Mr. Kohl has also shaped his foreign policy around German public opinion.

His anti-semitic writings did much to influence popular German opinion against Jews in the late 19 and early 20 centuries.

German opinion rallied quickly to the embattled new republics.

This is why in the long term I expect the court's view to be decisive: it reflects German public opinion.

The two state elections are the last tests of German public opinion scheduled before the 1994 contest.

West German public opinion appears to be turning sharply against the one-to-one rate.

How will German public opinion cope with such an arrangement?

But major questions remain, including how long the forces would stay and whether German public opinion would tolerate nuclear weapons.

To German opinion the solution seemed clear enough.

For example, German public opinion no longer believes in a dialogue with a religion that refuses to accept basic values such as gender equality.