official journal of The Obesity Society (TOS), is the first to document a positive change in public attitudes toward legal measures to address weight discrimination.

Dr Brown called for a change in public attitudes, saying:

In his 10 years as president of the Carnegie Corporation of New York from 1955 - 65, during his tenure as Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare in the Johnson Administration, and recently, as chairman of Common Cause and Independent Sector, Mr. Gardner has developed a keen perception of shifts in public attitudes toward major social issues.

Politicians, perhaps smelling a shift in public attitude, began openly using the company as a punching bag.

Making Europe's production, consumption and trade in food environmentally sustainable is possible, but it will require a major shift in public attitudes, policies and knowledge and seizing current opportunities for change, according to a newly published European Environment Agency (EEA) report.

Tougher UK health warnings about alcohol are creating fertile territory for a change in public attitudes to drinking, says Martin McKee

Rather, we recognize the passage of the time, and the sweeping shifts in public attitudes and economic practices throughout the world, that have reinforced the protectionist ethos, and lead us toward a future that is safer, and better, for whales.

Marc Morano, the communications director for the Republican minority on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, has been sending out e-mail alerts, sometimes several a day, highlighting stories on winter weather and other surveys suggesting a shift in public attitudes.

It is only when the climate starts to have a serious impact costing lives and jobs will countries like the US and Australia - through a shift in public attitudes - start to pick up their game.

, Baroness Deech outlined the cost of divorce in financial and emotional terms, and called for a change in public attitudes.