Sentences with phrase «council voted not»

The district's Garden Plots were eliminated as an option after the City Council voted not to allow a skate park there.

Not exact matches

Following the failed vote on the British draft, the council adopted a rival Russian draft that did not mention Iran and simply renewed the U.N. sanctions regime on Yemen for a year.

It was enforced by a voting provision that required Abu Dhabi Investment Council to vote in favor of board nominees select board - members put forth, not uncommon in Canada.

So after the pro-democracy legislators in Hong Kong's Legislative Council (Legco) voted down Beijing's proposal to replace the former British colony's undemocratic electoral system with another equally undemocratic version, the only thing we should expect is that this is not the end of the story.

Flynn also told Mueller's team that he did not ask Kislyak to «delay the vote on or defeat a pending United Nations Security Council resolution» and that Kislyak «subsequently never described to Flynn Russia's response to his request,» the indictment says.

Union officials say the council won't comment publicly until the membership has an opportunity to see and vote on the proposal.

The final version of the Christian Bible was not voted on at the Council of Nicaea, per se.

In addition, the great majority of conservative bishops at the council voted in favor of the final draft, which clearly suggests that they did not think subsistit in was a watering down of the Church's self - understanding.

Under the bill, headed for a D. C. Council vote next month, religious organizations would not be required to make space available for same - sex weddings.

He concluded his statement by saying, «I think, I shall give my vote for integration with sadness of heart and the deepest misgivings because I can not see clearly that it is the leading of the Holy Spirit».37 F. Berkeli (formerly the mission secretary of the Lutheran World Federation) of Norway agreed with Max Warren and voiced the same apprehension about the administrative unity of the two councils.

It's a compilation of dozens of books written by men in the first century, voted into canon by a council of bishops from a selection of - hundreds - of such books after being «sanitized» of anything that didn't jibe with church dogma.

Presbyterian general assemblies are not universal councils of the church, and setting agendas and shaping deliberations in concert with other churches and their councils would help to avoid the conceit that authority in the church belongs to a voting majority of seven hundred commissioners.

I love that study, it shows how the manuscripts of the OT were put together into what we now have as the OT by the scribe Ezra, and also shows the science of manuscripts, and how the NT that we now have was circulated whole as early as 100AD, and that no council ever voted on what was to be «in» the Bible, because the books of the Bible were dictated by the apostles themselves.

Catherine King: Well, he certainly made a recommendation based on the submissions that he had, but we've looked across internationally and the country, I've even visited and the UK and the European Union myself to look at what's happening over there and had a chat to them, and on the basis of what we've decided — and this is one position in terms of the Food Regulatory Ministerial Council, we've got one vote on that council — we don't wish to pursue traffic light labelling at thisCouncil, we've got one vote on that council — we don't wish to pursue traffic light labelling at thiscouncil — we don't wish to pursue traffic light labelling at this point.

He wasn't voted captain by his teammates, but was on the leadership council and asked for input as much as anyone.

Earlier this week, I went to a small town about 40 minutes east of where I live to speak on behalf of the immigrant community in the hopes that the city council wouldn't vote to oppose SB 54 (California's major piece of legislation that creates real limits on state and municipal law enforcement from being used for immigration enforcement).

If the council had not voted in favor of the one - year, $ 35 million contract Tuesday, the city would have needed to find a new vendor on an emergency basis to have a meal provider in place for the start of the school year.

«The uncertainty of not having a food contract service vendor worries me more,» council member David Grosso (I - At - Large) said as he urged his colleagues to vote in favor of the contract while conceding that the new arrangement has flaws at its start.

The motion is not binding, however, and in a statement college president Neena Modi said that the «implications of the vote» would be considered at the next council meeting in July.

Digging into the ugly mess of council tax debt doesn't win headlines and doesn't buy votes.

The Central Trades and Labor Council endorsed Sen. Darrel Aubertine, but the vote was not unanimous.

The letter came the same day as the New York Metropolitan Transportation Council unanimously voted to back the replacement project after county executives Rob Astorino of Westchester and Rockland's Scott Vanderhoef decided to back the plan after reservations over not having enough information.

Our inability to coexist in my views may not be the only hurdle against 2019 general election as the age - long underage registration / voting challenge mooted above raised its ugly head in a recent but still trending video captured during a registration exercise and a local council poll in some states.

McKee noted that Dilan voted for vacancy decontrol in the City Council in 1994, despite promising his constituents (on at least two occasions when McKee was present) that he would not do so.

There were some accusations about springing the vote on the Council in order to prevent the unions from organizing loud protests (it was put on the Council website late, the media wasn't informed and the vote was held the same day cops and firefighters had already chosen to travel to Albany for a rally), but in the end the Council and the Mayor made clear to Albany which bill they approve.

This week the City Council voted to embrace Mayor de Blasio's plan which is not the more generous bill the unions had favored.

So far, Council Speaker Christine Quinn has not called for a vote on this issue.

I didn't vote for her in 2013 (only 15.5 % of Democrats did — embarrassing) because she did not support paid leave and she made the ultimate careerist move of allowing a third term for city council and the mayor in 2008.

I wonder if it is possible to have Council Presidency while not being to vote due to sanctions.

The «public interest» would strongly justify a quick acceptance of the result of the European elections by the European Council to ensure that the citizens feel that their vote made the difference, and that the EU is not that complex and opaque bureaucracy that Eurosceptics want to dismantle.

«The team around Nigel himself need to reflect why it was that Thanet voted in a Ukip council but didn't vote in Nigel as the MP for Thanet South,» he added.

And just a cursory review of CM Dickens» political associations and campaign contributors should embarrass any members of the Council from considering seriously her candidacy for Speaker, not to mention the voters of the 9th CD from voting for her in the first place.

As supporters and opponents go head - to - head with their positions on the Horse - Carriage Ban, lobbyists will be targeting City Council Members with a full on assault to sway their votes, but there's one legislator who could not be bought.

Yesterday, for example, during the City Council's vote to overturn Mayor Bloomberg's veto of the stop - and - frisk and police oversight bills, it was startling to hear Barron, following his customary sit - in during the Pledge of Allegiance, stand up and pay tribute to Viola Plummer, his former chief of staff: «There wouldn't be no today if it weren't for Viola Plummer, the December 12th Movement, Rev. Herbert Daughtry, who put it on the line, to make this day history.»

Amidst the media's recent focus on independent redistricting, New York City Council member Dan Garodnick encourages New Yorkers not to lose sight of the importance of campaign finance reform, highlighting the many benefits that the New York City public matching funds system has created for small donors, candidates for public office, and the voting public.

Only yesterday, the Christian Council of Ghana capped months of protestations against the practice of homosexuality with a strongly worded message against the practice and courting Ghanaians not to vote for any politician who believes in the rights of homosexuals.

He did not vote for 18.5 percent property tax increase in City Council because he wasn't there.

It doesn't seem to have come up on the record in the heated race between incumbent Queens Republican Frank Padavan, who voted against the MTA rescue, and former City Council member Tony Avella.

However, if he claims to be a democrat, he can not defend a system which, in Scotland, in 2003 for example, gave his party 41 per cent of the seats in local councils on 32.6 per cent of the votes.

If Spain in the European Council does not agree to accept a new member then membership will not be granted; a single «no» vote is enough.

Four Assembly members are vying for seats in the NYC Council, but they haven't had great track records showing up for votes at their current gigs, attendance records show.

It was not so much their own failings to win new votes but the greater rise in the Conservative vote that cost the Liberal Democrats council seats last year.

«I've said this 1,000 times: I don't agree with her on some things, I violently disagree with her on some things, but she has been a very good speaker who has, by and large, kept the City Council voting on those things that are important and directing them on the best interests of the city,» he said.

With the N.Y.C. Council soon to vote on whether or not to approve the formation of the Chinatown Business Improvement District, we would like to register our strong support for a «yes» vote on the B.I.D..

«To create an overall plan that you're going to be able to get consensus on is not impossible, but it's a real slog and what I think is happening now with the Council is we are taking the temperature of members on the most important changes that need to happen to get broad support when this comes up for a vote.»

As from 1 November 2014 and subject to the provisions laid down in the Protocol on transitional provisions, in cases where, under the Treaties, not all the members of the Council participate in voting, a qualified majority shall be defined as follows:

Senior Conservatives were jubilant at winning the AV vote and preventing any major lose of councils in England but they were under strict instructions from Downing Street not to be seen celebrating, as ministers tried to prevent the election from destroying the coalition.

China and Russia were joined by Cuba in voting against a strong resolution criticising Syria at the UN's human rights council in Geneva - but as their votes did not have a veto power the resolution was passed.

Mr Miliband, whose party performed well but not spectacularly in the English council elections, said it was time for Lib Dems to start reflecting the views of the people who voted for them.

Ukraine, which supported the draft resolution at the Security Council, was among 21 countries that did not turn up for the vote.