Sentences with phrase «delegates voting»

Some viewers found the previous PMQs at best sedate, or less politely a but dull so we dusted down the Daily Politics Mood Box - used at the conferences to get delegates voting on an issue of the day.

Republican activists at the state convention in Boston strongly backed Baker for their party's gubernatorial nomination with 82 percent of the 2,500 delegates voting for him.

The Associated Press reported Monday Clinton had gained sufficient delegate votes to clinch the Democratic nomination, an assertion many argued was premature.

Robert Tillman, who has run for the seat twice, didn't get any delegate votes.

• Convention near Chicago draws more than 1,000 workers • Delegates vote to use sit - ins and restaurant occupations

Convention delegates voted overwhelmingly to adopt the union's 2019 - 2021 budget.

This means that everything related to the network or the addition of new blocks to the blockchain is done by delegate voting.

At the June 1988 Southern Baptist Convention, delegates voted unanimously to condemn homosexuality as «a manifestation of depraved nature» and «a perversion of divine standards.»»

On Friday, delegates voted 355 to 477 against the proposal, in what is likely a preview of any vote taken on biblical sexuality.

WASHINGTON, DC — The Grocery Manufacturers Association (GMA) today issued the following statement in response to the American Medical Association's (AMA) House of Delegates vote in support of the continued use of genetically engineered ingredients in food and beverage products:

• In a change sure to face legal challenges, the delegates voted to subject Division I - A and I - AA football players, who until now have been tested for steroids only if they were about to play in a bowl or playoff game, to year - round random testing for steroids.

That was the day when Africa's delegates voted to end Issa Hayatou's seven - term reign as head of the continent's footballing governing body, and instead point Madagascar's Ahmad Ahmad in his stead.

Late last month, the Montgomery County (Maryland) PTA delegates voted in favor of a resolution, promoted by Real Food For Kids — Montgomery (RFKM), which seeks to greatly improve the school food in that district.

Some 53 delegates voted against the motion.1

Some states may force delegates to defer to the dropped out candidates endorsement but other states may let their delegates vote freely at the national conventions.

Obviously they would also be free to switch their delegated vote at any time.

If you would feel uncomfortable about your information ability to make an informed choice, you can instead choose to delegate your vote to someone else more informed, say Bill Nye the science guy.

«I am one hundred percent confident that I would have received the 25 % of the Republican delegate vote necessary to get on the ballot, but I am now comfortable that my party is well represented.»

And have the ability to override that delegated vote on issues they disagree.

Obviously the party will honor whoever the delegates vote as their designee.

However what makes it really interesting is that there is a convention that the trade unions will generally reflect the recommendations of the NEC in their conference delegate voting patterns.

Adeyeye condemned Fayose for standing up at a stage during the primary to monitor how delegates voted adding that he complained on the matter to the Chairman of the Electoral Panel, Governor Ifeanyi Okowa.

Delegates voted for two separate motions yesterday — one calling on the government to drop the health and social care bill altogether and the other arguing enough amendments had been made for the Liberal Democrats to now support it.

He gave a speech on the floor while delivering New York's delegate votes at the 2012 convention in Charlotte.

He needs 15 percent of the delegate vote to force an August primary for governor against fellow Democrat Ned Lamont.

The convention did not result in an endorsement because no candidate received the required 60 percent of the delegate votes.

Ganim will be participating in Saturday's state Democratic convention, but has been gathering the signatures as a backup if he doesn't receive 15 percent of the delegate vote.

Ed Cox, New York state Republican chairman, is the man who, after noting that New York was the first state to cast more than 50 percent of its votes for Donald Trump, passed the microphone to Donald Trump, Jr., who proceeded to cast 89 of New York's 95 delegate votes for his father — the votes that gave the man that most speakers referred to as Donald J. Trump a majority of delegate votes and made him the 2016 Republican presidential nominee.

Four years later Greenwich businessman Tom Foley, the 2010 nominee, was the clear favorite for the Republican nomination, winning 57 percent of the delegate vote, though he still faced a primary challenger, then - state Sen. John McKinney.

At the state Republican nominating convention, Romney finished second to state representative Mike Kennedy, who secured a narrow majority of delegate votes.

If the majority of Delegates votes NOTC, then the Citizens Party will not run a Presidential candidate in 2016.

Levy, a Democrat, made an aborted run for governor in 2010 on the Republican line, but failed to get the necessary delegate votes to qualify for a Wison - Pakula.

«When the NDC delegates voted me out in Kumasi, they voted the NDC out of government.

Wearing a seersucker suit and Nixon button, Stone last night blasted the decision to underplay the delegate votes of Rep. Ron Paul, the Texas congressman whose supporters are quite vocal here at the convention.

The delegates voted to back Ruben Diaz Jr. for re-election as Bronx borough president and to support eight other candidates for City Council in the primary [see box].

The UFT delegates voted overwhelmingly on March 20 to support the 60 - member UFT Task Force on School Governance's recommendations to scale back mayoral control of the school system.

The UFT delegates voted overwhelmingly on March 20 to support the 60 - member UFT Task Force on School Governance's recommendations to limit mayoral control of the school system to give more say to parents and communities.

More than 1,000 delegates voted to adopt a resolution which noted that «studies conducted by prominent researchers and renowned education experts show that individual merit pay plans have not helped to significantly improve student achievement in any of the United States school districts where they have been implemented.»

In Germany in 2013, SPD convention delegates voted by 196 votes in favour to 31 against, with two abstentions, before entering coalition talks with Merkel (though party leaders had already themselves ruled out a coalition with the Greens and Die Linke).

New York State AFL - CIO Delegates Vote to Postpone Endorsement Consideration for State Senate and Assembly Monday August 18, 2008 at 01:36 pm

Two delegates voted against the change and three abstained, out...

Delegates voted to end the automatic affiliation of trade union members and introduce a «one member, one vote» system in leadership elections.

Republicans are expected to cast multiple ballots until one candidate gets a majority of delegate votes.

Speaking as the union meets in Brighton for its annual conference, and a day after delegates voted to ballot a quarter of a million civil and public servants for a strike over cuts to jobs, pensions and pay, Mark said:

Baltimore mayor and secretary of the Democratic National Committee Stephanie Rawlings - Blake holds state delegate vote totals during roll call on Tuesday, July 26, 2016, in Philadelphia.

Our correspondent gathered some prominent politicians from the ancient town are already canvassing for delegate votes for Ojodu in order to actualise «Ado Agenda».

The delegates voted in a most free and fair contest, and winners emerged.

George Lansbury, a committed pacifist, resigned as the Leader of the Labour Party at the 1935 Party Conference on 8 October, after delegates voted in favour of sanctions against Italy for its aggression against Abyssinia.

Today at the New York State AFL - CIO's Constitutional Convention, delegates voted to endorse the following candidates for Congress:

One of the GOP's most - touted prospects, Love received 78 percent of the delegate votes and put away the nomination at this year's state Republican convention, according to the Deseret News.