Sentences with phrase «are voted through»

Perhaps because of this concerted engagement effort, spending on schools is popular and most substantial bond programs are voted through.

Eurocrats want member states to resettle 160,000 refugees from Greece and Italy under a forced allocation system, which was voted through in 2015 despite opposition from Eastern European countries.

It was already becoming clear that actual support for the Bill would be the official (though cravenly unexpressed) Catholic line, even before the Bill was voted through the Commons.

Tory MP Mark Reckless» amendment demanding that the prime minister adopts a negotiating position calling for a real - terms cut to the EU budget for the 2014 - 2020 period was voted through by 307 votes to 294.

AMs will be able to draw up their own laws in Wales, although these will still need to be voted through in Westminster.

In early February, at about the same time the Council was voting through raises for all city elected officials, Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito provided Council members with about $ 29,500 each in additional funding for their offices.

And, suddenly, it is not to be effected (unless the deputy prime minister backs down or the revision can be voted through anyway: the latter event appears to me to be even more unlikely than the first).

Low point of #PMQs has to be Cameron telling us he is «delighted» tax credits cuts were voted through again last night.

Today the PM said he was «delighted» they were voted through.

David Cameron has just told Commons he is «delighted» tax credits cuts was voted through again last night.

The Labour Government returned to this issue in 2001 and whilst the then leader of the House, Robin Cook, confirmed that this was a House of Commons matter, through the mechanism of a motion in Parliament, certain allowances were voted through by the Labour majority.

A police oversight bill sponsored by City Council Member Jumaane Williams unanimously sailed through the Council's Committee on Oversight and Investigations on Tuesday, and is all but certain to be voted through the full City Council on Thursday.

The controversial policy document was voted through by the conference, freeing the leadership to downgrade policies, such as the abolition of tuition fees, to aspirations rather than commitments.

David Cameron's proposal to open up the Conservatives» powerful backbench committee to ministers has been voted through - despite strong opposition.

Bleary - eyed legislators from both houses expressed optimism that they would be voting through the final bills Wednesday afternoon, but Cuomo emerged at 6 p.m. — without Democratic Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie or Republican Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan — to inform the public that there was no deal.

Carry on talking Importantly, engagement doesn't stop once the Bond Programme is voted through.

Both bills provoked the ire of committee Democrats; both were voted through with a Republican majority.

But although the policy was voted through by a near unanimous 35 to 4 majority, city planner Jim Keogan had notified councillors prior to the vote of potential legal concerns over the policy, and argued that he couldn't put such a policy in the plan.

The recapitalisation plan was voted through at the end of July, when partners agreed to commit in excess of # 14m, a move described by the firm as the third stage of its «strategic plan to strengthen its EUME business».

Not exact matches

Although it moved through the Democrat - controlled House in 2010, it stalled in the Senate because of procedural problems and was never voted on.

While I.S.O. proceedings are generally confidential, new standards must go through many stages, with many rounds of voting — first with smaller working groups and then with full national delegations.

But this latest effort may not succeed given the tight time constraints and skepticism from Senators like Arizona Republican John McCain, who has been insisting that any health care legislation go through a bipartisan committee process in regular order (rather than a pure party - line vote).

The Senate speaker of the house is elected through a voting process that requires a simple majority in a run - off ballot.

Stein has argued, without evidence, that irregularities in the votes in all three states suggest that there could have been tampering with the vote, perhaps through a well - coordinated, highly complex cyberattack.

There was way more than we saw through the [former Pennsylvania Gov. Tom] Corbett election, the Romney election — they really projected each county their vote total they wanted to get.»

He knows it's an uphill battle: Republicans appear to have the votes to pass the legislation through the House and Senate, and are aiming to get the law on President Donald Trump's desk as early as Wednesday.

Stories on the U.S. election tend to focus on national polls, ignoring the fact that the president is chosen through the electoral college, not a popular vote.

That list is then honed, eliminating long - shot candidates, and goes through a double - elimination vote among physicians and venture capitalists.

Porsche is the chairman of Porsche SE, the holding firm through which the Porsche and Piech families control the majority of VW's voting shares.

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

Congress in December authorized continuing the program through 2021 at $ 300 million a year, although separate annual votes are needed to provide the money.

It's more than a little ironic that Facebook (fb), which has become a powerful media entity, is controlled in much the same way through multiple - voting shares owned by Mark Zuckerberg and his family.

And no prospectus has been filed on the deal, which shareholders have yet to approve through a vote.

Each business must receive at least 250 votes from Facebook users through the contest website to be considered.

How Each Works Sweepstakes winners are selected randomly through a drawing while contest winners are selected by an official evaluation process such as audience voting or requiring participants to meet a set of quantifiable criteria.

Nonetheless all the directors were reelected by wide margins at the company's annual meeting last year, reflecting how Redstone controls a supermajority of the company's Class A voting shares through his holding company, National Amusements.

Tesla shareholders are due to vote on March 21, and the company needs majority approval for the proposal to go through.

The eight members of the Beaudoin - Bombardier family — heirs of Joseph - Armand Bombardier, who invented the snowmobile — control the company through a dual - class share structure that gives class A shares, 54 % of which are owned by the family members, 10 votes apiece.

Through traditional advertising avenues — television, print and outdoor — consumers are being asked to submit ideas for props and set locations, to audition for parts, and to vote on the soundtrack at the brand's website and Facebook page.

The Senate Education Committee voted Tuesday to include the requirement in a sweeping education bill that is now moving through the legislature.

If a strike is made during election day that prohibits voting or redirects the focus off the democratic process through fear and spectacle though, leaked documents are likely the least of the culprit's worries.

«There are definitely people who say, «Yeah, I want it legal, but I don't want it next door,»» said Adam Chapdelaine, the town manager of Arlington, where residents will soon vote on whether to extend through December a moratorium that was due to expire in June.

If you hold your Salesforce common stock through a broker, the broker may be prevented from voting shares held in your brokerage account if you have not given the broker voting instructions with respect to your shares (resulting in what is referred to as a «broker non-vote»).

And the vote is just the start of lawmakers» attempts to target years of federal agencies» decisions through the Congressional Review Act, the GOP's new favorite deregulatory toy.

If you vote through the Internet or by telephone, there is no need to mail your card.

Although the Conservatives later replaced the Canadian Building Incentive Program with a similar program, the new one is more limited in scope with a smaller budget — typical of the cuts Harper made to many climate related initiatives that had been proposed and voted through in Parliament under the previous Liberal government.

If you do not provide voting instructions to the plan trustee, your shares will be voted in the same proportion as the shares beneficially owned through our 401 (k) Plan for which voting instructions are received, unless otherwise required by law.

Those stockholders whose shares are held beneficially through a brokerage firm, bank, trust or other similar organization (that is, in «street name») also may attend and vote at the Annual Meeting by obtaining a legal proxy provided by their broker, bank or other organization and bringing that legal proxy to the Annual Meeting.

If your shares are held through either the Company's 401 (k) Plan or Stock Purchase Plan, then Broadridge Financial Solutions, Inc. (Broadridge) will send you a «voting instruction form and proxy card» to designate your proxy to vote your shares.

Under so - called majority - of - the - minority voting provisions, a majority of shares, excluding Michael Dell's roughly 16 percent stake, must be voted in favor for the buyout to go through.