Sentences with phrase «majority of the public who»

«I take your point about the inherent fun of party political point scoring, especially if the party I adhere to has scored the point, but it is essentially trivial by nature and, if endlessly repeated, deeply dispiriting and, for the majority of the public who aren't blindly loyal party tribalists, ultimately alienating.»

The decision by the majority of the public who voted in the referendum to leave the European Union had a seismic impact in Westminster and well beyond our shores.

It's a shame because the film met with great reviews from critics, and the vast majority of the public who went and saw it loved it.

Nor should it surprise a majority of the public who realize that characteristics like drive, willingness to take risks, marketing skills and passion for one's work matter far more on the job than paper credentials.

Not exact matches

New Democrats have repeatedly pointed out that it is ludicrous to force the public sector, which is responsible for less than one per cent of greenhouse gases emitted in the province, to subsidize big polluters who pay no penalty for the majority of their greenhouse gas emissions.

«The majority of venture capital (VC) comes from professionally - managed public or private firms who seek a high rate of return by (typically) investing in promising startup or young businesses that have a high potential for growth but are also high risk.»

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!).

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.

Some day, a majority of the public will catch on to the fact that these people who run so - called mega-churches are in it for one thing - MONEY.

If Christians are known in the public arena for people hurtful and hateful toward others, then those of us are who are NOT this way (the majority of us, hopefully?)

Hence the nation as a whole could only see in such public ideals as those of Jesus an abnormal and dangerous fantasy; the majority, who followed the Scribes and Pharisees (The Tannaim).

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 %).

It is telling, perhaps, that the Boston Marathon bombers, the man who assassinated Theo van Gogh in Amsterdam, the London bombers, and the great majority of young men and women seeking to join ISIS in Syria received a public - school education.

Polling shows the majority of Americans oppose public funding for abortion, even those who identify as pro-choice.

It was an exercise in delusion, if not hypocrisy, because all that we said about equality, life, liberty, public happiness, freedom, the right of assembly, participation, and the other noble principles applied in fact only to the white man, not to the majority of persons in this country, who at that time were red, or to a sizable minority who were black and in chains.

Read the book and cheer for the 25 percent of college students in private schools, but then weep for the majority who attend public universities where Big Questions are largely off the table.

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

Recently, I have dedicated significant time to discussing the value of contrarian favorites — i.e. fading underdogs who are receiving the majority of public support.

For the majority of adults who have not eaten a public school lunch since they were in school, Wu's almost daily blog captured many realities of CPS» meal program.

Workers who serve meals in Chicago Public Schools say the majority of kids are not eating the healthful new foods on the cafeteria menu, according to a confidential survey released Tuesday.

The majority of women I know who breastfeed in public always cover themselves.

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.

While Governor - elect Andrew Cuomo is a Democrat, he ran on a fiscally conservative platform that had more in keeping with the Senate Republicans» interests — property tax cap, public employee wage freeze, spending reductions — than the majority of Democrats (particularly those who hail from downstate) in the Senate and Assembly conferences.

In addition, · despite the majority saying that at this stage they did not have the jurisdiction to change the law, the lead judge Lord Neuberger and others took the opportunity of the judgement to say that they were looking to Parliament to reconsider the question of assisted dying in order to resolve what is clearly a pressing public issue: the future treatment of people who have made a settled and informed decision to end their life, but because they are incapable, need the assistance of a third party in order to do so.

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.

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.

If we are to get out of the current financial mess we are in, then a person and intellect of Vince's stature is need and someone who already has the trust of the majority of the general public.

As to the EU referendum outcome, a narrow majority of the British public did vote to Leave, and it's likely a majority of those who did vote to leave did so because they perceive EU and non-EU immigration as being a problem, just as they were told by the rags.

Judge William Conley immediately stopped the state from enforcing the absolute majority requirement in union elections and set a deadline of May 31 to return automatic dues deduction from all members of public employee unions who so choose.

«If we are going to restore public confidence in our state government, it essential that the Republican Senate Majority join the Assembly and the Governor to pass this legislation to close the LLC loophole, one of the most egregious gaps in the laws that are intended to ensure the integrity of our campaign finance system,» said Assemblymember Brian Kavanagh, who sponsors the bill in the Assembly.

JCOPE's majority, however, argued that consultants who lead «grass - roots» efforts to change public policy engage in this new definition of lobbying when they seek supportive editorials in newspapers.

Many outer - borough residents have jobs in places other than Manhattan, and the large majority of those who do work in Manhattan come by public transportation.

Skelos» counterpart in the Assembly echoed that view: «While it is true, as in any profession, that some legislators and lobbyists have taken advantage of the system, the vast majority of my colleagues are hard - working, caring and public spirited,» said Sheldon Silver, who was Assembly speaker at the time.

In 2014, the governor and legislative leaders — Silver and then - Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos, who is also on trial for selling his office — agreed to dissolve the commission in exchange for a pilot program of public campaign finance, a new enforcement office at the state's Board of Elections and changes to the bribery statute.

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.

They are finally wising up and putting a little public pressure on people like Savino and Klein, who could be looking at primaries if they ultimately flip control of the Senate to the GOP after the Dems legitimately won the majority.

The U.S. Supreme Court vacated the public corruption conviction of former Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell, potentially emboldening the appeals of former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and former Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos, who were convicted in separate cases last year.

And then there are the self - described «progressives» who say Cuomo is to blame for the IDC - GOP power - sharing deal that kept the Democrats from assuming their rightful place in the Senate majority and prevented the passage of all manner of legislation — from the Women's Equality Act to the DREAM Act to a public campaign finance system.

Though public opinion polls have shown the majority of New Yorkers have no idea who Schneiderman is, despite the fact that he has held statewide office since 2010, he enjoys a strong double - digit lead over Cahill.

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.»

Two women who say their sexual harassment allegations were not followed up on by top leaders of the then - Senate Democratic majority are filing an ethics complaint with the Joint Commission on Public Ethics.

«This is a matter of political will,» said Waldman, who says there is a majority of votes in the Senate to pass public campaign financing.

Unlike the majority of public school anarchists who were trashing the place on Saturday, I can't afford a full hamper, so I'll probably settle for a nice jar of strawberry jam.

On Thursday, the board voted 6 - 2 to demand Paladino's resignation, with members calling him «unambiguously racist,» «morally repugnant,» and a person with «a pattern of racist and negative behaviors» whose words would have an «incalculable» impact on the children of color who constitute the majority of Buffalo's public - school students.

They are silent majority, similar to the silent majority of voters who regarded Ed Miliband as wholly unelectable and the Labour party as unable to manage the public purse.

«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.»

Sean Mathews is and was then a respectable individual who had been a fine public servant and who's views on many issues were very different from mine and, I believe the majority of voters in the then 101st Assembly District.

Well another politician who stands by a minority (the wealthy) and not the majority (the working class) when over 72 % of the public agrees we should bring back the wealth tax so we don't have to lay off Goverment employees and cut back on services such as education fire fighters law enforcement then we are not living in a Democracy.

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.

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.