Sentences with phrase «support than opposition»

The New Orleans Advocate: Poll finds more support than opposition for returning New Orleans schools to local control http://bit.ly/1pgvWR1

Heathrow, which appears to be the most locally - controversial option, in fact has far more local support than opposition, including in nine of the ten closest constituencies.

Gallup polling on favorable or unfavorable views of both major parties has found neither party has had more support than opposition since at least the 2012 election, the last time that more people approved of the Democratic Party (51 percent) than disapproved of it (43 percent).

Not exact matches

Rather than repeat that analysis here, the Department refers readers to 81 FR 21002 (April 8, 2016)(BIC Exemption) and 81 FR 21089 (April 8, 2016)(Principal Transactions Exemption) for discussion of the issues raised by comments expressing support or opposition to the Rule and PTEs.

«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 West.

With the deficit outcome for 2010 - 11 expected to be much lower than projected in the October 2010 Update, the Harper Government has more than enough financial room to «buy» the support one or two of the opposition parties.

A: When a company receives low support for its say - on - pay proposal (generally less than 75 %), we believe at a minimum the company should provide some level of disclosure regarding the company's response to shareholder opposition; such disclosure, which often includes a discussion of engagement meetings and feedback received, should be accompanied by relevant changes and / or rationale intended to address outstanding concerns.

I support the NDP government's decision continue investing in public services and much - needed public infrastructure projects rather than slashing - and - burning, as the opposition conservative would do.

Still, no survey has had opposition higher than support, and there is still a sizable percentage of the population that has yet to make up its mind on the deal.

As recently as 2015, slightly more Americans opposed stricter gun control than supported it; today, support is more than double the opposition.

Beg from you to support and stand by the legally elected ruling party against those militants within the opposition who are breaking down our country and killing the youth... those if they come up to rule will incur bloodshed every where and will stretch their bloodshed to reach every corner of this Arabian Peninsular... take my word for it they are evil and worse than that who you dumped into the sea...

The relation is more a polarity in which each pole supports the other than an opposition in which they exclude one another.

Debate on the draft legislation Tuesday spanned seven hours and saw more than 100 people voice support or opposition for the draft legislation.

Sad when ex-players from opposition teams and current managers of other teams are more positive about the Arsenal team than their own fans — whom instead of supporting the team and rallying around the club do their utmost to undermine it.

More than 200 leading medical and scientific charities have written to MPs urging them to support the legislation, which supporters argue could facilitate ground breaking scientific research, in the face of increasing religious opposition.

But even as preliminary talks between the MDC and Zanu PF go ahead in South Africa, the killing, kidnap and torture of ordinary men and women, who have done nothing other than show their support for the opposition, continues.

He deserves more credit than he got for supporting Yes2AV, after fierce opposition from many in his party.

Andrew Grice has an interesting column on this in The Independent tomorrow, including discussing reaction within government, broadly welcoming it, with John Denham stressing it is about opposition to unearned rewards, rather than general support for higher taxation http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/andrew-grice/andrew-grice-squeeze-the-rich-mantra-is-back-in-fashion-1297565.html

He called out Teachout for her opposition to the property tax cap, which saved New Yorkers $ 4.5 billion in 2015; her support of an energy tax that would cost families more than $ 1,700 a year; her support of President Obama's disastrous Iran deal and her support for Hillary Clinton, despite calling her «corrupt.»

It was always more likely that this measure could face more difficulty in the Lords (given the opposition of some Bishops in the earlier debates, which has been challenged by their colleagues more recently; and the traditionalist right arguments of Tebbit / Waddington on equality issues generally usually have somewhat more support in the Lords than the Commons)

This includes fixed terms for five years (when average time between elections has been four); the vote to dissolve parliament before calling a general election requiring 55 per cent support in the House of Commons (meaning the Liberal Democrats can not withdraw their support from the Tories and cause a general election as the Lib - Dems, Labour and other parties altogether hold less than 55 per cent of the seats); and stuffing the House of Lords with many more Conservatives and Liberals to weaken opposition there.

It seems to be more motivated by Stringer's history of supporting labor than rabid opposition to a former prostitution enthusiast returning to politics.

In Manhattan, public opposition to the convention seems to have been relatively muted compared to other parts of the state, and support for the convention polled better there than in any other county.

The opposition come less than a week after the Rochester Town Board in Ulster County adopted a resolution that supported the town boards of Rosendale and New Paltz, which have formally objected to the pipeline proposed to run through their towns.

Labour's support for maintaining a nuclear deterrent that is constantly at sea - in other words, a submarine system similar to Trident rather than pared - down version - was passed by the party's National Policy Forum without opposition and will remain in the manifesto.

Trump and GOP leaders enter their next big battle facing stubborn opposition in both parties that increases Republicans» worries that they will need more Democratic support than previously expected to avert a government shutdown by the end of April.

The government is receiving strong support from the opposition benches, which scrambled to point out Labour has called on ministers to strengthen rather than weaken the residence test.

While the coverage of the march ended up being marred by the violence, it doesn't mean they didn't damage the government, in fact the two student protests last year that ended in violence also hit government support — though the poll effect is probably more from the reminder of unpopular policies and opposition to them, than the violence itself!

On every question in this survey, Lib Dem voters tend to display more support than Labour and Tory supporters towards Mr Assange and Ecuador's government, and more opposition to the idea of the police seizing him, either inside the embassy or on the way to an airport.

Ballot Proposal No. 1 to hold a New York Constitutional Convention has received more attention than the other two ballot proposals, drawing support and opposition from a wide variety of public officials and special - interest groups.

Gibson assembles a handsome cast of notable supporting players, although some of them feel a bit too exaggerated to feel sincere, including a lazily administered change - of - heart for Doss» most vocal opposition played in tones of the usual masculine clichés by Luke Bracey (in a performance easier to fathom, at least, than his appearance in the all - around ill - conceived Point Break remake).

When asked about support for a proposal «that would allow low - and moderate - income four - year - old children to be given the opportunity to attend a preschool program, with the government paying the tuition,» no less than 60 percent of the public responded favorably, with just 27 percent voicing opposition.

Please note that in this survey we place the neutral option on an issue — neither support for nor opposition to the policy — as the last response option rather than placing it in the middle position.

Opposition to the formation of Muslim clubs fell by 2 percentage points, while support jumped by no fewer than 24 percentage points.

African Americans expressed higher levels of support for vouchers than did the population as a whole (57 percent), but support also was 12 percentage points lower among those African Americans told of presidential opposition.

Our readers are more likely to have opinions on charter schools than the public as a whole (all but 7 percent take a position in contrast to the 39 percent of the public who take a pass on this item), but the ratio of support to opposition is roughly the same: about 3:1.

Across the various subgroups, a majority always express support, and no more than 21 percent of any subgroup ever express opposition.

As Jay P. Greene of the University of Arkansas has argued, even more than broad public support, choice policies need the support of concentrated constituencies along with that of the general public to counter-balance the opposition of concentrated constituencies that want to curb or eliminate educational choice programs: «As much as reformers may be motivated to promote equity, a basic lesson about political reality is that more advantaged people tend to have more political power.»

Nonetheless, current public support for teacher tenure is just 29 %, a little more than half the size of the opposition.

The poll provides strong evidence from a nationally representative sample that most Americans support merit pay for teachers, while teachers oppose the policy by a large margin; there is strong opposition among the public to teacher tenure, while teachers favor it; and teachers are significantly more opposed to the federal RttT program than the broader public.

Notably, Hispanic support of the standards is 34 points higher than Hispanic opposition in this crucial electoral voting bloc.

«One thing is clear from Education Next's poll released today: despite the wording of the questions, when looking across the board at the dominant forms of educational choice options like charter schools, vouchers, and tax credit scholarships, this poll finds more support for these programs than opposition.

Nationwide, support for STC programs is more than double the opposition.

CTA, arguably the most powerful union in California, spent more than $ 2 million during the primary in support of Torlakson and in opposition to Tuck.

Scott saw his support from African - American voters more than double, and Chavous cites Crist's opposition to school choice as a key reason why.

The opposition of the two unions to performance - based pay and objective data - based teacher evaluations using student test score growth data is driven more by the realization that the teacher dismissal restrictions they support are inherently impediments to professionalism than by an ideological belief that standardized testing has no value in measuring teacher performance.

Robert Gordon also wants to curtail the aggressive collection policies of the state sponsored loan companies, asserting that young families and students need support rather than opposition.

Once the radiation limits begin to be increased this should have a catalytic effect on reducing emissions: 1) it will mean radiation leaks are understood to be less dangerous that currently thought > less people evacuated from effected zones > reduced cost accident of accidents — reduced accident insurance cost; 2) population takes another look at the effects of radiation > gains an understanding it is much less harmful than they thought > fear subsides > less opposition > easier and less expensive to find sites supported by the people nearby > planning and sight approval costs come down over time

«Even in the ocean area, where respondents live, on average, about a half - mile from the coast, support for wind power outnumbers opposition by more than 3 to 1 in Delaware,» Firestone noted.

In June, during the Gulf of Mexico oil leak, there was more opposition (52 %) than support (44 %) for increased offshore drilling.