Sentence examples for half approved from inspiring English sources

Polls suggest only half approved of the decision to grant Mrs Thatcher a ceremonial send-off.The country still bears scars from the 1980s.

Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán, the recently recaptured leader of Mexico's Sinaloa cartel, enjoys a similar following: a poll just after his previous capture found that 28% of Mexicans thought his arrest was a bad thing; only half approved.

Among Democrats, the court continues to be somewhat more popular, with about half approving and a third disapproving.

The White House staff knows that Americans are divided, with a little over half approving of Bush's performance.

Roughly half approve of his performance in the Oval Office, about where the president has remained since last fall, after his initial honeymoon with Americans faded.

Opinion polls indicate that a majority of the French support gay marriage, but only half approve of allowing gays to adopt.

On foreign policy, less than half approve the way Mr. Bush is handling international matters, while more than half are uneasy about his capacity to deal with a global crisis.

About two-thirds of voters in Florida, Ohio and Pennsylvania say the United States should not be involved in Afghanistan right now, and just over half approve of the way Mr. Obama is handling the situation there.

The surge seems to be the only military decision by Bush that Smith half approves of, via a kind of mathematical paradox: "The fact that the surge was not solely responsible for the decline in violence in Iraq in no way diminishes its importance.

About half were approved & they amount to over $150,000.

But in the most recent CBS News poll, nearly half — 49 percent — approved.