Sentences with phrase «public opinion questions»

Section II of the report, Time Use Findings (Chapters 4 - 6), primarily draws from time use surveys and includes public opinion questions related to time use when available.

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Opinion: The departure of career public servant Stephen Wood has raised questions about the role of the bureaucracy in providing frank and fearless advice.

Question: Public opinion in recent months has been very concerned about the problem of divorced and remarried persons.

The probable answer is that in these lectures he was addressing an audience of modernist liberal rationalists, and wanted to persuade them that even their own philosophical system had to concede at least some room for nonrational opinions on public questions, and therefore for religious opinion.

These convictions posit the necessity — before a church lobby can exist, before the mobilization of opinion behind specific policies can be achieved — to create a process for broadening and deepening public debate on urgent questions.

For most people, religion plays virtually no role in shaping their opinions on a long list of important public questions.

John Beddington, the UK government's chief scientific adviser, says that climate scientists should be less hostile to doubters who question man - made global warming, and that public confidence in science depends on more openness to varied opinions.

All the while, public opinion has held remarkably steady on the basic question of abortion.

The fact is that the two questions regularly posed over the past ten years do not allow us to understand the state of public opinion on a whole range of issues associated with homosexual marriage and parenting.

It seems, moreover, on the basis of public opinion polls, that this challenge is already accepted by a majority of our fellow citizens and thus the question of its establishment as a matter of law has not provoked a debate worthy of the momentous issues at stake.

The fact is that the two questions regularly posed over the last ten years do not allow us to understand the state of public opinion on a whole range of issues associated with homosexual marriage and parenting.

The tide is turning and depending on the questions and how they're asked, most public opinion surveys indicate that the consensus of the majority of the population is that LGBTQs should be viewed and treated equally by the our laws.

In case there was any question whether or not the Mavericks are interested in Williams, their best player decided to make his opinions on the scenario public in a radio interview with Dallas» KCTK:

some fans are so fickle here sometimes, you give up on players who had bad games and now you praising these same players, you can criticize a player when they are playing badly, but do not bash them and question their ability, some people on this site believe in public opinion like the media, but the media and these ex players turned pundits are ALWAYS proven wrong, excuse my grammar, COYG!!!

Opinions shouldn't count when it comes to answering questions that people might run with because they're public figures.

19:18 - Paul Farrelly gets in a question at the end about what Brooks - who has spent much of her life trying to reflect public opinion, after all - thinks has been most damaged.

The researchers asked a selected group of voters to state their opinions on a variety of real public policy questions, and then presented them with fabricated poll results on the same topics.

Amid ongoing concerns being raised over an advisory opinion that would require consultants to inform lobbying regulators when they seek to influence an editorial board's opinion, the Joint Commission on Public Ethics has released a set of frequently asked questions on the regulation.

First, while public opinion polling on the question of cannabis legalisation has been all over the place on the question, the most reliable results suggests that a slim majority of Germans opposes cannabis legalisation.

«If the question of impeachment dominates the news this fall, like so many other voter concerns, it breaks along partisan lines,» says Dr. Lee M. Miringoff, Director of The Marist College Institute for Public Opinion.

In facing two ways on the question, politicians are at least reflecting public opinion.

At one end of the scale are opinion polls, which sample the whole population but may not reflect a well informed, well thought - out response to questions about government or public service quality, and may in fact reflect opinions on other matters such as economic outlook.

I get the question you are asking and iv read the «answers» however all the answers are just public (or legal) opinions of man (in other words made up by men).

«Leaving England out of the devolution settlement may create difficulties that need to be addressed - particularly funding and the West Lothian question - but it may still be the best way of reflecting and respecting public opinion across the UK.»

«I want the commission to respond first before I give my opinion, because the commission was empaneled to answer just that question,» Cuomo said Friday when asked if the public has the stomach for a raise.

ALBANY — At the top of the agenda for Andrew Cuomo's expert panel on Common Core standards was the question of how to improve public opinion.

«Right now, New York City Democrats are willing to give Spitzer a second chance, but the big question is what happens after the shock value of his return to politics fades and the campaign for comptroller heats up,» says Dr. Lee M. Miringoff, Director of The Marist College Institute for Public Opinion.

(i) The Committee on Ethics may, in its discretion, issue public or private advisory opinions with respect to questions of ethical conduct, conflicts of interest and other matters arising under this Article.

Given the premise of your question (that virtually all legislators are of a differing party), the President would have to use every tool at his disposal (charm, pressure, horse trading, public opinion), as well as compromise his own preferences to a great degree.

There're questions about staff involvement as far as public opinion is concerned, but nothing that has really damaged his reelection prospects,» Miringhoff said.

«The big question for this election cycle is whether voters» dissatisfaction will result in wholesale turnover of incumbents,» says Dr. Lee M. Miringoff, Director of The Marist College Institute for Public Opinion.

On all of these questions, public opinion was far more positive for Governor Paterson in The Marist Poll's March 2009 survey.

Cowal said that the combination of environmental and health issues provides opportunities for publics to express their opinions on topics and in ways that are different from before, which is having an effect on public policy questions at the international level.

«Yet if we continue to think about public opinion in this narrow way, as policy conflicts emerge, mistakes will be made and opportunities will be missed to effectively engage the public on the questions and concerns that matter to them.»

«People, particularly the «do less» contingent in the public opinion polls, had begun to question why we were doing these things,» he says, but «there was not a well - formulated alternative to the so - called von Braun paradigm.»

They do, however, raise serious questions about the validity of climate models (which are, of course, used to predict future warming and are used to set public policy and sway public opinion) and how much we are actually warming.

VCIOM, the central Russian body for studying public opinions, questioned gentlemen from 138 local towns in 46 regions to find out what they appreciated in ladies.

As Churchill begins to question whether or not he should try to form a peace agreement with Hilter, he takes to the public to ask their opinion.

Our discussion focuses on questions not posed in prior years and on items for which we observe significant changes in public opinion from prior years.

Public opinion about school vouchers is especially sensitive to decisions about question wording.

Our sample of more than 4,200 respondents, including oversamples of parents and teachers, also gives us the chance to experiment with some of the survey questions in order to tease out nuances in public opinion.

In both the 2012 and 2013 polls, public opinion for the Common Core version of this question was 63 % and 65 %, respectively, nearly as high as when the label was not applied.

We also posed many new questions in 2015, allowing us to explore opinion on curricular and other issues that have never before been examined in a nationally representative survey of the American public.

If the public has no strong opinion, they can be swayed by the question itself.

School Vouchers: Public opinion on school vouchers varied somewhat, depending on the way in which the question was worded.

To examine how the heated rhetoric now attached to Common Core influences opinion, the2015 Louisiana Survey, an annual survey of the state's adult residents sponsored by Louisiana State University's Reilly Center for Media and Public Affairs, used an experiment featuring two versions of a question assessing support for common educational standards.

So which question tells us the truth about public opinion?

An answer to that question is to be found in the eighth annual Education Next survey of public and teacher opinion discussed in this issue of the journal (see «No Common Opinion on the Common Core,» features, Winteropinion discussed in this issue of the journal (see «No Common Opinion on the Common Core,» features, WinterOpinion on the Common Core,» features, Winter 2015).

The point was hammered home in a recent column by Mike Royko, where he discussed public - opinion poll questions about people's willingness to have their taxes raised.

Our findings are based on Education Next polls that have explored public opinion on many questions over the years 2007 to 2012.