Sentences with phrase «understanding public reaction»

Analyzing millions of internet searches tied to major societal events offers a new way to understand public reaction to those events, according to new research from the Richard M. Fairbanks School of Public Health at Indiana University - Purdue University Indianapolis.

Not exact matches

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!

He understands that if you enter the public forum you expose yourself to every possible response and reaction out there.

«The public reaction to this event reveals very deep fault lines in our understanding of Muslims» and Christians» perception of the God revealed in the Bible and the Qur «an, and indeed of the gospel itself,» wrote Darrell Whiteman, interim executive director of Overseas Ministries Study Center.

My gut reaction is that it does run the risk of being the place where women are «sent» to nurse and that we shouldn't need rooms like this, but I also understand that many women just aren't comfortable nursing in public and if there are spaces set aside for them I'm all for it.

Greater clarity would have the merit of helping to manage public expectations and market reactions during transitional periods, and would provide political actors with a clear understanding of the rules and restrictions that are in effect.

Politicians are still trying to figure out the public reaction, which doesn't want softness but understands that something must be horrible wrong with the country.

He worked behind - the - scenes at the model train shop and it's easy to understand his antisocial ways from the reactions and snickers he receives in public purely because of his stature.

Essentially Sandman argues that risk perception, that is, the public's understanding of the potential danger of something in the environment (the hazard) is not necessarily based on an objective understanding of risk, but on an emotional equation which is created by the relationship between hazard and outrage (an emotional reaction to the hazard).

«As a volunteer and board member for the Southeast Volusia Humane Society, I have met many people in Volusia County who don't understand the importance of spaying or neutering their pets.As I go on adoptions, the public reaction is, «Aw, I just want one litter; I'll find them homes.

A better understanding of the underlying psychology of this effect can help explain the public's reaction to climate change and inform approaches used to communicate the phenomenon.

Marshall 2 was a unique institutional response (an extended denial of an application to reconsider «Marshall 1») to an unexpected and unwelcome public reaction to the earlier decision which had been understood (in a way which Marshall 2 said was unjustified) very expansively.

Indeed, in one case the employment tribunal commented that it struggled to understand an employee's reaction, or over reaction, to a public display of affection colleagues in light of the evidence that it was «a cool environment in which to work».