rouse public opinion

Although contradicted at once, the rumor roused public opinion.

The Soviet demands on Finland in the months prior to the outbreak of war had roused public opinion.

The leaders are all in favor, of course, but to date have seemed to lack the political and rhetorical tools needed to rouse public opinion behind them.

Swift had earlier written a series of pamphlets, known as Drapier's Letters, to rouse public opinion on the matter.

If you succeed in rousing public opinion, no doubt in due season my sanity will be vindicated, and I shall be freed.

The Civil Defence Corps was due to be scrapped totally just a few years ago, until we roused public opinion enough to prevent it.'

His writing roused public opinion and finally Dinabandhu Mitra came out with his play Nil Darpan in 1860.

He used his journal Sanjibani to rouse public opinion against the partition and on 13 July, 1905 he openly called for the boycott of foreign goods through the journal.

The argument is that Gauden had prepared the book to inspire sympathy with the king by a representation of his pious and forgiving disposition, and so to rouse public opinion against his execution.

The pattern of justification is almost always the same: Rouse public opinion, make impossible demands, try to legitimize the demands, deny your real intentions then employ the rejection of the demands as a reason for war.

When Secretary of State Jefferson told Genêt he was pushing American friendship past the limit, Genêt threatened to go over the government's head and rouse public opinion on behalf of France.

Reagan did, and having touched the third rail of politics, he was badly burned: Matthews directed O'Neill in a stinging media barrage, excoriating Reagan and the Republicans, which roused public opinion against the move.

But groups representing victims and criminal lawyers say that television coverage of trials, particularly for so-called sound bites on nightly news programs, can rouse public opinion against defendants and discourage potential witnesses in other trials from coming forward.

Next month, in Sports Illustrated, a sponsor, and other Time Warner magazines, the committee will try to rouse public opinion in advertisements titled, "How Do You Feel About Cheating in the Olympic Games?"

A provocative action, an apparent cause for war, an incident which could rouse public opinion to belligerence-the news of such things always carried in its slowness a warning that the provocation might have been withdrawn, the seeming cause for war explained away, and the infuriating incident somehow atoned for.