Sentences with phrase «few votes of»

New York lawmakers came within just a few votes of enacting a tax credit scholarship system earlier this year.

The Palm Sunday Compromise passed 3 - 0, which is the fewest votes of any bill I know of.

Even the man who received the fewest votes of all against Mr. LaValle, Ira Costell of Port Jefferson Station, said he put his best foot forward.

Not exact matches

So yesterday afternoon, a few hours before the caucuses were due to start, I wrote to ask for reports of their experience, and how and why they voted.

But the only shareholders who can collect the rest of the money that the court deemed their shares were worth are those who voted against the deal, and Magnetar is the largest of just a few investors who did, according to The Wall Street Journal.

If you told her she had to drape her body in a billowing black sack every time she went outside, or that her right to vote was only a right as of a few years ago, she'd tell you you'd lost your mind.

We think a lot about Nixon's downfall in the wake of Watergate, but few recall he won the job by commanding electoral landslides (and even beat John F. Kennedy in the popular vote back in 1960).

There are a few details to work out before the Stamford Board of Representatives will take its vote, including what burdens enforcing the ordinance would put on the local police force.

In 2014, Barcelona - born Scytl, an electronic voting tool, secured $ 104 million in investment; in fact, it's changed the global landscape of political engagement in just a few years.

Romney lost these counties by just a few votes shy of 16,000 after spending time in them.

The question under consideration at that vote was whether he should return a few thousand dollars» worth of donations that the city's integrity commissioner says were improperly gathered.

Speaker John Boehner (R - Ohio) and the rest of the Republican leadership have been unable to settle on a demand that could garner 217 Republican votes to pass the House (normally it's 218, but there are a few vacancies).

Gerard Lyons — one of the few prominent economists to back leaving the EU, and a co-founder of the Economists for Brexit group — told an audience at the Brexit & Global Expansion Summit in London on Monday that by failing to prepare plans for what might happen in the event that Britain voted to leave, Prime Minister David Cameron and Chancellor George Osborne left both the new Conservative government and the British people high and dry.

Earlier this week, Georgia Representative Hank Johnson introduced two bills that he believes will help improve voting security a few years down the road: the Election Infrastructure and Security Promotion Act, which, if passed, would classify voting systems as critical infrastructure to be protected by the Department of Homeland Security; and the Election Integrity Act, which will map out a planned response for voting system failures and control the types of voting machines states are allowed to buy.

The centre - left Social Democrats (SPD), Merkel's current coalition partners who were the second - biggest party in the election, have ruled out a repeat of an alliance with her conservatives, who won the vote but were left with fewer seats.

Second, very few U.S. presidents in recent history have won two elections with a majority of the popular vote.

Business Insider reported on Friday that Bank of America had been lobbying shareholders who own as few as 500 shares in the hopes of winning their votes.

The panel is working on a bill ahead of a May 14 vote, but details about what the plan will contain remain few and far between.

The 104.7 March reading, down from 107.6 in February, remains among the highest in survey history and for the first time since 1982, taxes received the fewest number of votes as the number one problem.

But the more we learn about the negative implications of the Russia sanctions bill, which sailed through the Senate earlier this summer by a vote of 98 - 2, the clearer it becomes that the House will need to play the role of «cooling saucer» to prevent a few loosely written provisions in the bill from scalding the U.S. economy.

Akorn shareholders overwhelmingly voted to approve the merger a few months later and said in February that it does not believe this investigation should affect the closing of the transaction with Fresenius.»

Quite a few of our friends in the foreign policy expert community have ridden their opposition to Trump all the way into Clinton's camp, declaring they will vote for her bid for president.

The Democratic gubernatorial primary is so competitive this year, The Sun's Erin Cox reports, that campaigns and strategists think they may need the support of no more than a quarter of the electorate to win — maybe as few as 125,000 votes.

When you consider how a few thousands votes in a handful of swing states determined the election, this is no small thing.

Many of the challenges standing in the way of growth were exposed when Britain voted last month to leave the European Union (EU), which I've been writing about for the past few weeks.

The company's management team usually votes as proxy for a large number of shareholders, because most shareholders, especially if they only own a few shares, do not attend the annual meeting.

Republicans hold 23 of the Senate's 40 seats (two are vacant), leaving Democrats with too few votes to block bills on their own.

Following the British vote to exit the European Union, global economic concerns, coupled with weakness in the Japanese economy, drove interest rates in Britain, Europe and Japan to fresh lows, prompting a burst of yield - seeking speculation that has driven the S&P 500 Index a few percent above its May 2015 peak.

One of the governance principles is that «Shareholders should be entitled to voting rights in proportion to their economic interest...» In other words, the Group does not favour multi-voting share structures that characterize over 80 companies on the TSX and that have been popular in Canadian IPOs over the last few years (see comments on Aritzia's IPO here).

He's one of the few people who actually voted for Trump and understands Trump's worldview.»

The Phenix City Board of Education voted to buy the property Monday night and has a few options for its future use.

Four - in - five say US made wrong decision in voting to removing internet protections April 4, 2018 — While the internet has grown in scale, influence and importance in the lives of most everyone on the planet over the past few decades,

Prior to the Brexit vote, there was a wide range of valuations but few cheap assets globally, as shown in the chart below.

«I think what we'll see (during the meeting) is some discussion, a vote, and then the release of a rule proposal either the same day or a few days after that.»

The downgrade comes after a rally in risk assets over the past few weeks driven by the U.K.'s vote to leave the European Union on June 23 and the search for yield amid expectations of easing.

Some argue using a permission blockchain would help as it would only allow a few people to fully access the records, but the possibility of having a government official (or just the regular public) know how an individual vote goes against the premise of free and fair elections.

After all, the possibility that bitcoin demand is based upon unrealistic expectations also went mainstream in late 2017 — when more than a few Twitter votes for best Halloween costume of the year went to a guy sporting a bitcoin bubble suit.

-- «Goodbye, neighborhood polling places — 5 counties switch to mega-vote centers,» by CALmatters» Rhonda Lyons: «This election season five California counties are doing away with hundreds of neighborhood polling places and replacing them with fewer «one - stop vote centers» — an experiment sold by Democrats as a way to save money and boost anemic voter turnout from the last midterm elections.»

But if that vote happens, and just as I'm about tell fred he's getting kicked out, we find out his Mom just died, I'm going to wait a few days to give him the news, because on the rarest of occasions I can exercise a thing tact.

Back in the 80s I think it was, when there was a war going on between the fundamentalist wing of the church and those who were merely conservative (and the few who were moderate), one of the fundamentalist leaders gave a speech or sermon in which he said, «If the Southern Baptist Convention votes that pickles are divine, then the professors at our seminaries had better start teaching that indeed pickles are divine.»

A majority in attendance» both Democrats and Republicans» had voted for Barack Obama (a few grudgingly, as they had supported Clinton) but while everyone expressed disappointment (there was not a single voice raised in support of the president) the senior citizens confided a deep sense of betrayal» of their trust being shattered.

It outlines a number of areas for Christians to consider and advises people to vote for a party that is interested in «reversing the accumulation of power and wealth in fewer and fewer hands, whether those of the state, corporations or individuals».

Of the 20 Democrats who voted for a May bill that would ban gender - based abortions, as few as eight are likely to win reelection.

I vote NO to the mosque... not now, not ever... They already have enough churches in NYC... This is being done for spite, plain and simple... get over it and go somewhere else... I hear the middle of Harlem is in need of a few places to pray

Atheists are minority in the U.S. and the world no matter what «secular» sources and polls voted by few thousands of people tells you that were made up by silly atheists dreaming about making America more atheist, unbiblical and unGodly than what it actually is.

Now if he can convince a few Christians that he is «of their faith», he will used seize the opportunity to garner votes.

«Congress has only faced votes a few times on the complex legal and moral questions of whether heinous crimes qualify as genocide — and division is deep about what, if anything, the label mandates the U.S. government to do.»

Even if Labour gave a free vote, which is unlikely, the pressure from Labour constituency activists (not Labour voters) would force most Labour MPs to vote for the change: just a few people of principle will hold out.

As someone who voted for one of the very few pro-life Democratic politicians left in my home state in the last election, I would love for there to be more openness among Democrats to the views of Evangelicals.

Obviously abortion is a lynch pin issue in any election because it is really one of the few issues that hits upon both the religious and secular implications of politics, and I don't usually support or vote for pro-choice candidates.