Sentences with phrase «overwhelming public support in»

A number of speakers challenged the continuing anachronism of having 26 seats reserved for bishops in the House of Lords, while others pointed out the contrast between the recent House of Commons vote against legalising assisted dying and the overwhelming public support in favour suggested that a more representative Parliament would also be a more progressive one.

There is hope that the ministers will acknowledge the strong public health arguments and overwhelming public support in favour of traffic light labels and see this proposal for what it is: a highly cost - effective policy that is likely to reduce the health and economic burden of non-communicable diseases.

Not exact matches

«I support [Trump's] policies, but this public waterboarding of one of the greatest people Alabama has ever produced is inappropriate and insulting to the people of Alabama who know Jeff Sessions so well and elected him so often by overwhelming margins,» Brooks said in a statement.

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In the past 24 hours Coles has been overwhelmed by public praise for supporting Make it Possible.

Since Georgia Tech is receiving overwhelming public support and are ranked 20th in the most recent AP poll, Duke could be offering value to bettors this weekend.

Although sharper bettors may often place larger bets on the dogs, it will be beneficial in the long run for dogs to hit at a higher rate in order to combat the overwhelming public support on favorites.

In those games, teams receiving overwhelming public support have gone 16 - 8 ATS including an 8 - 3 ATS record for major conference teams.

For this match, I'm particularly interested in the low public support on the draw (11 % of tickets) and the overwhelming money support for West Brom (97 % of dollars).

In this showdown between AFC East rivals, the Patriots opened as 5 - point road favorites at the market - setting Pinnacle sportsbook and have received overwhelming public support.

Although there is a precedent of presidential impeachment in South Korea dating from 2004, it was in the end reversed by the court partly because then President Roh Moo - hyun had overwhelming public support.

The Republican Caucus strongly opposes this request which clearly argues against the beliefs of 83 percent of the public, as expressed in last year's referendum (see attached chart showing overwhelming support for downsizing).

A YouGov poll in the Times this morning revealed overwhelming public opposition to the latest disability cuts, with 70 per cent of people against and just 13 per cent in support.

«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.

Synopsis: With the end of his first term in sight, widowed U.S. President Andrew Shepherd (Michael Douglas) knows that overwhelming public support will guara... [MORE]

• Overwhelming parental support for the following elements of an education agenda: Provide extra resources to turn around struggling neighborhood schools; hold charter schools accountable; provide more support / training for struggling teachers; expand / improve new - teacher mentoring; reduce class sizes, especially in the early grades; make public schools hubs of the neighborhood with longer hours, academic help and health services for families; provide extra pay for teachers in hard - to - staff schools; and ensure access to high - quality preschool for all 3 - and 4 - year - olds.

Which sense was reinforced by a third event at this year's convention: accompanying her overwhelming election as the next NEA president, Lily Eskelsen Garcia has made clear in interviews that among her missions — above all, «winning back public trust» for teachers — is loosening the partisan bonds and beginning to support whichever candidates will do the most for teachers, even including Republicans!

In Newark, N.J., support for public charter schools is overwhelming, with 71 percent of respondents supporting expansion of the sector.

A proud centrist who was elected in 2010 with the overwhelming support of pro-charter donors, the governor had promptly made a show of doing battle with public - sector unions.

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.

This growing interest is reflected in the overwhelming public support — 73.5 percent — at the ballot box last November for the passage of Proposition 58, the California state ballot initiative that creates more opportunities for bilingual education.

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

We urge the BOEM and all reviewing agencies to carefully consider the overwhelming public support for protecting our coastal environment and the important economic benefits our Sanctuaries provide, and not allow any increased offshore oil exploration or production or decrease in protective status of our California Marine Sanctuaries.

Not just because the federal government missed an opportunity to link food choices with environmental issues, but because there appeared to be significant support for the inclusion of sustainability in the guidelines: one analysis by the Center for Biological Diversity looked at the 29,000 public comments on the Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee's report, and found «overwhelming support» for including sustainability.

One such case is Don Easterbrook, whose testimony in front of a Washington State Committee in March 2013 so distorted the scientific facts that most of the members of his department (WWU geology) wrote a public letter, saying» [his views] are neither scientifically valid nor supported by the overwhelming preponderance of evidence on the topic».

We have seen an overwhelming public response in support of the SHIELD Act and patent reform more generally.

Canada's M.P.'s need to be aware that overwhelming public support (70 % to 80 % in 2009 and 2014 public opinion polls) for equal shared parenting crosses all party lines and demographics.

David Simon and Peter Lowy, CEOs at Simon and Westfield America, issued the following joint statement: «We are gratified to have received such an unprecedented and overwhelming mandate from Taubman's public shareholders in support of our offer.