Sentences with phrase «recent polls found»

Two recent polls found overwhelming support for banning MPs from holding second jobs and no prime minister wants to be seen as the defender of high wages for politicians.

A recent poll found that given the choice, 68 % of Canadians would choose a job with a company that has a strong volunteering culture over one that does not.

While businesses are starting to hire again — a recent poll found three - quarters of Canadian human - resource professionals plan to add staff within the next six months — companies can't afford to spend months training an employee only to find the relationship won't last.

Nike's Make It Count campaign has been so effective that a recent poll found a majority of Twitter users think Nike, not Adidas, is the official sponsor.

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.

Given this, it is hardly surprising that a recent poll found that 43 per cent of British people think that the country should be proud of the Empire, while only 11 per cent of people support the proposal of the Rhodes Must Fall campaign to remove the statue of the British colonialist, Cecil Rhodes, from Oriel College in Oxford.

A recent poll found that 66 percent of New York State voters favored a tax on millionaires.

Pew's recent poll found, among other things, that younger voters are among the most active and intense internet users.

But he dismissed recent poll findings that indicated a reduced Conservative lead since Mr Brown's Labour party conference speech and said the unity of the Tory party made it more suited to government than Labour's fractured state.

A recent poll found New Yorkers are so disappointed with Paterson that they would have preferred to see scandal - scarred former Gov. Eliot Spitzer remain in office instead.

A recent poll found that the public believe 24 % of people are currently unemployed.

A recent poll found that 97 percent of the public wants something done about corruption in state government, though they disagree on exactly what is needed.

But a recent poll found that «more than half of Utah voters say they would elect someone other than Hatch if he were up for re-election this year.»

A recent poll found that 96 per cent of people would rather see a big, happy grin in a person's profile photo than a sexy pout.

However, another recent poll found that when prompted to consider the possibility of increased taxes to fund more early care programs, voters favored targeted preschool over universal programs.

After a recent poll found that voters want greater oversight for charter schools, In The Public Interest and the Center for Popular Democracy released The Charter School Accountability Agenda: An 11 - Point Program for Reform, which outlines steps for states to ensure public accountability and provide oversight to improve student learning and reduce instances of fraud.

And yet, a recent poll found that adults believe that people respect teachers and administrators even less now than then did in the past.

A recent poll found that more young adults recognized YouTube «wonder stars» more than they recognized Hollywood stars.

A recent poll found that, notwithstanding the urgings of the President and the Secretary of State and others, only three per cent of Americans regard climate change as their major concern.

No wonder it is increasingly popular — a recent poll found that nearly seven of 10 Americans support a carbon tax.

In fact, a recent poll found that 97.4 % of active climatologists agree that human activity is warming the planet.

A recent poll found that 59 % of Canadians think climate change should be a top priority and a whopping 76 % say that Canada should sign on to a new international agreement to limit greenhouse gas emissions.

It's kind of amazing to me the bad rap that the stimulus bill has gotten since its passage a year and a half ago — a recent poll found that something like only 13 % of Americans felt it helped them.

Well, that's what our political class would have you believe: in reality, a very recent poll found that a majority of Americans would indeed be willing to pay over $ 160 extra dollars a year to buy cleaner electricity.

A recent poll found that 69 % of millennials report that they do want to get married, eventually.

Not exact matches

While national media coverage of politics in Quebec has been overwhelmingly focused on the specter of separatism and Parti - Québécois's proposed charter of values, a recent CBC - Ekos poll found that the majority of Quebeckers are most concerned about jobs and the economy.

A recent poll by TJinsite, a division of TimeJobs.com, found that more than 35 percent of respondents consider lack of recognition of their work the biggest hindrance to productivity.

And a recent BMO Financial Group poll finds that while two - thirds of Canadian adults still believe it's more socially acceptable for a woman to be the homemaker, views on the issue are changing.

A recent study conducted by the Harris Poll found that one - third of respondents decided to steer clear of the leadership track to avoid further diminishing their personal time.

A recent Compas Inc. poll of business leaders found that 49 % thought it was wrong to suspend the programs because companies should be allowed to employ the most skilled workers regardless of citizenship.

A recent AP - NORC poll of U.S. adults, conducted during and after the collapse of the GOP proposal, found just 52 percent called it a federal government responsibility to make sure all Americans have coverage.

What's more, a recent poll by Angus Reid found that almost half of British respondents would prefer to raise their families in Canada.

The Pew Research Center found in a recent poll that 9 per cent of American cellphone owners use Snapchat.

A recent survey conducted by Right Management, a Philadelphia - based management consulting firm found that of 667 employees polled, 66 percent had not used all of their allotted paid vacation days this past year.

A recent poll of American Millennials found that 16 percent are planning to start their own businesses, and 8 percent already have started one.

A recent Elon University poll of residents in the finalist cities found that while relatively few residents outright oppose Amazon moving to their city, only 43 percent strongly supported such a move.

A recent Gallup poll finds that 58 percent of Americans support legalization for adult use, up from 36 percent ten years ago.

A Harris poll of phone owners found that nearly 10 % said their phone had been stolen at one point, and a recent study found that lost and stolen cell phones cost consumers over $ 30 billion last year.

Sure, a recent Gallup poll found that people under 30 are much more likely to use their cellphones to text rather than to talk.

A recent poll for the Asia Pacific Foundation found that a majority (51 percent) of respondents felt that the potential risks to the environment of transporting oil and gas to Asia outweigh the potential economic benefits.

Despite the huge spending edge by the «No» side, which fueled an onslaught of television ads, a recent Field Poll found voters split evenly — 47 percent to 47 percent — on the measure.

A recent Fidelity poll of financial advisors found that their biggest worry right now is rising interest rates over all else.

A recent Gallup poll found that 35 percent of Google users are very concerned about invasion of privacy, up from 25 percent in 2011.

Polls tell us why Trudeau could seek Mulroney's counsel with impunity: A recent Pew Research survey found an almost identical 82 per cent of Liberals and 83 per cent of Conservatives in Canada support NAFTA, compared with 68 per cent of Democrats and just 30 per cent of Republicans in the U.S.

A recent poll conducted on behalf of RBCsup ® / sup finds that students who receive less than one - quarter of their funding from parents feel more confident in their financial decision making and are more likely to make and stick to a budget compared to their peers who receive more financial support from their parents.

According to a recent ProOpinion poll, 30 percent of business professionals think that finding solutions to your boss's biggest problems is most important when trying to impress him or her.

A recent online survey of more than 2,000 young adults in the United States conducted by the Harris Poll on behalf of blockchain venture - capital firm Blockchain Capital found that 19 percent of Millennials (18 - 34 years old) would prefer to own bitcoin over gold.

A majority of Americans say that President Barack Obama's religious beliefs are either somewhat different or very different than their own, a poll on religion and the recent elections found.

A recent Gallup poll found that out of 15 institutions, only three — the military, organized religion and the police — garnered confidence ratings of either a «great deal» or «quite a lot» higher than 50 percent.

This general attitude has been documented in many polls, such as the recent survey conducted for Time magazine which found that only 24 per cent of Catholics consider artificial birth control wrong, despite the church's condemnation.