In March 2006, the association put out a guiding opinion aimed at curbing cases involving 10 or more plaintiffs.
Sharpston has a more specialised role as an advocate-general, providing an initial, guiding opinion ahead of the final judgment.
Most works so far formulate continuous-time models using temporal point processes and are focused on social influence, such as guiding opinion diffusion [107] or determining when to post to maximize impact [108].
The guiding opinion in my family was that Sofia, whose mother was a severe addict who'd been in and out of jail all of her life, was having problems in her relationship, living with someone who she maybe no longer loved, working too hard, not making enough money, desperate, and feeling alone.
Quite a number of people have shown interest in the issue of stability and given guiding opinions on improving stability [32 44].
But the published version of his speech was revised into "we should improve [our] abilities in handling the media, respect the communication principles for news and opinions, guide public opinion correctly, keep a close contact with the media, and accept oversight consciously".
And it is instructive that his pledge to audiences that he would never be guided by opinion polls but would always act "on principle" applies only to national security matters.
In one school visited, guide opinion had provided a strong impetus towards the addition of a senior class in a local village school.
All these methods — "authoritarian deliberation" is the phrase used by some scholars — come packaged in official assurances about the need to encourage "transparency" and to "balance" online opinions for the sake of harmoniously "guiding public opinion" (yulung daoxiang).
The government makes no apologies for what it calls "guiding public opinion".
