Sentences with phrase «minds of public opinion»

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Today, the media, demagoguery, mind conditioning, and all sorts of other methods are used to sway public opinion and manipulate minds, giving the impression of a collective rape of consciences and a serious confiscation of freedoms and of thought.

«The most accurate gauge of public opinion in any sporting event is the sports betting market and the Super Bowl presents a great opportunity for value - minded sports investors.

While the jury is still out in the court of public opinion, Paladino made up his mind long ago.

In order to do so I gathered a dataset of previous English by - elections and changes in public opinion and ran a series of regression models (statistically minded readers can see a brief rundown of my data and methodology here).

All the same, public opinion survey findings reveal that an overwhelming majority of Kenyans do not see themselves as narrow minded and ethnic loyalists.

Instead, Hoffman has triumphed over Scozzafava in public opinion polls, despite, not the local Republican Party, but local Republican Party leaders (a very different kettle of fish), who clearly misread the mind and mood of the electorate when they imperiously chose a candidate who is evidently closer to Nancy Pelosi in her ideology than to Joe Lieberman, let alone George Pataki.

Chief policy adviser to David Cameron Oliver Letwin - once referred to as the Gandalf of the leader's circle - is known to believe that opposition parties can not change public opinion other than in one or two areas if they push very hard and in a very single - minded way.

Since 2008, Ed has served as Co-Principal Investigator (with Anthony Leiserowitz and Connie Roser - Renouf) of the Yale / George Mason University Climate Change in the American Mind audience research project, which tracks public opinion about climate change, including the Global Warming's Six Americas audience segments.

The prospect of losing our minds and memories engenders within us more anxiety than any other terminal illness, according to a 2012 survey by the Marist Institute for Public Opinion.

Joe Fatheree: Public opinion about the value of a teacher must change for the profession to be considered prestigious enough to lure our brightest minds into seriously considering education as a viable career.

Faith - based schools, they assume, are in the business of «indoctrinating» their pupils, while public schools are by definition committed to critical thinking and to the emancipation of their pupils» minds from the darkness of received opinions, even those of their own parents.

With this being said, I'm not in a position of buying either of them and with that in mind, your POV might reflect the opinion of the buying public, which in the end, it's the opinion that matters.

Critics have argued that some tactics employed by animal advocates, including protests, risk turning public opinion against the animal advocacy movement.212 While these activities make up a small proportion of THL's work, they do organize and participate in protests and demonstrations.213 While THL carefully targets their protests with specific goals in mind and tries to project a professional image through their protests, it's possible that they could still draw negative governmental attention or lower public opinion of advocates.214

But for those of you uninterested in buying and reading the book, you can actually find a similar - minded opinion piece by Crichton criticizing climate science (and everything from SETI and the «Drake Equation» to Carl Sagan in the process) here in the public domain.

Rudolph cautioned that the impact of bringing a lawsuit could backfire in swaying public opinion, instead hardening minds.

The green media guys at Futerra were way ahead of me... Part of the green PR / Media industry attempting to eliminate any doubt in the publics mind, and lobby opinion formers..

This in my mind will knock Big Wind off it's undeserved moral high ground, changing the publics opinion of IWT's, and convincing politicians, who would still cling to IWT's as a solution, to think otherwise.

Since 2008, Ed has served as Co-Principal Investigator (with Anthony Leiserowitz and Connie Roser - Renouf) of the Yale / George Mason University Climate Change in the American Mind audience research project, which tracks public opinion about climate change, including the Global Warming's Six Americas audience segments.

The #ExxonKnew campaign has gained enormous traction in the public mind and many want to know why the corporation started out as such an honest broker in the 1970s, conducting its own climate science research, and then doing an about - face in the 1980s, blatantly denying the reality of global warming and working with other groups to manipulate public opinion so as to thwart a rational public response.