Sentences with phrase «public doubts about»

The report doesn't have much to say about this option, beyond observing that the ramifications for such a move would include public doubts about the competence of new lawyers and renewed scrutiny of the law's self - governing status.

DEBORAH AMOS: And there was another factor in the national debate, a media campaign funded by the energy industry and designed to raise public doubts about global warming.

Powerful funders are supporting the campaign to deny scientific findings about global warming and raise public doubts about the roots and remedies of this massive global threat.

«Elite Domination of Public Doubts About Climate Change (Not Evolution).»

In the early 1970s, the rise of environmentalism raised public doubts about the benefits of any human activity for the planet.

More than 1,000 scientists from nonprofit, corporate, academic, and private institutions say public doubts about genetically modified food crops are hindering the next Green Revolution.

In the early 1970s, the rise of environmentalism raised public doubts about the benefits of human activity for the planet.

As we noted yesterday morning, Boris Johnson was the first senior Tory to express public doubts about what appears to be the Conservative Party's acceptance of Labour's planned 45p top rate of tax.

The delay follows Swift's very public doubts about the ethics of streaming services, which meant the pop star's first five albums were only added to Spotify in June.

Whatever you think of this particular effort, it has become ever clearer that climate information not only «wants» to be free, but will be — whether through pressure for further transparency and objectivity on the part of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change or the liberation / hacking / theft / disclosure of climate documents produced with government money, whether they raise questions about the motives of some scientists or reveal attempts by political operatives to raise public doubt about climate findings.

Exxon later pivoted to the forefront of climate denial, manufacturing public doubt about the need for urgent action.

That short chapter is important because Oreskes totally misinterprets the «memos» as Big Coal's plan for a vast national campaign with paid climate scientists that created the lasting public doubt about global warming.

ICN's eight - month investigation assembled details of Exxon's early understanding of the emerging science of climate change, casting a new light on the company's subsequent campaign to postpone aggressive climate policies by sowing public doubt about the science.

Not exact matches

No doubt, an interesting argument could be had about whether a future of self - driving, electrically propelled automobiles could be as clean and efficient as better public transit.

But many expressed doubts about how effective the new system would be, given the difficulty of identifying which rules to remove and preserving those which genuinely protect the public.

The prime minister senses the public harbours doubts about his opponents» accounting skills.

«We want to explain this to you all so that all doubts about how we counted the deaths will finally end here,» Héctor Pesquera, head of the Department of Public Safety, said.

If there is any doubt about how morally repulsive, politically unpopular, and far reaching the consequences of this rule will be, crafting it in secret behind closed doors and without public input says all you need to know.»

And something cruel, no doubt unintentionally cruel, about impressing upon a young child that his public identity is that of victim.

If we are going to make known to the public any biblical issue as ministers of God, we MUST know beyond a shadow of a doubt what we are talking about.

Yet despite their suspicion of the public and doubts about the government's willingness to defend their religious rights, tribal leaders across North America are increasingly critical of Native and non-Native «medicine teachers» who proclaim themselves the carriers of revelation and special power.

In 1974 he published an article in the New England Journal of Medicine entitled «Deeper into Abortion,» in which he expressed in public his growing doubts about the ethical legitimacy of the pro-choice cause which he had been championing for years.

In the legal system, not only are judges supposed to recuse themselves when they have doubts about their ability to be objective; they are also supposed to recuse themselves when the public might have doubts about their ability to be impartial.

True — the word «sex» is not mentioned (unsuprisingly, being in public), but if anyone has any doubt about this, then ask yourself this question: if someone of the opposite sex was to walk up to you in the street and say to you «I want to take you, I want to hold you and I want to have you!»

No doubt some consumers do fear the use of ammonium - hydroxide to process their food, but nothing in the wording of my Change.org petition or my writing or speaking about this issue has ever once sought to confuse the public by associating this chemical with the cleaning agent you keep under your sink.

«This shameless act by this dissident group has exposed their level of desperation and extent they are willing to go to mislead the public about the true picture of events leading to the ward congress.For the avoidance of doubt, all eligible members of the APC obtained the nomination form before it closed and actively participated in the election as attested to by the congress committee chairman.

They even had doubts about the sufficiency of public education and a formally free press.

For all that, he believes the economy will be the Tories» trump card over Labour because «there's absolutely no doubt the public usually prefer a Conservative government when they're worried about the economy.»

If Labour MPs want to avoid the fate of their European counterparts they should save their doubts about Miliband for Sunday confession and wait until after May 7 to plot about leaders in public.

Mandelson reveals that Tony Blair, who was scrupulously loyal to Brown in public after his resignation as prime minister in June 2007, had severe doubts about his successor and at one point urged the former business secretary not to block a challenge.

The Chairman of the Public Interest Accountability Committee (PIAC), Joseph Winful, has expressed doubts about the capacity of the Heritage Fund in its present stage, to meet the needs of the Free Senior High School policy.

Lest we forget, this is not the first time TOPY is questioning or criticizing the mode of work and delivery of the IEA, the public will remember that in the year 2012, TOPY petitioned the IEA on the credibility of some of its committee members and asked them to do something about it or else we advised the NDC not to partake in the previous debate for some reasonable doubts.

Silver's shifting position «fueled creeping doubts about the viability of the center, which faces a raft of obstacles, like paltry fund - raising, on top of the public outcry,» writes Michael Barbaro.

May will insist that the government has a strong record of delivery, «so we might think that the public's doubts about us are unfair, but they are a political fact which we must face up to».

He also hates uncertainty and chaos, and a public pronouncement — however many details are left in the air — is better than a cycle of chatter and doubt about what the Legislature will look like in 2015, what that might mean for the issues he cares about and how that affects his promises to secure action on them.

After several months of what the mayor himself called «relentless negative headlines» around investigations into his administration and campaign fundraising, Bill de Blasio is facing low public approval ratings, strong doubts about whether he deserves to be re-elected in 2017, and a resurrection mission ahead of him.

When the party won't even publicly defend the centre - piece of its public spending plans, and be honest with its closest allies in the union movement, is it any wonder that the public have doubts about Labour on the economy?

The failure to take this route - no doubt connected to New Labour's deep neurosis about the T - word - has left the government battling against a deeply misinformed public debate.

Those differences can be caused by people intent on misleading the public, like the organized campaigns to create doubt about the science pointing to human - caused climate change, she said.

Given the depleted state of the Treasury and a long record of public indifference to space programs, doubts about fulfillment of the moon - Mars plans are abundant on both sides of the political aisle.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — President - elect Donald Trump's choice to lead the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency expressed doubt about the science behind global climate change during a contentious Senate confirmation hearing on Wednesday, but added he would be obliged for now to uphold the EPA's finding carbon dioxide poses a public danger.

Public health experts around the world, including the WHO, have no doubt about the importance of allowing it to remain in vaccines.

But doubts are brewing about its long - term effectiveness in changing public behaviour — as well as about its selective account of evolved human nature.

More recently, a documentary series on Swedish television again cast doubt on this work and precipitated public uncertainty about the research from Karolinska.

There was no doubt about his sensitivity or his skill, but I had a feeling the public wasn't quite registering or noticing him, and it had to do with his reticence, or a self - effacing uncertainty as to whether he should be doing movies.

While Darwin has no doubts about the accuracy and implications of his findings, making them public worries him greatly.

The human side is portrayed especially in Graham's own serious self - doubt, not only about taking on a paper as the only woman at the time to be running a Fortune 500 company but also fighting a board full of men who urge her to keep the paper's business interests above all else during a sensitive time when they were taking it public.

Meryl Streep and Tom Hanks lead a strong supporting cast in this story about «The Washington Post» and its efforts to publish «The Pentagon Papers,» despite threats from the government as well as doubts by the newspaper's board of directors, which is in the process of taking the company public.

And then there are some test - score gains, which Rhee is counting on to build public support for her plans and ease the doubts about her style.

If there was any doubt that Tisch and Steiner weren't serious about bringing change to New York's hidebound public school system, that ended when they tapped John King to be NYSED's number two.