Sentences with phrase «overwhelming majority of public»

However, an overwhelming majority of the public reaction was in support of Ashley's parents.

In a release announcing the signing of the legislation, Cuomo said the «overwhelming majority of public assistance sanctions do not stand up to scrutiny,» adding that the state's Office of Temporary Disability Assistance found that out of 21,474 cases brought to a hearing after a public assistance recipient received a sanction, only 242 of the sanctions were upheld.

Toronto opened as a -133 favorite at Pinnacle and is receiving the overwhelming majority of public bets.

Baltimore opened as a -136 favorite at Pinnacle and is receiving the overwhelming majority of public bets placed on this game.

Unsurprisingly, the overwhelming majority of the public is behind the bigger name, as 73 % of bets thus far have come in on the Wildcats.

Unsurprisingly, the overwhelming majority of the public is behind the...

«Health officials in both Mississippi and West Virginia report that overwhelming majorities of the public support their policies and that opposition comes from a very small number of the population.

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There's been a lot written about Facebook lately, what with its big initial public offering and everything, and the overwhelming majority of it has been negative.

It hasn't been worth mining bitcoin using standard consumer computer hardware for years because of the kind of processing power involved; the overwhelming majority of ordinary members of public pools will have bought hardware from companies like KnCMiner.

Even though the overwhelming majority of Americans are Christians, these Jewish organizations insist that Christians» religion «be a totally private affair, one that finds no public expression and receives no public deference.

But when the anti-corruption crusader was accused of distorting a Qur «an teaching to convince the nation's overwhelming Muslim majority to vote for a Christian, public opinion shifted dramatically.

The «big money» is often a sign of «sharps» — and causes reverse line movement because the larger, smart, money — overwhelms the large majority of the bets by the general Public (which often bets smaller amounts).

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.

Mr. Bratton went on to turn the rhetoric of the demonstrators back on them, arguing that the killing of Ramos and Liu was an act of prejudice, and that the overwhelming majority of cops serve the public.

All the same, public opinion survey findings reveal that an overwhelming majority of Kenyans do not see themselves as narrow minded and ethnic loyalists.

Let me say that the vast overwhelming majority of our Labour Members of Parliament are in Parliament not out of self interest but to serve the public interest.

«I firmly believe the overwhelming majority of members of parliament are going to parliament to serve the public interest,» she says, before remembering the old days of MPs being overwhelmed.

With a tremendous amount of support for the bill, and with expectations that the legislation will pass with an overwhelming majority vote of the public, there are still a handful of individuals who oppose it, Buchwald said.

Attacking new teacher evaluation systems that are, for the first time, enabling district public schools to make decisions based on teacher quality, does violence to the cause of improving the quality of education for the overwhelming majority of students who don't attend charter schools.

And three - quarters of AAAS scientists say too little STEM education is a major factor in the public's limited knowledge about science — which an overwhelming majority of scientists see as a problem for science in general.

The overwhelming majority supported ICEF Public Schools as the operator of the new Barack Obama Global Leadership Academy, as did the superintendent and his panel of experts.

... This commitment to the idea of homework in the abstract is accepted by the overwhelming majority of schools — public and private, elementary and secondary.»

We have all endured a million speeches along the lines of «charter schools [or vouchers] are well and good for the kids who attend them but they» re no solution to the problems of public school systems that will forever be attended by the overwhelming majority of kids.»

As in past years, an overwhelming majority of the U.S. public also is pleased with the performance of their local schools.

But the overwhelming majority of practices singled - out by the ACLU are neither illegal nor anything but commonplace among both public charter and district schools.

NEA opposes school vouchers because they divert essential resources from public schools to private and religious schools, while offering no real «choice» for the overwhelming majority of students.

This means that the overwhelming majority of private voucher schools are free to spend taxpayer dollars as they choose, out of the eye of the public.

By the second half of the 20th century, America's public schools were betraying many of the students in their charge, including the overwhelming majority of poor and minority students.

«Remember we have over 600 (including public school districts and charters), and an overwhelming majority of them are working very, very hard with their educators and their IT people to get ready for this,» he said in an interview.

For one thing, she has supported for - profit charters in Michigan, while the overwhelming majority of charters are run by nonprofits with an explicitly public purpose.

Opponents see it as another effort to pass private school vouchers and strip funding from traditional public schools, where the overwhelming majority of Texas children are being educated.

As Advocate concluded, «The overwhelming drive of the state education commissioner and the state Board of Education should be toward improving traditional public schools, which are responsible for educating the vast, vast majority of children in the state.

The idea that public conflict over climate change persists because, even after years and years of «consensus messaging» (including a $ 300 million social - marketing campaign by Al Gore's «Alliance for Climate Protection»), ordinary Americans still just «haven't heard» yet that an overwhelming majority climate scientists believe in AGW is patently absurd.

The idea that public conflict over climate change persists because, even after years and years of «messaging» (including a $ 300 million social - marketing campaign by Al Gore's «Alliance for Climate Protection»), ordinary Americans still just «haven't heard» yet that an overwhelming majority climate scientists believe in AGW is absurd.

«Global warming activists claim a serious public concern presently exists and the overwhelming majority of scientists agrees humans are creating a global warming crisis.

In a statement today, Sierra Club Executive Director Michael Brune said, «Pruitt's decision to side with Ford and the Auto Alliance rather than the overwhelming majority of Americans who want these clean car standards should come as no surprise as this is an administrator who focuses solely on what's best for corporate polluters, not the public.»