Sentence examples for towards an issue from inspiring English sources

"After seeing the reaction the picture caused earlier this week, the cast and crew came up with the idea of turning some of this attention towards an issue around water that really matters," a statement on WaterAid's website reads.

According to Teddlie and Tashakkori (2009), researchers employ questionnaire to gather self-report data about attitudes, beliefs and feelings towards an issue of interest.

But trying to get people to direct their attention towards an issue that really matters is something else entirely.

Through agenda setting and framing processes, mass media coverage influences which issues the public are aware of, and what their attitudes towards those issues are; public attention towards an issue has been shown to correlate with media focus on that issue [ 12], and media frames have been shown to influence recipients' appraisals and decision-making [ 13].

Turn your mind towards an issue you have experienced.

Here, responsibility towards Iraqi refugees clashes with the parties' policies towards immigration, an issue that both manifestos have plenty to say about – Labour promising that "there will be no unskilled immigration from outside the EU", while the Conservatives promise to "take net migration back to the levels of the 1990s – tens of thousands a year, not hundreds of thousands".

Steroids may be moving towards becoming an issue like gambling, against which baseball also has rules, but is not something fans spend a lot of time debating.

Many smartphone addicts may scoff and offer anecdotal evidence of their pain-free existence, but there's a steady stream of stories that point towards it being an issue.

That would be a giant step towards taming global warming, an issue on which the world has made little progress to date.

But he went out of his way to assert his leadership credentials towards the end, making an issue of the contest of character with David Cameron.

Hopefully the piece represents the desperate urgency we feel is needed to wake our generation up from their general apathy towards climate change as an issue to care about.