Sentences with phrase «turn of public opinion»

In a dramatic turn of public opinion, Californians defeated a ballot measure that would have capped administrative spending by the state's nearly 1,000 districts at 5 percent of their total budgets and required that the other 95 percent go to classroom expenses, such as teachers» salaries and school supplies.

Daniel Callahan Two important social forces lie behind the potentially disastrous turn of public opinion toward euthanasia and physician - assisted suicide in recent years.

Two important social forces lie behind the potentially disastrous turn of public opinion toward euthanasia and physician - assisted suicide in recent years.

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How it all turns out will depend on the appeal — and Shkreli is clearly banking on victory either there — or in the court of public opinion.

Fortune: Do you worry that with the legal scrutiny and all the press, the tide of public opinion may be turning negative?

«I think collectively the Vatican feels it has taken a drubbing in the court of public opinion, and it's looking for a media - savvy expert that can turn the ship around,» Allen said.

Lyndon Johnson, taking Walter Cronkite's misreporting of Tet seriously, lost heart; the Democratic party largely abandoned the war that John F. Kennedy had begun; public opinion, shaped by what now appears to have been some of the worst reporting of the television age, turned decisively against the war.

When doubt in the personhood of one's fetus becomes paralyzing, one turns either to the law — which defers silently to Mystery — or to public opinion, fractured irreconcilably in two.

My contention is that it's been a focal point of church politics for centuries, and it is only now, when the tide of public opinion is turning, that the church isn't going to focus on it more.

With the buy - in with public opinion, a majority of the country had complicity with the invasion when it turned out that Iraq did not in fact have weapons of mass destruction.

After the story broke and public opinion wondered why these criminals were treated so leniently, the bishops then made the equal and opposite mistake: having been burned by being too merciful, they turned around and zealously applied the strictest justice, in the form of «zero tolerance» policies.

For example, the Vietnamese War was the first to be a livingroom, TV affair, and it is not too much to believe that the tide of public opinion finally turned against the whole enterprise in large part because of TV viewers sickened by the continuous sequence of gruesome spectacles on the nightly news.

If someone succeeded in their life, and acheived a high station because of it, dissenters could say «look at them, they are so proud of themselves, they obviously think they're better than you all», and turn public opinion against them.

Public opinion in Florence turned against him, and he and two of his disciples were condemned and hanged, and their bodies were burned.

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.

So, clearly, McDonald's saw the handwriting on the wall and knew that the tide of public opinion was turning against a uniformly unhealthy Happy Meal.

Capitalizing on ever - present public opinion, many districts are turning to the technology of the internet to get an idea of how parents feel about their child's education, and capturing a strong voice.

Those detailed pieces in turn link to more details and to primary sources if you have them (the polling data that your piece on public opinion is based on, for instance, or a spreadsheet of your opponent's campaign contributions from well - known evildoers).

The dramatic twist in the phone - hacking saga came after a week in which public and political opinion turned decisively against the Murdochs» dominance of British media.

Research by ICM for the Guardian newspaper saw both the Tories and Liberal Democrats suffer as an outright majority of public opinion turned against the government's controversial changes to the health service.

Labour is struggling to claw back the perception of «economic competence» it needs to persuade voters to give it another chance, even as public opinion has turned against further government austerity.

In turn, the increased use of the experimental method has allowed political scientists to investigate a wide set of issues, including voter behaviour, public opinion, and decision - making processes.

While there may be some legislative twists and turns in the House of Lords, the battle for public opinion has been won by supporters of SSM, and by 2015 the fuss will largely have been forgotten.

Right wing parties in Europe and King Goodwill Zwelethini in South Africa have stoked the flames of intolerance and fear, turning public opinion against migrants so fiercely that the bounds of morality and humanity are being tested.

Labour has been shaken recently by a turn in public opinion that appears to favour Conservative control of the health service.

It was the prime minister stumbling badly in the eyes of the public that turned opinion.

While a few years ago the majority of Russians supported intervention, deteriorating economy and increasing death tolls turned the public opinion around.

Whether or not the coup was staged, that's certainly some very effective rhetoric in terms of turning public opinion against the military and forging a united base of support.

It's not just Iain Duncan Smith who is opposing George Osborne - the tide of public opinion seems to be turning against government austerity.

«Voters are looking for someone who can turn state government around, and most plan to look no farther than Andrew Cuomo,» says Dr. Lee M. Miringoff, Director of The Marist College Institute for Public Opinion.

[3] But his decision to commit British troops to the 2003 invasion of Iraq turned public opinion against him and lost him the support of some of his own MPs.

Fighting public opinion and technical glitches One of the challenges for cities that want to switch to renewable power is explaining to customers that when the sun doesn't shine and the wind doesn't blow, they'll still be able to turn on their lights.

«Given the mobilization of creationist interest groups around this issue and anti-evolution public opinion — particularly in states with a high number of conservative Protestants — you might think that this would lead to greater success in turning these bills into laws, but this has not been the case,» Johnson said.

By turning public opinion away from the antiauthoritarian principles of the nation's founders, the new science denialism is creating an existential crisis like few the country has faced before.

«By turning public opinion away from the antiauthoritarian principles of the nation's founders,» Otto wrote, «the new science denialism is creating an existential crisis like few the country has faced before.»

«Did public opinion of immigration take a negative turn during the recession?.»

Public opinion of wind energy in Germany, once unanimously high, has eroded considerably over the past years as more people begin to realize that the country's once idyllic countryside is turning into a blighted industrial landscape.

It doesn't so much re-litigate her case — tried in real court and the one of public opinion — as jazz up the juiciest details: the «motivational» maternal shit - talk that Janney performs like a profane comedy routine; the on - the - ice outbursts, sometimes punctuating Gillespie's robustly staged skating sequences; and every twist and turn of Gillooly's hapless criminal conspiracy, which turns the backstretch of the movie into a dimwit caper, dominated by Paul Walter Hauser's broadly farcical take on Eckhardt and his mouth - breathing delusions of grandeur.

Worse still is an American exchange student, Tracy (Greta Gerwig), with a crush on Atari, and who leads a singlehanded campaign to turn the tide of public opinion against Mayor Kobayashi, thus reifying old stereotypes about Japanese passivity.

But we do know that public opinion toward teachers unions — and teachers» opinions of them, too — has turned in a negative direction.

When educational choice wins in the halls of state legislatures and the court of public opinion, opponents often turn to the courts of law.

It seems that public opinion is rapidly turning the obstructionist tactics of the teachers union.

Meanwhile, the tide of public opinion on school consolidation may be turning.

With school choice winning in state legislatures and the court of public opinion, opponents of choice have turned to the courts to stop them.

Unfortunately as public opinion of this breed declines and the banning of bully breeds builds momentum, many more facts are turned around.

Critics have argued that some tactics employed by animal advocates, including protests, risk turning public opinion against the animal advocacy movement.178 While these activities make up a small proportion of L214's work, they do organize and participate in protests and demonstrations.179 Investigations make up a larger part of L214's work and have sometimes led to a slightly different type of backlash in which industry and government respond by attempting to pass laws that target advocates, such as ag - gag legislation in the United States.180 While L214 tries to maintain good relationships with media and the government, and France does not have ag - gag laws, they have sometimes been the target of lawsuits by industry because their footage is taken without permission.181 L214 has sometimes suffered negative consequences as a result of these lawsuits, such as fines or the requirement to take footage down from their website.182, 183

Critics have argued that some tactics employed by animal advocates, including protests, risk turning public opinion against the animal advocacy movement.212 While these activities make up a small proportion of THL's work, they do organize and participate in protests and demonstrations.213 While THL carefully targets their protests with specific goals in mind and tries to project a professional image through their protests, it's possible that they could still draw negative governmental attention or lower public opinion of advocates.214

We suspect at least some of the skepticism is rooted in the concern among groups like Alley Cat Allies that such studies might turn public opinion against their preferred method of reducing the feral - cat population: trap, sterilize and release them back into the wild.

However, I also feel that the conference and particularly the grand after - conference plans may have a significant impact on public perceptions (reinforcing Americans» uniqueness in terms of climate change beliefs and opinions) and that in turn can provide political cover for politicians reluctant to support tough measures.

While in 1962 the larger public might be characterized as indifferent or mildly impressed with the engineering feat of a pumped - storage hydroelectric plant, by the late 1960s, the tide of opinion had begun to turn and a new conventional wisdom began to emerge.