Sentence examples for approval rate for from inspiring English sources

"Surprisingly, the approval rate for those waivers is pretty high, it's over 75%, so a lot of people in this country are eligible for a waiver," Stump said.

Its border controls have been lax and its asylum-processing system slow and questionable (the approval rate for asylum applications is tiny compared with other EU countries).

Applications for political asylum in the United States, while still small in absolute terms, have also begun to rise, as has the approval rate for such claims, according to Immigration and Naturalization Service figures.

The approval rate for his cabinet has fallen below 50% for the first time since he took office in December 2012, according to a poll published by the Asahi Shimbun, a newspaper, on December 1st.

For a president whose approval rate for pardons and commutations is woefully low compared with presidents going back to 1900, these pardons represent a step in the right direction — but a fainthearted, disappointing step.

The Gallup poll, released on Thursday, found that the approval rate for unions was unchanged from 2010 and was up from 2009, when unions had the lowest approval rating, 48 percent, since Gallup began this survey in 1936.

The poll also found a historically low approval rating for Congress, with just 19 percent approving of Republicans, compared with 28 percent that approve of Democrats.

According to Gallup, which provides a list of the lowest all-time approval ratings for every president since Nixon, Mr. Obama's current job approval rating for is 38 percent.

Almost 80% of those questioned in the Washington Post-ABC survey approved of Obama's response, compared with a 30% approval rating for Palin's response.

Only 24percentt of those polled said they approved of the job he was doing, the lowest approval rating for a mayor since The Times began taking polls on mayoral performance in 1978.

As Gallup explains, a job approval rating for an incumbent president at above 50percentt is associated with "near certain reelection," while approval ratings in the low 40s have been associated with "near-certain defeat".