Sentences with phrase «public as a whole»

Scientists are also considerably more inclined than the general public as a whole to see climate change as a problem.

You could argue that in delivering «cheap food» for shoppers, the Australian public as a whole have also «won» in this process.

Health care was the No. 1 policy priority for white evangelical voters (and the American public as a whole) in the recent election, the Pew Research Center found.

For the U. S. public as a whole, the balance of opinion is much more favorable: 45 % in favor, 34 % opposed.

And when asked whether religion is very important in their lives, only 39 % of Asian Americans say yes, well below the 58 % figure for the U.S. public as a whole.

The figure for more recent converts is just 36 %, much the same as the voting public as a whole.

«For the British public as a whole, however, they're far less important — more like the Eurovision song contest than a general election.

Schröder pointed out that the German public as a whole would have to decide which actions are justified.

Mass marketing targets the buying public as a whole.

The story is fairly simple and follows the rabbit, Erina who somehow turned into an anime girl overnight, and the general public as a whole seems to be pretty cool with it for some reason.

I know it's a cynical, even depressing, viewpoint, but on the two really huge issues facing us today, global warming and peak oil, that really is how we need to approach the mainstream public as a whole.

Certain to court controversy, «Killing Them Softly» captures in no uncertain terms the frustration and failed promises the American public as a whole have dealt with as well as the lack of accountability and inability to take difficult but needed action to right the ship.

Yes, he has accepted the challenge thrown to him by his colleague MPs, at the launch of the activities marking the celebrations, footsoldiers of the NDC who troop daily to his office, and elders not only of his Party but the general public as a whole.

Because of the divisiveness of the war, it took almost a generation before the Australian public as a whole was able to embrace our veterans as heroes who had sacrificed much in the name of our country.

Among the U. S. public as a whole, 48 % support the Evangelical's right to organize clubs, and just 21 % oppose it.

The City of Pontiac's retirees — and the public as a whole — deserve no less.

And regardless of intensity, the public as a whole is remarkably united behind at least modest measures to restrict gun sales.

While culture war issues make headlines galore, an exhaustive study of Americans» religious attitudes shows the public as a whole might not find the debate so enticing.

On the ethical and cultural side, they need to help the public as a whole to understand that the nihilism permeating contemporary life is the inevitable consequence of apostasy.

If we adopt Picasso's formula of art as a weapon to fight the enemy and the enemy turns out to be the public as a whole, the first question is how long the surgery» not to say butchery» ought to last.

Hence, the use of technology for good purposes runs into three tough problems at once: (1) balancing private wants and social needs; (2) harmonizing the plans made by individual experts with the decisions of the public as a whole; and (3) devising long - range policies in a political system which responds best to immediately felt needs, fears, and wants and which has a generally ill - informed electorate.

But 2010 should remind us of how effectively Labour can still get its vote out, even when much of its vote is as disillusioned as the public as a whole.

Populus have found that Ken Clarke is the most popular candidate, even amongst current Tory voters, albeit with a much lower margin over Davis than amongst the public as a whole.

Those figures relate to the public as a whole.

Not only is there the residual fear that Tony Blair is going to let him down again, but he will want to become leader of the Labour Party before he has to make too many unpopular decisions and start alienating both the public as a whole and the Labour Party selectorate.

Meanwhile, amongst the public as a whole, Cameron's rating has improved, but he is hardly sweeping all before him.

... The rewards tend to go to the public as a whole, and therefore research really warrants government support.»

Harry Potter's popularity, with more than 450 million copies sold worldwide, made such a study possible in the public as a whole.

Taken together, Robertson says, the internal documents show how Monsanto «perpetually» tries to control «the science and scientific literature that is seen by the public as a whole and by regulatory agencies such as the [Environmental Protection Agency].»

«We found that it wasn't the public as a whole that moved away from support for government policy solutions.

Some 42 % of the public as whole says that scientists generally agree the universe was created in a single event often called «the big bang,» while 52 % say that scientists are divided in their views about creation of the universe.

More than half of the public as a whole said the amount should be somewhere between 20 percent and 40 percent.

The median response was lower than those for parents and the public as a whole.

As noted above, the public as a whole expresses strong support for increasing or at least maintaining current spending levels on public education.

Compare the opinions of the public as a whole to those of teachers, or compare Republicans to Democrats.

Among the public as a whole, opposition is just about as large, with 51 percent opposing the «no disparate impact» policy, and just 21 percent backing the idea.

In the aftermath of major events — wars, economic recessions, or a terrorist attack — the views of the public as a whole may change abruptly and dramatically.

The findings, available here, also reveal that poor, minority and less educated citizens are just as informed about school quality as the public as a whole.

And charters continue to have relatively few outright opponents, either in the public as a whole or among minorities.

Meanwhile, teacher opinion on the Common Core roughly parallels that of the public as a whole.

Accordingly, public evaluations of the nation's schools have only slightly improved since 2007 among the public as a whole as well as among Republicans and Democrats.

In Louisiana, where the fight over Common Core has been particularly salient, the effect of the «Common Core» label was even more negative than in the American public as whole, and the impact on polarization was greater.

However, a major shift against vouchers has taken place within the ranks of both political parties and among the public as a whole.