Sentences with phrase «slim majority of»

A slim majority of Americans say drug addiction is a disease that requires medical treatment, but stigma persists.

Article also gives some insight on how poorly these types of cars have sold world wide, which really indicates your desires are a very slim majority of drivers world wide.

Unfortunately, opponents of LUA Dalmatians were able to convince a slim majority of DCA members to vote against any discussion of registration.

As the state implements the LCFF, a slim majority of residents (53 %) are at least somewhat confident that school districts will use the money wisely.

The law, which passed by a slim majority of less than 2 percentage points, will allow no more than 40 charters schools to be opened over the next five years.

A slim majority of principals processed their data in collaboration with their staffs and called on district staff members and others with special expertise to help them with data analysis and use, as normative theory on this matter recommends.

A slim majority of principals process their data in collaboration with their staffs and call on district staff members and others with special expertise to help them with data analysis and use.

In response to a separate question, a slim majority of public school parents (54 %) say that if they had a choice to send their child to a private or religious school using public funds, they would still send their child to a public school.

And the mayor's slate of candidates for the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) school board has won, providing the mayor with a slim majority of allies (four of seven).

At the moment, a slim majority of current staff is in favor of compromising.

When NBC 4 New York / Wall Street Journal / Marist last reported this question in July, a slim majority of voters — 51 % — said the city was moving in the right direction.

Paterson does receive a slim majority of his own party in this hypothetical matchup.

According to a POLITICO New York review of the 1.37 million words contained in the Assembly's transcripts for 2016, a slim majority of them — 690,469 — were uttered in debates on bills or resolutions dealing with policy matters.

The Labour Party held control of the council by maintaining its slim majority of one.

Polls show a slim majority of New Yorkers support building new casinos, when they are read the exact ballot language that includes the claims of job creation and tax reduction.

Her intervention comes after a new poll suggested a slim majority of Brits prefer a soft Brexit to a hard Brexit.

A slim majority of New York State registered voters — 51 % — thinks the state's economy is staying about the same, but nearly three in ten — 29 % — say it is getting worse.

So, Labour holds Southampton with a slim majority of 25 councillors - winning 12 seats on the night.

A slim majority of voters — 51 % — now think Governor Paterson acted unethically but not illegally while 40 % said the same last week.

The bill's supporters did not articulate a strategy for guiding the measure through the State Senate, which is now controlled by a slim majority of Republicans.

A slim majority of its supporters are expected to vote «no», however.

A slim majority of constituents said in a poll that they didn't want the congressman to resign.

The poll showed that a slim majority of voters, 51 percent, believe New York state is headed in the wrong direction.

A slim majority of those who think the Empire State is not in a recession — 51 % — think Cuomo is doing either an excellent or good job in office.

Looking at how New York's economy is performing, a slim majority of registered voters in New York — 51 % — say it has stayed about the same.

In a bid to gain a majority, a second election was soon called for October 1974 in which Labour, still with Harold Wilson as leader, won a slim majority of three, gaining just 18 seats taking its total to 319.

ATHOL — The town of Thurman's Local government functions came to a standstill Jan. 3 after a slim majority of the newly - aligned town board refused to pass routine municipal resolutions that allow government to operate, and questioned the basic authority of the supervisor to run a meeting and serve as the town's chief executive.

Labour candidate Michael McMahon is the incumbent in the Uddingston and Bellshill constituency, although he had only a slim majority of 2.8 % in 2011, making this a key target seat for the SNP.

Considering recent YouGov polling for class showed the public actually backed nationalisation of energy companies by 68 % to 21 % (including a slim majority of Conservative voters), Miliband's «reform» is clearly what the public wants.

With a slim majority of all union workers employed in the public sector, the conservative class war amounts to dragging unionized public employees down to the level of contingent no - benefits workers before they can leverage their power to help private sector workers raise their own workplace standards.

First, while public opinion polling on the question of cannabis legalisation has been all over the place on the question, the most reliable results suggests that a slim majority of Germans opposes cannabis legalisation.

With a slim majority of 12 seats, the new Prime Minister's autonomy will be highly constrained by his party, including assumingly more than a hundred convinced Eurosceptic MPs, and by the statutory Fixed - term Parliaments Act of 2011.

In other words, it was a policy decision which a slim majority of the board decided to take not in recognition of but despite the science.

According to Campbell, a slim majority of the 30 teams favor shootouts after inconclusive overtime periods, a sop to paying customers that would spell the death of the tie.

The AP - GfK poll [in April] found that a slim majority of Americans (52 percent) say that wedding - related businesses should be allowed to refuse service to same - sex couples, but just 40 percent say that businesses more generally should be allowed to do so.

The PQ government holds just a slim majority of seats in the legislature, so it would need support from at least one opposition party for the budget to pass.

A slim majority of BC MLA's oppose TMX — cue the backlash In the dying days of his administration before the pivotal inauguration of John Kennedy, outgoing Republican president Dwight Eisenhower sounded a note of caution, the echoes of which we would do well to reflect upon today.

Despite their enthusiasm for Verizon participating in the market, the slim majority of Canadians, just more than half, agree that Canadians might lose control of their own mobile market to foreign interests if they are large enough (52 %).

Trump could also make it harder to pass lasting tax reform, since any policy that increases the debt above its baseline either requires Democratic support or — if passed by a slim majority of Republicans in the Senate — would expire in a decade.

A recent survey conducted by the Asia Pacific Foundation shows a slim majority of Canadians (55 per cent) support the pursuit of a free - trade agreement and that 64 per cent are concerned Canada will become more susceptible to economic and political pressure from Beijing.

Not exact matches

While Republicans hold only a slim majority in the U.S. Senate, Democrats occupy most of the seats up for election in two years.

«Although we expect that the Greek government will implement the required measures, the risk of early elections is increasing given the rising political cost to the government and its slim majority in the parliament... Early elections might bring a new and more reform - minded conservative government, but Greece's economy would be hit again by prolonged uncertainty, after having just started to record positive growth,» Moody's said.

Codes of conduct are perfunctory at best and the vast majority of directors who attend educational offerings are a slim minority of the total directorships.

The overwhelming majority of members live outside of Chicago, mostly in communities where access to contemporary men's fashion is slim to none.

So slim that the president can easily veto any significant piece of legislation they send to his desk (i.e. repeal of the Affordable Care Act) and there's nowhere near the two - thirds majority vote in both Houses needed to override.

Even if the Republicans do take control of Congress their majority will be slim.

Election rules give the center - left a solid majority in the lower house, despite its slim advantage in terms of votes, but without the Senate it will not be able to pass legislation.

The company, majority owned by Walt Disney Co., has lost 3.2 million subscribers in a little over a year, according to Nielsen data, as people have «cut the cord» by dropping their cable - TV subscriptions or downgraded to cheaper, slimmed - down TV packages devoid of expensive sports channels like ESPN.

The majority of Slim's fortune is derived from a handful of publicly traded companies.

It's worth noting that in Manitoba, this majority is by the slimmest of margins, and within the margin of error.