Sentences with phrase «unanimous backing from»

Kentucky, with unanimous backing from its state board of education, was the first state to adopt the standards, in April of 2010.

Fisher, who got unanimous backing from her district's GOP convention, ran into a late season snafu in the past month when another State Supreme Court Justice ruled that votes taken in the Conservative Party's judicial nominating convention in September violated election law.

This is the first piece of legislation to receive unanimous backing from all four Long Island representatives.

Not exact matches

The latest public opinion poll from the Angus Reid Institute finds Albertans themselves are, unsurprisingly, near unanimous in their backing of the project.

Note the strong backing for Clinton from blacks and Hispanics, Jews and other Non-Christians (the unanimous Democratic vote here is a statistical artifact).

So though RFRA had near unanimous backing in 1993 and restores the Supreme Court's free exercise doctrine which was accepted from the 1963Sherbertdecision authored by Justice William Brennan untilEmployment Division v. Smithin 1990, the applications of that doctrine are now said to be «extreme religious liberty rights.»

According to a story now up from the Times, 1199's council vote on the endorsement was unanimous: «The union's 150 - member executive council unanimously backed Mr. de Blasio — something that has not happened, in any citywide primary, in at least 20 years.»

Having received the unanimous backing of the local UUP last night, I would anticipate that an endorsement from the Joint Committee comprising senior members of both the UUP and Northern Ireland Conservatives will be a formality.

Speaking to radio host Brian Lehrer on WNYC following the unanimous decision to elevate New York's senior senator to replace retiring Minority Leader Harry Reid, Sanders pushed back on complaints from callers and left - leaning journals like The Intercept that Schumer is too aligned with Wall Street financial firms to resist the Republican majority's agenda.

One bipartisan - backed resolution to the class funding drama, House Bill 13, picked up unanimous approval from the state House in February, but today it's mired in Rabon's committee.

Indeed, in back - to - back track testing at Calabogie Motorsports Park — a beautiful, 5.05 - kilometre track with 20 turns only an hour west of Ottawa — the Mustang edged out the RS only by a nose, and even then the decision was far from unanimous.

Back to the Xoom though and it's difficult to get a real feel from what looks like a 2 - day hands - on before the «reviews» were posted but there's already unanimous agreement that the UI is good, it's fast (we measured the fastest Sunspider / Android result ever on the Galaxy Tab 10.1 which uses the same hardware and software.)