Sentences with phrase «public stands on this issue»

Guess what: a political candidate is using the internet to leverage the attention he's receiving from taking a public stand on an issue.

Exactly where the public stands on this issue depends a lot on how you ask the question.

CPV (Comment 16) expresses the concern that once a scientist takes a public stand on an issue, he or she is likely to succumb to various pressures that can undermine scientific objectivity, encourage confirmation bias, etc..

Not exact matches

As his public influence grew, the preacher's stands on the social issues of his day were watched closely by supporters and critics alike.

While it's rare to see CEOs here take a public stand (witness the silence of Toronto's business leaders when the Rob Ford scandals unfolded), a growing number of American executives are stepping into the public spotlight, taking stands on issues like religious freedom, gay marriage and gun control.

Though they have made their mark in the private sector, these men and women are taking public stands on hot button social and environmental issues ranging from gay marriage to climate change to gender equality.

Here, we don't just illuminate where Mitt Romney and Barack Obama stand on the issues that matter to our readers; we also delve into the larger question of how politics and faith should coexist in the public space.

Neuhaus» silence in public about the Cardinal's stand on labor issues until the Cardinal had passed away was rather strange in view of the fact that, to his credit, Fr.

The U.S. public outcry for GMO labeling has prompted the food industry to start listening to its consumers and take a stand on the issue of genetically modified foods.

In order to clarify where social science stands on these issues, a February 2014 study published in the highly ranked peer - review journal, Psychology, Public Policy, and Law with the endorsement of 110 of the world's top authorities (from 15 countries) in attachment, early child development, and divorce concludes that overnights and shared residential parenting should be the norm for children of all ages including infants and toddlers.

Of course the public is in favour of this, but if we as a parliament can not stand up on this issue, then what after all is parliament for?»

Maybe this is his strategy — stay out of the last leadership race — it's likely to produce a dud, get the position of party chairman, make challenging powerful speeches and articles (he has identified the English democratic defecit, Toque, in his New Statesman article, which is about the best on the issue from any MP see: http://www.newstatesman.com/uk-politics/2010/08/labour-party-english-england), make more of a public name for himself, then stand when the prospects of victory are real.

«Mayor de Blasio's approval rating has inched up, and he has improved his standing with New Yorkers on both his handling of issues and their perceptions of his qualities as mayor,» says Dr. Lee M. Miringoff, Director of The Marist College Institute for Public Opinion.

For the sake of public trust in British democracy, will the Minister who is standing in for the Deputy Prime Minister therefore agree that any legislation put before the House on this vital issue should be the subject of a free vote?»

«They're separate issues, and they should stand on their own merits,» the New York Public Interest Research Group's Blair Horner said.

As he demonstrated in relation to a range of issues — not least in the Stop the War movement — he was a man that would march with the public and was not afraid to stand on the barricades.

Unfortunately freedom of speech is contingent to how much money you have given that the media is itself a business that has to make profits as well, so a «lobbyist» like this comes to this program without any ethics, without any remorse but with a lot of money as well to openly acknowledge that: yes, we put money in this governor's elections, we are expecting he pay us back and will stand on our side of the equation, and yes, we have collected (very fast) the private necessary money to run a public relations campaign (of lies if necessary) to guarantee that our privileges are well kept; and he finds a free stand to speak out freely and without appropriate response As far as Liz, I'm not sure if it is only a being naïve issue.

«With the unfortunate rise in corruption in New York and the resulting withering public trust in our political process, it is so important that we educate voters on where candidates stand on good government issues,» said Dick Dadey, Executive Director of Citizens Union.

At 10 a.m., Assembly Standing Committees on Environmental Conservation and Health, and the Subcommittee on Oversight of the DEC, hold a joint public hearing to examine water quality issues and to review implementation of the $ 2.5 billion in water infrastructure funding contained in the 2017 - 18 budget, 250 Broadway, Manhattan.

And there are issues he is clearly not on our side — on nuclear disarmament for example (he wants in principle to preserve a nuclear deterrent though is happy for Trident to go into the defence review)-- and many more where there simply isn't clear enough evidence, like where exactly he stands on public investment versus spending cuts.

«New York City Firefighters put their lives on the line every day, and we look to elected leaders that will stand up for important issues that impact public safety.

To see where each candidate stands on issues related to public education click here: GOVERNORS RACE SIDE BY SIDE

O'Brien argued that the public knew Funke because of his television career, but not where he stood on the issues.

I also strongly believe that both houses have an obligation to take votes on these issues so the public will know where their elected senators and assemblymen stand.

«It's really important that voters and the public get a chance to know where senators and candidates stand on the issues they care about,» Scharff said.

The New York State Allies for Public Education wants a much more open process with candidates explaining how they stand on issues like the Common Core and high - stakes testing.

In such situations, people are forced to out themselves or walk away depending on people's points of view,» declares Rochelle Diamond, the chair of NOGLSTP and a professional staff member at the California Institute of Technology's Division of Biology, «You don't know where people stand until issues become public.»

For example, imagine you are trying to convince a friend who thinks of herself as bold and decisive that it's OK to change her mind about an issue on which she'd taken a public stand.

Estimating the influence of the news media on public expression — on whether it causes individuals to take public stands on key policy issues, for example — has long been challenging to scientists.

Best known for his and John Chubb's seminal work on school choice, Politics, Markets, and America's Schools, Moe here seeks to discover where Americans stand on the voucher issue through public opinion surveys.

Establishing a common set of standards across states is a new policy proposal that emerged as a public issue only in 2011, and it appears as if many citizens have yet to decide where they stand on the matter.

Janus and West Virginia touch on issues within a long - standing debate: the role of organized labor, specifically teachers» unions, in public education.

Quality Counts 2012, the 16th edition of Education Week's annual examination of issues and challenges facing America's public schools, takes aim at topics high on the policy agenda, from the White House and Congress down to the level of local school boards and chambers of commerce: the nation's international standing in education, and lessons to be drawn from high - performing countries.

«There is no doubt where we stand on issues critical to supporting students and public education, but Americans have a right to know where she stands.»

Take a minute and make sure you're ready to take a stand on the issues that affect California public education.

Despite Tom Foley's decision to join Malloy in backing the corporate education reform industry's agenda, any endorsement of Malloy — prior to him publicly reversing course on the issues listed above — would be an insult to every Connecticut teacher and the tens of thousands of parents and public school advocates who are counting on the Connecticut Education Association to stand up for public education in Connecticut.

Get information that you need to make decisions on important education issues before the General Assembly as well as where candidates stand on charter public school related issues that are important to you.

She seeks out opportunities to meet with legislators and education leaders on education issues and stands up for children, their teachers, and their neighborhood public schools at rallies, hearings, meetings, and town halls.

The troughs in the pavement left by the heavy trucks on the public roads were filled with standing water, and the puddles were the biggest issue.

Given what I have read and heard about these issues, the general public won't stand for increased pricing and if you held a public forum on this topic, I would say that most would agree with the points that I have made.

If a company is viewed as a stand - alone, issuing add - on issues of common stock on which no cash dividend is paid, either in public offerings or mergers, has, for the company, a zero cost of capital.

Following this case, the Public Utilities Board (PUB) issued out a statement about their stand on this situation — surveillance patrols would be stepped up at the Marina Bay area.

So a decline in media coverage of an issue decreases its overall importance and standing on the public agenda.

But of all the fresh considerations of Carson's work, there's one that stands out for me at the moment — a recent paper by two researchers of rhetoric and writing who dug in on «Silent Spring» drafts, notes and revisions and found that Carson had a remarkable and rare trait for someone so committed to raising public concern about a pressing environmental issue.

They include a tendency for individuals heavily involved on an issue to perceive almost all news coverage as hostile to their goals (even news coverage that favors their position); to presume much larger effects for a message on the public than the actual influence; and to apply a faulty quasi-statistical sense to where public opinion might actually stand on an issue, perceiving public opinion as hostile to their goals, no matter what the objective indicators might say.

«The tiny group of dissenting scientists have been given prominent public visibility and congressional influence out of all proportion to their standing in the scientific community on the issue of global warming.

The strategy is to divide conservative candidates and moderate voters; framing conservatives as standing on the morally wrong side of the climate change issue; as they have been portrayed in the gay marriage and Civil Rights debates.9 The NextGen campaign applies a master narrative that is adapted to each state, emphasizing that climate change poses a serious threat to the economy, public health, and children, and that if a candidate doesn't believe in climate change, they can't be trusted.

It's time religious leaders take a stand against fossil fuels With the moral issues in mind, Christiana Figueres, the executive secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate, called upon all religious leaders to take a public stand against fossil fuels, whose high emissions of greenhouse gases are said to increase the rate of climate change.

Clearly, regardless of where one might stand on these issues, what became clear to me is that, despite the importance of the topic, there has been relatively little public discourse of the issues but this may change as the issues become more pressing.

N O T I C E It is notified for the information of all concerned Advocates / Advocates - on - Record / litigant public that the Court Programme issued by Dr. Faqir Hussain, Former Registrar on Orders of Former Chief Justice on 03.11.2007 conveying sitting of the Hon» ble Judges stands cancelled and withdrawn.