Sentences with phrase «divide political opinion»

Edited by Peter CatterallMacmillan, # 40 Harold Macmillan continues to divide political opinion.

Not exact matches

With access to the strategists and opinion - makers on both sides of the political divide, The Battle for Britain goes straight to the heart of the great debate, providing an incisive, authoritative and occasionally trenchant guide to the most dramatic constitutional question of our times.

Although one might expect opinion on the matter to be divided along conventional left - right grounds, experience has shown this not to be the case - although the vulnerability of Labour on the issue of top - up fees may have encouraged some to adopt particular stances for political - tactical reasons, rather than on grounds of principle.

I suspect the divisions of political opinion within the public sector (right - wing coppers, left - wing social workers etc) to be at least as great as the simple public - private divide.

«Public opinion regarding climate change is likely to remain divided as long as the political elites send out conflicting messages on this issue,» lead researcher Robert Brulle, a professor of sociology and environmental science at Drexel University in Philadelphia, said in a statement.

He, like those on his side of the political, financial and cultural divide, has chosen to play down his own origins as he moves in a world where wealth is an entitlement rewarded with TV notoriety — «I have opinions, and because I have money, people listen.»

And with the political firestorm that was the 2016 US Election and Brexit, it's been a year that's certainly divided opinions.

His talk touched on the findings of his recent work, and pondered the divide between public opinion regarding global warming — he pointed out that strong majorities in every single state believe that it's real — and the opinion held by our political leaders.

Opinion about one new approach on the horizon — solar geoengineering, which seeks to lower the Earth's temperature through broad - based changes to the atmosphere — divides strongly along political lines.

Dan Kahan has researched the links between social and political identities in the USA and attitudes towards many issues, climate change included, where opinions sometimes divide along political lines and sometimes don't.