Sentences with phrase «public focus»

The reward, open for six months, is keeping public focus on the two - year - old murder.

It's an issue that has not received much public focus in the first six weeks of the de Blasio administration.

The case has limited authority legally but attracted a huge amount of press coverage which again brought the issue into public focus.

Otherwise, the problem continues to grow as soon as public focus shifts.

Despite the stated public focus on user perspectives, it has often been professional perspectives that have determined the way in which this new two - tier structure has emerged.

Pro-Trident Labour MP John Woodcock told PoliticsHome: «Aside from being another sign that the «open minded» review of defence policy is nothing of the sort, Jeremy's choice to speak at the CND rally just ensures another weekend of public focus on Labour's divisions over a policy that can't change when we should be holding the Government to account and making the case to remain in the European Union.»

From my point of view, this more public focus on Obama and his religious practices is the least appealing development about him in the last four years.

In the view of Dr. Johann Overath there are currently two main trends in glass packaging: «On the one hand there is increasing public focus on sustainability.

Though money was the main public focus of the lawyers» contract demands (a pay increase of 10 per cent over four years, the same conditions that an arbitrator awarded Quebec's 450 Crown counsel a year ago), it was that feeling of indignation that triggered the strike and fuelled the lawyers» desire to stay out even after the LANEQ's war chest was emptied and many of its members were in dire personal financial straits.

It comes at a tough time for showbiz personalities to be at the helm of a live broadcast, given the intense public focus on sexual harassment and the darker side of working in Hollywood.

It's like an instant, public focus group with marketing built in,» says Jason Calacanis, Mahalo's CEO.

Join thought - provoking discussions between experts, eyewitnesses, policymakers and the local public focused on combating deforestation and land degradation challenges in Africa

As I have pointed out previously, the Duggars have brought this brand of intense scrutiny on themselves with their very public focus on marriage, pregnancy and babies.

Given the strong public focus on remuneration, it is more important than ever that companies develop policies which are properly focused on linked pay to performance in delivery of agreed strategy.»

Luckily, the longest lasting effects of this close planetary shave (the most destructive since the Tunguska impact of 1908) may just be a renewed public focus on dangerous space rocks.

The constant public focus on standardized test scores suggests the belief that the threat of sanctions or promise of rewards (mostly in the form of increased funding) will enhance students» test scores and improve school quality — that schools can somehow be coerced or seduced into improvement.

Most of my other conversations about video games are relegated to water cooler talk at work, and if you didn't already know, the general public focuses on a few key genres and franchises, namely any sport or shooter game.

This one stands out to me, not just because in Leeds they'll be visiting Pavilion, one of the institutions which best defines the differences between visual art in Leeds and Liverpool at the moment, but because it could actively play a part in bridging the gap between the academic and public focuses at either end of the canal.

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) science deliberately kept public focus on warmer temperatures and blamed it all on radiative forcing due to CO2.

In a speech to the Church of England's national assembly this week, he said: «I believe quite strongly that it is not inappropriate for a pastor of the Church of England to address issues around the perceived concerns of other religious communities and to try and bring them into better public focus.»

Already misunderstood as a vote, miners may feel pressure to «make a decision» on behalf of the community: who is and isn't signaling becomes a huge public focus and may put pressures onto miners they are unprepared for.»

Given the heightened public focus on an important concept that does not usually get much airtime, it is timely to take the opportunity to provide further information about cultural safety.

Featuring a keynote speech by Don Tapscott, this summit is sure to bring even more public focus to the blockchain sector.

Mounting research on the causes and consequences of dropping out, coupled with more accurate reporting on the extent of the crisis, has led to increased public focus on what's been called the silent epidemic.

In 2010, it was also suggested that the journalistic approach of such newspapers at the News of the World had brought into public focus that there had been a shift away from the traditional ethics of journalism, raising serious questions about privacy, freedom of speech, and confidentiality.

In an unexpected turn of events, the media and public focus on Anthony Weiner and the latest revelations of his sexting seem to be indirectly helping Spitzer.

Narcissistic CEOs are rated more poorly in terms of transformational leadership and management skills, and researchers have also shown that CEOs» narcissism significantly effects the financial decisions they make, which tend to lean heavily in the direction of attracting attention to themselves: They are prone to bold, hasty decisions, and more expensive acquisitions, a tendency that is magnified when the public focus on them is greatest.

RP: The big thing is the high visibility of directors and public focus on the role of corporate boards.

Does his undeniable impact in turning the Church's public focus to issues of global poverty and migrants» rights, not to mention his use of the position to advocate for environmental causes or his papal subtweeting of Donald Trump, make him a valuable ally?

When times were tough, it was often easier for both management and labor to negotiate increased benefits, particularly retirement benefits, than increased cash compensation, because, again, the public focused on current costs rather than on obligations that would not have to be paid for many years.

A summative rating, in contrast, necessarily glosses over differences in performance across indicators and inappropriately draws school leaders, stakeholders, and the public focus on the single rating rather than a more robust reflection of performance demonstrated by the individual indicators.

«A summative rating, in contrast, necessarily glosses over differences in performance across indicators and inappropriately draws school leaders, stakeholders and the public focus on the single rating rather than a more robust reflection of performance demonstrated by the individual indicators,» they wrote.

Eli and Edythe Broad are philanthropists who have a public focus in all of their philanthropic initiatives.

His point is that even when scores for black students in the District of Columbia went up, the public focused on the fact that the gap between blacks and whites had not closed.

These stocks don't get nearly the attention as the «sexy» high fliers that most people in the public focus on (such as Apple).

«Over the past two decades the public focus has shifted away from a breed specific concern to a more general concern over vicious animals, regardless of breed,» City Administrator Chris Searcy wrote in a Sept. 17 memo to the council.

It's going to be all Reach for us in terms of where our public focus lies.»

The New York Times columnist Paul Krugman mentioned this possibility in his piece titled Drilling, Disaster, Denial, in which he frames the loss of environmentalism's hold on the public as stemming from the difficulty of getting the»... public focused on a form of pollution that's invisible, and whose effects unfold over decades rather than days.»

Despite the public focus on radiation risks, cost has long been the main obstacle to a substantial expansion of nuclear power generation, and will be even more as a result of Japan's still - unfolding effort to secure the wave - ravaged Fukushima Daiichi complex.

«It's a bit different in many cases; the policies we've had to deploy solar technologies such as feed - in tariffs are not really the same as we've seen for storage technologies where a lot of the public focus or a lot of the public investment is focused on early stage R&D to help them prove and demonstrate these technologies,» said Tam.

While the public focuses on fairness of the process, judges and lawyers tend to focus on fair outcomes, often at the expense of meeting the criteria of procedural fairness that are critical to public perceptions of the courts.

Although the public focuses a lot of attention on the dangers of head injuries in football, cycling actually outranks football as the leading sport for head injuries.

With health being in public focus, Android Wear crosses the divide, supporting functions normally found on a sportswatch or fitness tracker, alongside the rest of the connected features.