Sentences with phrase «groups are in favor»

And again, all the groups are in favor of it except Republicans.»

But, government reform groups are in favor of the pay raise, as long as it is accompanied by reforms — including banning or severely restricting outside income (which factored into the corruption convictions of two former legislative leaders), and eliminating extra stipends for committee chairs and leadership posts.

Tara Bono, a spokeswoman for the Citizens Campaign for the Environment, told county lawmakers that while her group is in favor of the bill it would rather see «an all - out ban on both paper and plastic bags.»

However, labor organizations and community groups were in favor of the rule arguing that such preferences are useful in ensuring that communities have access to training and a pathway to a career in the transportation industry.

Not exact matches

JERSEY CITY, N.J. / BOSTON, May 2 - Goldman Sachs Group Inc leaders said more than 87 percent of shares were voted in favor of its executive pay at its annual shareholder meeting, and that a stock plan for employees was approved by more than 65 percent of votes cast.

The longer some politicians have been in business, the more money from those groups they've seen spent in their favor.

And there is also no doubt that Apple's devices have benefited from group infatuation, a phenomenon that has often favored a product or a class of designs based on an allegiance that the devotees themselves have difficulty defining in coherent terms, as by people willing to pay high premiums for German engineering even after decades of Consumer Reports evaluations have failed to demonstrate any stunning superiority of German cars over Hondas and Toyotas.

The household survey, favored by some small business groups because it includes self - employed individuals, was unchanged in July with the unemployment rate holding steady at 5 %.

Overall, «these concepts are doing very well,» says Keith Hudson, president and CEO of Charter Franchise Group, a Houston franchise consultancy, adding that pizza's low cost has worked in its favor in the post-recession years.

JERSEY CITY, N.J. / BOSTON, May 2 (Reuters)- Goldman Sachs Group Inc leaders said more than 87 percent of shares were voted in favor of its executive pay at its annual shareholder meeting, and that a stock plan for employees was approved by more than 65 percent of votes cast.

Here are five reasons in favor of and five reasons against group buying promotions.

A July 2015 Supreme Court decision in favor of anti-abortion groups issued a temporary restraining order halting the distribution of birth control implants after 400,000 of the devices had already been distributed.

«European stocks remain in favor — but investors like domestically focused names and are avoiding anything exposed to China or commodities,» the group said.

While other demographic groups are actively starting to invest in and operate franchises, the capital requirements and the franchise selection process favor this cohort.

Goldman Sachs Group Inc leaders said more than 87 percent of shares were voted in favor of its executive pay at its annual shareholder meeting, and that a stock plan for employees was approved by more than 65 percent of votes cast.

«It's ironic — with a group of professionals who have such high credentials,» in terms of graduate and undergraduate degrees and test scores and career ambition, «you would think the odds would be stacked in their favor for success and advancement,» said co-author and Georgetown University professor Laura Morgan Roberts.

All four of these groups, though, were out of favor early in 2012.

Here are their current top positions and please keep in mind that they own multiple securities / asset classes in each name: - Chrysler - Delphi Corp - CIT Group - Dana Holding Corp - PHH Corp As you can see, there's a bunch of automotive names listed above and we highlighted back in August 2009 how Loeb favored select auto plays and obviously they've performed well over time.

The higher post-constitutional authority would be an amorphous group whose members would include the New York Tim es Editorial Board, The primetime hosts of MSNBC and whatever list of academics the Democratic party could scrape together to sign petitions in favor of why we should contemptuously ignore / slavishly obey constitutional provision X.

For example, the U.S. is predominantly a Christian nation by its population, and when a predominantly Christian sample is surveyed to rate Christians, hence the Christian direction of the survey, the outcome would naturally reflect a Christian favor in the land, more favorable among older age groups, and so on and so forth.

Still a third national survey (1997) discovered not only that a strong majority of African - Americans (57 percent) and Hispanics (65 percent) favored vouchers, but also that it was precisely the black age group most likely to have children in the public schools (those 26 to 35) who supported vouchers most strongly (86.5 percent!).

If that is offensive, intolerant, or unacceptable to anyone, then they can choose to join a social club, support group, or any other number of options, but the true church will stand her ground and preach the infallible Word of God without fear or favor in love for lost humanity and a with a real hatred of sin that destroys and condemns.

With EV, the group was larger, so you'd think the conspiracy was weaker, which is where the parallel causes one to wonder if EV itself wasn't thrown under the bus in favor of JoPa to help cover what happened here, but at the moment that might be a bit speculative.

But idols always are partial, exclusive, relative, and finite in that the goals and values they represent always favor the interests of a particular group within a prescribed circle.

Some groups such as the Lutherans argued that this made a new law out of the gospel, washed out all real theological concern in favor of sheer action, and was a distortion of the full gospel of judgment and redemption.

Unanimity with the group as a whole had been at the beginning the sine qua non of Yahweh's favor; now such submergence of moral conviction in the majority's opinion seemed to the real devotees of Yahweh to be supine apostasy.

Generally the children bear the racial designation of the less favored of the parents» races, in order that the dominance of the «superior» group may not be threatened by those who cross race lines in sex relations.

In other words, during the transition from a racially segregated to a desegregated school system, it may be desirable to substitute for the previous racial groupings new kinds of educationally pertinent groupings, in which any deficiencies of the less favored race can be taken into account automatically, without reference to race as sucIn other words, during the transition from a racially segregated to a desegregated school system, it may be desirable to substitute for the previous racial groupings new kinds of educationally pertinent groupings, in which any deficiencies of the less favored race can be taken into account automatically, without reference to race as sucin which any deficiencies of the less favored race can be taken into account automatically, without reference to race as such.

Hijacking jobs and econ omic growth to win political favor from special groups and ad vance an agenda that has been rejected by voters in 32 states..

The «mass culture» that seems an inevitable accompaniment to industrial society has been rejected in favor of the intimate, the personal, the communal, the kind of culture that individuals and small groups can make for themselves.

The study of the structures of religious groups should be carried on without prejudice in favor of one or the other principle of organization, e.g., the charismatic as against the hierarchical, or vice versa — and application of the general methodological requirement discussed above.

Many in the community came out in favor of Rep. Peter King's, R - New York, insistence last year on holding congressional hearings on radicalization within American Islam, even as other Muslim groups blasted the hearings as anti-Muslim.

We can be absolutely certain that the Academy will not say, «The evidence on the whole supports the theory of evolution, although we concede that the apparent abrupt appearance of many fully formed animal groups in the Cambrian rocks is in itself a point in favor of the creationists.»

What has to be avoided at all costs, in other words, is a blueprint for social reform which in the end favors only one group in society in its quest for greater economic and political self - determination.

It makes me shudder that every time we talk about money in our Bible study group, one person says «ah but are we not told to favor kith and kin, it does not surprise me that saying comes from our Germanic blood, as can be seen from the German chancellor Angela Mercoles attitude to Europe, lets not go there.

Before he scratched out «God» in favor of his «as we understood Him» compromise language, Bill was telling the story far differently, far more accurately, and far more consistently in terms of what he had learned from his sponsor Ebby Thacher, from Dr. Bob, from Anne Smith and her journal, from Shoemaker, and from Oxford Group writings and talks.

If you believe otherwise, you are (by default), stating that your deity is, in fact in favor of a special and elevated group of individuals (such as yourself and your favorite authors) who can and should control others faith by virtue of their special understanding of this god and his «inspired» word.

Read your bible and tell me if jesus would be in favor of singling out a specific group of people and denying them rights?

The MacBride Report challenges the thesis held by many in the West that technology is neutral, and notes that usually technology is part of a system which favors the most power groups in any given society.

A recent poll from Morning Consult / Politico found that evangelicals are the religious group most in favor of the plan to end the Johnson amendment, which keeps registered nonprofits out of...

Faith in Public Life: People of Faith Support Minimum Wage Raise Majorities of all religious groups favor increasing the minimum wage from $ 7.25 an hour to $ 10.00 an hour, including black Protestants (87 %), Catholics (73 %), Americans who are religiously unaffiliated (68 %), white mainline Protestants (61 %) and white evangelical Protestants (61 %).

According to research by Marketplace and Edison Research that was published in May, 71 percent of people believe that the U.S. economy is «rigged in favor of certain groups.»

In the sharing of Christian experience and mutual reinforcement in the faith the idea has affinities with the Methodist class meetings of an earlier day; and when the cell principle is integrated sufficiently with the rest of life, it reminds one of those early Christian groups who «day by day, attending the temple together and breaking bread in their homes,... partook of food with glad and generous hearts, praising God and having favor with all the people.&raquIn the sharing of Christian experience and mutual reinforcement in the faith the idea has affinities with the Methodist class meetings of an earlier day; and when the cell principle is integrated sufficiently with the rest of life, it reminds one of those early Christian groups who «day by day, attending the temple together and breaking bread in their homes,... partook of food with glad and generous hearts, praising God and having favor with all the people.&raquin the faith the idea has affinities with the Methodist class meetings of an earlier day; and when the cell principle is integrated sufficiently with the rest of life, it reminds one of those early Christian groups who «day by day, attending the temple together and breaking bread in their homes,... partook of food with glad and generous hearts, praising God and having favor with all the people.&raquin their homes,... partook of food with glad and generous hearts, praising God and having favor with all the people.»

The right concludes, finally, that groups and localities must defend themselves militarily against an alien, hostile state which is seeking to uproot the Constitution in favor of «one - world government.»

This theory is so resilient because it can always turn a gaze unclouded by memory or imagination on the least favored group in any moment or circumstance, like the Darwinian predator fixing its eye on the gazelle with the sprained leg, perfectly indifferent to the fact that another gazelle was lame two days ago, yet another will be lame tomorrow.

The hostility and stereotypes that drove chasms between these ethnic groups are to be relinquished in favor of ecclesial unity.

Of interest also is the phenomenon already noted; the extent to which paid - time religious programs on television are bypassing reference to the group expressions and aspects of religious faith in favor of an individualized and privatized faith.

In the brutal massacre of the population that followed, only the Christians were spared, as they were a favored group.

In this case, political opinion is clearly tied to group interests and the exchange of favors.

The belief that an infinitely old, all - knowing sky - god, powerful enough to create the entire Universe and its billions of galaxies, chose a small nomadic group of Jews from the 200 million people then alive to be his «favored people» provided they followed some rural laws laid down in Bronze Age Palestine equals Judaism.