Sentences with phrase «cent of people thought»

A YouGov poll for the Daily Telegraph yesterday found 63 per cent of people thought Israel had the right to defend itself, but its attacks in Lebanon and Gaza were «inappropriate and disproportionate».

Thirty per cent of people thought independence would be good for the Scottish economy and 34 % believed it would be bad.

Today's poll found that 39 per cent of people thought the Conservatives would be more likely to run the economy well, up four on last month.

In addition 74 per cent of people thought it important that the meat products they buy have a British origin.

The survey, conducted by Barna Research on behalf of the EA, HOPE and the CofE, claims that in total, 22 per cent of people think Jesus was a mythical figure, while 17 per cent are unsure whether he was real or not.

62 per cent of people think «politicians lie all the time — you can't trust a word they say», according to YouGov (January 2012).

A recent poll by ComRes found that only 13 per cent of people think that Corbyn is a strong leader.

Carried out for the Fabian Society and the Barrow Cadbury Trust, the survey showed that 42 per cent of people think that male bosses instinctively prefer to promote male employees, with 35 per cent believing that sexism and discrimination in the workplace were significant limiting factors for women.

43 per cent of people think Labour can not be trusted with the economy, according to the ITV News Index.

Not exact matches

Given that seemingly 90 % of the people on Twitter insisted on offering up their two cents on the recent death of Lou Reed, you'd think a Twitter music app would be more successful than it was.

Based on my experience in the manufacturing industry, I would bet the people who don't think they needed financing are the same ones that went out and spent a significant chunk of their working capital on a new machine, figuring they would save themselves the interest, and then the following year they were part of the 49 per cent of respondents who said they needed to borrow money for working capital.

«I think the American people are willing to pay a cent - and - a-half more for a 6 - pack of beer to have an aluminum and steel industry,» he said on CBS News's Face the Nation.

Or do you think of the 1990s, when «gay» meant «hømos cents xual» and the term referred to gay people coming out of the closet and fighting for equality?

When allowed to give their own definition of «a good person,» 18 per cent thought they were completely successful; 28 per cent, three quarters; 32 per cent, halfway; and «only 7 per cent admitted they had scaled less than half the pinnacle of virtue.»

thought the story was good but 40 cents a day, when right here we have people who can't get those drugs because of a waiting list of more than 7000 people because the goverment didn't put enough in the budget for the drugs.

Our research has shown that 50 per cent of the people questioned thought the sermon was the most meaningful part of the service.

One thinks immediately, for instance, of India's 548 million people, with Christians numbering only 14.2 million or 2.6 per cent; of Pakistan's 43 million, with 335,000 or.8 per cent Christians; and of Bangladesh's 72 million, with 216,000 or.3 per cent Christians.

«What other people think, they have to decide, but while I'm still the manager of Palace, I will give 100 per cent,» he continued.

-LSB-...] to think that Congress was unable to come up with a six - cent - per - meal increase, which, if even if we'd gotten it, was going to come out of the mouths of people on food -LSB-...]

And to think that Congress was unable to come up with a six - cent - per - meal increase, which, if even if we'd gotten it, was going to come out of the mouths of people on food stamps.

SHELLY STEELY: Yeah so I mean there's the jar which is kind of what most people think of initially and they're fairly I mean 50 cents to a dollar depending on where you get them and how many of them you buy at once but I mean if you're kids are anything like mine then each one will eat the entire jar and that's you know 2 dollars for breakfast, 2 dollars for lunch, 2 dollar for I mean it adds up you know.

Given this, it is hardly surprising that a recent poll found that 43 per cent of British people think that the country should be proud of the Empire, while only 11 per cent of people support the proposal of the Rhodes Must Fall campaign to remove the statue of the British colonialist, Cecil Rhodes, from Oriel College in Oxford.

It is known that people tend to overestimate the share of immigrants (for instance Ipsos 2014 report shows that British respondents think that 31 per cent of population consists of foreign - born respondents, where the figure is closer to 13 per cent according to 2011 Census); here we also show that people's estimations of levels of immigration do not correspond to actual change in their local areas, it is the perception that seems to be linked with anti-immigration vote.

The End Child Poverty coalition has just released the results of an opinion poll that shows 82 per cent of British people think that tackling child poverty should be a government priority.

EVAW called for «Compulsory Sex and Relationships Education to ensure that all schools tackle harmful attitudes and behaviours amongst young people», and this was accompanied by a survey by YouGov which found that 86 per cent of the public thinking that «it should be compulsory for secondary schools to provide sex and relationships education which addresses sexual consent and respectful relationships» — with 48 per cent also thinking this for primary schools.

A third of people suspect that Mr Miliband was bullied at school, and only 16 per cent thought he was popular

Forty - five per cent of people tried to break up our country by voting «Yes» they thought they had nothing to lose, many of them, by saying «let's leave the United Kingdom»,» he said.

A balance of six per cent more businesses surveyed by the FSB think that they will lay people off in the coming three months, pointing to a further increase in unemployment by the end of the year.

The disappointing ratings are reflected in a second ICM survey for the News of the World, in which 57 per cent of people said they held Mr Brown responsible for Britain's current pensions shortfall, while a further 44 per cent thought that the chancellor's handling of pensions would impede his chances of winning the next election if he becomes the next Labour leader as expected.

Another choice we've said we'd make differently is on taxation and tuition fees — while under the Conservative - led government banks are benefiting from a 5 per cent cut in corporation tax, — Labour thinks that money would be better used bringing down the cap on tuition fees, to help young people worried about the costs of going to university.

«It is a completely unworkable situation with two different classes of MPs and once people actually understand that the English are 85 per cent of the population, that their MPs are in the overwhelming majority in the parliament, I think a lot of these issues fall away.»

However, a report from the King's Fund think tank found that by June 2006, 98.9 per cent of people suspected of having cancer were seeing a specialist within two weeks, and 99 per cent of those diagnosed began treatment within a month.

«I think a 50 per cent tax rate at # 150,000 is actually in the centre ground of politics, because I think that one of the things people thought about us, as a Labour government, was that we were behind where the public was on some of the excesses we have seen in society.

John Curtice, professor of politics at Strathclyde University, points out that the number of people who think taxes should be cut, even if it means a reduction in services such as health, education and welfare, has risen from 20 to 27 per cent since 2005, while the number who want to extend services has dropped from 40 to 29 per cent.

Despite all the disinformation, the British people are whiffing the truth: a Populous poll found that 50 per cent think Cameron is on the side of the rich, compared to only 42 per cent who thought he was on the side of ordinary people.

One in three people (34 per cent) who voted Conservative in May and 59 per cent of those who backed the Liberal Democrats think the cuts are unfair, suggesting a marked difference of view between supporters of the two Coalition partners.

Joy I actually think the way to solve that is to charge people; I don't mind if people pay a dollar, and they can pay half of it to me, so every time I get a spam, I get 50 cents off the worth (laughs), which you have to pay, you have to pay to get in my inbox.

Following the introduction of plain packaging on tobacco products in 2012, Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people were 12 per cent less likely to think certain tobacco brands were less harmful than others, a new study found.

The study found that chronic conditions — such as asthma, diabetes and Crohn's disease — increase a young person's odds of suicidal thoughts by 28 per cent and plans to die by suicide by 134 per cent.

«I think the people opposed to this [redesignation] bring up this point, that we've only surveyed 2 per cent of the range,» says McCarthy.

I looked each video (very well made) and also realize they use broader simpler but still concise enough terminology, that»S really great to increase reach and be more «approachable» because sometimes regular everyday people on the street don't know all or have heard the mumbo jumbo jargon in biogerontology (they will think you are a pompous alien nerd - stuck up who thinks he knows more because he was like a lab rat in his lab books studying aging; on top of that they will more Resentful towards you for Daring to Question their Life beliefs on Life and Death by your» 2 - cents worth knowledge (couldn't give a f...)»

MYTH: Getting your tubes tied is a serious and irreversible operation «Reversal after sterilisation isn't 100 per cent guaranteed, so we do encourage people to think of it as irreversible,» advises Dr Farrell.

There is a point where no one will buy anything on the iOS app Store unless it cost $ 0.99 cents and that has kind of changed so those things are constantly going up and down but I think a fair price point, taking into account of game content, the longevity of how long an average person would play it, there are always exceptions.

Despite the apparent lack of SRE, the survey found that most young people thought the topic was important, as 99 per cent thought it should be mandatory in all schools.

Yet new research conducted for Payments UK found that more than half of people (55 per cent) incorrectly believe the recipient's name is checked, a further 15 per cent think the recipient's debit card number is used and just over one in twenty (six per cent) even believe their post code is checked.

Worryingly, the survey showed that 6 per cent of young people in London thought it was fine to share personal information about themselves online with strangers, compared to those in other parts of England.

While 23 per cent of people polled believed that grammar schools should be forced to accept children of all abilities, 35 per cent said they believed that grammars improve social mobility, with only 19 per cent thinking they damage social mobility and a further 27 per cent saying they make no difference at all.

His first slide showed six per cent — the percentage of people who think Britain is getting better.

The UCU's report analysed the results of 1.3 million young people over a three year period and found that 75 per cent of predicted grades were «over-predicted», with students failing to reach the grades their teachers thought they would, while nine per cent of grades were «under - predicted».

The poll, which quizzed 2,612 year 7 - 11 children in England and Wales, found that 74 per cent of young people think that they are either very or fairly likely to go into higher education.