Sentences with phrase «change government opinion»
I am arguing that in order to understand public outrage at dog attacks and potentially develop some more effective strategies to change public opinion about BSL (in order to change government opinion), we need to understand the root of this outrage.
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Referendums in the Netherlands are very much a gauge of public mood, in this case it is unlikely to change government opinion, as there is such a slim difference between no and yes.
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Opinion: As a matter of constitutional jurisdiction, the federal government does not need Alberta's buy - in to legally enact and implement its national climate change policy
Opinion: Ottawa's activist, government - centric approach won't change Canada's struggles around innovation or productivity
Advertisements recently released by the Ontario government are, in my opinion, a good example of an emotional argument in favour of a climate change plan.
They not only have no clue as to how our government works or what it takes to change laws, they wouldn't know a good president from a hole in the ground if they didn't first ask their pastor or fox news pundit their opinion.
Part of the world population started to change its opinion starting during 1997 - 1998 following the setback of the policies imposed jointly by governments applying neo-liberal dogmas, by the owners of national and foreign capital and by multilateral financial institutions.
Since public opinion, or world opinion, or the opinion of governments in general has become a powerful factor in the situation, and since the West must depend very much on capturing the opinion and the sympathy of what might be called the uncommitted powers, our future is going to depend on the kind of internationalism which does not attempt to freeze the existing situation in a legalistic manner but takes the lead in predicting and preparing the necessary changes in the status quo.
I suspect your opinion would change if the suggestion was that the government should be able to force you to donate your kidneys to an otherwise innocent person who will die absent the transplant, or perhaps you're in favor of this sort of government power?
If the World Trade Organization penalized countries that imposed such a tariff, its nature would be exposed, and public opinion, acting through governments, might yet reduce its power or change its policies.
ACCC Chairman, Rod Sims, has an opinion piece in today's The Australian, discussing proposed new - car importation changes recently announced by the Government.
«What can we do to ensure that, if the leave campaign looks to be gaining momentum at a late stage, that will not be used to pretend that there are things on the meeting's agenda to try to change people's opinions, or that things will not be leaked in advance of that meeting to try to give people the impression that the Government have agreed a better deal than is actually the case?»
Research by ICM for the Guardian newspaper saw both the Tories and Liberal Democrats suffer as an outright majority of public opinion turned against the government's controversial changes to the health service.
Just as printed newspapers have to struggle to cope with mobile devices and applications and changing habits and news consumption patterns, government spokespersons also have to deal with staying on top of their game in a world where everyone has a means of expressing their sentiments and opinions directly to the world.
My model takes into account five things: the vote share a party received in the by - election constituency at the preceding general election; changes in public opinion towards the party since the last general election; whether the party won the seat at the last election; whether the party is in government; and whether there are «party effects» on by - election outcomes.
More than half of voters hope the next general election will bring a change of government, the latest Guardian / ICM opinion poll suggests.
Though he doesn't begrudge his fellow local government officials additional cash, Picente says the formula for divvying up casino revenues was struck in a 2013 deal between Madison and Oneida counties, the state and the Oneida Indian Nation, and, in his opinion, can't be changed unless all four of those parties agrees.
A Freedom of Information Law request for the video initially was rejected by the town, but Town Attorney Jason Kovacs said his recommendation changed after reading an opinion from state Committee on Open Government Executive Director Robert Freeman.
The questionnaire asks about how IPCC has gone about its business since its inception in 1988, how it has handled the range of scientific opinions on climate change, how it responds to criticism and errors, and how it deals with governments and the media.
, which outlines strategies to undermine climate change science in government and public opinion.
Baumgartner and Jones argued that policy generally changes only incrementally, until some event, such as change in the party control of government or sizable shifts in public opinion, lead to large policy alterations.
Since DeVos» work has been to promote those ideas, the federal government will most likely be forcefully changing education regardless of state and local opinion.
And they know public opinion is on their side: people think the government should do more to address climate change.
In the PEN / TWUC release, Charlie Foran, President of PEN Canada said, «The government of Canada has no right to determine what is an acceptable opinion for an individual citizen, on climate change or any matter of public interest.
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Through relentless pressure on the media to present the issue «objectively,» and by challenging the consensus on climate change science by misstating both the nature of what «consensus» means and what this particular consensus is, ExxonMobil and its allies have confused the public and given cover to a few senior elected and appointed government officials whose positions and opinions enable them to damage U.S. credibility abroad.
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In order to block proactive government policymaking and keep corporate interests unregulated, libertarian groups have focused a significant part of their efforts on climate change on distorting the science to confuse public opinion, denying the seriousness of the problem, and, most recently, impugning the integrity of the climate science community.
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