Sentences with phrase «by opinion leader»

Much of the money, according to David Hencke who unearthed the figures, was spent on polling in marginal seats - undertaken by Opinion Leader Research.

Not exact matches

The question of who will be Germany's next Chancellor looks increasingly unlikely with the current incumbent, Angela Merkel seeing her lead in the opinion polls being eroded by socialist leader Martin Schulz.

Rising fuel prices are causing government coffers to swell, and in a web poll conducted by COMPAS Inc., 126 leaders of Canadian companies offered their opinions on how that money should be spent.

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.

In the same way that politicians shouldn't govern by opinion polls alone, leaders should avoid making decisions on data alone, says Jane Park of Julep.

By contrast, Front National leader Marine Le Pen, currently leading the opinion polls in France's Presidential elections due in May, routinely attacks the ECB's policy as too tight and Germanic (albeit she recently diluted her comments on taking France out of the euro into something much less coherent than the brutal «Frexit» she threatened earlier).

By figuring out who your key audiences are in advance (typically they include employees, investors / board members, customers, opinion leaders in your community, elected officials, the press, etc.) you can make sure you have the vehicles in place to communicate.

Great leaders know that while everyone doesn't have to agree, they won't get much done by arguing, and opinions can be changed without forcing your own on someone else.

The best leaders pay attention to group discussions and stop conversations that are dominated by a few key players to try and draw in the opinions of others.

If visual marketing is well - executed, you leave no chance for failure by exciting your target audience or better yet, piquing the interest of respected opinion leaders who can sway the opinions of your target market to your favour.

Nonetheless, you need to be consistent and continue with follow - up communications after the launch in order to be recognised by key industry players and influential opinion leaders.

[T] he exposure of persistent human rights violations by the contras has led the Administration not to pressure contra leaders to enforce international codes of conduct,» the Americas Watch Report cited earlier states, «but to drown U.S. public opinion with praise for the «freedom fighters,» and to attempt to discredit all reports of their violations as inspired by communist or Sandinista propaganda.

Only in our time has the notion been advanced that «authentic» black leaders should be unencumbered by the need to assuage white opinion.

My opinion as far as the lack of contemporary evidence of Jesus is that at the time Jesus was not looked at by most of the religious people as a spiritual leader, but more as a threat to Judaism.

The more liberal Krishna Kanth, the Governor of Andhra Pradesh, in his address to the Assembly of the National Council of Churches in 1991 and following it in a press interview with Neerge Choudhury (Indian Express 21 Oct. 1991) «called for an end to religious conversion in the country, not by law but by a voluntary consensus of religious leaders», because in his opinion, communal strife is closely linked to conversion.

(CNN)- As Jews gathered together at sundown Wednesday to break the Yom Kippur fast, in some homes it wasn't just food that was being shared, but also opinion on the rising tension between the leaders of the United States and Israel over the threat posed by Iran's nuclear program.

«I am heartened by the clear, unequivocal condemnation of this disrespectful, disgraceful act that has come from American religious leaders of all faiths... as well as secular U.S. leaders and opinion makers,» she said.

Then, this spring, came a systematic series of attacks on the Church - given massive force by the Internet - with co-ordinated media stories purporting to show the Holy Father's failure to grapple with the problem of sexual abuse by the clergy, and across websites and blogs, and leader articles and opinion - columns, came calls for his resignation.

But even in the prime of its politicking, for instance in the fabled 1960s, no survey showed general sympathy for the pronouncements made by leaders, and there was little congruence between lay (and sometimes local pastoral) opinion and what was being said at conventions or in commissions.

fatwa — a formal legal opinion given by a recognized religious leader; a religious pronouncement or verdict concerning a controversial question.

Earlier this year Penfolds refuted claims that at least 80 % of Penfolds wine sold online in China is fake, after an exposé written by a social media opinion leader called «Lady Penguin», whose real name is Wang Shenghan, went viral.

Lack of leaders on the pitch, which in my opinion you need at least one on each line with a strong captain spearheading, both leading by example but able to shake up with words of wisdom.

(The Lact - Aid, invented by the husband of a US LLL Leader who breastfed all her adopted children, is the original at - breast supplementer and, in my opinion, the best one.)

The Ghana + Peace Campaign is an initiative by the Obiba Foundation; a non - profit organization that provides humanitarian needs to the less privileged in society was launched on the 18th of August 2016 and had its delegatesembark on a peace tour to all the regions taking endorsements of peace from opinion leaders in Ghana with the final event having taken place at the Efua Sutherland Park.

In particular, local media attention matters: it's often easier to get than national coverage, it lets you leverage your local activists and it can lead to much broader distribution of your story if it gets on a newswire (even local blogs can help, since they may be disproportionately read by elected officials and other opinion leaders and can also serve as a source for national blogs — see this article for details).

On the other hand, if you're trying to reach a handful of influentials, such as, say, political activists in the mountain states in the West, you're going to get better results by focusing on the specific blogs and newsletters that these people read — and where possible, to contact potential opinion leaders individually and directly.

The only democratic way out of the sovereignty hole that government and parliament have dug for themselves is, in my considered opinion, the one proposed by Tim Farron (Lib Dem, Westmorland and Lonsdale) in his intervention as leader of the Liberal Democrats in the first reading of the Bill:

Deputy Majority Leader John DeFrancisco pointed to a legal opinion by the conference's top lawyer that insisted the arrangement was legal.

But to dismiss Miliband himself as a failure as leader, as centre - right commentators and Blairite backbenchers tend to do, is bizarre when the only metrics we have (by - elections, opinion polls, increasing numbers of party members) suggest that Labour is on the road to recovery.

An opinion leader in Bole hometown of former President John Dramani Mahama, Mallam Mohammed Hudu has said that the gods of the traditionalists and the God of Muslims and Christians will continue to guide Ibrahim Mahama with the current high level of hatred for him by some elements in the New Patriotic Party (NPP) government.

Nwodo pointed out that, although he and some other Igbo leaders have been insulted by Kanu due to differences in opinion, the IPOB leader reserves the right to hold any point of view in a democratic society.

The chief who was impressively supported and cheered on by others chiefs, queen mothers, elders and opinion leaders and the ordinary people, described Mr. Mahama as their son, grandson and royal from Nyinahini, insisting they won't sit down for others to maltreat him.

In 1980, when I was a student at the Acherensua Senior High School, there were attempts by some chiefs and opinion leaders from Ahafo to get the Dr Hilla Limann government to create the Ahafo area as a separate region out of the Brong Ahafo Region but the move fizzled out after the December 31,1981 coup that toppled the People's National Party (PNP) government.

We await the next political opinion poll — hopefully tomorrow's Guardian will have one from ICM, though until Ming Campbell is replaced by a new Liberal Democrat leader we are once again in a sort of polling interregnum with a known unknown bearing down on us.

Recall that as a result of the threat and counter threat by the Igbos, Acting President Osinbajo has since commenced series of consultations with political, traditional and opinion leaders from across the country.

An opinion piece by James O'Brien, written after he interviewed Farage, said that the leader had «let his mask slip», and encouraged critical thinking on supporting the party.

UKIP leader Nigel Farage points to the Barnsley by - election result - where his party came second - and rising opinion poll ratings.

If African - American state senators want to be taken seriously by Gov. Cuomo and opinion leaders, they're going to have to step up their game big - time.

«There is no bigger threat to the peace and unity of our country today than religion - coated incendiary messages, which are being carelessly sent out by some religious, political and opinion leaders.

WARRI — OPINION leaders and Ijaw ethnic nationality groups in Delta State, yesterday, faulted the statement by the Commander of the Joint Task Force, JTF, Major - General Alani Okunola, that community leaders would be held responsible for attacks on oil facilities by militants.

That's despite the leader's office insisting the party settled the matter earlier this year by commissioning an opinion from a lawyer.

Ms Dugdale, who launched Labour's manifesto for the Holyrood election this morning, is the only Scottish party leader to have a negative approval rating, according to an opinion poll conducted by Ipsos MORI for STV News.

Scotland's official government - drafted proposed Constitution (1) has largely been ignored by the whole establishment of the UK and by the various élites be they journalists or mass mediators, academics, politicians, opinion «leaders» or social commentators of many hues.

A strangely similar set of opinions is dispensed by the Lib Dems» deputy leader, Simon Hughes, charged with the responsibility of maintaining a separate Lib Dem identity while making the case for coalition, and keeping his activists» morale up — a difficult trick.

We are having the facts that can not be contradicted by anyone to suggest that the two party leaders are not those provoking the chiefs, opinion leaders, and assembly members against the said nominee's confirmation.

David Cameron is now seen by the public as a better leader than Gordon Brown, according to the latest opinion poll.

The event was graced by Mr. Ziblim Barri Iddi, Deputy Minister of Tourism, Arts and Culture, opinion leaders, chiefs and queens from various Zongo communities among others.

That left the Liberal Democrats, who through a spokesperson for their leader Nick Clegg reiterated their lack of appetite to take on the wrath of public opinion by proposing more money for political parties in the current climate.

Speaking further, he said, «The PDP is aware of clandestine plots against key opposition leaders, particularly members of the PDP National Working Committee, some dissenting members of the APC, members of the civil society, opinion leaders, journalists and bloggers, who refuse to succumb to intimidation and that such persons have already been listed and currently being trailed by agents of the state.

*** If you were looking for people of Cabinet grade it wouldn't be difficult to grow the list but the above nine are, in our opinion, those most valued by the party leader.