Sentences with phrase «while smaller majorities»

In contrast, 85 % of primary schools with officers present said these officers were on site at some point during school hours, while smaller majorities said officers were at school when students were arriving or leaving (67 %) or at selected school activities, such as science fairs or athletic events (60 %).

However, most Conservatives have historically voted in support of hunting, while a smaller majority of Labour and Liberal Democrat MPs have voted against it.

Teenagers overwhelmingly favor the idea of allowing a moment of silence at school for students who want to pray, while a smaller majority supports spoken prayer, a poll by the Gallup Organization has found.

Not exact matches

Not only are the majority of small businesses (83 percent of which are pass - through entities) subject to higher tax rates than their larger C - Corporation counterparts, under the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, any modest benefit they reap is scheduled to go away after 2025, while corporations will retain their steep tax cuts.

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.

But while the majority of small business owners are basking in the glow of lower fuel and energy costs, today's prices are not a boon for all businesses.

It's true that a small percentage of men and women have developed their creative potential — while a great majority has not.

While the majority of Americans and small businesses still don't use Twitter, «there's an incredible adoption rate,» he says.

What's more, the majority of small - business owners are planning to sustaining or growing their business over the next year, and 31 percent plan on hiring more employees, while 56 percent anticipate their staffing needs will remain consistent.

A few employees work from our small office in Boulder, but the vast majority of the company works from their home offices, RVs, coffee shops or Airbnbs while traveling the world.

While the majority of shared renewables projects are solar projects, there is also a small number of wind projects operating in several states.

Small banks continue to make up the vast majority of the financial services industry — 98 % of banks have fewer than $ 10 billion of assets, while 89 % are smaller than $ 1 billion.

In addition, while the majority of business owners surveyed across all segments said they did not feel a perception of discrimination from a financial institution impacted their chances of obtaining business credit, 22 % of African American and 11 % of LGBT business owners reported that perceived discrimination impacted their chances of obtaining credit for their business, compared to 5 % of the general small business owner population.

«While the vast majority of accounts in the settlement were consumer accounts, to the extent there were small business accounts included, all were previously reported in the total number of potentially impacted accounts,» said Wells spokeswoman Jennifer Langan.

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.:

This means that a small portion of leading startups end up getting more money while the majority remains in the «winter».

Regionally, people in Quebec (63 %) and British Columbia (55 %) appear most supportive of the changes, while majorities in all other regions show concern that the changes will have a negative impact on small businesses:

While Site C holds the prospect of creating a substantial number of jobs, the vast majority would be camp jobs in one small district of the province.

Similarly, the owners of the smallest businesses surveyed are more likely to say the income sprinkling changes are fair than unfair, while majorities of those with larger numbers of employees say such changes are unfair:

While a majority believe it will be good for Canadian businesses (76 %), a smaller majority (64 %) is also concerned about the economic and political influence China may have on Canada, should our economies become so closely intertwined.

While Amazon has steadily increased its global ad budget to 3.7 % of total sales in the last nine years, the majority of its brick - and - mortar competitors now devote a smaller percentage of their declining annual sales to advertising.

Unfortunately, while some sad creatures continue to focus on a small minority religion in our country (maybe 10 million tops, depending on the study) while a crazy branch of the majority religion has decided it wants to force everyone in our same country to adhere to THEIR bizarre and restrictive beliefs.

While a small minority of larger churches do experience some success with this approach, the overwhelming majority of smaller churches attempting to be Hillsong clones continue to haemorrhage members every week because they can not offer the same quality of music, preaching or other services that their mega-mall comrades down the road are able to provide.

While the majority of organic dairy farms are small - scale family farms, the United States also has large - scale corporate dairy farms as well.

While the majority of environmental water in the Basin is «rules - based» water committed through state water management plans, this report focuses on the smaller subset of «held» and «discretionary» environmental water that can be actively managed to meet environmental objectives in a flexible and responsive way.

While the vast majority of Famous Dave's are full - service restaurants, the company recently introduced a quick - serve concept that allows franchisees to take advantage of real estate opportunities with smaller footprints.

While the majority of the time the teams were going small maximizing their efficiency by having their best perimeter players on the floor.

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.

While checking in on the baby may be helpful to a small group of babies, our experience has been that the vast majority of babies over four months old become more agitated when their parents go and see them in the midst of crying.

Sadly, while the medical model increases safety for a small percentage, it may harm the vast majority of healthy mothers and babies with its unnecessary disruptions, interventions, and lack of trust in the normal physiological process of mammalian birth.

Commenting on the provisional Project Merlin figures which have been issued today showing that the banks loaned # 37.4 billion to small firms — just short of their commitment to lend # 38 billion, John Walker, National Chairman, Federation of Small Businesses, said: «While it looks like the banks are on course to meet their full year lending commitment, targets do not address the underlying problems in the banking sector where only a handful of banks control the majority of the masmall firms — just short of their commitment to lend # 38 billion, John Walker, National Chairman, Federation of Small Businesses, said: «While it looks like the banks are on course to meet their full year lending commitment, targets do not address the underlying problems in the banking sector where only a handful of banks control the majority of the maSmall Businesses, said: «While it looks like the banks are on course to meet their full year lending commitment, targets do not address the underlying problems in the banking sector where only a handful of banks control the majority of the market.

It's because the cat lovers are concentrated on two districts while the dog lovers are more evenly distributed, giving them a small majority in the others.

«For 10 years the vast majority of people have seen no increase in their standard of living at all, while a relatively small number of people have become incredibly rich.

«Two - thirds of Democrats are pessimistic about the country's future, while nearly two - thirds of Republicans are optimistic, as are a small majority of independents.

While Callum Kerr is widely admired for his stint as MP for Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk (BRS) but he has the smallest majority in Scotland and the Conservatives are so confident that their candidate John Lamont gave up the safety net of a Scottish parliament seat to take on the general election campaign.

While voters in democracies usually only incrementally change the party that they support relative to a prior election, every now and then, a party will go from being a leading or majority party, to holding only a small part of the legislature in a single election.

She will say: «I am not going to stand back whilst this government takes aim at hard - fought workers» rights, abuses their small majority to try to destroy the Labour party while it is in opposition.

Cooper will argue that it is unprecedented for a government to abuse its small majority in the Commons to try to cripple an opposition party through partisan measures to cut its funding, while doing nothing to provide transparency over corporate donations to the Tories.

«While we welcome any moves to eradicate unlawful and unfair competition, this must be done without unnecessarily disadvantaging the vast majority of law - abiding small businesses,» said employment chairman Alan Tyrrell.

Putting all these factors, and some smaller ones, together John Curtice estimated in 2011 that the Conservatives would need a lead of more than 11 points on current boundaries to win a majority, while Labour could secure one with a lead of just three points.

City Limits recently reported that while most of the boards have yet to vote on the proposals, the majority of the ones that did rejected them and that there are widespread concerns about the plans as tenants and small business owners worry about being squeezed our of their neighborhoods.

Triassic Neopterygii primarily developed small species while the majority of the more basal ray - fins produced large predatory fish.

What we found, however, was that while the majority of customers noticed the labels, a very small percentage reported using them to influence their purchasing decisions and customers with lower income and lower education levels reported using menu labels to a much lesser extent.»

For this reason, only a small fraction of light waves propagating inside biological tissues can actually reach the desired target, while the majority is scattered and randomly diffused.

Proctor also attended a Hunger Banquet — an event that simulates the stark realities of global food shortages and food insecurity, where a small percentage of the participants receive a full three - course meal, while the majority eat just a small cup of rice.

Half of the reads (44.8 %) could be annotated of which the majority was of bacterial origin (85.5 %) while smaller fractions came from viruses (9.5 %), eukaryotes (2.9 %) and archaea (2.1 %)(Figure S1 and Table S4).

While the majority of the body's iodine supply is stored in the thyroid gland, small amounts can also be located in the muscles and blood.

While the majority of calories in this eating recommendation come from plant foods, with a smaller emphasis on meat, the new Nordic diet at the same time stresses the importance of food coming from the sea, lakes, and the wild countryside.

While the majority of the presentations at this conference were focused on omega - 3 fatty acids, microbiome research, micronutrients, and the Mediterranean diet, there were a few small breakout sessions exploring the potential benefits of ketogenic diets.

The singles in the survey were also asked who they most wanted to spend time with at Christmas and, while the majority of Kiwi women (48 %) chose a small family gathering as their preferred way to celebrate, men were more smitten with the idea of celebrating as a couple; 44 % want to spend Christmas with a romantic partner.