Sentences with phrase «opinion polls take»

Public opinion polls take the social temperature on everything from government programs to citizen well - being.

In the first public «opinion poll taken of the Hungarian population, some 40 percent are opposed to the NATO air strikes against Serbia, and one can imagine the opposition to a ground invasion moving through Hungary itself.

Faith in their abilities and conclusions is going down with every opinion poll taken.

Not exact matches

In a random sampling of public opinion taken by the Forum Poll ™ among 1155 Canadians 18 years of age and older who had heard of Blackberry Ltd, fully three quarters agree the survival of Blackberry is important to the Canadian economy (75 %) and as many as one half agree strongly (50 %).

In a random sampling of public opinion taken by the Forum Poll ™ among 1087 Canadians 18 years of age and older, the average amount of vacation time given to employed workers is about 4 weeks (3.7), while the self - employed take a similar amount of time off (4.0 weeks, on average).

By contrast, Front National leader Marine Le Pen, currently leading the opinion polls in France's Presidential elections due in May, routinely attacks the ECB's policy as too tight and Germanic (albeit she recently diluted her comments on taking France out of the euro into something much less coherent than the brutal «Frexit» she threatened earlier).

In a random sampling of public opinion taken by the Forum Poll among 1,385 Canadians 18 years of age and older, the majority (51 %) do not agree Canadian employers should be able to hire temporary foreign workers (a federal program which has just been curtailed), while fewer than this agree (45 %).

Trump's rough ride last week took its toll in opinion polls.

In a random sampling of public opinion taken by the Forum Poll ™ among Canadians 18 years of age and older, 1 - in - 7 (14 %) planned to make a major purchase of $ 10,000 or more in the next year.

Take our surveys and quick polls so that we can add your opinions to our messaging to candidates on top issues.

However, news that New Democracy had taken a slight lead in the weekend opinion polls sent shares on the Athens Stock Exchange up by 6.9 percent on Monday and a further 1.9 percent on Tuesday.

Opinion polls show that these members are as liberal on economic issues as members of mainline denominations, even when social class and race are taken into account.

If you take a view contrary to the poll's suggested opinion, then you will be the one put on the defensive — even if your opinion is based on a weighing of relevant facts and evidence.

I'm confused... when the majority of the population take some form of control over their own reproduction, why are the «polls» showing the opposite opinion?!

The fact that a public opinion poll reveals a result above 50 percent is not enough to justify a law or to decree that a debate must not take place.

«People said, «This is the person that I want to defend us in the face of international impositions»,» he told a Costa Rican radio station after he took the lead in opinion polls.

In the nightly news, respondents to public opinion polls describe him as a «can do fellow,» «a take charge kind of a guy,» «admirable for his ability to cut through red tape,» «a true patriot» who was «doing what he was paid to do.»

You can't select a team by taking a poll before the game and taking everyone's opinion.

These are opinion polls that are not credible therefore you cant base your claim on them.When it comes staging protests and boycott they fail miserably that's why the media and the pundits do not take AOBs seriously they are a bunch of jokers are only active on social medial just whining.

In the poll, conducted as a quick test of public opinion to feed into the Institute's submission to the Government's «Modern Workplaces» consultation, more than nine out of ten respondents (94 %) came out in favour of proposals to increase greater flexibility between parents for taking parental leave.

Shah, we found out, used to think Israelis should be relocated en masse to America, compared Israelis to Hitler, issued a public warning that «the Jews are rallying» (to take part in an opinion poll) and tweeted a link to an article which compared Zionism to al - Qaeda, and fretted that the Zionists are «grooming» Jews to «exert political influence at the highest levels of public office.»

The explanatory variable is the four - year change (i.e. since the previous round of elections) in the opinion poll shares for the three main parties taken in the month before the local elections.

Miliband dismissed opinion polls showing him performing worse at this stage of the electoral cycle than Neil Kinnock, saying irritably: «Let the polls take care of themselves.»

«Without knowing where somebody is coming from when they respond to an opinion poll then it is pretty difficult to take on board the support or non-support for a scheme.»

The Coalition starts the new parliamentary year with its lowest level of support since Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull took the top office, trailing Labor in the latest opinion poll.

After the referendum, the SNP took a clear lead over the other parties in Scottish opinion polls.

Early findings of the research so far (taken from a Fabian - YouGov opinion poll conducted last month and discussion groups held in London, Bristol, Sheffield and Glasgow over the last five months) provide some clues.

The main message I take from this is that the opinion polls and previous rounds of county elections suggest that this week's will be a very bad for Labour and extremely good for the Conservatives.

To take just one example, he falsely claimed that Labour was behind in the opinion polls before the coup started.

Moreover, the overwhelming majority of recent opinion polls show the Tories falling below even this low level of support: for example three - quarters of the polls taken since the Conservative Party conference in October give them less than 42 %.

How this model works: As with my analyses of opinion poll figures in Ireland, constituency support estimates for different parties and groupings form the basis of the general approach taken with this analysis.

He / she can even use opinion poll on every issue on which he / she has to take a decision.

This prediction takes account of both recent YouGov polling data and the lessons from history about how public opinion moves in the final weeks before general elections.

Does anyone know where I look in the constitution says the representative republic has to take an opinion poll before they pass a bill and vote accordingly?

Comparing polling taken just before and just after the debate indicates that the debate has had little effect in shifting opinions.

This of course is a very rough model and it can not take appropriate account of the fact that changing support levels between elections tend to vary geographically, while it also fails to take account of the local particularities of the different regions in cases where no regional figures are produced in association with different national opinion polls meaning that there is no scope to carry out separate regional analyses based on these poll figures.

«You couldn't be at that low point in the opinion polls without a fairly raw discussion taking place and at times a fairly agonised one.»

As usual, at the last elections in May they polled well above their opinion poll rating, winning 27 % of the vote (to Labour's 36 % and the Tories» 33 %) and taking the plum prize of Sheffield from Labour.

From the world opinion dot org poll taken in May: Views of the US have shown some sharp declines among the citizens of its allies the UK (46 %, down from 60 %), France (52 %, down from 62 %), and Germany (35 %, down from 44 %), as well as in Egypt (24 %, down from 37 %).

On the table is # 1,000 from a former prime minister who won three landslide elections for your party, a man who took the Labour party above 50 % in the opinion polls prior to 1997, compared to its current 32 % - 35 %.

The governor pointed to public opinion polls that indicate New Yorkers are behind his budget, saying: «If you take that barometer then you would say people accept the budget that I put out and the track that I put out.

Be that as it may, opinion polls that claim that the NDC will lose this November's election must be taken seriously.

Part of Mr. Lasher's challenge will be to raise awareness of the work that Mr. Schneiderman has done since he took office in 2011; polls have found that most New York voters have not developed an opinion of him.

Given voters» experience of public polling at the last general election, it would be natural for them to take a more cynical and circumspect view of opinion research in the lead up to the European referendum.

The Scottish Conservatives look set to take second place at Holyrood from Labour according to a new opinion poll.

This is precisely the sort of seat he should be in a position to take, given the coalition's disarray, the bite of austerity and his own soaring opinion poll ratings.

From these we took an average (median) outcome for each party, and applied a small correction for the greater votes dispersal across smaller parties in actual EP votes compared to opinion polls.

David Cameron and his allies can therefore take some comfort from national opinion polls which suggest that the general election is still up for grabs.

Valle cited a poll by Public Opinion strategies that the campaign sponsored and was released last week showing Gibson with a 49 - 39 lead over Schreibman and noted that out of the four polls taken in the race, Gibson has led in all of them.

Public opinion is probably still up for grabs, and it is going to take a lot of time, and polling, before we really work out who's ahead.