Sentences with phrase «public controversy surrounding»

However, public controversy surrounding National Endowment of the Arts funding art led to its cancellation.

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There are also controversies and ethical considerations surrounding the means used by public campaigns which attempt to increase breastfeeding rates, relating to pressure put on women, and potential feeling of guilt and shame of women who fail to breastfeed; and social condemnation of women who use formula.

Whether you are a breastfeeding mother or are planning to be, you've surely heard the controversy surrounding breastfeeding in public.

Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver said in a statement released this afternoon that he would «welcome» an investigation by the Joint Commission on Public Ethics over the growing controversy surrounding the $ 103,000 settlement to a woman who alleged she was sexually harassed by Assemblyman Vito Lopez.

Weimer notified organizers that he felt it would have been inappropriate for him to make a public appearance at this time, given the controversy surrounding the district.

Members of the House of Representatives, Wednesday morning postponed the rescheduled public hearing to look at the controversy surrounding the prevention of a University of Ilorin...

It has received considerable public attention in recent years with the return of injured soldiers and the demand for prosthetic devices and with controversies surrounding the use of performance enhancing drugs in sports.

But a pair of astronomers are now putting the question of what defines a galaxy to a public vote, in the hope of reaching a consensus and avoiding the sort of controversy that surrounded Pluto being stripped of its status as a planet.

Pidgeon thinks that the public's belief in climate change will rebound now that the media frenzy surrounding the recent controversies has come to an end.

Dr Greene said: «Increasing scientific and public understanding of the causes of false memory is an important goal, particularly in light of some of the more negative consequences associated with the phenomenon, including faulty eyewitness accounts and the controversies surrounding false memories of traumatic childhood events.

In Japan, which unlike the United States has had several outbreaks of H5N1 in birds, «not much» controversy has surrounded this study, he said, as «the public has concerns about a genuine risk that exists in nature rather than a potential risk by bioterrorism.»

The field of Astrobiology saw a resurgence due to the controversy surrounding the possible fossil life in the ALH84001 meteorite, and from the outsized public response to this announcement, and subsequent interest from Congress and the White House, NASA's Astrobiology Program (https://astrobiology.nasa.gov/) and one of its major programs, the NASA Astrobiology Institute (https://nai.nasa.gov/) were formed.

Given the controversy surrounding all proposals to establish a uniform national standard, it is noteworthy that nearly three - quarters of the American public support the concept (Q. 2).

As reflected by the recent controversy of child pornography involving under - aged students in at least 70 public and private schools throughout Australia, the increased rate at which the use, and misuse, of technology in schools has generated a multitude of new legal issues surrounding the use of social and other digital media that most could not have anticipated a few short years ago.

Spin Cycle: How Research Gets Used in Policy Debates: The Case of Charter Schools (Russell Sage Foundation, 2008) focuses on the controversy surrounding the charter school study by the American Federation of Teachers and its implications for understanding politics, politicization, and the use of research to inform public discourse; it won the American Educational Research Association's Outstanding Book Award in 2010.

Along with the significant backlash that the early draft of what became the Great Public Schools Now plan received, it proves that no charter network, regardless of how successful their students become, is going to quietly grow without finding itself embroiled in political controversy surrounding charters.

One of the more noteworthy controversies surrounding charter schools occurred here in Connecticut when Jumoke Academy came under investigation for misuse of public funds and it was revealed that the company's CEO didn't have the academic degree he claimed but was living the high - life in a brownstone purchased and renovated by the charter school company.

«To listen to the leaders of the leaders of Connecticut public schools, the controversy surrounding the Common Core State Standards is merely a misunderstanding that will be clarified once the standards are adopted.

Rapp has become a controversial figure in recent months following controversy surrounding her public opinions on child pornography and pedophilia and her involvement in the Fire Emblem Fates censorship localization.

Signed by artists Loris Gréaud and Valerie Bélin, Palais de Tokyo cofounder Jérôme Sans, Galerie Art Concept director Olivier Antoine, Galerie Lelong president Jean Frémon, and Galerie Max Hetzler senior director Samia Saouma, the letter places the controversy surrounding the Koons monument within a history of debates over public art works throughout the French capital.

Rankine's institute hosted a public forum at the Whitney Museum of Art following the controversy surrounding «Open Casket,» the Dana Schutz painting of Emmett Till in his coffin, that appears in the 2017 Whitney Biennial.

For six months each year, controversy surrounding the shortlisted nominees, the Tate's exhibition of their work, and the ultimate winner can reliably draw the general public attention to contemporary art, and ultimately that is the goal.

That's an attitude that's still everywhere in art, one which many will recognise in the annual controversy surrounding the Turner Prize, when the decisions of a tiny panel of art - world insiders regularly defy public opinion.

-- Joseph Beuys Few topics in the visual arts in recent years have created such controversy as the debate surrounding the significance and potential of public art.

Years later, I understood that the controversy surrounding his public art taught me to pay attention to the site - specific context of my own work.

Few topics in the visual arts in recent years have created such controversy as the debate surrounding the significance and potential of public art.

In fact, Women has been surrounded by controversy as media speculate on Cohen's possible stake, both as a collector and a businessman playing the art market, in the public display of his collection.

In 2011, the public learned of another ethics controversy surrounding Hansen.

The ensuing discussion was a simple proxy of some of the issues I was beginning to see raised in the discussions surrounding climate engineering proposals: controversy around the legality of intentionally changing the atmosphere (on any scale), suspicion of private interest in the name of the public good, confusion regarding the science behind it, unpredictability of the outcomes, or questionable logic of nature conservancy rules, to name a few.

Natural gas use has soared in recent years, but so too has the controversy surrounding the environmental, public health and social impacts of how the fuel is obtained.

Although Invokana and SGLT2 inhibitors are increasingly surrounded by controversy, they are still being marketed to the general public.

The controversy surrounding the political consulting firm Cambridge Analytica's use of personal data harvested from social media accounts without the users» permission is among the first of what likely will be a long series of public debates about how the...

In this way, the comments give nod to the central controversy surrounding Wu — his outspoken antagonism of bitcoin's developer team, and the influence he wields that effectively puts him in a rare position to wage such a public conflict.