Sentences with phrase «widespread fears about»

There were widespread fears about a spike in far - right activity today, amid more evidence of an English Defence League (EDL) membership drive in the wake of the Woolwich murder.

There were widespread fears about a spike in far - right activity today, amid more evidence of an EDL membership drive in the wake of the Woolwich murder.

It has already been blamed for the failure of the SmartGridCity project in Boulder, Colo., which set off widespread fears about privacy and sparked a media backlash.

Widespread fear about the long - term consequences of these environmental changes seems entirely justified.

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Just as important, at a time when fears over China's slowing economy are widespread and there's evidence of retail saturation in the country's major metropolitan areas, nearly half of survey participants said they expect to be better off financially in the next 12 months — and they are eager to spend, contrary to gloomy assumptions about the drag of sluggish economic growth on consumer sentiment.

But, as Fraser shows, the passing of the Great Reform Bill was not just about dry electoral detail, but set against a background of widespread violence and fear of revolution, as was seen in France in 1830.

«The reforms have created widespread public fear about the scale and impact of public spending cuts and the privatisation of public services.

Fear of blindness was widespread, but knowledge about specific eye diseases uneven.

Of course, for those who can remember the time before computers were so widespread, there are many concerns about dating online; fears about privacy, security and personal factors like feeling too old or being insecure can make us more reserved.

Furthermore, the Common Core assessments emerged onto the public agenda in the wake of revelations of widespread privacy violations by the National Security Agency, playing into heightened fears about data mining.

It will be a compelling battle to try and replace the mother of all eco-scares — man - made global warming — but Climate Depot is confident that one of these test - marketed new eco-issues will catch on and you may soon see massive denials from environmentalists and UN officials that claims of a man - made global warming crisis never really existed (echoing the claims that there was no widespread concern about global cooling in the 1970's) See: Spoof: NYT in 2019: Scientists Now Say Global Warming Fears Fading Away — Claim There Never Was Warming Consensus — By Marc Morano

Yet in an atmosphere of vast economic uncertainty and Republican fear - mongering about government spending, the rhetoric of green jobs has been unable to motivate widespread public support for addressing climate change and has opened the door to predatory attacks from those seeking to exploit scientific uncertainty for political ends.

To kill the rats, people have resorted to poison, some of it illegal, which has led to the widespread deaths of cats and stoked official fears about soil pollution and the development of a «super rat,» immune to pesticides.