( The government constructs the poverty line based on an outdated 1987 household consumption poll, instead of more recent polls from 1997 or 2007 ).

According to these critics who use data from the 1997 poll, the poverty rate rises to 29 %.

The nominees for alumni trustee are determined by a poll of the members of the Association of Alumni of Dartmouth College, selecting from among names put forward by the Alumni Council or by alumni petition.

" Shalikashvili cited the recent " Zogby poll of more than 500 service members returning from Afghanistan and Iraq, three quarters of whom said they were comfortable interacting with gay people.

Nonetheless, a poll has suggested over 9 % may have voted differently if the conservative candidate was a man from the West, although this does not clearly show if such a candidate would have gained or lost votes for the conservatives.

According to a survey released by the " Beirut Center for Research and Information " on July 26 during the 2006 Lebanon War, 87 percent of Lebanese support Hezbollah's " retaliatory attacks on northern Israel ", a rise of 29 percentage points from a similar poll conducted in February.

Britain's departure from the ERM led to a fall in the opinion poll ratings for the Conservative Party, which despite the improvement in the economic position, did not fully recover whilst John Major was Prime Minister.

With aspirations of support from right-wing voters, all candidates with low levels of poll support for the nomination took this same " sabre-rattling " stand.

All of the poll respondents believed that only a very small fraction of teachers ( the range was from zero to 3 out of 100, with an average of 1. 2 ) would be prepared to inflict the maximum voltage.

A poll conducted by Instituto Opina found that 87. 9 % of people from mainland Spain consider the two cities to be Spanish.

* The Copeman Empire, run from a caravan park in Norfolk, England, by its founder Nick Copeman, who changed his name by deed poll to HM King Nicholas I.

The same poll showed that 85 % supported closing of all cannabis coffee shops within 250 meters walking distance from schools.

Margaret Thatcher's party forced her from power after the introduction of the poll tax ; Sir Anthony Eden fell from power following the Suez Crisis ; and Neville Chamberlain resigned in 1940 after the Allies were forced to retreat from Norway, as he believed a government supported by all parties was essential, and the Labour and Liberal parties would not join a government headed by him.

In the Republican period, poll taxes were principally collected by private tax farmers ( publicani ), but from the time of Emperor Augustus, the collection were gradually transferred to magistrates and the senates of provincial cities.

Towns in the provinces who possessed the Jus Italicum ( enjoying the " privileges of Italy ") were exempted from the poll tax.

The 212 edict of Emperor Caracalla which formally conferred Roman citizenship on all residents of Roman provinces, did not however exempt them from the poll tax.

The Italian revolt of the 720s, organized and led by Pope Gregory II, was originally provoked by the attempt of the Constantinople Emperor Leo III the Isaurian to introduce a poll tax in the Italian provinces of the Byzantine Empire in 722, and set in motion the permanent separation of Italy from the Byzantine empire.

Recent debate has arisen about whether requiring citizens to purchase a state identification card acts as a poll tax and bars poor voters from voting.

An income tax is neither a poll tax nor a capitation, as the amount of tax will vary from person to person, depending on each person's income.

In a poll an adult person is chosen at random from the British population.

In 1971 Askin changed his name from " Robin " to " Robert " by a deed poll.

The helmets also were changed from silver to the lighter " Seahawks Blue " color after a fan poll was conducted.

More than 50, 000 viewers from 73 countries voted in the poll.

A poll conducted in the 1970s by the United States Information Agency in several countries in Latin America, Asia, and Africa found that most respondents were unaware of the Moon landings, many of the others dismissed them as propaganda or science fiction, and many thought that it had been the Russians that landed on the Moon.

According to a Reuters poll, approximately " one in five workers around the globe, particularly employees in the Middle East, Latin America and Asia, telecommute frequently and nearly 10 percent work from home every day ...".

SATS has been described as the third most-admired company in Singapore, in a poll conducted by The Wall Street Journal Asia in September 2008.

According to a Reuters poll, approximately " one in five workers around the globe, particularly employees in the Middle East, Latin America and Asia, telecommute frequently and nearly 10 percent work from home every day ...".

In a 2005 poll of Radio Times readers, following its appearance on the 2005 television programme Seven Natural Wonders, Cheddar Gorge was named as the second greatest natural wonder in Britain, surpassed only by the Dan yr Ogof caves.

In a 2005 opinion poll of Radio Times readers, Lundy was named as Britain's tenth greatest natural wonder.

A November 1983 New York Times / CBS News poll found him second, supported by 41 % of those polled, to Mondale's 49 %.

He responded to the curious poll results with an op-ed piece in The New York Times:

In a Radio Times poll of 3, 000 people in 2006, he was voted the fourth " scariest " TV celebrity.

A December 2006 poll by Harris Interactive, published in The Financial Times, found that 32 % of the French population described themselves as agnostic, a further 32 % as atheist and only 27 % believed in any type of God or supreme being.

In a 2005 poll of Radio Times readers, St Kilda was named as the ninth greatest natural wonder in the British Isles.

In a 2005 poll of Radio Times readers, Staffa was named as the 8th greatest natural wonder in Britain.

In a 2005 poll of Radio Times readers, following its appearance on the 2005 television programme Seven Natural Wonders, Cheddar Gorge was named as the second greatest natural wonder in Britain, surpassed only by Dan yr Ogof caves.

* A 1997 Irish Times / MRBI poll found that 18 % believed that abortion should never be permitted, 77 % believed that it should be allowed in certain circumstances ( this was broken down into: 35 % that one should be allowed in the event that the woman's life is threatened ; 14 % if her health is at risk ; 28 % that " an abortion should be provided to those who need it ") and 5 % were undecided.

* A September 2012 Sunday Times / Behaviour and Attitudes poll of 923 people showed that 80 % of voters would support a change to the law to allow abortion where the life of the woman was at risk, with 16 % opposed and 4 % undecided.

In May 2007, the New York Times and CBS News released similar results of a poll in which 61 % of participants believed the U. S. " should have stayed out " of Iraq.

An informal reader poll conducted by The Seattle Times showed that " The Clink " was a popular suggestion.

In a 2005 poll of Radio Times readers, the Giant's Causeway was named as the fourth greatest natural wonder in the United Kingdom.

An opinion poll published in The Irish Times on 10 June 2010 triggered a challenge to Kenny's leadership of the party.

However, the original version was named the 3rd best television commercial of all time in a 2000 poll conducted by The Sunday Times and Channel 4.

On 11 June 2010, a poll by MRBI was published in The Irish Times which, for the first time in the history of the state, showed the Labour Party as the most popular, at 32 %, ahead of Fine Gael at 28 % and Fianna Fáil at 17 %.

Sixty percent of respondents to an Irish Times / TNS mrbi poll in December 2006 said that the appointment of Harney to the position of Minister for Health had not led to any improvement in the health service.

A 2005 poll of Radio Times readers named Loch Lomond as the 6th greatest natural wonder in Britain.

The site was featured on the television programme Seven Natural Wonders as one of the wonders of the South West ( of the UK ), and in a 2005 poll of Radio Times readers, the Jurassic Coast was named as the 5th greatest natural wonder in Britain.

Support for the government continued to fall: on 3 September 2009, an Irish Times / TNS mrbi poll, opinion poll reported that Cowen's satisfaction rating had dropped six points to 15 percent, with 77 percent of voters saying they were dissatisfied with the way he was doing his job.

It also appeared in a Radio Times poll to find the top 40 greatest TV shows on British television, published in August 2003.

The New York Times quoted a participant in the poll as stating, " The ' media ' tells us what food to eat, what movies to see, what music to listen to, who to vote for politically and what kind of people are attractive enough to have relationships with !... Voting for ' Hank the Dwarf ' is a reflection of how the people really feel about media!