Not exact matches
It would be nice to think a shift is
occurring in the debate on social security with
public opinion moving against relentless attacks on the poorest and cuts
in basic social protection.
This is the moment to finish the job, as there may never be another of such a paradigm shift
occurring in Pakistani
public opinion against Taliban.
It also
occurred as
public opinion polls show distrust
in Common Core.
«With many
public hearings by the County Executive and Legislature
occurring in the middle of the work day, members of the
public are unable to attend, which is denying them the ability to voice their
opinion on everything from the county budget to new additions to the county's agricultural districts.
For that reason, it is all the more interesting to observe that
in some cases a shift
in public opinion seems to be
occurring.
Even then, many hiccups
occurred as
public opinion wavered between the idealism of the civil rights years and the backlash instigated by civil unrest
in major cities during the late 1960s and early 1970s.
The pit bull terrier does have a past that includes bullbaiting and dogfighting (which still
occurs illegally
in some areas of the US), and reports of aggression towards humans, specifically dog bite injuries and even deaths, have likely contributed to the unfavorable
public opinion of these dogs as well [14 - 18].
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.
On no more than the basis that «climate change is
occurring», moral philosophers tell us what is right, social historians invent lessons from history to make climate criminals
in the present, science historians invent conspiracy theorists, and psychologists tell us how to apply distress to change
public opinion, and why debate is just too risky to trust to the
public.
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.»
John Sterman: «It is dangerous for our leaders to count on emissions cuts that have not been pledged as if they will somehow
occur automatically when those cuts require tough negotiations, greater funding and technology transfer for developing nations, and big changes
in public opinion.»