"Enlightening Towers: Public Opinion, Local Authorities and the Reformation of Meterology in Eighteenth Century Italy," in Playing with Fire: The Cultural History of the Lightning Rod, P. Heering, O. Hochadel, D. Rhees (eds)., Philadelphia: The American Philosophical Society, 2009.
The Communist Party may be obsessed with control, but it is also sensitive to public opinion, and authorities were forced to backtrack after a pilot project in southern China in 2010 provoked a backlash.
For the individual, Locke wants each of us to use reason to search after truth rather than simply accept the opinion of authorities or be subject to superstition.
As one aim of phylogenetic systematists is to present phylogenetic history in a way that is independent of the opinion of authorities, one might expect that they are more conscious about avoiding anthropocentricisms than the average author of evolutionary textbooks.
As detailed in my recent Connecticut Law Tribune opinion, Executive authority to make recess appointments; the fulsome authority of those officials with recess commissions; and even the validity of re-recess appointments are all well established in law and practice.
"The conflict between public opinions and authorities in Guangdong also underlines a pressing issue of greater importance: it is high time to review and reform our policies regarding media control," The Post quoted the newspaper as writing.
It has sparked debate about Kepa's future and Sarri's, with many of the opinion his authority had been fatally undermined.
URS wrote that "in its professional opinion" the authority was incorrectly assigning projected cost increases to a contingency account.
Meanwhile, paradoxically, facing the residents' query and opinions expression, authorities' slow response and negative attitudes have seriously hurt the credibility of the administration at all levels.
As "letters to the editors" have to be limited, reactions by and opinions of authorities and scholars, and ordinary citizens, should have greater access to the Op-Ed page.
