The creeping fear of what might happen next is influencing public opinion even in the American heartlands. |
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Given the importance of public opinion, let us counter misinformation with a modicum of information. |
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A plethora of issues, both important as well as trivial, have had an effect on the public opinion. |
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The master alchemist of election victories claims to have detected a sea change in public opinion. |
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Yet however imperfect, however crude, they afford the historian's best access to even a rough estimate of public opinion of the period. |
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Here we see the force of language with or without meaning as a molder of public opinion. |
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The Tudor dynasty's right to the throne was vulnerable to contestation, and the theaters were thought able to influence public opinion. |
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For every fan there has been a critic and no player has polarised public opinion more. |
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The practices of the unscrupulous money changers stand indicted in the court of public opinion rejected by the minds and hearts of men. |
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Nevertheless, polls are influential in forming public opinion and attitudes. |
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They argued that discussion led to verity and gave enlightened public opinion the force of law. |
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The only power source yet unconsidered, and the one that is unjustly vilified in the court of public opinion, is nuclear power. |
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The British press always gets itself in a tangle over abortion, largely because it tries to follow public opinion and public opinion is muddled. |
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For it is in the essence of his behaviour that he should be eccentric, unconventional and rash in the eyes of public opinion. |
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To calm public opinion, police must quickly arrest the culprits and solve this case. |
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Democracy is not something made of bone china that will shatter under the weight of public opinion. |
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Before the war, the Prime Minister could barely muster a majority of public opinion in favour of action. |
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The effects appear to be marginal in terms of a significant shift in public opinion, but such activities annoy the sovereigntists. |
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A referendum, he argues, is simply too dangerous given the state of public opinion. |
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But public opinion has swung against off-roading, and the police are now actively seeking solutions. |
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The trial in the court of public opinion is no different than a trial in front of a jury in a court of law. |
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At first public opinion was behind the idea of peacetime conscription, or national service. |
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At times of national hysteria, certain things that go against the tide of public opinion become almost unsayable. |
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Media polls, whether scientific or the online unscientific variety, reflect the job media have done in shaping public opinion. |
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Similarly, public opinion was broadly in favour of the idea but did not consider it a priority. |
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Therefore, the court of public opinion is more harsh in judgment than the court of law. |
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However, it would be wrong to think that the government has the upper hand in controlling public opinion. |
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Certainly, public opinion of the royals has vacillated so much over the past couple of decades that anything is possible. |
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This time they want their part of public opinion to sneer when they see the television images of voters in polling booths. |
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Ever mindful of the need to preserve its iron-fisted rule, the leadership knows it must be sensitive to public opinion. |
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Decision-makers and public opinion in the interwar period yearned for stability and an end to war-induced disruption. |
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You must not be influenced by sentiment, conjecture, sympathy, passion, prejudice, public opinion, or public feeling. |
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Now public opinion has come under the control of corporate conglomerates whose primary interest is profit. |
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To be fair, the vice president faced a conflicted public opinion environment. |
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The war between Charles and public opinion will go on, whatever the outcome, but already the fightback has started. |
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I think another interesting feature of this debate of course, is how fickle public opinion is. |
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The accused are then charged with relatively minor infractions after public opinion has already been rallied against them. |
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A rebellion of public opinion against such complaisance is possible but not certain. |
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It has planned a programme of district level meetings to mobilise public opinion in favour of democracy, communal harmony and peace. |
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The more he puts his case as superbly as he did last Tuesday, the more public opinion will come round as well. |
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The end of the cold war opened up the prospect of ending the neutral status, but public opinion remained attached to it. |
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No doubt, such favourable visions of globalization pervade public opinion and political choices. |
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My effort, in talking about the pathologies of public opinion, is to root the criticisms in well-established realities of public psychology. |
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Fortunately, European public opinion was much more sympathetic to the cause of freedom. |
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Public opinion, even good public opinion, will never stop a horror show, or solve a problem. |
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But now the same complaint is chiming with adults, angered by a decision to go to war that flies in the face of public opinion. |
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The new millennium has also seen a swing in public opinion and political attitude towards independent education. |
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It's worth remembering how quickly public opinion can swing in the opposite direction once war begins. |
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During the Civil War, he lectured in England and helped swing public opinion against the South. |
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It was a slow-moving process but, by the end of the decade, the balance of public opinion had swung in favour of the tenants. |
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So bewitching is this exuberance that public opinion occasionally overshadows artistic instinct. |
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A bomb outrage to have any influence on public opinion must go beyond the intention of vengeance or terrorism. |
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America already had two strikes against it in public opinion in the region. |
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This included some six interviews, a straw poll of public opinion, and a discussion of constitutional issues surrounding the marriage. |
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It is impossible to achieve genuine distinction without a certain heedlessness of public opinion. |
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Also threatened would be the cadres who stovepiped the disinformation that the neoconservative used to manipulate public opinion. |
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A few years ago, his name headed a public opinion poll that had asked who the people of Benin would prefer as president. |
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To British ears, your claim not to read polls sounds like stolid indifference to public opinion, not moral strength and political courage. |
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We are daily assailed by the beguiling double-think of public opinion formers. |
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The United player kept his counsel, winning back public opinion with his stoicism in the face of the insults. |
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The real question is whether it can successfully wage a war of public opinion during and after the military conflict. |
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The one area where there is some similarity between the two wars is the domain of public opinion. |
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To cause an unnecessary divergence of public opinion is the most abnormal way to run the administration. |
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The majority of America must then be liberals, judging from recent public opinion polls. |
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The rallying of public opinion plays a critical role in assembling solid support for British troops going into action. |
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Time after time, he's undertaken initiatives which have gone against the grain of public opinion. |
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On some issues, the views of faculty diverged significantly from public opinion. |
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Hsieh said public opinion polls showed that over 70 percent supported reconciliation between political parties. |
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I recognise that Letters to the Editor are not necessarily an infallible guide to public opinion. |
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When Brazil were knocked out of the Olympic Games quarter-finals in Sydney two years ago, public opinion demanded the politicians investigate. |
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Love them or hate them, the red tops remain the barometer of public opinion. |
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The decision not to stand for re-election revealed increased sensitivity to public opinion. |
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The impact of a year of low-intensity warfare on public opinion on both sides of the divide has further dimmed the prospects for peace. |
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And such bodies should also be aware of the strength of public opinion on matters such as financial regulation and control. |
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The group will eventually digest the data into reports, which will serve as irrefutable evidence in the court of public opinion. |
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There is no public hearing to gather public opinion as a basis to fix the price. |
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Polls suggest that, in these increasingly health-obsessed and conformist times, public opinion might also now be amenable. |
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Add them all up and you'll begin to grasp why kids today are getting a flunking grade in conduct on the great report card of public opinion. |
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Any idea that Stalin cared for public opinion in Russia is merely laughable. |
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He fought them on the streets, in law courts, and the court of public opinion. |
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It seems that lawmakers are ignoring public opinion in making such an absurd decision. |
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The presidential elections, however, showed that public opinion polls and sociologists are not to be trusted without reserve. |
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Clearly, the leadership does not understand the need to court public opinion in a democracy. |
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He examines how campaigns work and what restrictions are placed on them by legislation and public opinion. |
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Now she is calling for new legislation to outlaw the practice and public opinion is being sought. |
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This media silence is having a lethally distorting effect on public opinion. |
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But with the president riding high in public opinion and paying morale boosting visits to his troops, nothing was further from the truth. |
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The views that individuals have on issues of public concern is called public opinion. |
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It's science, not politics, and public opinion has no bearing on scientific findings. |
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It takes an appreciable length of time for a wave of public opinion to cross the continent. |
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Unlike in occupied Germany, they were unfettered by any need to accommodate the concerns of other Allies or public opinion at home. |
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Even if this president doesn't listen, Congress and American public opinion will. |
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It has lobbied politicians and swayed public opinion on how animals should be treated. |
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The journalist then continued with a remarkable observation on public opinion. |
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He then pointed out that public opinion has had an influence on this issue. |
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Tradition condemned the demagogues as tyrants who manipulated public opinion for their own selfish ends. |
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The global reach of the world wide web provides a clear advantage in rallying public opinion. |
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In both cases political calculations ran aground on the rock of public opinion. |
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The calls strengthened public opinion that she is authoritarian and allergic to criticism. |
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If it is unable to do this, then all talk about independent public opinion is just empty talk. |
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It will become even harder to swing public opinion behind humanitarian interventions if war profiteers and racist thugs are direct beneficiaries. |
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I am disturbed that under this new parliament we are seeing a private individual buying public opinion. |
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The old right-wing nostrums which befuddled public opinion in the 1980s and 1990s no longer have the same impact. |
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I think that this is going to have a snowballing effect in terms of shaping public opinion in the developed world. |
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Regarding the impeachment case, Park should listen to the public opinion and voices from GNP members in rebellion. |
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Conservative MEPs have already decried the move as a crude attempt to sway public opinion towards a yes vote. |
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If he maintains such a principled approach in the subsequent campaign, I thought, he might even be able to turn public opinion around. |
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In election years, politicians thrash around blindly in an attempt to humour or captivate public opinion. |
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This very likely outcome posed a serious threat to Italian moderate public opinion. |
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The western leaders confidently pose as self-appointed custodians of democracy, an expedient ploy to win over public opinion. |
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It would serve them right if they were shut down as a result of the same disregard for public opinion and democracy. |
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Starting with the Missouri report, he began a campaign to have the organization do more than rely on the meliorating effect of public opinion. |
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The end result is that a tiny minority is allowed to lay claim to public opinion. |
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It is, therefore, American public opinion that must be influenced and moulded. |
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The local public opinion about the American military presence appears to be mixed. |
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Newspapers and magazines were equally powerful cultural influences on public opinion. |
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It's really rare in a split-up for public opinion to be entirely with one person or the other. |
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We believe in the importance of public opinion and its effects, and learn from our experiences. |
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Scottish public opinion took pride in the Burns nights from Montreal to Melbourne. |
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The many cases in which shaky evidence was sold to the public have not just been ruses concocted by spin doctors to win over public opinion. |
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Mandatory military service for all men and women would change public opinion in this area dramatically. |
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Without free expression, rights may be trammelled with no recourse in the court of public opinion. |
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Living in societies where the clergy were crucial shapers of public opinion, American nationalists adopted the language of millennialism. |
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Look at how a few NGO groups last year used peaceful candlelight vigils for their own selfish purposes to galvanize public opinion. |
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As for widespread sentiment opposing the decision, the Court had a duty to rise above raging currents of public opinion. |
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As the world from Ferguson to Syria plunged into chaos this summer, public opinion polls rolled in every week. |
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Although he is not on trial for the video, it was the backbreaker in the court of public opinion. |
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His views and attitudes were formed in naval wardrooms and are more usually representative of public opinion than the constipated gripings of his critics on the left. |
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But there is also a perceived need on the part of governments to build up a momentum in public opinion both to justify its actions and bury awkward questions. |
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Waldman is not cynically suggesting that the Supreme Court is a slave to public opinion. |
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Yet public opinion had been captured, and it was taken for granted that lynching was a just response to the barbarous sexual crimes against white womanhood. |
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Not just same-sex marriage laws but public opinion continues to shift in the favor of sexual and gender minorities. |
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I mean, there can be little doubt that public opinion in dixie in 1954 opposed the integration of the schools. |
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Whether the vote in a rump referendum over the weekend genuinely reflected public opinion in the eastern-most regions is doubtful. |
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Polling even showed that public opinion slanted rightward on these issues. |
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First, the amazing and oft-commented upon speed at which public opinion has flipped. |
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Imagine a world where public opinion takes a sharp turn against say, fracking. |
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Gallup said the purpose of his polls was to give politicians information about public opinion so they could act on it. |
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He was roundly defeated not only where the Treasury could exert its influence, but also in the larger, more open constituencies where public opinion mattered. |
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Changing public opinion, of course, will be the work of a generation or maybe two, but kudos to Stewart for getting it started. |
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After public opinion of the shutdown turned decidedly negative, however, Cruz amazingly denied even supporting it. |
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Abraham Lincoln was, by any measure, a great communicator and a skillful shaper of public opinion. |
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What followed was nothing less than a battle between public opinion and local government officials in Hubei Province. |
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This is a trial in the court of public opinion, to which the elected Manhattan district attorney is not insensible. |
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None of these studies, campaigns, or assertions should be enough to sway public opinion towards or against pot. |
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Surveys of public opinion suggest widespread tolerance of legal abortion. |
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No less did he miscalculate the effect on public opinion in Iran. |
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Many people in this country including many leaders and moulders of public opinion speak of everyone having or being given equal rights in our society. |
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The GOP is uninterested in major new spending programs, and moreover, they have public opinion on their side. |
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She depicts the conflict between Roosevelt and Lindbergh to influence public opinion as a venomous vendetta. |
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There is an indifference and in fact a wariness among Turkish public opinion. |
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For want of insights and data often unobtainable from the corporate media, the public opinion vital to US democracy has trouble remaining vigorous and informed. |
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They resort to dubious methods of shaping public opinion by planting unsourced stories in the media, which are not only unverified, but also unverifiable. |
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Out in the wider world, public opinion stirred, especially in the cities, stimulated by the pamphlets and broadsheets which printing made possible. |
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He has to either compromise with the opposition parties, or else use the bully pulpit of the presidency to sway public opinion which in turn would affect opposition policy. |
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While a vocal segment of public opinion expressed fear of becoming too closely aligned with the United States, the onset of the Cold War dictated otherwise. |
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So let's not try to save face for public opinion because I don't need to play victim so people can take my side. |
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But in the court of public opinion, Cosby has clearly been found guilty by millions. |
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Leaders in the region have their hands tied by their strategic interests and the need to retain US support, a policy frequently unpopular with local public opinion. |
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If these plans reach the statute book they will allow a referendum to be held in the English regions to determine whether public opinion favours regional government. |
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He was characteristically insensitive to Western public opinion. |
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The pendulum of public opinion swings from one side to another. |
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Yet journalists today, more than ever before, have the power to swing public opinion and thereby change the course of conflicts with their writing. |
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There is no longer a convincing case to hunt foxes with hounds and our democratic institutions are rightly reflecting public opinion on this issue. |
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Between 1970 and 1984 there has been sufficient mellowing of American public opinion so that James, once blacklisted, could be accepted in his own person now. |
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However, by the 1960s I had several colleagues who were great fans, and public opinion gradually came round to the view that he had been foolish rather than wicked. |
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Churchill's essay goes to extremes, but like the man in power here, the way to get public opinion aroused is to make inflated statements that hold only a grain of truth. |
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The saddest aspect of this whole inglorious dilemma is that public opinion is almost completely oblivious of the hidden cost that must be paid to comfort the farmers' pride. |
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This arrogance and contempt for public opinion must be curbed. |
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Media coverage of the culture wars makes it look as if the nation is becoming increasingly polarised but public opinion surveys show little change. |
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For the first time since the Vietnam War, foreign and security policy, not the usual menu of bread-and-butter issues, is polarizing U.S. public opinion. |
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If scarcity doesn't foil the restitution effort, public opinion could. |
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Mr Howard is a keen follower of polls, focus groups and public opinion. |
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He was thereby only following the prevailing current of public opinion. |
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In this context, it is possible to detect two strong currents in public opinion that could be driving the next sea change in the world's perception of America. |
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Indeed, the currents of public opinion are running the other way. |
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As in past battles, the legal changes will presage changes in culture and public opinion where the previously heretical becomes the obvious and the normal. |
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There is no military justification for these measures, no matter how much sycophantic generals parrot the party line and try to blind public opinion with technicalities. |
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First, the generation gap might be more interesting than the gender gap, but it's much less interesting than the ethnic gap in American public opinion. |
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There seems no doubt that when public opinion turns against Eriksson, his disregard for histrionics will be cited as the chief reason for his downfall. |
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In fact a defeat on the battlefield, Tet was a virtual victory for the North, owing to its effect on public opinion. |
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I hope that America is going to hold Cuba accountable in public opinion. |
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Critics were rebutted by public opinion, and the work gained in popularity and recognition, as did Wordsworth. |
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The increased taxes, the British blockade, and the occupation of some of New England by enemy forces also agitated public opinion in the states. |
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This is a reform that the ancien regime, always with a finger to the wind of public opinion, spotted as an electoral nightmare and ducked. |
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These incidents left him unmoved, as he did not believe them a true manifestation of public opinion. |
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Further, we are not aware of any broad groundswell of public opinion favoring the revival of corporal punishment. |
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In the court of public opinion, he would have been an outcast. |
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Under pressure from public opinion, she began to pay income tax for the first time, and Buckingham Palace was opened to the public. |
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All this propaganda aims at diabolizing the Syrian government and misleading public opinion. |
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In politics, a dead man walking is someone still in power after public opinion has swung against him. |
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While Harley had been in no way responsible for Pelton's murderous attack upon Yesler, public opinion held him to account. |
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A Congressperson with a two-year term is constantly running for office and must closely reflect public opinion in order to survive. |
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When he tried to get Parliament to pass a law allowing him to divorce his wife Queen Caroline, public opinion strongly supported her. |
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There is also another subliterature that looks at the impact of specific presidential speeches on public opinion. |
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The stock market, politicians and even public opinion polls have tergiversated all year long. |
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Dutch writers, such as Jacob Cats, held the prevailing public opinion concerning marriage. |
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These events, together with the Conscription Crisis of 1918, had a profound effect on changing public opinion in Ireland. |
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Despite a massive backlash, the advsiser remained confident he could win over public opinion with his presentational skills. |
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Instead I learn that the majority of public opinion dictates that we are all sleazebags and liars. |
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The Government's attempts to bulldoze over public opinion will be blocked at every turn. |
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Third, Ehrat attempts to develop a theoretical model of scandal based on semiotics, building from the reality of public opinion and scandal. |
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Freeping is one of the reasons Internet surveys are useless as a gauge of public opinion because the results can reflect an organized campaign. |
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He was the first Roman statesman to put his political speeches in writing as a means of influencing public opinion. |
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Gay marriage is ascendant, driven by a rapidly shifting public opinion. |
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Images captured by the photojournalist Philip Jones Griffiths in Vietnam helped turn the tide of public opinion against the war. |
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The public opinion on the death penalty varies considerably by country and by the crime in question. |
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The editorial was a blatant attempt to manipulate public opinion. |
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However, public opinion and elite opinion in Germany demanded colonies for reasons of international prestige, so Bismarck was forced to oblige. |
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This had the effect of galvanizing public opinion in western Europe in favor of the Greek rebels. |
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However public opinion has begun to change on the island in favour of a road link. |
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However, public opinion against slavery created a political liability for politicians in Britain, where the antislavery movement was powerful. |
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Lincoln's foreign policy was deficient in 1861 in terms of appealing to European public opinion. |
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Chinese representatives refused to sign the Treaty of Versailles, due to intense pressure from the student protesters and public opinion alike. |
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Surveys of public opinion on the establishment of an English deliberative assembly have given widely varying conclusions. |
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After the embarrassing events in the previous war, English public opinion was unenthusiastic about starting a new one. |
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Surveys of public opinion on the establishment of an English parliament have given widely varying conclusions. |
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In 1803, the war resumed but public opinion distrusted Addington to lead the nation in war, and instead favoured Pitt. |
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However, with the recent large enlargements in 2004, public opinion in Europe has turned against further expansion. |
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World public opinion was 'decisively and permanently against the Serbs' following media reports on the sniping and shelling of Sarajevo. |
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Newspaper readership informed public opinion in the United Kingdom and France as never before. |
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By this time, Necker had earned the enmity of many members of the French court for his overt manipulation of public opinion. |
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The British cabinet was opposed, and British public opinion was highly negative. |
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Nevertheless, prime ministers can usually do only as much as public opinion and the balance of party membership of parliament will let them do. |
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The opposition used this resource to mobilise public opinion against the monarchy, which in turn tried to repress the underground literature. |
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The Enlightenment had produced many writers, pamphleteers and publishers who could inform or inflame public opinion. |
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Publishing a white paper tests public opinion on controversial policy issues and helps the government gauge its probable impact. |
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Newspapers reported the harassment, particularly the Saturday Review, and public opinion backed the editors. |
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But when we delivered our own stern warning to the three aggressors, they knew we weren't playing games with public opinion. |
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The bitter division in public opinion provoked by the British intervention in the Middle East has already had one disastrous consequence. |
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Congress reflected public opinion, which resonated with the ideological argument that communism flourishes in poverty. |
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Instead, Churchill used his skilful rhetoric to harden public opinion against capitulation and to prepare the British for a long war. |
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Propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels made effective use of film, mass rallies, and Hitler's hypnotic oratory to control public opinion. |
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The actual and practical security for English liberty against legislative tyranny was the power of a free public opinion represented by the commons. |
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Her research focuses on the links between the mass media, public opinion, and decision-making and on domestic and international terrorism and counterterrorism. |
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In Britain public opinion was divided over the morality of the massacre, between those who saw it as having saved India from anarchy, and those who viewed it with revulsion. |
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The Forum was also a place where orators would express themselves to mould public opinion, and elicit support for any particular issue of interest to them or others. |
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Even Adam Smith, his personal friend who had vacated the Glasgow philosophy chair, was against his appointment out of concern public opinion would be against it. |
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The idea was that public opinion would force divestment over time. |
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It is more like an obligation imposed by the public opinion. |
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Firstly, the tide of both political and public opinion in Germany has been turning firmly against the nuclear option ever since the Fukushima disaster last year. |
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In the court of public opinion, we are the judge and jury so wouldn't it be wiser sometimes not to start a trial but to tell the modern-day accusers to bog off and get a life? |
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Politicians understood the critical importance of public opinion. |
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One worships public opinion, and follows after the multitude to do evil, doing what he knows is wrong, simply because others do it, and it is the way of the world. |
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O'Connell's manoeuvres were important, but the decisive turning point came with the change in public opinion in Britain in favour of emancipation. |
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Aren't you urban gothy types supposed to be immune to public opinion? |
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German submarine attacks on Allied merchant ships, especially the sinking of the Lusitania, turned American public opinion against the Central Powers. |
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Although the war had ended in a victory for Japan, Japanese public opinion was shocked by the very restrained peace terms which were negotiated at the war's end. |
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By 1941 American public opinion had begun to swing against Germany, but the war was still essentially Great Britain and the Empire against Germany. |
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The Minister for Wedgies is proving that she is oblivious to public opinion, working off her own agenda, clueless as to the consequences and keen to plummet to new depths. |
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Some researchers proposed theories that were later shown to conflict with geological and palaeontological evidence, but have become the paradigm of public opinion. |
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Will Cryptonomicon turn the tide of public opinion about cryptography or inform the political will to challenge the government's anti-cryptography policies? |
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At the end of the 1970s, the construction of motorways slowed down again due to costs, combined with an economic crisis, more expensive fuel and changing public opinion. |
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