Sentences with phrase «public relations exercise»

The decision to not release detailed documents could signal a desire for the government to shift away from the public quarterly budget updates, which are meaningless in terms of fiscal planning due to the province's dependence on fluctuating natural resource commodity prices and have become little more than public relations exercises for the government over the past two decades.

I believe that instead of doing a preseason public relations exercise (traveling to USA and playing glamour teams, 2 of which they lost) it would have been more productive this pre-season to get the players used to the Wembley pitch size.

The reality is that Britain has long prized barren public relations exercises about immigration - such as Theresa May's unpleasant «Go Home» vans - over actually putting in place the systems which could alleviate public concerns.

The coal, gas and oil companies that are major producers of greenhouse gases are finally taking notice of these high - level political discussions, and many have mounted spirited public relations exercises to defend themselves, and even win endorsements of their products.

The term «greenwashing» was coined to describe the disingenuous activities of companies and organizations that pursue activities that supposedly benefit the environment but in reality are only public relations exercises without any substantial environmental benefit, or whose benefits are vague and misleading at best.

As a public relations exercise and reflection of his political values it was a travesty, and the beginning of the end for John Edwards as a serious presidential candidate.

They see the project as little more than a public relations exercise to soften up consumer opposition to GM foods.

They are engaged in a public relations exercise whereby smoking is made to seem socially intolerable.

I suspect the renaming was a public relations exercise rather than a fundamental shift in military strategy; since it was the same Act that created the CIA.

«We all felt it was little more than a public relations exercise filled with people that were earnest but didn't know very much,» Murphy said.

They see the project as little more than a public relations exercise to soften up consumer opposition to GM foods.

Will it lead to greener practices — or public relations exercises?

Juan Carlos Cruz says he told the pope, «I don't want this to be a public relations exercise.»

Montford argued from this quote that our research was a public relations exercise rather than a scientific investigation.

Dressed in a veneer of concern about climate change, in fact BP's outlook is a public relations exercise, designed to boost fossil fuels and undermine public faith in clean alternatives.

It also shows that climate science, practiced by the CRU and the IPCC, was a public relations exercise.

... But Can Just As Much Be Coal Industry Slight of Hand I have to agree in large part with Greenpeace, when they characterize the Institute as a public relations exercise on the part of the coal industry.

Cable's proposals just play around at the edge of this problem and can be seen as not much more than a public relations exercise.