Sentence examples for General public concern from inspiring English sources

Whereas economic interests and most cause groups benefit a narrow constituency, public interest groups promote issues of general public concern (e.g., environmental protection, human rights, and consumer rights).

Anyone who expresses himself or herself in an accessible way on matters of general public concern meets Mr. Posner's definition of a public intellectual.

Its other main reform is to ban "phoney issue ads"—commercials that purport to be about matters of general public concern (the environment, say, or national security) but which in reality attack your opponent.

It sustains the act as an exercise of the police power, but in truth it requires no extraordinary aid, being but a regulation of corporations calling for on application of the familiar precept, 'Sic utere tuo,' etc., in a matter of general public concern.

The greenhouse effect and global climate change mainly caused by the substantive CO2 emission from coal-fired power plants have aroused general public concern [1 3].

Regressions were used to test the hypothesis that the general public concern for CC can be largely explained by socioeconomic variables.

The website, Cal-Adapt.org, went live today and has a variety of features tailored for different types of users, including members of the general public concerned about their neighborhood or region; decision-makers, such as city planners and resource managers; and experts who want to examine data.

While Frantal and Kunc [37] found no significant influence of WT construction on the number of visitors to recreation areas in the Czech Republic, other studies have highlighted marked opposition and disagreement among the general public concerning popular recreation areas [8, 10].

Currently, there is much speculation in the media, and within the general public, concerning the impact of the Alberta oil sands operations on the environment and human health.

There is a pluralism of values at stake as regards to patients, research participants, authorities, the medical profession, scientists and the general public concerning the storage and use of human tissue samples [ 22, 23], the importance of which may vary according to the individual involved.

"To me, this says that as far as the general public are concerned – and the Mercury is a prize that the general public care about – the list is nearer counter-culture than mainstream," he said.