Sentences with phrase «huge votes for»

There was also a huge vote for something spicy, from snickerdoodle to ginger to pumpkin spice.

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«This is a major event for GetGlue, a big vote of confidence from investors, and a huge opportunity to continue to play a defining role in the social TV space,» said CEO Alex Iskold in a blog post.

London, which has predominantly polled as Remain, is putting up some huge marginal votes for staying in the EU, such as:

She questioned whether a single revelation could have persuaded some voters not to vote for Trump, saying «there's been a huge erosion of trust» as media outlets had allowed themselves to «become discredited» by partisans and politicians seeking to engage in a battle of disinformation.

Nelson Peltz's Trian hosted a lunch for DuPont shareholders in advance of the company's proxy vote that could bring huge change to the chemical giant.

«Given the huge amount of volatility next week in case of a Yes vote, the Bank of England would have put high pressure on the banks to move south for the purposes of preserving financial stability and confidence,» said Ronald MacDonald, a political economy professor at the University of Glasgow.

Hoping to emulate her father's huge upset in the 2002 presidential elections, in which he progressed to the second round of voting before losing to Jacques Chirac, Le Pen started campaigning for the 2012 presidential elections almost as soon as she became party leader in 2011.

Clark and her government are totally manipulative as they dispense spin to a seemingly gullible public on how great they are for the environment - the current carbon tax of $ 30 a ton has remained frozen for years and recently they have approved a huge LNG project and will no doubt OK the Kinder Morgan pipeline - and there is pretty good chance the good citizens of this province will eat up all the propaganda and vote them back in!

People can believe what ever they want, what Mormans believe will not be a huge consideration in whether or not I vote for Romney if he is the nominee.

He or she did not say that there was a hatred for Mormons, merely such a huge philosophical difference (which as described as brmt04 is actually bigotry on the part of Mormons, and this Mormon in particular) that it would not be possible for brmt04 to vote for a Mormon.

They give huge donations (bribes) so that «the flock» in turn will vote for them.

You also have people who can register as a specfic party and run on a ticket to strengthen their careers and yet they only espouse one or two things that could count them into the party in the first place.There's also a huge issue of people really thinking that a vote for a 3rd party candidate is a waste, If the only way you feel your vote matters is by voting for one of 2 parties (even if you are unsatisfied with both) does it actually matter?

-- I voted for obama and although i do nt think he's doing a great job — i think he's doing the BEST he can — and i give that guy HUGE CREDIT!!

Piper refers to Trump's «divisive rhetorical style... and his reckless Twitter form of leadership,» and says, as his third point, that a «huge percentage» of white evangelicals voted for Trump «even though the character issues were screaming to be taken more seriously» (Statistically, around 80 percent of white evangelicals voted for President Trump in the 2016 election.).

«[The elite] know that Muslims will never vote for a party with Christian roots, so with the huge volume of Muslims, the conservative parties will be crowded out of power.

American evangelicalism has become this huge voting bloc — for right or wrong — with the potential of swaying entire elections.

I didn't end up winning, sadly, but I want to give a huge thank you to everyone who took the time to vote for me, and, of course, all of you who support me here by reading my blog!

Bellfield brewer and head of business development Kieran Middleton, said, «This is a huge coup for us, coming just seven months after we first launched our beers and a great vote of confidence in the quality and appeal of our beers from a major industry player.

His campaign barbecues had drawn huge crowds, but as he lamented, «Everybody that ate my barbecue I don't believe voted for me.»

The FIA has given a huge vote of confidence in the ability of the 2018 cars to overtake each other by adding a third DRS zone to the Albert Park circuit for this weekend's race.

Arsenal midfielder Jack Wilshere was something of a surprise for the Match of the Day Goal of the Season award last night, taking the prize after a huge surge in Gunners fans votes.

If you're game for «surf & turf,» from a huge action - adventure waterpark to championship golf for the whole family, look no further than Beaches Ocho Rios all - inclusive resort, voted among the Top 10 Best Beach Resorts by Parents magazine.

This is a huge vote of confidence in the credibility of British Government debt and a major source of stability for the British economy at a time of exceptional instability.

«It could be a positive experience for Britain if we get it right, but if we get it wrong it'll be a negative one and it carries huge risks to the economy — including areas that voted to leave much more than others, like my own.

Then comes Dennis Skinner, who gets huge laughter from the Tory benches for regretting the nation not following him in voting «no» in the 1970s.

He has called for «huge restrictions» on abortion and voted against same - sex marriage.

Regardless of how one feels about the subject of the Indyref vote, it was a huge victory for democracy.

This approach presents a problem for the Labour leadership who have pursued a policy of «constructive ambiguity» in order to balance affluent middle class remainers with huge swathes of the electorate in its northern heartlands who voted to come out.

Angered at the huge spending increases at the center of the deal, Paul delayed passage for hours with a demand to vote on an amendment that would keep in place strict caps on spending that the deal would raise.

And I don't think there's any way of picking «people who voted Conservative» (for example) and getting them to choose the Tory candidate without HUGE privacy issues...

As the «Yes camp gained ground in the polls last week, Murdoch said a vote for independence would be a «huge black eye for whole political establishment» and then added: «Everything [is] up for grabs».

A: New Labour achieved 16 % of the popular vote under the almost as dreadful PR system having enjoyed a huge majority under the old system for ten years.

• NIck Clegg's email to Lib Dem members last night describing the Lords vote as «a huge triumph for our party» (on the Guido Fawkes blog).

In terms of vote share, election night was a huge success for Ukip — it won 13 % of British voters, comfortably vaulting past the Lib Dems into third place on votes cast.

And then (this part is new and part of Paladino's pre-primary media blitz), the focus turns to the «former liberal Congressman Rick Lazio,» who «voted for higher taxes and increased federal spending» and «took a $ 1.6 million bonus from a huge Wall Street bank getting a $ 25 billion - dollar taxpayer - financed bailout.

And they know that if they vote for a Green MP there's huge risk they'll end up with a Tory MP for Brighton Pavilion and a Tory government.»

It ain't — even if a huge chunk of union members live outside the city and thus can't vote for de Blasio anyway.

The mass defection of the Ukip vote to the Tories in Leave areas could store up huge problems for Theresa May, placing the prime minister under even more pressure to deliver the kind of clean Brexit that her new backers, the ex-Ukippers, crave.

For example, would you like to see a tube full of people holding up Metro on polling day with «Vote Labour» in huge letters?

The leader of the United Jewish Organizations of Williamsburg is a powerbroker in the Hasidic Jewish community who can deliver a huge bloc of votes for his chosen candidate.

The levels of turn - out for elections to its board of 53 elected members was not huge — 44 % of the electorate voted in elections across the 13 inner - London boroughs — but much better than turnout in elections for more recent devolved positions of authority, such as police commissioners.

Democrats, now only one vote shy of a majority in the Senate, say a still - hotly - contested battle between Clinton and Sanders in the spring would produce a huge primary turnout, bringing more voters to the polls for Assemblyman Todd Kaminsky, their candidate for state Senate.

«According to the Electoral Commission, a huge barrier to turn - out for young people is that they aren't registered to vote.

At the federal level, we took some heat for voting to bail out General Motors, but I knew we weren't just helping GM, I was investing our Western New York workforce and our investment is paying huge dividends.

You are right that DeFran voted for huge tax increases along with all the fees, tuition and toll hikes and other gimmicks.

For a huge swath of the voting public there is no tether to reality and no media channels capable of delivering reality.

In a back - room deal, Serino voted for huge fines on homeowners who want to rent their homes to make ends meet.»

«A vote for Ukip is a vote for higher taxes for working families, charges to see your GP, huge tax giveaways for the rich and even deeper cuts to public services.»

We should have been able to quickly agree to argue strongly that although immigration was an issue in the campaign, the combined strength of Remain and liberal Leave votes meant that it should not be interpreted as a mandate for huge cuts in immigration.

AMS / AV + would almost certainly be easier than STV, which would require huge constituencies for rural areas (and even under FPTP, there are inequalities in constituency membership because of the difficulties caused by excessive size), but then a whole new can of worms would be opened up concerning how to set the ratio between corrective «top - up» MPs, and constituency MPs, plus a whole load of other factors such as whether to allow dual standing, whether the two votes should be two choices or interconnected, whether the list should be open or closed, etc., etc..