Sentences with phrase «shift public attention»

This global effort seeks to shift public attention and awareness to the power of giving; to focus on sharing rather than consumer - driven holiday shopping.

Not exact matches

This week, with the on - field action (and the media's attention) shifting to games in Kansas City, the sport has a great chance to provide even more public support to an important cause — one with which its history is inextricably intertwined.

While Inc. usually focuses on private startups, once a year we shift our attention to those entrepreneurs who have recently decided to take on the public markets.

Retail consultant Burt Flicking saw the move as part of a shift at Wal - Mart under Chief Executive Doug McMillon to pay closer attention to public opinion on social issues, noting the company had raised wages for entry - level staff ealier this year.

Sustained national media attention on the shooting, emotional confrontations between politicians and survivors and their families, as well as a public - opinion shift in favor of stricter gun laws could spur Congress to do something to tighten access to guns.

An increasing number of news stories are centered on issues rather than personalities; for one thing, there seems to be a shift in the public's attention from personal scandal to issues of campaign financing and contributions.

One reason is that denominational and judicatory officials have shifted their attention away from such «private» issues as education and toward public policy and social change.

«The UK's current financial situation means that there is likely to be limited opportunity for large public spending infrastructure projects and attention may have to shift to user charging and private sector investment in new infrastructure.

In a statement signed by his Special Assistant on Public Communications and New Media, Lere Olayinka, the governor said; «As it still appears, the statement made by the Federal Government on the Halliburton and Siemens corruption scandals may not be more than another decoy to shift the attention of Nigerians from the selective nature of President Buhari's fight against corruption.»

According to a statement signed by his Special Assistant on Public Communications and New Media, Lere Olayinka, in Ado Ekiti on Friday, Fayose alleged that there was a grand plot to release another set of Chibok Girls to shift the attention of Nigerians from the various scandals rocking the government.

We need to make sure that we are in control over the things that affects us.Anytime there is flood and people loose their life, most of the blame goes to sitting presidents.I am not saying that the central government does not have responsibility to ensure that enabling environment is created.They have a great work to do but as citizens what is our quota?When you move around Accra, sometimes i becomes angry within myself because i am in doubt as to whether our sanitation laws exit.People because of the tax they claim they pay waits for zoom lion workers to come and clean the choked gutters before our houses and shops either than that, it will remain like that.Is it modernity or civilization that has turned us to forget our traditional values or duties of ensuring that our environments is clean?Everybody in our Ghanaian setting knows the responsibility of men and women in making sure that our environments are clean not waiting for flood to occur and we start blaming sitting presidents.To the media, though your responsibility is to keep governments on it toes, you equally have a mandate in educating the public of what we are expected to do as citizens in other to ensure that our dear nation is a better ecosystem for all of us to live.The attention of the media should be shifted from making politicians popular to making us aware as citizens of our responsibilities.I sometimes get confused to hear journalists calling opponents to comment on issues concerning the sitting governments and the only thing that comes to my mind is what do the journalist want to hear from the political opponents?Nothing.They will end up criticizing without giving an alternative.The media should rather resort in questioning people directly to where the problems are coming from.Let us build our institutions.When it comes to energy issues.Citifm will call Hon.KT Hammond who was a deputy minister living who he worked under (His boss at that time) and I always become confused because what can we expect from him?nothing.

«Given the expanding prevalence of shift work worldwide and the heavy public burden of cancers, we initiated this study to draw public attention to this issue so that more large cohort studies will be conducted to confirm these associations,» he added.

By shifting funds, public attention and scarce organizational and budgetary resources away from schools and into the coffers of the testing industry vendors, the futures of poor and minority children and the schools they attend get compromised.»

Gates Foundation to move away from teacher evals, shifting attention to «networks» of public schools chalkbeat.org/posts/us/2017/...

But perhaps the recommendation that offers the largest shift in the education space, and more broadly, public programs overall, is a call for greater accountability and governance models that focus attention on performance and reward meaningful action over political rhetoric.

Before Vergara shifted the public's attention to teacher protection laws, it was Robles - Wong and a companion case, Campaign for Quality Education v. California, that made headlines as the big education cases in California.

«With the onslaught of negative attention and the all - out attack on our school in the fall of 2008, I found myself shifting my focus to defending not just our school, but the future of public education.

In fact, despite the degree of public attention that's come to the EMV adoption issue as merchants have been confronted by the deadline for liability shift that just this month passed here in the U.S., there is still no, actual firm, you - must - support — EMV — by — this - date PCI rule in place for merchants.

Several exhibitions in public institutions — Tate Modern's Frida Kahlo exhibition in 2005, the Royal Academy's tremendous «Radical Geometry: Modern Art of South America from the Patricia Phelps de Cisneros Collection» in 2014, and two Saatchi Collection initiatives, «Tectonic Shift: Contemporary Art from Chile» (2011), curated by Brunson, and «Pangaea: New Art from Africa and Latin America» — have drawn attention to the history and vivacity of art - making on the continent.

Worse yet, they distract attention and resources from more promising, less risky and proven solutions to climate and energy concerns, such as efficiency, solar and wind energy, relocalization, expanded public transportation, dietary shifts and regenerative agriculture.

«We now need to shift our attention to gaining positive outcomes for public hospitals, prevention, Indigenous health, mental health, aged care, rural health, private health insurance, palliative care, and the medical workforce,» Dr Gannon said.

Although public attention may have shifted, radon still presents a serious health threat.

Although public attention may have shifted to mold as the health - risk du jour, radon still presents a serious health threat.