Sentences with phrase «widespread public support»

Like a ban on assault weapons, this is a proposal with widespread public support.

Despite the fact that holding students accountable for their performance is far from a universal practice in American education, student accountability commands widespread public support (see Figure 2).

To bring more widespread public support, we need more of this pointed, but entirely reasonable, advocacy.

The proposals have attracted widespread public support in opinion polls.

Unlike the nearly 50,000 Quebec nurses who were similarly forced back to work after an illegal strike in 1999 — but who enjoyed widespread public support for their wage demands, which convinced the Parti Québécois government of former Quebec Premier Lucien Bouchard to forego fines and reach a higher - paying settlement — Dallaire said the lawyers were unable to garner sympathy for the negotiation process discrepancies with Crown attorneys.

Unions still enjoy widespread public support, enjoy stable funding under the Rand formula, and have constitutional protection for their direct involvement in political activities.

The same machinations have played a crucial role in the presidential elections of 2016, when despite widespread public support for Maia Sandu (supported by an alliance of extra parliamentary parties), the Democrats played a major role in the narrow victory of Igor Dodon.

Stirpe, who represents Clay, Cicero and Manlius, said he is supporting the community grid option — one that has gathered widespread public support and is favored by new Syracuse Mayor Ben Walsh.

The reasons for success, they posit, were consultation, clarity, usually widespread public support and strong ministerial leadership.

That's in spite of the fact that public opinion polls — including today's Siena NY poll — show widespread public support for continuing to tax the state's wealthiest residents at a higher rate.

The Scottish Government must resist the temptation to engage in such a back and forth debate — which has hampered previous attempts at reform — and instead focus on creating legislation that results in an enduring system of business taxation commanding widespread public support which is convenient, efficient and easy to administer.

The move to ban discarding has gained widespread public support through the campaigning efforts of supermarkets, pressure groups, chefs including Hugh Fearnley - Whittingstall, and other celebrities such as the band Coldplay and the comedian Ricky Gervais.

Yet in an atmosphere of vast economic uncertainty and Republican fear - mongering about government spending, the rhetoric of green jobs has been unable to motivate widespread public support for addressing climate change and has opened the door to predatory attacks from those seeking to exploit scientific uncertainty for political ends.

According to one Quebec City labour lawyer, the failure of government lawyers to win widespread public support for their cause enabled the government to bludgeon them back to work.

The increased participation by California drivers over the past year seems to suggest widespread public support.

The labeling bill is a common sense measure with widespread public support,» said Hawkins.

But I would argue that Cuomo actually did Skelos a favor by taking this approach with minimum wage, giving the Senate Republicans a path to voting «yes» on something that enjoys widespread public support, but risks further inflaming their already angry conservative base.

He has refused to budge on this, despite widespread public support — even among Republicans — for taxing the state's wealthiest residents at a higher rate.

It requires a commitment and input from experts, widespread public support, and a committee comprised of people willing to work hard to make it a reality.

The new lanes have widespread public support.

Our research shows that this measure will have widespread public support.»

Accountability's edge is undoubtedly due not only to widespread public support for the idea (see «What Americans Think about Their Schools,» Fall 2007), but to the fact that, as practiced, it has posed only a minimal threat to the great vested interests of American education: local school boards, state departments of education, schools of education, and teacher unions.

The American Alliance of Museums (AAM), the only organization representing the entire scope of the museum community, released two groundbreaking reports revealing indisputable evidence that museums contribute more to the United States economy than previously thought and have widespread public support that transcends political affiliations and geographic locations.

And yet a combination of canny regulation and widespread public support for renewables have made Germany an unlikely leader in the global green - power movement — and created a groundswell of small - scale power generation that could upend the dominance of traditional power companies.

The survey, conducted by Hart Research Associates and commissioned by Planned Parenthood Action Fund, found overwhelming and widespread public support for national policies that would provide prescription birth control approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) at no cost to all women with health insurance.