Sentences with phrase «majority of the public continues»

Research by Chatham House last year showed that a majority of the public continue to think the UK should seek to be a «great power» with an ambitious foreign policy.

Quite the contrary: a series of recent polls shows that a commanding majority of the public continues to support clean energy and climate legislation.

Although a majority of the public continues to support the standards set by CCSSI, and supporters outnumber opponents by a two - to - one margin, trend lines show serious erosion in support.

Not exact matches

At Wednesday's oral arguments, the court's conservative majority appeared to have the votes to allow the public prayers to continue in some form, but both sides expressed concerns about the level of judicial and government oversight over prayers presented by members of a particular faith.

As I flew back from Dublin to Edinburgh I read the Sunday edition of the Irish Independent the headline of which was «POLL: Act Now on Abortion say voters» with the story continuing: «The most seismic shift [in the Irish public's attitude to abortion] is that a clear majority (56 %) now favour a new referendum to repeal the current position, which gives equal right to life to the mother and foetus.»

Although Chabad's menorah campaign is making some headway in the courts, the majority of American Jews continue to oppose Lubavitch's efforts to raise Jewish consciousness by placing menorot in public places as both profane and dangerous to Jewish interests in this country.

Despite their early struggles, public bettors continue to hammer Chicago with regularity as the Cubs have received the majority of moneyline tickets in 51 of 55 games (92.7 %).

Since a majority of public bets continue to take Buffalo, it's entirely possible that more offshore books will move back to +3.

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.

Public bettors will likely continue to take Real Madrid until game time, and we expected the majority of public bets to come in on Real Madrid based on name Public bettors will likely continue to take Real Madrid until game time, and we expected the majority of public bets to come in on Real Madrid based on name public bets to come in on Real Madrid based on name alone.

And commercial legacy media are not always doing so well — though many television channels are roaring back as the advertising market picks up, pay television continues to grow, and some so - called «pure player» (internet - only news organizations) manage to make ends meet or even turn a profit, newspapers, the source of the majority of news coverage of public affairs in many Western countries, are often suffering.

I fear the Home Office anticipated, if not engineered, the appallingly low turnout and wilfully permitted the elections to continue in full knowledge that the majority of the general public were not engaged with.»

Jon Stewart made a brief return to The Daily Show last night to continue his public shaming of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell for stonewalling the extension of a bill that would guarantee health care for 9/11 first responders.

But no matter who wins tonight, tomorrow a strong and decisive majority of New Yorkers will continue to support the freedom to marry, just as a majority of the American public does.»

She released a new TV ad today that continues her ongoing effort to link Martins with disgraced former Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos, who lost his job in a federal corruption scandal — though his conviction was recently overturned, thanks to a U.S. Supreme Court decision that significantly narrowed the definition of an «official act» in connection with public corruption.

«The reality is the vast majority of New York state public officials entered the public pension system well before then and therefore continue to operate under the old rules,» Buchwald said.

«We do have to reform but I just want to say that I continue to believe that the vast majority of members of this House are upright, decent, honourable people who have come into politics, not to feather their nests, but because they have heeded the call of public service,» he said.

Such concerns notwithstanding, a majority of the court found the public benefits generated by race - conscious policies sufficiently compelling to allow continued use of race in admissions.

«Two years after the tragedy in Newtown, our study of public support for two dozen specific gun policies found a large majority of Americans continue to favor a range of gun - safety policies,» says lead study author Colleen Barry, PhD, MPP, an associate professor at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Hpublic support for two dozen specific gun policies found a large majority of Americans continue to favor a range of gun - safety policies,» says lead study author Colleen Barry, PhD, MPP, an associate professor at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public HPublic Health.

A large majority of Americans — including gun owners — continue to support stronger policies to prevent gun violence than are present in current federal and most state law, according to a new national public opinion survey conducted by researchers with the Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Policy and Research at the Bloomberg School of Public Hpublic opinion survey conducted by researchers with the Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Policy and Research at the Bloomberg School of Public HPublic Health.

School unions, for example, have been cautious in their support, often seeing charters as drawing funds away from resource - starved public school districts and diverting the discussion from how to fix public schools, which continue to serve the vast majority of American students.

«Vouchers in any form divert tax money to private schools or homeschoolers and take it from under - funded public schools, where the vast majority of school children will continue to be educated,» said Clay Robison, a spokesman for the Texas State Teachers Association.

«The charter school industry has targeted our relatively small urban district with an over-saturation of charters that causes a financial drain, without concern for the impact on the majority of students who will continue to attend the public schools.»

While North Carolina continues on a path of disinvestment in public education, equitable and adequate school funding is perhaps more critical than ever now that children from low - income families make up the majority in the United States» public schools, according to a report released by the Southern Education Foundation earlier this year.

However, since 2014, the majority of public school students have been nonwhite, and public schools continue to serve a growing number of low - income students — who are significantly students of color — as well.

Since 2014, students of color have made up the majority of students entering public schools, and these demographic trends will only continue.

While he allowed the vast majority of charter schools to continue using public space, many supporters of Ms. Moskowitz's schools were outraged.

But NYC's traditional public school system is on a fast track to nowhere without a successful strategy to turn around the vast majority of non-charter, non-selective admissions schools that continue to fail to prepare students for colleges and careers.

«While district public schools still continue to serve the majority of Hispanic students, an increasing number of Hispanic families...

«Students of color are now the majority of our nation's public school system, but our educational system continues to deny too many of these students an equal educational opportunity.

A majority of Uptown public schools continued the improvement that has characterized New Orleans schools in recent years, with Lusher and Audubon charter schools both earning «A» grades and New Orleans Charter Science and Math High School improving its score by more than 30 percent.

In this era of a new administration in Washington that has espoused many viewpoints fundamentally at odds with the values held by the vast majority of Californians, we look forward to working with you to ensure that California's public school system, including its vibrant charter school sector, continues to ensure that absolutely all students regardless of immigration status, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, class, faith, or disability may access high quality public school options.

Public school parents continue to have trust and confidence in teachers, and the majority of parents believe their child has substantially higher well - being because of the school he or she attends.

While choice policies have significantly grown in recent years, the vast majority of districts continue to assign students to a public school based on where they live.

The majority of public school students now come from low - income families, and that number seems likely to grow as the squeeze on the middle class continues.

The vast majority of students in this country will continue to attend public schools.

The majority of students in Chicago, Newark, N.J., Philadelphia, Washington, D.C., and other cities where public school districts have been devastated by the cycle of resource extraction cited by Moody's, continue to attend traditional public schools.

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«Continuing, she boldly asserts, «Most often, artists did not have the expectation that viewers would encounter their works in situ; rather the majority knew that documentation in film, video and photography, or through sketches and plans, would be the primary public expression of their practice.»

Both solutions will occur because the power of the news media and of the internet, interacting, will quickly make widely known these types of information, the cumulative effect of which will force governments and the courts to act: (1) the situations of the thousands of people whose lives have been ruined because they could not obtain the help of a lawyer; (2) the statistics as to the increasing percentages of litigants who are unrepresented and clogging the courts, causing judges to provide more public warnings; (3) the large fees that some lawyers charge; (4) increasing numbers of people being denied Legal Aid and court - appointed lawyers; (5) the many years that law societies have been unsuccessful in coping with this problem which continues to grow worse; (6) people prosecuted for «the unauthorized practice of law» because they tried to help others desperately in need of a lawyer whom they couldn't afford to hire; (7) that there is no truly effective advertising creating competition among law firms that could cause them to lower their fees; (8) that law societies are too comfortably protected by their monopoly over the provision of legal services, which is why they might block the expansion of the paralegal profession, and haven't effectively innovated with electronic technology and new infrastructure so as to be able to solve this problem; (9) that when members of the public access the law society website they don't see any reference to the problem that can assure them that something effective is being done and, (10) in order for the rule of law, the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, and the whole of Canada's constitution be able to operate effectively and command sufficient respect, the majority of the population must be able to obtain a lawyer at reasonable cost.

Medicaid has been and will likely continue to be the answer for long - term care for a majority of the population in the United States for the foreseeable future unless something changes with policy makers and / or some sort of public / private solution emerges.