winds of public opinion

They could track the winds of public opinion as well as anyone.

Thus "Forrest Gump" soars on the winds of public opinion.

"At one time, the Kerameikos route was acceptable but views change, and the winds of public opinion blow in different directions.

Finally, the truth is not decided by the number of scholars with different opinions, the outcome of polls or by the shifting winds of public opinion.

"The law of contempt is not made for the protection of Judges who may be sensitive to the winds of public opinion," the Supreme Court ruled.

One cannot, after all, expect the Holy See, which sees itself as the custodian of divinely revealed truth, to trim its sails to the winds of public opinion.

And the European Union, and its institutions, which are completely insulated from the chill winds of public opinion, are on auto pilot: chanting out their silly snippets of ancient ideology like daleks.