Sentence examples for slice of public from inspiring English sources

Mr. Klaus's rhetoric on other issues often engendered a fair slice of public support.

First, he says, teachers need to scrap the assumption that science is a public good, due a slice of public funding.

And in all these cases the official view — with which many commentators and a substantial slice of public opinion seemed to agree — was, essentially, that the artists and scholars had brought the trouble on themselves.

Before it could happen, though, Mr. Bliss, who left Phoenix for Austin, Tex., three years ago, had to figure out a way to get the Legislature to approve the monument on a slice of public land.

Last month, a Wimbledon cabdriver underscored one slice of public opinion when he told a carful of reporters that he believed the strength of Venus and Serena was "unnatural" and "unfair".

Besides, if we're all confined to echo chambers consisting of nothing but a narrow slice of public life, how is it that all this trivia – funny YouTube videos, fascinating popular press clippings, and links to the weird and unusual – keep ending up on our screens?

While the sword of Damocles (best value tendering for block legal aid contracts) has been delayed for a year or so, the salami slicing of public funding continues unabated.

Yet we're living in an age of savage slicing of public services, with city centres shaped by marauding developers who care not one fig if they're age- or indeed people-friendly.

At the base is a large slice of the public, as measured by the crude instrument of public-opinion surveys a silent majority, you might say.

Outside, the public is watching, particularly that narrow slice of the public that votes in primary elections.

But presidential campaigns focus public attention on policy choices and, on Election Day, they bring a broader, more representative slice of the public to the polls.