Sentences with phrase «placing public pressure»

Their scores would be published for all to see, placing public pressure on poor performers to improve and encouraging lawyers to send their tests to the highest scoring labs.

Which is why Renner's call to environmentalists to get back to the grassroots and build up public outcry around ACES, and place public pressure on politicians to make the bill substantially stronger, is so important.

Not exact matches

Prior says that «as the aging population starts to jeopardise the sustainability of current healthcare funding it will place increased pressure on both public and private payers to find cheaper, more efficient ways of delivering care, and where possible reduce the need for care in the first place.»

In any kind of hard work (especially work that takes place in public and often under considerable pressure), it is our natural human tendency to attend primarily to our own performance, to our own action, to what we ourselves are doing, to how well we are performing — and, perhaps especially, to how other people think we are doing.

Public debates over farmgate milk prices will take place across Britain over the next couple of weeks, as producers and campaign groups look to maintain pressure on retailers and processors.

Still, more racing and the lack of pressure that comes with the world championship might make for a refreshing change, and could be a good place to try out new things on the public — we don't want a repeat of «elimination qualifying» again!

Who knows what swayed the deciding votes, and public pressure that can be fueled by places like this may be responsible.

If you've ever been a nursing mom in a public place without a pad, you understand that direct pressure can sometimes prevent a let down.

A sizeable campaign to change that institution should be in place: in other words, there should be real evidence of public pressure.

Mr Jackson: The hon. Lady will know that the markets have recognised that the fiscal consolidation that the Government had to put in place as part of a policy of growth in the private sector and consolidation in the public sector has resulted in a lessening of the pressures in the gilt markets, with gilt yields down to 3.53 % since May last year, and every 1 % is # 1 billion of interest payment.

Facin said he wants to keep up the public pressure, to ensure that Hoosick Falls is the place where local graduates like Wysocki, the student who called the situation a «moral imperative,» can return after they finish college.

The message from the Scottish public at the 2015 UK election was that the SNP were best placed to keep up the pressure on the Cameron government to deliver on devolution.

If polls can not meet the challenge, they will be under more public scrutiny and pressure to shut down, and let exit polls take their place.

Chief executive Steve Thomas said: «The financial and service demand pressures being placed on our already fragile local public services mean that there simply will be no other pay offer made to employees.

At the event, Jones, who serves as Franklin County Chairman, introduced his education platform, which includes increasing state aid to public schools and the elimination of the Common Core, which he said places teachers and students in high - pressure environments with «high stakes» testing.

The authors point out that it was pressure from the public that saw smoking banned in public indoor places in the UK, and access to health care granted to all people living with HIV / AIDs in South Africa.

There is increasing pressure in many countries to remove bodies from public displays in museums or from archaeological laboratories in order to repatriate them to their place of origin for reburial.

David Livingston, founder of the One Giant Leap Foundation, which promotes the understanding of space exploration and commerce among the general public, says the SpaceX team was under pressure as the launch took place in what's known as an «instantaneous window».

The most important ones are to meet in a safe, public place, and make sure you're not feeling pressured.

Half heartfelt memoir / half an urgent appeal for the return of civil discourse to the public arena, «Muzzled» persuasively bemoans the pressure placed on pundits nowadays to talk only in sanitized, politically - correct phraseology.

In places with fast - growing enrollments, the independent public schools also eased pressure on facilities and capital budgets.

The consequence — immense pressure from teachers and the public to place a moratorium on accountability — was entirely predictable.

Under this model, the school's funding is based on students» successful completion of their courses, a step that places far more pressure on FLVS to ensure its students» success than exists in traditional public school systems.

At a time when pressure on school places and buildings is increasing, and the public sector is being asked to make more cuts on spending, it is critical that school providers understand current issues on planning if they are to make best use of their built assets, according to Karen Cooksley and Lindsay Garratt from law firm Winckworth Sherwood

Nevertheless, pressure for new, better assessments and for public accountability placed new assessments on a fast track.

«The Charter School Act is an unconstitutional law that impedes the state's progress toward fully funding public education and places even greater pressure on school districts to fill this gap,» the coalition's letter said.

Perhaps most surprising is that prospective teachers would purposely choose to display themselves in the public domain of the Internet placing peer pressure on others, succumbing to peer pressure, exhibiting intolerance of others, and engaging in unadvisable and illegal activities.

However, rates during a slower economy may be lower because of diminished activity and the downward pressure that is often placed on interest rates as the public's demand for investing, borrowing and money generally slows down.

As public awareness grows regarding the cruelty inherent in puppy mills and the pressure that puppy sales place on shelters, there is a welcome trend that is putting the squeeze on commercial breeding operations from both the supply and the demand side of this rotten business.

But with few exceptions (notably Judith Curry, whose blog is the first place I heard of Duarte) who are stubborn enough to speak out against great pressure, this kind of crap is approved and sheltered by the grant - funded research community (and of course mainstream media, mainstream politicians, public educators, etc.).

From face - to - face meetings with top corporate officials, to nonviolent direct actions at corporate headquarters, to banner drops calling out bad actors, to brand jams designed to disrupt the public relations plans of our targets, RAN has placed mounting pressure on these companies and coined the now widely used term «Conflict Palm Oil.»

I'm sure there will be those who scoff at public money (in California, of al places) being spent on expensive solar, but with the twin pressures of climate change and peak oil breathing down our necks, I suspect those regions that invest now in energy capacity for the future will find themselves profoundly grateful in the coming years.

A passive response that calls to the integrity of the media can only lead to a worsened understanding among the public and so a weakened pressure on politicians...» Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place».

The DFC fails to criticize the core goal... which is to give more power to publishers, and its central decision, to reject the Constitution and place the publishers above the users...... Resisting the pressure for additional power for publishers depends on widespread awareness that the reading and listening public are paramount; that copyright exists for users and not vice versa.

He states that civic networks — like large corporations — are transnational in scope, and are therefore well placed to bring public pressure to bear on the private sector.

In this area, the book charts the increasingly significant impact of human rights claims on core features of the judicial review procedure, and the pressure such claims have placed on (what remains of) the procedural distinction between public and private law.

The landmark decision to track well - being follows political pressure from the leader of the main opposition party on the importance of well - being and public concern following a UNICEF report which placed the UK at the bottom of a league for child well - being.

Although many questions remain about whether websites are a «place of public accommodation» under the ADA, including whether a website operator must also have a physical presence to be subject to the law, these cases show that pressure is building on companies to make the information they provide on their websites accessible.