Sentences with phrase «supported by public opinion»

Third, there exists across - the - board consensus among mainstream and regional political parties for intensifying dialogue with India, a course supported by public opinion and increasingly vocal peace lobbies in both countries.

Not exact matches

OTTAWA — New public opinion research shows a majority of Canadians want to see Canada's remaining coal - fired power plants shut down by 2030 (73 % support or somewhat support the idea).

These public figures are well protected by «yes» people and do respond to anything unless there is a huge groundswell of opinion (and even then there are too many examples of them closing ranks and supporting each other).

That is not to say there shouldn't be Christian or other religious values present but it is to say that people shouldn't be conned and public opinion shouldn't be manipulated by claims of righteous values — as we have seen, it is just too easy to fake and sway people to support what may not be in their best interests based on having a cloak of religion.

Here the Pope says yes: «When it is not possible to overturn or completely abrogate a pro-abortion law, an elected official, whose absolute personal opposition to procured abortion was well known, could licitly support proposals aimed at limiting the harm done by such a law and at lessening its negative consequences at the level of general opinion and public morality.»

Because public opinion supporting certain kinds of abortion is close to unanimous; it was formed before the 1973 Supreme Court decision; and the majority that have come of sexual age since that year now take for granted that fertility decisions are to be made only by the individuals involved.

He's also been gaining in public - opinion polls on the nearly bankrupt Lazio, who is supported by virtually the entire GOP establishment and is given a good chance by insiders of winning the Sept. 14 primary.

«The Nixon candidacy becomes a problem for Cuomo if and by how much she surpasses Teachout's support four years ago,» Lee Miringoff, director of The Marist College Institute for Public Opinion, said in a statement.

[77] However, it was positively received by the public, with the ensuing boost to Conservative Party support in opinion polls standing in marked contrast to the previous year's budget.

It was supported by the City of London and, according to contemporary opinion polls, enjoyed significant public support.

This has been preceded by a flurry of media headlines, subjecting him to an open - air political trial and a trial in the court of NPP public opinion supported with earlier pressure from some leading Members of New Patriotic Party (NPP) on Government, to commence prosecution of former NDC Government appointees including Dr. Stephen Kwabena Opuni for alleged acts of corruption for over a year now.»

The estimable Greg Sargent notes public opinion surveys showing public support for collective bargaining rights, suggesting that Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R) has overplayed his hand by refusing to accept a union - Democratic Party «compromise,» that would supposedly trade big...

The government are proceeding with wide - ranging reform of the immigration system supported by very strong public opinion.

ALBANY — An advisory opinion that would expand the scope of individuals regulated by the Joint Commission on Public Ethics has gained support and inspired opposition from those already registered with the commission and those who might be.

At a press conference Monday, Mayor Michael Bloomberg said he stands by his decision to support the mosque, regardless of public opinion.

A large majority of Americans — including gun owners — continue to support stronger policies to prevent gun violence than are present in current federal and most state law, according to a new national public opinion survey conducted by researchers with the Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Policy and Research at the Bloomberg School of Public Hpublic opinion survey conducted by researchers with the Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Policy and Research at the Bloomberg School of Public HPublic Health.

These beliefs play a key role in shaping people's opinions, and ultimately, their support for scientific advances, according to the study «Understanding Public Opinion in Debates Over Biomedical Research: Looking Beyond Partisanship to Focus on Beliefs about Science and Society,» by American University professor Matthew C. Nisbet, Ph.D., and Ezra Markowitz, Ph.D., a post-doctoral fellow at Columbia University.

Hawaii island residents continue to show strong support for the Thirty Meter Telescope, acording to a public opinion poll commissioned by the nonprofit that aims to build and run the $ 1.4 billion...

Now, according to a poll just released by Associated Press and the National Opinion Research Center, vouchers that use taxpayer funds for low - income students to attend private schools gathered support from 43 % of the public, with only 31 % opposed.

◦ Trend: Public support for school vouchers targeted toward low - income families has dropped by 12 percentage points since 2012 — a major shift in public opPublic support for school vouchers targeted toward low - income families has dropped by 12 percentage points since 2012 — a major shift in public oppublic opinion.

Despite that stability of public opinion about charters, aggregate support increased by 11 percentage points when respondents were told that Obama backed them (see Figure 4).

Public opinion polls — paid for by Vallas through the school board — showed support for Vallas that sometimes beat the mayor's approval ratings.

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.

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.

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.

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.

George Pawlas: Public relations is a process used by schools and other organizations to influence public opinion in an attempt to gain support for the organizPublic relations is a process used by schools and other organizations to influence public opinion in an attempt to gain support for the organizpublic opinion in an attempt to gain support for the organization.

This article examines the results of a national opinion poll by PDK and Gallup, which found strong public support for Board certification for teachers.

EdTA's mission is shaping lives through theatre education: honoring student achievement in theatre; supporting teachers by providing professional development, resources, and recognition; and influencing public opinion that theatre education is essential and builds life skills.

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.

Thus, studies showing the diversity of animal species that are killed by cats as well the magnitude of their hunting pressure are important; they both inform public opinion about the problem and can help raise financial support for mitigation.

That's why I'm with the other contributors above who seem to share my astonishment at Roger Pielke Jr.'s apparently extreme belief «that the policy utility of trying to change public opinion through the media [is] of questionable value,» that «the version of democracy [in which] the public guide wise public policy — is not well supported by theory or evidence,» and that he'd «go so far as to say that it is a complete myth.»

agencies were redacted and changed, and stopped from being published by the Bush administration, and the head of the EPA.They cost us much lost time (20 years or so) in the fight against global warming because they skewed public opinion away from the severity of the issue, and cast doubt on the facts supporting global warming.

I guess one could just point to all the scientific societies that give the same supporting message on climate change, but maybe that could still be miscontrued by the public as a «top - down» opinion being pushed by representatives rather than an accurate reflection of the opinions of individual scientists.

Today Germanwatch, a CAN Europe member, published results of a public opinion poll which found that 73 % of Germans support an increase of the EU's 2020 emission reductions target to 30 %, which is one of the structural options proposed by the Commission to review the flagging EU's Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS).

Globally, the opinion research firm Ipsos found that nuclear's approval rating is just 28 percent — just three percent higher than coal, the least popular fuel — while solar and wind are supported by 85 and 78 percent of the public.

Public Opinion Strategies also found 60 % of conservatives support requiring utilities to use renewable energy to produce 12.5 % of their electricity by 2027, and 76 % supported increasing research into battery storage technologies, which most analysts consider the next boom market in the renewable energy economic sector.

According to a new poll by Republican polling firm Public Opinion Strategies, 79 % of Republicans and independents who identify as conservative (the only groups polled) support the expansion of clean energy and policies to encourage such growth.

Specifically, the conversation addressed questions surrounding the processes of public opinion formation on climate change and approached these questions by considering (a) how social scientists can most effectively support climate communicators and (b) what insights from practice can inform ongoing social science research on climate communication.

For polls see e.g., Brett W. Pelham, «Awareness, opinions about global warming vary worldwide,» Gallup (2009), online here; Leiserowitz et al. (2010b) and other work by Leiserowitz's group; Council on Foreign Relations, «Public Opinion on Global Issues» (2011)(no longer available online); Bruce Stokes et al., «Global Concern about Climate Change, Broad Support for Limiting Emissions,» Pew Research Center, Nov. 5, 2015, online here.

The National Surveys on Energy and Environment, conducted by the University of Michigan and the Muhlenberg College Institute of Public Opinion, found in 2014 that support for a carbon tax, when no purpose for the revenue is specified, is quite small.

In addition, these requests were supported by representations that have been made during the past two years to the Canadian Human Rights Commission, by samplings of public opinion, and by recent legislative developments in several provinces.

After all, with big - law reputations what they are, firms can suffer some serious damage in the court of public opinion (recall the surge that came to the support of popular blogger Denise Howell when she announced that she'd been terminated by her firm, Reed Smith).

The pattern now seems to be that one commences a legal proceeding and seeks support of the allegations by public opinion, use of petitions, press conferences and «likes» in social media.

212.1 The Minister may make regulations prescribing actions that the City must take which, in the opinion of the Minister, are necessary or desirable to support the integration of planning for municipal service delivery with planning for service delivery by other public bodies or by other persons.

This view opinion is largely fueled by that last interview and the likes of services such as LinkedIn, websites and other (emerging) social media avenues such as Klout which combines public and private information which can can get supported and endorsed.

«Public opinion polls have consistently supported equal - shared parenting across all demographics, by age, gender, religion and political affiliation,» he says.

The national public opinion poll by the Children's Leadership Council found strong support for increasing funding for effective programs that improve the lives of children and youth from birth to adulthood.

A recent public opinion poll conducted by the Environics Research Group for TREB shows that the public supports Realtor's views of the Toronto Land Transfer Tax, and that they want the mayoral candidates to commit to taking action on this issue.

The Nanny State draws ever closer by the day... unless... there begins a mass renunciation of the way things are going by enough people to cause the current government of the day to do something to at least appear to be wanting to support public opinion... again, for future votes.