Sentences with phrase «of public support for»

This work resulted in a Core Story of Early Childhood Development, which is used extensively in the U.S. by groups who want to broaden the public discourse around children's development and who want to communicate the value - added of public support for such issues.

For example, a recent poll from Kaiser Family Foundation shows that 75 % of the public support for federal funding of Planned Parenthood, including majority support from Republican men and women.»

An underlying question for participants was how much racism, at an institutional level and in the high levels of public support for tough approaches to asylum seekers, has to do with the treatment of children in immigration detention and if it helps in advocacy to raise racism as an issue.

Following several public allegations against US Actor Kevin Spacey, the public is in uproar about sexual assault being swept under the carpet, about celebrity reactions to accusations, about the lack of public support for victims, but also about the press's forceful reporting of allegations as if proven fact.

Following several public allegations against US Actor Kevin Spacey, the public is in uproar about sexual assault being swept under the carpet, about celebrity reactions to accusations, about the lack of public support for victims, but also about the press's forceful reporting of allegations as if...

'» Regarding the Court's endorsement of the separation of church and state, yet its approval of public support for transportation to parochial schools, Jackson observed, «The case which irresistibly comes to mind as the most fitting precedent is that of Julia who, according to Byron's reports, «whispering, «I will ne'er consent,» consented.

«A central issue will be whether loss and damage continues to fall within adaptation or whether it becomes a separate, third pillar (alongside adaption and mitigation), which we believe would lead the [United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change] UNFCCC to focus increasingly on blame and liability, which in turn would be counterproductive from the standpoint of public support for the convention,» the document adds.

The bill had died, but by 2007, the Rivera Herrera and the coalition had built a formidable amount of public support for the protection of the corridor.

The latter being unable to make the case to the public, Friends of the Earth were tasked with not only drafting much of the bill in both its 2005 and 2007 forms, but mobilising a charade of public support for it, involving the usual suspects in a «Web March» — a virtual protest in which video clips of green activists and celebrities were uploaded to Youtube.

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This is the kind of public support for emerging technologies and private sector entrepreneurs that gave birth to everything from jet engines to the Internet, microchips to GPS, and countless biomedical and agricultural innovations, each of which fueled American economic growth and prosperity.

Since the release of the scientific report in February 2015, there has been an outpouring of public support for its sustainability recommendations including:

Most important, though, is the groundswell of public support for clean energy and action on climate.

Among the most significant sources of public support for fossil fuel investments, ECAs provide government - backed guarantees, insurance, credits, and loans to support the export of goods and services abroad.

There has been no shortage of public support for unfreezing Ohio's clean energy standards, but behind the scenes, fossil fuel and utility interests have been using money to influence the debate in Columbus.

Another inconvenient truth is that there is a fair degree of public support for moderating greenhouse gas emissions providing the costs are inconsequential.

This is especially likely given the House investigation into the matter, the EPA vs. Mass Supreme Court, and California Federal Court, cases last year, as well as the sheer force of public support for efficiency measures.

After an outpouring of public support for each organization and over 22,000 votes over the past two months, we tallied the final count and announced the finalists of the TruGiving Member Donation Program.

The recommendation is based on aggregate evaluation data generated during the application process, considering the following key elements: (1) the quality of the proposed program as measured against the criteria contained in the charter school application; (2) the substantive issues surrounding the overall feasibility and reasonableness of the application in terms of the likelihood of the opening and operation of a successful, high quality public school; (3) the degree of public support for the proposed school; and (4) the CSDE's recommendation that the SBE give preference to the applicant due to its commitment to: (a) serving students who receive free or reduced price lunch; (b) partnering with FamilyUrban Schools of Excellence, Inc., an organization with a record of operating high - quality public schools in Connecticut; (c) serving students from the Dixwell / Newhallville community, an underserved, high - need area of New Haven; and (d) operating in New Haven, a Priority School District.

The worst is the effect on teachers and the teaching profession: the erosion of public support for them and their work, the image of teachers as under attack from every quarter, the plummeting applications to teachers colleges, the flight of teachers from schools serving disadvantaged students and from the profession generally, the fall in teachers» salaries relative to those of others and the attacks on their benefits.

The most significant change in the state over his tenure, he said, is the level of public support for schools after years of state funding cuts, which can be seen in the record amounts of spending through school referendums.

Even readers who question the long - run wisdom of creating charter schools and of public support for private purposes will have difficulty putting this book down.

The results of the poll suggest there isn't a huge amount of public support for the idea, but responses were mixed.

Public Opinion A YouGov poll found that only 38 per cent of people believe the government should build more grammar schools and encourage more schools to select on academic ability, which suggests there isn't a huge amount of public support for the idea.

The true test of the Common Core State Standards Initiative, and of public support for it, will come over the next few years, as states carry through with their implementation plans (see Figure 2).

The fact that these ordinary patients are prepared to donate their own unused eggs towards this research is an example of the high level of public support for medical stem cell research.

Although it may be counterintuitive that Apollo 8, rather than the moon landing seven months later, should mark the high point of public support for the space program, McCurdy sees some reasons for this.

«Two years after the tragedy in Newtown, our study of public support for two dozen specific gun policies found a large majority of Americans continue to favor a range of gun - safety policies,» says lead study author Colleen Barry, PhD, MPP, an associate professor at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

Candidates for elected office have also been accused of astroturfing to create the illusion of public support for a cause or a campaign.

The Fawcett Society, a women's rights group which actively supports the new measures, released a poll today conducted by Ipsos Mori on which showed high levels of public support for the plans.

Jimmy McMillan, the whiskered political showman who became a viral Internet star when he ran for governor of New York in 2010 as a candidate of the Rent Is Too Damn High Party, has announced his retirement from the political arena, citing a lack of public support for his agenda.

The latest depicts rainbows sprouting over the Capitol building in Albany and Obama collecting money from LGBT donors, who breath fire of complaints for his lack of public support for same - sex marriage.

Otherwise the level of public support for change will not be secured.

However, in recent years, as both the ICE and NEF reports recognise, the six main forms of public support for bus services have all been cut or have shrunk in real terms.

A standing - room - only crowd that spilled over into the hallway descended on East Hampton Town Hall last Thursday night to demonstrate the strength of public support for beach - access rights, and to ask the board to...

The huge show of public support for NOTA that this provoked compelled the PCRC to recommend in its final report (published 05/02/15) that the next government consult before May 2016 solely on inclusion of NOTA on ballot papers.

While the point regarding the necessity of public support for intervention appears intrinsically persuasive, it was uncertain how such support is to be measured or indeed to what extent the support is informed.

Reproductive rights groups are ramping up their own attacks on Senate Republican incumbents who oppose the WEA, claiming the conference's refusal to allow the legislation on the chamber floor for a vote flies in the face of public support for legal abortion.

There is a lot of public support for the policies that UKIP advocate and emphasise.

The power of agenda setters to manipulate the outcome of referendums helps to explain a frequently observed paradox of referendum voting: high levels of public support for general change frequently don't translate into support for specific change.

There are high levels of public support for this move, with a recent opinion poll citing 77 % support for a lower legal limit.

Early polls suggested that there was a surprising level of public support for the strike, with a Channel 4 poll showing 77 % backed the action and 23 % opposed it.

«Due to the perceived lack of public support for road pricing, any scheme must also provide significant improvements in the capacity and quality of viable alternative travel by public transport.»

Since opening, there's been a ton of public support for Toronto, which does make sense — they played an incredibly entertaining last match against Montreal to advance, and they also have home - field advantage in the title game.

A fearless prediction: Given fan complaints about overpaid athletes, a groundswell of public support for excluding jocks from such a measure isn't very likely.

Seeing this level of public support for the Cardinals is quite surprising.

There's been plenty of public support for Borg though, garnering 40 % of betting tickets and 62 % of money.

This season has seen historically high levels of public support for AL teams during interleague play, and contrarian bettors can exploit this tendency by backing NL ball clubs.

This huge groundswell of public support for an end to this cruel trade sparked a flood of media reports from news outlets including Channel 7, Sky News, Channel 9, ABC, SBS, the Sydney Morning Herald, The Courier - Mail, The Hobart Mercury, The Adelaide Advertiser and The Daily Telegraph.