Sentences with phrase «significant majority support»

Close to 90 % of libraries offer basic digital literacy training, and a significant majority support training related to new technology devices (62 %), safe online practices (57 %) and social media use (56 %);

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Gavin then teamed up with one of the other main bitcoin developers Mike Hearn and released a coded (i.e. working) version of the bitcoin software that would only activate if it was supported by a significant majority of the network.

The most stunning change from previous election is the significant drop in support for Alison Redford «s Progressive Conservatives in rural central and southern Alberta rural constituencies, which have given the PCs large majority votes in most elections over the past 40 years.

Despite these very significant expressions of Christian support for socialism, the majority position among both Catholics and Protestants in the twentieth century has been against too close an association of Christianity with any political programme or party.

Except I don't think anywhere near the significant majority actually like Putin, he probably has middling actual support.

Recently, I have dedicated significant time to discussing the value of contrarian favorites — i.e. fading underdogs who are receiving the majority of public support.

That a significant enough majority of all women «care more about gender than a person's individual qualities» and routinely vote accordingly is simply not supported by fact.

Labour hasn't yet been able to make significant inroads into the SNP support base, which remains at the same level that delivered last year's majority, and needs to focus on winning over voters who backed the SNP at last year's election.

While a vast majority of New York Democrats support both, the issue is especially problematic for Mr. Williams because he is a member of the council's Progressive Caucus, which includes many LGBT and pro-choice advocates, and is hoping to play a significant role in the speaker's race.

Party insiders concede that the Tories can not win an overall majority in 2015 without winning over significant support from blue collar workers.

Downing Street pointed to the 462 MPs who had supported the bill's second reading to hail the «significant majority» who voted to take reform forward, and denied Tuesday night's setback meant there was no longer sufficient time for the first tranche of elected peers to take their seats in 2015.

Senate sponsor Diane Savino, says while there's significant support, no one party holds a majority of yes votes on the issue, and advocates still need to build momentum.

But they currently represent a significant caucus of the population, the support of whom Labour will need to ensure a majority next year.

Yet the overall result of this election proved that the policies of Margaret Thatcher retained significant support, with the Conservatives given a third convincing majority.

In a profession that already feels under siege, the decision in most states — encouraged by the U.S. Department of Education — to press ahead with using student test scores as a significant component of a teacher's evaluation «just fuels the perception that we care more about weeding out weak teachers than giving the vast majority of teachers the time and support they need to make a successful transition to Common Core,» says Schwartz.

With appropriate leadership, a bipartisan majority may yet rally in support of a significant school reform package.

A 2015 Schooling in America survey revealed that a significant majority of taxpayers nationwide supports the use of taxpayer money to fund school choice programs, approves of parents deciding which schools provide the best education for their children, and affirms that these choices lead to better outcomes for students.

The majority of our resource allocation can be characterized as a focus on teaching and learning, but a significant portion of resources are allocated to a variety of services, personnel, or programs aimed to support students in a variety of other ways.

But a review of the best evidence on teachers» sentiments shows that educators are not unhappy because they resent the new emphasis on teacher evaluations, a key element of President Obama's Race to the Top program; in fact, according to a separate survey of 10,000 public school teachers from Scholastic and the Gates Foundation, the majority support using measures of student learning to assess teachers, and the mean number of years teachers believe they should devote to the classroom before being assessed for tenure is 5.4, a significant increase from the current national average of 3.1 years.

Over the next five years, Boston Schools Fund will commit significant financial and administrative support to increase the number of available spaces in high - performing district, charter, and Catholic schools by almost one - third, putting Boston on track to offer a high - performing school to the majority of its children by 2025.

This funding is used by the significant majority of school districts nationwide and is a critical support for schools.

The Kennel Club is urging the government to take action after research found that a significant majority of the general public in England are against the use of electric shock collars for dogs and would support the government in introducing a ban on these devices.

Scientists proposing catastrophic majority anthropogenic global warming models (a.k.a. «Climate change») bear the burden of proof of providing clear robust evidence supporting validated model predictions of anthropogenic warming with strong significant differences from this climatic null hypothesis.

In this case, your unsupported generalization that «the electorate could not care less» about climate change was rebutted with actual opinion polls showing that significant majorities of «the electorate» do, in fact, care a good deal, and consider the issue a priority for the President and the Congress, and support policies to regulate GHG emissions and to hold fossil fuel corporations responsible for the full costs of their products.

On the other hand, I think the large majority of people (including me) would support efforts to reduce CO2 emissions if the consequences of continued increases could be shown to be significant with a reasonably level of certainty.

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Although a significant majority of all respondents were in favour of amending the Divorce Act to change the language used to describe the post-separation care of children from «custody» and «access» to alternative terminology such as «parental responsibilities» and «parenting time,» a slightly larger proportion of respondents from Alberta supported the proposed amendment than respondents from the rest of Canada.

Since then, the total firm count of Shell's global panel firms has been reduced by more than 50 %, the majority of its matters have been transitioned to AFA's, external legal spend has been cut by more than 20 percent, and the ROI has been so significant that Shell has already created an additional legal ops support role.

With a significant amount of business support and a majority of the hashrate, the Segwit2x developers believe the fork will be the «true» bitcoin.

Although there has been a widespread support and advocacy for home visitation programs, 7 rigorous evaluations of these programs using randomized trials have often failed to demonstrate benefits.8 — 12 For example, in a recent review of randomized trials of home visitation, Gomby et al13 concluded that «none found significant effects on all or even a majority of the measures employed, and many revealed no positive effects at all» (p 12).