Sentence examples for tackle ignorance from inspiring English sources

Advisors to the British home secretary in 1979, said: 'there was no compelling evidence that occasional moderate use of cannabis was likely to have detrimental effects on individual users.' 9 January 1987: Fear of an AIDS epidemic led the British government to fund a modern, hard hitting advertising campaign to tackle ignorance of the deadly disease.

French President François Hollande today visited the Jewish cemetery where hundreds of graves were desecrated last week, where he condemned the "odious act," vowed to defend the Jewish community with all the country's strength, and announced a plan to tackle "ignorance and hate".

Education is one of the essential elements of tackling ignorance, bigotry and intolerance.

Contact is the prime avenue for raising awareness and tackling ignorance.

Health experts endorsed the findings and said they showed that ministers should initiate more education campaigns in order to tackle widespread public ignorance about how closely alcohol and cancer are connected.

It's time we tackled people's ignorance about rural life How much more mature and sensible our culture would be if primary school children were taught about the countryside, preferably with regular nature walks in the company of a well-informed teacher.

Mass information campaigns may be good for tackling stigma, as ignorance, cultural stereotypes and myths lead to prejudice [ 14].

Fighting indifference and ignorance to tackle avian flu in Indonesia SRAGEN, Indonesia – In a small village in Central Java, Wiyatno, a farmer, surveys the dark and empty chamber that was once his chicken coop.

This was upsetting too, but it tackled the issue of medical ignorance about pre-eclampsia in 1920s England.

It was also instrumental in raising public awareness about the illness, which was still the subject of much ignorance when EastEnders tackled it in 1991.

Beveridge, however, was on to something in basing his report on the need to tackle five "giant evils": want, disease, ignorance, squalor and idleness.