Sentences with phrase «majority support»

But many surveys show majority support for climate policies based on other, wide - ranging preferences, such as energy independence, security, competitiveness, and the like.

It couldn't get majority support of the membership.

In other words, shareholders would follow a common procedure to vote «for» or «against» a candidate, and only those candidates who receive majority support would serve as directors.

If two candidates get 35 % each, and then the other 30 % is split between various candidates, then the question is which candidate has majority support among the entire electorate.

Only 93 directors failed to win majority support, out of a total universe of some 50,000, as of recent figures.

While an overwhelming majority supports the goal of cutting immigration to «tens of thousands» a year, a mere 16 % think it likely that this goal will be achieved.

DO allow religious voices to have dominance in the public sphere if they can not achieve majority support through democratic means.

So if such a petition could be organized, it would almost certainly lack majority support.

What was most striking was that there was clear majority support across all parties, all classes, all ages and all regions.

A smaller majority supports a tax if the revenue is returned to them via a rebate check.

This process requires that the union, or collective bargaining unit, can demonstrate majority support for the union before it can claim to represent the collective rights of the group.

That compromise was essential in ensuring a wide majority supported the bill.

The setting of catch limits other than zero would require three - quarter majority support.

Paterson fares a little better on whether he understands the problems facing the state, but he still does not receive majority support from voters.

The Swedish Green Party's Asa Romson, environment minister as well as deputy prime minister, told reporters in Stockholm last month that although her party would prefer to see Vattenfall's lignite business shut down rather than sold, stopping a deal would require majority support in parliament, and that support isn't there.

The poll also showed majority support from New York City voters for Cuomo, with 56 % approving of his performance and 37 % disapproving.

Heastie, nevertheless, said he is sticking to requiring the bill gain majority support within his conference before being allowed on the floor for a vote in the full chamber, where supporters say it would likely pass.

FIA technical rules can be changed with majority support up to the 30 April, so they better hurry up deciding.

A new Quinnipiac poll shows expanded offshore oil drilling and Arizona's strict new immigration law garnering majority support among the American public.

Don't look at polls showing large majorities supporting English votes on English Laws and assume it also means people think the issue is urgent or important.

Mr Smith told ITV News: «I don't think that the person who doesn't command majority support in the PLP (Parliamentary Labour Party) can credibly say they are the unity candidate.»

State Sen. Brian Benjamin, a Democrat from Harlem, wants to weaken mayoral control over the NYC school system by requiring majority support from the state senator, Assembly member, congressional representative, borough president and City Council member representing a district targeted for «proposed school closings or significant changes in school utilization.»

Besides blocking legislation that enjoys majority support from coming to a vote, the filibuster lies at the heart of a number of disruptive and anti-democratic practices in the Senate, including the so - called «secret hold.»

A new poll has again found majority support for net metering and increasing solar power among Americans from across the political spectrum, despite years of attacks from the utility industry.

Like all winner - take - all voting methods, IRV tends to exaggerate the number of seats won by the largest parties; small parties without majority support in any given constituency are unlikely to earn seats in a legislature, although their supporters will be more likely to be part of the final choice between the two strongest candidates.

But Foreign Minister Massimo D'Alema had said before the Senate vote that the centre - left government should resign if it did not command majority support on foreign policy.

But the only groups in which majorities support gay marriage are Post-Moderns and Staunch Liberals — but they do so in such numbers that the overall picture is evenly divided.

If it chose the EEA course, the UK government could expect majority support within Parliament.

School choice programs, including innovative education saving accounts, opportunity scholarship and special needs scholarships, all garnered majority support as well.

Two recent polls from Gallup and Harris Interactive / HealthDay show strong majority support for Planned Parenthood.

Recent election results in Austria, the Netherlands and France all suggest continued majority support for the European experiment.

Solid majorities support all the energy price proposals made over the last few days, 72 % support Miliband's price freeze, 73 % Major's windfall tax, 64 % Cameron's reduction in green taxes.

However, due to the principle of separation of powers usually entrenched in the Constitution, he still has to obtain majority support from the legislature for his actions.

He is attracting majority support for his job performance from Democrats, independents, and even Republicans.

Close to 90 % of libraries offer basic digital literacy training, and a significant majority support training related to new technology devices (62 %), safe online practices (57 %) and social media use (56 %);

An Advertiser survey has shown that while 38 per cent of respondents do not believe apologies are necessary, a 58 per cent majority supports apologising to the stolen children.

Polls show a clear majority support assisted dying in Britain — but it depends on how the question is asked.

Governor Cuomo may have majority support when it comes to his gubernatorial re-election hopes, but a majority, 51 %, of New York voters do not want him to run for president in 2020.

Although substantial majorities support tax credits, the policy finds greater favor among Democrats, at 69 %, than among Republicans, at 60 %.

A majority of Democrats have supported legalization since 2009 and independents first saw majority support for the issue in 2010.

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.

The wounds caused by these weapons can be far more devastating than a handgun injury, and in polls, majorities support banning them.

Based on surveys by Gallup and the Pew Research Center, a majority of Americans back stricter gun laws, and even bigger majorities support specific policies like universal background checks, restrictions on people with mental illness buying guns, an assault weapons ban, and a federal database to track gun sales, with support for these policies sometimes topping 75 percent even among Republicans.

Until recently inspite of the TREMENDOUS HINDU MAJORITY SUPPORT FOR ISRAEL India had been firmly in the Palestanian camp.