Sentences with phrase «public favors holding»

The general public favors holding a constitutional convention, but support has slipped significantly over the past year with 44 percent of New Yorkers that Siena College surveyed this month saying they'll vote yes.

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Cuomo has held few public appearances since his office was served with a bombshell subpoena by Bharara on April 29 seeking information on whether Percoco used his official position and ties to Cuomo to gain favors for two companies that had paid him as a «consultant» in 2014 while he was also being paid to run the governor's re-election campaign.

The race to be the city's chief fiscal officer has, like the public advocate contest, been a sleepy one, with the incumbent Democrat holding major financial and other advantages, and heavily favored, as the higher profile mayoral race has sucked up the attention of most of whatever small number of voters is paying attention to the municipal elections.

Melbourne provides the film's sole source of conflict, both political and romantic: his essentially conservative politics hold considerable sway over the naive young Queen, bringing out her of public favor, while the quasi-romantic confidante status he enjoys with her is resented by Albert.

EdNext reports a clear plurality in favor of the Common Core when it notes that the standards will be used hold schools accountable and an evenly divided public when the accountability connection is not made.

In even - numbered years, when state and national elections are held, the share of the uninformed members of the public who favor higher spending is roughly 5 percentage points higher than it is in odd - numbered years, when most states do not hold elections.

Most taxpayers in Ohio and Wisconsin support and favor expanding voucher programs in their states that involve private schools, but believe those schools should be held accountable to the public, a new report concludes.

As the legislative report (JR report) explains, when the Education Committee held its public hearing, the testimony was almost unanimous in favor of the bill.

However, NAIA favors laws and policies that educate the public, hold dog owners accountable, and base punishment on dog behavior, not appearance.

Emboldened by the support of public comments (over 99.5 percent favoring the proposed standards), the petition I held that garnered over 1,000 Idahoan signatures in three days, and the absolute belief that students have the right to a holistic education, I sincerely believed my testimony would be heard.

This finding contradicts the often - held assumption that projected warmer conditions always favor mosquitoes and clarifies some of the uncertainty in complex feedbacks involving climate and climate change influences on vectors and virus transmission, enabling more targeted public health action by using location - specific knowledge of vector responses to climate.

On the issue of «science» in general, many MHPs (the author believes Gould as well) hold personal biases in favor of joint custody (with or without rationales such as «as a default starting point» or «because it appears to be public policy» etc.).