Sentences with phrase «get these votes by»

If councillors and MPs knew they would get votes by paying attention to what happens inside prisons, and most importantly what happens when people are released, they might be more likely to consider the effectiveness of this often neglected area of public policy.

The Grand Cherokee gets my vote by a big margin.

We get votes by having an informed electorate.

She got the votes by twisting arms and making deals.

Not exact matches

They also argue that it threatens due process rights because it may not get done by the federal deadline to certify the vote, putting Wisconsin's electoral votes in jeopardy.

Separatist parties will get 45.8 per cent of the vote, according to the latest poll by newspaper El Periodico, with 43.8 per cent going to unionist parties.

According to the latest polls Esquerra will get the biggest share of the vote in the region, 20.5 per cent, narrowly leading Junts per Catalunya, the new name for the party led by Puigdemont, on 19.3 per cent.

But no one would try to get a promotion, or try to get someone to vote for them, by bragging about how they're effectively drunk all the time.

They seem to have gotten turbocharged by a ruling in 2007 that permitted people — in practice, mainly hedge funds — to buy shares after a merger has been announced and for the express purpose of voting against it and then seeking an appraisal.

Among white voters, roughly three in 10 said they had been targeted by Trump get - out - the - vote efforts; the same share said they had been targeted by Clinton.

Democrats counter that the ACA was debated for more than three months after the initial text of the legislation was released before it got its first House vote, and amendments offered by Republicans were added to the bill.

You may even want to get the entire company involved in the process by taking up a vote as to what charities you'll support.

Google partnered with law firm Perkins Coie to get the information for the new in - depth search tool, which lets users sort by state for info on ID requirements, deadlines, mail - in ballots, and early voting.

But numerous irritants remain, leaving uncertainty about what happens next, with U.S. steel and aluminum tariffs set to kick in next week and the deadline fast approaching to get a deal that can be voted on by the current U.S. Congress.

Suggestions are voted on by Starbucks consumers with the most popular ones getting highlighted.

Still, Khodorkovsky is urging people to «get off the couch» and vote next month, arguing against a boycott like that suggested by Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny.

To bring an idea to fruition, you need emotional buy - in, not just the kind you get by winning 51 % of a vote.

The children get voting rights only after the other owner's death and only if they are employed by the business.

According to the last seven polls — spanning from July 2014 to November 2015 — conduced by the French public - opinion institute Ifop, Le Pen has led each time when voters are asked, «If the next presidential election was next week, which candidate would have the best chance of getting your vote?»

The resolution, which contains instructions for key health care - related committees to begin drafting legislation to undo the health law, must also be passed by the House of Representatives (and is expected to get a vote there this week).

Democrats from coal - producing states, led by West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin, had delayed the Senate vote on the funding bill in a failed attempt to get a bigger extension of miners» healthcare benefits that expire at the end of this year.

So they forced an election they couldn't possibly win by defeating the Conservatives on a confidence vote in Parliament — and gave Prime Minister Stephen Harper something he couldn't get without their invaluable help — a majority government with no chance of being defeated for four years.

In the end, he told his caucus to vote for the Liberal motion, which was enough to get Scheer called a «backstabber» by Ezra Levant, whose Rebel Media more or less defines the far right end of the political mainstream in Canada.

By «We,» I mean the people who vote for the politicians who will decide if more of us get to live, or if more of us will continue to die.

So, by trying to rephrase the question in a way that will get a «Yes» vote, they avoid asking the really important question: Do you Greeks want to push yourselves into a decade of depression and impose austerity?

«Leave» backer with a year to go to Brexit: «I am never going to vote again» U.K. voter gets disheartened by a watered - down BrexitAs of Thursday, there is now exactly one year to go before Brits actually leave the European Union.

It is getting tiresome hearing everyone on the radio yapping about how voters were conned by the slick campaign machinery to vote NDP; or that we voted against the PCs rather than for the NDP; or that we were angry and so made rash decisions that we will promptly regret because everyone knows what a hash the NDP have made wherever they have reigned.

The latter voted, as expected, to raise the federal funds corridor (or double floor, if you can't get over IOER fail) by another 25 bps.

Winters argues that index fund managers get away with «overpaying their bosses» more easily, as measured by shareholder votes... Read More

The churches have been used by the right for 40 years now to get votes.

Bush won by 537 votes - while a get - out - the - vote phone bank contacted 23,000 Muslims in one day during elections in 2008 and 2010, the report says.

I worked in a small church in Kansas once, and after about 3 months I figured out that all the real major decisions, including if the pastor got paid that week, were not made by the elders, the board or congregational vote.

He is seriously going to have me say that voting for him is like getting laid by him!

Unlike the Academy Awards, which are voted on by a huge coalition of film industry pros, the Golden Globes are determined by a tiny cabal of people who aren't really connected to the film industry and possibly not to reality either because, hoo boy, this year's nominations are in and we've got some questions.

All 39 Christian members joined the two - thirds majority to vote to end a 160 - year practice instituted by the Ottomans requiring Christians to get permission from the country's leader before building churches.

Fine dave, would you feel better if I said «Fvck you and your lazy ass selfish friends who are too lazy to get off your ass and vote, too lazy to bother to understand how the system is stacked against change, too dumb to understand it when it's explained to you, and too self - centered to realize or care that real people are affected by these things.»

To all this, I say too bad; churches have to play by the rules — all of them — whether they like them or not, and as long as they're being subsidized, they don't get a vote about it.

The real «Obamacare» i.e. getting re-elected on the backs of 39 million aborted womb babies by using the votes of the 78 million voters involved in said abortions.

We have a president that received no vetting from CNN or those who voted for him and look what we got... a partisan ideologue who has brought the number of Americans who need food stamps to a record high, embraced policies that have resulted in 23 million Americans unemployed or under - employed, decreased household incomes by $ 4000 annually, increased the number of Americans dependent on the federal government to nearly 50 % and appointed dozens of «czars» who we know nothing about and who were also never vetted.

Just because something's written in an ancient scroll, that got non-unanimously VOTED by humans into a set of books, does not mean it's true.

If you haven't yet, take a few minutes to go type down some personal information and get your vote on, then go bring the season in the right way by buying a decorative gourd or whatever...

@Howard — As a republic, which is a version of representative democracy, it means we do not have a true or direct democracy where each law would be voted on by each citizen, but an elected representative for larger groups of people that gets to cast the vote, which may or may not at times represent the will of the voters who elected the representative.

Many of these promises will never be fulfilled, hampered by political obstacles or possibly the candidate is just making a huge, empty claim to get the votes.

We are all being hoodwinked by politicians on the issues of gay marriage, abortion, contraception, and any other slimy goop that they can use to divide us just to get votes.

Some Christians say that rather than try to change the world by voting in a flawed candidate, what Jesus really wants is for us to get out into the world and be the change we want to see.

The dirtbag would even claim to be a Mormon if it thought it could get more votes by being one.

Thus when Prime Minister Julia Gillard (an avowed atheist who makes Nancy Pelosi seem like Margaret Thatcher) nonetheless announced that a «gay marriage» proposal would get a «conscience vote» in the federal parliament, she was accused by her lefter - than - left opponents of being... undemocratic.

Primarily, however, it is the television industry itself that has been driven by attempts to develop theories and practices which would bring about certain predictable kinds of behavior — to get people to buy a particular brand, to prefer one product over another, to vote for a particular candidate, and so on.

There are many different political systems which engage in the economic system referenced by the Pope and I don't read where the Pope criticises any of them, including ours here in the US which, I assume, is the only one in which Varney gets to vote.

The US is quick to jump on Iran or Pakitan, but in those countries women can: Go to School (including university), Get a job, Vote, Drive Cars, DO NOT have to wear a Burka (hijabs are RECOMMENDED NOT ENFOCED), do not have to be accompanied by a male reletive.