Sentences with phrase «of public mass»

Robert Moses refused to add a rail right of way to all the parkways he built, preventing the affordable expansion of public mass transit.

These changes are important because intimate partner violence is strongly tied to mass shootings: A 2015 report by the Congressional Research Service found more than one fifth of all public mass shootings between 1999 and 2013 were precipitated in part by domestic disputes.

His devotion to the Eucharist, both in his personal celebration of public Masses and in his encyclical on the subject, emphasised its place at the heart of the Faith.

Not exact matches

«Public mass shootings happen at concerts, they happen at movie theaters, and malls, and places of worship.

«We felt that the pizza and pasta being offered to the general public was more of a mass - scaled product,» says Zahedi.

In America, where there have been six mass shootings in the first two months of 2018, finding new ways to prevent gun deaths has not only become a public crisis, but a potent business opportunity.

Ma Jun, who is the director of Beijing - based non-profit organization Institute of Public & Environmental Affairs told CNBC that it's become very difficult for the government to either cover up or use «too much» force to stop mass protests over China's deteriorating environment.

Masses of data about each voter's political tendencies - gathered through public sources and through campaign contact - allowed Obama for America (OFA) to target voters more precisely than ever before.

And the public was ready to pounce: Just 24 hours after Fowler published her post, the Twitter hashtag #DeleteUber had generated almost 5 million more impressions than it did during the weekend of January 27, when masses of people started using it to protest the company's response to a New York taxi strike and CEO Travis Kalanick's (soon to be short - lived) participation in President Donald Trump's tech advisory committee.

The list of companies terminating their partnerships with the National Rifle Association is growing as public outcry against the gun group escalates following the deadliest mass shooting at a public high school in U.S. history.

Corporate America has joined the protest of President Donald Trump's immigration ban after masses around the country took to airports and other public spaces to demonstrate.

I answered the door and was surprised to meet a well - dressed man and woman who introduced themselves as agents of a well - known American federal agency that investigates terrorism, counterintelligence, cybercrime, public corruption, civil rights, organised crime, white - collar crime, violent crime and weapons of mass destruction (and which shall remain unnamed here).

Right from its opening sentence («One of the most salient features of our culture is that there is so much bullshit,») the book's message resonated with a public outraged by a rash of corporate scandals and feeling deceived by the failure of American forces to find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.

Right alongside my admiration for the public school students who have been so articulate and so focused in their advocacy, lies a deep anger and shame for some of the adult behavior on full display: adults creating and perpetuating fake news, doctoring video and pictures; adults pilfering from the holy ground that is the site of a mass killing; and adults attempting to steal the bright shine of these student advocates.

What may have been intended to rally attention for Kanye may actually boost the public perception of Zuckerberg for not playing into mass media hype and shady marketing tactics.

Chariot is a VC and Y Combinator funded startup that invites the public and enterprises to crowdsource new commuter routes then launches a twice - daily service when a critical mass of riders between neighborhoods want a faster and more reliable commute.

Data in the public domain like tweets and social media video is increasingly relied on to make sense of the immediate aftermath of tragedies like mass shootings.

Loeb has since developed a higher - profile strategy — originated by Chapman — of getting the attention of corporate managers he loathed by attaching what they called «letters of mass destruction» to the public filings required by the Securities and Exchange Commission.

The mass exposure, and the clamor for a copy of «Shine» from around the globe, gave the girls their next big idea: releasing the song to the public right before the «March For Our Lives,» which will take place in D.C. later this month.

He is a former Director and Non-Executive Chairman of Imax Corporation, a leading large - screen film projection company, and a former Director of two other public companies: Collins & Aikman Corporation, a $ 2 billion automotive components company, and Maybelline, Inc., a leading mass market cosmetics manufacturer.

The sad truth is that most public schools in the United States already do some sort of mass shooting drill.

Nine out of ten public schools now drill students and teachers to respond to mass shootings, according to the National Center for Education Statistics.

There are growing concerns for the wellbeing of an Orthodox Church leader in Eritrea who hasn't been seen in public since he attended mass at a church last mont...

Nothing is achieved through the media except mass sculpting of public opinion.

They hope that the coin tossing, selfie - taking throngs of tourists, as the frivolous Western public at large, will be given pause, if only briefly, to contemplate the surging pattern of mass murder of Christians purely for reasons of faith, largely by Islamists.

For all that the neoconservatives have said publicly about their vision of American power, a coherent narrative of the development of their policy has been needed, and Dorrien provides that account impressively He reveals that the purported reasons for the Iraq invasion (defending America from weapons of mass destruction and spreading democracy and freedom) were a mere gloss intended for public consumption.

The public face of evangelicalism became most evident in the Billy Graham campaigns, by which the converts made at the mass rallies were redirected back into the denomination of their choice.

For then you separate him out of the abstract mass or public, and he becomes an individual.

The reform of canon law is still far away... in short, there is nothing like a new Pentecost to be noticed, but rather quarrels and alienation among Catholics themselves, new unsolved questions in theology as well as in Christian living on which we had seemed to be agreed before the Council, the continuing silent apostasy of the masses, the rejection of faith, Christian morality and conviction in public life.

With the development of radio and television, which became mass media in a one - way mode, the message interaction on telephones became overshadowed in the mind of the public by the scintillation of media focusing largely on entertainment for mass audiences.

for those that are truely interested in learning how islamphobes are fooling the public into hate (The Norwegian mass murder terrorist was a faithful follower of islamphobic sites), go to loonwatch

Britain does not enjoy his company, he has destroyed our democracy, our once centered BBC, rendered our politicians as corrupt, lied to the public on numerous occasions, denied the British public any say on the E.U, denied us the right to know anything of his secret mass immigration policy's, caused more racism and divide in different forms in communities, turned us into the most watched CCTV state in the world, not to mention the wars.

These studies make it clear that Americans are full of misperceptions about the war and, in particular, about three issues — the link between Iraq and al - Qaeda, the existence of weapons of mass destruction, and the nature of world public opinion.

Religion is the opiate of the masses and a way to control public opinion and thought.

Studies show that Americans are full of misperceptions about the war in Iraq and especially about three issues — the link between Iraqu and al - Qaeda, the existence of weapons of mass destruction, and the nature of world public opinion.

mama - Today public schools teach evolution as a means to species as fact, even though science knows from the Global geological record and Dr. Gould's work that species occur rapidly followin a mass extinction; in violation of the same seperation claus.

As a matter of fact, there seems to be a secular ecumenism developing in the public square, but based upon mass capitulation to pagan values.

The Irish masses have traditionally not taken kindly to Irish modernism's take on Ireland: the plays of John Synge and Sean O'Casey occasionally met with public riots when they premiered at Dublin's Abbey Theater.

This negative reaction to black conservatives by most blacks partly explains the reluctance of the new black conservatives to engage in public debates in the black community, and their contrasting eagerness to do so in the mass media, where a few go so far as to portray themselves as courageous, embattled critics of a black liberal establishment — while their salaries, honorariums and travel expenses are paid by well - endowed conservative foundations and corporations.

Where alarms of mass confusion threaten the public life, schemes are called for.

In the use of the mass media of communication, reverence is manifest in the aim of creating a blessed community, bound together in the truth, through media of public education devoted to the common good rather than to propaganda and profit for the advancement of selfish interests.

What is required is the public regulation of the mass media, by reference to standards of worth, in such a manner as to prevent their arbitrary employment for the advantage of private interests, either through deliberate manipulation or through giving the public what it thinks it wants.

Since television and radio programs, on the other hand, are open to everyone without limitation, it is necessary to maintain a more broadly applicable standard of public propriety than applies to the other forms of mass communication.

They should become major centers of mass communication, carrying on a continuous work of adult education of the public in the letters, sciences, and arts, by printed publications, by motion pictures, and by radio and television broadcasts.

But the publics thus created are not communities of free persons; they are masses of more or less identical psycho - physical objects pushed this way and that by the powerful purveyors of propaganda.

But, lets say the bishop of the local Catholic diocese took a public poll during Sunday mass and asked for a show of hands as to how many of his congregants use an unapproved form of birth control?

Hence the mass media produce a society in which all the people are at least tacitly consulted in the making of decisions of public consequence.

This first conception of the function of publicity is democratic only in the limited and perverse sense that the mass media create and influence whole publics, and that presumably every person is entitled to advance his interests in this way.

In Canada, the Canadian Radio - television and Telecommunications Commission is reasonably responsive to public concerns, and concerned citizens should express their views regarding the growing problem of violence and sexual violence in all of the mass media.

The conclusion to be drawn from Riezler's treatment of public opinion is that true community must be re-established in mass society if that society is to remain a free one which serves the people.