Sentences with phrase «go before votes»

«There are several days to go before votes are held and in those days I'll be working flat out speaking to other politicians from other parties,» he said.

In order to change the constitution, it would require the approval of two consecutively elected state legislatures, and then go before the votes.

But with one week left to go before voting day, Governor Cuomo who came up with idea, has finally started to push for it.

City comptroller candidate Scott Stringer went for the jugular yesterday against rival Eliot Spitzer as a new poll showed the Democratic primary race in a statistical tie with just five days to go before the vote.

With the American Clean Energy and Security Act set to go before a vote in the House later today, and expected to pass, many in the environmental community have taken the position represented by the NRDC, that we need to pass the bill and that it's a (small) step forward.

Not exact matches

A proposed ban on the insecticides went before the European Union last week but was postponed because England and Germany, among other nations, abstained from voting.

Under Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act, about 800 counties with histories of racially - discriminatory voting laws — going back to poll taxes and literacy tests — had to get the Justice Department's approval beforehand (a process called pre-clearance) before such laws could take effect.

But before the company's first AGM last spring, ISS reported that the package went against its guidelines and suggested shareholders vote against.

With days to go before Sunday's knife - edge referendum that the country's creditors have cast as a vote on whether it wants to keep the euro, the IMF revealed a deep split with Europe as it warned that Greece's debts were «unsustainable».

«Leave» backer with a year to go to Brexit: «I am never going to vote again» U.K. voter gets disheartened by a watered - down BrexitAs of Thursday, there is now exactly one year to go before Brits actually leave the European Union.

The worst companies don't receive enough votes to stay in business, and they ultimately go under (but not before getting a $ 536 million loan guarantee from the Department of Energy).

How funny... he managed to pause right at the exit of the church door... for all the world to see him... in a perfectly orchestrated photo shoot... 45 days before voters go to the voting booth.

This could potentially be a historic step towards allowing the first gay marriages in the CofS but Rev Mike Goss from the Barry Parish Church told Premier that even if there is a yes vote, there's still some way to go before ceremonies are conducted.

HelpfulNot Helpful Luke 21:36 ESV / 16 helpful votes But stay awake at all times, praying that you may have strength to escape all these things that are going to take place, and to stand before the Son of Man.»

just go ahead and make obama the dictator, all of you people are morons, afraid that you will be called racists, go ahead vote that Blk «A» hole back in so he can finish his destruction, but it will be a cold day in hell before I ever call obama my president or anything with respect, he can talk to the hand.

Maybe we have to go back way before I was born, when atheists had no voting rights, or had to sit in the back of the bus, or had their own «separate but equal» schools.

I don't know what church you've been going to, but my minister goes to great pains before an election to not mention ANY candidate or particular ballot issue, but instead call on the congregation to read their scriptures (suggesting some references) and pray, pray, pray for God's guidance, as they get ready to cast their vote.

«The Party for the Animals believes that freedom of religion must end where animal suffering begins,» leader Marianne Thieme wrote on her blog before the measure went to a vote Tuesday.

He raised concerns about the GOP candidate's remarks on women, immigrants, and minorities, and went on to say that «there is too much at stake before us» to abstain from voting altogether.

I know there are local churches that regard their minister as a hired man, others that regard him as a functionary to be dealt with today but happily gone elsewhere next year, and even some that get his political voting record and his children's marks in school before they issue a call.

With just days to go before Scotland votes on independence, a Catholic bishop in England says he is hoping... More

Editorial from The Salvation Army Newspaper The War Cry for 5th April 08 Headlines of a prime ministerial change of mind on allowing Labour MPs a conscience vote when the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill goes before the Commons next month have focused on one issue - animal - human hybrid embryos.

He had encouraged people to vote a day before people went to polling stations and said it was «heartening» to see an increased voter turnout.

In a move unprecedented during the last quarter century of organic industry rulemaking, the USDA ignored the NOSB vote in the Federal Register without an opportunity for the public to comment on their decision before it goes into effect.

To vote in the recipe, you can go to the Peanut Board's Facebook page after 12 pm on November 1st and use the contest's tab app to vote before November 30th.

«I was outspoken about this before whenever the vote went the first time around,» he said.

A vote on project is scheduled for Sept. 5 before going to the village board.

With only a few days to go before the water slide «s scheduled opening, the Village Board voted Monday to leave the 34 - foot - tall winding structure of plastic and concrete high and dry to conserve water.

There is no judging panel - each nomination is assessed by safety experts before going to the voting stage.

«He is yet to tell me but I have decided as his wife, that if things continue like this up to 2019, I will not go out and campaign again and ask any woman to vote like I did before.

Reid, and other majority leaders before him, have developed a clever workaround: Just change your vote at the last minute if it looks as though you're going to lose, then move to reconsider.

That is why, before the election was called, it was felt that the key vote in 2017 was going to be the contest over Unite's general secretary role.

Still, polling day was polling day, and I manfully struggled out of bed at 6:30 am for the early morning leaflet drop: with polls opening at 7 am, we were hoping to encourage people to vote before they went to work.

The teachers union had also cut a few checks to the Assembly and Senate Democrats, but NYSUT spokesman Carl Korn said those had gone out several weeks before the Tier VI vote.

But with the midterm elections less than two months away, leaders have not yet decided whether they will schedule a vote on the legislation before voters go to the polls.

Which, within Plurality Voting, as you mentioned before, we frequently can't vote for our honest favorite where we feel that our vote's gonna be thrown away.

With just over three weeks to go before a crucial byelection in the normally safe Tory seat of Rochester and Strood, which Ukip threatens to seize, the poll puts Ukip on 18 % of the national vote, with the Lib Dems on 6 % and the Greens on 4 %.

Washington (CNN)-- A day after divided Senate Democrats had to delay a pre-election vote on renewing tax cuts due to expire at the end of the year, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi Friday still didn't rule out a House vote on extending tax breaks for middle - income Americans before voters go to the polls.

In 1997, the last time New Yorkers voted on a constitutional convention referendum, opponents poured more than $ 750,000 into an advertising and direct mail campaign in the two weeks before voters went to the polls.

And the Lib Dems would be out of their minds to go into coalition before the election — «vote Lib Dem, get Labour» did for them in 1992, and it wasn't even true then.

After an hour and a half debate in the house before a vote on tolls was tabled, toll supporter State Representative Matt Ritter ceded, «We're going to fall short today.»

«Prince» Anthony Weiner is in big trouble, the voters in his district are «MAD» at «Big Brother» Obama, Washington DC, etc, etc, and they see voting for the Republ - I - CAN as a way of sending a message «We are not going to take it anymore», plus I am sure there are many people who live outside the state and have seen the «PRINCE» in action on CNN < C - SPAN, etc and will be willing to send a check to him as a way of saying «BYE BYE WEINER» Before there was the «Oracle at Delphi» there was Count Vampire J. Machiavelli VJ Machiavelli http://www.vjmachiavelli.blogspot.com No More Schumer, Pelosi, Rangel, Engel «After Four Years of Scandals it is time for the Lazio Team»

Besides VOIP, good ol' spam will also work nicely — let's us go tell some voters that their polling places have changed or that they need to renew their registration before they can vote.

He added, «The legislature is now running for re-election and what we're saying is we want a legislature that will pass the Women's Equality Act and we have a right to know who's going to pass it, who's not going to pass it before we vote.»

«Nobody that has gone to prison or has been convicted that has served in this body has been convicted of anything having to do with independent expenditures,» said Sen. Diane Savino, before voting no.

Mr. Cuomo's budget proposes forcing all projects receiving such funding to get the approval of the Public Authorities Control Board — the three voting members of which are himself, Mr. Heastie and State Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan — before going forward.

That's a stretch — but the skirmish nonetheless is putting the fight to set voting rules for the presidential election on center stage, eighteen months before voters go to the polls.

«Pension forfeiture is necessary and long overdue and I am very pleased to have voted in support of the measure so that it can now go before voters this fall for their final approval.»

It appeared unlikely as of Friday that Pomepo's opponents would go so far as to force Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell to make procedural moves to discharge Pompeo's nomination from the committee before a floor vote.

So I owe both both my constituents, my country and Chuck Hagel the obligation to sit down and ask him about the things I'm concerned about and I will do that before I determine how I'm going to vote.»