Sentences with phrase «high number of supporters»

On the tech side, a cell phone controlled airplane project with 21,000 supporters and the Sense rest tracker with 19,000 backers likewise pulled in a moderately high number of supporters against other projects on the crowdfunding platform.

Not exact matches

They have also demanded a new vote on the budget for next year after the government approved the spending plan by not putting it though parliament, but holding the vote in an nearby chamber, with a high number of government supporters — something that the country's opposition deemed as «illegal.»

Donors were spooked, supporters were nervous and allies were asking what the high command of the campaign was doing to stop sliding poll numbers.

The «pro Bilic» supporters on the other hand, which appear to me to be declining in numbers, although many still exist, cite the fact that we finished a very creditable seventh (which could have been even higher) in his first season in charge, we were only a point off eighth last season, after a difficult time of transition to a new stadium, both of which were final league positions that they consider to be appropriate for a team of our standing, and he should be given more time.

The governor rejected an unusually high number of bills, and some supporters of the vetoed measures aren't pleased.

Get digital right (listen, tailor and gather as much data as possible) and you can succeed in converting high numbers of constituents into active and vocal supporters.

There are a number of local Liberal Democrats less than enamoured by the cuts agenda of the Coalition, and already there is talk of finding a high profile candidate to carry the banner for a more recognisable Liberal candidate, who local supporters with their long non conformist tradition might buy into.

I think that the polls may continue to swing wildly around for a few months, as we see how the economic situation pans out, I certainly get the impression in Chesterfield that an unusually high number of people are undecided at the moment, though there has certainly been an improvement in the likelihood to vote of Labour supporters in the last two or three months.

Supporters of eliminating the deduction say it's not fair to make the entire country pay for a deduction that taxpayers in certain states use in high numbers.

Leadsom also faced tricky questions about the high numbers of Ukip supporters backing her campaign — and she raised many eyebrows when she would not say whether Nigel Farage would be part of her Brexit negotiating team.

The community sentences were often justified by supporters as a better alternative to the high number of short prison sentences.

He has been a passionate supporter for annual increases in the Pupil Deprivation Grant which gives schools with higher numbers of children from poor backgrounds more money to spend.

The high number of undecided voters, as seen in other polls, and a lackluster debate of the Democratic candidates last month left some of Murphy's old supporters who backed his 2016 U.S. Senate campaign to charter the poll in the hopes of persuading him to run.

Though Kurland had a number of high profile supporters, including former Mayor David Dinkins, the lack of endorsements from those closest to the district was telling, Johnson maintained.

Which is why the movement needs a new political strategy — one that builds a broader constituency, whose success doesn't turn key supporters against it, and one that continues to encourage innovation in an increasing number of high - quality charter schools.

Supporters of certification attribute the low student achievement in the nation's poorest school districts at least partially to the high number of uncertified teachers working in these districts.

With teachers coming to Raleigh on Wednesday to protest for higher wages and more school funding, people can expect to see plenty of numbers and rankings being thrown around by both supporters and critics of the protesters.

To be sure, SB2 supporters had good intentions as they sought to increase the number of high - quality operators in Texas, but research suggests that the state's low - regulation environment effectively fostered quality at a time of rapid growth.

This makes the average pledge per person very high, much more than the same number of supporters would be giving to Digital Manga if they were buying the books off the shelf.