Sentences with phrase «public attitudes toward»

If people are afraid of anti-gay violence, it's because they're reading headlines to the effect that anti-gay hate crimes have doubled (which may, of course, reflect increased reporting rather than increasing crime — is it likely that as public attitudes toward gays and lesbians become more tolerant, reporting would increase?)

Since 2013, Lake Research Partners has conducted opinion research for Voices for Civil Justice about public attitudes toward civil legal aid and civil justice reform.

Although 82.4 % of respondents agreed or strongly agreed that the number of people who identify as polyamorous is increasing and 80.9 % agreed or strongly agreed that the number of people who are openly involved in polyamorous relationships is increasing, respondents had mixed, and generally negative, views about public attitudes toward polyamory, see Figure 14.

An article in the OBA magazine introducing Why I Went to Law School notes: «This is a campaign borne out of research the OBA conducted on public attitudes toward lawyers.

Since 2014, the National Center for State Courts has published an annual public opinion survey — The State of the State Courts — designed to track public attitudes toward our state courts.

1999 John Immerwahr, Waiting for a Signal: Public Attitudes toward Globahttp: / / www.ipcc.ch/pub/reports.html Warming, the Environment and Geophysical Research.

The Ceres poll, conducted by Hart Research Associates and the GS Strategy Group, focuses on public attitudes toward the EPA in general, and then on two proposed rules that would would prevent different kinds of pollution.

Academic studies are providing new insights into the human - animal bond, while opinion surveys reveal trends in public attitudes toward spay / neuter and other pet - related issues.

The poll, the organization's 49th annual national survey of public attitudes toward education, drew responses from 1,588 adults, with a margin of error of plus or minus 5 percentage points for the full sample.

«Most Americans misunderstand charter schools,» was the finding of the 2014 PDK / Gallup poll on public attitudes toward education.

In his 10 years as president of the Carnegie Corporation of New York from 1955 - 65, during his tenure as Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare in the Johnson Administration, and recently, as chairman of Common Cause and Independent Sector, Mr. Gardner has developed a keen perception of shifts in public attitudes toward major social issues.

Howell and West also studied the affects on public attitudes toward charter schools when accurate information is made available.

A handful of national surveys released each year focus on education, including the Phi Delta Kappa / Gallup poll about public attitudes toward education and MetLife's annual survey of teachers.

The PDK / Gallup poll on public attitudes toward education is published each September.

Here's a look at three different measures of public attitudes toward public education.

Does ignorance about these factual matters bear on public attitudes toward school spending?

Shifting public attitudes toward marriage, hard economic times and changing The Tuesday after our wedding, Ben and I had left the frigid Midwest behind and were more than ready to board our cruise ship in Long Beach, California.

Public attitudes toward online dating have become more positive in recent years, but many users also report negative experiences.

«Public attitudes toward online dating have become more positive in recent years,» researchers explained.

(The company also collected additional information, including public attitudes toward different animal species and current rules regarding their use.)

► «The National Science Foundation (NSF) is... rethinking Science and Engineering Indicators — the agency's massive biennial statistical bible covering everything from spending on research and education to regional development, trade, and public attitudes toward science,» Jeffrey Mervis reported late Wednesday.

The section, which was part of the unedited chapter on public attitudes toward science and technology, notes that 45 % of Americans in 2008 answered true to the statement, «Human beings, as we know them today, developed from earlier species of animals.»

Lo says he didn't worry about negative public attitudes toward immigrants when he came in 2011 from Hong Kong, China, to work with Fauchet, then at the University of Rochester in New York.

«Parents» reasons for not vaccinating children influence public attitudes toward them.»

The 72 - question survey asked for demographic information, as well as why respondents had marched and what they thought about government policies and public attitudes toward science.

It is important everyone understand that while public attitudes toward Congress remain in the toilet, they continue to hold the opinions of military leaders in high regard.

Only if we can compellingly witness to our religious convictions about life, suffering and death will we be able to shape public attitudes toward death.

Pew's Forum on Religion and Public Life has released the latest version of its periodic survey of public attitudes toward various professions in America.

This development follows a recent shift in the British government's public attitude toward cryptocurrency.

Not exact matches

The American public's attitude toward government, especially toward the federal government, recalls a classic scene in Monty Python's «Life of Brian.»

Less than a year after making public his concept for a «Hyperloop» high - speed transportation system — essentially saying, «have at it, developers» — the erstwhile PayPal co-founder, current CEO of Tesla Motors and SpaceX, and general poster boy for successful geeky entrepreneurs has made another bold declaration of his laissez - faire attitude toward intellectual property.

«We are funded by public budgets, and we have to be respectful of these public budgets in our attitude toward energy.»

However, we still think it's important for the animal movement to target some outreach toward individuals, as a shift in public attitudes could lead to more institutional change.

I wonder if these results from the recent Pew poll of attitudes toward religion in public life don't foretell a real change, however partial, however qualified by any number of other factors.

What is your attitude toward the theory of evolution, and do you believe it should be taught in public schools?

For most Christians, and especially for the evangelical Protestants now increasingly prominent in our public life, the attitude toward Jews and Judaism is entirely benign.

After the issue was decided by this public Jerusalem Conference, it would have been well nigh impossible for James to take the restrictive Jewish attitude he did toward the Christian gentiles in Antioch (Gal.

The Public Square Rapidly changing attitudes toward Christian ministry reflect a cultural incursion into the life of the churches that is getting mixed reviews.

While the American Republic had no established church, the American state took a positive and benign attitude toward the full, free, and quite visibly public exercise of religion, not least at major state functions and national celebrations.

What is not «comparable» is our attitude toward royalty or others of public importance.

The Public Religion Research Institute has just released a survey about American attitudes toward Christmas.

Further, with the exception of attitudes toward abortion, there is evidence that general public opinion is not polarizing at all.

We have witnessed, within our own lifetimes, the legal battle to nullify state laws against miscegenation and the gradual change in social attitudes toward toleration and even acceptance of interracial couples in public.

We must however go deeper into what is specifically a biblical attitude toward property, both public property and private property, in order to examine the Commandment «You shall not steal» in a macroethical setting.

Another facet of the Christian's problematic relationship to the public - order - and - safety issue may be found in our conscious or unconscious acceptance of the popular liberal attitude toward history.

At several points he touches upon the paradoxes of modern urbanism and the tragic ironies of our cultural attitude toward cities: although we now have more individual freedom, technical ability, and, arguably, social equity, we do not live in places as hospitable to human beings as were our cities of the past; we are pragmatists who build shoddily; our current obsession with historic preservation is the flip side of our utter lack of confidence in our ability to build well; while cultures with shared ascetic ideals and transcendent orientation built great cities and produced great landscapes, modern culture's expressive ideals, dogmatic public secularism, and privatized religiosity produce for us, even with our vast wealth, only private luxury, a spoiled countryside, and a public realm that is both venal and incoherent; above all, we simultaneously idolize nature and ruin it.

As an institution, marriage is ordered toward public recognition, which makes its redefinition something different and more threatening than the general attitude of license.

A sense of the changed attitude toward sport — not only among students but among a large, variegated public — can be found in a recent play, The Great White Hope, by Howard Sackler.

«We're hoping the results of this survey will draw attention to the public's need to change its attitudes toward tanning, which is the first step in changing behavior,» said Dr. James.

The negative attitude toward public breastfeeding is a cornerstone of low breastfeeding rates and a basis of our persistently formula feeding culture.