Sentences with phrase «less public support»

The skeptics would have fewer debating points and less public support if the case had been presented fully and honestly from the start.

Some veteran climate scientists, while eager for cuts in heat - trapping emissions, warn that descriptions of climatic tipping points or thresholds could backfire in the absence of evidence, leading to less public support for action.

Thus, while polls continue to show that the standards are drawing less public support and views are increasingly divided along partisan lines, the substance of the Common Core are well entrenched in American education.

While it is likely that there was less public support for the wars in Vietnam, Afghanistan and Iraq than for...

Translation: The less public support a team gets, the better they perform against the spread.

The Vikings have been the most profitable team in football since the start of the 2014 season, but only ten teams have received less public support over that period.

There is less public support for raising taxes on higher - income households.

Not exact matches

But despite criticism at home and abroad, the eurosceptic PiS enjoys steady support among many Poles eager to hear its message of higher welfare, more Catholic values in public life and less dependence on foreign capital.

Harold Feld, a senior vice president at Public Knowledge, a nonprofit group that supports net neutrality, said the biggest tech companies were less vocal because they are facing more regulatory battles than in past years.

«At the start of the year, strong opposition to the Northern Gateway outranked strong support by an almost 4 - to - 1 margin — now it's less than 2 - to - 1,» says Mario Canseco, Vice President, Public Affairs at Insights West.

And about 22 percent of people who want less strict gun laws have contacted a public official, while just 15 percent of people who support stricter laws have.

We invest much less in young children, and that stems largely from the fact that most other advanced economies view early childhood education, child care and other benefits targeted at parents with young children as «public goods,» meaning investments that, absent public support, would be insufficiently made from the perspective of society's well - being.

Despite SIFMA's public statements that it supports a uniform fiduciary rule for all advisors, the Institute for the Fiduciary Standard believes that the brokerage industry group is really advocating a less stringent brokers -LSB-...]

Some activists pointed to the less public role in same - sex marriage ballot initiatives in 2012, a marked departure from earlier fights - such as California's Proposition 8 in which the church vocally supported the move to have same - sex marriage banned.

What is less clear to me is why complementarians like Keller insist that that 1 Timothy 2:12 is a part of biblical womanhood, but Acts 2 is not; why the presence of twelve male disciples implies restrictions on female leadership, but the presence of the apostle Junia is inconsequential; why the Greco - Roman household codes represent God's ideal familial structure for husbands and wives, but not for slaves and masters; why the apostle Paul's instructions to Timothy about Ephesian women teaching in the church are universally applicable, but his instructions to Corinthian women regarding head coverings are culturally conditioned (even though Paul uses the same line of argumentation — appealing the creation narrative — to support both); why the poetry of Proverbs 31 is often applied prescriptively and other poetry is not; why Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob represent the supremecy of male leadership while Deborah and Huldah and Miriam are mere exceptions to the rule; why «wives submit to your husbands» carries more weight than «submit one to another»; why the laws of the Old Testament are treated as irrelevant in one moment, but important enough to display in public courthouses and schools the next; why a feminist reading of the text represents a capitulation to culture but a reading that turns an ancient Near Eastern text into an apologetic for the post-Industrial Revolution nuclear family is not; why the curse of Genesis 3 has the final word on gender relationships rather than the new creation that began at the resurrection.

On the other hand, the general public is more open to less judgmental and more mainstream messages but is reluctant to support any broadcast ministries.

They say what they feel they must say to get our support when they want our support, but on so many issues - on modernising our politics, on the recall of MPs, on controlling our borders on less government, on bank reform, on cutting public debt, on an EU referendum - they never actually make it happen.»

I have suggested some of the ways this can be done: increasing the number of TV networks to six or even 12; diversifying the sources of production; increasing support of public broadcasting and community - supported stations; the use of telephone call - ins; follow - up programs with discussions; community - media projects; more use of cable, videocassettes and other less «mass» forms of the technology.

In the same way that the energy industry today is mistakenly identified with «Big Oil» (Exxon, Chevron, et al.), when it is in fact conducted predominantly by smaller independent companies most readers will have never heard of, modern capitalism is not largely the purview of Apple and Walmart, but rather of small, privately owned businesses with less than one hundred employees providing services or products the public wants or needs in order to support the families of the owners and provide jobs for their workers.

Although many will suggest that Robson has a personal vendetta of sorts aimed squarely at the Grinch who stole soccer, that doesn't make his words any less truthful... such tactics are nothing new... in the U.S.this business practice has become so common that even the players regularly use the media to manipulate public opinion (LeBron James did likewise to rally public support for himself and away from his teammate, Kyrie Irving, who has asked to be traded)... whether for contract leverage or to rally support for or against certain players, this strategy can be incredibly effective at times, but when it misses the mark it can be dangerously divisive... for a close - to - the - vest team like Arsenal to use such nefarious means to manufacture a wedge between the fans and it's best player (again), is absolutely despicable... for the sanctimonious higher - ups who demand that it's players adhere to a certain protocol regarding information deemed «in house» or else to intentionally spread «fake» news or to provide certain outlets with privileged information for such purposes is pretty low indeed... no moral high ground here, just a big club pretending to be a small club so that they can continue to pull the wool over the eyes of a dedicated, albeit somewhat naive, fan base... so not only does this club no give a shit about it's fans, this clearly shows that clubs primary interests aren't even soccer related... for all intent and purposes Kroenke doesn't care if we're a soccer club or a tampon factory as long as we continue to maximized his investment... stay woke people... great to see more and more people commenting on the state of the franchise... this club needs to be held accountable for it's actions

Here's a look at his ATS records when his teams receive less than half the public support:

Typically when talking about reverse line movement, I'm examining teams that are receiving less than 35 % of public support.

This reveals that though Cincinnati is getting slightly less than 50 % of public support, sharper bettors are actually backing the Reds.

Since opening, Syracuse has moved from +13 to +9.5 even though they are receiving less than half of public support.

-- Contrarian plays on the over are rare, but this season the over has gone 9 - 4 when receiving less than 50 % of public support.

By tacking on a contrarian filter and examining unders that receive less than 30 % of public support, our winning percentage jumps from 53.4 % to 55.5 %.

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.

Good defensive teams that are underdogs and getting little public support (40 % or less of bets) have gone 31 -16-1 (66.0 %) ATS since 2005.

I'm not sure how sensitive these sensors are supposed to be, but if the general public's boobs move around as much as mine do, those bras are going to feel less like support and more like your first boyfriend after the middle school dance.

Since most countries have free government supported public schools, your education cost is less (even if you spend time helping your school do fund raising).

As international politics is all about public perception - India actually has more to gain by leaving the commonwealth as commonwealth has less to do with democratic nations and more to do with nations who were formerly colonized by UK and represents a disdained look towards nations which were formerly colonized - It's not a symbol of freedom, it's a symbol of oppression and leaving commonwealth is a symbol that we have outgrown our former colonial masters and we don't need their support anymore as we are a bigger economic power than UK.

@Nebr As international politics is all about public perception - India actually has more to gain by leaving the commonwealth as commonwealth has less to do with democratic nations and more to do with nations who were formerly colonized by UK and represents a disdained look towards nations which were formerly colonized - It's not a symbol of freedom, it's a symbol of oppression and leaving commonwealth is a symbol that we have outgrown our former colonial masters and we don't need their support anymore as we are a bigger economic power than UK.

Ten years later, post-9 / 11, the public was again amenable to the allied move into Afghanistan (74 per cent supported it) but there was markedly less enthusiasm to go into Iraq for a second time (54 per cent).

It is well - known that most European countries remain committed to public service broadcasting, but it is less well known that private sector print publishers in most countries benefit from very substantial forms of indirect support.

«I'd even go so far as to say that were you to tell the public that if you decriminalised heroin and cocaine and that therefore there would be less crime, they would, at first, say they didn't like it — but if it worked there'd be support.»

«Farage has called for a bar on the children of legal immigrants from public schools and health services, has said women are — and I quote — worth less than men, and supports scrapping laws that prevent employers from discriminating based on race.

Even the IMF's warning that premature efforts to borrow less could be self - defeating due to slower growth was unable to dissuade the Treasury from its squeeze on all public spending, or the public from supporting it.

The New York Democrat acknowledged his wrongdoing, but he campaigned in the days before the House vote for his colleagues to support a reprimand — a lesser punishment that would still require a House vote but not mandate a public dressing - down — on the basis that the ethics committee had not deemed his actions corrupt.

Lack of diplomacy has lead to way less public international support for the USA.

The more that Labour insists the support for Ed Miliband is rock solid, the less the public are inclined to believe the party.

It also comes as mainline Democrats show support for the Occupy movement, a more or less grassroots demonstration that captured public sentiment on income inequality and taxes after more traditional liberal groups failed to do so.

But the nature of welfare state and public health support and others make moving from well - off to wealthy to rich a much less significant target than it is in the U.S.

Long Island school districts lack a reliable funding stream for public pre-K and serve less than one - third of an estimated 28,000 eligible 4 - year - old children, even as support grows for a universal program available to all children.

A new report on public school funding across the country finds that most states are now providing less support per K - 12 student than before the 2007 - 2009 Great Recession — and that some states continue to cut funding.

Whilst a recent Fabian poll suggested the public's appetite for fairness is increasing - 75 % support the new top tax rate - they remain less enthusiastic about the notion of equality.

«For too long, corporations have exploited loopholes to avoid paying their fair share of taxes, and the result has been less revenue to support stronger public schools and colleges for all New York students,» said NYSUT Executive President Andrew Pallotta.

The results were quite interesting — most of the answers supported moving the party towards the centre ground, the public wanted to see the Conservative party move towards the Centre (net approval of +41), giving more help to the less well off (net approval of +64), paying more attention to the economy and public services and less to immigration (+41) and opposed promises of big tax cuts if they meant cuts to public services (net disapproval of -42).

Over on the Senate side, the statement was less sweeping and less definitive as to what the Senate Majority would do in the area, but very clear in what it would not do — support public financing of elections.

«I strongly support the Mayor's move to focus the juvenile justice system more on prevention and less on detention,» said Public Advocate Bill de Blasio in a statement.

He stopped short of calling for a medical boycott of these facilities because, he said, it is less evil to be inside the system bearing witness and providing medical care, and public opinion would not support such a boycott.