Sentences with phrase «from voting bodies»

The same can be said of Steven Spielberg's The Post, which was largely anticipated as a shoo - in before its release, but has failed to gain much interest from voting bodies.

Me looking at it from the voting body perspective I think it's going to be a really tight race.

It's certainly not the perfect option for that, having been subject to all sorts of criticism from its treatment of race relations to its arguable redemption arc for arguably its most despicable character to its stereotypical look at small town America (a movie made by an Irish director about the flaws of America seems like it could get an extra boost from a voting body like the HFPA).

Not exact matches

So it's disheartening that the student body at Barnard, a women's college that is part of Columbia University, voted Wednesday to encourage the administration to divest from companies that do business with Israel.

Venezuelan crisis intensifies after vote, arrests Following a disputed election for a new legislative body last weekend, in which voting tallies were reportedly manipulated, and the arrest of two high - profile opposition leaders, Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro faces increased pressure both from within Venezuela and without.

One of the most extraordinary aspects of this referendum was the extent to which bodies which had no business recommending a vote one way or the other took sides: the Industrial Development Authority called for a «Yes» vote, as did the Gaelic Athletic Association, as did the representative organisation of the Irish police in the Republic, the Garda Representative Association — a move which drew a sharp rebuke from Baroness Nuala O'Loan, the legal expert who oversaw the changes in Northern Ireland which improved the policing situation there immeasurably.

While the roots of these splits are deep, the precipitating cause in each case has resulted from majority voting on procedural, legislative, and regulatory matters in democratically constituted governing bodies.

Henry notes that of the almost 500 member synod (the three voting «houses» that constitute the Anglican Church's decision - making body) only 15 are from BAME heritage.

But this power did not come from any ecclesiastical body, or through control of the sacraments, or by virtue of an academic degree or training, or by a majority vote of a church assembly.

The hearings, stemming from a voice vote last November, will study a little - known loophole that circumvents federal laws banning the commercial sale of human body parts.

Minnesota Hockey, the governing body for 40,000 youth hockey players in the state, has voted to continue rule changes enacted last January which stiffened the penalties for checking from behind and boarding and hope for better enforcement.

Minnesota Hockey, the governing body for 40,000 youth hockey players in the state, has voted to continue with the pilot program begun last Janaury that made checking from behind and boarding 5 minute major and 10 minute misconduct penalties.

Also key was an «AIDE Memoire», issued by European Commission to MEPs before the vote, that failed to make the key point that the European Food Safety Authority (the body tasked with evaluating the claim) had seen no evidence of any benefit from adding the ingredient to follow - on formulas.

The MEPs voting for the Resolution were heeding the expert opinions of medical and public health bodies from across Europe, US, Asia and Latin America and from UN bodies, including WHO, UNICEF, Save the Children, the UK Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, the Standing Committee of European Doctors (CPME), the European Midwives Association, Eurochild, Association of European Cancer Leagues, the European Federation of the Association of Dieticians (EFAD), the European Federation of Nurses Associations (EFN), COFACE (the Confederation of Family Organisations in the European Union), EPHA (the European Public Health Association) BEUC (the European Consumers Association), the German Midwives Association, the California Women Infants and Children Association, Sustain's Childrens Food Campaign, the National Childbirth Trust, the Baby Feeding Law Group and the International Baby Food Action Network

The NYC Council's Committee on Finance voted to increase the Council's operating budget to $ 81.3 million, an increase of nearly 27 percent from the current budget, following through on Speaker Corey Johnson's promise to increase internal resources and produce a stronger role for the legislative body in areas such as land use and oversight.

Meanwhile, in case anyone is wondering whether their pestering of voters before they actually vote was a bit dodgy, they assured us they'd got permission from all the relevant bodies.

The mischief embarked upon by the New Patriotic Party (NPP) to discredit the Electoral Commission (EC), has backfired in the party's stronghold of Ashanti Region, with many people disenfranchised from voting in the 2016 Presidential and Parliamentary elections by the Supreme Court decision in the Abu Ramadan and Evans Nimako case, against the electoral body.

«Now we will begin to steer this body in a progressive direction, on behalf of the hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers who voted decisively for a break from the past,» said new Transportation Committee Chair Ydanis Rodriguez (D - Manhattan).

The encomium from Sunder Katwala, of the Fabian Society for the Alternative Vote in the place of first - past - the post (FPTP) elections for the House of Commons is yet another example, first, of a major party's search to consolidate its electoral position, and secondly, of the weakness of campaigning bodies to oblige the parties to open up an honest debate about the alternatives to FPTP.

That plan, according to the governor's synopsis, would be prepared by each county's chief executive and would then be subject to public hearings, critiques from the county's legislative body and local lawmakers, and ultimately a ballot vote by public referendum that would sign the plan into action.

NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg again changes promises on what votes he can provide from Senate Republicans on marriage equality: «Less than a month after defending his support for Republican state senators, saying he could get their votes for gay marriage, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg said conservatives in that body will not support what the mayor termed «our number one priority» at a recent campaign event with gay supporters.

Criticism from him this time will change any body's mind to ever vote his neck back into power... Daabida....!

Following the madhouse in yesterday's New York Senate and the apparent seizure of power by Senate Republicans, Empire State Pride Agenda executive director Alan van Capelle has issued a statement calling for a vote from the legislative body on marriage equality:

Following the madhouse in yesterday's New York Senate and the apparent seizure of power by Senate Republicans, Empire State Pride Agenda executive director Alan van Capelle has issued a statement calling for a vote from the legislative body on ma... Read

He said: «Election Management Bodies in our sub-regions and beyond have deployed technology in one way or another to improve on the processes, administration and outcome of elections, ranging from training and capacity - building for electoral officials, promotion of inclusivity in the electoral process (youths, women, PWDs, IDPs and out - of - country / diaspora voters), the biometric registration of voters, delineation of electoral constituencies, geo - referencing of existing as well as the creation of new polling units, establishment of robust electronic databases, accreditation of voters during elections, actual voting and the speedy and more accurate collation / transmission of results.

The state constitution says the nominations should come from political parties, not legislative bodies, although the council then votes on the selection.

After moving speeches from many supporters on the floor of the New York State Senate, the body voted 24 — 38 to defeat the marriage - equality bill passed three times by the State Assembly.

In the interview with the Observer Mr Corbyn also offered his first public comments on the Court of Appeal's judgement to bar around 130,000 members from voting in the leadership contest in a ruling which upheld the initial decision of Labour's ruling body.

Her name appeared among an informal group of 18 students who signed an anti-union email sent to the graduate student body a week before the vote; 14 of those signatories came from the sciences.

This past weekend, Gravity claimed the Live Action Film award for sound mixing from the Cinema Audio Society, one more precursor voting body whose results could prove prescient when it comes to Oscar's March 2nd endgame.

Apart from anything else, cis actors get an annoying «bravery» bonus from the other cis actors who vote on awards — just as able - bodied actors are rewarded for playing characters with disabilities, playing trans is seen as a demonstration of a cis actor's commitment to the craft.

All of those supporting - actor awards have been unanimously given to Sam Rockwell, who has a bigger, flashier role than Dafoe's — and whose character arc, from witless racist antagonizer all the way to slightly better person, seems to appeal to awards - voting bodies in search of some hope for those currently lost to Trumpism.

Here's the full list of 142 films that featured on our contributors» ballots: (Disclaimer: Luc Besson's Lucy didn't get a single vote - I just like this image of Scarlett sorting through stuff) 71 1001 Grams 12 Years a Slave 20,000 Days on Earth 22 Jump Street 52 Tuesdays A Girl at my Door A Most Violent Year A Most Wanted Man A Touch of Sin Aberdeen Alleluia American Sniper Birdman Black Coal, Thin Ice Blind Blue Ruin Boyhood Calvary Captain America: The Winter Soldier Casa Grande Chef Citizenfour Climbing to Spring Cold in July Danger 5 Dawn of the Planet of the Apes Der Samurai Duke of Burgundy Edge of Tomorrow Electric Boogaloo Enemy Fandry Force Majeure Frank Free Fall From What is Before Giovanni's Island Gone Girl Goodbye to Language Guardians of the Galaxy Haemoo Han Gong - ju Hard to be a God Horse Money Housebound Ida Inherent Vice Interstellar It Follows Jauja Jigarthanda Jodorowsky's Dune John Wick Killers Lady Maiko Les Combattants Leviathan Li'l Quinquin Life Itself Like Father Like Son Locke Love and Terror on the Howling Plains of Nowhere Magical Girl Maidan Man From Reno Melbourne Memphis Mommy National Gallery New World Nightcrawler Norte, The End of History Nymphomaniac Of Good Report Only Lovers Left Alive Over Your Dead Body Pale Moon Peaky Blinders Pride R100 Red Army Seven Weeks Sils Maria Snowpiercer Song of the Sea Sorrow and Joy Spring Stand By Me Doraemon Starred Up Starry Eyes Stray Dogs Texas Chain Saw Massacre The Act of Killing The Babadook The Dam Keeper The Double The Editor The Grand Budapest Hotel The Great Beauty The Great Passage The Guest The Hobbit The Internet's Own Boy The Kingdom of Dreams and Madness The Lego Movie The Missing Picture The One I Love The Overnighters The Penguins of Madagascar The Raid 2 The Sacrament The Second Game The Secret Life of Walter Mitty The Snow White Murder Case The Tale of the Princess Kaguya The Terror Live The Tribe The Wind Rises The Wolf of Wall Street The Wonders The World of Kanako These Final Hours They Came Together Tokyo Tribe Tusk Two Days, One Night Under the Skin Wadjda We Are The Best!

Women disappearing from the Oscar movies, a voting body made up mostly of...

Since the Globes aren't a surefire Oscar predictor — and because the HFPA is a very different voting body from the Academy, which began voting on Oscar nominations two days before the Globes took place — The Post's losses at the Globes don't mean much regarding its chances at the Oscars in March.

They helped establish Sundance as an institution, and the films they later unveiled on the world stage gained crucial external validation from audiences and key voting bodies.

The actions have been varied, from expanding the Best Picture nominee pool to as much as 10 in 2009 to outgoing Academy president Cheryl Boone Isaacs's recent efforts to diversify the voting body.

Running on a platform that focuses on the similarities the student body shares rather than the differences, she tries to garner votes from all sections of the campus.

In another year, his film might have had a shot in Best Picture, filling one of the period slots that are often left open, but Lincoln and Les Misérables most definitely have those bases covered, gobbling up citations from a whole host of voting bodies.

Breakout star Tiffany Haddish has already picked up a best - supporting - actress award from the New York Film Critics Circle, a good indicator that some voting bodies are taking her seriously.

Germany's «In the Fade» has pulled ahead in the precursor race with wins at the Golden Globes and Critics» Choice Awards, but those voting bodies are a far cry from the Academy's foreign film committee, so it's not a lock.

On the one hand, the Academy is working to build itself into the voting body it wants to be, which is to break free from its past,...

Suffice it to say, Emmerich won't be getting much attention from the director's branch this year, nor will Anonymous have even an outside shot at any major voting body's big awards.

This is evident from the fact that more than 90 percent of Chicago teachers voted to authorize the strike and that the union's governing body so mistrusted the administration of Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel that it took two additional days to go over the proposed contract's fine print.

State law specifically outlaws public bodies from using «any manner of proxy voting procedure, secret balloting, or any other means to circumvent the intent of this Chapter.»

The Common Council voted 8 - 1 to approve the arrangement and allocate some of the savings from the move to purchase body cameras for the police department.

With our recognition from both a range of industry bodies and publicly - voted awards, we are grateful for our success.

The award is decided by votes from the entire student body.

We have still failed to receive a response to a vote of no confidence, which includes over 400 members of the student body of a school that's over — that's about a thousand students total, with 200 faculty, and a vote of no confidence from the full - time faculty of the School of Art.

Proponents of the bill, such as the Hemp Industries Association and the nonprofit advocacy group Vote Hemp, argue that hemp products — including food, body care products and textiles — are a multimillion - dollar industry that could benefit California's economy by allowing the raw materials to be grown here instead of importing hemp from overseas.