How to Use the court of public/world opinion in a Sentence

the court of public/world opinion

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  • There’s no doubt that the WGA has the upper hand in the court of public opinion.
    — Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 3 May 2023
  • The cable-news blitz had been a bid to head off the indictment in the court of public opinion.
    — Kara Voght, Washington Post, 18 Apr. 2023
  • Pitt tried to fight back, both in family court and in the court of public opinion.
    — Martha Ross, The Mercury News, 3 June 2024
  • But as is always the case with Trump, the court of public opinion matters too.
    — Eric Tucker, Anchorage Daily News, 21 June 2023
  • But as is always the case with Mr. Trump, the court of public opinion matters, too.
    — Eric Tucker, The Christian Science Monitor, 21 June 2023
  • While both parties were found to have defamed the other, Depp walked away the victor in the court of public opinion.
    — Cheyenne Roundtree, Rolling Stone, 11 Sep. 2023
  • When it’s picked apart in the court of public opinion and dismissed by an untold number of people?
    — Erika D. Smith, Los Angeles Times, 29 Aug. 2023
  • But what’s going on in the court of public opinion is disgusting.
    — Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 29 Feb. 2024
  • What does the public think? Where the reforms don’t seem to be struggling, however, is the court of public opinion.
    — Henry Gass, The Christian Science Monitor, 30 July 2024
  • But jurists need to focus on their courtrooms, not the court of public opinion, Holmes noted.
    — Jennifer Peltz, Fortune, 3 Apr. 2023
  • In the court of public opinion, Jennifer Crumbley is a damned woman.
    — Lily Altavena, Detroit Free Press, 7 Apr. 2024
  • The gap between the court of law and the court of public opinion was wide What was clear Tuesday was that there was a legal track and, separately, a campaign track to the day’s events.
    — James Pindell, BostonGlobe.com, 13 June 2023
  • The beauty of college basketball is that the champion is decided on the court, rather than the court of public opinion.
    — Dave Skretta, Hartford Courant, 8 Jan. 2024
  • Green said a lawsuit could result if Trump’s defense strategies in the court of public opinion cross the line into defamation.
    — Molly Crane-Newman, New York Daily News, 29 Mar. 2024
  • The point Sandoval appears to be trying to make is that he has been unfairly railroaded by the court of public opinion.
    — Kathleen Walsh, Glamour, 21 Feb. 2024
  • That kind of argument is probably not going to hold water in the court of public opinion.
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 15 Oct. 2024
  • Throughout the defamation trial, Donald Trump eroded the distinction between the court and the court of public opinion.
    — Megan Garber, The Atlantic, 30 Jan. 2024
  • Whether or not Tuberville’s blockade was actually a factor, he could well get blamed in the court of public opinion.
    — Tori Otten, The New Republic, 31 July 2023
  • Yet harsh criticism of Israel’s campaign in Gaza could further dent its image in the court of public opinion.
    — Josef Federman, Chicago Tribune, 26 Jan. 2024
  • This kind of manipulation can be strategic, as well as useful in the court of public opinion.
    — Kelly M. Greenhill, Foreign Affairs, 9 Feb. 2015
  • From judges in wigs, to lawyers putting on a show to win over the jury (and the court of public opinion), there is something naturally theatrical about these spaces.
    — Louis Staples, Rolling Stone, 20 Dec. 2023
  • All say private and career anxieties followed as their accounts were ridiculed and challenged in the court of public opinion.
    — Jen Yamato, Los Angeles Times, 11 Sep. 2023
  • But good journalism, operating in the court of public opinion, can sometimes do what is beyond the power of justice and the courts.
    — Larry Welborn, Orange County Register, 5 July 2024
  • Manafort was convicted of tax evasion and bank fraud in 2018 (as well as of having terrible taste in jackets by the court of public opinion).
    — Tori Otten, The New Republic, 5 Sep. 2023
  • President Trump has already been acquitted in the court of public opinion.
    — Brittany Carloni, The Indianapolis Star, 30 May 2024
  • In the court of public opinion, both sides make their case for following international law.
    — Thomas Fuller, New York Times, 6 June 2024
  • That lack of consideration for major investors was part of a lack of consensus building over the firing, and that played into the board’s loss in the court of public opinion.
    — Lila MacLellan, Fortune, 20 Nov. 2023
  • But for now, at least, the idea of a lab leak seems to have prevailed in the court of public opinion: Two recent polls show that roughly two-thirds of Americans believe that Covid probably started in a lab.
    — Benjamin Mueller, New York Times, 19 Mar. 2023
  • Come September, all that will matter is the court of public opinion, as Verzuz does not declare an official winner to their battles.
    — Neena Rouhani, Billboard, 9 May 2023
  • After winning an early round in the court of public opinion on behalf of Davis outside the actual courtroom, Goodman withdrew from the case.
    — John Smith, Rolling Stone, 2 Nov. 2023

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