Sentences with phrase «majority of the public want»

Just think about it — even a majority of the public want the railways nationalised again because of the gross injustices in having the most expensive fares in Europe, and — we are subsidising German state owned rail as they have shares.

Whatever happens, the majority of the public want to see the debates go ahead and if they don't, it will no doubt damage Cameron's image.

If the vast majority of the public want tougher controls on immigration - which they very much do (see the polls)- then why do the liberal media insist on accusing the the Tories of chasing their «core vote»?

Other than some real estate agents (or former ones like yourself), it is likely that the majority of the public want the Bureau to appeal and get more changes to the industry.

Not exact matches

OTTAWA — New public opinion research shows a majority of Canadians want to see Canada's remaining coal - fired power plants shut down by 2030 (73 % support or somewhat support the idea).

In the majority of transactions, neither the buyers or the sellers really want the information about valuation or terms in the public domain.

No matter what Vic or any of his Christian toadies think or feel or want, this matter has already been decided by a majority of public opinion and the religious bigots already know they are on the wrong side of history.

kronkes influence over the club is minimal at best how many decisions does he actually make in the public club domain that we all know of, i am only guessing here but just because he is majority shareholder it doesn't mean he can just do what he wants without the other board members say so, i suppose the rest of the board would vote him out of power and liquidate his shares if he did something really wrong like leveraged the club against a big debt.

More than 50 per cent of women believed it would be uncomfortable to breastfeed in public, and a majority of men and women did not want their child to be breastfed in public for fear of embarrassment.

Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos was more supportive of the effort to strengthen charter schools statewide as the governor wants to lift the cap on the alternative public schools by 100.

If we've learned anything from the heroics of PC Keith Palmer, Tobias Ellwood MP, and the staff at St. Thomas» who ran towards the carnage on Westminster Bridge, it is that the overwhelming majority of people in public service want to do good.

They're missing a trick: while a narrow majority voted to leave the EU, it's clear the public want change on a range of policy issues.

The mayor also predicted dire consequences if he loses his showdown with state Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan, who wants to lift the cap on the number of privately run public schools in the city, now set at 23 new charters.

The majority of the public, from all sides of the political spectrum, simply want a pragmatic solution that brings down their bills, whatever form that takes.

Opinion polls show that a significant majority of the public do not want to see Trident replaced, so cancelling plans for new nuclear weapons would be a vote - winner.

Considering recent YouGov polling for class showed the public actually backed nationalisation of energy companies by 68 % to 21 % (including a slim majority of Conservative voters), Miliband's «reform» is clearly what the public wants.

Emily Thornberry has suggested Labour could yet back a second Brexit referendum if public opinion suggests the vast majority of voters want to stay in the EU.

Mr. Cornegy, who issued a public congratulations on Twitter on Friday, told Mr. Johnson that he wanted a position with real power, not just the role of majority leader, which had been offered to him, according to a person briefed on the discussion.

Therefore if the Welsh Government wants its preferred route for the M4 to be built, then it must survive a legal challenge, produce a convincing environmental assessment, win a majority at the next Assembly elections, convince its own Assembly Members of its merits, then face a public inquiry.

Miliband himself has now begun to outline how he believes Labour will triumph come 2015, stating that the party «must regain its economic credibility, have a credible program of reform for public institutions, and capture the imagination of the majority of Britons to want to get on in life and see their families prosper».

Farron has said the three issues he wants to own are housing, civil liberties and climate change — touchstone issues for Lib Dem activists, but there's an open question about how far they will resonate with the wider public, especially an ageing electorate, with over-55s expected to comprise a majority of voters by 2020.

«That the Parliament looks critically at the results of a new poll on support for nuclear weapons in Scotland commissioned by Lord Ashcroft; believes that the result stating that 51 % of Scots want the Trident nuclear deterrent to be replaced is misguidedly being used to suggest that a majority of Scots support keeping nuclear weapons in Scotland; understands that the results of this poll were intended to challenge the findings of a recent poll commissioned by the Scottish Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament that showed a decisive 75 % majority of the Scottish public is against both the cost and the reasoning behind the UK Government's intention to keep all of its nuclear weapons stationed in Scotland; understands that, while Lord Ashcroft conducted the poll to supposedly show that «more than half of Scots are in favour of nuclear weapons», the poll showed that only 37 % of Scots believe so in principle, compared with 48 % who do not; questions the integrity of a poll that, it understands, was privately paid for by a wealthy Tory backer; considers that Lord Ashcroft is spinning the results, and believes that he should stop doing so and accept what it considers the fact proven time and again that Scots want rid of nuclear weapons.»

While it is true that there are elements within both republican and loyalist paramilitarism who still want to march to the beat of unsettled scores and manufactured grievances, the vast majority of us, politicians and the general public, just want to move ahead into an era of normal bread - and - butter politics.

Europe has to be dealt with a some point and the majority of the public clearly want a different form of relationship from Europe, all the recent surveys show it.

Isn't it strange that Harriet Harman was never heard saying polls have shown over and over again that the majority of voters want the railways taken back into public ownership or that they think that local authorities should be responsible for schools?

If the public had more say and MP's held accountable to their constituents I believe we may have already had a non-white PM, but as they are pretty much free to do what they want even when the majority of the public objects it could be a very long time until we see a black or Asian leader.

Cameron's obstinate defence of Maria Miller against the large majority of his own party and the public who want to be rid of her for her greed, arrogance and sheer callous disregard for decent standards in public life needs some explaining.

The majority want to see legislators convicted of felonies stripped of their public pensions, but are split on whether outside income should be limited.

«The Chief Whip for the Majority who's the chairman of the Committee, informed myself and the Minority Leader that they had run into a bit of a roadblock, in the sense that, some of the businesses that they invited, had indicated that they wouldn't want to sit in public, and they would want some in - camera meeting.

What we actually need to do here is put together a programme that is credible on the economy and on interest rates but at the same time will deliver the decent public services and the fairness that the majority of lower and middle income families want.

«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.

She wants to give a free pass to even the worst purveyors of disorder — and never mind the message that sends to the vast majority of New Yorkers, even in the roughest neighborhoods, who manage not to jump turnstiles, pee in public, and so on.

A majority of the districts want to keep control of academics, despite a few highly publicized experiments in which private companies have taken over instruction in public schools.

In sum, clear majorities of uninformed respondents want their districts to spend more, but when respondents are told current expenditure levels, they take those amounts into account — an indication that public thinking on expenditures would change if residents were better informed about actual fiscal practices in their schools.

A new national survey finds that the majority of parents want public charter schools as an option for their child's education.

New York Times / Siena Poll Shows Resounding Majority of New York City Voters Want More Public Charter Schools

And they don't want to antagonize the GOP - led legislature that provides the majority of public school funding.

That left the parcels in rural and southern Utah that nobody wanted or cared about, much like the vast majority of our public lands.

What is clear is that many charter schools want to claim the mantle of being public schools, but the majority fail to take their fair share of students who need special education services, just as they fail to take their fair share of students who need extra help when it comes to learning the English language.

In alignment with NSBA's policy position, a majority of Americans do not want to use public money to pay for private school attendance.

By late morning, at last, Boran gets to the place where the Chicago Public Schools administration wants her spending the majority of her time: a classroom, to observe and assess the teacher's performance.

LeCesne said he wanted to avoid a quorum, or a majority of the board, to ensure it followed the law, not because he wanted to evade the public.

It wanted to make the D.C. Public Schools district a national laboratory for school reform, and it had the support of the then D.C. mayor, Tony Williams (although Congress has many times imposed things on the District without the support of the mayor or the majority of D.C. residents).

CTU Vice President Jesse Sharkey said Wednesday that «the majority» of members would want to strike immediately if Chicago Public Schools unilaterally ends its long - standing practice of picking up the bulk of teacher pension contributions.

Full - size sedans are not what the majority of the buying public want anymore, they want CUVs and so do law enforcement.

There are plenty of marque faithful out there for whom the redesigned Cherokee won't be their cup of tea, but the evolution into this direction is something that was desperately overdue if Jeep wanted to remain relevant to the majority of the car - buying public.

I think it is also true, that «The Major Publishers» need to climb down from their high horse of literary snobbery and realise that the majority of the reading public, just want to a good tale, and not an over edited, over indulgent, wordy story based on a subject that most ordinary, averagely educated people can not, and have no desire to grasp!

That is one of my beefs with this explosion of self - pubs — and again for those who want to claim that I hate self - pubs, I don't, never have, some of my best friends are very talented self pubs and I can name you a half dozen who do very well as self - pubs and whom I admire a lot — is that the majority are dumping their works on the public and expecting the public to tell them whether they're good, i.e. if their works have any quality or should be taken back to the drawing board or need a few editors and proofreaders to take a pencil through it.

This is helpful, but the vast majority of jobs that qualify for public service are not jobs millennials want.

A new public opinion survey conducted by Lake Research Partners has concluded that a majority of Missouri voters do not want their state legislature to repeal or weaken Proposition B, the Puppy Mill Cruelty Prevention Act, which was approved in November.