Sentences with phrase «more by public opinion»

It is obvious these day - time television show doesn't work the same way a normal courtroom does, and the outcome of any case is influenced more by public opinion or show ratings than they are by the law and the true facts of the case.

Not exact matches

In a random sampling of public opinion taken by the Forum Poll ™ among Canadians 18 years of age and older, 1 - in - 7 (14 %) planned to make a major purchase of $ 10,000 or more in the next year.

Companies proved from recent fights with the National Rifle Association and legislation targeting bathroom use by transgender people that they can be more finely tuned to public opinion than politicians.

«The Prosperity Initiative Report Reflects Public Opinion in Calling for More Joint Public and Private Sector Action,» C.D. Howe Institute Backgrounder 7, by David M. Brown (November 13).

It is by personal witness and the give - and - take of opinion in conversation, far more than by public addresses that attitudes are molded.

Nothing more than an effort by the gay loving media to sway public opinion and misreport public opinion.

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.

And were an accommodation possible it would have to be based on something more secure than public opinion, if by «opinion» we mean merely an inclination or impression that happens to be widely but perhaps transiently held - for example, a taste for frozen yogurt.

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.

By the standards of public opinion research, these results are quite impressive, and are worth a little more exploration.

Could public opinion sustain such a policy as the public seems to oppose even the more limited bombing proposed by President Obama?

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

This move is really a lot more about Pataki and his national aspirations than it is about Paladino, who is trailing Cuomo by double digits — at least according to the public opinion polls that the candidate rejects.

The European rejection of the death penalty, which advocates of abolishing the death penalty in the United States cite as evidence of an emerging international consensus that ought to influence our Supreme Court, is related both to the past overuse of it by European nations (think of the executions for petty larceny in eighteenth - century England, the Reign of Terror in France, and the rampant employment of the death penalty by Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union) and to the less democratic cast of European politics, which makes elite opinion more likely to override public opinion there than in the United States [emboldening mine].

I.e., the fakest form of social media outreach on the planet, and a tool much - loved by the Russian groups who've tried to influence elections (and public opinion more broadly) across the world.

A series of public opinion polls sponsored by upstate Siena College have found that majorities of 65 percent or more of those surveyed favor such continuation.

Osborne's forecasts of continued austerity in the next parliament, a media and public discourse which continues to harden public opinion against claimants, and an ongoing failure to fix underlying causes of social security spend — by building houses and creating well - paying jobs — all mean that our social security system is heading in the direction of much more short - termism.

This major study of more than 4,500 New Yorkers, funded by the Dyson Foundation and conducted by the Marist College Institute for Public Opinion, takes an in - depth look at the issue of local government consolidation on a statewide level and in nine regions — the Capital Region, the Adirondacks, Western New York, the Finger Lakes, Central New York, the Mid-Hudson Valley, the Lower Hudson Valley, New York City, and Long Island.

a) is of good character as attested to by two Ghanaians who are notaries public, lawyers, senior public officers or other class of persons approved of by the Minister; b) has not been convicted of any criminal offence and been sentenced to imprisonment for a term of twelve months or more; c) is of independent means; d) is in the opinion of the Minister capable of making a substantial contribution to the development of Ghana; and e) has attained the age of eighteen years.

That left the Liberal Democrats, who through a spokesperson for their leader Nick Clegg reiterated their lack of appetite to take on the wrath of public opinion by proposing more money for political parties in the current climate.

Over time opinions began to shift as overwhelming evidence of ill effects was made public by more and more scientists and health administrators.

After 2 years, the judge in that case denied a stay requested by Wakefield and wrote an opinion telling Wakefield's team they had to provide more evidence, suggesting that Wakefield «wishes to use the existence of the libel proceedings for public relations purposes.»

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.

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.

We did not survey «likely voters,» but it is reasonable to suggest that public opinion intensities, reflected by Champions and Dissidents, could translate to more active voting behavior.

11 - Year Trends in Public Opinion Winter 2018 • Accompanies The 2017 EdNext Poll on School Reform Public thinking on school choice, Common Core, higher ed, and more By Martin R. West, Michael B. Henderson, Paul E. Peterson and Samuel Barrows

It is our opinion that since secular education serves a public purpose, it may be supported by tax money if sufficient safeguards are provided to prevent more than incidental and indirect benefit to a religious sect or denomination.

The views of the affluent resemble those of the general public, except that the affluent are more likely to hold strong opinions and even larger percentages support the positions taken by a plurality of the general public.

Our findings reveal more stability than change in public opinion over the five years since the Education Next — PEPG survey began, suggesting that the momentous policy developments of the past year were not caused by — nor have they yet produced — broad changes in popular views.

More than 70 percent of those surveyed reported trusting teachers and 65 percent said they trusted principals, according to the 45th annual survey of opinions about public school, conducted by Phi Delta... read More than 70 percent of those surveyed reported trusting teachers and 65 percent said they trusted principals, according to the 45th annual survey of opinions about public school, conducted by Phi Delta... read moremore

Common Core: In the Education Next public opinion poll, 49 percent of U.S. adults said they support the Common Core State Standards; in the other poll, conducted by PDK / Gallup, 24 percent of adults share that view, while more than half said they oppose the common standards for English language arts and mathematics adopted by most states.

Teachers in private secondary schools have more positive opinions about their principal, school administration, fellow teachers, and students than teachers in public schools do, a study by the U.S. Education Department has found.

This annual survey — developed and reported by EdChoice and interviews conducted by our partner, Braun Research, Inc. — measures public opinion and awareness on a range of K — 12 education topics, including parents» schooling preferences, educational choice policies, the federal government's role in education and more.

My personal opinion is that more knowledge is required on spending public money (and accountability) by those thinking of becoming academies and setting up free schools — and those already academies.

That jibes with Apple's public position, which was expressed by CEO Steve Jobs more than a year ago when he was asked his opinion of Amazon.com's first - generation Kindle.

The main purpose of our new report, «Ebook Licensing Guide for Public Libraries and Publishers,» resulting from the collaboration between Publishing Perspectives, the leading international book publishing news and opinion magazine; Bookwire, a platform specializing in the worldwide distribution of more than 100,000 ebooks and audiobooks of more than 1.000 publishers from around the world, and Dosdoce.com, a company specializing in the development of digital business models, is to provide professionals in the book world with a broader insight into the numerous opportunities offered by new ebook licensing models and to dissipate any doubts or preconceived ideas in relation to those models.

People are generally happy for them to lend their support to worthy causes by being a patron (aged 91 the Queen is still patron of more than 600 charities), but expressing a public opinion on anything that even hints at politics tends to get a negative reaction very quickly.

According to a new public opinion poll conducted by Ipsos - Reid for the Canadian Federation of Independent Business (CFIB), almost 60 % of working Canadians report they can't afford to save more than they already do.

Jeff Gertsmann expressed his opinions on the game Kane & Lynch more than one time and everyone knew about his adversity towards this title, but when he was suddenly fired by GameSpot soon after making his opinions public, people started to question how the gaming review world really works.

The related issues raised - funding, public opinion, more research, regulatory challenges, etc. - are trivial by comparison.

In this case, the committee might have discovered more than a few papers by one of them on the subject, such as Risbey and Kandlikar (2002) «Expert Assessment of Uncertainties in Detection and Attribution of Climate Change» in the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, or that Prof. Risbey was a faculty member in Granger Morgan's Engineering and Public Policy department at CMU for five years, a place awash in expert elicitation of climate (I sent my abstract to Prof. Morgan — who I know from my AGU uncertainty quantification days — for his opinion before submitting it to the conference).

Richard Betts says: «The evidence also suggests that even if «seepage» is real, at the very least this seepage has had no influence in watering - down UK public opinion and political action compared to other countries — and that possibly the opposite has occurred because the public are more convinced by seeing scientists being objective.»

Writing in the journal Public Opinion Quarterly, a research team led by University of Michigan psychologist Jonathon Schuldt reports Republicans are far more skeptical of «global warming» than of «climate change.»

I was asked by Andrew Revkin, based on this paper, to discuss the likely impact for An Inconvenient Truth on wider audiences and also the possible effects on public opinion from the type of elite debate (especially online) that was escalating over the columns by Will at the Washington Post, a debate consistent with more general patterns of polarizing and reinforcing elite driven controversy that I had addressed in the paper.

FOR more than a decade public opinion on human - caused global warming has been moulded by pronouncements from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and its army of acolytes.

Yet the fierce politicization of the climate change problem raises questions as to whether public opinion has been shaped more by partisan conflict than by an understanding, or a lack thereof, of the scientific findings per se.

It is being led by the University of Ottawa's Institute for Science, Society and Policy and involves more than two dozen researchers from a dozen universities who have expertise in areas such as: policy, regulation and governance; transition economics and energy technology; and public opinion, trust in policy making and expert knowledge.

But a ruling by a body such as the International Court of Justice (ICJ) would carry much more weight with public opinion and help pave the way for future legal cases on climate change, he said.

He's no more than a flip - flopper on this issue, washed about by the tides of public opinion and opportunities for political gain, like undermining Turnbull's leadership.

Basically these organisations are more interested in popular public opinion influenced by the denial campaign, than they are in the science.