Sentences with phrase «actually voting on it»

The surveyed elector may change his or her mind between the survey and the election, they may be deliberately lying, they have no intention of actually voting on the day.

The lack of cloture prevents the Senate from actually voting on the bill.

Well I think that a republic is technically when leaders are elected to represent the people, and democracy is when the people are in charge and actually vote on their own laws.

They actually voted on which texts were canonical and which were not.

«It was one of the first bills I actually voted on when I finally got seated and I found it very ironic here I was in a gerrymandered district that had been drawn by for Republican Party and here I was voting for this and I stood up and said I don't support this because it enshrines our gerrymandered districts in the constitution and it's not an independent panel.»

«The people who are committee members who actually vote on the chairmanship, they respect that.

«The real question is do those young voters feel the Bern enough to come out and actually vote on Tuesday?»

While «masses» may overstate the 60,000 or so Republicans scattered across the city who may actually vote on primary day it's still a sizable group that Massey will need to persuade.

«He will not know until he is presented with maps to actually vote on,» said the spokeswoman, Lupe Todd.

The problem has been securing an opportunity to actually vote on the bill, a decision made by the all - powerful and often unyielding Assembly speaker, Sheldon Silver.

We'll then get the chance to actually vote on the amendments.

Then we're told two weeks from now, at their next regular meeting, they could actually vote on the suggested tax cap override.

The cloture vote is required to pass first in order to be able to actually vote on the bill.

Indeed, by controlling the calendar, the Speaker has the ability to influence legislation far more than if he actually voted on it.

In the BES face - to - face surveys we will be matching respondents to the marked electoral register showing whether or not they actually voted on Election Day.

Mr. Jeffries also questioned Mr. Astorino's presence at the press conference, which is being attended by several members of Congress who, like Mr. Jeffries, will actually vote on the transportation bill, including Republican Congressman Daniel Donovan and Democrats Congresswoman Nydia Velazquez and Congressman Jerrold Nadler.

Delegates are the people who will actually vote on the floor of the Democratic and Republican conventions to select their party's nominee.

But it's hard to measure how many people will actually vote on the amendment at all.

A.A.: Yeah, the kids actually vote on them and the top vote wins.

«I suddenly had this idea for a store where all profits go to good causes, and the customers actually vote on the causes,» Marron tells mbg.

Those are four very different groups, with little overlap among them and virtually no overlap with the Academy members who will actually vote on this year's Oscars.

But if people actually voted on the issue, politics could drive change in education.

Not exact matches

Friday morning Londoners, who voted by and large to remain in the EU, were walking the streets with a stunned look, and what's even odder (for English people, at least) actually talking to strangers in cafes and on trains, discussing how such a thing could happen, what would happen next, and who was to blame.

Local Motors lets amateur designers submit designs for new cars, and will actually build micro-factories in regions where demand is highest — once a vote on designs is tallied.

In this one lunch alone, we covered electric cars, climate change, artificial intelligence, the Fermi Paradox, consciousness, reusable rockets, colonizing Mars, creating an atmosphere on Mars, voting on Mars, genetic programming, his kids, population decline, physics vs. engineering, Edison vs. Tesla, solar power, a carbon tax, the definition of a company, warping spacetime and how this isn't actually something you can do, nanobots in your bloodstream and how this isn't actually something you can do, Galileo, Shakespeare, the American forefathers, Henry Ford, Isaac Newton, satellites, and ice ages.

Such conversations can reveal which issues your shareholders actually care about — maybe board diversity isn't even on their radar, and won't be a deal - breaker come vote time.

Despite talking for a month about an option to bypass leadership's stonewalling on DACA legislation and saying he had the votes to do so, California Republican Rep. Jeff Denham refused to say if he would actually use it at a press conference on the issue Wednesday.

Next week, the EU is expected to vote on the Fuel Quality Directive which would assign a higher emissions rating to Alberta oilsands than to other sources of crude oil, including some which may or may not actually have higher emissions than oilsands oil.

«Unlike almost every House member who voted in favor of this memo's release,» Warner added, «I have actually read the underlying documents on which the memo was based.

I tend to vote for people with like POLITICAL views and will actually make the attempt to better the country with the bare minimum of the usual Partisan CRAP that has been going on..

He or she did not say that there was a hatred for Mormons, merely such a huge philosophical difference (which as described as brmt04 is actually bigotry on the part of Mormons, and this Mormon in particular) that it would not be possible for brmt04 to vote for a Mormon.

Boehner is manipulative and a hypocrite — actually helping the oil companies by handing out their campaign checks for them right there on the house floor (you couldn't make this up) before a related vote.

On an interesting side note, back in my fundie days, I refused to vote for the politicians that supported marriage equality and even wrote a letter to my member to that effect; the only thing I ever felt strongly enough about to actually write rather than be content just signing my name to a petition.

You also have people who can register as a specfic party and run on a ticket to strengthen their careers and yet they only espouse one or two things that could count them into the party in the first place.There's also a huge issue of people really thinking that a vote for a 3rd party candidate is a waste, If the only way you feel your vote matters is by voting for one of 2 parties (even if you are unsatisfied with both) does it actually matter?

When you pro-life contradictions stop acting like life begins at conception and ENDS AT BIRTH, when you stop using abortion as a political wedge issue to shore up votes and show that you actually understand and act on ALL the complex issues at work, you might actually find others more sympathetic to your alleged cause.

Clinton achieved the former goal and made some progress on the latter, expanding his vote share by 6 percent (from 43 to 49), although the decline in turnout (from 55 to 49 percent nationally) meant that he actually gained relatively few new votes.

He improved slightly on Bush's share of the presidential vote, moving up from 38 to 41 percent, but because of the overall decline in turnout, actually polled fewer votes.

Maybe the media should focus on the real issues instead of the religion of the candidates we might actually get some info to use for making an intelligent decision in the voting booth.

People might actually have to * gasp * do some research on who they're voting for instead of saying «He's an X like me, I'll vote for him.»

The founders of Black Lives Matter refute these 11 stated misconceptions about their movement; they ignore Black on Black crime, they're leaderless, they have no agenda, they're a one - issue movement (Police brutality), they don't respect their elders, they reject the Black Church, they don't care about Queer / Trans lives, they hate White people, they hate Police officers, politically speaking their focus should be the vote, and they're not actually a movement.

Actually, on election day, instead of voting, I am going to invoke the power of prayer and spend the day praying as I know that this will get more people out to the polls to vote for Mitt Romney.

SI.com's Sam Amick did a quick survey of front office types on the most popular prospect behind Davis, and Beal actually tied Robinson with six votes, with Michael Kidd - Gilchrist falling behind.

As a result, the team voted on by fans and the team that actually takes the field are extremely different.

I did nt actually vote, so maybe it is not my place to comment on the results but personally I think Gio, Auro were over valued while Bradley and Vazquez were undervalued.

For example, Clarence Thomas and Ruth Bader - Ginsburg actually voted similarly 70 % of the time, and they are the pair least likely to agree with each other on cases.

When they know that we'll show up on voting day and make our voice heard, they'll be far more likely to address the issues that concern us when they're actually in government.

After having everyone vote on the categories, the teachers then went out and actually bought a little trophy that said, «Most likely to not pay attention.»

All of this means that Cameron finds himself in a fairly tricky position, having to rely on mobilising Remain votes from large numbers of people who voted against him last May while hoping that the leader of the Labour Party will actually stand up and make a direct and unequivocal plea for voters to keep Britain in the EU.

«Anyone you vote for as mayor will take action on housing, will take action on policing, will take action on transport, but we are the only party proposing to do it in a way that actually incorporates the needs of everybody in the capital,» she says taking a seat in the top of floor of the WEP's studio, nursing a cup of tea as another April shower lacerates the windows.

Meanwhile, the Tories vote share across London actually went up slightly on 2010.