Sentences with phrase «per cent supported»

According to a 2009 Ipsos Reid survey, 65 per cent of Ontarians opposed mandatory home energy audits while 92 per cent supported voluntary.

A government - commissioned survey of 2226 Australians released in December last year found 80 per cent supported the R18 + rating.

A total of 60 per cent supported traffic exclusion zones around schools while only 13 per cent opposed the idea.

75 per cent supported the idea of educating pupils on the impact of pornography and 82 per cent wanted to see lessons about violence and abuse in relationships brought to the classrooms.

Gallup found that three - quarters agreed with Powell, and 24 per cent supported him to replace Edward Heath as Tory leader (see graph A).

Twenty - three per cent supported unsuccessful Labour candidates and 22 % voted for unelected Tory candidates.

Ten years later, post-9 / 11, the public was again amenable to the allied move into Afghanistan (74 per cent supported it) but there was markedly less enthusiasm to go into Iraq for a second time (54 per cent).

Among evangelicals who attend church regularly, only 31 per cent supported Donald Trump while those who rarely attend church, the evangelicals - in - name - only, favoured Trump at much higher rates.

In a Quinnipiac poll this week, 50 per cent opposed the tariffs, 31 per cent supported them.

Harper and his party couldn't be happier — campaigning just after introducing a budget with goodies for many, enjoying 43 per cent support against a Liberal Party at just 24 per cent and the NDP at 16 per cent, according to an Ipsos - Reid poll and facing beleaguered Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff in his first national campaign.

In an Insights West poll conducted in late October for Maclean's, the Liberals had 35 per cent support, the Conservatives 33 per cent and the New Democratic Party 20 per cent.

One poll after another shows the PCs have remarkable staying power — 20 per cent support or more — for a party that was crushed at the polls last May.

This time last year, Sinn Féin attracted just 10 per cent support in polls, suggesting its anti-austerity stance is proving popular with the public.

The unprecedented resolution passed with 98.8 per cent support.

APF Canada's 2012 found that of those who are familiar with the deal, 40 per cent support Canada joining the TPP, while 18 per cent oppose

The results show two other members of Magna's board also garnered just 38 per cent support from shareholders, while all other directors got more than 84 per cent support.

Magna for the first time reported the detailed results of director elections held in May, showing that the former Ontario premier won just 38 per cent support from shareholders for his re-election to the Magna board.

Inspired after a string of awful - to - middling governors won with less than 50 per cent support, a Maine ballot measure will ask voters to endorse ranked - ballot voting and instant run - offs — one of the electoral alternatives the Trudeau government is considering.

However, the survey results were not published on the corporation's website until last month, after a follow - up survey in May had recorded the far more favourable result of 84 per cent support for the 20,000 hens per hectare density limit.

Tottenham will be embarrassed to see that there are nearly twice as many Arsenal fans in their borough as their own, with figures showing 18.92 per cent support for the Gunners and 10.81 for Spurs.

This percentage increases as you moderate the statement, so fully 71 per cent support a phased withdrawal «with the aim of ending combat within a year or so».

By comparison the first ComRes poll after the Libyan action began in 2011 showed 35 per cent support — so higher but still not overwhelming — and, for comparison, early support for the invasion of Iraq was over 50 per cent.

«Other firms that use volunteer online polling panels have failed to pick up more than three per cent support for Ukip in recent months, while the highest figure reported in a telephone or face - to - face poll is just two per cent.

A survey in January found that just seven per cent support a ban on abortion — the lowest that figure has ever been.

This includes fixed terms for five years (when average time between elections has been four); the vote to dissolve parliament before calling a general election requiring 55 per cent support in the House of Commons (meaning the Liberal Democrats can not withdraw their support from the Tories and cause a general election as the Lib - Dems, Labour and other parties altogether hold less than 55 per cent of the seats); and stuffing the House of Lords with many more Conservatives and Liberals to weaken opposition there.

As a matter of fact, this is the only rascality exhibited by sponsored Arewa youths to forcefully exit the people of Biafra residing in Arewa land that MASSOB will 100 per cent support.

David Cameron said today's survey by the Policy Exchange showing more than a third of young Muslims would like to live under sharia law, and 13 per cent support groups like al - Qaida, proved the failings of treating each community as distinct.

Only 36 per cent support the more cautious approach favoured by Mr Cameron.

Yesterday's ComRes poll put the party on just eight per cent support, while a YouGov poll for the Sun this morning found only 11 % of voters thought Clegg was «open and honest» about the affair, while 52 % thought he was not.

of winning back the UKIP voters for a once - again hegemonic Conservative party on something like 40 per cent support — a difficult feat indeed after a decade for the Tories in power.

Only Boris has any realistic change of winning back the UKIP voters for a once - again hegemonic Conservative party on something like 40 per cent support — a difficult feat indeed after a decade for the Tories in power.

As a result, around two - thirds of people oppose the switch and just 16 per cent support it, according to a poll by Norwegian newspaper Dagbladet.

There is good news for NZ singles though: Kiwi enthusiasm still beats that of Australian singles who, even in a World Cup year, can only reach a grand total of 73 per cent support.

However, the title has to go to singles from South Africa: not only do they manage 55 per cent support normally, that rises to a whopping 92 per cent once the tournament kicks off!

Neither can Julian, to whom he gives 50 per cent support.

Another poll released last month found 85 per cent support among Texas voters.

In a March 2015 Gallup poll, 79 per cent of Americans said they believe the government should focus more on solar power, followed closely by 70 per cent supporting an expansion of wind power.

Except in British Columbia, we also do not have the people's ballot initiatives process, unlike Oregon and Washington State, so we could not translate the 70 - 80 + per cent support among Canadians for decriminalising assisted death into statutory reform through that form of direct democracy.

Eighty - one per cent support the introduction of a 15 - per - cent non-resident speculation tax on any individual who is not a Canadian citizen or permanent resident.

Not exact matches

-- Increasing social assistance rates by one per cent for people on disability supports and welfare.

The budget includes a one per cent increase for people on welfare and disability support, who will also be allowed to keep the first $ 200 of earnings each month before their benefits are reduced.

Responding to Tory charges that the NDP's proposed cap - and - trade system would wind up raising gas prices by 10 cents per litre, Jack Layton blamed Stephen Harper «s subsidies to big oil companies and support for the harmonized sales tax in Ontario for higher gas prices.

A recent survey conducted by the Asia Pacific Foundation shows a slim majority of Canadians (55 per cent) support the pursuit of a free - trade agreement and that 64 per cent are concerned Canada will become more susceptible to economic and political pressure from Beijing.

Shares in Mungana Gold Mines rose by more than 25 per cent after the company announced it would move ahead with its North Queensland zinc strategy, following shareholder support for the $ 15 million acquisition of the Chilagoe base metal assets from the liquidators of Kagara, originally announced in December last year.

Chairman Peter Harley said the capital raising was well supported, with 85 per cent of the company's options and convertible notes exercised.

The ballot count from Saturday's vote was 1,793 opposed versus 1,278 who supported the multi-billion dollar project — a margin of 58.4 per cent to 41.6 per cent.

A Pew poll predating the accident showed that 66 per cent of Americans support TransCanada's project to link Canada's oilsands to Texas refineries and, I argued earlier this week, there's no reason why they should change their minds.

The Qatar Investment Authority, currently the largest shareholder in Sainsburys with a 22 per cent stake, said it supported the deal.

To support its growth, the company increased its marketing and advertising spending by 30 per cent.

«Those together would be about 20 to 25 per cent of the market to be honest, and there would be enough trading up to support the relatively small numbers they are selling, probably.»