Sentences with phrase «british public think»

Her constituents certainly don't seem impressed, and three - quarters of the British public think she's done the wrong thing by heading down under.

According to a 2014 poll, 77 % of the British public think snares should be banned.

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Kay Swinburne MEP, the most senior British legislator on the EU's influential Economic and Monetary Committee, told Business Insider: «I don't think there's anything that's come out that isn't already in the public domain in one form or another.

That gloomy question was behind Thinking the Unthinkable, a study of British public policy options by noted British financial firm Tullett Prebon — which was brave enough to ask the question that U.K. politicians have been avoiding like the plague: «Might there be no way out for Britain?»

I think a significant proportion of the UK public with money looking for yield are ploughing into property rather than the stock market, as it seems to be built in to the British psyche that you can't lose with housing.

Whatever your thoughts about ghana's education are we are based on the much better British system rather than your hollow American one hence with only a tiny proportion graduating your government seeks to employ them in your public services.

The British Humanist Association has criticised research by the think - tank Theos as «an insult to the British public».

As Anne Marie [Carrie] has already pointed out on her blog last month — a 2008 Barnardos poll found that 54 % of the public thought that British children were beginning to behave like animals.

A new survey published today has revealed that most of the British public does not think that being religious makes an individual more likely to be moral.

No one can possibly understand the American Revolution — more properly described as the American secession from the British Empire — without grasping its theoretical dimensions, beginning with the claims of the Declaration of Independence endorsing popular sovereignty and the ability of the people to «alter and abolish» existing systems of government whenever that would be thought conducive to public happiness.

Now, it's not an easy thing to do but I think we owe it to the British public to explain how we're going to raise this money.»

The British establishment never thought that the public would vote to leave the European Union.

A speech drafted for the Queen in the event of war with the Soviet Union has been released to the public, revealing a remarkable insight into how the British state thought it could prevent panic in the event of nuclear conflict.

«I think the energy companies need to think very carefully about how unpopular they want to make themselves with the British public,» she said, adding that «David Cameron is the prime minister, maybe he should do something about it».

The British government's focus on consolidating the public finances and push through supply - side reforms is at odds with the new French president's instincts, according to Philip Whyte, a senior research fellow at the Centre for European Reform think - tank.

«I thought it was very much focused on the future but recognising the job isn't done - and hoping the British public will see it as positive, but still a long journey.

«I think there's a real danger of underestimating the British public in this,» he presses.

I do think he's nowhere near what has been represented over here to the British public.»

«It is the Conservatives as the progressive force in British politics now who are thinking seriously about how you change the way you deliver public services so you can improve the quality of service delivery even in a period of budget restraint.»

What you call British influence sounds more like suffering British effluence to me You also opine as a wistful afterthought... «but I expect one day we will have another public referendum on this» You think?

She added: «I actually think that the British public are more sensible than that, and they're going to realise that this is an individual politician who has had a reason to resign.

The British public has been waiting to hear what ordinary grassroots Liberal Democrats think of Lansley's Bill.

Think of our great public institutions, like the BBC and the British Library, there is more we can do to open them up, through digital public space.

«He [the Prime Minister] is wedded to a system where you pay MPs to turn up and do their job... it's completely untransparent and I don't think the British public will accept that.»

«I think the British public deserves better than this from the Electoral Commission.

A large majority (69 %) of people thought that David Cameron was not too young to be Prime Minister, and 74 % thought that the British public would not be reluctant to vote for a Prime Minister who went to Eton.

«So the only way it can happen is if all the parties agree to work together, rationally, reasonably, sensibly on trying to deliver what I think the British public would see as, not a priority, but a perfectly sensible reform that we have people legislating in the House of Lords who are elected by right.»

But what is so absurd about these flights of wishful thinking is that there is not a single word about the real lessons which Labour needs to learn — the need for radical banking reform, the need for a massive revival of British manufacturing (when this year the UK deficit on traded goods is likely to exceed the entire UK budget deficit), the need to take back public control of the NHS and education system, the need for a jobs and growth strategy rather than a programme of endless cuts, the need for an effective anti-poverty strategy and a huge reduction in inequality.

Think of the Creature Comforts shorts by Aardman, where the voices of the British public are synced up to animations of different animals.

To celebrate the release, Vue Entertainment has been conducting research into the British public's thoughts on extraterrestrial life, with one in three respondents believing in the -LSB-...]

Recommended reading A statue in Bloomsbury Square of the 18th - century British statesman Charles James Fox prompts Tom Crewe to think about the UK's public statuary in the latest issue of the London Review of Books.

Tomkins did point out that some of the women who were Andre loyalists were former girlfriends, but at the same time if you read the article it sounds like «some feminists» thought he was guilty and would harass him if they saw him in public places — that is, the implications is that only feminists thought he was guilty, you know, those harpies, whereas in fact the judge's wording of the verdict (and implications in Katz's text based on interviews) suggested a relation to the judgement available in British jurisprudence but not in the US, that is, what would have been a verdict of «not proven,» meaning he probably did it, but in the end the verdict was «I have concluded that the evidence has not satisfied me beyond a reasonable doubt that the defendant is guilty.»

Emin has achieved a status in British public life that sometimes gets foisted on eccentric individuals: think of the late Quentin Crisp, life - model turned autobiographer and film critic; think of the self - parodic mad - eyed TV astronomer and xylophone player Patrick Moore; think of Grayson Perry, transvestite, potter, savant and motorcyclist.

«British writer Matthew Syed provides some insight into why the public sector appears resistant to innovation in his book Black Box Thinking.

I don't think the general British public really gives a tinkers cuss about your long and very rambling wittering about the imbalance of the earth's energy budget and all that stuff.

VANCOUVER — The Fraser Institute — an independent, non-partisan Canadian public policy think - tank ---- released a new report last week looking at the national implications of the Supreme Court of Canada's recent ruling granting over 1,700 square kilometres of land in British Columbia to the Tsilhqot» in First Nation, marking the first time the court has made a ruling of this kind regarding aboriginal land.

At that time, OHLS was not at York University in the northern portion of the Greater Toronto Area (the GTA), but instead in downtown Toronto — it was the law society's law school (the Law Society of Upper Canada (the LSUC), which, in the public interest of people finding it and its website, should change its name to the Law Society of Ontario, given that half the people in Toronto weren't born in Canada, and therefore are likely to think the LSUC is a law society for lawyers whose offices are north of the 60th parallel of latitude where Canada's territories area, rather than know that «Upper Canada» was Ontario's name when it was a British Colony, prior to Confederation in 1867).

in case it makes a difference the kind of status I'm thinking of is: is a superfund site, is a public right of way, is zoned for commerical use, has a licence to store tyres, is owned by British Airways, includes a right to roam, etc..

We think that matters to the British public.