Sentences with phrase «american public opinion»

Some greens in other countries tend to write America off because it chose not to ratify the Kyoto protocol, because the federal government has consistently refused to adopt a mandatory system for restricting emissions, and because American public opinion is relatively indifferent to global warming (see chart 5).

First, I would suggest to those who hope to influence American public opinion regarding anthropogenic global warming, PLEASE state temperatures and temperature changes in degrees Fahrenheit, rather than degrees Celsius.

Some wildlife advocates, and even a few misguided animal right activists, call for the extermination of outdoor cats, but these calls are grossly out of steps with American public opinion.

The Winter 2017 issue celebrates the tenth anniversary of the annual EdNext Poll of American public opinion on K - 12 education policy.

In its 10th annual survey of American public opinion, conducted in May and June of 2016, Education Next finds that the demise of school reform has been greatly exaggerated.

The 2017 Education Next annual survey of American public opinion on education shows public support for charter schools has dropped, even as opposition to school vouchers and tax credits for private - school scholarships has declined.

August 1, 2017 — The 2017 Education Next annual survey of American public opinion on education shows public support for charter schools has dropped, even as opposition to school vouchers and tax credits for private - school scholarships has declined.

That the most biased of these scores have unwittingly been urged on the media as good - faith evidence of American public opinion?

National Poll Finds Waning Support for Charter Schools (The Atlanta Journal Constitution) Charter Schools Take a Hit in Nationwide Poll (EdSource) Public Support for Charter Schools Plummets, Poll Finds (Education Week) Enthusiasm for Charter School Formation Takes Hit, New Poll Finds (The Christian Science Monitor) New Poll Shows Sharp Decline in Support for Public Charter Schools Over Past Year (The 74) National Support for Charter Schools Has Dropped Sharply in Last Year (Chalkbeat) People Think Teachers Are Underpaid — Until You Tell Them How Much Teachers Earn (Time) Marty West co-authors the annual EducationNext survey of American public opinion on timely education issues such charter schools, higher education, and the impact of the current administration, among others.

Based on the Lissa Evans novel Their Finest Hour and a Half, Scherfig's film tells a behind - the - scenes story (with a witty script by Gaby Chiappe) about a group of filmmakers tasked with creating effective World War II propaganda films, meant to inspire resoluteness in the people of Britain and to sway American public opinion toward joining the war.

But now there is a new charge against carbon dioxide that may strike more deeply at the heart of American public opinion: The claim that it promotes obesity.

President Truman was nervous of such a proactive aid programme and on such a vast scale, but was helped by American public opinion being aroused by what was portrayed as the communist threat.

Among those who did, a minority incorrectly assume that if the video was produced in the U.S., it must represent American public opinion or tacit government policy.

This year Zach Warner is a pre-doctoral researcher at the Latin American Public Opinion Project at Vanderbilt University.

Additional reasons might be given for The United Methodist Church to rid itself of a commitment to abortion rights: the increasing numbers of African delegates (who are, in the main, pro-life) to General Conference; the horrifyingly high abortion rates (though the annual totals are continuing to decrease) in the United States; the pro-life drift of American public opinion (which United Methodism seems to follow); the uncommon clarity of ecumenical teaching on the dignity of the human person; and the providence of God.

She added that American public opinion on the issue likely swayed Trump and Pence to continue speaking out.

Trump said leaders from China and Singapore had previously told him that both countries eliminated drugs by executing dealers, though he noted that he wasn't certain about American public opinion on the policy.

Not exact matches

Session's stance on this issue also diverges from public opinion: More Americans than ever support the legalization of marijuana.

In a poll commissioned in conjunction with tonight's show, the Marist Institute for Public Opinion found that more than seven in 10 Americans do not think private companies should be required to publish the salaries of its employees, nor should firms disclose pay rates internally.

After the February 14 mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, at least six public opinion polls suggested that Americans were becoming more receptive to gun control.

If we refuse one group's opinions access to the public square, we're certainly not acting «American».

Gallup Opinion Index, Religion in America: Report No. 145 (Princeton: American Institute of Public Opinion, 1978).

In my opinion this spectrum is incapable of incorporating the dynamics of the present mood, the deeper structures which are decisive for American public life, or the nature of our present peril.

These studies make it clear that Americans are full of misperceptions about the war and, in particular, about three issues — the link between Iraq and al - Qaeda, the existence of weapons of mass destruction, and the nature of world public opinion.

Studies show that Americans are full of misperceptions about the war in Iraq and especially about three issues — the link between Iraqu and al - Qaeda, the existence of weapons of mass destruction, and the nature of world public opinion.

In the immediate aftermath of the «war to end all wars,» Wilsonian idealism was displaced by the «normalcy» of Warren G. Harding and the rise of a strong isolationist current in American politics» a tide of public opinion so formidable that even as strong and crafty a president as Franklin Delano Roosevelt was compelled to tack carefully across it, even as he prepared the United States for its inevitable entry into World War II.

But America is good, it seems, in part because it can find places for Southerners, especially Southern Stoics (think the novelist Tom Wolfe, Atticus Finch, Admiral Stockdale, Navy SEALS, and the proud men of Morehouse), Catholics (as, to begin with, the best organized in countercultural thought and action of our large institutional religions), and Heideggerians (who are right, after all, about the American propensity for inauthentically deferring to the «they» of public opinion and scientific expertise).

Morally responsible Americans are forced to withdraw into the shadows of public opinion, where their freedoms of speech are reduced to whispers.

Yet public opinion surveys show that there is a widespread belief in immortality among the American public.

A January 2015 survey, performed by the Marist Institute for Public Opinion, found that 68 percent of all Americans oppose the use of government funding to pay for abortion.

The court is ahead of public opinion for some Americans, but not ahead of most Americans.

Its persistence goes far to explain why, though institutional affiliation remains low, public - opinion surveys consistently show Americans as overwhelmingly affirming religious belief.

But the understandable anxiety of American Jews over the future of Israel — especially when they hear of rocket attacks by terrorists against villages in northern Israel (and of Israel's massive retaliation)-- should not lead American Jews to think that unceasing pressure against the president, the Congress and public opinion in this country represents the best means of ensuring Israel's future security.

They give Americans their peculiar folkways and mores, their public behavior and private opinions, the patterns of their social skills and know - how about everything, from building a family fallout shelter to performing the latest dance step.

Far more serious than any of the startling events of the decade was the massive erosion of the legitimacy of American institutions — business, government, education, the churches, the family — that set in, particularly among young people, and that continues, if public opinion polls are to be believed, in the 1970s even when overt protest has become less frequent.

Public opinion polls show that most Americans are fed up with the tone of American politics and the broader cultural coarseness, but few seem willing to act on these beliefs.

He told me that in the course of some recent public - opinion survey nine out of ten average American citizens, when asked whether they believed that the Nazis commit atrocities, answered that it was all propaganda lies, and that they don't believe a word of it.

Indeed, much of American public education is conducted under the banner of religious neutrality, and public opinion is increasingly restless about it.

In an opinion piece published in The Hill, American Beverage Association President and CEO Susan Neely points to new research providing further proof that beverage taxes harm communities and explains how America's beverage companies are taking comprehensive actions to achieve our shared goal of better public health.

More than half of Americans approve of the Affordable Care Act, according to a Gallup poll out yesterday, marking the first time the law has gained majority support since Gallup began tracking public opinion on it in 2012.

«Americans are experiencing a heated debate over gun policy in the wake of the latest school shooting,» says Dr. Lee M. Miringoff, Director of The Marist College Institute for Public Opinion.

Stephan Miller, cited by Campaigns and Elections magazine in 2008 as «James Carville's young protege,» is an American - Israeli public opinion research analyst and communications strategist, and a former adviser to Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat, who has worked on campaigns in eight countries across three continents.

Republican pollster Bill McInturff of Public Opinion Strategies put it bluntly: «Lots of them are simply lousy polls; they don't accurately reflect younger voters, African - Americans and Latinos.

By way of clarification, a push poll is not a poll at all but rather, as detailed by the American Association of Public Opinion Research, a political telemarketing technique where telephone calls are used to canvass the electorate, providing them with inaccurate information in the guise of a poll.

However, you can get good quality public opinion data from the American National Election Survey for free.

Americans are increasingly confident in the news media and less so in Trump's administration after a tumultuous year in U.S. politics that tested the public's trust in both institutions, according to a Reuters / Ipsos opinion poll.

All of these poll numbers reflect neither public opinion of Trump's decision to leave the Iran deal nor the release of three American citizens from North Korea, for which Trump is earning significant credit.

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Since only a tiny fraction of Americans has lived through a state constitutional convention in their adult lifetimes, and since Americans are not taught about state constitutional conventions (as opposed to the federal constitutional convention of 1787) during their formal schooling (even those such as myself who received a Ph.D. in American government), Americans approach these referendums starting with a huge knowledge deficit, making local opinion leaders that much more influential in public debates.

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