Sentences with phrase «public understanding about»

Central to our mission is the belief that biotechnology and greater public understanding about it has the potential to benefit everyone.

Despite Facebook's ubiquity in public life, there remain large gaps in the public understanding about what Facebook is, and how it works.

As a result, there is a general lack of public understanding about the needs, abilities and problems of these individuals.

We disseminate information to the media and other key groups in an effort to improve public understanding about issues important to our panel members.

There's a semi-continuous argument going on about who's to blame for the lack of public understanding about climate change.

Central to our mission is the belief that biotechnology and greater public understanding about it has the potential to benefit everyone.

I recognize that there is minimal professional and public understanding about the credentialed veterinary technician's role within the veterinary healthcare team, which creates economic and professional challenges.

The Mission of the Pit Bull Task Force is: to ensure humane treatment of all pit bull - type dogs, create and implement solutions for safer environments, increase public understanding about pit bull - type dogs, and reduce intake and increase live outcomes of pit bull - type dogs from the shelter.

MASB was officially organized in 1949 to advance the quality of public education in our state, promote high standards in providing educational programs, help school board members keep informed about education issues, represent the interests of boards of education, and promote public understanding about school boards and citizen involvement in our schools.

But the problems can not be addressed if they are defined by trying to meet inappropriate benchmarks that were developed as much to prove a political point as to enlighten public understanding about the nature of our educational challenges.

Central to our mission is the belief that biotechnology and greater public understanding about it has the potential to benefit everyone.

It contained information about their funders and the Institute's apparent efforts to muddy public understanding about climate science and policy.

«There is also a lack of public understanding about how vaccines work — and again, this misunderstanding seems to be getting worse.»

Improves transparency and public understanding about the differences between different organic standards.

To what extent might it be integrated into our everyday lives, and what should scientists and the public understand about its potential?

Urban schools cope with complex issues, so the more the staff, the press, and the public understand about a district, the easier it can be to build support.

Not exact matches

But bewilderment about that initial verdict says more about public understanding of conflict of interest than it does about the substance of this case.

«His books for the public seemed to show great respect for his audience, assuming that, even if they didn't fully understand him, they still would be interested in what a cosmologist had to say about the universe in all its wonder and strangeness.»

As a public company CEO who endured the choppy waters of the 2016 IPO market, I understand business leaders» hesitation about joining the stock market.

Tom Clark, a former journalist, said Tait talked about some innovative and achievable ideas to implement at the public broadcaster and showed an understanding of the CBC and the challenges it faces.

Startups are often nervous about retaining a public relations firm — it can be costly, and they may not understand what exactly a PR team can do for them.

While some would argue that the Israeli government is lying to its citizens and hiding the truth about many more rocket impacts, anyone who knows Israel's voracious media and its smartphone - toting public will understand that such allegations are ludicrous.

One company which was raising at $ 40 million pre-money wrote a comment about me in a public forum saying something along the lines of «Mark worked really hard to understand our business and was very detail - oriented.

The need for extra care in this situation is obvious, the more so when it has to be accommodated with an equally compelling need for the Bank to say more about monetary policy issues in the interests of raising public understanding of them.

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It should also be understood that one does not necessarily need to take a religious or moral approach to transmit the public - health message about the health and survival merits of restraining sexual behavior.

The Ethics and Public Policy Center in Washington, D.C., with which I am pleased to be affiliated, was founded in the 1970s in large measure to combat the perception that an intellectually and morally impoverished understanding of the dominant American religious traditions had rendered those traditions useless, or (as in the lamentable presidency of Jimmy Carter) worse than useless in guiding Americans» thinking about a sensible and responsible foreign policy.

As I have argued in these pages and elsewhere, the «presumption,» by detaching the just war way of thinking from its proper political context» the right use of sovereign public authority toward the end of tranquillitas ordinis, or peace» tends to invert the structure of classic just war analysis and turn it into a thin casuistry, giving priority consideration to necessarily contingent in bello judgments (proportionality of means, discrimination or noncombatant immunity) over what were always understood to be the prior ad bellum questions («prior» in that, inter alia, we can have a greater degree of moral clarity about them).

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.

«They are under no illusions» about how the broader public currently feels about them, and know their religions are not widely understood, but they remain optimistic at heart, he said.

After interviewing some former Irish terrorists and seeing the carnage they wrought, Burleigh can not understand why so many clergymen came to their aid, why so many Irish Americans toasted and financed their activities for years, and why movie scriptwriters continue to mislead the public: «Hollywood contributes its quotient of surreal movies about nobly moody Irish terrorists allegedly facing agonizing moral dilemmas, rather than the reality of intimidating drunks cutting people's throats....

Indeed, he understands the country better than many American academics do and has some illuminating comments to make about American religion: «Although the European media chooses to ignore it, the US has an extraordinary range of religious public intellectuals....

I think most public open theists now understand that the issue has never been about the scope or perfection of God's knowledge.

The revision of American thought and practice about life questions began with abortion, and examination of the moral confusion attending that issue helps us understand more general developments in public morality.

The questions about religion and public life, those calling for «public» discussion, no longer focus on the verifiability of religious speech but concern quite other issues: methods of understanding and describing the religious realities, old and new, that we see appearing around us; useful criteria for assessing these religions and for defining and comprehending this new set of powers in our public life; and ways of protecting vital religious groups from the excesses of the public reaction to them, and protecting the public from the excesses of powerful religious groups — hardly questions a secular culture had thought it would have to take seriously!

For the remainder, such as most of the new independent evangelical churches, their distaste for liberation theology and their understanding of the church's proper role in the public arena derive not from «an ideology of the national security state» but from sincerely held beliefs about theology, politics, and economics.

You should be careful about making public statements and attacking a group of people that you clearly have no understanding of.

And such people ought to be the first rather than the last to understand the anxieties of the devout Christians — evangelicals, fundamentalists, orthodox Catholics and Protestants — about, precisely, the growing chaos in a country from whose public life religion has not so much disappeared but been banished.

It is very encouraging to see this debate about the understanding of science within a faith perspective becoming so public.

Nevertheless, the press either chose not to understand what the UNESCO debate was really all about or purposefully misled the public about the matter; either way, the U.S. news industry adopted a less than «balanced» approach to the issue in order to protect its own self - interest.

psychiatrists, clients and others involved in psychotherapy; Madsen «attempted to understand how Americans become involved in public life»; and Sullivan studied two groups dedicated «to political organizing in bringing about social change.»

Against a background of these events and actions, in which more than fifty congregations are now involved and in which hundreds of people have gained experience in dealing with elected and appointed authorities, the story of the Nehemiah Project can he understood As Saul Alinsky said: «The relevant skill in modern urban life is that of knowing how to hold public officials accountable» — and that, as we shall see, is what EBC and the Nehemiah Project have been all about.

And yeah, ok, I understand that if you surveyed the general public, about what they think of when they hear the word pumpkin, pumpkin spice and jack - o - lanterns probably come up on the top.

Efforts include: Advance producers» awareness of emerging animal welfare issues; Provide information and education to improve animal care skills; support scientific research to enhance animal well - being; provide information for greater public understanding and awareness about producers commitment to providing humane care.

Perkins, OK About Blog The Association of Health Care Journalists is an independent, nonprofit organization dedicated to advancing public understanding of health care issues.

I have no reason to believe that his public comments about trusting the doctors and how he understands that they are looking out for him aren't genuine, but perhaps this little rough patch in his incredible debut season will reinforce such a trust in those people.

When Calipari lost to UNC in 2015, he attacked the refs for causing the best players on his team to dwell on the bench with foul trouble.When Calipari had a very public fight with John Chaney, the legendary Temple coach, it was about threatening the refs with losing their jobs when he was at UMass.Two of the schools he coached were hit with NCAA sanctions but of course Calipari's hands are always clean.He is the Teflon basketball coach.Calipari is not an X's and O's type of coach and makes poor adjustments during games.Frankly I don't understand why so many people think this arrogant bloviating fool is a good coach.You will say, well he went to 4 final fours and one Championship.One.....

When asked about the public backlash, Corney added: «I completely understand people's views and I respect them.

Founded in 1988, the Holocaust Educational Trust aims to raise awareness and understanding about the Holocaust in schools and among the general public.

When talking to teens about this issue, parents need to understand that their own notion of what's public, what's private, and what's appropriate, may differ greatly from how teens and young adults define these concepts.