Sentences with phrase «by council vote»

The society officially changed its view by council vote a little time ago and has entered the recent debate against referral fees with some gusto.

Two members of the Yonkers City Council, Majority Leader Michael Sabatino and Minority Leader Mike Breen, both commented recently that while they have no desire to overturn term limits, or modify term limits to allow a third four - year term, if someone were interested in doing so, they should do it by a referendum and not by a council vote.

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With city data indicating that African - Americans have been charged with marijuana crimes twice as frequently as white residents, the Oakland City Council voted unanimously in March to allocate 50 percent of medical marijuana and cannabis sales permits to people affected by the war on drugs.

«Pending the outcome of the head tax vote by City Council, Amazon has paused all construction planning on our Block 18 project in downtown...

A council resolution needs nine votes in favor and no vetoes by Russia, China, the United States, France or Britain to pass.

Council agreed but cut Ford's victory dance short by promptly voting to do away with plastic bags altogether as of Jan. 1, 2013.

«I can confirm that pending the outcome of the head - tax vote by City Council, Amazon has paused all construction planning on our Block 18 project in downtown Seattle and is evaluating options to sublease all space in our recently leased Rainier Square building,» Amazon VP Drew Herdener told the Seattle Times.

Assange and his attorney said Britain's vote to leave the European Union could complicate his situation by limiting his ability to appeal to the European Court of Justice or the Council of Europe, a European human rights body.

It was enforced by a voting provision that required Abu Dhabi Investment Council to vote in favor of board nominees select board - members put forth, not uncommon in Canada.

But the council itself voted June 29 to reject the application by shale gas explorer Cuadrilla Resources to drill four wells in the region and to use fracking to test their ability to produce gas.

In December, the Los Angeles City Council voted to create a permanent revenue stream for its affordable housing program by slapping a fee on new homes and apartments.

Just last June, the council voted Mississauga's iconic 50 - and 56 - storey Absolute World — the so - called Marilyn Monroe towers — the best tall buildings in the Americas and became fascinated by the extent of the building boom north of the border, says executive director Antony Wood.

With those stats from the city of Oakland's Department of Race and Equity in hand, the City Council voted unanimously Tuesday to overhaul the nation's first equity program to set aside 50 percent of medical marijuana and cannabis business permits during the first phase of permitting for people affected by the War on Drugs.

Submission to the NYSE re: Request by the U.S. Council of Institutional Investors that NYSE adopt a majority voting listing standard in uncontested elections of directors

In May, Seattle's City Council plans to vote on a tax — dubbed the «Amazon Tax» by locals — on the city's largest employers.

Spokesperson Drew Herdener said Amazon has halted all construction planning «pending the outcome of the head tax vote by City Council.»

The number of California cities joining the DOJ has risen by the week since the Los Alamitos city council voted to do so in late March.

The committee decided by 15 votes to 10 to enter into negotiations with the European Council, with a view to agreeing on a common text.

«Pending the outcome of the head tax vote by City Council, Amazon has paused all construction planning on our Block 18 project in downtown Seattle and is evaluating options to sub-lease all space in our recently leased Rainier Square building,» said Amazon vice president Drew Herdener.

There was of course unanimous support for a «No» vote to the anti-labor, pro-creditor demands by the IMF, European Central Bank and European Council.

The school of today is a far cry from the original days as the Faculty of Business, which was created by a narrow margin of just one vote in a General Faculty Council decision in May of 1967.

In a news release Tuesday, the council said the decision follows a vote on Monday by all bargaining committee members to recommend ratification of a proposed mediation - arbitration process.

Late Wednesday morning, Drew Herdener, an Amazon spokesman, said that «pending the outcome of the head tax vote by City Council, Amazon has paused all construction planning» on a large building in downtown Seattle that was scheduled to begin construction later this year.

With the assistance of foresighted men like Msgr. Oesterreicher, and the unofficial but crucial input from Jewish historians and theologians, the declaration — after numerous drafts, several years of intense debate, and even a last second bid by reactionaries to thwart it — was voted on and finally passed at the Council, by an overwhelming margin.

Even the UN Security Council, which offers to its members the «best way to protect their own sovereign rights and national interests» by exercising the veto power, counts the votes of an absent member as an abstention.

In the tense atmosphere of the city council meeting the night of the vote, Presbyterian minister Paul Miller acknowledged that emotions were running high but told the overflow crowd he spoke from «deep pastoral concern»; he then read a prepared statement signed by 18 members of the clergy who decried «the recent efforts to single out a given group... and to seek to castigate them as being unworthy and unfit to belong to our community.»

The controversy raged for two years, the final showdown coming in the 1916 General Council, where trinitarians won by a decisive two - thirds vote.

The council can also block investigations by voting to defer them for one year, renewable indefinitely.

The same is true in Sweden, where the Swedish parliament voted 271 to 20 to condemn a resolution passed by the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe that supported the right of conscientious objection for physicians.

A book written by humans about what they belied to remind themselves what they believe, VOTED non-unanimously in Councils, into the canon had «authority»?

He concluded his statement by saying, «I think, I shall give my vote for integration with sadness of heart and the deepest misgivings because I can not see clearly that it is the leading of the Holy Spirit».37 F. Berkeli (formerly the mission secretary of the Lutheran World Federation) of Norway agreed with Max Warren and voiced the same apprehension about the administrative unity of the two councils.

It's a compilation of dozens of books written by men in the first century, voted into canon by a council of bishops from a selection of - hundreds - of such books after being «sanitized» of anything that didn't jibe with church dogma.

I love that study, it shows how the manuscripts of the OT were put together into what we now have as the OT by the scribe Ezra, and also shows the science of manuscripts, and how the NT that we now have was circulated whole as early as 100AD, and that no council ever voted on what was to be «in» the Bible, because the books of the Bible were dictated by the apostles themselves.

Our class was intrigued by the curtailment of Marian piety that seemed to mark the Second Vatican Council, which, in a famously narrow vote, subordinated Mary to ecclesiology.

The eventual granting of the funds took considerable time for Nill to write a grant application and then go through the process which includes review and vetting by city staff, various application training and work sessions and a final vote by the city council on all applications.

He wasn't voted captain by his teammates, but was on the leadership council and asked for input as much as anyone.

15 - 0 Vote by which the Milwaukee Common Council revoked a law that banned beer drinking in public parking lots, making the city's stadiums and arenas safe for tailgating.

The Chicago City Council is expected to vote Wednesday to ban the plastic chemical additive bisphenol A from food and drink containers that are used by children.

Our campaign action this week was successful as the UN Human Rights Council voted on 26 June to start drafting a treaty on stopping human rights abuses by transnational corporations.

«Today's vote by our Executive Council sends a powerful message,» said Mario Cilento, President of the New York State AFL - CIO.

Residents of LeFrak City in Queens are suing the NYC Board of Elections, saying their right to vote is being denied by the board moving a polling site away from the hotbed of support for convicted felon and NYC Council candidate Hiram Monserrate.

Their method is much more thorough and uses information from local by - elections to estimate the National Equivalent Vote and pays attention to the actual shares of the vote in the different county council divisions last tVote and pays attention to the actual shares of the vote in the different county council divisions last tvote in the different county council divisions last time.

Following an impassioned speech by Gordon Brown, the security council voted to move troops in to protect citizens and diffuse the ongoing violence.

This election, in contrast, was praised by observers as being generally smooth and peaceful, with the country's Constitutional Council confirming Monday that Ouattara scooped 83.66 percent of the vote.

The graphs below show how changes in the shares of council seats won by each party are strongly correlated with changes in general election vote intentions.

First, because age and education are the biggest demographic correlates of referendum vote choice, we have weighted the YouGov respondents in each local authority so that their age and education profile matches that for that council as measured by the 2011 Census.

Third, the Constitutional Committee organized a national election of 25 Constitutional Assembly representatives to draft the constitution, a task that the Constitutional Assembly, renamed Council, completed within the four months assigned to it in 2011 by producing a partly crowd - sourced constitution bill, fully consistent with the conclusion of the National Assembly, and passing it unanimously with 25 votes to 0, a rare feat.

The «public interest» would strongly justify a quick acceptance of the result of the European elections by the European Council to ensure that the citizens feel that their vote made the difference, and that the EU is not that complex and opaque bureaucracy that Eurosceptics want to dismantle.

Rep. Tammy Duckworth, D - Ill., on Monday received the endorsement of the SEIU Illinois State Council, a vote of confidence from labor leaders and a pool of manpower that should help her in the three - way Democratic primary for the Senate seat held by Republican Mark S. Kirk.

In the 22nd City Council District, Costa Constantinides defeated Gus Prentzas and John Ciafone (Gus lost by one vote to Ciafone coming in third place).