Sentence examples for majority that favors from inspiring English sources

On one side is the majority that favors the construction project, saying it is integral to the future of a renowned museum with a world-class collection of American art by the likes of Edward Hopper and Alexander Calder.

Often it is social issues where Democrats are said to run to the extremes, but here too, Democratic candidates in the real world have been cautious and moderate, led by Senator Hillary Clinton in looking for new ways to talk about abortion that acknowledge and respect the deeply conflicted views held by many even within the majority that favors abortion rights.

But if anything, it's energized the overwhelming majority that favors more controls.

"My goal all along was to make sure we get back to fiscal stability," the Council's president, Charles Pugh, who voted with the 5-to-4 majority that favored the agreement, said afterward.

In discussing the U.S. bases, every official we met re-affirmed their support for the U.S.-Japan alliance, one American official even going so far as claiming silent majorities that favor America's presence despite the public vocal opposition to the bases.

The two groups deployed campaign workers and together spent over $150,000 on the race, pushing through a majority that supports their favored reforms such as charter schools and closing down failing schools and backs the tenure of Denver Public Schools superintendent Tom Boasberg.

Justice Kennedy has usually sided with the liberal bloc and Justice O'Connor to form a 6-to-3 majority that is generally in favor of abortion rights.

By disassociating itself from the regime-change agenda of Miami-based anti-normalization groups, a less belligerent Washington can bolster Cuban reformers by advancing reconciliation efforts between the Cuban government and the majority of the Cuban diaspora that favors diplomatic relations between the two countries (68percentt, according to Florida International University's most recent poll).

Indians and Chinese, the country's two main minorities, are angry over several religious disputes and an affirmative action program that favors the Malay majority.

The possible reasons for a higher crime rate are a matter of debate — some say the country's ethnic-based policies that favor majority Malays are partly to blame; others say the police force is corrupt and ineffectual.

The data also indicated that complaints involving claim denials resulted, in a majority of cases, in reversals that favored consumers.