Sentences with phrase «public support at»

It is only with broad public support at all levels that education reform can truly gain traction and begin to realize significant improvements.

«Access to drivers licenses for undocumented workers and raising the welfare grant above the poverty line are policies that all working people should support because most of us will need public support at some point in our lives,» said Hawkins.

As you can see, Michigan State is receiving overwhelming public support at all seven of our contributing sportsbooks.

Bettors may also be interested to know that there has only been one game in our database in which Florida receiving such limited public support at home — an October 1, 2011 matchup against Alabama in which they received just 22 % of spread bets.

In fact, Nashville has received the majority of public support at all seven of our contributing sportsbooks.

Not exact matches

Negotiations between Republicans and Democrats have stalled even though the program enjoys broad bipartisan support over the all - important issue of funding, with Democrats balking at proposals cut an Obamacare public health fund to finance an extension of CHIP.

Topics included: early reporting on inaccuracies in the articles of The New York Times's Judith Miller that built support for the invasion of Iraq; the media campaign to destroy UN chief Kofi Annan and undermine confidence in multilateral solutions; revelations by George Bush's biographer that as far back as 1999 then - presidential candidate Bush already spoke of wanting to invade Iraq; the real reason Bush was grounded during his National Guard days — as recounted by the widow of the pilot who replaced him; an article published throughout the world that highlighted the West's lack of resolve to seriously pursue the genocidal fugitive Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, responsible for the largest number of European civilian deaths since World War II; several investigations of allegations by former members concerning the practices of Scientology; corruption in the leadership of the nation's largest police union; a well - connected humanitarian relief organization operating as a cover for unauthorized US covert intervention abroad; detailed evidence that a powerful congressional critic of Bill Clinton and Al Gore for financial irregularities and personal improprieties had his own track record of far more serious transgressions; a look at the practices and values of top Democratic operative and the clients they represent when out of power in Washington; the murky international interests that fueled both George W. Bush's and Hillary Clinton's presidential campaigns; the efficacy of various proposed solutions to the failed war on drugs; the poor - quality televised news program for teens (with lots of advertising) that has quietly seeped into many of America's public schools; an early exploration of deceptive practices by the credit card industry; a study of ecosystem destruction in Irian Jaya, one of the world's last substantial rain forests.

After hours of public comment, a Northern California water agency is delaying a vote on whether to support Gov.. The Santa Clara Valley Water District board will vote at a special meeting May 8.

Luckey had not posted on social media or made any public statements since September, when it was revealed that he had anonymously funded a group, Nimble America, aimed at supporting then - candidate Trump's election efforts.

But despite criticism at home and abroad, the eurosceptic PiS enjoys steady support among many Poles eager to hear its message of higher welfare, more Catholic values in public life and less dependence on foreign capital.

In return for sponsors» support, which covers everything from equipment to travel, Paralympians — like other endorsed athletes — appear in ads, speak at public appearances and hobnob at company shindigs.

Consulting groups Integral Development and Nous Group have won contracts to support development of independent public schools, as part of a range of programs that also include 20 principals per year attending a training program at Harvard University.

That in turn increases barriers to entry for startups, because entrenched political players look to «economic winners» for support to stay in power, argues Lee Drutman, a senior fellow at the public policy think tank New America.

Harold Feld, a senior vice president at Public Knowledge, a nonprofit group that supports net neutrality, said the biggest tech companies were less vocal because they are facing more regulatory battles than in past years.

In a Public Policy Polling poll looking at a hypothetical election between the two, Johnson had 42 % support over Trump's 37 %.

But hours before Pai is scheduled to take the dais at the Newseum in Washington, D.C., several Democratic senators who support the rules outlined how they would seek to rally public support and try to save the rules.

Governments, both national and local, may face rising demands for social services and income support from poorer retirees at a time when public finances are stretched,» McKinsey noted.

To date, the Li Ka Shing Foundation has committed and donated at least $ 770 million to support the said university, which is reported to be the only privately funded public university in China.

It has become increasingly clear that there are three, maybe four companies that can support (at scale) the massive shared computing, networking, and storage infrastructure necessary for a public cloud.

«At the start of the year, strong opposition to the Northern Gateway outranked strong support by an almost 4 - to - 1 margin — now it's less than 2 - to - 1,» says Mario Canseco, Vice President, Public Affairs at Insights WesAt the start of the year, strong opposition to the Northern Gateway outranked strong support by an almost 4 - to - 1 margin — now it's less than 2 - to - 1,» says Mario Canseco, Vice President, Public Affairs at Insights Wesat Insights West.

Very often the public statements released at the conclusion of such G - 7 meetings are highly predictable, containing support for established policies, papering -LSB-...]

And a Public Religion Research Institute study from last month found that white evangelical support for Trump is at an all - time high.

On Tuesday night, at least 200 people came out to a high school to listen to Dr. Tipirneni, who spoke of her support for a public health insurance option, «common - sense» gun control, and robust funding for Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid.

We invest much less in young children, and that stems largely from the fact that most other advanced economies view early childhood education, child care and other benefits targeted at parents with young children as «public goods,» meaning investments that, absent public support, would be insufficiently made from the perspective of society's well - being.

Our cities and towns require a public service bank that lends at affordable rates rather than at higher rates and fees that support short - term investor profit and excessive executive pay and bonuses.

Thus, while it initially appeared that the bill was designed to foster entrepreneurial development of decentralized systems, such as the Ethereum network, to allow individuals to reclaim some power from large companies, the bill does not accomplish that aim as it treats public and private blockchains (and possibly even legacy payment systems) equally.By opening this loophole in the definition of blockchain, Nevada does not appear to be showing any more support for the blockchain upstart community than it shows for multinational financial institutions and banks at large.

Over the past few decades, stock exchanges have made more and more decisions designed to improve their business results at the expense of supporting long - term investors and public companies.

His Royal Highness, Deputy Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman, Chairman of PIF, commented as follows: «The Public Investment Fund is focused on achieving attractive long - term financial returns from its investments at home and abroad, as well as supporting the Kingdom's Vision 2030 strategy to develop a diversified economy.

Negotiating such a deal will be challenging given the complexity of the issues at hand and the need to secure Canadian public support for closer economic ties.

For instance, the magnitude of government financial support for the public sector bank currently being restructured Banco de Poupança e Crédito (BPC) is estimated at around 1.5 % of GDP.

On October 30, 2004, Ipsos - Reid released a public opinion poll that put support for Ralph Klein and his Progressive Conservatives at 50 percent.

In 2007 something went wrong with the Ponzi racket certain big institutions had going, in which they enriched themselves at the expense of the public through an officially supported commercial credit bubble.

Then, credibility restored, Tesla will easily raise cash to build the Model Y. For all the triumphant bear fuss lately, Tesla went public at $ 17 a share and remains a 17 - bagger at $ 295 — and, as Moody's notes, fundamentals like battery cost, public acceptance of electric cars and regulatory support are stable or improving.

Organizers at national gun control groups, who provided logistical support and public relations advice as the students planned the Washington rally, said they believed that the students would not become disillusioned by the lack of immediate action in Congress.

Cultivating relationships with other nonprofit organizations, including those focused on environmental, global hunger, public health, free speech, and food safety issues, to build alliances and support for the policies that will be most effective at increasing plant - based options and readying the path to market for clean meat.

The limitations of macroprudential policies reflect the potential for risks to emerge outside sectors subject to regulation, the potential for supervision and regulation to miss emerging risks, the uncertain efficacy of new macroprudential tools such as a countercyclical capital buffer, and the potential for such policy steps to be delayed or to lack public support.14 Given such limitations, adjustments in monetary policy may, at times, be needed to curb risks to financial stability.15

The banks should be nationalized, at least temporarily, and every person and institution involved (otherwise known as the elite banksters and politicians who served and supported the government and «quasi» government decisions) in each of the bailouts and heists of the taxpayer's (i.e. the «common» mans) money, should be divested of their personal assets and earnings and put in a stockade for public viewing, smack dab in the middle of Wall Street, to be pelted with rotten vegetables.

Looking at the job - to - job comparison numbers from Quebec, I wonder if the Fraser Institute would support immediate equalization for the clearly underpaid public sector.

At the direction of the board of directors and supported by management, the Policy Council is the Greater Vancouver Board of Trade's lead public policy and advocacy vehicle, charged with ensuring our policy development and advocacy adheres to the organization's mission and basic principles.

«With the political race already drawing substantial media attention and potential candidates doing everything in their power to gain the support of the public at large, regulation of the hedge fund industry is a topic that will likely receive significant attention throughout the campaign period.»

Faith - based charity Marriage Care has backed the proposals, speaking on Premier's News Hour, chief executive, Mark Molden said: «what this is about is saying, look; at a key moment where public services are in front of both expectant mother and expectant father let's give them some support at that crucial juncture to think about their relationship, think about how they might weather the inevitable storms that a new baby brings into a relation ship.

David Johnston, author of Earth, Empire and Sacred Text, Christine Schirrmacher, a scholar with the Institute of Islamic Studies of the Evangelical Alliance in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland, and Joseph Cumming, director of the reconciliation program at Yale Divinity School, discuss whether Christians should support laws that ban Muslim women from wearing the face veil in public.

What is less clear to me is why complementarians like Keller insist that that 1 Timothy 2:12 is a part of biblical womanhood, but Acts 2 is not; why the presence of twelve male disciples implies restrictions on female leadership, but the presence of the apostle Junia is inconsequential; why the Greco - Roman household codes represent God's ideal familial structure for husbands and wives, but not for slaves and masters; why the apostle Paul's instructions to Timothy about Ephesian women teaching in the church are universally applicable, but his instructions to Corinthian women regarding head coverings are culturally conditioned (even though Paul uses the same line of argumentation — appealing the creation narrative — to support both); why the poetry of Proverbs 31 is often applied prescriptively and other poetry is not; why Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob represent the supremecy of male leadership while Deborah and Huldah and Miriam are mere exceptions to the rule; why «wives submit to your husbands» carries more weight than «submit one to another»; why the laws of the Old Testament are treated as irrelevant in one moment, but important enough to display in public courthouses and schools the next; why a feminist reading of the text represents a capitulation to culture but a reading that turns an ancient Near Eastern text into an apologetic for the post-Industrial Revolution nuclear family is not; why the curse of Genesis 3 has the final word on gender relationships rather than the new creation that began at the resurrection.

But things are changing, due to a combination of the media questioning the lack of female directors and the movie ticket - buying public showing up to support diversity at the box office.

Hundreds of faculty signed a public statement of support, and dozens of letters arrived daily, reflecting a deeply felt need to be grateful for something at a time when, at least on the national scene, there were so few things one could be grateful for.

Some people see simply no ethical problem at all with destroying embryos for research, and for them the study of embryos for its own sake is certainly worth public support (we support all kinds of basic research after all, rightfully so, and this basic research could be of more value than most).

On the basis of the First Amendment, as well as the general principles of the Constitution, he opposed public payment for chaplains in Congress and the military, spoke out against national proclamations of days of prayer (though as president he did «recommend» them) and while president vetoed congressional efforts to incorporate churches in the District of Columbia (fullest statement, V: 103 - 105) At the same time, Madison frequently opined that it was appropriate for private citizens to support chaplains and various kinds of semiorganized public religion through voluntary contributions (V: 104,105)

If he made any public remarks in support of Christianity, that was because he was in public and would lie or obfuscate to appease a crowd at times.

At a recent meeting of Southern Baptist Convention leaders, 90 % said that they support a resolution to have it taken down in public displays across the nation.

Here the church may lend its official public support; supply monies; provide clerical and lay leadership, volunteers, and facilities to programs aimed at redressing social problems in the community which are contributory factors in producing mental illness.