Sentences with phrase «found majority support»

A new poll has again found majority support for net metering and increasing solar power among Americans from across the political spectrum, despite years of attacks from the utility industry.

It found the majority support all of those issues.

«I think it will be extremely difficult to find majority support for additional funding for education,» said Rep. Sam Hunt, D - Olympia.

A perfect example of this is the recently deceased climate legislation — polls found majorities supported climate and clean energy action time and again, and yet the Senate had no qualms giving it up because it's too touchy a subject for an election year.

Not exact matches

The majority of the $ 31 million will go to women's empowerment groups and Lean In, the nonprofit founded by Sandberg to help support women in the workplace, according to a source familiar with Sandberg's plans.

Individual news releases covering key topics can be found at the following links: New poll: Canadians overwhelmingly back free trade within Canada New poll: A majority of Canadians support a private healthcare option for patients

Ironic that they stick with no Sunday games to support the (presumably) majority Christian schools, but with all the talk about Judeo - Christian heritage, they can't find a way to compromise for this team.

A brief list includes his calculated stealing of his college roommate's girlfriend (his eventual wife, Macel); an investigation into his enterprises by the Securities and Exchange Commission in the 1970s; the founding (and eventual disbanding) of the Moral Majority and the hubris such a title implied; his suing of pornographer Larry Flynt; his somewhat hostile takeover of Jim and Tammy Bakker's PTL enterprises at the height of the televangelism scandals; his visible support for «The Clinton Chronicles,» an irresponsible, rumor - mongering pseudo-documentary; and his attack on Tinky - Winky the Teletubby as a closet homosexual.

According to the Mail on Sunday, the Corporation did not disclose the finding that the majority of people do not support dropping the requirement for two doctors to approve each termination.

In part, he's taking his cue from his Moral Majority - founding father, who supported Ronald Reagan over Southern Baptist Jimmy Carter.

Of course, thanks to our founding fathers who a part of a predominantly Christian culture, no one is going to really support your opinion and the majority rules.

The Pew Research Center has found that self - identified white evangelicals were twice as likely as Americans overall to support the policy (76 % vs. 38 %), which temporarily halts the refugee program and restricts entry from several Muslim - majority countries.

I see you still refuse to support your as.sertion that a «majority of scholars» agree that Jesus was berried in a tomb, and that said tomb was later found empty.

When their opponent is receiving a majority of public support, we found that the win rate jumps to 59.5 %.

It's highly uncommon to see a favorite that's not a majority of public support, and it's incredibly rare to find a favorite receiving less than 35 % of moneyline bets.

Howard et al (2004), surveying 2000 mostly African American 8th grade boys found the vast majority willing to use protection: this resulted in the local hospital restructuring its teen family planning clinical services to give the same in - hospital clinical and counselling support to young males as to young females

Adfam was founded in 1986 by a mother of a heroin user, as are the majority of local support services in this field.

Johnson's research, which is part of the national study, found that the majority of unwed fathers are involved in ways not measured by court - ordered child support.

In our work, we found that the majority of women surveyed in this study did not receive breastfeeding counselling during the prenatal visit (83.4 %), and that most of them were unable to breastfeed in the delivery room (88.6 %), which supports the results that 93.2 % of women were not able to breastfeed their babies until after the first hour after delivery despite the nutritional importance of colostrum.

Findings in the majority of research syntheses indicate capacity - building helpgiving practices are related to a host of positive parent, family, parent — child, and child outcomes.22, 27,5 Both relational and participatory helpgiving practices were found to be related to participant satisfaction with program and practitioner supports, program resources, informal and formal supports, parent and family well - being, family functioning, and child behaviour and development.

Despite the findings of studies of parent - child attachment that support co-parenting arrangements for the majority of infants and young children, a recent issue of the Family Court Review (2012) examined perspectives for and against co-parenting of young children in disputed cases.

And I would expect that everyone else would find a way to act like adults and support the person who's going to be the standard - bearer for the party,» said state Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan.

Johns may even find support, at least in theory, in the Albany area — from former state Senate Majority Leader Joseph Bruno of Rensselaer County.

To drive the point home, we find our Republican congressman, Lee Zeldin, assisting the Democrat - majority town board to regain local control of the airport by writing letters to the F.A.A., drafting legislation, publicly supporting the town board's restrictions, and holding rallies in the Peconic region to promote the great work he is doing assisting East Hampton Town to bring much needed noise relief for the East End.

A new poll has found that a majority of the British public are in favour of having a vote on the final Brexit deal, with strong support among Labour backers.

A new poll has found that a majority of the British public are in favour of having a vote on the final Brexit deal, with strong support among...

Meanwhile, a majority of upstate voters support the ban, 56 percent to 20 percent, with a similar margin in New York City, the poll found.

A majority of suburban voters in Westchester and Rockland counties do not support re-naming the Tappan Zee Bridge after former Gov. Mario Cuomo, a poll released Tuesday by an advocacy organization found.

Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos said he would like the found money to be used to either support the state's reserve funds or to provide tax relief.

Most surveys find that a majority of Brits support the monarchy, although there is persistent criticism of the amount spent by the royal family.

A ruling issued on Wednesday by the Appellate Division «found no statutory support» for the competing claims for control of the party that a package of rules be approved by a majority of the candidates who ran on the ballot line last year.

A 2013 YouGov poll found a majority of the public supported nationalising rail and energy companies.

Another Rasmussen poll, done statewide after several days of heavy news coverage about the controversial law and its signing, found a large majority of Arizonans still supported it, by a 64 percent to 30 percent margin.

On 4 December 2017, Franck Riester announced that his newly founded party Agir, consisting of various «Macron - compatible» elected officials of The Republicans (including a number expelled from the party) supportive of the government, a majority of which support the line of Alain Juppé, would present candidates in the 2019 European elections, not ruling out an alliance with the Union of Democrats and Independents (UDI) and other pro-European reformist parties.

«That the Parliament looks critically at the results of a new poll on support for nuclear weapons in Scotland commissioned by Lord Ashcroft; believes that the result stating that 51 % of Scots want the Trident nuclear deterrent to be replaced is misguidedly being used to suggest that a majority of Scots support keeping nuclear weapons in Scotland; understands that the results of this poll were intended to challenge the findings of a recent poll commissioned by the Scottish Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament that showed a decisive 75 % majority of the Scottish public is against both the cost and the reasoning behind the UK Government's intention to keep all of its nuclear weapons stationed in Scotland; understands that, while Lord Ashcroft conducted the poll to supposedly show that «more than half of Scots are in favour of nuclear weapons», the poll showed that only 37 % of Scots believe so in principle, compared with 48 % who do not; questions the integrity of a poll that, it understands, was privately paid for by a wealthy Tory backer; considers that Lord Ashcroft is spinning the results, and believes that he should stop doing so and accept what it considers the fact proven time and again that Scots want rid of nuclear weapons.»

New poll finds that a majority of parliamentary candidates support UK recognition of the State of Palestine in 2015

Support among voters for holding a constitutional convention has plummeted, with a majority opposing next Tuesday's referendum, a Siena College poll released this morning found.

A survey of the national mood found that, while a majority of Americans believes the nation has lost its identity, that their values are under attack and that they are falling behind economically, those who support Trump are «by far the most dissatisfied,» the survey says.

Whether such an idea would find a majority of votes in the Assembly — the measure passed in the Senate, with almost unanimous Republican support and some Democratic opposition — is unclear.

If Ann Widdecombe was likely to be pleased with Friday's news that a clear majority of the next generation of Conservative MPs supported reductions in the time limit for abortion she'll be less impressed with the second finding of ConservativeHome.com's exclusive survey of adopted Tory candidates.

On the issues: The Siena Poll found strong support for the Child Victims Act, for Early Voting, the Dream Act & Roe v Wade; and that a small majority supports legalizing the recreational use of marijuana.

Voicing frustration at what he characterized as allies unwilling to walk the walk after the LGBT community's strong financial support for electing a Senate Democratic majority last year, Van Capelle had warned that if no vote happened on marriage equality, «We can find other friends who will do that job for us and do it faster.

Populus found a small majority (52 %) in favour of replacing Trident, with 20 % saying they supported Trident in the past but don't think it should be replaced now and 23 % saying they have never supported Britain having a nuclear deterrent.

The study, published in the journal PLoS ONE, found that a majority of smokers and nonsmokers who responded to a randomized telephone survey said they supported increasing warning sizes to cover 25 percent, 50 percent, and as much as 75 percent of cigarette packs.

An often understated influence When the majority of the review authors ranked the quality of the evidence supporting each of the claims, Cooper found no correlation between the amount of volunteer - collected data backing up each claim and the confidence the researchers had in the claim's reliability.

The vast majority of voters do not support the deep cuts to climate science funding now being proposed in Washington, a new poll has found.

Women have a higher success rate than men, and a majority were led by students, found scholars who wrote the study for The National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), a nonprofit group in Cambridge, Massachusetts, that supports economics studies relevant to public policy.

«Two years after the tragedy in Newtown, our study of public support for two dozen specific gun policies found a large majority of Americans continue to favor a range of gun - safety policies,» says lead study author Colleen Barry, PhD, MPP, an associate professor at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

«But no matter the year - to - year variations, we found relatively consistent and definitive characteristics were shared by the majority of pools supporting Yosemite toad offspring compared to those unoccupied.»

Through an analysis of the financial structure of the organizations that constitute the core of the countermovement and their sources of monetary support, Brulle found that, while the largest and most consistent funders behind the countermovement are a number of well - known conservative foundations, the majority of donations are «dark money,» or concealed funding.