trend of opinion

The Republicans drew comfort from the fact that trends of opinion had, for some time, been moving in their direction.

In that sense we have moved backward and been following the prior socialist trend of opinion.

The elections for the Senate were held on 11 January, and these exhibited the same trend of opinion as had been shown in the previous autumn.

If it is true, its truth is not transitory but instead immutable and independent of actual trends of opinion.

The final interpretant is a kind of norm or necessity unaffected by actual trends of opinion or interpretation.

Both of the München (Munich) journals were previously exponents of a very much more democratic trend of opinion than that which came to characterize them under his proprietorship.

Indifferent to agrarian hostility to his economic proposals, Hamilton had "[driven] into alliance two very different trends of opinion": The "gentlemen planters", who cherished local autonomy and limited government enlisted the support of lower-middle class "artisans and western farmers", who favored democratic government and majority rule.