Sentences with phrase «shaping public attitudes»

In his journalism and books he was a major advocate of the French Impressionists, and was influential in spreading their ideas and shaping public attitudes in Britain towards favouring Impressionism.

Issues around sexuality and sexual practice are therefore powerful factors in shaping public attitudes and concomitantly the policies of public authorities.

Only if we can compellingly witness to our religious convictions about life, suffering and death will we be able to shape public attitudes toward death.

Bots have become a periodic, and controversial, method used by some political advocates, companies, and others to simulate a groundswell of public interest in an issue or product and, thus, potentially shape public attitudes.

Misinformation often shapes public attitudes about science.

With the release this morning of the Obama administration's proposed regulations curbing emissions of heat - trapping gases from existing power plants, the battle to shape public attitudes is already in high gear.

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We know Sullivan does not really believe this, because his entire argument in favor of legalized homosexual marriage hinges on the recognition that public law is the most powerful tool for shaping individual attitudes.

«Formal discourse becomes politically powerful when it becomes ideology; when it articulates and fuses into effective formulations opinions and attitudes that are otherwise too scattered and vague to be acted upon; when it mobilizes a general mood, «a set of disconnected, unrealized private emotions,» into «a public possession, a social fact»; when it crystallizes otherwise inchoate social and political discontent and thereby shapes what is otherwise instinctive and directs it to attainable goals, when it clarifies, symbolizes, and elevates to structured consciousness the mingled urges that stir within us.

Visions of «a Christian America» had unusual power to shape and inform the values and attitudes of children and youth growing up in the period in which Marshall was a well - known public figure.

That what the public thinks about energy — what they want, think they want, or think they know — shapes the decisions politicians make about energy and environmental policy: Personal attitudes, concerns, and priorities are determined by more than just «the facts.»

Rather, we sought to learn about the character of existing public attitudes and to see what underlying concerns might shape the encounter of the American public with emerging biotechnologies in the years to come.

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For all the ways in which the subject matter apparently touches on very public issues (the economy of the land, LGBT rights, post-Brexit attitudes), in essence the film is absolutely intimate and personal, shaped by marvellously believable performances and ultimately achieving a heart - rending authenticity.

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Inform and shape the current attitude towards feline nutrition and raw feeding with the general public by promoting the health benefits, safety, and ease of a raw meat diet.

In tracking the climate challenge (science and policy) since the 1980s I see scant evidence that our politics and public attitudes will make it possible to build a carbon price «pull» sufficient to shape energy investments and choices on a meaningful timescale....

Under the traditional «deficit model» of public attitudes towards science, it is assumed that these attitudes are shaped directly by scientific knowledge.

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