But the public response, and that of more liberal-minded Chinese newspapers, prompted a change of attitude.
Some Singaporeans think there has been only a change of attitude by the government.
More than the money, Mr Medina Mora says he welcomes the change of attitude.
The change of attitude is largely to do with the loss of trust in the intervening years.
But markets have also been responding to what appears to be a change of attitude by central banks.
The latest case brought a change of attitude in the Pakistani civil society.
Other senior politicians argue that it is pointless to try to legislate what amounts to a change of attitude.
"From the first minute of the second half we saw a change of attitude, " Mourinho's assistant Aitor Karanka told reporters.
The best hope of preventing that lies with a change of attitude on the part of Slobodan Milosevic, the Yugoslav president.
This implies a change of attitude on the part of teachers and librarians to make their approach fit for building knowledge societies.
John Bellinger, chief legal adviser to Condoleezza Rice in the State Department, has been the driving force behind the change of attitude.
"It's a campaign that talks about responsibility towards the future, promotes reflection and calls for a change of attitude, " adds Guy Costa, Creative Director at Africa Brazil.
That change of attitude could bode better for the future.
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At whatever level of government decisions are made about cities in the future, there seems to have been an important change of attitude about what living in them should be like.
Instead, anticipation by the markets of Mr Abe's elections, and the resulting flood of newly-created yen from the central bank's change of attitude, has seen the yen fall steadily in recent months from all-time highs against the dollar and other major currencies, helping provide some relief to the country's beleaguered exporters.
But six months after the breakdown of trade talks in Seattle there are few signs of a change in attitude on either side of the Atlantic.
This wasn't about advanced analytics, but about a change in attitude of a company.
What we've got to do is change the attitude of employers rather than those on incapacity benefit.
We should note two facts that may help explain this change in the attitude of the board of the Chicago fund.
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And the third, and most powerful, force for change is the attitude of India's consumers who have already started to benefit from liberalisation and who will continue to reward those who break some of the old business taboos.
But I believe there is a more subtle change which affects the attitude of employers.
The attitude of staff would change as they would be put through a programme of customer service training, he said.
Crowdfunding is about a change in attitude and a breaking down of barriers that have traditionally inhibited people from stepping out and taking risks.
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Divorce lawyer Ayesha Vardag said the recent court cases had marked a change in attitude among judges to the hiding of assets.
Interestingly enough, this change in attitude at IBM also coincided with the unleashing of their latent ability towards driving high profit growth.
Holiness thus doesn't require a change in external circumstances, but a change in attitude, seeing everything anew in the light of one's supernatural destiny.
If we change the words, maybe it will be the start of a new attitude towards people with disabilities.
In a marked change of tone, Israeli officials have also praised Egypt for its stern attitude to Hamas and for its efforts to stop the smuggling, despite the bile poured on the Egyptians by Hamas's many admirers.
Angie Dodd of Slow Food UK is a firm believer that it's a change in attitude that is having an effect on supermarkets and food producers.
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