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Example sentences for "public feeling"

  • He has since written me and Special Agent Whitney and Superintendent Coffin told me that it would be very unsafe for me to stay at that place under the present excited state of public feeling in that vicinity.

  • Such was the state of public feeling when, on the 3rd of October, Earl Grey moved the second reading of the bill.

  • The latter failed again in his discernment of the true slate of public feeling in England.

  • Before treating with you, we naturally made it our business to obtain good information as to the state of public feeling in your country; and notwithstanding this unhappy war, which was forced by France upon Napoleon III.

  • This party may be said to represent to the present hour the prevailing state of public feeling in France.

  • The supporters of the slave system," says Jonathan Dymond in his admirable work on the Principles of Morality, "will hereafter be regarded with the same public feeling, as he who was an advocate for the slave trade now is.

  • The supporters of the slave system," says Jonathan Dymond in his admirable work on the Principles of Morality, "will hereafter be regarded with the same public feeling, as he who was an advocate for the slave trade now is.

  • We thank him for this small sprinkling of correct opinion upon this arid waste of public feeling.

  • The tide of public feeling ebbed or flowed with the disasters or the victories of the war.

  • Referring to the depressing period of the year before, he said "The tone of public feeling at home and abroad was not satisfactory.

  • Public feeling in Austria, it appeared, was willing to sanction much stronger measures in support of Greece than it would tolerate on behalf of Montenegro.

  • Public feeling, I found from Chamberlain, had gone round a good deal during my absence, and to satisfy the opinion of our Radicals he was determined to move something.

  • It will be remembered with what a stormy display of public feeling on behalf of the Serbians and Montenegrins the news of this step was received in France and in Russia.

  • My first thought was to seek information from the commercial world, since it is regarded, rightly or wrongly, as a barometer very sensitive to the ups and downs of public feeling.

  • Times, only added fuel to the fire of public feeling, and drove the British Parliament to get ships built all the faster, in reply to the German challenge.

  • Since the battle there had been a reflux of public feeling.

  • His Queen was safely delivered of a daughter; but this event produced no perceptible effect on the state of public feeling in England.

  • The heroic interest of the plot, the splendor of the pageantry, and some skilful appeals to public feeling in the dialogue, obtained for it at once a popularity which has seldom been equalled.

  • Page naturally sent prompt reports of all these conversations to the President and likewise kept him completely informed as to the state of public feeling, but his best exertions apparently did not immediately affect the Wilson policy.

  • I conceive I should be lacking in duty if I did not report this rapid and unfortunate change in public feeling, which seems likely to become permanent unless facts are quickly made public which may change it.

  • This dispute among the political factions is most unfortunate and it may cause an explosion of public feeling at any time.

  • The small class who, in this state of public feeling, gain the command of the representative body, for the most part use it solely as a means of seeking their fortune.

  • A government to which they would be wholly unsuitable must be one so bad in itself, or so opposed to public feeling, as to be unable to maintain itself in existence by honest means.

  • The excited state of public feeling on the borders of Canada on both sides of the line has occasioned the most painful anxiety to this Government.

  • A tremendous burst of public feeling, produced by the tyranny of the hierarchy, menaced the old ecclesiastical institutions with destruction.

  • Numerous reforms, generally laudable, sometimes hurried on without sufficient regard to time, to place, and to public feeling, showed the extent of its influence.

  • Elizabeth was scarcely cold when the public feeling began to manifest itself by marks of respect towards Lord Southampton.

  • But the misgovernment of James in a few months completely turned the tide of public feeling.

  • To this step, taken in the mere wantonness of tyranny, and in criminal ignorance or more criminal contempt of public feeling, our country owes her freedom.

  • In fact, the state of public feeling in Scotland was not such as the exiles, misled by the infatuation common in all ages to exiles, had supposed it to be.

  • Those who advised him discerned the first faint signs of a change of public feeling, and hoped that, by merely postponing the conflict, he would be able to secure the victory.

  • Of so many he was willing to believe that some at least had been mere dupes, and apprehended that so much bloodshed might create a violent revulsion of public feeling.

  • That the revolution of public feeling which he described was then in progress is indisputable; and it is equally indisputable, we think, that it is in progress still.

  • Every man who has observed the ebb and flow of public feeling in our own time will easily recall examples to illustrate this remark.

  • Burke, in a speech on parliamentary reform which is the more remarkable because it was delivered long before the French Revolution, has described, in striking language, the change in public feeling of which we speak.

  • The state of public feeling was, however, such in all the provinces, that this irregularity was not merely pardoned but applauded.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    legal adviser; public and private life; public breakfast; public confidence; public disputation; public documents; public enemies; public expenditure; public feeling; public funeral; public house; public interest; public life; public matters; public meeting; public moneys; public morality; public office; public park; public resort; public road; public schools; public trial; public works; publicly perform; pulled back