Sentences with phrase «overwhelmingly in favor of»

The U.S. House responded to the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School massacre on Wednesday by voting overwhelmingly in favor of legislation aimed at helping reduce school violence.

In many jurisdictions, the law is overwhelmingly in favor of the tenant.

The group has already undertaken an extensive community consultation and the local population are overwhelmingly in favor of the project.

However, while legislation is already being drafted, major hurdles remain before the tax on CO2 can be scrapped, sparking an outcry among businesses, state governments, and especially Australian voters, who voted overwhelmingly in favor of the new coalition and its pledge to kill the costly economic burden.

And yet, when we visited exhibitions together, the numbers remained overwhelmingly in favor of men like himself — what Robert Hughes described sarcastically as «the pale penis people.»

There's been massive excitement about the introduction of the Chase Sapphire Reserve, and normally when the Conventional Wisdom is so overwhelmingly in favor of a new credit card, it's an opportunity for me to argue that perhaps the card isn't so great.

All I know is that veterinarians, groomers and dog trainers — as well as the general public — are OVERWHELMINGLY in favor of the ban.

The votes were overwhelmingly in favor of the bill with a vote less than a week ago of 77 - 22 by the House and yesterday of 41 - 9 by the Senate.  Â

Each time we ask BookPage readers to weigh in on their favorite genre, the response is overwhelmingly in favor of mystery and suspense!

However, while the above figure might seem to be overwhelmingly in favor of Apple, things look impressive for Google from a different perspective.

In 2005, the United Nations voted for the 14th consecutive year to end the Cuban Embargo (as always the vote was overwhelmingly in favor of lifting the embargo, 182 votes to 4.

The results were overwhelmingly in favor of choice programs.

The students were overwhelmingly in favor of it.»

The results are what they are, and the scoreboard is overwhelmingly in favor of school choice policies.

The response from citizens, which was overwhelmingly in favor of strong and ambitious climate action, highlights the global public's conviction that governments need to reach a strong and effective new climate change agreement at COP 21, the UN climate change conference in Paris, in December.

PR NEWSWIRE - Dec 28 - Jiayuan.com shareholders voted overwhelmingly in favor of the merger with LoveWorld and FutureWorld.

So many of you loved the first post in this new series (here) & after taking a poll on Facebook, the feedback was overwhelmingly in favor of green for the next installment.

Poll after poll shows that Americans are overwhelmingly in favor of reasonable controls on firearms sales.

A Quinnipiac poll out today shows voters overwhelmingly in favor of a public referendum on term limits, and increasingly against a third Bloomberg term.

Unofficial election results show the majority of Bronx electoral districts voted overwhelmingly in favor of Bloomberg's Democratic challenger, Bill Thompson.

After months of delays and frustration, the state Senate early Thursday voted overwhelmingly in favor of a bipartisan state budget that will be voted on by the House later today, where broad support is expected, too.

This afternoon, members of the Manhattan Democratic County Committee voted overwhelmingly in favor of Paul Newell, a stalwart progressive reformer and District Leader in Lower Manhattan, putting him within a few points of the nomination.

It's nerve - wracking, but I keep reminding myself, as I did with my son four years ago, the odds are still overwhelmingly in favor of normal and healthy.

With the public overwhelmingly in favor of «Bama, the sportsbooks have adjusted their lines to give the Rebels an additional point.

With the unranked Aggies coming to Bill Snyder Stadium, the betting public is taking the points and overwhelmingly in favor of the # 14 Wildcats either winning straight up or losing by four or less in front of their home crowd.

This trend should end with the 4 - 4 unranked Commodores coming to the Swamp, however the betting public is not overwhelmingly in favor of a Florida blowout, with just six out of ten bets sticking with the Gators to win by 14 points or more.

Despite Notre Dame boasting an 8 - 3 overall record and # 22 overall ranking, the betting public is overwhelmingly in favor of Andrew Luck and the # 6 Cardinal covering at home and keeping their slim national championship hopes alive.

And even with the sportsbooks giving home dog Tampa Bay an additional half - point, the betting public is overwhelmingly in favor of the Boys covering on the road.

And with no line movement thus far, the betting public remains overwhelmingly in favor of Drew Brees and prolific Saints offense escaping Candlestick Park with at least a four - point victory.

With the sportsbooks adjusting their lines to take a valuable point away from home dog Indy, the betting public is overwhelmingly in favor of Matt Ryan and Co. winning by at least 8 points on the road.

The U.S. House responded to the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School massacre on Wednesday by voting overwhelmingly in favor of legislation aimed at helping reduce school violence.

Most significantly, California voted overwhelmingly in favor of legislation making marijuana legal, on Proposition 64 — thus making the entire West Coast a legal enclave for recreational cannabis.

Not exact matches

It voted overwhelmingly for Hillary Clinton in November, favoring her by a margin of 56 percent to Trump's 40 percent.

Tesla and SolarCity shareholders overwhelmingly voted in favor of merging the two companies in a $ 2.6 billion deal.

Many of the campaigns were overwhelmingly negative against the opposition instead of positive in favor of the candidate running them.

South Florida's budding business of medical marijuana keeps losing potential real estate, city by city, even though voters overwhelmingly indicated they are in favor of allowing it.

Does common sense tell you to discard the evidence of a both a force and matter simply because they can not be seen or detected, but the evidence is overwhelmingly compelling in their favor?

Republicans also were the ones that overwhelmingly voted in favor of creating MLK Day.

While the Rubinsteins take into account the occasional underside of philo «Semitism (some gentiles favored Zionism in order to remove Jews from their midst), they conclude that it was overwhelmingly motivated by hu manitarian, religious, and moral concerns.

Wine in supermarkets bill advancing in House The House committee that killed last year's version of a bill to allow wine sales in Tennessee grocery stores on Tuesday overwhelmingly voted in favor of giving cities the ability to hold referendums on the proposal...

In 2011, voters overwhelmingly passed a referendum in favor of allowing sports betting by a massive 65 - 35 margiIn 2011, voters overwhelmingly passed a referendum in favor of allowing sports betting by a massive 65 - 35 margiin favor of allowing sports betting by a massive 65 - 35 margin.

While percentage of tickets are favoring Detroit, the percentage of actual money wagered is overwhelmingly backing Cleveland, forcing sportsbooks to move off of their opener, through 11, and settle in at -10.5.

The Niskayuna Central School District was formed in 1953 when area residents overwhelmingly voted in favor of centralizing five area districts.

Presented with both choice, the evidence of history in Nigeria, with particular reference to the Telecom sector, overwhelmingly favors capitalism as the most efficient resource allocator.

The overwhelmingly Democratic Council voted in favor of each bill in the act by an overwhelming margin, with the measure on public urination scraping closest: 39 in favor, 10 against.

ALBANY, NY (06/07/2016)(readMedia)-- The American Arbitration Association in Manhattan today counted thousands of ballots from New York State Public Employees Federation (PEF) members who overwhelmingly voted in favor of a tentative one - year agreement with the state.

The moving encounter in the ballroom of the Hilton Rye Town in Rye Brook marked the official start of the popular attorney general's long march to the November election, in which he's overwhelmingly favored over a bitterly divided Republican field.

Courts located in the 7th Circuit, which encompasses Illinois, Indiana and Wisconsin, overwhelmingly ruled in favor of colleges and universities (88.9 percent) while schools won less frequently (63.6 percent) in the 2nd Circuit, which spans Connecticut, New York and Vermont.

These ingredients are overwhelmingly found in processed, packaged fare — food you should generally aim to eat less of anyway in favor of more fresh stuff.

The Niskayuna Central School District was formed when area residents overwhelmingly voted in favor of centralizing five area districts in June 1953.