"Public sentiment" refers to the general opinion, feelings, or attitudes of a group of people within a society about a particular issue or topic. It reflects how the majority of people in a community perceive or judge something at a given time.
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If predicting tweets is possible, it also is possible to steer thoughts, conversations and
public sentiment in specific directions.
The most effective school leaders understand
public sentiment on important issues, because they constantly seek and listen to community feedback.
This election has thus revealed an important lesson for election analysts: if you want to better
understand public sentiment and voting intentions, you need to engage in more meaningful conversations with voters.
He noted that «[t] he liability for negligence... is no doubt based upon a
general public sentiment of moral wrongdoing for which the offender must pay».
However he did illustrate his keen ability to manipulate people's emotions and
current public sentiment to achieve a political victory.
This value of sharp money feeds into the concept of «reverse line movement;» knowing where professionals are moving numbers despite
overwhelming public sentiment the other way.
It's now common knowledge that the policy — like so many of the government's proposals — is based on myth and
imagined public sentiment other than actual data.
We
believe public sentiment will drive demand for better laws that provide all companion animals with humane treatment and responsible breeding.
In a sense, Cronenberg has created his notion of Videodrome both as way of weeding out and destroying cells aroused by such activity, and as a way of gauging
public sentiment toward this subject matter.
Deputy Information Minister, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah has accused Minority MP's of deliberately creating negative
public sentiments against the New Patriotic Party (NPP) administration.
While the DEA's announcement is a positive sign, many drug - policy experts think that it's unlikely the agency will actually decide to change marijuana's classification, despite a dramatic shift in
public sentiment about the drug.
Since Hasbro brought it to the world's attention at the annual toy fair in New York City in early 1964, G.I. Joe has undergone many changes, some the result of shifts in
public sentiment for military - themed toys, others dictated by the marketplace.
Approved in the late 1960s
when public sentiment in California was starting to shift from embracing nuclear power to...
And
while public sentiment following the NBA Finals seemed to be the Wade is over the hill, his numbers tell a much different story.
It's still early in the week which makes it difficult to fully
gauge public sentiment, but there are several indicators that this line has been artificially inflated.
Then, it won't seem merely reactionary — or worse, weak — when you ask them to back you up and help steer
public sentiment into an authentically positive light.
There aren't enough angry face emoji's to capture
public sentiment over the latest Facebook privacy scandal.
Vavilov suggested that BitFury will be keen to
monitor public sentiment on bitcoin as it looks to go public, implying there are some forms of value that he sees as being even more in - demand than bitcoin.
Since taking the lead on turning the Segwit2x scaling agreement into code, the CEO of blockchain startup Bloq has been accused of everything from closing off bitcoin's open - source development to encouraging unnecessarily aggressive network changes to playing loose with facts to
sway public sentiment on the plan.
I am as concerned with the great pool of
public sentiment out of which the laws arise and are applied — the «ethos» of the people that is the subject of «ethics» — as I am with the legal issues.
Much
like public sentiment towards bankers at the moment, the characters featured in Margin Call appear to get away with it, and that feels wholly unsatisfactory.
Not only does this measure go against
popular public sentiment on charter schools, but, if passed, it would incur a significant cost to taxpayers to implement it and it would close over 1200 charter schools, wreaking havoc on families in virtually every community in California.
Because public sentiment about future economic conditions drives stock prices, the market frequently rises even before broader economic measures, such as gross domestic product (GDP) growth, begin to tick up.
Our polls have also
shown public sentiment trending (albeit very slowly) against welfarism and towards support for self - reliance.
Disgusting that with
such public sentiment Arne Duncan and the Obama Administration continue to advance Common Core / Standardized Testing and attendant privatization and teacher evaluations by test scores.
I do like the «no credibility» aspect of the comment, Adam, but the point is that so
much public sentiment is based upon commentaries just such as these — in fact, these particular articles where apparently very influential in turning public opinion against climate science — and now we are seeing retractions.
Given the prevailing
public sentiment at the moment about the magnitude of the budget problems in Albany and the governor's state plan to handle them, this line is not at all a stretch.
Many in the central bank, including outgoing Governor Masaaki Shirakawa, are sceptical that monetary policy can
impact public sentiment, so they do not buy into the idea that a change in policy would raise inflation expectations.
But the conciliatory moves will do little to
assuage public sentiment for the man most identified with the painful cutbacks inflicted on the nation in exchange for aid.
The PTO's action here involves several fronts: (1) issuing guidance that is as - clear - as - possible for examiners and applicants; (2) working with Congress to legislatively broaden eligibility scope; (3) using the PTO's to
push public sentiment toward supporting strong and broad patent rights (when an underlying invention truly exists).