Sentences with phrase «with public influence»

Health care providers and groups with public influence — such as the media, policy makers, and health advocates — need accurate technical information on this issue to prevent the spread of misinformation and to maintain the strength and credibility of breastfeeding promotion activities.

Not exact matches

With its ability to influence opinions, social media does remarkable harm by playing a role in the rigging of elections and public debate.

If true, it would demonstrate how shrewd the CJNG has gotten at using public disaffection with rival cartels to further its own influence and power.

-- Eric Ward Interviewed by Ogilvy Public Relations — 360 Digital Influence November 2011 — Interview with Brian Camen about Social Media Linking and Promotion

Zuckerberg visited with senators in closed - door meetings Monday, previewing the public apology he plans to give Congress on Tuesday after revelations that the data - mining firm Cambridge Analytica gathered personal information from 87 million users to try to influence elections.

Giving three extra seats on the board to the CEO was certainly founder friendly; that the expansion happened at the same time Uber accepted a $ 3.5 billion investment from Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund, which came with a board seat, suggests Benchmark viewed the board expansion as a way to protect its own interests and influence as well.

Heimans and Timms spoke with MarketWatch by telephone recently about new power and its influence on government, corporate governance, social activism and public opinion.

-- Introduce your business to thousands of potential customers in the entire market area of Cape Cod, the Islands, and the South Shore — Influence the buying decisions of thousands of potential customers — Speak to people who will make a decision to buy your product or service this week — Create a consistent flow of new customer opportunities via foot traffic, phone calls, website traffic, e-newsletter sign ups, social media engagement — Tell «the story» of your business — Differentiate your business from your competitors — Encourage customer loyalty — Educate past customers on why they should come back and do business with you again — Grow your market share — Make your business a household name and create top of mind awareness — Build the credibility of your business — Control the public's perception of your business

As to the FAQ released specifically for investors and workers, Joshua Waldbeser, of counsel with Drinker Biddle & Reath, opines that DOL's intentions «appear to be not just limited to educating investors about the fiduciary rule generally, but also to address some very specific misunderstandings, and to influence public perceptions» about the rule.

• The character and integrity of those with whom you are doing business • Changing technology as it impacts industries (including the banking industry) • Future changes in the law or even how the law might be interpreted differently 10 years from now • Deteriorating international competiveness (as what happened to our tax code) • Emerging competitive threats • Changes in industrial structure; e.g., new sources of competition • Political influence and unexpected litigation • Public sector fiscal challenges, demographic changes and challenges managing the nation's healthcare resources

The libertarian threat to higher education in the name of productivity is seen in the «public policy» think tanks influencing Republican governors to «disrupt» higher education by holding it to the standard of measurable competencies, sometimes beginning and ending with salaries offered to graduates.

Although religious pressure groups are able to influence policy makers to act in ways that are in harmony with the values of particular religious communities, this plays a secondary role in relation to most public issues.

Coupled with Russia's failure to establish a religiously and ideologically «neutral» public space in 1990s, this indicates that Christian religious ideals still hold strong influence over Russian culture.

As a result our influence is ebbing from public life and we are increasingly finding ourselves at odds with popular culture and political opinion in areas of morality such as bioethics, right to life, family and sexual ethics.

Previously the Church, along with the State, was a major direct participant and influence in the public realm, with substantial control over how it was represented in the public realm.

Christianity Today online editor Sarah Pulliam Bailey spoke with Rubio about his diverse faith background, how his faith influences his policy positions, and why Christians should be involved in the public square.

In both of these strictures, the role of theological ethics or moral theology in practical theology was minimized, and the idea that practical theology dealt with the church's attempt to influence the order of the public world subsided.

Joel Carpenter begins his long - awaited and richly informative book with that quotation, gently noting that while one may question fundamentalism's constructive achievements, «no one can deny that fundamentalism has survived» and «has found ways to influence American public life.»

As and atheist, I am concerned with the influence religion has on the general public, specifically when it comes to women's rights, civil rights, gay rights, and the like.

More pertinent to civil religion is the great influence Comte and Spencer exercised with Mexican public educators.

If Santa Clausism became the dominant «religion» of the country, tried to influence the government, inst / itute laws and public policies and demand that it be taught in public education - start every school day with a reading from «Twas the Night Before Christmas» and have «Ho Ho Ho» on your money - I'm just betting that you would have something to say about it on an internet forum and elsewhere!

«When both the logic of the market and the logic of the State come to an agreement that each will continue to exercise a monopoly over its respective area of influence, in the long term much is lost: solidarity in relations between citizens, participation and adherence, actions of gratuitousness, all of which stand in contrast with giving in order to acquire (the logic of exchange) and giving through duty (the logic of public obligation, imposed by State law).

At the moment the political machine just seems to flow with powerful minorities or public opinion (influenced often by the media).

They appeared to have abdicated the task of provisioning their people spiritually in this public world, a world the people continued confusedly to occupy, with diminished influence, in order to make a living.

In 1988 each of the major U.S. television networks worked with a major newspaper — CBS News with The New York Times, NBC News with The Wall Street Journal, and ABC News with The Washington Post — in order to produce polls which themselves mightily influenced both politicians and public.

Stephen Prothero is a nut case who wants to force all religions to be taught at public schools:: «Prothero has argued for mandatory public school Bible literacy courses (along the lines of the Bible Literacy Project's The Bible and Its Influence), along with mandatory courses on world religions.»

Takana, a rabbinic forum established in 2003 to clamp down on s - exual misconduct by Orthodox educators, went public February 15 with allegations that Mordechai «Moti» Elon had taken advantage of his influence over male students and performed «acts at odds with sacred and moral values.»

The fact that a time had arrived when at least one man was to «prefer a popular lectureship even to a bishopric» 72 was quite as much a commentary on the decline of the episcopal office in public esteem at is was an indication of the prestige and influence associated with an important preaching post.

The scrutiny of the funding practices of large transnational food companies6, 7 has threatened the credibility of nutrition research and researchers.5 However, without empirical work examining the association of industry sponsorship with the results of nutrition research, researchers, policy makers, and the public have no way of quantifying and understanding the extent of industry influence on the data.

Owners like Sanford, whose auditoriums are connected with public lanes, are also counting on the influence of the pros to boom business in the lanes.

By contrasting the line movement at books like CRIS and Pinnacle with the public betting trends from our seven contributing offshore sportsbooks, we're able to explain what factors are influencing line movement and which teams are offering value.

By contrasting the opening and current lines with the public betting trends from our seven contributing offshore sportsbooks, we're able to explain what factors are influencing line movement.

Through their influence, the school health consultants collaborate with multidisciplinary representative specialists across the Division of Public Health and with local communities to promote maximum physical, social, emotional, and educational growth of children and adolescents in the school setting.

When we can push aside the stress, concerns about public perceptions, and influences of modern culture and connect with our true intuition we can usually make good choices and decisions for ourselves and our families.

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.

Common Cause says third - party groups and coalitions with feel - good names have stepped up their campaigning in recent years to influence public policy.

This project will use both qualitative and quantitative methods along with social media analysis to generate new empirical findings on public perceptions of UK food supply chains, what people's concerns are, and what influences these and how they may be best managed in the future.

The manual begins with an uncontentious definition: «Lobbying is the process of seeking to influence government and its institutions by informing the public policy agenda» or, rather more succinctly, «the art of political persuasion».

The public is outraged by the fact that a friend of the President with no meaningful education or government post has had the opportunity to influence, and even supersede, the democratically elected President in making important decisions, even more so with the approval of the President.

The consensus is that Russia influenced the US election in Trump's favor (by eg hacking his political opponents and strategically using that information to influence public opinion; this may or may not have happened in coordination with some people from the Trump campaign).

So I then asked him why such «manners» matters so much, and he replied: «everything can be a possibility in a negotiation, and opening up might limit what's possible» «opening up a negotiation will allow public opinion to influence the negotiation process, and no one will try to negotiate anything with such party / entity»

We also plan to reanalyse public opinion surveys (with a temporal component) to see how affective rhetoric influences individual voters» actual political choices (rather than the whole electorate).

Smarter ones will try to influence it, either via behind - the - scenes communications with online influentials or by wading directly into the public fray.

Rev. Prof. Emmanuel Martey's claims on governance to be a genuine love for God and country, but last week, his sincerity was questioned with the accusations from his former Public Relations Officer (PRO) that his utterances, have been influenced heavily by an opposition political leader with cash and an expensive brand new SUV car.

At the same time, digital campaigners can run ads with the entirely different goal of influencing the broad public conversation.

Scharff in Buffalo News: Reduce Influence of Special Interests by Matching Small Donations With Public Funds

Lib Dem peer Lord Avebury suggested: «For Mr Crosby to have any dealings whatsoever with government departments, and to exercise a malign influence in the background, is harmful to public health in the United Kingdom and he should be got rid of and sent back to Australia.»

Only with a limit can people have faith that no one person or organisation has the influence to buy our politics or subvert our public life.

The lack of independence of MPs adds to the low estimation in which politicians are held by the general public, as does their lack of genuine influence, as individual MPs, in dealing with problems faced by constituents.»