Sentences with phrase «americans opposed the move»

In both occasions, 34 percent of Americans opposed the move.

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But these opposing moves on regulation are a «bad thing,» Larry Thompson, the vice chairman of DTCC (Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation), an American post-trade financial services company, told CNBC.

Boehner's move marks a fundamental shift for a man who said nine years ago he was «unalterably opposed» to legalization, and indicates that pot is increasingly supported by the American establishment even if the Attorney General still believes «good people don't smoke marijuana.»

Most Americans oppose Trump's decision to withdraw from the Paris climate agreement, with a majority saying the move will damage the United States» global leadership, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll.

The American Medical Association remains opposed to physician assistance in dying; the California Medical Association has moved from opposition to neutrality.

Americans have always recognized the value of science to foreign policy — even during the Revolutionary War when commanders of the opposing forces allowed U.S. and British scientists to move back and forth across battle lines.

If Stanley Kubrick had made a film about American slavery, it might have looked and moved somewhat like this one, always thinking about shots as shots and scenes as scenes and themes as themes, yet always tying every element, whether central or marginal, to the film's emotional spine: a tale of what it means, physically, to be enslaved as opposed to free.

Moving away to the US, however, motivated me to claim a Canadian identity (as opposed to re-claiming an already well sutured Canadian identity) inasmuch as I grew to loathe the US political scene, its American exceptionalism, its imperialist wars, its phony democracy, it's incipient and then blatant fascism — and I wanted to claim something outside of that, which at times I would label Canadian.

Evertz, who moved from Berlin to NYC at the age of 19, sees her work as bridging two opposing aesthetic traditions: a philosophical Northern European and a pragmatic American approach to painting.

«But Mr Straw [Justice Secterary Jack Straw] has indicated to judges that he does not favour allowing cameras into jury trials — a move that judges widely oppose because they perceive it as a step towards American - style justice that could damage the nature of court proceedings».

A June 2013 national representative survey of 1,000 Americans found that, of those with a view, two - thirds came out against fully autonomous weapons: 68 percent opposed the move toward these weapons (48 percent strongly), while 32 percent favored their development.

Even though this move was opposed by the majority of the American people, he took it so far as to attempt to shut down the government rather than allow women and men to continue to get cancer screenings and birth control at Planned Parenthood health centers.