climate of opinion
Example Sentences
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He reshaped the climate of opinion, there’s no doubt about it.
From Washington Post • Aug. 11, 2020
In this climate of opinion, voters in 1844 elected James K. Polk, a slaveholder from Tennessee, because he vowed to annex Texas as a new slave state and take Oregon.
From Textbooks • Dec. 30, 2014
As WH Auden wrote after Freud's death, "To us he is no more a person / now but a whole climate of opinion".
From BBC • Sep. 18, 2014
Such labels as "mercenaries" for the government soldiers in the Congo and "constitutionalists" for the rebels in the present Dominican crisis, are picked up and repeated, subtly changing the climate of opinion.
From Time Magazine Archive
Given the composition of the Gillem Board and the climate of opinion in the nation, the report was exemplary and fair, its conclusions progressive.
From Integration of the Armed Forces, 1940-1965 by MacGregor, Morris J.
