Sentences with phrase «clear majority position»

Not exact matches

As I flew back from Dublin to Edinburgh I read the Sunday edition of the Irish Independent the headline of which was «POLL: Act Now on Abortion say voters» with the story continuing: «The most seismic shift [in the Irish public's attitude to abortion] is that a clear majority (56 %) now favour a new referendum to repeal the current position, which gives equal right to life to the mother and foetus.»

«The Governor's position is clear: the Democrats must unify to take back the majority,» said Dani Lever, a spokeswoman for Cuomo.

«Since this vacancy first occurred, the position of our entire Senate Majority conference has been clear and I will reiterate it now: No one who intends to seek this office in November should be a candidate to fill the position in the short - term,» he said.

Again, so long as Flanagan blocks ethics legislation from coming to the floor he is defying the will of the majority of NY citizens and placing himself in position where he must be considered the most stalwart obstacle to reform and a clear champion of continued corruption!

@Stuart White: The Cabinet Office rule - book (draft of chapter 6, approved by the House of Commons Select Committee on Justice and drawn up in consultation, I understand, with the party leaders and with constitutional experts) lays it down that after an election the incumbent prime minister has a duty, as well as a right, to remain in office until there's clear and incontrovertible evidence that someone else is definitely in a position to command majority support in the house of commons.

It has also stopped launching «immigrant bashing» campaigns and established a clear anti-war position on military intervention in Syria with a majority amongst party members, the PLP and Shadow Cabinet.

The party arrived in office in 1997 with almost no commitments on European issues and with very few MPs (in its landslide majority) with any kind of clear position on Europe.

David Cameron made it very clear during the leadership election that economic stability would be prioritised over tax cuts and he was subsequently elected leader by a significant majority of the party membership, so I think anybody that expects him to abandon that position now is being a bit unreasonable to be honest.

Some of the other Conservative «rebels» on Lords reform are more generally opposed to Cameron's leadership and the coalition, blaming their leader for failing to win a clear majority in 2010 and failing to pursue the more populist eurosceptic and anti-immigrant positions of his predecessors (who were actually much less successful in general election terms).

«It was clear from the meeting that Majority Leader Skelos has not changed his position,» Mr. Paterson said, according to the Times.

A spokesperson for the governor said after Felder's announcement: «The Governor's position is clear: the Democrats must unify to take back the majority.

One thing that should be crystal clear to everyone, Jesse Hamilton will certainly never vote for a Republican for Senate Majority Leader or any other Senate leadership position.»

«The governor's position is clear: the Democrats must unify to take back the majority,» Lever said following the state senator's announcement.

«The governor's position is clear: The Democrats must unify to take back the majority,» Lever said.

But at the same time, Klein acknowledged that it's likely no one will be sure who has a clear majority in the chamber after Election Day, signaling that his conference will once again be in a position to play kingmaker.

While Duncan made it clear he's not familiar with the specifics of the end - of - legislative - session battle in Albany, his broad position that charter schools should be a part of a political compromise aligns with that of state Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan, who is battling the mayor on the renewal.

«Our position is clear,» said Scott Reif, a spokesman for the Senate majority leader, Dean G. Skelos, a Long Island Republican.

Men dominate S&E professorships, regardless of field and race.10 Among the top 50 universities in chemistry, physics, computer science, mathematics, and engineering, at least 69 % (most times this number is much higher) of the professors are men, according to a report recently released by University of Oklahoma chemistry professor Dr. Donna Nelson.9 The lack of female professors was far greater among minority women.9 Although the number of master's degrees and doctorates increased for every racial and gender category, except for white males, 1 white — and, to a lesser extent, Asian — men constituted the clear majority of S&E graduate and faculty positions between 1990 and 1999.9

What jobs the companies say are available was equally vague, but it was clear from the discussion that the majority of these are not Ph.D. - level positions for research scientists within academia or industry.

Even though these schools are being encouraged to support the standards voluntarily, the majority haven't made their position clear and there's no requirement for them to do so.

Dohle's letter made clear the company's position that «the vast majority of [its] backlist contracts grant [Random House] the exclusive right to publish books in electronic formats, as well as more traditional physical formats.»

The default position is to believe what the clear majority of scientists say in their area of expertise.

Yet certainly you'd expect that more of them would agree with the statement; even if it happens to be far from 97 %, it is clear to all that a majority of domain experts hold this position.

There is a clear separation amongst blogs, where approximately half of the 90 blogs investigated agree with the majority of the scientific literature, whereas other blogs took a position that is diametrically opposed to the scientific conclusions.