Sentences with phrase «pressing public problems»

Yasmin's career has focused on helping organizations solve pressing public problems in creative ways, along with working at the intersection of human - centered design, innovation, audience engagement, and change management.

We believe education reform is the most pressing public problem facing Mississippians.

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The question of Catholic institutions like Notre Dame — their odd relation to the Church and their peculiar relation to the nation — is already pressing on us, and it requires no great leap to predict that, over the next decade, this question will dominate the public stage as the central Catholic problem of our time: the locus of media attention and the flashpoint for the arguments of Catholics with one another.

It might be supposed that we could turn to the schools, since the task of the schools is constantly being enlarged, but the very nature of the modern school precludes this, as we have already noted in Chapter I. (For a careful and scholarly study of this problem see Alvin W. Johnson, The Legal Status of Church - State Relationships in the United States with Special Reference to the Public Schools, University of Minnesota Press, 1934.)

One major problem of the American social and political system is the failure of the press, especially television news, to inform the public about the true breadth of the unconstitutional activities of the executive branch.

More recently, the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) established a Committee on the Social Aspects of Science, whose 1956 report spoke of «the pressing need that scientists concern themselves with social action» and urged scientific organizations to abandon their traditional isolation from public problems.

Comparison with the US is a problem, however - the justice system in the Netherlands is well - known to be rather lenient (A recent media event was the public apology by the Dutch IOC member Camiel Eurlings for domestic violence - the justice department decided not to press charges because he was doing volunteer work!).

In a Daily News OpEd, Queens Sen. Tony Avella (a onetime NYC mayoral candidate) calls de Blasio's new HomeStat plan «nothing but a press - release gimmick; a pointless publicity stunt to flip public opinion that has found him unable to admit, much less reverse, the increasing homelessness problem.»

Sixty - one percent of Americans think climate change is a problem that the government needs to address, including 43 percent of Republicans and 80 percent of Democrats, according to a new survey from the Energy Policy Institute at the University of Chicago (EPIC) and The Associated Press - NORC Center for Public Affairs Research.

Building cities in a way that slows vehicle demand while delivering high accessibility could prove to be a low - cost option for curbing greenhouse gas emissions, as well as a solution to pressing problems for policymakers like local air pollution and poor public health.

«But to solve the pressing problems that require public acceptance of well - established science — from global warming to vaccinations to the increasing overuse of antibiotics — scientists must indeed inspire more public faith in their methods and their mutually enforced trustworthiness.»

4) Much - travelled food «Among the most pressing public health problems in the U.S. today are obesity, environmental degradation and health disparities,» said Alice Ammerman, director of the U.N.C. Center for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention.

It strives to suggest an approach informed by the experiences of democratic societies with different norms and legal cultures; one that harnesses the strengths and capabilities of the public and the private sectors in offering practical solutions to pressing problems.

Statewide public preschool, advocates say, could solve these and dozens of other pressing problems in education.

It's a 100 percent solution to the most pressing problems in public school funding — and it's called Weighted Student Funding.

Forty - six percent of voters in a poll conducted by Stanford and the Associated Press last September said teachers» unions deserved either «a great deal» or «a lot» of blame for the problems of public schools.

Claims about a lack of accountability in charter public schools have been a topic in the news recently since the Detroit Free Press did a series on what it determined were problems with some charter public schools.

Battlefront 2's progression system - indelibly tied to the opening of loot crates - was widely identified as a problem back during the game's press preview and public beta phase.

The public are being kept in the dark by the press in Australia by non reporting of the environmental problems that are being shut down by politicians.»

The problem as I see it is that there are many more pressing needs in most developing countries: water and sanitation, (which are probably the foremost welfare sectors); and infrastructure for primary education and highway building, (which are probably the highest public - sector income - generating investments).

«The most pressing problem right now is public perception of the risk of nuclear power,» University of Pennsylvania professor Dr. Reto Gieré, who involved in the research, said in a statement.

The ideological dimension was also stressed by conservative think tanks (the Cato Institute, Competitive Enterprise Institute, Heritage Foundation, Hoover Institution, etc.) which increasingly sponsored pamphlets, press releases, public lectures and so forth, arguing that global warming was not really a problem at all.

He prefers to be opaque close mouthed about it by preference, vague and contradictory if pressed — and willing to say the problem is real and needs to be addressed if that is necessary to dodge the open, public debate that might get out of the bounds that allow him to act so ruthlessly against climate action.

Besser, who met with the president yesterday at Howard University's Health Sciences Simulation Lab, asked the president why people should care about the impact of climate change on public health when there are so many other pressing health problems.

However, it seems to me that the public interest aspect of John Quiggin's article in the public press (AFR) is that he disentangles the political debate from the scientific basis for a practical economic policy problem.

With those doubts neatly planted in the press, the public shrugs, politicians push the problem off to another day, and ExxonMobil parries new fossil - fuel regulations, earning more windfall profits in exchange for a pittance to the skeptics and their work.

The House of Lords recognised that the issue in this case was a matter of general public interest and Lord Hope noted that the problem «has become an increasingly pressing social problem, as house prices rise and more and more people are living together without getting married or entering into a civil partnership».

Therefore treasurers and presidents of law societies should not make public statements and issue press releases that criticize governments for not funding Legal Aid better (see, e.g., Law Society of Upper Canada press release of Feb. 5, 2007) when in fact it is the membership of those law societies who cause the problem that makes adequately funding Legal Aid organizations impolitic.

Therein lies another problem that she thinks cameras would solve — the lack of space in many courts for the press and public to attend.

London's Licensed Taxi Drivers Association (LTDA) pressed TfL to reject a full renewal of Uber's license — arguing that its model is unlawful and risks public safety, while also pointing to rising numbers of private hire vehicles (PHV) in London as contributing to the city's congestion and pollution problem.

The BANKEX technical team has recently announced they have developed the world's first private blockchain that supports the Plasma Protocol for public audit which will allow users to transfer different assets directly to each other leaving intermediaries behind and solving one of the most pressing problems of the current crypto world — high gas consumption.

Zilliqa addresses one of the most pressing problems facing public Blockchain platforms: Scalability.

• Five to eight years of experience in public relations, marketing, public affairs, or journalism • Experience with media relations, such as conducting outreach to the press and to influencers • Comfortable with working with senior executives • Strong verbal and written communication skills, including knowledge of social media and media strategies • Problem - solving and critical thinking skills • Undergraduate degree in public relations, marketing, journalism, or equivalent

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Ultimately, these resources are designed to help engage the public in better understanding potential policy directions, and supporting solutions to pressing problems.

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