Sentences with phrase «biggest voting block»

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Poland's biggest political standoff in years began on Friday when opposition lawmakers objected to plans by the ruling Law and Justice (PiS) party to curb media access to parliament, and blocked the plenary hall podium ahead of a budget vote.

A vote on the measure was delayed for hours after Democrats revolted against provisions to roll back part of the Dodd - Frank financial reform law and allow more big money political donations, while conservative Republicans objected because the measure did not block funds for Obama's immigration order.

For some strange idiotic reason, people think that the Black vote is one big block vote as they do with the Latino vote.

Are the Mormons going to vote as one big block now?

It has a large contingent of delegates on Labour's National Policy Forum, and wields a block vote at annual conferences that is almost as big as the votes of all the constituency Labour parties.

Cuomo and the state Legislature must prove to the voters before November they believe in actual democracy, by enacting significant reforms that block the big - money billionaires and lift up the voices and votes of everyday New Yorkers.

The 112th Congress made a record - breaking 191 votes to kill air pollution rules, protect Big Oil subsidies, and block efforts to fight climate change, earning it this dubious distinction:

As endorsed by Core developer Peter Todd, bitcoin holders could vote on the block size with the bitcoin they control, meaning the biggest stakeholders in the Bitcoin economy would have most of the influence on the block - size limit.

The update also introduced the code for bigger blocks which had already been approved by a vote of masternode owners in 2016.