Sentences with phrase «continue voting on matters»

Sir Menzies Campbell, former Lib Dem leader, said that although he was a Scottish MP it would be unfair if he was able to continue voting on matters ceded to the Scottish Parliament which no longer affect his constituents.

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Most importantly, church assemblies should reclaim their role as representative assemblies chosen to deliberate thoughtfully on significant matters of Christian faith and life, rather than continuing to act as legislatures that reduce everything to stark alternatives and then make hurried decisions by forced choice majority voting.

By the time Congress gets to a vote on the debt ceiling, the only option available to rational legislators» no matter how conservative or liberal» is to continue enabling the government shopaholic by increasing Uncle Sam's credit line.

«Look, there's a a lot of bills we vote on and the fact of the matter is I have always opposed the pay raise and I will continue to oppose it,» he said.

«That this House notes the ruling of the European Court of Human Rights in Hirst v the United Kingdom in which it held that there had been no substantive debate by members of the legislature on the continued justification for maintaining a general restriction on the right of prisoners to vote; acknowledges the treaty obligations of the UK; is of the opinion that legislative decisions of this nature should be a matter for democratically - elected lawmakers; and supports the current situation in which no prisoner is able to vote except those imprisoned for contempt, default or on remand.»

«What started to emerge was that if the faculty were to vote on these programs, they were essentially voting on financial matters for the school, which jeopardizes their status as laborers, not managers,» Masnyj continued.