But here, again, until there existed some knowledge of science amongst the higher classes, and a sound state of public opinion relative to science, the execution of the plan could only be injurious.
Or the number of persons devoting themselves to science, might not be sufficiently large to have due weight in the expression of public opinion.
If this be so, the Confederacy is a rope of sand, to be penetrated and dissolved by the first adverse wave of public opinion in any of the States.
We ought to reflect that in this age, and especially in this country, there is an incessant flux and reflux of public opinion.
Public opinion in this country is all-powerful, and when it reaches a dangerous excess upon any question the good sense of the people will furnish the corrective and bring it back within safe limits.
We should reflect that under this free Government there is an incessant ebb and flow in public opinion.
If my soldiers were to be clothed, and fed by public opinion, they would likely go naked and die of hunger.
In a free country the Government cannot move in advance of public opinion, and public opinionis influenced by and reflected in the newspapers.
There is no accredited organ of public opinion; indeed there is no public opinion to record.
Everywhere we hear of the development of the constitution, of public law, of public opinion, of institutions, of forms of society, of theories of history.
The king was fully aware of this unanimity of public opinion in favor of his minister.
When the old mythological religion of Europe broke down under the weight of its own inconsistencies, neither the Roman emperors nor the philosophers of those times did any thing adequate for the guidance of public opinion.
When he indicted him to be arraigned before the great bar ofpublic opinion he dipped his pen in acid that seared the eyeballs, and wrote their sentence diluted with worm-wood and gall.
And yet men actually imagine that they cannot succeed in politics, business or letters without the assistance of that great "molder of public opinion!
A lecture on Gall were woefully incomplete without some reference to the press, that "archimedean lever" and "molder of public opinion.
Of course there will be some to defend the trio of assaulters, but the consensus of public opinion will be against it and by the greater part of our people it will be regarded as essentially unfair.
It is not the mother, but the daughter of public opinion.
But, having regard to public opinion, I feel that such conduct would be discreditable to myself, and to you, and to the whole state.
Then he proceeds to divide his accusers into two classes; first, there is the nameless accuser--public opinion.
But, setting aside the question of public opinion, there seems to be something wrong in asking a favour of a judge, and thus procuring an acquittal, instead of informing and convincing him.
As for myself, though I had certainly had a hand in more than one of my uncles' robberies, there was no thought of discussing me even at the bar of public opinion.
The tiniest village would have been sufficient for the creation and maintenance of a public opinion.
There were many more rocks ahead in the stormy sea of public opinion.
On the way Count Bismarck again recurred to the state of public opinion in America with reference to the war.
Bad habits--if not restrained by law or public opinion--spread more rapidly and universally than good ones, and the Spanish colonists adopted the use of tobacco almost as generally as the natives.
As soon as this virtue is honoured and practised by some few men, it spreads through instruction and example to the young, and eventually becomes incorporated in public opinion.
It was a startling instance of the variableness of public opinion.
Then came, naturally, a eulogium of Horace Greeley, the maker of public opinion, the moulder of national policies, the most eloquent and resourceful leader of the Republican party since its formation.
He has made his newspaper a recognized power and a notable organ of public opinion; its fortunes are made and so are his, and, in regard to myself, all he predicted has come true, both in promotion and in enlargement of income.
Through the dinner speech they open the way and arouse public attention for measures which they intend to propose to Parliament, and in this way bring the pressure of public opinion to their support.
Public opinion, however, believed this wild competition to be the only remedy for admitted railway evils.
This need of public opinion is beneficial, in that it combats, almost always victoriously, that which is irregular in our imagination, and comes to the aid of duties which we too easily forget.
One might almost reckon mathematically that, having undergone the double composition of public opinion and of the author, their history reaches us at third hand and is thus separated by two stages from the original fact.
In view of the influence which the state can always exercise on the press, public opinion is likely to be biased against them, particularly when a nominally progressive government is in power.
A Nonconformist minister loses his livelihood if his views displease his congregation; a member of Parliament loses his seat if he is not sufficiently supple or sufficiently stupid to follow or share all the turns and twists of public opinion.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "public opinion" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
