Sentences with phrase «now widespread interest»
Back in 1975 when Peter Berger and I wrote To Empower People, the little book that is credited (or blamed) for launching the now widespread interest in the role of «mediating institutions» in civil society, we proposed a «minimal proposition» and a «maximal proposition.»
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Archaeology has now largely outgrown this primary interest, but there is no doubt that it played an important part as an incentive to widespread digging in the Babylonian and Assyrian area.
It is an interesting proposal — though it would achieve nothing now that the coalition deal has scuppered widespread left - leaning support for reform.
Now, following widespread interest from Conservative MPs at the party's conference, it is hoped that a new campaign group will be up and running within a few months.
But interest in them has recently become more widespread, says physicist David Vitali of the University of Camerino in Italy, «sparked by the fact that technological advances now make fundamental tests of quantum mechanics much easier to conceive.»
By demonstrating achromatic lenses we have now made a major step forward towards widespread future application of flat optics that will certainly attract the interest of the industry,» said lead author Francesco Aieta, now employed by Hewlett Packard, who conducted the research at Harvard SEAS.
In our 2013 survey we repeated several of these questions and found that a number of them — such as flirting, looking up past love interests, and researching prospective partners — are now significantly more widespread than they were eight years ago.
Simon Tovey, Head of the New Now Sale in London, said: «Shara Hughes attracted widespread interest from nine phone bidders, as well as interest in the room and online.
But, now that this battle has been won, it faces a tricky problem: how can it sustain widespread interest when it no longer feels appropriate to describe the work that is shortlisted each year as «shocking» or «controversial»?
A major problem with the Western diet is its widespread dependence on convenience foods and, since producers have caught on to people's growing interest in healthy eating, there are now countless healthy descriptions to make foods more appealing.
Coinbase user numbers now exceed the number Schwab brokerage accounts, indicating widespread interest.