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
In many underdeveloped and new countries, the climate of opinion is strongly anticapitalist, especially where capitalism can be linked to memories of imperialism.
From Time Magazine Archive
But stated explicitly such a recommendation would have been a radical step, out of keeping with the climate of opinion in the country and in the Army itself.
From Integration of the Armed Forces, 1940-1965 by MacGregor, Morris J.
