Sentences with phrase «public their suspicions of»

There is widespread public suspicion of cloning technology in Europe, however, and E.U. member countries have said there is currently no agricultural cloning in their territories.

The government's caution is widely perceived as a reaction to a furious backlash from the public against genetically modified foods and crops, and public suspicion of experts and government in the wake of the crisis over BSE, or «mad cow disease.»

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To then verify its suspicions, Waymo filed a public records request to the Nevada Governor's Office of Economic Development and Department of Motor Vehicles in February for Otto's communications with the departments.

Given the common association of the word «indoctrinate» with totalitarian methods, there might be at least a «slight suspicion» that Justice Stevens did not use the term in its neutral sense, especially since he nowhere refers to public school indoctrination.

Nonetheless, unsettled and unsettling questions need a careful public airing on occasion, or else they fester in the shadowed corners of our culture, breeding resentments and suspicions that corrode our common life.

A person who, all in all, does not like Jews raises a reasonable suspicion of anti-Semitism if he makes a public point of it.

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.

Although millions of heterosexual persons in Africa have AIDS, in the West there is in the public mind a strong suspicion that AIDS is a punishment on persons for promiscuous sexual behavior or for drug abuse.

«The facts are clear - By proclaiming to the public that «Muslims are trying to kill Americans every week,» Walsh raised suspicion of the American Muslim community and incited fear.»

There was no indication of cynicism, or any suspicion that religion might be used to curry public favor.

Protesting the widespread depictions in the public arena of Chávez as Christ only deepens the poor's suspicions that such allegations are true.

A spokesman from Avon & Somerset Police told Premier: «A 53 year old was arrested on Saturday 19th August 2017 on suspicion of a racially or religiously - motivated public order offence.

I fostered some suspicion that Clay was a very good fighter, but in the face of the ill will shown him by the public and by most news media I had my doubts.

As each year when it comes to the draw for the UEFA competitions or FIFA, the public is regularly a suspicion of regularity, so the same was the case and this time.

Unfortunately, Labour has yet to get over fully its lingering suspicion of harnessing non-governmental resources (such as fatherhood) for the public good.

Being out and about with my kids on a weekday I still get «the looks»: a mixture of pity and suspicion when dealing with the daily toddler struggles in a public domain or entering a playgroup.

«There is a public suspicion that this has been a widespread practice in the past with the police providing tip offs and nuggets of information to journalists and photographers.

Public opinion is likely to be split, but any suspicion that teachers are ignoring the plight of those in the private sector who don't have any pension scheme at all could pose problems for the NUT.

Suspicions of «window - dressing» appear to be reinforcing the public's idea that nothing much will change.

The public's suspicion of benefit «scroungers» seems to be fading - potentially giving critics of the coalition's welfare reforms a louder voice in the debate.

Our last subject in the race for the 36th Council District seat is the Rev. Conrad Tillard, formerly known as Conrad Muhammad, formerly known as Conrad X. Reverend Tillard first came to public attention as the chief youth minister of the Nation of Islam, and then the minister of Harlem's famed Mosque No. 7, the former seat of Malcolm X. Reverend Tillard made some conventionally controversial remarks against white devils and Jewish slave masters, etc. from that esteemed perch, was later stripped of his ministry under a cloud of suspicion, and then underwent a second Damascene moment when he left the NOI and returned to the faith of his fathers, receiving baptism by the Reverend Calvin Butts.

This is a period of reassessment and suspicion, where the sensitivities of recession have only increased the susceptibility of every part of British public life to scandal.

You know as well as I do that the phrase «reasonable suspicion» is a carte blanche term of legalese which allows the police to prevent photography - like the film clip we're discussing - to be shown in public or even made in the first place..

Concerns have also been raised about the powers under section 60 of the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994, where the police can stop people without reasonable suspicion when a senior offi cer believes there is a real risk of serious violence in an area.

Furthermore, the public's apparent suspicion of debt may exist because they have not heard credible voices making the sort of case that US economist Paul Krugman makes — that austerity in a downtown makes no sense.

Atinga Bio, who told Joy News on Tuesday, September 29, 2015 that the Service will not be railroaded into making any premature public disclosures on the inquiry, rebuffed suspicions by anti-graft campaigners that the protracted investigation betrays mischief on the part of the Police.

The public, whose default attitude towards politicians is one of deep suspicion, are at their most sensitive when our elected representatives cry.

This was surprising because there was some consternation felt by some sections of the backbenches about the proposals, with the suspicion that the period was simply softening the public up for a full scrapping of Sunday trading laws.

To increase the detection rate the department has increased its use of data matching techniques and in 2005 set up the tax evasion hotline so members of the public can report suspicions of tax evasion.

Continuing themes in these diaries include ownership of the media and a desire to stop Rupert Murdoch, suspicions of the competence of the police and intelligence and security services and an obsession to expose Masonic influences in public life.

It follows an arrest of a serving police officer at the weekend on suspicion of misconduct in public office, following the leaking of the police log to a national newspaper.

The other measure, sponsored by Councilman Ritchie Torres of the Bronx, would have officers identify themselves by name, rank and command — and provide a business card — after encounters that amount to a traditional police stop, based on reasonable suspicion of a crime, or while questioning members of the public during an investigation.

This month, Johnson backed the compromise an opponent brokered with the de Blasio administration, which forced cops to identify themselves while interacting with the public when there's suspicion of criminal activity.

His claim that unemployment will fall rather than rise in the course of this Parliament is based on the OBR assessment, rapidly rushed out to give ammunition to contest the anticipated Harman attack (incidentally providing the first suspicions about the OBR's objectivity), that whilst 600,000 public sector jobs will be lost by 2015 - 6 and a similar figure (though unspecified) in the private sector as a result of the public spending cuts, some 2.5 m jobs will be created over the same period in the private sector.

Last weekend a Met officer was arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office.

New York City will become the nation's first major metropolis to close its public schools in observance of the two most sacred Muslim holy days, de Blasio announced — a watershed moment for a group that has endured suspicion and hostility since the Sept. 11 attacks.

Obiang junior is wanted in France on suspicion of embezzlement, corruption and stealing public funds.

The public now has another way to report suspicions of government fraud and corruption in Erie County — by filling out an online complaint directly with the District Attorney's Office.

Even where there are suspicions of partisan selectivity in the targets of the campaign, my inclination has been that anyone who is proven to have stolen from the public purse should go to prison.

The year ended with the unexpected arrest of shadow immigration minister Damian Green on suspicion of conspiring to commit misconduct in a public office.

To confirm his suspicions, Witt assigned a project to his son, a University of California, Berkeley, public health major who was home for the Christmas holiday: Check the vaccination records of all of the kids the medical center had treated so far that year.

In a speech at the Royal Society, Tony Blair called for an end to the suspicion and mistrust that sometimes surrounds the work of scientists, and highlighted the need for «a robust, engaged dialogue with the public».

«When you hear of people in the public arena who are pregnant in their 40s, the obvious suspicion is that they've availed themselves of fertility treatment, but aren't being transparent about it,» Dr. Klein says.

With the assistance of a lovely primatologist named Caroline (Pinto, You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger), who later becomes Rodman's romantic partner, they struggle with raising this wonder chimp without raising suspicions around them, and protecting Caesar from a leery and dangerous public.

«For every one percent of a public school's students who leave for a charter,» concludes Mr. Winters, «reading proficiency among those who remain increases by about 0.02 standard deviations, a small but not insignificant number, in view of the widely held suspicion that the impact on local public schools... would be negative.»

«We all want to believe that [D.C. Public Schools] is getting stronger and has the capability to do this, but it's time for us to peek behind the curtain a little bit,» said Council member David A. Catania (I - At Large), education committee chairman, who called the recent reduction in private placements of public school students «a point of great suspicion for me.&Public Schools] is getting stronger and has the capability to do this, but it's time for us to peek behind the curtain a little bit,» said Council member David A. Catania (I - At Large), education committee chairman, who called the recent reduction in private placements of public school students «a point of great suspicion for me.&public school students «a point of great suspicion for me.»

But he enjoyed contact with the innocent public; most of the civilians he met in his day job were under criminal suspicion.

Our «See Something, Say Something — Report Animal Cruelty» campaign, for example, is all about getting the public's help in reporting suspicions of abuse to local authorities.

«I think the 2007 pet food recalls really brought the suspicion around Chinese ingredients to the forefront of the public psyche,» said Lucy Postins, founder of The Honest Kitchen, which produces cat and dog treats and food, sourcing a majority of its ingredients in North America and none of them from China.

Even as Nintendo began to run away with the format war, many still spoke of a suspicion that the Wii may just be a flash in the pan: a gimmick that the general public hadn't yet got round to seeing through.