Sir Robert Drury's Will is very extensive and detailed, and mentions " Robert Alyngton my daughter Ursula's son " as being under age at the time of writing.

In his 2009 book, Straussophobia: Defending Leo Strauss and Straussians against Shadia Drury and Other Accusers, Peter Minowitz argues that Drury ’ s work is “ plagued by exaggerations, misquotations, contradictions, factual errors, and defective documentation .” Thomas Pangle, former professor of political philosophy at Yale, has described Drury's writings on Strauss as simplistic, incompetent, and unscholarly.

Drury's failure to establish fair wage provisions in government contracts and his commitment to free trade that threatened the livelihood of industrial workers alienated urban workers further.

In 1765 an entry on the Causeway appeared in volume 12 of the French Encyclopédie, which was informed by the engravings of Drury's work ; the engraving of the " East Prospect " itself appeared in a 1768 volume of plates published for the Encyclopédie.

Immediately above it was Drury Mill, a corn mill run by Daniel Drury, but this had to be closed in 1791 when the water level in Field Mill Dam was raised, preventing Drury's wheel from working efficiently.

The UFO government clashed with the UFO organization ( led by James J. Morrison throughout Drury's term ) which ultimately withdrew its support from the government.

Some believe Conservative delegates were influenced by the recent election of Ernest Drury's United Farmers in Ontario.

The novel won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1960 and was followed by Drury's A Shade of Difference in 1962 and four additional sequels.

Drury's laudatory characterisation of Hempel was however challenged by several other Irish Times readers, who pointed to evidence of the German minister's pro-Hitler, pro-Nazi and anti-Semitic outlook.

Nathan Morrison, Samuel Drury, and James and Charles Harwood provided the school's initial endowment and organization ; Samuel Drury's gift was the largest of the group and the school was soon renamed in honor of Drury's recently deceased son.

Several leading political philosophers consider Drury's attacks on Strauss and his followers to be unfounded.

Although Drury's production dipped to 46 points in 2001 – 02, he was named to the U. S. roster for the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City.

He went on to attribute also Robert Drury's Journal to Defoe alone ( going much further than previous bibliographers William Lee who had rejected the idea, Samuel Pasfield Oliver, and William Peterfield Trent ).

When it was opened, it was named the Ferguson Highway, in honour of Premier George Howard Ferguson ( Drury's successor ).

( Drury's sons William and Robert are also mentioned ).

This came about in spite of initial disapproval by contemporary medical opinion ( which worried about women's frail health ) and by savoir vivre guidebooks ( which deplored the public attention drawn to what was assumed to be the wife's sexual initiation ).

Historian Jim Bradbury has summarised the contemporary historical opinion of John's positive qualities, observing that John is today usually considered a " hard-working administrator, an able man, an able general ".

The contemporary opinion about this work – " a revelation of all the potentialities and force of the art of sculpture " – was summarized by Vasari: " It is certainly a miracle that a formless block of stone could ever have been reduced to a perfection that nature is scarcely able to create in the flesh.

But, by 1820, he enjoyed the success accompanying a reversal in the contemporary critical opinion of his earlier works.

By the turn of the 21st century, the climate of scholarly opinion shifted somewhat on this belief: some contemporary researchers argue that publishing plays was a risky and marginal business — though this conclusion has been disputed by others.

Austen addresses the reader directly in parts, particularly at the end of Chapter 5, where she gives a lengthy opinion of the value of novels, and the contemporary social prejudice against them in favour of drier historical works and newspapers.

Their fate remains an enduring mystery, but historians and contemporary popular opinion agree that the princes may have been murdered in the Tower.

Some contemporary Catalan authors, such as Josep Pla, Jaume Fàbrega or Eliana Thibaut i Comalada, and others like Colman Andrews, have suggested that, besides Catalonia proper, this cuisine takes in the Balearic and Valencian cuisines, but this opinion is challenged as politicised, and is not widespread, nor is supported by either the Catalan, Balearic or Valencian government.

" We are therefore left with no contemporary record of Seneca's life, save for the desperate opinion of Publius Suilius.

θ and the use of the Doric accentuation, though it is uncertain whether these features were actually present in Alcman's original compositions or were added either by Laconian performers in the subsequent generations ( see Hinge's opinion below ) or even by Alexandrian scholars who gave the text a Doric feel using features of the contemporary, and not the ancient, Doric dialect.

His contemporary Carl Schurz described Seward as " one of those spirits who sometimes will go ahead of public opinion instead of tamely following its footprints.

Anthropologist Donald Brown's list of " human cultural universals " ( i. e., features shared by all current human societies ) includes men being the " dominant element " in public political affairs ( Brown 1991, p. 137 ), which he asserts is the contemporary opinion of mainstream anthropology.

However, the historian Stuart Harris is of the opinion, based largely on the contemporary Petworth map, that Pelham's Battery was built on the slope to the south of Leith Links and Somerset's Battery was located adjacent to the present Pilrig House.

His character and gifts must command respect, if not approval ; but he exhibited a curious lack of balance, and a failure to appreciate and adapt himself to the mood of the times which must detract from a firm claim to greatness on behalf of one so impervious to the changes in contemporary thought and opinion.

While contemporary opinion linked Kenyatta with the Mau Mau, historians have questioned his alleged leadership of the radical movement.

Nevertheless, contemporary opinion of him was not nearly so negative as modern historiographical opinion.

Indeed, contemporary opinion of Charles is consistently kinder than later historiography, though it is a modern suggestion that his lack of apparent successes is the excusable result of near constant illness and infirmity.

The early jet airliners possessed much lower levels of noise and vibration than contemporary piston-engined ones, so much so that in 1947, after piloting a jet powered aircraft for the first time, Wing Commander Maurice A. Smith, then-Editor of Flight magazine, stated ; " Piloting a jet aircraft has confirmed one opinion I had formed after flying as a passenger in the Lancastrian jet test beds, that few, if any, having flown in a jet-propelled transport, will wish to revert to the noise, vibration and attendant fatigue of an airscrew-propelled piston-engined aircraft "

I mentally confronted this with the opinion of the man at the Copenhagen University who knew the history of philosophy best, my teacher, Hans Brochner, who knew, so to speak, nothing of contemporary English and French philosophy, and did not think them worth studying.

Some chronicle accounts of the battle include an invented pre-battle speech on the glorious deeds of the Normans, occasionally quoted as good contemporary evidence of the high opinion the Normans held of themselves.

Understanding contemporary Quebec nationalism is difficult considering the ongoing debates on the political status of the province and its complex public opinion.

His conclusions were consistent with contemporary European opinion of Indigenous Australians.

The piece were contemporary and, in his opinion, required a score reflecting pop sensibilities.

Many accounts claimed that Harrison fired at Levy while sprawled on the ground, but contemporary opinion held that Levy had shot the man while he was down.

Moreover, Carnegie urged other wealthy people to contributed to society in the form of parks, works of art, libraries and other endeavors that improved the community, and contributed to the “ lasting good ” Carnegie also held a strong opinion against inherited wealth.

Though this method can backfire, as the general opinion of feet can depend on the culture and society of the area.

In modern society, news media have become the chief purveyor of information and opinion about public affairs ; but the role and status of journalism, along with other forms of mass media, are undergoing changes resulting from the Internet.

Contrary to popular opinion, libertarian socialism has not traditionally been a utopian movement, tending to avoid dense theoretical analysis or prediction of what a future society would or should look like.

Therefore, language, in the absence of translation, comprises a barrier to a worldwide community of debate and opinion, although it is also true that media within any given society may be split along class, political or regional lines.

According to this model, most views within society are freely expressed, and the mass media are accountable to the people and tends to reflect the spectrum of opinion.

Despite public or media opinion, national studies have indicated that severe mental illness does not independently predict future violent behavior, on average, and is not a leading cause of violence in society.

In this sense political media would often be meant to form or at least influence public opinion, a least-common-denominator for all members of society.

Menzies is regarded highly in Prime Ministerial opinion polls and is very highly regarded in Australian society for his tenures as Prime Minister.

However he was unimpressed by what he saw of Australian society, coming to the opinion that the nation's society had not progressed in any way since the 1920s, having simply become reactionary, increasingly suburban and un-educated.

Aunt Agatha is of the opinion that Bertie, whom she regards as a burden to society in his present state, must marry and carry on the Wooster name ; furthermore, he must marry a girl capable of moulding his personality and compensating for his many defects.

This change in Dutch opinion was brought about by Claus's strong motivation to contribute to public causes ( especially third-world development, on which he was considered an expert ), his sincere modesty, his candor ( within but sometimes on the edge of royal protocol ), and his approachability by all levels of society.

On one hand the stranger ’ s opinion does not really matter because of his lack of connection to society, but on the other the stranger ’ s opinion does matter because of his lack of connection to society.

The left-wing German historian Hans-Ulrich Wehler has defined social imperialism as " the diversions outwards of internal tensions and forces of change in order to preserve the social and political status quo ", and as a " defensive ideology " to counter the " disruptive effects of industrialization on the social and economic structure of Germany " In Wehler's opinion, social imperialism was a device that allowed the German government to distract public attention from domestic problems and preserve the existing social and political order Wehler argued the dominant elites used social imperialism as the glue to hold together a fractured society and to maintain popular support for the social status quo Wehler argued German colonial policy in the 1880s was the first example of social imperialism in action, and was followed up by the " Tirpitz plan " for expanding the German Navy starting in 1897 In this point of view, groups such as the Colonial Society and the Navy League are seen as instruments for the government to mobilize public support.

In his opinion, they would implement too radical reforms that would lead the Finnish society into chaos or Marxism.

Sir George Sitwell, however, has suggested that this opinion is based on a wrong conception of the conditions of medieval society and that it is wholly opposed to the documentary evidence.

Vann's rags to riches story illustrated the benefits in a " capitalist society in which a penniless orphan, one of a despised minority can create The Pittsburgh Courier and publicly, vigorously, safely, attack a majority opinion " while Ford's showed how a poor mechanic can create " hundreds of jobs ... putting even beggars into cars.

The controversy deals with the question of whether the structure of socio-political action should be viewed as a more or less centralized process of acts and decisions by a class of key leaders, representing integrated hierarchies of influence in society or whether it is more accurately envisaged as several sets of relatively autonomous opinion and influence groups, interacting with representative decision makers in an official structure of differentiated governmental authority.

The Commission further conditioned the removal of the remains of Franco from the Valley of the Fallen and the relocation of the remains of Primo de Rivera within the Basilica upon the consent of the Catholic Church since “ any action inside of the Basilica requires the permission of the church .” Three members of the thirteen person commission gave a joint dissenting opinion opposing the removal of the remains of Franco from the Valley of the Fallen and the relocation of the remains of Primo de Rivera within the Basilica claiming such action would only further “ divide and stress ” Spanish society.

The opinion states, " the cloning of human beings, because of the problems it raises concerning the dignity of the human person, the equilibrium of the human species and life in society, is ethically unacceptable and must be prohibited.

In July, Rutherford gained a legal opinion from a Philadelphia corporation lawyer that none of his opposers were legally directors of the society.