Sentences with phrase «when public sentiment»

Approved in the late 1960s when public sentiment in California was starting to shift from embracing nuclear power to...

Cynthia Tice found that to be the case when she and her co-founder launched Lily's Sweets in 2011, when public sentiment was turning against foods high in sugar (thanks in part to books such as Good Calories, Bad Calories: Fats, Carbs, and the Controversial Science of Diet and Health).

Not exact matches

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.

Sometimes a phrase or sentiment from the memoir is lifted virtually unchanged into the novels, as when Mantel's mother and Jack, like Henry and Anne, are described as «[the] couple who had endured, to be together, so much adverse public opinion.»

All the more misplaced... are the efforts by some supposedly Jewish organizations to arouse, through their battles against Christmas symbols in public places, the ill will and resentment of Christians» at the very time when the Christian religion, more than at other times of the year, inspires its followers with irenic and philanthropic sentiments.»

Archer toyed with a sale process last year but put that on ice when sentiment soured around the dairy sector after the troubles at Victoria's Murray Goulburn and the public backlash against private label milk at the big supermarket chains Coles and Woolworths.

The «everybody does it» sentiment is so widely held when it comes to academic fraud and big - time college athletics that it's almost impossible for any individual instance to shock or even register with the national public anymore.

(and let's face it, when it comes to divorce, those desirable wifely attributes often have no monetary worth in court of public sentiment — just ask newly divorced multimillionaire Jamie Cooper - Hohn).

Project Runway «s Tim Gunn echoed her sentiment recently when he told Shape magazine: «Gym clothes in public?

Obviously wives need a few more skills than that, and when it comes to divorce, those desirable wifely attributes often have no monetary worth in court of public sentiment — just ask newly divorced multimillionaire Jamie Cooper - Hohn).

Indeed she herself has tapped into this public sentiment when she denounced the Prime Minister and the Chancellor as» two arrogant posh boys» who didn't know the price of milk.

«I never have based decisions solely on public sentiment, but you'd be wrong not to be taking public sentiments and views into account as part of a decision,» Mr. Bellone said when asked how much weight public opposition in Nassau County had in Suffolk's decision.

Cribbed by screenwriter David Nicholls from his own mega-selling novel — the kind of fast - digesting doorstop that's been a ubiquitous presence on London public transport for the past two years — the line is one of those reductively heart - on - sleeve sentiments that Richard Curtis sharpened to a blunt point in his 1990s heyday; when Hathaway drops it, you can hear the film straining for its own place in the pop culture quote bank, somewhere between «Is it still raining?

Partisan polarization has given special interests and small minorities the power to twist public sentiment along partisan lines, even when bipartisan majorities support the substance of what is being proposed.

When push comes to shove, is public sentiment likely to back Trump or his Democratic critics?

Nonetheless, there are other voices in opposition to yours, and when the situation becomes desperate enough maudlin public sentiment will be overcome and rational policies will be implemented.

This unwavering sentiment would intensify when The New York Times and The Washington Post published the so - called «Pentagon Papers» in June 1971, revealing incalculable lies that had been fed to the American public about the country's decades - long involvement in the Vietnam War.

Given the growing mainstream concern over a carbon bubble, and calls to «keep it in the ground» when it comes to fossil fuels, this rejection by councillors — not to mention the huge swell of public sentiment that influenced it — should give investors serious pause for thought regarding where they want to place their bets when it comes to energy.

The policy announcement, widely referred to as the Yates Memo, was issued at a time when there continues to be public sentiment that individual corporate wrongdoers are rarely punished.

His sentiments come at a time when cryptocurrencies such as bitcoin have gained popularity in the past few years especially in countries such as South Africa, Kenya, and Nigeria, and both the private and the public sector are waking up to the benefits of cryptocurrencies and their underlying technology.

When equities markets pull back and sentiment weakens, we often see companies that planned to conduct an initial public offering (IPO) delay their offering in favor of waiting for a recovery and an increased (or, perhaps more accurately, improved) market sentiment.