Sentences with phrase «members of the public think»

«It's worrying that recent incidents involving the police at peaceful protests have made members of the public think twice about taking part in future peaceful demonstrations.»

While members of the public think more attention should be given to all subjects other than athletics, some groups want especially more attention given to particular subjects.

Meanwhile, other members of the public think they can dump their family pet on the welfare organisations.

Contrary to what the vast majority of «liberal» and «conservative» members of the public think, climate scientists do not believe sea levels will rise if the north pole ice cap melts (unlike the south pole ice cap, which sits atop a land mass, the north pole «ice cap» is already floating in the sea, a point that various «climate science literacy» guides issued by scientific bodies like NASA and NOAA emphasize).

The key vote at that meeting centered around the familiarity of the public with the term «Upper Canada,» and whether «The Law Society of Upper Canada» is what members of the public think of when they look for our Province's regulator.

Not exact matches

That represents a shift in public thinking from Mulvaney, who as a member of Congress was one of the most stringent budget hawks.

«But compared to members of the general public who have full - time jobs, he still has some time off to look after the children, to give them their baths, to put them to bed and I think he'll continue to do that,» Joseph said.

Penelope, do you think TREB should allow batch - downloads of arranged - between - members - but - NOT - yet - Public / Registry - Office - Info transactions?

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Mr Cameron was asked what he thought about Jesus» command to sell all we have and give it to the poor by a member of the public at an event in the Chilterns,...

But we are living in a world where this government has promoted an attitude to life which now aspires not simply to referee public behavior but to control the very thoughts we have and to decide on that basis whether we are legitimate members of society or not.

She said: «I think this private member's bill follows a trend we've seen in America with the introduction of state legislation to undermine LGBT and other equality laws with an increase of so - called conscientious objection exemptions for public employees providing public services.»

So I have to wonder if this lack of distinction between public issues and politics in general even matters if the church is unable to think theologically, if its members are just starting to develop a Christian worldview.

A much smaller group of executives and elected officials think a publishing program that aims to reach not only the denomination's members but also the broader public is itself an important form of the church's mission.

Members of the public who attend the full - day Good Food Festival programming have the opportunity to learn directly from experienced farmers and gardeners through long - form DIY workshops and «Good Food Commons» mini-sessions; hear from thought leader panelists about the future of our agricultural system; watch cooking demos, emphasizing local food, by culinary leaders such as Frontera's Rick Bayless and One Off Hospitality's Paul Kahan (both past recipients of FamilyFarmed's Good Food Chef of the Year Award); and engage with more than 150 farmer, food business, and nonprofit exhibitors.

His family, too: members of his own gene pool think breastfeeding in public is gross.

«As a public official spending taxpayer money, (Murdock has) learned a tremendous amount of information through his role as a public official, and now he's seeking to utilize that information to operate, to submit a bid, and I think he owes a huge explanation to the people of Wilmette,» said Beth Beucher, a Harbor Association member.

Many members of the public, however, probably thought to themselves: «Yes, but no one really needs a gun.»

We hope that these efforts will help members of the public make up their own mind about what they think about animal research.

• Policymakers at all levels, from local to national • Civil servants, public affairs professionals, campaigners and senior journalists from all of Britain's newspapers and broadcasters • Politically interested members of the public (ABC1 adults and millennials)- think regular watchers of Newsnight and Question Time • Academics and students.

Members of the public interviewed by the Hansard Society were not impressed with what they saw: 67 % of respondents said that there was «too much party political point - scoring instead of answering the question» and 47 % thought PMQs «is too noisy and aggressive».

During the mayoral campaign, a message that I heard regularly from members of the public was that they thought all politicians were the same, regardless of their party.

Members of the public, and the armed forces, offer their thoughts and feelings before and after the two - minute Armistice Day silence:

Even for those not surprised, there is still a desire to see and hear de Blasio think through whether as mayor, and at the top of the chain of command, he should react differently than he would as a council member or public advocate.

(I think this is unprecedented, and it's unlikely to go down well - ordinary members of the public sitting on a Commons committee...)

She signed a public letter to the party's general secretary, saying: «We are concerned about the recent suspensions of committed Labour party members for alleged anti-Semitism which undermines serious discussion and thinking.»

As an example of such thinking, he cited the former leader of the State Senate who instructed his members to deliver their public disclosure forms by hand rather than mailing them so as to avoid any possible federal mail fraud charges — the unspoken assumption being that lawmakers might have lied on those forms.

«Let's get to the truth about what happened but I think it has been an extraordinary development to find a police officer apparently posing as a member of the public, pretending to have been outside Downing Street at the time and then trying to blacken the name of a Cabinet minister.»

«Of course countries have got to make difficult decisions about their own public finances... but it's the open speculation from some members in the eurozone about the future of some countries in the eurozone which I think is doing real damage across the whole European economy.&raquOf course countries have got to make difficult decisions about their own public finances... but it's the open speculation from some members in the eurozone about the future of some countries in the eurozone which I think is doing real damage across the whole European economy.&raquof some countries in the eurozone which I think is doing real damage across the whole European economy.»

He serves on the international advisory board of the Washington DC based think tank the Wilson Center and is a member of the Global Advisory Council of the Harvard Kennedy School's Centre for Public Leadership.

Do I think that it would be a good idea if parliament delivered a House of Lords that had people who were elected by you — the members of the public — to pass the laws that we all have to live by?

«I think it's fair to say that I'm running for office, no other member of my family is running for office, and I think the public's going to judge me, not who else is with me or not with me,» Spitzer told a gaggle of reporters, including representatives from CNN affiliate NY1 and the New York Post.

But on immigration 60 % of the general public think it is a major issue, 46 % of Labour voters do, just 17 % of Labour members do; 78 % of Labour party members think immigration is good for the economy, only 41 % of Labour voters do, only 29 % of the general public.

However, the NDC, which had alienated almost all their experienced and founding strategic and tactical thinking members just could not think very deeply of the consequences of their three appointees fighting each other in public at the Commission.

It is thought up to 250,000 members of the Public and Commercial Services union (PCS) will join the walkout, which will hit job centres, border control at airports, tax offices and courts.

It stated, «Characterising IPOB as a terrorist organisation will likely incite hatred and antagonism against its members, and instigate security and law enforcement agencies to launch and inflict violence against them, while conditioning some members of the public to think that all members of IPOB are indeed defined by that characterisation.

Supervisor Sheila M. Meegan said members of the public have spoken clearly that they do not think the Town Board is communicating with them.

Minklei thinks more business was done out of the public light with two board members not constrained by the state's Open Meetings Law like they are with a smaller board.

A public member of the committee, Seward Park Co-op resident Karen Blatt, did share (via email) her thoughts on SPURA.

I shouldn't have thought many members of the public would even have heard of Heidi Allen or Tom Tugendhat.

The panel consisted of Senators David Carlucci, Jeff Klein and Diane Savino, who consulted members of public interest groups, think tanks and other nonpartisan organizations on the impact of a campaign finance reform package proposed by members of the legislature's Independent Democratic Conference.

But really, if we're going to be honest, as scientists, if a member of the public asks us what is the meaning of our most basic theory of physics, I think we all have to say we don't know.»

«To eliminate malaria, we've got to start thinking about transmission,» says team member Caroline Buckee of the Harvard School of Public Health in Boston.

Because scientists are often perceived as a freewheeling and cavalier community who are exempt from societal rules, many members of the public (many researchers, too...) think that the conduct of scientists can best be kept in check by the implementation of oaths.

He believes that members of the public are able to think beyond their personal experience — «People are not irrational about this,» he says.

Like the required - viewing slide show, the home movie is, and I think we are all agreed on this, of limited interest to family members, much less the general public.

Members of the public are evenly divided in their thinking about the influence of teachers unions: 37 % say they have «a generally positive effect on schools,» while 37 % say they have «a generally negative effect.»

Education historian William Cutler explains in Parents and Schools that «educators and most school board members prefer to think of the parent - teacher association as an extension of the educational establishment, «an auxiliary to the public school,» as the Los Angeles County Board of Education put it in 1908.»

According to the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), which administers NAEP, the determination of proficiency in any given subject at a particular grade level «was the result of a comprehensive national process [which took into account]... what hundreds of educators, curriculum experts, policymakers, and members of the general public thought the assessment should test.

Just as per pupil spending is much higher than people think, so is the average teacher paid much better than members of the public estimate.