Faculty had clearly defined opinions about ID, but the students' perception of ID varied (Fig. 2; Chi-square = 63.899; df = 12; P ≤ 0.001): 46.7/45.5% of the faculty versus 22/30% of the students (means Pub + Priv + Rel) perceived ID as either not scientific and proposed to counter evolution based on false claims or as religious doctrine consistent with creationism, respectively.
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary defines opinion as: "A view, judgment, or appraisal formed in the mind about a particular matter".
Key defined public opinion in 1961 as "opinions held by private persons which governments find it prudent to heed".
Even though some still criticised the pilot's participation in the US-led bombing campaign in Syria, anger and resentment against Isis defined public opinion in Jordan and beyond, including among them sympathetic individuals such as Abu Sayyaf, a prominent Salafist leader in Jordan who approved of the immolation but not the publicity that accompanied it.
Ghazali's lectures defined public opinion from politics to theology.
The relative weight of each factor can be defined through opinions by a panel of experts.
However, the optimal anthracycline regimen remains less well defined and opinions vary as to whether women with early breast cancer gain most from several identical cycles of chemotherapy, or sequential 'blocks' of different agents or combinations of agents.
Opinion dynamics models aim at defining the opinion states of a population and the elementary processes governing the transitions between such states [91].
"The often very aggressive prejudice against religion as backward, irrational and opposed to science is increasingly defining popular opinion," said Michael Bongardt, a professor of ethics from Berlin's Free University who added that the ruling reflected a profound lack of understanding in modern Germany for religious belief.
The pound's value dropped sharply against the dollar, global markets dropped downward Friday morning, and US politicians quickly moved to define their opinion about Britain's new status.
