Sentence examples for opinion lay from inspiring English sources

I fitted into the former category, no need to tell you where my friend's opinion lay.

"It was obvious where public opinion lay, it was obvious she was mentally ill, it was obvious where the professional organizations would like the case to go, but it would be wrong to distort the law, to stretch the truth and try to engineer the outcome," he said.

A survey of the "moderate" neo-evangelical Christianity Today's offerings on the evolution issue in 1968 provides some estimate of where the center of evangelical opinion lay at the time.

My opinion lies somewhere between the two.

But it does suggest that the Conservatives are where majority opinion lies".

It's often said this is where the majority of public opinion lies – but John Harris argues that isn't necessarily true.

Evidence for this surmise, in addition to the equivocal tone of Justice O'Connor's concurring opinion, lies in the fact that the court's two-week December sitting, when this case was argued, produced 11 decisions; Justice Kennedy wrote the majority opinion in two of those, including the case today, while Justice Stevens, uncharacteristically, wrote none.

They say: "As things now stand our assessment is that the true state of public opinion lies between the online and phone numbers, but closer to phone, approximately two-thirds of the way towards the leads phone polls are on average giving remain".

But wherever majority opinion lies, gay marriage poses a potent threat of division for churches - especially the Church of England.

What business actually "thinks" about Europe - and where the majority opinion lies - will be one of the defining issues ahead of the in/out referendum promised by David Cameron before the end of 2017.

The power to change opinion lies within the democratic Twitterverse.