Sentences with phrase «public fears about»

The study is expected to help reduce litigation in the real estate industry centering on alleged hazards associated with high electromagnetic field (EMF) levels near houses and to calm public fears about EMF health hazards.

He examines Japan's difficult and costly cleanup, the resulting pulse of public fears about radiation there (and elsewhere) and corporate and government decisions that resulted in the construction of such a vulnerable power plant complex in a tsunami zone.

As public fears about terrorism hit their highest levels in a decade and anti-Islamic sentiment surges, schools should take extra steps to ensure that Muslim, immigrant, and refugee students feel safe and free from discrimination, the U.S. Department of Education said last week.

Firstly, for many years they did not make public fears about the potential danger BSE posed to human health — concerns of an economically damaging public over-reaction took precedence.

The paper inflamed public fears about vaccines, but it was retracted in 2010 after the UK General Medical Council (GMC) concluded that Wakefield had a charge of serious professional misconduct to answer, in part because it found that his team did not have proper ethical approval for tests performed on the children.

This suggests the budget, which left little impression at Westminster, has distilled public fears about the economic situation, with Labour taking the blame.»

Due to scientific and public fears about food safety and concern about export markets, China has decided not to grow GM food crops on a commercial scale, even though China is the world's biggest producer of GM cotton.

The government is in danger of acting uncritically on public fears about law and order, a leading criminologist has warned.

The EU has now re-nationalised the rights of member states to determine whether to grow GM crops, while retaining the responsibility for determining crop safety, and this should go someway to allaying public fears about GM.

The home secretary said he hoped to find a middle way between heightening awareness of the terrorist risk and causing exaggerated public fears about the nature of the threat.

«The reforms have created widespread public fear about the scale and impact of public spending cuts and the privatisation of public services.

«I recognize the increased public fear about nuclear power,» IEA chief Nobuo Tanaka, who is Japanese, told a news conference in Oslo.

As long as the focus is «public fear about residing near nuclear power plants» and doesn't venture into the impacts of climate science denial and it's excessive allaying of public fears about excessive fossil fuel burning — it won't address the single most significant political impediment to nuclear.

Not exact matches

The FBI had images of the two suspects, but it was hesitant about going public with them, for fear of tipping off the suspects and letting them get away.

Their fears about being assertive, speaking in public, and networking are a completely unhelpful, inaccurate guide to what it will be like when they actually take the leap and stretch outside their comfort zones.

As well, Albertans are so hopeful now at the prospect of liberation from the fear of retribution for speaking their minds about government behaviour and policy in public, in the workplace or even among circles of friends.

In his view, religion that speaks about ultimate truths in public is a species of the «enthusiasm» that he feared and despised.

a set of values, beliefs, and structure in a person's life in order to give them direction and a sense of right and wrong is fine, but organized religions are no more than large corporations, and like any large corporation are only focused on their bottom line... trying to control the public and extract as much money as they can from them by any means necessary... promoting fear, uncertainty, hate and a sense that they alone can offer salvation... for a price (although they are very cleaver about getting to this hidden and unspoken cost... after all these hundreds of years they have perfected their craft well!)

The myths of Genesis tell us, as no objective history of public events could, what the community of Israel essentially believed about God's relationship to the world and to man; and the legends of the Fathers record Israel's understanding of herself, her own relationship to God and the world, her own sense of sin and inadequacy in tension with her conviction of special divine Election, her fears on the one hand and her highest hopes on the other.

And they protect my right to speak about Jesus Christ in public without fear of fines or prison, as in other nations.

In my role as a «public Christian» who leads a church and who values spirited discourse about the issues of our time, I want to nurture environments where people can openly wrestle with their beliefs — but without the fear of being caricatured, labeled or demonized.

Otherwise competent journalistic reports on research findings about male homosexuality, such as Peter and Barbara Wyden's Growing Up Straight (Stein & Day, 1968), confound the picture for the public by appealing to the fears of middle - class parents; further, they profess (without foundation) to show that parents can educate their children away from the possibility of becoming homosexual.

Secondly, Americans also have a major issue about the SIZE of these MEGA MOSQUES when the local Muslim community is TINY, and thirdly the SOURCE OF FUNDS which most Americans rightfully fear is often times from Saudi & other questionable sources (with a soft public face to decieve Americans).

I suspect fear mongering to justify disproportionate retribution and agendas by those who don't have to risk life and limb but profit from war and politicians being puppets of that with measure to deceive the public to keep the public in line with their policy about war.

Also the media will usually show this as a clash of Sikhs and make it seem like we are all animals when in fact it is the just fighting back the radicals, so again the media plays to the unfounded fears of the public about Sikhs.

Fearing that Catholic schools would form a strong base for a subculture, and worried about the decline of the public schools as the junior wing of American public religion's informal church establishment, the editors reared up.

He confirmed the worst fears and prejudices of Protestants about lascivious priests and nuns and the unbridled ambitions of the hierarchy to subvert the public schools and make the U.S. a satrapy of the Vatican.

Known as the «X case,» the decision sparked an ongoing debate about how to interpret the legislative mandate from the court, with successive governments reluctant to touch the issue for fear of upsetting the public.

Faculty at these institutions «fear engaging students» religious identities in class, being unsure about the right to express faith or spirituality in public settings.»

Such overstatements have done little to allay fears about the dependability of the broadcasters in using any power they may acquire and in acting as responsible representatives in the use of the public airwaves.

Like the Pharisees who couldn't answer Jesus's question about John the Baptist, feminists fear the public implications of both porn - positivity («So you're OK with men being dogs?»)

Dolf DeRovira, President & CEO of Flavor Dynamics, mentioned many of the fears and misunderstandings that proliferate in the public's perceptions about food during his R&D Seminar presentation.

That performance should erase any fears that public bettors have about today's high price.

For example, knowing Mama was about to leave and knowing she would melt down, led to a fear of melting down in public and an even stronger refusal to venture out.

It would be interesting to see if this fear of the opposite sex is occurring elsewhere, like Europe; I can't find any research on it but it's clear that Europeans generally have much healthier and relaxed attitudes about sex, and European women are eager to participate in public life.

You always hear jokes about different aspects of breast - feeding, and some were afraid to bring it to the floor of the Senate because they feared there would be embarrassing questions and that it would become a joke,» said Frazier, who got involved after a group of nursing mothers came to his office and shared their experiences about breast - feeding in public.

I still have some fears about breastfeeding in public (even with a nursing cover) but it gets easier each time I do it.

I overcame my fears about nursing in public, and grew into a person who views breastfeeding not just as a «personal choice», but a public health issue.

Talk to your child about what his concerns and fears are about using the potty at daycare or out in public in general.

So, first I would recommend trying to nail down what it is he does not like about public restrooms and then figure out how to work with his fear; i.e. if he is afraid of the big toilet, consider carrying a reducer.

Baby Gooroo presents an empowering video including dads discussing their fears about breastfeeding in public and exposure.

Is there some kind of fear that if we start accepting breastfeeding in public without freaking out about covering up, women will eventually start walking around bare - breasted all the time?

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.

Feeding your baby in public isn't something to fear or have concerns about.

Yes, Trump's offer was in some ways similar, though he didn't talk much about the sanctions - US - Russian trade is miniscule compared to EU - Russian trade - and concentrated on what the US public fears post 9/11 - international terrorism.

I'm sure that before long, we'll once again travel and trade without fear, that public services will improve, and that we will even be able to joke about the bad old dayswhen little worked, and when it seemed that no one cared.»

A federal appeals court upheld a New York law requiring nonprofits to report identifying information about their largest donors to the state Attorney General's office, rejecting arguments that donors would fear «public backlash, financial harm and worse.

Some residents were reluctant to even go public about the water contamination, fearing that homes they'd spent their whole lives paying off would suddenly plummet in value as the town became a place no one wanted to live.

The latest Construction Trade Survey published today, shows that the cuts to public spending, announced by the government last autumn, have finally started to impact on construction activity, confirming the fears the industry has warned about for some time.

«David Cameron is stoking up fears over immigration to divert attention away from people's real fears about the economy and public services to give his government some cover ahead of the council elections.