Sentences with phrase «public concern around»

In addition, much of the political heat and public concern around issues like testing, Common Core, and the validity of standardized test scores are greatly diminished at this point — easy jumping - off points for reporters in the past.

Until recently, the dominant focus of public concern around student loans has been simply how much of it there is, and how rapidly it has been growing over time.

All three parties are trying to alleviate public concerns around immigration ahead of an expected influx of Bulgarians and Romanians later this year.

A prototype gadget that sends secret keys to encrypt information passed from a mobile device to a payment terminal, could help to answer public concerns around the security of contactless and wireless transactions, a new Oxford University collaboration has found.

The authors urge policy makers to develop appropriate infrastructure and policies to minimize the risks associated with sharing and integrating health data and help allay public concerns around data privacy and protection thus demonstrating «trustworthiness».

Not exact matches

The Russian public is patriotically rallying around Putin's aggressive foreign policy and setting aside concerns about the economic fallout.

Around 50 children separated from their parents and guardians in the chaos of the Manchester Arena attack were taken to safety by a concerned member of the public.

For many of those engineers that left, there was growing concern around Uber prioritizing demonstrating its self - driving car progress in public, rather than more quietly developing and perfecting that technology until it is completely ready for debut.

Second, concerns about China's political culture / values (especially human rights) and security issues seem to be less of a factor in shaping public hesitancy around a free trade agreement when compared to certain economic considerations.

Canadians also highlighted concerns around digital rights, corporate overreach, democratic accountability, healthcare and public services, the environment, labour issues, and the economy as reasons they opposed the deal.

Cryptocurrency mining attracted lots of public discussion last year, much of which revolved around environmental concerns over the rising amounts of electricity used by mining farms.

The questions about religion and public life, those calling for «public» discussion, no longer focus on the verifiability of religious speech but concern quite other issues: methods of understanding and describing the religious realities, old and new, that we see appearing around us; useful criteria for assessing these religions and for defining and comprehending this new set of powers in our public life; and ways of protecting vital religious groups from the excesses of the public reaction to them, and protecting the public from the excesses of powerful religious groups — hardly questions a secular culture had thought it would have to take seriously!

It is the responsibility not of government to formulate and perpetuate public policy but of the citizenry, who can do so wisely, creatively and effectively only by organizing themselves in voluntary groups around their various shared interests and concerns.

This time around, Murray Goulburn will argue the net public benefits of a merger of WCB and Murray Goulburn outweighs anti-competitive concerns.

Some of the concerns I had were my daughter latching on properly, would I provide enough milk, and breast feeding in public or around family and friends.

Around 50 children separated from their parents and guardians in the chaos of the Manchester Arena attack were taken to safety by a concerned member of the public.

The S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University and other top journalism schools around the country have issued a letter of concern to the nation's largest owner of local television stations, Sinclair Broadcast Group.

Unusually, parts of the inquiry will be held in public, but there are still concerns around how effectively the committee scrutinises intelligence agencies.

«We can't simply say to the public you were wrong... We're not going to do blanket opposition because we've heard all around the country that whilst people have got concerns, particularly about the standard of living for low income families in work, they don't want just... blanket opposition to what the government are proposing on welfare.»

We need to make sure that we are in control over the things that affects us.Anytime there is flood and people loose their life, most of the blame goes to sitting presidents.I am not saying that the central government does not have responsibility to ensure that enabling environment is created.They have a great work to do but as citizens what is our quota?When you move around Accra, sometimes i becomes angry within myself because i am in doubt as to whether our sanitation laws exit.People because of the tax they claim they pay waits for zoom lion workers to come and clean the choked gutters before our houses and shops either than that, it will remain like that.Is it modernity or civilization that has turned us to forget our traditional values or duties of ensuring that our environments is clean?Everybody in our Ghanaian setting knows the responsibility of men and women in making sure that our environments are clean not waiting for flood to occur and we start blaming sitting presidents.To the media, though your responsibility is to keep governments on it toes, you equally have a mandate in educating the public of what we are expected to do as citizens in other to ensure that our dear nation is a better ecosystem for all of us to live.The attention of the media should be shifted from making politicians popular to making us aware as citizens of our responsibilities.I sometimes get confused to hear journalists calling opponents to comment on issues concerning the sitting governments and the only thing that comes to my mind is what do the journalist want to hear from the political opponents?Nothing.They will end up criticizing without giving an alternative.The media should rather resort in questioning people directly to where the problems are coming from.Let us build our institutions.When it comes to energy issues.Citifm will call Hon.KT Hammond who was a deputy minister living who he worked under (His boss at that time) and I always become confused because what can we expect from him?nothing.

Cuomo's stance has a number of advocates concerned that he has abandoned reform efforts because the public has grown numb to the cloud of scandal that hangs around the state capitol - a cloud voters appear to be attaching to the governor in public opinion polls.

When the need arises we meet as frequent as we should be meeting and at such meetings issues of concerns are brought to the fore for discussions, consensus is built around a lot of issues before they are rolled out to the public,» said Dzakpasu.

People around the world were already living longer than ever before, thanks to advances in public health, and concern about global population growth had reached a feverish pitch.

The second part of the sum concerned nonfatal health problems, weighting each on a scale from 0 (perfect health) to 1 (death)-- blindness being worse than deafness, moderate dementia being worse than autism, neck pain being worse than infertility and so on, as rated originally by a panel of experts and now by statistically representative surveys of the general public around the world.

Food4Me researchers studied the key public concerns and commercial, cultural, knowledge and legal issues around personalised nutrition science.

Background: Bovine tuberculosis (bTB), caused by Mycobacterium bovis, is an important livestock disease raising public health and economic concerns around the world.

Osteoporosis is a major public health concern, and as reported by the National Osteoporosis Foundation, in excess of 200 million people around the world are affected by osteoporosis.

if i stuck to it religiously the weight stayed off but people around me expressed concern about me never eating at public gatherings and becoming anorexic.

Boston Globe, 3/15/16 «There's also a perception that public schools around the country don't teach the subject well — a concern that isn't new, according to Jon Star, a professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

They primarily concern the fundamental complexity of turning around the behemoth of public education, as well as the amount of time, sophistication, multitasking, and sustained effort that's needed to cause it to deviate even a little from its traditional course.

There's also a perception that public schools around the country don't teach the subject well — a concern that isn't new, according to Jon Star, a professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

A: A lot of the public discussion around early childhood education stems from our concern with the achievement gap and our knowledge that it appears before the start of formal schooling.

People are talking about many things concerning all this swirling around public education but I think we should be focusing on political power and control.

Principals have to manage, lead, and are held accountable for: common core; technology initiatives; social and emotional learning; referendum initiatives; math implementation; science implementation; special education, community outreach; reading; testing (local and state); effective instruction; transportation; public relations, parent custody issues, residency; student and staff discipline, evaluations; hiring; parent complaints; bullying; safety issues; budgeting; human resources issues; immigration questions / concerns; school safety, visibility in and out of school; championing the never ending requests and demands from the central office (one of the biggest challenges); the constantly increasing demands around social media and communications; and the barrage of emails / texts demanding immediate response 24/7, just to name a few.

While booksellers might be concerned that libraries are straying into commercial territory, it will be worse all around if they are backed into a corner by politicians and a public with high expectations, while not given the resources to deliver on these aspirations.

The dramatic change to the publishing landscape brought about by the mushrooming of self - publishing has led to concerns, with the editor of publishing news site Good e-Reader, Michael Kozlowski, saying there needs to be a debate around what constitutes being an author, because «calling everyone authors who put words on a document and submits them to the public devalues the word so much, it makes it meaningless».

«Oh, I do it basically as a community service, because I volunteered at Athens - Clarke County Animal Control for many years, and they've told me that one of their big problems that there's no public service to pick up cats, but a lot of people have concerns about stray cats around.»

ND: Oh, I do it basically as a community service, because I volunteered at Athens - Clarke County Animal Control for many years, and they've told me that one of their big problems that there's no public service to pick up cats, but a lot of people have concerns about stray cats around.

Marfa Dialogues was co-founded in 2010 by Fairfax Dorn of Ballroom Marfa, a leading contemporary arts center in Far West Texas, and Hamilton Fish of The Public Concern Foundation (PCF), a New York non-profit devoted to the advancement of public education around social and political tPublic Concern Foundation (PCF), a New York non-profit devoted to the advancement of public education around social and political tpublic education around social and political topics.

Notable galleries for 2014 include: Kevin Kavanagh (Dublin), presenting a storytelling series by Sonia Shiel, current ISCP NY artist - in - residence and recipient of Ireland's 2014 Arts Council Project Award; Laura Bulian Gallery (Milan), highlighting career Conceptualist Vyacheslav Akhunov, whose cultural investigations were featured in dOCUMENTA (13) and the 2013 Venice Biennale's Central Asian Pavilion; contemporary Bahamanian art hub Popopstudios (Nassau), spotlighting «everyday» assemblages and mixed - media works by founder John Cox; Frederieke Taylor Gallery (New York), revealing environmental concerns of downtown stalwart Christy Rupp, whose seminal public art projects factored into the 2012 exhibition Come Closer: Art Around the Bowery, 1969 - 1989 at the New Museum; Galerie Heike Strelow (Frankfurt am Main), combining sociopolitical commentary and black humor via Florian Heinke, who curated System of Diplomatic Chaos at Kunstverein Wiesbaden last year; and CONNERSMITH.

Free and open to the public, the exhibition surveys groundbreaking works from around the world that together register one of the most important developments in recent art history: the rise in the last twenty - five years of a renewed sphere of artistic practices that blur the lines between art and everyday life in projects emphasizing political concerns, participation, and forms of dialogue.

Above all, I am very concerned about his conclusion: «It must be below 550ppm but if we can get international agreement and there's public agreement around the world behind action required then that can be ratcheted down to, say, 500.»

While he's best known for his labor work, my interactions with Kheel mainly focused on his concern for the environment, which were centered, locally, around moving people from personal vehicles to public transportation and, at the global scale, building consideration for Earth's ecosystems and climate into economic and social policies.

So everywhere I look around UK I see that AGW is fading away from public concern.

As a result of the significant scientific effort to date, aided by public concern, models simulating climate change have gained considerable skill... There will be many scientific and technical challenges along the way, but the hope is that simulations of the global environment will be able to maximise the number of people around the world who can adapt to, and be protected from the worst impacts of, global warming.

Like the ideological think tanks and Astroturf groups discussed later in this report, these front groups are not interested in educating the public about the large body of science that supports concern that greenhouse gases are threatening people around the world and the ecological systems on which they depend.

There has been real public concern that inappropriately sited onshore wind turbines have been harmful to the local environment and have damaged heritage for miles around.

The alleged «lack of general public awareness around the devastating future consequences implied by climate change» is of course, what has concerned all three major political parties, and thus the government, its departments, The United Nations and its organisations, the European Union and its organisations, NGOs, charities, and of course, all manner of public organisations.

The group of philanthropists who founded the ECF were deeply concerned over the lack of political action and the lack of general public awareness around the devastating future consequences implied by climate change.

Q: Around 2005, the American public became more concerned about climate change, all the way to 2007.