Sentences with phrase «several more votes»

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The fate of several state policies that allowed SolarCity to operate had become more uncertain, thanks mostly to hostility from the entrenched utilities, and the company was forced to pull out of Nevada altogether after the state's public utilities commission voted to significantly cut benefits for homeowners with solar.

Together with this, the EP also voted for laws that will target user anonymity provided by several payment card issuers, such as Visa, MasterCard and more.

In fact, Swift made several decisions that served to counter her influence: She deleted a tweet supporting the Women's March, her political voice was limited to a single «go vote» post and her usual public philanthropic efforts were more muted than in years past.

A majority of primary voters preferred a more conservative candidate to the frontrunner Romney, but social conservatives were splitting their vote among several candidates, allowing Romney to win.

Bishop Joseph Imesch, chairman of the pastoral's drafting committee, has made clear» most recently in his report on the status of the pastoral at the National Conference of Catholic Bishops annual November meeting» that the pastoral «process» will continue for several more years, if necessary, and yet another draft is scheduled to be presented to the bishops for voting in November 1991.

Republicans are challenging the 41 - vote margin of victory in court, ensuring the race's outcome remains in limbo for several more weeks.

UPDATE: CityandState's Laura Nahmias has more on the question of Maloney's residency — he has re-registered to vote several times, thanks to redistricting, and in March used a New York City mailing address on one of those forms — and an anonymous response from a Maloney source calling this mailer «bitter, shrill and negative».

And we didn't get it Daniel Wesangula Read more Most of Kenya has remained calm since the vote, but several people have been shot and killed in clashes between police and opposition supporters in poor neighbourhoods in Nairobi, as well as in the western city of Kisumu

After that, Ball has more or less proven himself a reliable vote and loyal member in the Senate GOP fold, as evidenced by leadership's support for him when Assemblyman Steve Katz (one of several intra-party enemies Ball has made over the years) launched a short - lived primary challenge that fizzled after some initial fireworks.

Democratic spokesman Mike Murphy, however, countered more votes were yet to be counted in several races.

Blakeman announced several weeks ago that he has securred more than 25 percent of the weighted convention vote necessary to get onto the ballot.

For all these reasons, I think AV is actually a very good voting system and I would put the referendum result down to several things — an ineffective Yes campaign (if you typed AV into Google, they didn't even come up on the first page of results), lies and smears spread by the No campaign, the association with Nick Clegg, the split in Labour over AV and finally, and not insignificantly, the fact that the Electoral Commission sent leaflets to every household containing an overly complex explanation that made AV look more complex than the insides of a nuclear reactor.

Around the time the Senate reached a deal Wednesday to allow for lunch hour votes on Pompeo, several more members of the Democratic caucus announced their positions.

Several Democratic senators, including Senate Minority Leader Charles SchumerCharles (Chuck) Ellis SchumerHow the embassy move widens the partisan divide over Israel Hillicon Valley: Trump stuns lawmakers with push to help Chinese company Facebook suspends 200 apps over data practices Dems want answers on Cohen payments Senate net neutrality vote coming Wednesday Harry Reid undergoes surgery for pancreatic cancer MORE (N.Y.), have said they will give money received from Weinstein to charity.

That after voters across New York went to the polls on Tuesday to vote for the top office in New York State — along with several other statewide, regional and local... [Read more...]

He's sticking with the conventional wisdom that the bulk of the Democratic primary vote comes from left - of - center voters, although I have heard that idea debunked by several of his opponents, who argue it's more of a Manhattan strategy that a five - borough approach.

Second and third - choice votes can become crucial in several rounds of voting, with one candidate dropping out each time until somebody gets more than 50 per cent.

Budgets are fluctuating documents, and Mr. de Blasio will have several more chances to update his plan before the City Council votes on it in June, after a series of negotiations.

He has been one of the most moderate Republican members of the NY Congressional delegation — voting to raise the debt ceiling several times when more conservative Republicans voted against the plan.

Another piece of his agenda that Cuomo has already announced is his «Democracy Project,» which includes several measures to make online political advertisements more transparent; secure elections from cyberattacks, and improve New Yorkers» access to the ballot box through measures like early voting.

The subsequent Labour defeat was significant for several reasons: the party polled almost a quarter of a million votes more than the Conservatives and their National Liberal allies combined, won the most votes that Labour has ever won (as of 2017) and won the most votes of any political party in any election in British political history, a record not surpassed until the Conservative Party's victory in 1992.

The rally tonight, which lasted several hours and never seemed to attract more than 50 people at a time, was relatively subdued, a stark contrast to the violent protests that roiled Ferguson last week after a Missouri grand jury voted not to indict a white police officer for shooting to death the 18 - year - old Brown.

Unfortunately, the Democrat majority voted to override several of the County Executive's efforts to create a more taxpayer friendly budget, downsize the county government and create savings for the taxpayers of the county with highest property taxes in the nation,» said Minority Leader Jim Maisano (R, New Rochelle).

The news is good: The budget survived several amendments and, in a close vote, emerged more or less intact, well above the funding level specified in the president's budget proposal.

I have no doubt that there were several # 1 votes by Academy voters during the nomination process, but so many other movies were more beloved that year that, as a seasoned awards watcher, to complain about The Passion not being nominated is pretty ridiculous.

Lawsuits are underway in several more places, and I have no doubt that kindred efforts will continue, via both the voting booth and the courtroom.

In March 2015, he joined several other state legislators in publicly calling for more state regulation of charter schools, although none of the three bills he was backing have come to a full vote by the legislature.

The board may need several more meetings before it's ready to vote, he said.

While there are some moves to disenfranchise black people further through fake voting fraud investigations that several states, including Pennsylvania, are rejecting, there are other, more pervasive ways that Black folks continue to be marginalized and their enfranchisement wholly and consistently undermined — namely, denial of access to quality of schools.

Following the school committee vote, several students said they plan to continue advocating for more funding.

A bill (HR - 5674) up for a House vote this week seeks to improve several benefits for VA employees in response... More

Even with a large majority, it is not even clear that cap and trade had any more votes than the 40 or so it had last several (non-recessionary) times that the Senate took it up.

There are several more, in magnitudes of 10, who'd like to [vote to protect the environment] it but find it politically inconvenient or feel it'd create too much angst in certain segments of their constituency.»

A C Corp offers more flexibility because you can have several classes of shareholders with different voting rights.

A C - Corp offers more flexibility because you can have several classes of shareholders with different voting rights.

C Corps offer more flexibility because you can have several classes of shareholders with different voting rights, but there are tax implications.

Several people have drawn parallels between this decision and other, (generally conservative - leaning) decisions on voting rights and abortion rights, particularly in the consistent rejection of facial challenges and in requiring individual plaintiffs return later with more developed facts of particular harms.

There were several more cases in which the Senate considered expulsion but ultimately voted not to, and others in which the Senator in question resigned under threat of expulsion.

Several Democrats said they wouldn't vote for the bill if it included the so - called guardian program, which would put more guns in schools.

Several new features have been successfully added to TRON's blockchain platform including functions to create new accounts, new witnesses for voting, to transfer payments more swimmingly, and many more.

Several others were uncommitted, but as the vote neared, more boards opted out.

Several others actually said they selected «no» because they don't live near a HomeGoods, but when I explained that it would be more about sharing decorating inspiration that could be applied no matter where they shopped, they said they wanted to change their vote too!