Sentences with phrase «about voting gets»

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It's absolutely clear that whatever the «deal» was when the startup got started about everyone being consulted and having a vote on every important decision, it doesn't usually last beyond the first fundraising.

People get very vested in the decision, and when things start to get hard about the decision we've made, we come back to that vote — if we want to change the vote, we can change the vote, but this was how we voted.»

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.

Under Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act, about 800 counties with histories of racially - discriminatory voting laws — going back to poll taxes and literacy tests — had to get the Justice Department's approval beforehand (a process called pre-clearance) before such laws could take effect.

I wanted to know: Are business owners passionate enough about getting out the vote that they'll promote their candidates through their businesses?

Harwood: Do you think Trump actually believes the things he says about Mexico and immigrants, or is he performing, trying to get votes?

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.

After years of cleaning up her party's name and trying desperately to distance it from her father's racist and anti-Semitic outbursts, it seems that Le Pen believes she has now found the sweet spot between being mainstream enough to get votes but also being seen as enough of an outsider to bring about change.

So I'll ascribe my skepticism about Three Billboards not to mood but to math: I don't see it getting a ton of runner - up votes, so it's going to need a huge number of first - place votes to take the prize.

(There are some outliers: New Mexico, which votes for Democrats, gets nearly $ 2.50 back for every dollar, while Nebraska and Ohio, both Republican, get back only about a half - dollar.)

«Given that it's only about $ 1.50 a day in electricity, and I essentially break even, it's similar to getting a vote in the fork, and also purchasing Bitcoin on an exchange.»

This rush toward a vote in the Senate is a cynical attempt to roll back an important consumer protection before anyone gets straight answers from Equifax and Wells Fargo about the damage they've done to the financial lives of millions of Americans.

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.

«When you get major news like this that is unexpected, as the «Brexit» vote was, it often takes about five trading days to kind of work through the system,» said JJ Kinahan, chief strategist at TD Ameritrade.

They can spew their bafflegab about how they are going to get the pipeline built (in order to pander for votes from the gullible and unwise) but their inaction speaks louder than their words.

«they» are a very scary disgusting group AND the main reason I will vote democrat no matter the nominee — I figure if a republican gets into office the social agenda that no one wants to «talk» about (instead stating the conversation shld.

But if that vote happens, and just as I'm about tell fred he's getting kicked out, we find out his Mom just died, I'm going to wait a few days to give him the news, because on the rarest of occasions I can exercise a thing tact.

But many American Jewish leaders - who know that observant Jews get married under a canopy called a chuppah, not at an altar - and experts on Jewish voting patterns are skeptical about the GOP Jewish offensive.

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.

For one I could point out 20 mispelling errors, «Mormonism» not a word, weird huh.I am a Mormon I do support Mitt and I did in 2008, but religion aside Mitt can get it done, and he has in the past!!!! Obama has failed the USA no doubt about that.Mitt's morals, family values is what America is on.Shame on the people who can't move past that, You (not me) voted on a black man for President and not a Mormon, turns out the Mormon Canidiate coud have changed the whole USA around cool huh.

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.

This is not about trying to force churches to accept us or to marry us, this is about religion waging a campaign against the gay community to demonize us in order to get their voting congregation to pass laws that deny us equal rights.

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.

Speaking of changing to get votes, guess you have heard that Romney is now caring about 100 % of Americans and not just 53 % like a couple weeks ago.

Thirdly, you speak about faith or GOD and you don't get my vote.

But it's hard not to notice that the Romney people are sort of bragging about picking up delegates and not about actually getting votes.

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.

Politics isn't about getting them to vote for Obama.

It's just about getting them to stay home and not vote on election day.

Mostly the article is a series of quotes from ministers of largely African American churches talking about how churches should mobilize their congregations to participate in education — participating on and voting for school boards and generally getting involved.

And those who voted for Trump say, «The left gets more upset about careless rhetoric than the thousands of babies murdered every day.»

So those who voted for Clinton say, «You care more about the balance on the Supreme Court than black men getting shot by police.»

Really Media, the only people that believe in proxy baptisms are mormons, the rest of the world doesn't and that it will not effect anything in the live after... so how really cares about this story... it is just a bunch of anti-Romney (Mormons) trying to get it so that the rest of the US do not vote for Romney.

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,

i don't think it will pass but its just about getting it in the headlines... the next bill will be more to the point and far more misunderstood so it make really make it past the vote.

In 1992, he received only about two - fifths of the modernist vote, with Perot getting almost one - fifth and Bush better than one - third.

It seems that a whole lot of people, both Christians and non-Christians, are under the impression that you can't be a Christian and vote for a Democrat, you can't be a Christian and believe in evolution, you can't be a Christian and be gay, you can't be a Christian and have questions about the Bible, you can't be a Christian and be tolerant of other religions, you can't be a Christian and be a feminist, you can't be a Christian and drink or smoke, you can't be a Christian and read The New York Times, you can't be a Christian and support gay rights, you can't be a Christian and get depressed, you can't be a Christian and doubt.

Quay... churches make a big deal of getting their faithful out there to vote, and case it in pretty verbiage about how it's what God wants.

How about «majority rules» and you beleivers get voted «off the island?»

Rev Wilson told Premier: «It's all about the power of social media to get right to grass roots and get ordinary people to vote and express what they think, that's been a real learning curve for us.

Perry is using religion as a stamp of approval to get votes from «believers» who are: 1) gullible enough to believe this nonsense about hearing directly from God; and 2) those stupid enough to accept that religious beliefs along qualify a person to run a country.

And republicans do not give any care in the world about religion and the bible, they only use it to get votes, so get a grip people.

I'm on the right, and while I certainly don't feel hate towards this woman, it is clear that she is just a token black for Romney to try and get some of the black vote, which he has about 0 % of at the moment.

It also gets a label if it includes any salacious details about sex, (as in Rob Bell's excellent book, Sex God) or, I don't know, smoking a pipe and voting for a democrat (as in Donald Miller's Blue Like Jazz).

This is about gays getting their civil right to marry and it has people talking because those that are voting against it show how clueless they are about the facts on this subject.

I got just about equal votes for each, including one really funny comment after I referred to our gathering as «Mexi - Rican Easter» since we've got some Puerto Rican cousins in my extended family on my stepmother's side.

I get to show you what I'm thinking of blogging about, and you get to tell me how you feeeeeeel about it by either ignoring the pins, or «voting» for your favorites by clicking the ♥ or repinning the photo.

I encourage everyone to find out more about them and their stories and get voting... they need your votes,» added Grenier.

It is not about getting votes: regardless of whether a candidate receives one nomination or ten, each candidate is given equal consideration.

The MTL media has been talking about Subban's fantastic season a lot recently, and I have to assume Subban would get their votes for the Norris right now, at least from most of the journalists.