Sentences with phrase «majority is in favor»

They believed that «code is law» and that blockchains shouldn't be altered, even if the majority is in favor of doing so.

Whether the majority is in favor or not doesn't matter, as anything with 50,000 total shares (likes or dislikes) moves on to the next, official round of voting.

When it comes to tax credits for education expenses for families attending either public or private schools, a majority is in favor, and opposition is less than 20 percent.

The vast majority are in favor of contraception, around half support gay marriage, and a substantial amount are pro-choice.

Not exact matches

For the first time since that 1969 poll, a majority of Republican voters told Gallup they are in favor of legalizing marijuana.

His youth and enthusiasm for reform work in his favor, in a country where the majority of the population is young and eager for work.

But while the majority of you say you're in favor of being open, most of you are selective about the exact numbers you disclose.

The motion, a broadly worded declaration of support for foreign policy, received 158 votes in favor, below the necessary majority of 160 votes and was followed by a chorus of opposition calls for the government to «quit, quit, quit».

«Other things equal, a counterfactual analysis shows that Michigan, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania would have swung in favor of the Hillary Clinton if robot adoption had been two percent lower over the investigated period, leaving the Democrats with a majority in the electoral college.»

If a majority of shares are voted in favor of Michael Dell's plan to take the company private, Dell's biggest outside investor, Southeastern Asset Management, has indicated it might go to court to fight for a higher price.

Under so - called majority - of - the - minority voting provisions, a majority of shares, excluding Michael Dell's roughly 16 percent stake, must be voted in favor for the buyout to go through.

The sale is still pending majority shareholder approval, but investors representing 46 % have already indicated that they'll vote in favor.

Xerox's plan to merge its business with Fujifilm of Japan looks to be increasingly in jeopardy, as its chairman, its chief executive and a majority of its board members said they would resign in favor of a slate of new leaders favored by shareholders opposing the deal.

As far as the measures announced Thursday were concerned, he said, «The majority in favor has been overwhelming.»

Sources close to the board said that a majority of those shareholders are in favor of this change.

Similar proposals, also called «Aiming for A,» received well over majority support at a handful of European companies where they were submitted in 2015, due in large part to the fact that in each case the board recommended shareholders vote in favor.

Support for a downtown location was strongest in New York (55 percent) and Los Angeles (51 percent), the only two of the 19 locations where majorities favored a downtown campus for Amazon.

Democracy was favored by a majority of Muslims in every country but Pakistan, although even there it received the largest share of responses.

«We» favor Christians only because the majority of people of faith in America are Christians.

I am happy to see that the majority of the US population is now in favor of gay marriage and civil unions, and about 75 % of young people are.

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!).

It would seem that a majority of Americans are in favor of decriminalizing the recreational use of pot, and the Department of Justice has advised federal prosecutors that possession of a small amount of it is not an....

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.

A paper that thinks hermaphrodite rights one of the important questions of our time, a paper that editorially endorses the worship of the great nature goddess Gaia, a paper that advocates the demonstration of condoms to fourth graders in public school, a paper that condemns as religious fanatics those who favor the protection of the unborn, a paper that derides as extremist the views of a majority of Americans and of two Presidents they elected, this is simply not a serious paper.

Thirty - one percent expressed the mistaken view that attitudes overseas were evenly balanced on the issue, while another 31 percent believed that a majority of people in the rest of the world favored U.S. action.

If majority opinion in the legislature favors some restrictions upon abortion, and there is no specific language in the Constitution on the subject, then «pro-choice» forces have to invoke something very much like a natural law duty to get their way.

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Some worried it would be prone to favor Christianity, since the majority of consultants in an early closed - door meeting were Christians.

Secondly, no matter how much refinement and enlargement there is, the constitutional offices will limit expert excellence in favor of what a constitutional majority ultimately finds palatable.

It is true that in the majority of the Thirteen Colonies one form or another of Christianity enjoyed the peculiar favor of the colonial government.

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 %).

Just read my post «Why I Wouldn't Attend Pastor Steepek's Church» and you will see from the 190 + comments that the overwhelming majority of people are in favor of the application of emotional violence to achieve a good end.

Some were uneasy lest the statement slight concerns for justice — such as employment, majority / minority rights, or Third World development — in favor of a major stress on environmental or life - style issues related to energy.

Finally, the fact that I treat with respect an idea that has much in its favor, that is believed by the great majority of scientists, that has no decisive arguments against it, and that may well turn out to be true — I am speaking here of the scientific theory called neo-Darwinism — is not «appeasement» but intellectual humility and honesty.

It seems you're in favor of tyranny of the majority that our founding fathers were so concerned about.

But the solution, Sasse cautions, is not to bypass — much less to change permanently — the conventions of the House or Senate in order to bring about the political results currently favored by the majority.

One of the most convincing pieces of evidence in favor of this judgment concerning the social dynamics of American Catholicism is found in Kenneth Underwood's study in depth of Protestant - Catholic relations in one city that has had a large Catholic majority for some decades.

Each group then connects to trading down Seems a clear majority of the board is in favor of dealing down, I'm one of them.

The public betting percentages have shifted in favor of Alabama, who are now getting the majority of spread tickets to cover.

«In general, public bettors do side with the team that is trailing, and it becomes an overwhelming majority if the trailing team was favored to begin with,» said Cooley.

The Cardinal are massive favorites but the line has moved in Rice's favor as the majority of spread tickets are on the Owls.

I read a lot today about the argument (in favor of spanking) that kids today are out of control and disrespectful and I think the vast majority of that comes down to how they were raised in the early years.

Anyway, the split during the vote was by party, and all MPs with a «muslim heritage» (Razzy Hammadi, Ibrahim Aboubacar, Malek Boutih, Kader Arif, Chaynesse Khirouni, Pouria Amirshahi, Kheira Bouziane, Boinali Said) did vote in favor of gay marriage, even the one from Mayotte Boinali Said (over-seas department with a Muslim majority).

Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan, who faces skepticism from upstate Republicans and gun owners over his vote in favor of the SAFE Act, has said a repeal is highly unlikely.

With only one declared candidate standing between him and the Republican nomination for New York governor, Deputy Senate Majority Leader John DeFrancisco is feeling good about his chances, saying: «The momentum is definitely going in my favor.»

shall be submitted to and decided by the electors of the state; and in case a majority of the electors voting thereon shall decide in favor of a convention for such purpose, the electors of every senate district of the state, as then organized, shall elect three delegates at the next ensuing general election, and the electors of the state voting at the same election shall elect fifteen delegates - at - large.

Twenty - two percent would like to see the majority return to the GOP, but the exact same percentage are in favor of leaving the chamber in Democratic hands.

The 2010 mid-term resulted in the GOP taking control in a majority of states; and with this control, the re-districting process favoring the GOP Congressional Districts (CDs) will be in place for a decade.

«From the very start, public opinion polls had solid majorities in favor of the bill and those majorities grew,» said Gottfried in a interview on AM 970's Effective Radio of the bill to legalize prescription - based medical marijuana.

The GOP - led Senate did approve at package of changes to the SAFE Act after Flanagan was elected majority leader, partially in response to concerns raised by upstate Republicans and gun - rights advocates who question his vote in favor of the SAFE Act.