Sentences with phrase «small majorities who»

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He says that figure has remained fairly constant for some time — suggesting there is a small hard core base of people who use bitcoin as everyday money, while the vast majority are using it to speculate and invest.

(At this point, it's also worth noting that Facebook's claims about the effectiveness of Free Basics as a development tool in India are highly debatable — the vast majority of those who took up the offer were existing Internet users who wanted some free data, and it seems a very small number of genuinely new users actually graduated to the world of paid - for Internet access.

Republicans say that would hit small - business owners who report business income on their individual income tax; Democrats say the overwhelming majority of small businesses would not be affected.

(For all the fights the 2012 budget sought to pick with the Yankees and the environmentalists, there were a lot of hangdog expressions at Hy's that night among Conservatives who had hoped for real small - government conservatism from a majority government and thought Flaherty had delivered thin gruel.)

But the reality is they are a small minority versus the majority of people who love light beer.»

A small majority (54 %) of those who voted for the governing federal Liberals also take the position that B.C.'s government is in the wrong, while most — but far from all — past federal New Democrats support the party's provincial wing in B.C.:

The majority of the industry is characterized by self - employed individuals who work as independent contractors or small operators with fewer than three employees.

The majority of the guests of our federal prisons come from the small minority (which is higher outside the cities, in rural Canada and among First Nations) who live in poverty.

What's sad is that a small subset of Christians ARE hateful, and get all the press, and presume to speak for the vast majority of Christians who don't cram stuff down people's throats, and who are a lot more Christian than the loudmouths.

Risking goverment shut down for three items that don't even affect the budget for a small miniorty radicals in a religion and the insane tea party knowing full well shut down will cause thousands of jobs lost and the end of aid for those who need it is completely ridiculous, why don't they care for the majority that voted them in and not a small insignificant group?

I will agree that an argument from majority is not always valid, but in this case I think it would be analogous to the fact that there is a small percentage of individuals who don't believe we went to the moon.

Aggie, I acknowledged that there is a minority of atheists who feel sure there is no god, but that group is small and no representative of the majority of non-believers.

The same majority opinion also refers the tax as too small to actually compel compliance and is therefore just a small optional tax for those who choose to forgo health insurance.

Yes, when it comes to things like percentages of «Christians» as a majority of Americans the tent is extended as large as it can get, but in other issues the t.itle «Christian» seems to be claimed by a very small group of fundamentalists who have great conviction that Mormons, Catholics, mainstream protestants and orthodox aren't really Christians like they are and thus doomed to the same hellish fate that other non-Christians are.

There were a lot of Sikhs who supported him and his idealogies and wanted their own state because they believed that land was theirs, they farmed and lived on it for centuries and provided the majority of Indias food with a small area.

There was a small but very passionate pro-slave minority, and then a majority who recognized a right to freedom for blacks, but didn't want to fight over it.

Concessions were primitive in the extreme: rubbery Esskay hotdogs; salty, stale popcorn; Nation Boh for those who had achieved their majority and watery Cokes for us small fry.

By a majority of five to two, judges of the European Court of Human Rights supported the claim of Nadia Eweida, a BA check - in clerk who was sent home in November 2006 for refusing to remove a small silver crucifix, that this was a violation of her rights.

Coming from Melbourne University, which has a large majority of my cohort desiring to enter Small Animal Practice, it was refreshing to talk to people who were passionate, interested and knowledgeable about agriculture.

You know the one's, that vast majority who told a small few to pipe down!.

Although Lee Sharpe would play a part in the first great Ferguson team of the early nineties and Lee Martin and Mark Robins would have small but significant roles to play in the near future, the majority of those who appeared during this period would eventually leave Old Trafford without making the hoped for impact.

I think that while there may be a small percentage of «on the fence» women who might be swayed by a free formula sample, the fact is that the majority of women who aren't that interested in breastfeeding aren't going to stick it out when the going gets tough anyway and the formula companies can hardly be blamed for trying to grab up this segment.

Those principles have never wavered and have always been to build a movie studio led by a board of directors made up of a majority of independent women, save about 150 jobs, protect the small businesses who are owed money and create a victims» compensation fund that would supplement existing insurance coverage for those who have been harmed.

With the right support, however, the vast majority of women are able to breastfeed and establish a plentiful milk supply, although there are a very small proportion of women who, due to medication or medical reasons, may be unable to do so.

Almost unanimously, professional youth sports administrators who oversee the fields at parks and recreation facilities across the country will say what a great group of volunteers they have but they will almost always concede that it's a very small group, or even an individual who ends up taking a majority of the responsibility.

As has been the case in Graphs 2 and 3, the majority of MPs fall within the 90 - 100 per cent band, making it difficult to single out individual high - spenders (barring a small number of MPs who overspent on their budgets).

For instance, of the $ 32 million that his campaign raised last month, $ 28 million came in online, and though the vast majority of donations were small, this also tells us that the Obama people must have pushed almost ALL of their fundraising online, even for the people who would normally send a large check.

«Our Senate Republican Majority is the voice of hardworking taxpayers, of small businessmen and women looking to create jobs, of working people who want to provide for their families, of moms and dads who want their kids to be safe and of citizens who just want a better quality of life.

The vast majority of people who use airguns do so lawfully and there are already sufficient powers available to deal with the small minority who break the law.

In the last six months, Mr. Adams raised over $ 215,000 from 1,168 donors, with the vast majority of them coming from smaller contributors who are far from the legal limit and could give additional amounts in the future.

But the retirement is no small story for Republicans who have worked overtime to secure their hold on the majority this fall.

The Senate Republican majority has a small window to do right by millions of New Yorkers who expect us to fix what's broken, and create a system that encourages ethical, responsible service by their representatives.

If the Tories round up just a little short of a majority, they could seek the support of the Democratic Unionists in Northern Ireland who have eight seats, alongside other smaller parties.

The election was won by the Conservatives who were elected with a small overall majority.

The visit to the region, part of a summer - long tour of the state, was an opportunity for Heastie to see first - hand the issues he has heard about from the area's Assembly Democrats, who represent a small chunk of the 100 - plus members of the Democratic Majority Conference.

It would get rid of the troublesome Tory backbenchers on the party's extreme and moderate wings who are increasingly bullish about that small majority of hers.

In the likely event of a close election result in 2015 (and assuming he's still in situ), Ed Miliband will need hungry, ambitious lieutenants who can either sustain or attack a government with a small majority, or make Labour shine within a coalition.

Klein also said he had «no ill will» toward Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan (R - Suffolk County) who, following the reunification announcement, removed IDC members from committee leadership posts and moved them to smaller offices.

The filing is a big haul for a mayor who has spent the last six months, and longer, under the cloud of state and federal investigations into his fundraising efforts, and who had pledged this spring to follow the example set by U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders, who raised the majority of his presidential campaign's funds from donors giving small amounts.

Assembly Democrats, who have the majority in the Assembly, also do not want to exclude small business owners from paying $ 15 an hour, he said.

The majority of those contributions are from people who live in the council district giving small donations.

There are no issues too small for Sen. Charles Schumer (D - NY), who is expected to become the next majority leader in the U.S. Senate.

The Conservatives shocked everyone by winning a small majority at the 2015 General Election, despite predictions of a hung parliament and the possibility of constitutional wrangling over who had legitimacy to form the next Government.

The best scenario is when you have majority of the people in the country being law - abiding, that way there'll be a small number who aren't law - abiding so the law enforcement agencies can deal with them,» he said on Eyewitness News.

Although the majority of police officers are not that good at catching liars, her small group of wizards includes unusually savvy cops, as well as lawyers, dispute mediators, and therapists who have taken their natural people instincts far beyond the norm.

The symptoms range widely: over half of the infections are thought to be asymptomatic, the majority of children who get sick have only a mild fever, and a very small proportion get inflammation of the heart or brain.

Incredibly, these small - but - powerful changes won't be «worth the effort» for the majority of people who read this.

Furthermore, there is also little question that the vast majority of conversations, seminars and published papers on the subject have addressed gut microflora purely in terms of its role in GI health, particularly in reference to the ever increasing number of patients who present with issues such as irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), small intestinal bacterial overgrowth (SIBO), and inflammatory bowel disease.

Although the majority of people achieve high levels of success with weight loss on the 80/10/10 raw vegan diet, there is a small percentage of people who can not release weight on a high carb and low fat, raw vegan diet.

Those of you who move correctly, which is a small majority, probably have a balanced practice put together with all the correct variables.