Sentences with phrase «with public attitudes»

It also syncs well with public attitudes in the state as delineated in recent polling by Siena College.

They have argued Labour should align itself with public attitudes in the wake of the Paris attacks.

The policy was readily adopted by the coalition because it is Lib - Dem friendly and could save the Treasury money, but with public attitudes hardening since the riots and Tory backbenchers increasingly restless, observers worry it will be rolled back when parliament returns.

The poll on education funding, done by Environics Research for the Alberta Teachers Association, dealt only with public attitudes about public funding for private schools.

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While it's still unclear if Session's views will translate into changes in policy or enforcement, this attitude shift at the federal level doesn't align with public opinion on the issue.

The findings appear to show that public attitudes about the media are «more complex and nuanced than many traditional studies indicate,» according to the American Press Institute, which conducted the study as part of a collaborative effort with the Associated Press - NORC Center for Public Affairs Respublic attitudes about the media are «more complex and nuanced than many traditional studies indicate,» according to the American Press Institute, which conducted the study as part of a collaborative effort with the Associated Press - NORC Center for Public Affairs ResPublic Affairs Research.

Public frustration with existing criminal - justice procedures has encouraged a what - else - can - we - do attitude.

Nonetheless, it is true that activists» attitudes are often more polarized than the general public's, and activists often express those attitudes in more uncompromising language than many people feel comfortable with.

Further, with the exception of attitudes toward abortion, there is evidence that general public opinion is not polarizing at all.

As I flew back from Dublin to Edinburgh I read the Sunday edition of the Irish Independent the headline of which was «POLL: Act Now on Abortion say voters» with the story continuing: «The most seismic shift [in the Irish public's attitude to abortion] is that a clear majority (56 %) now favour a new referendum to repeal the current position, which gives equal right to life to the mother and foetus.»

At several points he touches upon the paradoxes of modern urbanism and the tragic ironies of our cultural attitude toward cities: although we now have more individual freedom, technical ability, and, arguably, social equity, we do not live in places as hospitable to human beings as were our cities of the past; we are pragmatists who build shoddily; our current obsession with historic preservation is the flip side of our utter lack of confidence in our ability to build well; while cultures with shared ascetic ideals and transcendent orientation built great cities and produced great landscapes, modern culture's expressive ideals, dogmatic public secularism, and privatized religiosity produce for us, even with our vast wealth, only private luxury, a spoiled countryside, and a public realm that is both venal and incoherent; above all, we simultaneously idolize nature and ruin it.

«I spoke with Patrick for two hours and I can say — and maybe he will not be happy that I am saying this in public — he is really disgusted by Arsenal and Arsene's attitude.»

Set up an unrealistic scenario requiring a large amount of public financing assistance that will be rejected by the same fan base frustrated with the product and ownership's attitude towards the fans.

Even more notably, with its sponsors and broad fan following, the league has so transformed public attitudes that many disabled Cambodians, athletic and not, now wear shorts to show off their prostheses.

In contrast, it may not be too helpful to City in terms of shipping him out with this report going public, as question marks will undoubtedly be raised about his attitude.

Some of the credit has to go to the manager, Ian Holloway, who has been a media darling with his wise - cracks and care - free attitude when thrust into the public limelight in press conferences and post-match interviews.

Does anybody ever perhaps consider that the reason they have so little trust with the public is that they continue to be proven catastrophically wrong, and yet continue to persist in taking a derisive attitude any time their ideas are challenged?

Modern Jewish expressions of discomfort with public breastfeeding come from the un-Jewish attitude of the surrounding bottle - feeding culture.

Ingram and Johnson worked with fathers to increase breastfeeding support for mothers and found that fathers» attitudes to breastfeeding in public and knowing how much milk the baby was getting had the most influence on whether they supported their partner to continue to breastfeed [52].

Some barriers include the negative attitudes of women and their partners and family members, as well as health care professionals, toward breastfeeding, whereas the main reasons that women do not start or give up breastfeeding are reported to be poor family and social support, perceived milk insufficiency, breast problems, maternal or infant illness, and return to outside employment.2 Several strategies have been used to promote breastfeeding, such as setting standards for maternity services3, 4 (eg, the joint World Health Organization — United Nations Children's Fund [WHO - UNICEF] Baby Friendly Initiative), public education through media campaigns, and health professionals and peer - led initiatives to support individual mothers.5 — 9 Support from the infant's father through active participation in the breastfeeding decision, together with a positive attitude and knowledge about the benefits of breastfeeding, has been shown to have a strong influence on the initiation and duration of breastfeeding in observational studies, 2,10 but scientific evidence is not available as to whether training fathers to manage the most common lactation difficulties can enhance breastfeeding rates.

Some question marks remain over the attitude of the leader, but the MP for Islington North is no longer seen universally as a politician that the public affairs industry could never do business with.

He conducts research on political attitudes, public opinion and elections with a particular interest in campaigns, political representation and electoral accountability.

«It's a separate thing being a public servant in terms of doing budgets and constituent work,» said Sen. Jim Tedisco, a Republican from the Capital Region, who as a member of the Assembly tangled infamously with Eliot Spitzer, a governor who failed to overcome the hard - charging attitude he carried as the state's popular attorney general.

Greg Hands compares Gordon Brown's attitude to public spending with the behaviour of a binge drinker

EVAW called for «Compulsory Sex and Relationships Education to ensure that all schools tackle harmful attitudes and behaviours amongst young people», and this was accompanied by a survey by YouGov which found that 86 per cent of the public thinking that «it should be compulsory for secondary schools to provide sex and relationships education which addresses sexual consent and respectful relationships» — with 48 per cent also thinking this for primary schools.

New study of public attitudes to poverty shows that more than in any other constituency, solidarity among Labour voters with poor is diminishing

Richard Umpleby, from Stalybridge, fears that Labour's attempts to rebuild its relationships with communities are encountering headwinds as a result of the public's «a plague on all your houses» attitude to politicians.

· Mentality (Bristol) A youth leadership project concerned with challenging negative attitudes surrounding the issue of mental health, raising awareness about mental health problems, providing support and advice for young people, and opening up a frank public discussion.

A further unrealistic attitude which both political leaders and the public encourage with equal enthusiasm is an exaggerated notion of what any government can achieve so that nothing unfortunate happens for which the public will not blame the government and for which politicians are not prepared to assume responsibility or at least, if in opposition, to blame the government.

Someone is involved in corruption, the laws are there, the institutional frameworks are there and the courts are there, but once a politician, public servant or anybody else who is supposed to protect the public purse engages in corruption, our attitude towards dealing with it has not been good,» he stated.

«That is not the attitude you take to public office where you are paid by the tax payer... so we are calling on His Excellency, the President, to as a matter of urgency, recall the High Commissioner with immediate effect, and he must be given the sack because he doesn't have the temperament, he doesn't have the qualities to represent all of us in South Africa,» Mr Ablakwa stated.

Last week, the head of the army, general sir Richard Dannatt, said the British public are not supportive of troops, contrasting their «dismissive and indifferent» response with the attitude to homecoming troops in America.

«Each week when I drive up to the state Legislature... I often feel like I'm driving three hours north and 30 years back in time because attitudes toward women in the Legislature are so out of date and out of sync with actual understanding of the general public,» said Democratic state Sen. Liz Krueger of Manhattan.

The Conservative's promise of a referendum on Lisbon was always about something far broader than the Treaty itself; it sought a mandate to go to Brussels to renegotiate the terms of our membership of the EU commensurate with British interests and public attitudes.

It survives in spite of the Church of England commanding little public support, with only 16 % of the population professing to affiliation according to the 2013 British Social Attitudes survey (and only 1.4 % being in Church on any given Sunday, according to the Church's own attendance figures).

Hammering on that faultline with the language of shirkers and strivers will have long - term impacts on public attitudes, on attitudes of one neighbour against another.

Mr Baba Anaba, the Administrator for Euroget De-Invest S.A, appealed to the public to see the projects as property of the State, and avoid playing politics with it otherwise a partisan attitude would undermine the development of national infrastructure.

«PDP is on a voyage of total destruction and abandonment with the emergence of uncultured governor like Mr Fayose that lacks decorum, whose past records, attitude and public utterance are seen as affront.

Repeatedly targeting people with misinformation that is designed to appeal to their political biases may well influence public attitudes, cause moral outrage, and drive partisans further apart, especially when we're given the false impression that everyone else in our social network is espousing the same opinion.

«What's striking about these findings is that politics sometimes is at the center of the story about public attitudes and sometimes politics has very little to do with the way people think about science issues in the public arena.

Lo says he didn't worry about negative public attitudes toward immigrants when he came in 2011 from Hong Kong, China, to work with Fauchet, then at the University of Rochester in New York.

«An important challenge following dramatic terrorist attacks is to know how to engage with public perceptions and attitudes, for example to prevent an upsurge in prejudice and its effects,» says Abrams.

«Our findings show that terrorism shifts public attitudes towards greater loyalty to the in - group, less concern with fairness, and greater prejudice against Muslims and immigrants, but it seems that this effect is stronger on those who are politically left - leaning than those who are right - leaning,» explain psychological scientists from the Center for the Study of Group Processes at the University of Kent.

Although an increase in knowledge is important, programs need to be able to contribute to actual behavior change,» said De La Rue, «It is well established in the educational and psychological research literature and in public health, that changes in knowledge and attitude are not associated with reductions in actual behavior.

With spanking a public health concern, this approach offers a simple way to reach a large audience to change attitudes and reduce parents» reliance on corporal punishment, said Holden, who was recently elected president of Dallas» oldest child abuse prevention agency, Family Compass.

In addition to the fun of meeting other scientists and the interested public and learning more about recent research, these conferences provided me with an intriguing opportunity to reflect on cultural attitudes.

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.

The Centre believes that scientists can have a huge impact on the way the media cover scientific issues, by engaging more quickly and more effectively with the stories that are influencing public debate and attitudes to science.

The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills along with Ipsos MORI published a report on public awareness of, and attitudes towards animal research.

The Centre is now housed in the Wellcome Collection, and believes that scientists can have a huge impact on the way the media cover scientific issues, by engaging more quickly and more effectively with the stories that are influencing public debate and attitudes to science.