Sentences with phrase «majority of public action»

Oklahoma City opened as a 3.5 - point favorite at Pinnacle, and the Thunder have received the majority of public action with 63 % of spread bets coming in on the home favorite.

Through nine games, Dallas has received the majority of public action eight times, with Week 5 against Green...

Through nine games, Dallas has received the majority of public action eight times, with Week 5 against Green Bay the only instance where public bettors preferred their opponent.

Not exact matches

Without defending their cause the majority of Evangelicals deplore the actions of this extremist group and their blatant attempts to anger the American public.

While the betting percentages were close, it's safe to say the slight majority of the betting public took the Chiefs, especially since these numbers reflect weeks of wagering action.

Despite the majority of public bettors taking the over, early sharp action on the under caused the Game 2 total to drop from 220.5 to 220 at Pinnacle.

Most of our contributing books show the majority of bets on NYY, but Carib is reporting heavy public action on HOU.

In addition, our public betting trends illustrate that Colorado has received the majority of spread money throughout the week, which is likely responsible for this 3 - point line movement as oddsmakers pivoted based on this action.

When a majority of public bets are taking the home team in a heavily bet game, sportsbooks are forced to adjust their moneyline to encourage action on the visitor.

If the current levels of public betting persist and a majority of the money continues taking Kansas State, I would expect that sportsbooks will adjust the line from 10.5 to 10 to encourage more action on the Sooners.

India led the near successful call from the majority of countries — that trade concerns must not take precedence over public health and child rights and that the WHO Guidance and its norms must not only have «weight» in trade terms but that Member States can take additional action to end inappropriate promotion.

In the lead up to this weekend's New York State Black, Puerto Rican, Hispanic and Asian Legislative Caucus» conference in Albany, the Center for Working Families and Citizen Action of New York has released a study that found public financing of political campaigns helps candidates in poor and majority - minority districts.

But with the conviction of the Assembly Speaker, the conviction of the former Deputy Senate Majority Leader, and the ongoing court proceedings against the former Senate Majority Leader, the governor can not hope that the public demand for action will melt away.

«What is particularly missing at this time is her coming out in public, meeting her constituents, talking to TV cameras, explaining what happened, perhaps being a little humble about all of this and giving a satisfactory explanation to her constituents and the wider Conservative family to be quite frank, because speaking to people from the West Midlands region where she is an MP, these things do have a knock - on effect and there are other marginal seats far closer to her constituency where people have got Labour majorities to overturn which may be more difficult if the local Conservative politician is seen as tainted and not having justified their actions and also I gather that Conservative Party HQ has had party donors from the region expressing concern that she hasn't satisfactorily justified what she has done.»

Following the Town Board's receipt of the letter, a majority of the council effectively rejected the finding by taking no action on the ethics panel's conclusions, which included a recommendation that McKenna and Magarelli issue public apologies for the alleged infractions.

Switching perspective to that of the administrators and schools responsible for publishing information and advertising to families, a study that engaged the administrators of New Orleans public schools with particularly high and low rates of special education student enrollment demonstrated that the majority of administrators had taken no direct action to recruit special education students to their schools (Marcell, 2010).

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The Kennel Club is urging the government to take action after research found that a significant majority of the general public in England are against the use of electric shock collars for dogs and would support the government in introducing a ban on these devices.

Strange how every developed country except the US, the vast majority of qualified scientists, and most credible public figures in the US — including Senator John McCain — accept that the balance of risk favors somewhat dramatic action.

Although a strong majority of Americans do support addressing the issue, policymakers can delay action without facing political consequences because the denial movement has successfully planted the seed of doubt in the public consciousness.

This leaves those scientists with the options of staying out of the political process or being prepared to argue even the least disputed of details with the general public until such time as they have convinced a majority of the public that action is required.

That means the Paris process has entered a potentially perilous moment when the urgency of the climate crisis is mounting by the day, public expectations are (quite rightly) high, the commitment to action extends far beyond national governments — yet negotiators have to focus on nuts - and - bolts issues that are numbingly technical for the large majority of us, but will still determine the success or failure of a crucially important global deal.

Representing board of directors of a public insurance company in defense of three expedited shareholder injunction actions involving an unsolicited tender offer made by the company's majority shareholder.

Given the important purpose of the judicial discipline process, the critical role of integrity in ensuring public confidence in the judiciary, and the need to ensure fairness to Justice Girouard, the Ministers agree that the best course of action is to jointly request, pursuant to s. 63 (1) of the Judges Act, that an inquiry be held into the findings of the majority of the Inquiry Committee that prompted it to recommend his removal.»

Even though the vast majority of libel actions are brought through the civil courts, crown prosecutors can press charges for criminal libel if it is thought to be in the public interest.