Sentences with phrase «garner votes from»

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.

He knows how to garner votes from the uneducated, it seems.

The fact that every first world country has some form of social welfare implemented isn't stupid, it's brilliant; it's a sure fire way to garner votes from those that will always vote for whoever promises them more benefits.

Each week, each day finds a new top 5 emerging and looking at the nine men who have garnered votes from the Gold Rush Gang you could make a logical argument for ANY of them to make the the cut,...

Not exact matches

A proposal from an individual investor with 60 shares to «reform executive compensation policy with social responsibility» garnered less than 7 percent of the vote.

Schlafly, again nearly single - handedly, managed to stop the feminist - backed Equal Rights Amendment to the Constitution dead in its tracks in 1982 — a startling feat, given that the ERA had the backing of nearly the entire political and intellectual establishment, Republicans included, and had garnered ratification votes during the 1970s from thirty - five of the necessary thirty - eight states.

Still, even in Florida, Trump only garnered 19 percent of votes from those who chose their candidate based on «shared values.»

Teresa Johnson could see her home - based, soil - free farm in Lake Zurich, Purewater Aquaponics, grow like never before if she garners enough online votes by Jan. 31 to receive a sizable grant from a national produce distributor.

The winning kit garnered a total of 472 votes, beating off competition from the retro hoops (Option 3 - 370 votes) and tartan hoops (Option 5 - 272 votes)

They can pretty much choose anyone they want, just that the candidate can garner enough votes from the officials.

FIrst they have a leader who had never garnered a single vote from anybody outside Kircaldy.

But brief mention of ethics and voting reform garnered only tepid applause from the state's most powerful men and women, gathered to hear Gov. Andrew Cuomo's State of the State address on Wednesday.

The actress and education advocate from Manhattan garnered 28 percent of votes from those polled, with 22 percent abstaining.

The musician has received a lot of backlash and criticisms from Ghanaians after she came out to endorse President John Mahama together with a group calling itself «Celebrities for Mahama» with the aim of garnering votes for the president in the 2016 election.

Incidentally, Sam George and NPP candidate, Sylvester Tetteh, are both from Ningo, and there are indications that if the NPP candidate should amass the votes he garnered in the last election, and ET Mensah and his Prampram folks decide to carry through their threats, the NDC is most likely to lose the seat for the first time to the NPP.

Cuomo faced a primary challenge from Fordham Law School Professor Zephyr Teachout in 2014, who garnered 34 percent of the vote that year.

An April Siena poll showed that a left - leaning challenger to Cuomo from the Working Families Party would garner 24 percent of the vote and cut Cuomo's lead by 19 percent.

From a humble beginning garnering 141,000 votes on ballot Row F, our principles have attracted Empire State voters in sufficient numbers to raise the Party to Row C and twice received over a million votes for our candidate in a statewide election.

Incidentally, both Sam George and NPP candidate, Sylvester Tetteh, are from Ningo and there were indications that if the NPP candidate will amass the votes he garnered in the last election, and Prampram NDC members decide to carry through their threats of voting skirts and blouse, the NDC will to lose the seat for the first time but the NPP lost to Sam George.

Republicans hope, in part, the added ballot line will help garner more votes, especially from disaffected Democrats and non-enrolled independents who are opposed to the standards.

Meanwhile a petition calling for the tycoon to be banned from Britain has garnered hundreds of thousands of signatures (see a breakdown of votes by parliamentary constituency here).

Ulster County GOP Chairman Roger Rascoe said Faso, who garnered 62 percent of the committee's vote Wednesday, «distinguished himself» from the other candidates.

On election day, the progressive Working Families Party garnered 120,000 votes, well over the 50,000 required to maintain ballot status - although it slipped from fourth to fifth position behind the Green Party, which rode a wave of anti-Cuomo sentiment and got 175,000 votes.

He believes the part - time salary of more than $ 42,000 is too high but has not garnered support from his Democratic colleagues to vote to lower the salary.

Cobb also won a straw poll on Thursday, garnering 35 percent of the vote from 72 voters — about half of the crowd, which organizers pegged at 148.

In April, Genting announced plans for its Sterling Forest Resort in Tuxedo, garnering some opposition from area residents and a 3 - 2 vote from the town board in support of the proposal.

According to unofficial results from the city Board of Elections, the mayor captured more than 66 percent of the vote, with the GOP candidate garnering less than 28 percent.

Avella garnered a total of 25,864 votes, while Padavan received 22,781 votes, according to results from the city Board of Elections.

He polled 1,191 votes to defeat PDP's former national spokesman, Prince Dayo Adeyeye, who garnered 770 votes from the primaries.

(Most stupid / amusing nugget: Eve, the eerily Applesque female robot from «WALL - E,» garnered a lone Best Actress vote.)

From a cynical perspective these might well be pre-election ploys to curry favour and garner votes.

Away from the glare of politicians intent on using schools to garner votes, the staff of special schools can quietly focus on what really matters: making their school a welcoming place.

Based on the tenor of the interview, it seemed impossible that Next Generation would garner a thumbs up from the Charter Schools Advisory Board, which comprises eleven voting members that are a mix of frontline charter school leaders along with some who serve on charter schools» boards but may have less to do with the day - to - day operations of the schools.

Sen. Carol Liu's SB 114 received support from all 27 Democrats in the upper house but failed to garner one, minority - party yes vote — all that was needed to meet the two - thirds approval threshold and move on to the Assembly.

The Autobytel 2014 Truck of the Year award is the truck or SUV that garners the highest respect and votes from our editors and honors the overall winner out of the sub-categories.

Enthusiastic librarians from across the country cast their votes, and 10 books emerged victorious, garnering enough nods to land on the official LibraryReads October list, which features the new - in - October books that librarians are most eager to recommend.

Plenty of decent book reviewers are in the top 10,000 and many of them are in the lower ranks as books take time and don't always garner the most «helpful votes» from customers.

As a brief overview, the Management and Board have embarked upon a failed merger that garnered virtually no support from its shareholders, and was opposed by ISS, and continued on that path until the date of the special shareholders meeting and scheduled vote, spending lavishly in a failed effort to close it; attempted to implement substantial new options to itself, a plan opposed by ISS and the shareholders, which was withdrawn; continually paid itself outrageous sums of the shareholders money over the past three years; rejected highly qualified outside board members with deep, broad healthcare company experience supported by its shareholders; held many Board and Committee meetings with nothing to show for it; formed a new Strategic Transactions Committee that is highly paid but that has produced no deals for the shareholders to consider or for any outside valuation experts to formally review; spent lavishly on accountants, auditors and counsel; failed to successfully hire any outside professional negotiators and finally extinguish or remove the outstanding lease obligations; distributed no cash to the shareholders despite holding excess amounts; formed no special purpose entity to hold any royalty and milestone rights and payments for the benefit of its shareholders; and thus generally failed in its fiduciary duties to shareholders.

Riverhead Supervisor Sean Walter has backed Kent's effort, but it's unclear if the proposal can garner three votes on the commission, which comprises representatives from the towns of Riverhead, Southampton and Brookhaven, Suffolk County and New York State.

Beyond the designated nine categories in the New Products Showcase, this product garnered significant votes from buyers overall, and trade show officials felt it deserving of recognition.

A late port of the Japanese game released in 2008, White Knight Chronicles garnered a few votes from those of us enchanted with the idea of a little guy transforming into a giant knight and laying waste to everything he sees.

Indeed, it went on to not only garner stellar reviews from the press but was also voted by Gamespot and Gamespy as the top strategy title and top PC game for 2003 respectively.

I just wish it garnered another vote or two from the usual suspect justices (ahem Scalia) who normally stick to their guns despite precedent.

Th effect of this feature prevented the links from garnering the trust and authority that a normal «vote» would have.

That suggestion was made within the last two days and garnered 2,435 votes from users.

Each year, The Webby People's Voice Awards garners millions of votes from the Web community all over the world.

The show includes third - party online voting, with Season 2 pulling in votes from as far away as Australia and the U.K. With each season, the show gets better and garners more interest from businesses, mentors and possible contestants, he says.