Sentences with phrase «by overwhelming public support»

Driven by overwhelming public support, Congress responded by establishing our first National Marine Sanctuary off the coast of Santa Barbara, followed later by 4 more west coast Sanctuaries.

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Susan Jones is a researcher uncovering the truth about the Massey tunnel replacement project While the public has shown support for a new crossing over the south arm of the Fraser River, there is no «overwhelming support» for the planned $ 3.5 billion planned bridge as claimed by B.C.'s Minister of Transportation, Todd Stone.

«I support [Trump's] policies, but this public waterboarding of one of the greatest people Alabama has ever produced is inappropriate and insulting to the people of Alabama who know Jeff Sessions so well and elected him so often by overwhelming margins,» Brooks said in a statement.

Which is another reason why we can share how we feel and why; but can't be impute motives or be dogmatic except for the most obvious predatory acts like murder, rape, physical assault — those things that have been criminalized by enforceable laws, laws that have the support of an overwhelming public consensus.

In the past 24 hours Coles has been overwhelmed by public praise for supporting Make it Possible.

It may not seem major, but the Patriots juice has improved by four cents despite overwhelming public support.

These behaviors are validated by our public betting trends which indicate that 1 - seeds Kansas (69 %), Oregon (65 %) and Oklahoma (82 %) are all receiving overwhelming public support.

Although there is a precedent of presidential impeachment in South Korea dating from 2004, it was in the end reversed by the court partly because then President Roh Moo - hyun had overwhelming public support.

Additional materials from the press conference: op ed on better choices by Ron Deutsch; Siena poll showing overwhelming public support for millionaires» tax (question 23); and fact sheet from New Yorkers for Fiscal Fairness laying out short and long term solutions to burgeoning property taxes.

Union leaders said they were «overwhelmed» by support after a strike by public sector workers caused widespread disruption.

Legislator John Mills, Chairman of the Erie County Legislature, was proud to be joined by Buffalo & Erie County Public Library System Director Mary Jean Jakubowski and Angola Public Library Director Jennifer Page, Eden Public Library Director Donna - Jo Webster, Concord Public Library Director Bridgette Heintz, Town of Collins Public Library Director Abigail Barten - McGowan, Orchard Park Public Library Director Peggy Errington and Boston Free Library Director Lydia Herren to announce that with overwhelming community support his Hot Dog Roast Fundraisers have raised a grand total of $ 67,077 over the past decade.

Which sense was reinforced by a third event at this year's convention: accompanying her overwhelming election as the next NEA president, Lily Eskelsen Garcia has made clear in interviews that among her missions — above all, «winning back public trust» for teachers — is loosening the partisan bonds and beginning to support whichever candidates will do the most for teachers, even including Republicans!

The education reform bill, passed last year by the state legislature with overwhelming support and signed by Governor Dannel P. Malloy, grows high - performing public school options, provides fairer funding for public charter school students, and creates a Commissioner's Network to turnaround our state's chronically failing schools.

For one thing, she has supported for - profit charters in Michigan, while the overwhelming majority of charters are run by nonprofits with an explicitly public purpose.

The Ontario SPCA wishes to thank members of the public for their overwhelming support by way of donations.

On the home front during World War II, the American public recognized the necessity of the sacrifices being asked of them by their government and the response was overwhelming support of the policies, despite the individual hardships that they may have caused.

If the CBC forum is anything to go by they have the overwhelming support of the public.

Not just because the federal government missed an opportunity to link food choices with environmental issues, but because there appeared to be significant support for the inclusion of sustainability in the guidelines: one analysis by the Center for Biological Diversity looked at the 29,000 public comments on the Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee's report, and found «overwhelming support» for including sustainability.

One such case is Don Easterbrook, whose testimony in front of a Washington State Committee in March 2013 so distorted the scientific facts that most of the members of his department (WWU geology) wrote a public letter, saying» [his views] are neither scientifically valid nor supported by the overwhelming preponderance of evidence on the topic».

The survey, conducted by Hart Research Associates and commissioned by Planned Parenthood Action Fund, found overwhelming and widespread public support for national policies that would provide prescription birth control approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) at no cost to all women with health insurance.

Recent polling commissioned by Family Rights Group also revealed overwhelming public support for greater rights and access to services for family and friends carers.