That way temporary mass sentiment could uniformly dictate the identity of all election winners throughout the country, not just those in places most swayed by current trends.
The quotas are temporary, but the sentiment behind them seems more enduring.
Martin Gahbauer, Nationwide's chief economist, said: "September saw confidence return to its downward path following what now appears to have been a temporary uplift in sentiment during August.
There are rogue polls that use unreliable methods, statistical outliers that reflect random-sampling errors, and polls that provide accurate snapshots but reflect temporary shifts in sentiment.
Most analysts suggested Friday's dip might be only temporary, amid general sentiment that the Nikkei might have bottomed out on March 17, when it hit 11,691.
The new permissiveness, however temporary, coincides with growing sentiment among some officials and economists that Chinese workers deserve higher wages for their role in the country's global export machine.
This agreement, like similar ones in the history of the oil industry after price busts, may "enjoy temporary success, particularly at influencing sentiment and thereby supporting near-term oil prices, but eventually will succumb to the temptation by members to increase production," said Robert McNally, president of the Rapidan Group, a market research firm based in Washington.
Just yesterday I eagerly transferred them, well over 300 volumes in various sizes, shapes and sentiment, from their temporary shelves to the refinished bookcase in my newly refurbished family room.
"It's one of the few works of art that stayed on beyond their temporary status because there was community sentiment in favor of them," said Adrian Benepe, the city's parks commissioner.
Think anti-engineering legal sentiment is just a temporary storm?
