popular sentiment
collocation in Englishmeaningsofpopularandsentiment
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popular
adjective
uk/ˈpɒp.jə.lər/us/ˈpɑː.pjə.lɚ/
liked, enjoyed, or supported by ...
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sentiment
noun
uk/ˈsen.tɪ.mənt/us/ˈsen.t̬ə.mənt/
formal
a thought, opinion, or idea based on a feeling about a situation, or a way of thinking ...
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(Definition ofpopularandsentimentfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Popularsentimentregarding particular groups may change over time, and thus apparent variance in tolerance may reflect only shifting opinion regarding which groups are unpopular.
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Europeans before 1914, especially on the continent, were closely tied to the army through education,popularsentiment, and, most importantly, conscription.
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Once again, an appropriate ritual to assuage febrilepopularsentimenthad to be devised.
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Currentpopularsentimentclearly aided sponsors of this new law in overcoming opposition from lawyers, psychiatrists and especially groups representing patients.
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Letters were both an official and an unofficial way of expressingpopularsentiment, circumventing bureaucracy and establishing a direct line of contact with the supreme powers.
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And, since the product of their labors was immediately subject to popular approval or rejection, delegates were more responsive topopularsentimentthan territorial or state legislators.
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Our function is to represent, having first of all ascertained thepopularsentiment.
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What are the questions which most interestpopularsentimentof all kinds in all countries?
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It can guide honestly, and yet be guided bypopularsentiment.
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One of the reasons why there is apopularsentimentin favour of taxing capital transfers is the arbitrary nature of inherited wealth.
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It is not surprising that protest, demonstration, marches and assembly came to be regarded as the normal outlet forpopularsentiment.
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There some instrument is needed wherebypopularsentimentcan be attracted and forged into a patriotic feeling.
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I believe that the whole of that view proceeds from a profound misreading of thepopularsentiment.
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This is not only a question ofpopularsentiment, of scientific evidence and legal niceties.
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Popularsentimentwas suppressed, and individual dissent not tolerated.
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Nevertheless, it is true also that there is a growingpopularsentimentwhich says that talks must be resumed and that progress has to be made.
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This is a kind of yielding—and one can understand the yielding—topopularsentimentof the moment, to popular lust for vengeance, and the indignation to which the populace is subject.
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His wry conclusion reflected thepopularsentimentof the town.
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Zinn argues that the war was unpopular, but that newspapers of that era misrepresented thepopularsentiment.
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