Sentences with phrase «determined by public opinion»

Is the foolishness of the title character — or characters — something determined by public opinion or something revealed via a process of self - reflection?

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[73] An earlier study by the Roper Center for Public Opinion Research determined U.S. Protestants to have an abortion index of 0.69, Catholics 1.01, Jews 1.08, and non-Judeo-Christian religions 0.78.
This sphere of freedom is threatened and secretly determined by anonymous powers determining public opinion without being controlled themselves, which produce mass psychoses, direct consumption and the ever more intricate relations of social life.
Fellow Ghanaians, the conduct of the President after the decision and order of the Supreme Court on 15th November 2016 in publicly casting aspersions on the Court and the beneficiary of the order shows clearly that as the chief looter in this case, the President is determined to prevent the examination ordered by the Court in the absence of strong patriotic public pressure and opinion.
Historical and even scientific truth can be merely the consensus agreed upon by those who presently have the power and influence to determine public opinion, or it can be based on evidence that has been tested in the laboratory, in debate, or in a court of law.
But recently the site has become a more fractious battleground, where the professional critical consensus — a film's final Tomatometer score is determined by assessing reviews from a pool of vetted critics — meets public opinion in the form of crowdsourced audience reactions.
If one judged public opinion by conventional public discourse, one would soon conclude that parents in the United States are neatly divided between devotees of district - operated schools and choiceniks determined to avoid them.
Annis J. applied the Supreme Court decision in WIC Radio Ltd v. Simpson to determine whether the blog posts was a statement of fact rather than a comment or opinion, as statements of fact are generally more capable of damaging someone's reputation because it is more likely to be believed by the public.
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