Sentences with phrase «public alarm»

It is a matter of public alarm, because of its pervasive, extensive, and expansive nature, causing a cascade of misery in countless lives.

He said state health departments are often cautious, and focus on avoiding public alarm rather than delivering the blunt truth.

Air New Zealand and air safety agencies sounded public alarms last week when a drone had a close call with a landing passenger plane, but none of them called police to find the perpetrator.

Despite the widespread public alarm over the effects of the new tax law's capping of state and local tax deductions at $ 10,000, that tax change had little effect on Schumer and Weinshall and the Gillibrands.

Earlier this month a 17 - year - old Berlin High School student was arrested by the Rensselaer County Sheriff's Office and charged with falsely reporting an incident that created public alarm, a misdemeanor, after allegedly making a threat about school shootings.

The precautionary principle is a weak argument for two reasons: (1) it is difficult to prove a negative — that there is no effect; (2) it raises unnecessary public alarm and personal anxiety.

I think it's a case of taking a wild hypothesis, building a highly speculative model from it, generating some scary and dramatic predictions for the media, with the * specific * aim of raising public alarm and getting some political action.

Moreover, can Postol explain the fact that, with all the current civil defense measures available in Israel during the 2006 Lebanon war, including public alarm systems and shelters already in place, Hezbollah rockets killed scores of Israelis while the same kinds of rockets now fired by Hamas fail to achieve anywhere near the same degree of lethality?

The state health department has come under intense criticism for its handling of the unfolding Hoosick Falls crisis, including the distribution late last year that also downplayed risks of PFOA exposure after federal regulators pushed for a wider public alarm about the situation.

Public alarm ensured that further studies followed, but the questions still loom almost as large as they did in 1979, according to Tony Barker of the Royal Hallamshire Hospital at the University of Sheffield, who chaired a working party commissioned by the Institution of Electrical Engineers to report on progress to date.

Partly because of the XQ project's upbeat, open approach, the competition was the first major education - grant program in recent years that didn't set off an immediate wave of public alarm from critics.

And, a Hockey Stick is now famous as a symbol of temperature data manipulated to generate public alarm.

We should not forget that apple juice is a useful source of vitamin C, and no good public purpose whatever is served by creating quite unnecessary public alarm and confusion.»

Cypriot President Nicos Anastasiades refrained from direct comment on Erdogan's statements, but said Turkish naval activity should cause no public alarm.

New York state law prohibits making «gratuitous reports to law enforcement,» in circumstances where the false report would result in «public alarm,» Banks wrote.

The Cuomo administration resisted sounding a public alarm even though federal regulators warned senior health department officials that people in Hoosick Falls should be alerted they were drinking water that contained dangerous levels of a chemical linked to cancer and other serious health problems, according to documents recently obtained by POLITICO New York through a Freedom of Information Request.

To cheers from local residents, McLaughlin pressed Zucker on whether he would let his own mother drink Hoosick Falls water for 18 months, as the state did before sounding a public alarm.

As POLITICO New York reported in June, the Cuomo administration resisted sounding a public alarm over the water pollution crisis in Hoosick Falls, even though federal regulators warned senior DOH officials that residents of the town should be alerted that they were drinking water that contained dangerous levels of PFOA, a chemical that has been linked to cancer and other serious health problems.

The paper included five paragraphs on «blight and public alarm» and said: «The government takes the view that, in all but the very short term, it is better for everyone concerned to be aware of the possible contamination so that appropriate investigations can be carried out on a basis of knowledge.»

It added that the experience of those local authorities that have addressed the problem «suggests that the best response to public alarm and media interest is a policy of openness and cooperation... Clear information helps to avoid the spread of uncertainty and unfounded rumours.»

He discovered that, far from being based on any findings, the public alarm had no scientific basis whatsoever.

That would be too great an admission against interest for an organization whose prestige, influence, and perks utterly depend on keeping the public alarmed about climate change.

Perhaps... public alarm will only be generated by manifest change, or a threat of it, such as a rise in the sea level.»