Sentences with phrase «percent were in favor»

And 91 percent were in favor of developing wind farms for electricity; a figure double that of residents who would want to see further development of coal and nuclear power.

Of those identifying themselves as Democrats, 66 percent were in favor compared with 19 percent among self - identified Republicans.

Fifty - four percent of respondents said Indiana should stick with the standards, while 26 percent were in favor of halting Common Core implementation.

At that time 47 percent were in favor and 42 percent were opposed.

A recent poll by Siena College found that, when New Yorkers were told about the constitutional convention, 69 percent were in favor of it.

Of those surveyed by Quinnipiac University, 72 percent were in favor of increased taxes on people making more than $ 1 million a year.

Before the debate began, 32 percent were in favor of genetically modified foods, 30 percent were against it and 38 percent were undecided.

According to a recent study conducted by Harvard University, which polled young adults between the ages of 18 and 29, not so good: 51 percent of survey respondents said they do not support capitalism, and only 42 percent were in favor of it.

This generation also prioritizes moving for the right job (67 percent would do so) and working outside the 9 - to - 5 if it paid more (58 percent were in favor).

On the project itself, 51 percent say they oppose it, while 41 percent are in favor and 8 percent are unsure.

Other findings from the Siena poll: 56 percent are in favor of legalizing recreational marijuana, and 61 percent of New Yorkers are in favor of the Dream Act, which would allow children of undocumented immigrants to receive college financial aid.

Other surveys, such as this one by the Committee on Economic Development demonstrate support for reform is also strong in the business community; 72 percent are in favor of creating a public financing system that would match low - dollar contributions and give average citizens more incentives to contribute to campaigns.

Pew Research found in its latest report on cybersecurity that 46 percent of Americans would allow the government to access encrypted communications to investigate a crime, whereas 44 percent are in favor of encrypted apps and messaging that are unbreakable to law enforcement.

Not exact matches

JERSEY CITY, N.J. / BOSTON, May 2 - Goldman Sachs Group Inc leaders said more than 87 percent of shares were voted in favor of its executive pay at its annual shareholder meeting, and that a stock plan for employees was approved by more than 65 percent of votes cast.

According to Catalonian authorities, 90 percent of people voted in favor of independence on Sunday, but the national government said the referendum was illegal.

Small businesses across the country support the Republican tax reform plan, with 55 percent saying they are in favor of seeing a tax bill passed.

Catholics are the least likely among religious whites to support capital punishment, though 59 percent are still in favor.

Wells Fargo executives said each of the bank's 12 director nominees received more than about 89 percent support from investors and about 92 percent of shares were cast in favor of the pay of Chief Executive Tim Sloan and other leaders.

The first one, which has a 57 percent probability of taking place, is Washington coming up with a framework that provides a «modest stimulus» to the U.S. deficit in favor of economic, and ultimately, earnings growth.

JERSEY CITY, N.J. / BOSTON, May 2 (Reuters)- Goldman Sachs Group Inc leaders said more than 87 percent of shares were voted in favor of its executive pay at its annual shareholder meeting, and that a stock plan for employees was approved by more than 65 percent of votes cast.

«Other things equal, a counterfactual analysis shows that Michigan, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania would have swung in favor of the Hillary Clinton if robot adoption had been two percent lower over the investigated period, leaving the Democrats with a majority in the electoral college.»

Oxford University Press teamed up with SwiftKey, the company behind SwiftKey Keyboard, an app that works to predict your favored words, turns of phrase and yes, emojis, and found that the «Face with Tears of Joy» was the most frequently used emoji in 2015, with the expressive icon making up 17 percent of all emojis used in the U.S., and 20 percent of emojis in the U.K.

Changing your greeting from «regards» to «thanks» can result in one 10 percent more responding to your emails — whether you're cold emailing, asking for a favor, or trying to connect — which means it's definitely worth it.

The findings show that 58 percent of online daters say a good credit score in a potential partner is more attractive than driving a nice car, 50 percent say good credit is more important than an impressive job title and 40 percent said they favor good credit over physical fitness.

At least 70 percent of the economists were in favor of his reinstallment.

Under so - called majority - of - the - minority voting provisions, a majority of shares, excluding Michael Dell's roughly 16 percent stake, must be voted in favor for the buyout to go through.

And the latest statistics suggest the relationship is becoming even more skewed in Moscow's favor this year: in January, Russia's share of Kazakhstani imports rose to 35.6 percent while the export share dropped to 5.3 percent.

Should the corporate tax rate decline to an average of around 18 to 20 percent, which is consistent with other developed countries, U.S. multinational companies would likely be more inclined to repatriate those profits and tilt the balance back in America's favor.

Goldman Sachs Group Inc leaders said more than 87 percent of shares were voted in favor of its executive pay at its annual shareholder meeting, and that a stock plan for employees was approved by more than 65 percent of votes cast.

This founder, whom we'll call Tom Green, said that while exact dollar amounts and percentages fluctuated slightly based on how many founders a company had and how experienced those founders were (younger founders lost 1 percent or 2 percent more in equity for the same amounts of money), most of the deals were structured to favor Y Combinator with the assumption that most of the teams were just starting out and were likely to fail.

Bullard sounded as if he would not be in favor of the Fed raising rates because of the inflation rate turning away from the spurious 2 percent mandate.

Retailers are actually down about 6 percent year - to - date, and LPL Financial adds that «it is likely that the performance of individual company stocks be more dispersed than they have been historically, which may favor active management in the sector moving forward.»

Support for a downtown location was strongest in New York (55 percent) and Los Angeles (51 percent), the only two of the 19 locations where majorities favored a downtown campus for Amazon.

ANALYST TAKE: «Markets never have been convinced about a rate hike this year but these reports have once again tipped the balance back in favor of a March 2017 move, rather than December, while September is only 15 percent priced in,» said Craig Erlam, chief market analyst at OANDA.

Britain's referendum in favor of leaving, or exiting, the European Union, the Brexit referendum, as the results are known, won with 52 percent of the vote on Thursday, June 23, stunning Europe's political establishment.

Still a third national survey (1997) discovered not only that a strong majority of African - Americans (57 percent) and Hispanics (65 percent) favored vouchers, but also that it was precisely the black age group most likely to have children in the public schools (those 26 to 35) who supported vouchers most strongly (86.5 percent!).

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.

The two «no compromise» factions in the abortion debate are, on the one hand, the 20 percent who favor the present unlimited abortion license and, on the other, those who would effect a national prohibition of all abortions, which is also about 20 percent of the population.

Thirty - one percent expressed the mistaken view that attitudes overseas were evenly balanced on the issue, while another 31 percent believed that a majority of people in the rest of the world favored U.S. action.

A Pew Global Attitudes Survey in April - May 2003 found that between 67 and 97 percent of people in six out of eight Muslim nations (Turkey, Indonesia, Pakistan, Lebanon, Jordan, Kuwait, Morocco and the Palestinian Authority) opposed U.S. action, and only one — Kuwait — was in favor.

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.

It wasn't even having 53 percent of the voters in the 2012 exit poll saying they believed Romney's policies would primarily favor the rich.

Nearly 6 in 10 of Protestant senior pastors (58 percent) agree with the statement: «I am in favor of immigration reform that includes a path to citizenship for those who are currently in the country illegally.»

According to research by Marketplace and Edison Research that was published in May, 71 percent of people believe that the U.S. economy is «rigged in favor of certain groups.»

In 2013, political elites of both parties favored an immigration bill that primarily increased low - skill immigration, even though the unemployment rate for low - skill workers was over 10 percent.

The poll also revealed that 42 percent of Americans are in favor of gay marriage, while 40 percent remained opposed.

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

In a recent poll from Quebec — where lethal - injection euthanasia is legal — a chilling 72 percent of caregivers favor permitting Alzheimer's patients to be euthanized, even if the afflicted person never requested euthanasia.

Thus a recent national poll shows that voters aged eighteen to thirty - four are in favor (56 percent to 40 percent).

The poll showed that support was highest among liberals and adults under age 30, with more than 60 percent of respondents in those categories favoring legalization.