Sentences with phrase «majority support for»

This year's Hill visits helped REALTORS ® secure 17 cosponsors for S. 98 and majority support for the House companion bill, H.R. 111.

And LGBTI groups said the results of the election showed majority support for same - sex marriage, according to The Guardian.

Two new public polls released today show majority support for Planned Parenthood, and clear opposition to efforts to bar Planned Parenthood from receiving federal funds for preventive health care such as lifesaving cancer screenings, breast exams, birth control, and STD testing and treatment, including HIV testing.

Figure 8: Majority Support for ACA's Women's Health Provisions and Federally Funded Family Planning for Low - Income Women

Perhaps surprisingly, the strongest regional support for the courts having the final say was in Quebec at 68.5 percent -LRB-...) In effect, majority support for the courts holding sway nationally is delivered by Quebec, ironically the one province whose legislature has never signed on to the Constitution Act of 1982».

Imagine that: majority support for an idea deemed DOA by the political establishment and chattering classes.

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.

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

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

«I think it will be extremely difficult to find majority support for additional funding for education,» said Rep. Sam Hunt, D - Olympia.

Granted, well - worded survey items do show majority support for the idea.

There is majority support for electoral reform among all age groups, although 18 - 24 year - olds (68 per cent) are more likely to back change than those 65 and over (52 per cent).

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

«Influences contributing to the changes of heart are secret Republican polls showing majority support for gay marriage in key swing districts and the strong possibility that the GOP could lose control of the Senate next year to Democrats campaigning on the issue,» Dicker writes.

While it might not have created majority support for independence in Scotland, it has given momentum to the SNP and has turned them into, effectively, the Scottish Labour Party, i.e. the mainstream left party in Scotland.

Polls in both Scotland and the rest of the United Kingdom by Panelbase showed majority support for a televised debate between British Prime Minister David Cameron and Scottish First Minister Alex Salmond.

There's majority support for scrapping a surcharge on plastic bags in New York City, according to a poll released this weekend by the state Conservative Party.

Influences contributing to the changes of heart are secret Republican polls showing majority support for gay marriage in key swing districts and the strong possibility that the GOP could lose control of the Senate next year to Democrats campaigning on the issue, sources said.

Research director at the National Centre said the results were interesting, but emphasised there was no majority support for Scottish independence among the English.

And as the following table shows, it appears that there is majority support for devolving more or less any aspect of domestic policy that might be mentioned:

If there is majority support for replacing FPP with a PR voting system, is there a systematic approach that supporters of voting reform could follow to bring about this change?

In a Gallup International study, not a single one of 38 countries polled (including 20 in Europe) expressed majority support for unilateral action by the U.S..

Given the large gaps between plurality support for Trump in the primaries and majority support for him in the general election, evangelicals clearly needed time to warm up to Trump.

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

Survey shows majority support for an effective climate plan and minimum carbon price, even if some provinces disagree OTTAWA — New public opinion research shows that two - thirds of Canadians believe it is more important to have a plan to meet Canada's climate change targets than to have all provincial and territorial premiers agree with that...

Just 1.2 percent of S&P 500 companies failed to win majority support for their advisory pay resolutions in 2017, according to ISS Analytics.

Written submissions to the Company's consultation events held in November 2016 demonstrated majority support for the project.

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

Not exact matches

In Iraq, 58 percent majority of Muslims who support sharia law also support the stoning of adulterers, and 56 percent support corporeal punishments for stealing.

«But he keeps winning these Democratic primaries, and he's getting the support of a majority of Democratic voters despite his views that are clearly not Democratic, which tells me that the things he says transcend politics and if there is not universal acceptance, there's more widespread acceptance for his beliefs and viewpoints than I think people realize.»

According to a recent Google Consumer Survey, conducted for the education company Upromise by its financial services parent, Sallie Mae, the majority of students expect to continue receiving financial support from their parents for up to two years after their college graduation.

Recent polls suggest «Together For Yes» will probably fail to reach a majority and may need support from either the far - left CUP or the leftwing Podemos to remain in power.

September 16 — As many as 30,000 Malaysians, the majority of whom are from the Malay community, march through Kuala Lumpur in a show of support for the government.

Polls show the race is tight and that the large «Together for Yes» block formed by pro-independence parties from the rest of political spectrum will need support from the smaller CUP to secure a 68 - seat majority in Catalonia's 135 - seat parliament.

The motion, a broadly worded declaration of support for foreign policy, received 158 votes in favor, below the necessary majority of 160 votes and was followed by a chorus of opposition calls for the government to «quit, quit, quit».

Although Unifor again claims it has surpassed the 40 % threshold needed to call a vote, organizers are still trying to drum up enough support to comfortably meet the majority of the 7,000 workers required for victory.

But it's worth noting that while the majority of Linuxes are available for free, a companywide move to Linux might best be undertaken via one of the major vendors that offer business - oriented support, most notably Red Hat and Novell.

Tree said that broad public support for decriminalization or legalization has yet to carry over to the majority of legislators — with notable exceptions — «since they have to worry about reelection and drugs are still perceived to be a potent third - rail issue with which to smear opponents.»

But Harris and the other directors involved didn't make a recommendation for or against the deal, which was supported by a majority of shareholders.

The UN process could be reformed to allow for ratification when a proposal receives the support of a large majority of countries.

But with solid congressional support for the proposal thanks to the Republican majority in both U.S. chambers, TransCanada is assured that Keystone will remain on the U.S. agenda for some time yet.

«The majority of the structure, the documentation, the training, and the support has been established by me and my team,» he says, and that he's been able to «faster than the competition in identifying new products and releasing them into the wild, we've been able to target largely underserved market segments (like tech - savvy millennials), and we've gotten to choose the best tech for our suite of productivity tools (like Shopify Plus, Slack, Sublime Text, Todoist, and Mailchimp), whilst quickly retiring those that haven't worked with minimal disruption.»

The prospect of a Harper majority appeared to fade as Quebec lashed back against his perceived insensitivity to the value of government support for culture.

In that province, people who either firmly support or oppose the pipeline account for a combined 45 per cent of the populace, Abacus Data reported last month; a majority is either neutral or only lean in a particular way.

The Conservatives hold a majority of seats in the House of Commons, meaning support from the governing party is required for a motion to succeed.

Research indicates, for instance, that companies with majority (rather than plurality) voting for directors are more apt to adopt shareholder proposals that garner majority support, and that many chief financial officers are willing to forgo investments in projects expected to be profitable in the longer term in order to meet analysts» quarterly earnings estimates.

A small majority (54 %) of those who voted for the governing federal Liberals also take the position that B.C.'s government is in the wrong, while most — but far from all — past federal New Democrats support the party's provincial wing in B.C.:

The Board believes that it is the responsibility of any person putting a proposal forward for shareholders to approve — regardless of whether the Company or a shareholder proponent — to persuade shareholders owning a majority of the shares that vote to support the proposal.

'' [W] e strongly question whether the IRS has actually established a reasonable basis to support the mass production of records for half of a million people, the vast majority of whom appear to not be conducting the volume of transactions needed to report them to the IRS.

The PQ government holds just a slim majority of seats in the legislature, so it would need support from at least one opposition party for the budget to pass.