Sentence examples for in favour of the union from inspiring English sources

On this basis the result would be 56%44%44% in favour of the union".

Abraham Lincoln and exerted strong influence upon merchants and financiers in England and France in favour of the Union.

Strip away the "Don't knows" and the median polling is 56% in favour of the union and 44% against.

It will then be able to say that, indeed a majority of Scots are in favour of the union.

Whitehouse, who represents Rhode Island, likened Obama's decision to the Battle of Gettysburg, where the American civil war swung in favour of the union.

In a separate interview on the same day, he appeared to blame the over 55s in Scotland, who voted heavily in favour of the union, for letting down younger voters who wanted independence.

The industrial relations debate in this country usually involves business blaming labour for any problems in the economy, and using the slimmest evidence to hype suggestions that "the pendulum has swung too far in favour of the unions".

In January 2012 the ECHR found in favour of the embryonic union; but that decision was overturned today.

Loyalists have attacked Alliance personnel, driving members from their homes and torching their offices after the party voted in favour of removing the union flag from the top of Belfast city hall on Monday night.

I love being British and Welsh and I am in favour of keeping the union together but the world is constantly changing.

The playing field is tilted firmly in favour of the junta's Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP), led by the prime minister.