In Japan a just-promoted politician was forced (by public opinion) to step down from the cabinet because of his conviction for bribery in the 1970s.
Just how far the justices' political convictions and national agendas stray from mainstream opinion was made clear on December 13 by recently retired justice Ayala Procaccia.
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Yet some broad trends are apparent from two opinion polls, one published in October by the Asia Foundation, an American NGO, and one this month by three broadcasters, including the BBC.
The Syrian ambassador at the UN, Bashar Jaafari, said Ms Pillay had "allowed herself to be misused in misleading the public opinion by providing information based on allegations collected from 233 defectors".
The senators who voted down the gun-control measures did so on the basis of a deeper understanding of the constituents they represent than can be conveyed by a single number from an opinion poll.
Affronted Brits might draw some comfort from a recent survey of American public opinion by the Chicago Council on Foreign Relations, which found that Britain was the second most popular foreign country among Americans, just after Canada.
The decision by the Commission is subject to an opinion from the European Parliament.
These in particular his opinion on divorcing a wife have been wrested from him by circumstance.
"The attention that has focused on me in my opinion is actually primarily being driven by an effort to distract from the merits of the Hagel nomination, " Cruz told CNN about those accusations.
If not, Palestinians may conclude that the ceasefire is designed to benefit Israel more than it benefits them, and that they have little to lose apart from America's good opinion of Mr Abbas by breaking it.
Now the leftist screechers are demanding that Wiesenfeld be removed from the board of trustees because by professing an opinion they don't like, he has destroyed what passes for academic freedom in their twisted little Orwellian world.
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With the end of Maoist mobilisation, the party turned to Western techniques of public relations and mass media, manufacturing consent by guiding public opinion in certain directions while barring it from others.
The big retailers sourcing goods from Bangladesh are getting pummeled by groups that shape public opinion unions, students, non-governmental organizations, academics, and the media among them all lighting up blogs, Twitter and other public squares.
But the scandals have already helped the two main opposition candidates, both women from the centre-left, whose opinion-poll ratings have been bolstered by Mrs Pitta's accusations.
This presumption, the opinion authored by Chief Justice John Roberts Jr. held, barred an American court from establishing jurisdiction over Shell.
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And in the long term the regime looks unlikely to be much deterred from these plans and certainly not by its public's opinion, whatever that might be.
All these votes and opinion polls suggest that European voters are far from convinced, to put it mildly, by Mr Delors's pan-European vision of a tighter political union.
Although the Stormont politicians might take heart from this shift of opinion, the protest organisers will point to the fact that by late January 45% of unionists still believed the demonstrations should continue.
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Gauging support for Ms. Le Pen's economic policies was complicated by the stigma that sometimes stops voters from truthfully stating their intentions in opinion polls.
On March 25th Mr Rajoy's centre-right People's Party (PP) confounded the opinion polls by failing to wrest control of Andalusia, Spain's biggest region, from the Socialists.
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Western public opinion fell with disconcerting facility for the thesis advanced -- from the very first day -- by the Kremlin's propaganda machine.
In my opinion though, I think the probability of another action by Japan is much greater than any move from the Fed.
In fact Le Pen, a twice-divorced mother-of-three, says her voters these days often come from both the political right and left, although this claim is not borne out by public opinion polls.
In my professional opinion, the NASD and securities regulators may be misleading investors by suggesting that the regulatory scheme adequately protects investors from harm.
Then we pulled in data from the Corruption Perceptions Index developed by Transparency International, an anticorruption nonprofit group in Berlin that uses opinion surveys to rank 158 countries.
For decades they have been unchallenged as Sweden's biggest party (even when out of power), but recent opinion polls suggest that the right-wing Moderates, boosted by the return of their leader, Carl Bildt, from a two-year stint as international troubleshooter for Bosnia, have edged ahead.
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