Sentences with phrase «supported by an overwhelming majority»

... Delight in smooth - sounding platitudes, refusal to face unpleasant facts, desire for popularity and electoral success irrespective of the vital interests of the State, genuine love of peace and pathetic belief that love can be its sole foundation, obvious lack of intellectual vigour in both leaders of the British Coalition Government, marked ignorance of Europe and aversion from its problems in Mr. Baldwin, the strong and violent pacifism which at this time dominated the Labour - Socialist Party, the utter devotion of the Liberals to sentiment apart from reality, the failure and worse than failure of Mr. Lloyd George, the erstwhile great war - time leader, to address himself to the continuity of his work, the whole supported by overwhelming majorities in both Houses of Parliament: all these constituted a picture of British fatuity and fecklessness which, though devoid of guile, was not devoid of guilt, and, though free from wickedness or evil design, played a definite part in the unleashing upon the world of horrors and miseries which, even so far as they have unfolded, are already beyond comparison in human experience.

After all, Corbyn was advocating a policy supported by the overwhelming majority of those it would affect.

The motion was supported by an overwhelming majority, in which both party members and unions voted 70 % in favor of the motion.

Congress, supported by the overwhelming majority of biomedical researchers, is about to pass a law overturning the ban.

It's a bill that includes the kinds of ideas both parties have voted for in the past, it's paid for, and its ideas are supported by an overwhelming majority of the American people.

It's supported by an overwhelming majority of Canadians — yet for some reason, it can not make it through the House of Commons.

Be capable of being supported by an overwhelming majority of Australians from across the political and social spectrum; and

Not exact matches

The second bill that passed the House last night, also by an overwhelming bipartisan majority, is the Supporting America's Innovators Act of 2016 (H.R. 4854).

Despite a years - long political and economic deterioration and months of violence, Maduro has maintained about 20 % support among Venezuelans, but his constituent assembly has been rejected by an overwhelming majority of the country and drawn international rebuke.

The other is the Windsor case — discussed by Carl Scott earlier — in which the majority opinion not only sets aside part of the Defense of Marriage Act passed with overwhelming support in 1996, but also dismisses and disparages the motives of those who voted for it.

«Evolution, a foundational principle of modern biology, is supported by overwhelming scientific evidence and is accepted by the vast majority of scientists.

The church also voted, by an overwhelming majority, to change the language about marriage in the church constitution to «two persons» from a «man and a woman,» according to More Light Presbyterians, a group that supports gay rights.

But the overwhelming majority of Nigerian masses (and sizeable minority of elites) enthusiastically support Mr. President to give entrenched corruption a tough fight and stubbornly resist the desperate fight - back by corruption network.

Unite's Policy Conference sent a very clear message to rebel Labour MPs yesterday by voting by an overwhelming majority to support a rule change to the Labour Party rulebook to reintroduce mandatory reselection of MPs before each general election.

By an overwhelming majority, (85 - 12), voters support the repeal of the «last in, first out» rule governing teacher layoffs, agreeing that the decision governing who loses a teaching job should be based on performance and not seniority.

«The overwhelming majority of Americans support a pathway to citizenship for the nearly million Dreamers in this country, but today Senator Schumer has let us all down by failing to stand up for them,» said Steven Choi, Executive Director of the New York Immigration Coalition (NYIC), in a statement.

The candidates supported by Reda, Ballard and Sparaco to become Republican Committee Persons were rejected by an overwhelming majority of the rank and file Republican Party members.

Indeed, it is not clear if DeVos fully supports the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) and its various components, which were approved by an overwhelming bipartisan majority of both your committee and the full Senate.

Annual parental choice survey finds an overwhelming majority of parents approve of academic gains and support Louisiana's school choice program More than 91 percent of parents participating in the Louisiana Scholarship Program say they are satisfied with every aspect of the program, which allows students to escape failing or underperforming schools by switching to the -LSB-...]

For one thing, she has supported for - profit charters in Michigan, while the overwhelming majority of charters are run by nonprofits with an explicitly public purpose.

Great things are happening in American libraries which are supported by Americans in overwhelming majorities.

This also means that developers must support multiple versions of the Android platform, however, and it also means the overwhelming majority of Android users do not have access to the latest features, security updates and other improvements brought about by newer versions of Google's mobile platform — nearly 99 % of current Android device owners are using a version of Android that does not support great new features like Google Now, enhanced voice search support and «Project Butter» performance enhancements.

Becky Tichband, of Cats Protection's Cat Guardians service, said: «Our beloved cats have a special place in our hearts and this is supported by our research, which reveals that the overwhelming majority of cat owners see their cats as being part of the family.

The legislation is supported by United Egg Producers (which represents egg farmers producing 88 % of the nation's eggs), the Humane Society of the United States, National Consumers League, Consumer Federation of America, American Veterinary Medical Association, American Association of Avian Pathologists, American Humane Association, and the overwhelming majority of American voters.

First, the overwhelming majority of Republican members of Congress have signed the Taxpayer Protection Pledge — a promise to the citizens of their State or district not to support any tax increase that is not offset by an equal reduction in other taxes.