Sentences with phrase «public assertions did»

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True, Dr. Joycelyn Elders, the Surgeon General, did apologize, in a manner of speaking, for her public assertion that the Catholic Church is indifferent to human suffering except when it comes to the unborn.

They do so partly by tempering the ways in which we think about assertions that frequent the public realm.

«The assertion by the Remain side that we haven't answered these questions is an attempt to suggest into the public's mind the idea that there's something shifty or evasive about our position, when in fact we've been very clear: we don't want to be in the single market, we do want to be in a free trade area.

(p. 222) It does not seem unfair to expect the authors to provide evidence, other than the fact of differentiation, to support these assertions, or to say what is being done in traditional public schools that better prepares students for life in a democratic society.

And overdone assertions, such as «games have the motivational power to help us change the world,» don't mean anything to public officials.

Assertions that the sector has «fulfilled one of its core missions — equity for students — by establishing itself as a primarily urban phenomenon with significant chains of schools that are closing achievement gaps» (Lake, 2013, p. 1) are countered by claims that «charter schools, on average, don't have an academic advantage over traditional public schools, but they do have a significant risk of leading to increased segregation» (Rotberg, 2014, para 2).

The rationale for the expansion effort is based on the report's assertions that charters do a better job of educating children than traditional public schools.

It is troubling when individual works or entire movements are hidden from public view (in some cases for decades), accompanied by denials or implied denials, or by indifference, of the existence of those works; and assertions that imply those works don't exist.

This attack on science and scientists is so serious that all scientist should be disassociating themselves from you unless and until you make a clear public statement that you did not intend to assert to scientists «Say what you feel, not what you can prove» and that you completely and unequivocally reject that assertion.

Contrary to Gordon's assertion, I do not think that having two separate societies has enabled the protection of the public interest; in practice it has more often meant there are two guardians of lawyer privilege rather than just one.