Sentences with phrase «voted word of the year»

Voted word of the year by the linguists of the American Dialect Society in 2007, this had to be the only occasion on which the mention of the word drew acclaim.

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One of the governance principles is that «Shareholders should be entitled to voting rights in proportion to their economic interest...» In other words, the Group does not favour multi-voting share structures that characterize over 80 companies on the TSX and that have been popular in Canadian IPOs over the last few years (see comments on Aritzia's IPO here).

A man spends years and years listening, and praising, the words of a racist extremist, then when he needs votes, he does a 180, and you call it evolving?

Yep you are right, I moved down here in the state of Mississippi, north of Crystal Springs from Chicago when I was ten years old but still I visit once in a while, now it's twenty years and sad to not much has change, like the parts you said about non-whites discrimatory or rasicts at other non-whites, when I went to school here they treated me as a alien from another galaxy, they pick at my voice cause I didn't had that southern dialog, unlike them I said my words correctly, but not just me, they even hated at others who had better intelect I am not picking at them, It is what I went through all these years, Mississippi and mainly this small town of Crystal Springs see America in a crazy awful view, They don't like difference that even within they own race, ther not that politcal, when some one say God they got there vote, I don't to say much to waste your time, I still remember when I was ten years old I had a constanct back ground check on me to see were I really come from evn though I had the paper saying Chicago Illinois barely no jobs but a church on every street for a town barely under five Thousand, till this very day, they look at me like I am a alien, did you ever had that experiance down here damn my keybroad mess up,

Washington (CNN)-- Democrats voted to update their party's platform Wednesday evening at their convention to include a reference to Jerusalem being the capital of Israel, as well as the insertion of the word «God,» neither of which was included in their platform this year but was in previous platforms.

CNN: Democrats update platform with Jerusalem, God reference Democrats voted to update their party's platform Wednesday evening at their convention to include a reference to Jerusalem being the capital of Israel, as well as the insertion of the word «God,» neither of which was included in their platform this year but was in previous platforms.

Instead, I voted to approve the draft standard because, without an established standard in place to regulate the headgear that has come on to the market in recent years (none of which, according to US Lacrosse, has been developed based on scientific testing, and none of which the organization - the governing body for both the men's and women's game - has endorsed), consumers are essentially «buying a pig in a poke»: in other words, without a clue as to whether the product they are buying has any safety value at all.

Only five years ago Beppe Grillo, a stand - up comedian and the founder of the Five Star Movement (M5S), launched his parole guerriere (warlike words) and M5S obtained a remarkable 25 % of the national vote in its first electoral showing.

Four assemblymembers recorded no words during floor debates this year: Karim Camara (who left to join the Cuomo administration in February), Sam Roberts (who also joined the Cuomo administration, but not until the closing days of session), Barbara Clark (who missed most of this year's votes to deal with a personal tragedy) and Peter Lawrence.

«Mark Grisanti betrayed us and the people of his district when he broke his word and voted to redefine marriage last year,» said Brian Brown, NOM's president.

In other words, if the fiscal year was the calendar year, the country would run for an entire year on a budget voted on by PREVIOUS Congress - which is precisely what we are edging towards anyway given the 1976 2 month shift and your note about budget «tardiness» of late.

Not voting tonight will not cost the taxpayers an «additional $ 250,000», his words, because what he conveniently omits from his public statements on the issue is that even if we do apply the premium to the deficit he is still going to be short of cash this year and he will still have to borrow money through short - term borrowing.

(Entertainment Weekly critic Chris Nashawaty voted the movie one of the worst of the year and called the film's story «as narratively coherent as your average funny - pages word jumble.»)

Grayson Perry: Divided Britain Scotland on Sunday (Edinburgh, Scotland); May 28, 2017; 277 words... Meanwhile, for TV viewers the artist continues examining the emotions, beliefs and desires that drive our loyalty to political tribes nearly a year after the vote which took Britain out of the European Union.Channel 4, Tuesday, 9 pm

Last year it got so far, that the socienty for the german language (GfdS) voted the term «Klimakatastrophe» as the official «Word of the year», the term that dominated media and public discussion.