Sentence examples for they favored it from inspiring English sources

A whopping 75percentt said they favored it, while only 20percentt did not.

A majority of Americans support the death penalty, with 60percentt saying they favored it for convicted murderers in a Gallup poll last year.

This month, polls found widespread support for the amendment, with 60percentto80percentcent of likely voters saying they favored it.

49% said they were opposed to use of the process, and 44% said they favored it.

When a Bloomberg poll (pdf, Page 7 asked all voters which party they favored, it was a tie.

Fifty-nine percent of young adults said they favored such a law (including 47 percent who said they favored it strongly), while only 28percentt said they were opposed.

The managers' union has not formally endorsed the general strike, but its leaders have signaled to members that they favor it.

But they favor it for different reasons.

Even the Internet service providers say they favor it.

A handful of players, most notably Houston's Kevin Martin, have said publicly that they want to vote on the N.B.A.'s offer, whether they favor it or not.

Having long ago parted company with their anti-capital-punishment tradition, even the state's two Senators, Dianne Feinstein and Barbara Boxer, both Democrats, say they favor it.