Sentences with phrase «at least a majority on»

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The visible failure of the war on drugs, combined with a generational tipping point in attitudes, has poll after poll showing a majority of adults favouring the legalization or at least decriminalization of recreational cannabis use.

In our study, we found that the majority of on - demand workers (89 percent) had at least a two - year college degree.

While heightened productivity has at least kept the majority of them in business during these tough times, it's not great on a macro level.

But emboldened by a decisive White House win, an expanded majority in the Senate, and at least a few extra seats in the House, they seem less likely to budge on taxes.

The majority of pages on a website won't require constant updates, but there should be at least one page that requires some regular maintenance.

Of the dozens of CEOs Inc. contacted for this story, the majority said they were either «all done» with necessary Y2K upgrades or at least on schedule.

Also, if a majority of the Board is comprised of persons other than (i) persons for whose election proxies were solicited by the Board; or (ii) persons who were appointed by the Board to fill vacancies caused by death or resignation or to fill newly - created directorships («Board Change»), unless the Committee or Board determines otherwise prior to such Board Change, then participants immediately prior to the Board Change who cease to be employees or non-employee directors within six months after such Board Change for any reason other than death or permanent disability generally have their (i) options and stock appreciation rights become immediately exercisable and to the extent not canceled or cashed out, generally have at least six months to exercise such awards; (ii) restrictions with respect to restricted stock and RSRs lapse and generally shares are delivered; and (iii) performance shares and performance units pay out pro rata based on performance through the end of the last calendar quarter before the time the participant ceased to be an employee.

The simple reality is that Twitter has contained the majority of brand mentions in most categories for at least a couple of years, because, in most categories, mentions on Twitter usually involve brief link shares, that are easy for people to amplify — not in - depth conversations.

If at least 25 % of all your spending is confined to the quarterly categories, the Discover it ® — Cashback Match ™ will actually have a better return on your spend than a majority of cash back credit cards.

Based on loans in the Securitisation Dataset, a large majority of borrowers would be eligible to alter their loans in at least one of these ways.

Conversion Rights — All convertible preferred stock will be automatically converted into common stock upon (i) the closing of an underwritten public offering of shares of common stock of the Company at a public offering price per share that provides at least $ 100 million in aggregate gross proceeds or (ii) approval of at least (a) holders of 66 % of the Series A convertible preferred stock, voting as a single class on an as - converted basis; (b) holders of a majority of the Series B convertible preferred stock, voting as a single class on an as - converted basis; (c) holders of a majority of the Series D convertible preferred stock, voting as a single class on an as - converted basis; and (d) the holders of at least a majority of the then outstanding shares of convertible preferred stock (voting together as a single class and not a separate series, and on an as - converted basis).

For example, some companies are yet to budge on Trump's requests to bring production back into the U.S. Apple CEO, Tim Cook said that there is a lack of workers with the required skills in the U.S. Not only that, but if the majority of production comes back into the U.S., the cost of its products will rise by at least 100 %.

In addition to the fact that a clear majority of Democrats now believe that traditional media outlets report fake news at least occasionally, the poll also finds that a majority of Republicans (53 %) feel this happens on a regular basis (up from 37 % in 2017).

Probably the best way to summarize this chart is that when the majority of developed economies have negative leading indicators on a year - over-year basis, investors should at least allow for large stock market declines.

For a variety of reasons, some based on fact and some on fantasy, many non-Christian majorities regard Christian presence as a threat, or at least as the sign of a particular geopolitical agenda (linked with the U.S. or the West in general)-- despite the long history of Christian minorities in many such contexts.

In America, he states, the majority of evangelical churches take at least a nominal stand against the use of alcohol; but the move is on to water down this position.

Yet, on closer examination, the lives and deaths of Alba Mery Chilito Peñafiel and Alicia Castilla not only illustrate the carnage their country has endured, but also one of its least - understood aspects: Despite belonging to an overwhelming statistical majority, Christians in Colombia who stand up to the violence are remarkably at risk.

But Thursday's vote reveals that a commitment to multiculturalism and European integration isn't a majority sentiment in Britain, at least not yet, and that the nation isn't so ready to give up on its own, particular past.

What is crucial to remember is that, on the off chance that Trump becomes president, the Senate Democratic leader (likely old Trump friend Chuck Schumer) will have at least forty - five Senate votes and possibly a Senate majority.

At least seven hundred people, the vast majority of them Zimbabweans, sleep in Bishop Verryn's church every night, mostly huddled on the floor in the hallways, the basement, and the stairwells.

Have you ever noticed that the vast majority of «low carb recipes» out there, at least on the Internet (I've never purchased a low carb cookbook), are absolutely dominated by cheese?

Benitez on the other hand has a very hard job with an extremely poor side but at least he was on the edge of technical area for the majority of the game trying to help he's team

To do this, we highlighted games in which a majority of the public (at least 50 %) was on the over, but the line moved against the public betting percentages.

It's not the team's fault we have a manager that fully relies on a standard, outdated, predictable system that obviously doesn't suit the players we have (esp the 3 defending players) and Wenger really should've seen this coming, the majority of fans did at least.

But at least the PGA stream is more than the Masters, which has the same setup but doesn't put the same player on it twice — there's always a day where Woods plays one of his rounds at Augusta and you're unable to see a majority of it.

My research found that the majority of spread tickets (at least 50 %) have been placed on the favorite in 77.45 % of all regular season games.

This tells me Clifford is still holding firm on the 3rd spot, since Trace will play sparingly and Clifford will get the majority of the snaps, at least starting in the second half.

In that 941 game sample, the majority of wagers were placed on the favorite 932 (99.0 %) times, at least 70 % of runline wagers were placed on the favorite 892 (94.8 %) times, and at least 80 % of runline wagers were placed on the favorite 750 (79.7 %) times.

Since 2005, we have tracked the majority of moneyline bets (at least 51 % of tickets) on the favorite in 79.9 % of regular season baseball games.

Whatever that may mean I guess u will get the idea... each one of us (or maybe the majority of us who had experienced at least 1 of the former arsenal transfer windows) knew that there would be absurd rumors connecting each and every player that's available in the market, which can go into someone who is not at all in the market depending on the imagination of the one framing the story, when this transfer window began...

So I was intrigued by an article on BuzzFeed on what adult children (or at least the demographics that read BuzzFeed, the majority of which are between 18 and 34 years old, so Millennials and GenXers) think about their parent's divorce.

Just think about it: if you were trying to balance a very tight budget in an operation which lives or dies based on how well students accept your food, and if many (sometimes, the vast majority) of those students came from homes in which nutritionally balanced, home cooked meals are far from the norm, and if the food industry was bombarding those kids with almost $ 2 billion a year in advertising promoting junk food and fast food, and if you had no money of your own for nutrition education to even begin to counter those messages, and if some of those kids also had the option of going off campus to a 7 - 11 or grabbing a donut and chips from a PTA fundraising table set up down the hall, wouldn't you, too, be at least a tiny bit tempted to ramp up the white flour pasta, pizza and fries and ditch the tasteless, low - sodium green beans?

ICYMI: Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver told me last night on CapTon the recent retirement decisions of several majority members and rumored potential departure of at least one more does not cause him to reflect on the day that he, too, might throw in the towel.

And because democracy relies on majorities for at least some of its operation, you can never completely prevent a demagogue - you can just make it more difficult.

Had the Conservatives had a Parliamentary majority (or had formed a coalition with a certain party whose name shall go unmentioned), they might have found a way back to the status quo ante on at least (some of) the reforms that are practically reversible, viz. the House of Lords, the Human Rights Act, the Lord Chancellor's jurisdiction over the judiciary.

Firstly that they see this as an opportunity to increase their majority at the expense of Labour and UKIP both of which are now in rather awkward positions and secondly that the current leadership has inherited a bit of an awkward position themselves in that they are committed to a process which is both diplomatically and politically potentially very difficult and dangerous and if it all goes horribly wrong they are really out on a limb so if they get a fresh mandate they can at least blame the voters.

If Kaminsky wins, on paper at least, Republicans lose their majority in the State Senate.

Also at 10 a.m., Deputy Senate Majority Leader and gubernatorial candidate John DeFrancisco will comment on the «misuse» of at least $ 8 million in State DOT and Thruway Authority capital fund resources to install 514 illegal «I Love NY» tourism signs along highways across New York, «I Love NY» tourism signs near the Albany Airport Entrance, Rt 155 (Albany Shaker Road), Colonie.

The first of two ways an amendment can be incorporated into the state constitution takes at least four years: two separately elected state legislatures must first vote to place a constitutional amendment on the ballot; then the majority of New Yorkers must vote on it and pass it by referendum.

The state determined that an area encompassing just over 1 million acres can accommodate wind turbines at least 21 miles from land to «ensure that, for the vast majority of the time, turbines would have no discernible or visible impact from the casual viewer on the shore.»

The anti-reform medics plan to target at least fifty senior Liberal Democrats and Conservatives with small majorities, running on what Dr Clive Peedell, co-chair of the NHS Consultants» Association, describes as «the non-party, independent ticket of defending the NHS».

Assembly Democratic majority members were scheduled to go into conference just prior to 10 p.m. and they had requested a «message of necessity» from Gov. Andrew Cuomo that would let them vote on at least two noncontroversial budget bills without the customary three - day «aging» period that is supposed to provide time for actually reading the bills members will vote for.

It is reassuring to know that some MPs at least will have thought about the issue for themselves and have come to share the same view as the majority of voters: that the # 100 billion earmarked for Trident replacement would be better spent on many other things.

«If he [Mr Brown] wants to defend that [42 days] he should put someone up against me and on the basis of the opinion polls he should at least be able to dent my majority if not defeat me,» Mr Davis argued.

(b) By way of derogation from point (a), where the Council does not act on a proposal from the Commission or from the High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, the qualified majority shall be defined as at least 72 % of the members of the Council representing the participating Member States, comprising at least 65 % of the population of these States.

For board approval, the lawsuit would need to acquire at least one Democratic vote, as Democrats hold a one - seat majority on the Board of Legislators.

Their replacement would be named, at least initially, by a Republican governor in their state, and Clinton is intent on trying to win a Democratic majority in the Senate.

Speaking of Espada, the NY Post reports that the Senate Majority Leader failed to disclose campaign spending for at least two food giveaways — one on Reservoir Avenue and one across the street from St. Brendan's Church in Norwood.

Republicans seized on signs of movement in their direction yesterday as they unleashed a massive election - eve voter mobilization operation in an effort to stave off potentially substantial losses in the House and preserve at least a slender majority in the Senate.

Under current rules, the GOP majority will need at least six votes from Schumer's 48 - member Democratic conference to close discussion on most major matters.