Sentences with phrase «cent majority supports»

Disillusioned with the fund, members of the profession voted in 2000 to decide its fate: A 70 per cent majority supported a return to buying insurance in the open insurance market.

Not exact matches

A recent survey conducted by the Asia Pacific Foundation shows a slim majority of Canadians (55 per cent) support the pursuit of a free - trade agreement and that 64 per cent are concerned Canada will become more susceptible to economic and political pressure from Beijing.

In that province, people who either firmly support or oppose the pipeline account for a combined 45 per cent of the populace, Abacus Data reported last month; a majority is either neutral or only lean in a particular way.

The Canada - wide responses are similar to responses within British Columbia, where 54 per cent of respondents said they support the project, including in Vancouver and Victoria, where the majority of the opposition to the pipeline is centered.

SHARE director of law and policy Laura O'Neill said the only other directors she knows of who failed to win majority support this year were on the board of Quebecor Inc., where holders of class B subordinate shares voted just 43 per cent in favour of electing the entire board as a slate.

Most of them (approximately 90 per cent) are mildly retarded (I.Q. 55 to 69), and in the majority of cases, self - supporting.

And of those five per cent, the overwhelming majority see SSM as a reason to support, not oppose, a party.

Large majorities think many public sector workers should be given pay rises above one per cent, and most Labour voters think their party should support strike action if pay demands are not met, according to my latest poll.

If Labour support falls to 31 per cent and the Conservatives manage 35 per cent then the latter would still be around 15 seats short of an outright majority, but could manage to put together a coalition without the need to rely on the SNP.

There is majority support for electoral reform among all age groups, although 18 - 24 year - olds (68 per cent) are more likely to back change than those 65 and over (52 per cent).

With polling experts saying that Labour has only a 1 per cent chance of forming a majority Government in its own right, the SNP's support is likely to be vital in passing any Budget drawn up by a Miliband administration.

«The one thing this political crisis has show,» the prime minister says, «is that if an MP has more than 50 per cent of the voters, the majority of voters supporting him or her, then I think that is a better position to be in.

Research driven approach It was therefore heartening that the headline finding of the survey of 500 UK schools (190 primary, 310 secondary) showed that the majority of schools are adopting a research - driven approach to tablet take - up, and want more evidence before supporting the adoption of tablets in the classroom (72 per cent).

The results suggest the majority of the teacher vote will be Labour, with 65 per cent of correspondents supporting Jeremy Corbyn's party.

The «overwhelming» majority of heads (93 per cent) said this was simply because there were more children with mental health issues — but 77 per cent reported that a lack of support from local authorities or mental health services was another factor.

A majority of Albertans (55 per cent) support the project, compared with just 33 per cent of British Columbians, who would bear the brunt of the risks and the consequences from the inevitable oil spills.

The majority of those surveyed — 82 per cent — who work for publicly traded companies reported that they work in an environment with strong support from management.

And a majority (63 per cent) did not support «mass exemptions» from federal motor vehicle safety standards for self - driving cars.