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.

An opinion poll conducted by the Georgian weekly Kviris Palitra and published on April 10, 2006 suggested that Salome Zourabichvili would garner 23. 1 % of votes if a presidential election were held today.

Results of a controversial poll taken in 2006 stated that over 35 % of Russians would vote for Stalin if he were still alive.

When a corvée is commuted for cash payment, in effect it becomes a poll tax ( and vice versa, if a poll tax obligation can be worked off ).

After several unsuccessful attempts to address this problem, a new state constitution was passed in 1843 allowing landless white men to vote if they could pay a $ 1 poll tax.

For example, the margin of error in polling data is determined by calculating the expected standard deviation in the results if the same poll were to be conducted multiple times.

In addition, the supply of people is in fact not fixed over time: on average, couples will choose to have fewer children if a poll tax is imposed.

Ross Perot's re-entry in the race was welcome by the Bush campaign, as Fred Steeper, a poll taker for Bush, said, " He'll be important if we accomplish our goal, which is to draw even with Clinton.

Perot's poll numbers began to slip to 25 %, and his advisers warned that if he continued to ignore them, he would fall into single digits.

According to the same poll, if status quo is not an option and the ones who were surveyed must choose between " Independence " or " Unification ", 65 % are in favor of independence while 19 % would opt for unification.

According to a December 2009 poll from a Taiwanese mainstream media TVBS, if status quo is not an option and the ones who were surveyed must choose between " Independence " or " Unification ", 68 % are in favor of independence while 13 % would opt for unification.

These critics have been dismissed by the mainstream and their propagators have been labelled as new reactionaries ( les nouveaux réactionnaires ), even if racist and anti-immigration sentiment has recently been documented to be increasing in France at least according to one poll.

Paul McCartney, who participated in Uncuts poll stated, " It's the way sings it as if he is singing from the depths of hell.

Further, they had to pay a metic poll tax, the metoikon, of twelve drachmas a year for men and six for women, as well a special tax ( xenikon telos ) if they wanted to set up a stall in the market place ( agora ).

A poll taken one week after Norris withdrew from the presidential race, showed a large increase in public support for his Presidency if they were given the choice to vote for him ( topping the poll by a considerable margin ) with 40 per cent of respondents now saying they would vote Norris number one in the proportional representation electorial system and 50 per cent saying they would give him a vote.

In January 2012, Reuters, drawing from an Ipsos / Reuters poll, predicted that telecommuting " is a trend that has grown and one which looks like it will continue with 34 percent of connected workers saying they would be very likely to telecommute on a full-time basis if they could.

The BBC asked in a poll on their website if he was a better prospect than Rooney.

While a phone-in poll was conducted to see if viewers wanted MMPR back on YTV, no further installments of the Power Rangers franchise ever aired on the network ( until 2011's Power Rangers Samurai ), although commercials for toys and videos were advertised on the network.

For example, if the US Congress were to enact a national property tax ( a property tax or other tax by reason of its ownership ) or a national capitation ( a poll tax or head tax ), such taxes would be required to be apportioned.

* 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 June 2007 TNS / MRBI poll found that 43 % supported legal abortion if a woman believed it was in her best interest while 51 % remained opposed.

His plans and dreams had revolved around her so much and for so long that now he felt as if he had nothing.

The moon had sunk below the black crest of the mountains and the land, seen through eyes that had grown accustomed to the absence of light, looked primeval, as if no man had ever trespassed before.

The silence oppressed him, made him bend low over the horse's neck as if to hide from a wind that had begun to blow far away and was twisting slowly through the darkness in its slow search.

He remembered Clayton's mocking smile in the saloon when he had asked him what he would do if they brought their cattle to water.

As I dug in behind one of the bales we were using as protection, I grudgingly found myself agreeing with Oso's logic, especially when I imagined what would have happened to Missy if Old Knife's large party of screeching warriors had overrun our company.

It was all right to put a bunch of ranchers onto horses, to call them Night Riders, to set out to attack the largest mining combination the country had ever seen if all they wanted was adventure.

Dill was silent as if he hated to answer, and Barton had a cold, sick feeling of apprehension.

How could he exert authority over them -- make them toe the line, as he had to -- if he knuckled under to this small-town clown??

Greg climbed into the cockpit feeling as if he had never been in one before.

When the sea was visible ahead of them, the relief was as great as if the sun had come out.

Greg slammed his throttle to the fire wall and rammed up the RPM, and the engine responded as if it had been waiting.

Their product had been endorsed by Good Housekeeping, the A.M.A., and the Veterinary Journal, among other repositories of higher wisdom, and before much longer if you didn't have a cake of their soap in the john, even your best friends would think you didn't bathe.

And he would have enjoyed it just as much if he had been a Nazi.

but if it had been, it had been smothered until now by fear ): you could tell it by the way she watched the older, bigger boys, like Jack.

They believe that if the South had been let alone it would have produced a civilization superior to that of modern America.

He lifts her, puts her down, and walks off, neither pleased nor disturbed, as if nothing had happened.

They look as if they had been sculptured with an unsharpened chisel.

He wanted to know if my father had beaten me or my mother had run away from home to give me an unhappy childhood.

Under the influence of marijuana the beatnik comes alive within and experiences a wonderfully enhanced sense of self as if he had discovered the open sesame to the universe of being.

But it also made him conspicuous to the enemy, if it was the enemy, and he hadn't been spotted already.

`` They wouldn't have sold me in the first place if there'd been food enough to go around ''.

Had Dandy been older or wiser, instinct might have warned him that he would be well advised to flee from the Lalauries' tender care if he valued his life.

It really looked as if a change of the sort predicted by Booker T. Washington had been going on.

I was having lunch not long ago ( apologies to N. V. Peale ) with three distinguished historians ( one specializing in the European Middle Ages, one in American history, and one in the Far East ), and I asked them if they could name instances where the general mores had been radically changed with `` deliberate speed, majestic instancy '' ( Francis Thompson's words for the Hound Of Heaven's Pursuit ) by judicial fiat.

Also, I am convinced that if my company were a sole proprietorship instead of a partnership, I would have been even abler to solve long-range problems for myself and my fellow-employees.

They have indicated the direction but they have not been explicit enough, I believe, in pointing out Faulkner's independence, his questioning if not indeed challenging the Southern tradition.

The Indians who came aboard ship to collect the mail also interested her greatly, even if she was suitably shocked, according to the customs of the society in which she had been reared, to find them `` naked, except a piece of cotton cloth wrapped around their middle ''.

In any event, the critical productivity of that time is abundant proof that if he was taking laudanum, it was never in command of him to the extent that it had been during his vagrant years.

As a proud man, his prestige would suffer if he let Pike dictate to him through the governor's office, but to lower his prices would be tantamount to an admission that they had been too high in the first place.

My father would have done it if it hadn't been for my mother, who had a fear of being in debt to anyone -- even Alfred Alpert.

It was Plummer, in fact, who coined the much quoted remark: `` Mr. Green indeed writes as if he had been present at the landing of the Saxons and had watched every step of their subsequent progress ''.

He asked Quiney to find out whether the money had been paid and, if not, to send to the lodging of Sir Edward and entreat him to pay what he owed.

Earl agreed, and Lewis said that it would have been very different if his wife had been with him.