Sentence examples for population backed from inspiring English sources

Three-quarters of the population backed Lord Falconer's assisted dying bill on its first reading in parliament.

Smith said there were plenty of reasons for the European republican movement to be optimistic even if opinion polls showed that only about 20% of the UK population backed the idea.

The Shiite affinities of Iraq and Iran, under a militant religious alliance, with a large and talented population backed by petroleum wealth, would be a formidable enemy with both military power and terrorist inclinations, and not much reason to refrain from using either or both to get its way in the region.

There is nothing to be said in favour of Devlin's construal of homosexuality as 'addictive' or a 'miserable way of life' (Devlin 1965, p. v), but he himself does not rest much theoretical weight on this construal himself: what matters to him theoretically appears to be the beliefs of a population, backed up by the emotion of disgust and a degree of cool reflection.

One poll published today in Le Figaro found that 64percentt of the population backs his plan.

Recent polls indicated that only about thirty per cent of the Italian population backs the protest movement.

"I would think that 80-85% of the population backs the government's policy on foreigners," he says.

"The next president must have at least 70% of the population backing him, otherwise political divisions will ensue just like last time.

Their preference for deregulation over animal welfare is also demonstrated by plans to review the foxhunting ban, despite most of the population backing it.

But while it's easy to imagine large numbers of the academic population backing him, how is Mr Juniper going down in the council estates?

If the Qatari government is serious about reform, it should apply these standards to the whole migrant worker population, back them up with sanctions, and get to work on reform of the kafala system".