Sentences with phrase «favor on the assault»
The district court granted summary judgment in Bryant's favor on the assault and battery claims.
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A moderate, Lamb is personally opposed to abortion, not in favor of a ban on assault rifles, and has stated that he wouldn't support Nancy Pelosi as the Democrats» House leader.
One recent poll found 64 percent of voters supporting an assault weapons ban and 74 percent in favor of the opportunity to vote on it.
Doran said she is in favor of measures that keep guns out of the hands of criminals and the mentally ill, while respecting the rights of law - abiding gun owners and that's why she supports a ban on military - grade assault - style weapons, strengthening background checks, as well as legislation to stop convicted domestic abusers from having access to guns.
Breaking ranks with the Bush administration, Pirro said she favors embryonic stem cell research and argued the federal ban on assault weapons should not have been allowed to expire.
Among the most prominent proposals that legislative leaders have said they favor are closing loopholes in the state's ban on assault weapons so that it covers the Bushmaster AR - 15 rifle, the weapon used by 20 - year - old Adam Lanza in the Newtown killings.
The investigator, Florence L. Finkle, is leaving less than a month after a damning federal inquiry chronicled assaults on teenage inmates by guards at Rikers, and criticized the division she oversaw as «ineffectual,» «understaffed» and biased in favor of correction officers.
«It fell out of favor because the chicken doesn't have a placenta, but the data shows that if you are looking at a direct teratogenic assault on an embryo, that chicken embryo model is a great model, with a high degree of predictability of what happens in humans,» Bushdid said.
These powerful melee assaults can inflict massive damage on even the nastiest of bosses, and mastering the Visceral Attack and parry system is all but required to tip the scales in your favor against the nastiest of Bloodborne's baddies.
The man favored to win the GOP nomination would cozy up to fossil fuels and continue the Republican assault on the GOP.
In February 2009, a civil jury found in favor of the women plaintiffs and awarded damages on their claims of assault and intentional infliction of emotional distress.
Sixty - two percent of voters favored a ban on «assault weapons» in a recent Quinnipiac University poll.
A recent Politico - Morning Consult poll showed that 88 percent of Americans now support universal background checks, 81 percent think a person should be at least 21 to buy a gun, 70 percent favor a ban on high - capacity magazinesand 68 percent think assault - style weapons should be banned.
Gov. Rick Scott and House and Senate leaders have said there is a need to keep assault weapons out of the hands of the mentally ill and to beef up school security but haven't endorsed bans on assault weapons favored by many students and protesters.