Sentences with phrase «in public opinion seems»

For that reason, it is all the more interesting to observe that in some cases a shift in public opinion seems to be occurring.

Not exact matches

Facebook appears to be bulletproof after stellar earnings report Opinion: Zuckerberg and Co. still face potential backlash in future quarters, but so far seem indestructibleEven as a mature company facing public backlash, Facebook managed to increase its revenue and user growth in the first quarter, an amazing feat.

They work to secure media attention for their own work as well as for plant - based and cultured meat companies, and they have been covered in more than 480 scientific and mainstream media venues.16 Little is known about the impact of these interventions on public opinion, though it seems that raising public awareness of cultured products may be valuable, especially since the field is so new.

Additional reasons might be given for The United Methodist Church to rid itself of a commitment to abortion rights: the increasing numbers of African delegates (who are, in the main, pro-life) to General Conference; the horrifyingly high abortion rates (though the annual totals are continuing to decrease) in the United States; the pro-life drift of American public opinion (which United Methodism seems to follow); the uncommon clarity of ecumenical teaching on the dignity of the human person; and the providence of God.

Gender ideology seemed a ridiculous and improbable threat when I first considered its claims of male brains trapped in female bodies, but its rapid ascendancy in law and public opinion has made the term «transgender» a household word.

But America is good, it seems, in part because it can find places for Southerners, especially Southern Stoics (think the novelist Tom Wolfe, Atticus Finch, Admiral Stockdale, Navy SEALS, and the proud men of Morehouse), Catholics (as, to begin with, the best organized in countercultural thought and action of our large institutional religions), and Heideggerians (who are right, after all, about the American propensity for inauthentically deferring to the «they» of public opinion and scientific expertise).

Seems like they have to enforce their belief and garner public opinion in their favor to be secure in their belief of a Godless existence.

Not only does Bob not seem to understand the courts» duties, but he seems to ignore that public opinion on this issue is in fact changing more rapidly day by day.

He surmised we were «falling behind in the struggle,» and the work needed to reestablish what was axiomatic just twenty - five years ago can seem daunting in a society where public opinion is now roughly split 50/50 but the biggest media and celebrity voices are solidly in one corner.

By contrast, public opinion seems to favor more, not less, religion in the schools.

The site does seem to be mainly focusing on the negative, which is a reflection of course of where we are as a club, so the site is reflecting public opinion but imho this article is a bit harsh, we didn't need a left back until Masuaaku spat his dummy out, we had him and Cresswell, as for the Utd trying to sign Leighton Baines they made a lot of noises but according to many reports Moyes wasn't sure he was good enough for Utd... I think Evra has been brought in primarilly for cover at left back, lets see what happens.

But public opinion seems to believe Europe is heading in the right direction.

Although Dan Jarvis seems to be gathering donors and thinkers around him for the future... Although Peter Hyman, Joe Haines and Peter Kellner are recommending active resistance in the latest edition of the New Statesman... and although there are signs that the two biggest stars of the Twitterleft — Owen Jones and Mehdi Hasan — are becoming frustrated at Team Corbyn's competence... the chances are that May's tests of public opinion won't be catastrophic for the man who wants nuclear submarines without nuclear warheads.

So, instead, he seems to be doing the «next best thing» he can, as someone in a position of influence: discredit the offending media outlets and wage public opinion war against them.

They held 13 public hearings and in my opinion seemed legitimately interested in and concerned with what the people had to say.

For example, one missing variable that could account for much of the variation is that in America there's a strong history of public opinion (albiet not perfectly) translating into policy through democratic process, while in Egypt, average people have had incredible difficulty getting public opinion into policy and a protest was one of the tools that seemed to work.

It seems George Osborne is more in touch with public opinion than Labour.»

In this case, current public opinion polls actually seem to cut the President more slack than the experts do».

That's what Lynton Crosby seems to be advising Cameron, and his speciality is in - depth public opinion research, and so presumably he knows what he is on about.

All in all, the Wisconsin controversy seems to have contributed to a divergence of opinion between teachers and the general public.

The campaign seems designed to make sure that the explosive issues being raised regarding teachers» job security in California ripple far beyond a cramped courtroom in Los Angeles and help shape public opinion across the state and nation.

In this alternate England clones are bred for spare parts, but the people we meet don't seem to harbor any real anger for the system, and appear to, broadly speaking, accept their fate, and there is no indication that public opinion is anything other than totally accepting.

You could also do it the other way and do a SPG Platinum Challenge but that typically requires 18 nights within a 3 month period, so it's harder to obtain in my opinion but also seems to be more available to the general public.

It seems self evident that the only changes in policy that have ever occurred in the area of «human and environmental well being» have been driven by public opinion / grassroots organizing.

That's why I'm with the other contributors above who seem to share my astonishment at Roger Pielke Jr.'s apparently extreme belief «that the policy utility of trying to change public opinion through the media [is] of questionable value,» that «the version of democracy [in which] the public guide wise public policy — is not well supported by theory or evidence,» and that he'd «go so far as to say that it is a complete myth.»

So while I can't explain the mystery of Will's mega-puzzling irresponsibility about scientific facts, it seems to me that people who believe it's important for public opinion leaders to get this stuff right — whatever Roger Pielke, Jr., may think about that — need to think carefully about how to respond in particular to Will, whose columns must surely reach many millions of people.

It is noteworthy that the consensus hardliners are strongest in the USA, particularly since public opinion there seems to be the most skeptical (an August 2011 Rasmussen poll showed that close to 70 % of respondents believed that climate scientists were fudging the data).

A significant part of Western public opinion seemed determined, even at the cost of financial sacrifice, to do some good in the world.

The duplicity and hypocrisy of environmental pressure groups seem to be matched only by their consummate skill at manipulating public opinion, amassing political power, securing taxpayer - funded government grants, and persuading people to send them money and invest in «ethical» stock funds.

There's also a graph on p. 40 showing divided opinion about whether individuals can make a difference to global warming, so the disagreement between Milan & Emily seems to reflect a broader split in public opinion.

On balance, it often seems that the alarmists end up out - in - front, in the court of public opinion.

The public views the meteorological community in a monolithic way and seems prepared to accept the opinions of TV weather forecasters on issues such as global warming, in spite of the fact that this community has most often no expertise on this topic.

I remember exchanging comments with Willis on more than one occasion, where I explained to him that his confidence in his theory of attribution for public opinion on climate change seemed ill - founded.

So there seems to be some confusion in public opinion.

In conclusion, there seems to emerge from the Opinion of the AG Saugmandsgaard ØE a narrower interpretation of the State resources criterion, based on the commitment of public resources and causation / remoteness.

On the one hand, public opinion in the UK has long been considered insular and Eurosceptic, but the referendum seemed to trigger the more open and confident expression of xenophobic views and suggests a polarisation of opinion on Britain's international and European roles.

Perhaps more pertinently, in this era of liquid surveillance, any strict dichotomy between public and private data processing seems artificial, a point noted by AG Kokott in her Opinion in Promusicae.

«There seems to me to be room to question whether the ordinary rules of client privilege, appropriate enough in other circumstances, should apply to a law officer's opinion on the lawfulness of war; it is not unrealistic in my view to regard the public, those who are to fight and perhaps die, rather than the government, as the client.»

The pattern now seems to be that one commences a legal proceeding and seeks support of the allegations by public opinion, use of petitions, press conferences and «likes» in social media.

Facebook has an overwhelming responsability here but people seem to be missing the elephant in the room, SCL Group, owner of Cambridge Analytica, created in 1960 during the cold war to manipulate public opinions and elections worldwide.

However, it seems obvious that the benefits far outweigh any perceived negatives and there's an ongoing shift of opinion in the way apprenticeships are thought of by the public and employers.

Some in our business seem to think that the public should be compelled to pay up (a retainer) before actually engaging our services (sort of a pre-contract payment) for such things as «opinions of value».