Sentences with phrase «percent in favor»

The Google phones held on for a win after a late push by the Asus ZenFone 2 gave us a final tally of 52 percent to 48 percent in favor of the Nexus 6P and 5X.

The median hourly pay gap was two percent in favor of women, however.According to Apple, the average pay gap is due to more men holding senior positions at the company, and when factoring in «similar roles, markets, and performance» it has achieved pay equity.

Answer: If you are willing to put your money where your mouth is, and you are correct, you could make a bundle by placing a wager on Intrade where the current betting line is 94 percent in favor of a conviction.

In a landslide decision, constituents in 11 districts voted over 81 percent in favor of legislation that will achieve an 80 percent reduction of greenhouse gas emissions in Massachusetts by 2020 instead of the state's target of 2050.

«Take away the wind lease money and the ratio would be more like 85 percent opposed to 15 percent in favor.»

«In every Michigan township that has ever had the opportunity to vote on wind, the ratio of voters who disapprove to those who approve is always the same: roughly 60 percent opposed, 40 percent in favor,» Martis added.

Although the report has been withheld from the public, nearly 100,000 comments were received with 99 percent in favor of retaining the existing boundaries of the protected ocean areas.

This works out to a severely dominating 93 percent in favor of the Apple tablet.

Our survey last year found 59 percent of Americans supportive of charter schools; 56 percent in favor of school vouchers; and 49 percent backing education savings accounts or ESAs, a relatively new form of educational choice that allows families to go beyond private school tuition to customize a learning plan that works for each individual student.

Hispanic support was strongest for tax credit scholarships, with 76 percent in favor and 16 percent opposed.

The national split was 60 percent in favor and 29 percent opposed.

(The general public is 43 - 34 percent in favor of choice.)

Before the debate, the audience at the Kauffman Music Center in New York voted 50 percent in favor of the motion and 13 percent against, with 37 percent undecided.

Proposition 51, which would authorize the sale of some $ 9 billion in bonds to support classroom construction and modernization, was winning with 54 percent in favor and 46 percent opposed.

Interestingly, Democrats were even more favorable to vouchers (49 percent to 39 percent) than Republicans (41 percent in favor and 49 percent opposed.)

A year later, Education Next asked, «A proposal has been made that would give all families with children in public schools a wider choice, by allowing them to enroll their children in private schools instead, with government helping to pay the tuition,» the general public was evenly split, 45 percent in favor and 44 percent against.

Respondents were particularly supportive of «allowing schools with a proven record of success to expand,» with 73 percent in favor of this proposal.

Higher levels of support for the federal policy are observed among African - Americans, with 41 percent in favor and only 23 percent opposed.

A majority of the public with an opinion on the matter agrees with Friedrichs, with 56 percent in favor of ending these agency fees.

The public continues to oppose allowing parents and students to choose a private school to attend at public expense, but with 50 percent opposed to public funding of private school attendance and 44 percent in favor, it is apparent why this is a hotly debated issue.

[xxxii] Interestingly, Democrats were more favorable about vouchers (49 percent in favor, 39 percent opposed) than Republicans (41/49).

I am 200 percent in favor of personalized learning, defined as enabling every child to move through the prescribed curriculum at his or her own speed, progressing on the basis of individual mastery of important skills and knowledge rather than in lockstep according to age, grade level, and end - of - year assessments.

Instead of 55 percent in favor, only 38 percent of those informed of current pay levels endorse salary increases.

These results are similar to the 2012 Education Next survey, which also found that STCs are the most popular form of educational choice with 72 percent in favor.

When the question is posed in a friendlier manner, vouchers, even on their darkest day (2010), gathered support from another 8 percent, with 39 percent in favor and just 32 percent opposed.

We want to see 75 percent to 80 percent in favor,» he said.

«Increasing the number of students who can attend charters in Boston is a popular idea, with 64 percent in favor and just 23 percent saying the limit should stay,» according to MassINC, which conducted the poll.

«Voters [are] especially supportive of the idea of allowing schools with a proven record of success to expand, with 73 percent in favor of this proposal.»

The result: 48 percent in favor, 47 percent against.

The result: 62 percent in favor.

In 1999 the results were 47 percent in favor of vouchers, 47 percent against.

But in 2000 — at a time when vouchers were supposedly dropping like a stone in popularity — the results were 56 percent in favor and 38 percent against (see Figure 4).

Among public school parents the margin was greater, 69 percent to 22 percent in favor of the union.

According to the poll, a little more than half of all New Yorkers oppose drilling in the Marcellus Shale, with only 32 percent in favor.

In the 2008 presidential election, the residents within the newly drawn district voted 63 percent in favor of President Barack Obama, and 35 percent for U.S. Rep. John McCain (R - Ariz.)

Maxwell said he is «100 percent in favor» of the community grid option to replace Interstate 81.

A Quinnipiac poll last week found voters statewide support legalizing personal use by almost two to one: 63 percent in favor, just 32 percent opposed.

Voters were also torn on whether the union was playing a positive or negative role in improving the school system, with 47 percent in favor and 39 percent opposed.

The poll released Wednesday finds 56 percent opposed to casinos somewhere other than Atlantic City, and 37 percent in favor.»

The numbers last month were 45 percent opposed, 40 percent in favor.

On the controversial question of fracking, the largest plurality ever in a Siena poll has said «no» to the natural gas drilling technique, with 45 percent opposed and 37 percent in favor.

Fans voted 51 percent in favor.

You may not believe these odds — 61 percent in favor of Miami — but there's no doubting that this is FSU's biggest remaining challenge.

1993 In a referendum called by the Secretary of Agriculture, dairy farmers vote 71 percent in favor of retaining the dairy checkoff program.

The results took a dramatic turn after the debate concluded with 60 percent in favor of genetic engineering, 31 percent against it and nine percent remaining undecided.

By the fourth pregnancy, a girl's desirability is a sad 9 percent, compared with 75 percent in favor of a boy.

A fascinating survey I saw on Twitter reveals that Britons who see «multiculturalism» as a «force for ill» voted 81 percent in favor of leaving the E.U.

The divide is even more drastic when it comes to liberals who are 86 percent in favor of living together before being married compared to 37 percent of conservatives.

Americans were nearly split in half — 47 percent in favor, 50 percent opposed — on allowing Syrian refugees to resettle in the US, according to a CBS poll conducted between November 19 — 22 of 1,205 adults.

One recent poll found 64 percent of voters supporting an assault weapons ban and 74 percent in favor of the opportunity to vote on it.