Sentences with phrase «despite widespread support»

Despite widespread support for Planned Parenthood and a huge need for affordable health care, states now can move forward with cuts.

Possibly, but despite widespread support for Kyoto, that same support is very shallow among Canadians.

With two weeks left in the legislative session, the bill faces unlikely passage despite widespread support.

The bill has languished in Congress despite widespread support.

Not exact matches

«But he keeps winning these Democratic primaries, and he's getting the support of a majority of Democratic voters despite his views that are clearly not Democratic, which tells me that the things he says transcend politics and if there is not universal acceptance, there's more widespread acceptance for his beliefs and viewpoints than I think people realize.»

Despite widespread, bipartisan support for those protections, the Republican - dominated FCC voted along party lines in December to eliminate them.

(Despite Microsoft ending support for XP, it's still in widespread use, from home computers to banking machines.)

In addition to inconsistent findings in traditional job settings, research on the Wonderlic and NFL performance does not support the validity of the instrument in sports settings, despite widespread use in this field.

I have a suspicious feeling that the offshore - drilling issue isn't exactly going to overwhelm the electorate, despite widespread (but shallow) support, but the Republicans involved in #dontgo seem to have taken to it like a dying man in the desert to water.

He has refused to budge on this, despite widespread public support — even among Republicans — for taxing the state's wealthiest residents at a higher rate.

Cooper, a former Suffolk County legislator, made his mark in presidential politics in the 2008 election when he was the first elected official on Long Island to declare his support for Barack Obama despite the widespread New York support for Clinton.

Tyson said that despite the district's GOP tilt, she expects Pellegrino to gain widespread community support because of her heavy involvement with the school testing issue.

The activist also pointed to the WFP's issuance of a «strong statement of support» in the wake of the indictment of Sheldon Silver and its backing of Cuomo's re-election in 2014 — despite widespread membership opposition — as evidence of the party's shaky future.

However, Mr Hughes, despite his popularity among the membership, is not thought to command such widespread support among Lib Dem MPs.

«We thought we had every right to a longer extension of mayoral control, just as my predecessor had gotten,» de Blasio added, speaking of the Legislature's decision to grant him a single year extension of the program, after threatening to end it altogether, despite widespread bipartisan support for it.

Contrary to widespread belief, Labour's share of the UK popular vote increased by 1.4 percentage points between the 2010 and 2015 general elections (from 29 to 30.4 per cent), despite the collapse of Labour support in Scotland.

They believe that their mandate to tackle the deficit and avoid the fate of Greece (despite questionable economics, it still has widespread voter support, according to this week's Guardian / ICM poll) gives them the opportunity to go back on Cameron's pledges in the search for that extra # 13bn.

No country with nuclear power has a viable underground repository for waste, and proposed sites in France face public opposition, despite more widespread support for nuclear power.

The Dark Knight became the first superhero movie to win an Oscar for acting (Health Ledger for Best Supporting Actor), and many were surprised that the film didn't receive a Best Picture nomination despite its massive success and widespread acclaim.

Despite widespread community support, especially from African American and Latino parents, Parent Revolution has harsh detractors.

But it has languished due to political pressure, despite widespread bipartisan support.

Despite widespread use of the program with upper elementary through high school students, there is limited empirical evidence to support its effectiveness.

Despite what the lack of action on this issue suggests, however, there is widespread public support for increasing the selectivity of teacher preparation programs: 60 percent of Americans believe that preparation programs should make their entrance requirements more rigorous.11 While there has been some recent evidence of a shift, the average SAT scores of college students pursuing education degrees have historically been lower than those of students entering other professions.12

Despite the initial, widespread support for the Common Core, a significant number of parents, teachers, scholars, and policy - makers across the aisle are now opposed to the Common Core, though they generally oppose different aspects of the standards and their implementation.

4) Ohio: A major charter school reform bill has stalled for lack of Senate support, despite widespread criticism of Ohio's weak accountability system for charter schools.

The CEA's endorsement means that the leadership of all of the major public employee unions in Connecticut have thrown their support behind the candidate who has pledged that he will not propose or accept any tax increase during this second term, despite the fact that Connecticut is facing a $ 4.8 billion budget shortfall over the next three years.While Connecticut's millionaires continue to celebrate the fact that they have been spared the need to «sacrifice» by being required to pay their fair share in taxes, Malloy's policies will ensure massive increases in local property taxes for the middle class and widespread cuts in local education budgets.

It's a nifty feature, but a) requires a reading system to implement a non-standard format before they even come into play, b) requires reading systems to support bindings call (which isn't widespread despite being a requirement), and c) requires triplicating your content as you'll probably want a last case static HTML fallback for reading systems that don't support scripting and / or bindings.

The report notes successes but also recommends immediate action to protect the Hudson River's coastline, which despite widespread federal recognition for its national importance is getting insufficient oversight and support from the state and federal governments.

Despite the thousands who volunteer to keep our community gardens and parks green, and widespread support for preserving these oases, the City's new rules fail to protect them, and in fact expose each and every green space to transfer and development.

The report says that despite the widespread perception of slash - and - burn being «a destructive system that leads to forest loss and degradation,» policies that support conversion to rubber plantations (which gets counted as reforestation, even though a plantation forest is hardly the same thing as natural forest) don't have a great environmental benefit.

Despite widespread public support from Quebec's legal community and a mid-strike vote in which they rejected the government's final offer by a whopping 97 per cent, the striking lawyers emptied their $ 4 - million strike fund, took out an $ 8 - million loan (which is currently being repaid through an increase in union dues to three per cent from 0.75 per cent of members» salaries) and dropped strike pay to zero from the 60 per cent of members» weekly salaries paid at the start of the strike.

There is a growing evidence base in support of the effectiveness of acupuncture for a range of musculoskeletal conditions11, 12; however, despite its widespread use by participants13 there has been limited evidence for acupuncture as an effective treatment option for depression.14 Patients with strong preferences for psychotherapy or counselling for depression are not likely to engage in antidepressant treatment, 15 yet the evidence for counselling as a treatment for depression is limited16 despite widespread utilisation in primary care in the UK, with around 90 % of general practices providing on - site counselling services.17 To address this evidence gap, a randomised controlled trial Acupuncture, Counselling or Usual Care for Depression (ACUDep) compared acupuncture or counselling to usual care as treatments for primary care patients with ongoing depression.18 The results showed that acupuncture and counselling were clinically effective in reducing depression in the short to medium term.

Despite widespread bipartisan support, interim short - term budget resolutions failed to include home visiting.