Sentences with phrase «public understanding from»

If we in the charter community respond with robust growth of high - quality schools, we will surely see greater public understanding from all quarters.

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He's now 76 years old and still focused on purging the parasite - driven illness from the two countries, Ethiopia and Chad, where transmission persists — a task to which he's bringing both a mastery of public health and a lifetime's worth of understanding political intransigence and apathy.

Armed with a better understanding of mobile technology, free from costly branch networks and focused intensely on the user experience, these online firms are muscling in on the lucrative business of providing loans, mortgages and portfolio management services to the public.

This applies to boards who want to be free from meddling shareholders, accountants who resent intrusive financial regulations like those embodied in Sarbanes - Oxley, and cops who think the public just doesn't understand.

For several years, Cameco has tied compensation to environmental sustainability and worker safety, because «being in the uranium business, the company understands the importance of the social licence from the community,» says Nancy Hopkins, a lawyer who sits on several private - and public - sector boards, including Cameco's.

And while these words are commonly found in everyday conversations, Steven D. Cohen, an award - winning speaker who leads career and academic workshops on public speaking at Harvard Extension School, argues that «they often detract from the listener's ability to understand a particular message.»

We partner with organizations ranging from household brands, government bodies, not - for - profit organizations and the media who want to better understand public opinion and inform their decisions.

These measures supplement and extend the understanding gleaned from public data sources.

The control of the media by rich corporations prevents the public from understanding what is happening.

Believing that they, unlike Catholics, acted as «individuals,» not a «church,» Protestants did not understand separation to prevent them from taking their religious beliefs into the public square.

Let me then draw out some implications that follow from this understanding of the orders of creation with respect to the church in public life.

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 founding fathers of the liberal tradition from Hegel to Rousseau understood the feminine as woman's biological nature, lack of political consciousness, emotionality, irrationality, all of which made her a threat to public life and citizenship.

Spelled out in a lengthy lead editorial entitled «Evangelicals in the Social Struggle,» as well as in books such as Aspects of Christian Social Ethics, Henry's understanding of Christian social responsibility stressed (a) society's need for the spiritual regeneration of all men and women, (b) an interim social program of humanitarian care, ethical proclamation, and personal, structural application, and (c) a theory of limited government centering on certain «freedom rights,» e. g., the rights to public property, free speech, and so on.18 Though the shape of this social ethic thus closely parallels that of the present editorial position of Moody Monthly, it must be distinguished from its counterpart by the time period involved (it pushed others like Moody Monthly into a more active involvement in the social arena), by the intensity of its commitment to social responsibility, by the sophistication of its insight into political theory and practice, and by its willingness to offer structural critique on the American political system.

I have experienced my own share of violent threats for being a woman online: one needn't exercise much speculation to understand why these women would shy away from public court cases or lawsuits or accusations.

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.

Cornell University Professor William Provine, a leading historian of Darwinism, concluded from Gallup's figures that the American public simply does not understand what the scientists mean by evolution.

At this point in my life, I am so convinced of the tenderness of the Father's heart that in those times when a public «word» is given from a person who understands the function of these gifts in the body of Christ, edification will be the aim.

The reading curriculum, drawn from classic texts in the Catholic, Protestant, and Jewish traditions, will touch on major themes according to the classical understanding of freedom and its relationship with truth, religion, the public interest, and other important concepts (see syllabus below).

Robert Bellah has shown that American culture from its early beginnings has held two views in tension: on the one hand, the biblical understanding of community based on the notion of charity for all members, a community supported by public and private virtue; and, on the other hand, the utilitarian understanding that community is a neutral state which allows individuals to pursue the maximization of their self - interest.16.

I understood from Dorothy that she was asking me to comprehend what the consequences would be of a public statement from her on abortion and also that the public consequences might be a distraction from the issue and the cause.

Most of these lectures aim at bringing the insights of Hinduism and Buddhism closer to Indian and Western Christians as well as philosophers, to deepen their understanding of faith and expand it to other forms of belief.43 His anthology «The Vedic Experience» which has been accepted and respected by many Hindus, tries to present texts from the Veda and the Upanishads in such a way that they become open towards other beliefs and transparent for the depth of faith.44 An important aspect of his literary production, already central at the beginning, but gaining prominence again lately, has been to address a Western public that faces the challenge of having to seek its religious identity and not being able to take it for granted.

Just don't base public policy on ideas which he gleams from an ancient text written by men who did not understand science.

Weigel writes that «everyone involved understood that Pope Paul VI wanted the «Washington Case» settled without a public retraction from the dissidents, because the pope feared that insisting on such a retraction would lead to schism — a formal split in the Church in Washington, and perhaps beyond.

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.

And precisely by tying understanding to dispositions to act, our analysis avoids disengaging the effort to understand from the public realm.

The sciences have a specialized vocabulary and knowledge that have developed organically, as it were, from its methods, and, because of this, scientists regularly must «translate» their discoveries for the public so that the their value can be understood.

Achieves these goals through research to understand, prevent and recover from pollinator losses; expanding public education programs and outreach; increasing and improving pollinator habitat; and developing public - private partnerships

From what I understand, when an overweight Type II diabetic remains overweight and is unable to get his or her disease under control with diet and exercise (which clearly, she hasn't, given her weight and her now - public relationship with Novartis), such a person becomes even more susceptible to the dangerous metabolic syndrome, which includes diabetes, as well as heart, kidney and liver disease.

but on the other side, the coach also need to understand that the general public's impression of you is largely going to come from 15 second interviews, and you need to be aware of how you come across in that brief moment so the coach needs to say the right thing in those brief moments

Sports Insights takes betting statistics from both sportsbooks and shows, in easy to understand pie charts, which side of a sporting event the public is favoring and where the «smart» money is going.

I can understand why the public doesn't expect much from Texas this season, but they're a potentially dangerous team that could get to.500.

Sports Insights compiles betting stats from all three sportsbooks and shows, in easy to understand pie charts, which side of a sporting event the public is favoring and where the «smart» money is going.

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.

Now women proudly breastfeed their babies in public, expecting only nods of appreciation and understanding from strangers.

It was my understanding from the article that this school participates in the National School Lunch Program (it isn't limited to just public schools); if they do participate, then they are subject to all of the same requirements as a regular public school.

NECPA's mission is to create broad public understanding of the benefits of high quality early childhood care and education and a raised awareness of the «professional expertise» required to deliver that high quality care and an appreciation of the advantages that children receive from accredited centers and schools.

To further build this understanding among early childhood stakeholders in the state, WI - AIMH held a meeting to explore the endorsement process and the impact it has on workforce development in November 2010 with public and private stakeholders from multiple agencies and systems working with young children.

The Standards are intended to: assist the public in understanding what to expect from an Athletic Trainer; assist the Athletic Trainer in evaluating the quality of patient care; and assist the Athletic Trainer in understanding the duties and obligations imposed by virtue of holding the ATC ® credential.

When a doctor has to deal with constantly rotating individuals from the general public, however, they are going aim for language anyone can understand, and a level of detail that won't overwhelm people.

Pew conducts original research and analyses to help policymakers understand local policy challenges, from providing healthy school lunches for children to designing retirement programs for public employees.

Unfortunately, this lack of understanding from the general public can make life difficult for people with aut...

I always do or in the car I feel imberressed when I breastfeed in public I'm not one of those ladies that pops my boobs out even if it's something natural just be conservative and do it in a private quiete place so you and your baby can be calm it's nothing from another world obviously if people judge don't really understand what breastfeeding is: I breastfeed my baby only 2 in public and many ppl told me congrats she's adorable and breastfeeding is the best.

Plouffe's response was that campaigns need to take negative messages spread online from person to person as seriously as they would a negative TV ad or a direct attack from an opponent in a public appearance, providing yet another example of the extent to which the Obama team understood the changed media environment in which they ran.

The justice secretary is also understood to have demanded that condoms be removed from prisons and was only stopped when officials stepped in to advise him on the devastating public health implications of the move.

This clearly takes us some way from the neo-liberal understanding of economic freedom, in which no such requirement of the public benefit of private economic activity is stipulated.

You don't have to be an expert in public choice theory to understand that when the government owns companies that directly benefit from economic distortions, the incentives to remove those distortions are pretty low.

«The minority members; you could see clearly from the way they communicate that they have not read, they do not understand the transactions and the things that happen and they just keep saying all sorts of things that does not advance the public interest in anyway.

Villiers says that she «understands public concerns about rail fares», yet nowhere in her interview does she suggest there will be any relief from the planned two years of fare increases at three points above the retail price index.