Sentences with phrase «little public attention»

Lung says he chooses cases based on how worthy he feels the cause is, and is often drawn to files that attract little public attention.

One area of LSA 2007 which remains unchanged — but which has received surprisingly little public attention — deals with the discretionary right of a licensing authority, when looking at ABS licences, to impose either or both of two types of cap on external ownership.

ExxonMobil's funding activities while drawing very little public attention.

Though Gerhard Richter is one of the most accomplished and best - known contemporary German artists, and his paintings are widely exhibited, his collectorís editions have attracted relatively little public attention.

This report examines data documenting students in New York City who have been designated as «discharged» from the school system, an indicator that has received little public attention.

Though the measure received little public attention, one section of the bill constitutes an important step forward in government openness.

Not exact matches

It's Facebook's turn this week, leaders think, and next week it could be us — but there's precious little we can do in a crisis except to keep our heads down and wait until public attention moves on to someone else.

By earning legitimate links and attracting attention using skills from a variety of fields, including marketing, public relations, a little data science, and even philosophy.

This concept might work quite well for companies like Groupon, but B2B companies or companies that need to convey complex ideas will find little success scrambling after the next shiny object that has captured the public's attention.

They work to secure media attention for their own work as well as for plant - based and cultured meat companies, and they have been covered in more than 480 scientific and mainstream media venues.16 Little is known about the impact of these interventions on public opinion, though it seems that raising public awareness of cultured products may be valuable, especially since the field is so new.

Public institutions also get little attention because one can not analyze them quantitatively as easily as social and economic variables.

Religious and ethical life in the public world proceeds with only a little attention to professional philosophers.

They irony is that people like Donald Trump and Roy Moore — who often seem to pay little attention to public affairs — have proven more capable of learning than those with fancy degrees and Washington experience.

Yet the basic war / peace confrontation has been given so little attention that its position within the international law of human rights has hardly been grasped by the general public or even by political leaders.

Carl McIntire's crusade was in full force then, but he attracted little serious public attention.

It has everything to attract you like different safety features, canopy & comfortable seat, strong wheels & the best thing you can see BMW logo located on the wheels, the buckle and on both sides of the canopy, so your little rider can grab the public attention.

Ferguson was calling attention to city contracts that included a little known «public benefit clause,» which required companies that win contracts with City Hall to donate money to a charity.

After all, the process of relinquishing the most powerful job in the world isn't an easy one, especially given the American public's notoriously fleeting attention span and penchant for paying little heed to once - prominent political figures after they exit the public stage.

The approved spending plan, which was first introduced in late October, garnered little attention from the general public during three recent hearings.

The public wants to know what's going on with their tax dollars, even though most pay little attention.

I can see a couple of possible explanations — it could just be that the public aren't paying attention, there is so little happening in politics and they are so turned off that they aren't noticing this stuff.

«Part of it is to give RIG a little more swagger — because we are doing things here that are second to none,» he said, ticking off recent work on public pensions, Obamacare implementation and more that has garnered national attention.

«Substance abuse is the topic of high public interest, yet little attention is given to the experiences of college students with disabilities,» wrote the study authors Steven L. West et al. «Given that binge drinking is highly correlated with academic failure, drop - out, and an increased risk for various negative health conditions, such use by students with disabilities may place them at extreme risk for various negative outcomes.»

Pigs, which have been paid little attention in learning research and are not regarded very highly among the general public, thus have a much higher importance for cognition research than had been previously believed.

Citing the report, health analysts wrote in The Journal of the American Association, «health disparities and genetics may have little to do with each other, short of capturing public attention simultaneously.»

Yet for all this lip service to the victories of public health mandates, the PHS in fact has paid little attention to the harmful physical effects of fluoride on the human body.

While co-directors Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris (Ruby Sparks, Little Miss Sunshine) wring tension and suspense from the same - day build - up to the match, the match itself — captured by grainy, fuzzy TV cameras with the occasional, ground - level insert — and the immediate aftermath (symbolic and figurative, more than real or long - lasting), it's in the months - long lead - up to the match, following Billie Jean King (Emma Stone, never better) and Bobby Riggs (Steve Carell) where Battle of the Sexes steps up its game to offer a sympathetic, insightful, poignant, behind - the - scenes look at the private lives of the public personas who stepped onto the tennis court of the Houston Astrodome on September 20th, 1973, as Americans on both sides of the political divide watched in rapt attention.

The average public school curriculum devotes precious little attention to the considerable cultural contributions made by African - Americans.

For years, our public schools have paid as little attention to personnel costs as General Motors has.

In Closing America's High - achievement Gap, recently published by the Philanthropy Roundtable, I argue that the «let - them - be» approach is deeply flawed and that public education policy and practice pay far too little attention to helping gifted students reach their full potential.

The public paid little attention — until the 2014 — 15 deadline for standardized testing of the new standards loomed.

Because the public pays little attention in general to policy issues, the experiments and the timing of the survey provided an avenue for assessing how people update their views when presented with new information.

But they receive comparatively little attention relative to public colleges and the for - profit sector, perhaps because the conventional wisdom casts private colleges based on the profile of the most elite institutions in the sector, which have large endowments and charge high tuition to mostly wealthy students.

We reach this conclusion having over 15 years» experience with a single rating where the public paid little attention to the individual components that comprised that single rating.

In the latter part of his long (and otherwise illustrious) tenure as mayor, Schaefer paid little attention to public school issues.

Little Rock: Local advocates held a press conference in Little Rock on Thursday to draw attention to the state takeover of the city's public schools and the dissolution of a locally elected school board that had pledged to bring increased resources to the city's schools and students.

In fact, in many countries, and in many donor - funded projects, the same teachers we praise on October 5 often receive no initial training, no professional development, no monitoring or assessment, and little or no public policy attention.

Despite the widespread provision of retiree health insurance for public sector workers, little attention has been paid to its effects on employee retirement.

DeVos has faced criticism from the left for promoting solely school choice and paying little attention to public schools.

Usually books on bilingual education are for teachers and little attention has been previously paid to how families can act to ensure that American public schools develop bilingual education programs for their children.

Volkswagen is remarkable today not just for Olympic - grade brazenness but also for the way it has captured the public's attention, when so little does.

Sure the ride is lumpy and there's a little hunting from the single - clutch, robotised manual and four - wheel - drive transmission, but you can thread this car along almost any road, park it and three - point turn it without too much fear of an embarrassingly public accident (in 14 years I've never driven a car that attracts so much attention).

The substantial amount of attention the Volt received from the public and the news media did not surprise Clarke — he expected that — but what did surprise him, he said, «was the fact that it had so little competition.»

The next time you're strolling through a large public park with little FeFe, you might want to dedicate some of your attention to the sky.

At the same time Iniva has brought to the public's attention established international artists who are little known in the UK, such as Henri Dono (Indonesia), Meshac Gaba (Benin) and Sheela Gowda (India) and re-examined previously unknown or half - forgotten art histories such as the Harlem Renaissance in post-war America and a published critique on the work of artists from Latin America.

Although they received surprisingly little attention when first exhibited in Germany these have come to be regarded as some of Richter's most iconic works and have perhaps endeared him to the general public as much as to arts professionals.

Jacob Lawrence's Migration Series (1940 — 41), a sequence of 60 paintings, depicts the mass movement of African Americans from the rural South to the urban North between World War I and World War II — a development that had received little previous public attention.

The occupation at Cooper Union has continued for twenty days with little public or media attention — certainly nothing on par with the profiles written on Zuccotti Park in the fall of 2011.

A great deal of attention is paid to the large - scale artworks that are found in museums, galleries, and many other public spaces, and if the works that can be seen at many contemporary galleries are any indication, this preference for oversized art shows little sign of abating.

The warming potential of black carbon is equal to that of carbon dioxide emission from electricity production — but is given little attention in the public sphere.