Sentences with phrase «majority support in»

Crucially, there was majority support in both parties for all four standards:

No idea for reducing fossil fuel use has majority support in the U.S. today.

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.

Unfortunately, New York legislators ended the session without passing an educational choice bill, despite majority support in both chambers of the legislature and a promise by Gov. Andrew Cuomo to Timothy Cardinal Dolan that he would support STC legislation.

It is clear from Corbyn's long political history, and the trenchant opposition to him from the right wing, that a Corbyn - led Labour party would be a break from that trend, and that this break had majority support in the Labour electorate.

Hawkins said that if the Governor was serious about the 10 - point Women's Equality Agenda he announced 18 months ago in his 2013 State of the State address, he would have backed bipartisan efforts to vote on the nine parts that have overwhelming majority support in both houses and then focus on flipping the Senate to Democratic hands to get the tenth abortion rights point adopted.

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.

The bills have majority support in the Council and among police reform advocates.

Schumer also receives majority support in the city's suburbs.

The referendum required approval by 60 % of votes and simple majorities in 60 % of the 79 districts in order to pass: final results indicate that the referendum failed with only 57.7 % of votes in favor, although it did have majority support in 77 of the 79 electoral districts.

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.»

It does have majority support in the Assembly Dem.

The left also has majority support in Labour's affiliated trade unions, including the two biggest, Unite and Unison.

@Stuart White: The Cabinet Office rule - book (draft of chapter 6, approved by the House of Commons Select Committee on Justice and drawn up in consultation, I understand, with the party leaders and with constitutional experts) lays it down that after an election the incumbent prime minister has a duty, as well as a right, to remain in office until there's clear and incontrovertible evidence that someone else is definitely in a position to command majority support in the house of commons.

May moves towards her doom as she made choices that do no command majority support in the Commons, have no backing in the EU and offers no solution to the Irish question.

It also makes it much more likely that extremists who lack majority support in any one location can still put elected officials into office.

Not exact matches

Their moves comes after Collins told reporters on Tuesday that she had confirmed with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell that he would support the two insurance bills as well as a measure waiving an automatic cut in Medicare that the tax bill could trigger.

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

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.

The vast majority of ideas in the playbook — covering areas including taxes, the federal budget, entitlements, infrastructure, immigration, energy, regulation, and education — garnered between 60 % and 80 % support in our polls.

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

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.

Abe's ruling camp controls the lower house but lacks a majority in the upper house, so needs the support of opposition parties to pass the nomination.

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.

«Fundamentally she has a very small majority,» Mylles recalled, adding that Prime Minister May supported the pro-EU campaign in the lead up to the referendum.

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».

Portugal's minority center - right government collapsed this week after the three leftist parties that won the majority of seats in September month's general election refused to support its continuation of bailout - dictated austerity policies.

«We support and respect the Second Amendment, and we recognize and appreciate that the vast majority of gun owners in this country are responsible, law - abiding citizens,» Stack wrote.

«We're staffed to really support not just independent private schools like ourselves, but in the future, public schools where the majority of kids are educated,» said AltSchool CEO Max Ventilla.

The challenge claimed that a majority of shareholders did not support the authorization, at the 2013 annual meeting, of an increase in the number of shares used to reward Souki and other executives; the very increase that made Souki the highest paid CEO in America (he received 6.3 million shares in February 2013).

Trump could also make it harder to pass lasting tax reform, since any policy that increases the debt above its baseline either requires Democratic support or — if passed by a slim majority of Republicans in the Senate — would expire in a decade.

The support is also widespread and broad — the majority of people in all regions of the country and of all political persuasions (85 % Democrats, 65 % of Independents, and 51 % of Republicans) stand behind the actions.

But groups lobbying to eliminate it have an uphill battle — polls in recent years show a majority of Americans still support the policy, even if it costs them sleep once a year.

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.

Those who support the majority viewpoint on issues are lauded by others so that behavior is reinforced in much the same way.

Piper Jaffray & Co. managed the process. www.mdvip.com TA Associates has acquired a majority stake in Bomgar, a Ridgeland, Miss. — based provider of enterprise remote support solutions.

The results show that while a change in federal, state, or local laws would have these folks reaching into their pockets, a majority still support a minimum wage hike.

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.

The Democratic senator's proposed legislation will face an unlikely road to passage, considering that most lawmakers (including those in the White House) are reluctant to end the drug's federal prohibition, but the bill is still the latest attempt by a prominent politician to update federal marijuana laws at a time when a clear majority of Americans support legalization.

The majority of the $ 31 million will go to women's empowerment groups and Lean In, the nonprofit founded by Sandberg to help support women in the workplace, according to a source familiar with Sandberg's planIn, the nonprofit founded by Sandberg to help support women in the workplace, according to a source familiar with Sandberg's planin the workplace, according to a source familiar with Sandberg's plans.

«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.»

MADISON, N.C., Feb. 12, 2018 / PRNewswire / — Remington Outdoor Company («Remington» or «the Company») today announced that it has reached a Restructuring Support Agreement («RSA») with creditors holding a majority of the FGI Operating Company, LLC («FGI OpCo») Term Loans due in 2019 and 7.875 % Senior Secured Notes due in 2020 (the «Third Lien Notes»)(collectively, the «Consenting Creditors»).

In our view, the immediate question is whether Macron can build a parliamentary majority to support the implementation of his reform program.

All parties receive substantial public funding intended to support democracy, but it also means they are in varying degrees highly dependent on money that will disappear with a Conservative majority, making the Tories even more motivated to win and gain an advantage in the election after this one.

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 waIn 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 wain a particular way.

A majority (62 %) also support or somewhat support setting a minimum carbon price that applies in all of Canada's provinces and territories.

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.

Our survey shows that a large majority of Canadians support or would accept allocating funding in the 2017 federal budget to a range of clean energy priorities, including:

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.