Sentences with phrase «lack majority support»

So if such a petition could be organized, it would almost certainly lack majority support.

It also makes it much more likely that extremists who lack majority support in any one location can still put elected officials into office.

Not exact matches

Abe's ruling camp controls the lower house but lacks a majority in the upper house, so needs the support of opposition parties to pass the nomination.

The NAE and other evangelical elites, often speaking for churches, have pivoted into a larger menu of political issues, even though lacking unequivocal scriptural and church teaching, and, no less important for Protestants, lacking consensus or even majority support from their own claimed constituencies.

Another WOB echochamber If you look at the big picture then you have to take into account the support Wenger gets and how that is also lacking, swapping the manager will not fix issues with the board and the clubs goals for the majority owner.

A large majority of American mothers (75 %) start out by breastfeeding their babies, but one in five, according to Stuebe, is forced to stop early because of a lack of support and too much stress.

The majority stop breastfeeding before they actually want to and we know this is due to a lack of skilled support.

... Delight in smooth - sounding platitudes, refusal to face unpleasant facts, desire for popularity and electoral success irrespective of the vital interests of the State, genuine love of peace and pathetic belief that love can be its sole foundation, obvious lack of intellectual vigour in both leaders of the British Coalition Government, marked ignorance of Europe and aversion from its problems in Mr. Baldwin, the strong and violent pacifism which at this time dominated the Labour - Socialist Party, the utter devotion of the Liberals to sentiment apart from reality, the failure and worse than failure of Mr. Lloyd George, the erstwhile great war - time leader, to address himself to the continuity of his work, the whole supported by overwhelming majorities in both Houses of Parliament: all these constituted a picture of British fatuity and fecklessness which, though devoid of guile, was not devoid of guilt, and, though free from wickedness or evil design, played a definite part in the unleashing upon the world of horrors and miseries which, even so far as they have unfolded, are already beyond comparison in human experience.

Schneiderman hoped to succeed Paterson when he left the Senate to serve as lieutenant governor under Eliot Spitzer, but he lacked support among his fellow members, and by the time Democrats actually won the majority in the Senate in 2008, he was more or less on his way out.

Support for the main line project came just as Majority Leader John Flanagan was being pushed by a campaign launched by the business - backed Long Island Association and labor groups criticizing the lack of an agreement on the project.

Crucially, Spitzer - who resigned the governorship in 2008 after a prostitution scandal - is also polling well above 50 %, undercutting the Stringer campaign's argument that Spitzer lacks support from a majority of New Yorkers.

Attaining the support of the Senate can be more difficult as government usually lacks an absolute majority because the Senate's representation is based on overall proportion of votes and often includes minor parties.

[19] The lack of support from a majority of the executive council was partly attributed to the allegedly homophobic views of older Conservative voters in the area.

The deputy speaker explained that the majority of the lawmakers were in support of devolution of power, blaming the lack of interest of the members of the public for the failure of the amendment.

«But the majority of the research evidence supports the causal direction being lack of sleep leading to problems rather than the other way around,» says study co-author Adam Winsler, a psychology professor at George Mason University.

The majority of reviews were negative, and there was a constant issue with a lack of weight loss support.

A majority of those polled — 62.6 percent — ranked «lack of financial support» as one of their top three concerns; 39.8 percent cited declining enrollment, and 32.9 percent cited parents» lack of interest.

The «overwhelming» majority of heads (93 per cent) said this was simply because there were more children with mental health issues — but 77 per cent reported that a lack of support from local authorities or mental health services was another factor.

The majority of primary and secondary schools offer counselling to support children's mental wellbeing, but school leaders lack the time to properly vet the services they commission.

Remember, Samsung's tap and pay solution is the only one of the three to support Magnetic Secure Transmission (MST) technology in addition to Near Field Communication (NFC) functionality, meaning it's accepted at a «majority» of Point of Sale terminals in India, many of which lack the former feature.

But, the majority of the Bitcoin community opposed the activation of SegWit2x, due to the lack of support from Bitcoin Core developers and users.

Though most mothers reporting violence navigate a prenatal period peppered by breakups and a lack of financial or emotional support from the father, the majority will find a path out of the relationship by the time the child is 3 months old.

QRIS offer a promising framework for delivering child care and provider supports, but a lack of funding can hamper the effectiveness of QRIS as a strategy to improve quality.7 While the rating and parent information aspects are important, well - designed QRIS should direct the majority of their resources toward supporting providers to achieve and maintain quality, and they should be integrated into the wider state early childhood system.