Sentences with phrase «into voting against»

Rent control failed to pass in Orange County due to heavy lobbying by apartment owners who duped the public into voting against their best interests.

The group has been handing out pamphlets to jurors which basically say that the jurors should vote with their conscience and not feel pressured into voting against what they believe.

Strangers in Their Own Land goes beyond the commonplace liberal idea that these are people who have been duped into voting against their own interests.

The group filing this lawsuit, in fact, cooperated with NOM and other groups in attempting to bribe various Senators into voting against equality.

Which sort of raises the question: if you don't believe it exists, why whip your peers into voting against it?

Managements often use threats, surveillance and other intimidation tactics to try to bully workers into voting against unionizing.

I only prefer Dems because clearly the Pubs only speak for the wealthy and donor class (and the single issue folks — Guns, God, anti-Gays, etc) they can fool into voting against their own interests!

Clegg's announcement he would whip his MPs into voting against the boundaries review means it will almost certainly not pass.

But it's not exactly rocket science that religion can be used to manipulate more ignorant voters into voting against their economic interests.

Not exact matches

On Monday, barely a week after China voted in favor of tough new United Nations sanctions against North Korea, the Trump administration launched an investigation into whether China is pirating the intellectual property of American firms under Section 301 of the 1974 Trade Act.

Minneapolis Fed President Neel Kashkari, who consistently voted against rate hikes last year, said in a CNBC interview on Friday that the flattening curve was «a yellow light flashing,» a warning that the Fed should soon stop raising rates or risk braking the economy too quickly and plunging the country into recession.

Netflix's board is divided into three separate classes, so shareholders don't even get to vote for or against all the directors every year, just a selection of them.

In 2008, the House voted to issue contempt citations against Mr. Bolten and a former White House counsel for refusing to cooperate in an investigation into the mass firings of federal prosecutors.

The Senate voted Tuesday night to kill a controversial rule that would have allowed Americans to file class - action suits against banks instead of being forced in many cases into private arbitration.

When I claim that label, I'm connecting not only with a number of active feminists who are working today to help women, but with an ongoing history of feminists who got women the vote, who made birth control happen, who got women into positions of power in the government, who worked to rectify racial inequality and fight against things like mandatory sterilization of welfare recipients.

The abortion issue was just used to manipulate religious groups into a voting block, pre late 70s the church wasn't even against abortions.

Their political uniformity is so reliable that I take an LGBT voter's guide with me into the polling booth, knowing that in voting against their endorsements I can never, for example, inadvertently harm a pro-life candidate.

I pay my taxes... I just vote against those who desire to continually raise them and send us spiraling into economic oblivion just so they, their union buddies, and their bedfellow corporate friends (e.g. the rail line operators) can get rich.

Senator Norris here presents his arguments why he was the only senator who voted against our entry into World War I: we have multiplied most of the problems we went into that war to solve.

Then he scored chipped goal against Hull City with his left foot in the Premier League; he unleashed a chip from 20 yards that curled & swerved and fooled the goal - keeper as it went into the net, World Cup winning coach Luiz Felipe Scolari said after the game: «It was the best goal I have seen, My vote for World Player of the year award will go to him, only a player with his intelligence could have done that» [17].

After voting against it, Simmons appointed Trustee Donald Pochopien to work with a Park District representative to look into purchasing all or part of the property.

The Plan Commission last week voted in favor of the Park District's special - use request, which would allow it eventually to convert the 8,400 - square - foot gym into a maintenance building, but the commission voted against the requested parking, curbing and setback variances for the $ 300,000 structure.

As IPPR's new report into political inequality shows, less than half of 18 — 24 - year - olds voted, compared to nearly four - fifths of the over-65s, while three - quarters of «AB» individuals cast a ballot, against just over half of «DE» registered voters.

Business for Sterling mobilised vast numbers of businesspeople against the single currency, neutralising the Government's economic case for the euro, and Vote 2004, which gradually evolved into Open Europe, ultimately led the charge against the EU Constitution.

Bizarrely, after her onslaught she then trooped into the No lobby and voted against Labour's motion.

For example, suppose that voters are evenly split between two political parties, but the nine equal population single member districts are drawn so that the favored party wins by just 5 percentage points in eight districts, while the disfavored party wins by 40 percentage points in another district, you've converted a 50 - 50 division of the population vote into 8 seats for the favored party (which gets a 0.45 seat rounding error in its favor in the eight districts it wins and a 0.1 seat rounding error against it in the one district it loses), and 1 seat for the disfavored party (which gets a 0.45 seat rounding error against it in the eight district it loses but only a 0.1 seat rounding error in its favor in the one district it wins).

George Demos, one of three Republicans fighting to take on Democratic Rep. Tim Bishop in NY - 1, tried to make yesterday's gubernatorial vote at the GOP convention into an issue in his own race, in which he's facing off against state Chairman Ed Cox's son, Chris.

These four lawmakers are in an unusual — and rather uncomfortable — position, being forced to weigh the high - profile needs of the few (that would be the prostestors) against the long - term needs of the man (that would be the local residents, who, not for nothing, also voted Nadler, Silver, Chin and Squadron into office, while the Occupiers did not).

But most people don't really get much of a choice for who to vote, nor much of an input into how those they voted for / against decide when they make legislative decisions.

Toward the end of a Dave Weigel piece in Slate on Michele Bachmann's current campaign speech (you'll be shocked to hear that she says she was right to vote against a debt ceiling - increase), we get a quick look at one way tablet computers can play into modern field organizing: The...

Senator Ted Cruz proposed an amendment to the recent tax reform bill to allow funds from 529 plans to be used for homeschooling1, but the Democrats voted against it and it did not make it into the final bill.

To receive backing from such a highly respected campaigner, who has been so prominent in the battle against fracking and broader issues of climate change, is a real boom to the party as we look to translate the «Green surge» into votes at the general election in May.

With Labour, the DUP and the Lib Dems also due to vote against the plans, it will be for this coalition of opposition parties to tempt a small number of more sceptical Conservatives into the no lobby with them.

The full county committee voted to endorse Lazio and he tried to strong arm the Chair (which succeeded) into going against the commitee vote.

On the same day, she slow hand clapped Theresa May as the home secretary headed into the lobby to vote against a motion aimed at closing the gender pay gap.

If Nixon wins more than 40 percent of the vote in the primary or forces Cuomo into a tough fight against his GOP opponent in the general, it will be a clear sign that New York politics has changed — and those who can't adapt their worldview should start looking for a new profession.

Corbyn, who has rebelled against his party more than 500 times in his career, said MPs would not be «corralled» by whips into voting the same way as the leadership under a more consensual style of management.

Mayoral hopeful Tony Avella also voted against the measure, apparently as a sympathetic reaction to the forced removal of «blighted» business from Willets Point into his district.

Legislator Jay Schneiderman (I - Montauk), who voted against the 2014 budget which included dipping into the fund, said «I am certainly encouraged that there is an agreement, and I think we all need to work together on achieving water quality goals.

The comment suggests Clegg has reason to fear the bill will run into trouble as rebels prepare to join Labour in voting against the «programme motion» — the timetable motion limiting the amount of time MPs can spend debating the bill as it goes through its remaining stages in the Commons.

The Welsh assembly government is to hold a public inquiry into the country's ambulance service after the health minister accidentally voted against his own policy.

Crucially, we will be challenging MPs to vote against policies that will push us further into poverty and isolation.

Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos praising Mr. Felders move into the Republican fold is a declaration of war against the Democratic Party and now it's time for Mr. Murphy and everyone else advocating that voters get what they voted for «A Democratic Majority in the State Senate» and nothing less.

Because Matheson was unable to secure 60 percent of the vote, he was forced into a June 22 primary against Wright.

But I have to say that I am frankly aghast that my own party has been willing to sign up to this and I would strongly encourage my colleagues if a vote is called to go into the No lobby against this clause.

We also are stepping up with respect to how we are using codes court and bringing in a paralegal which was supported by the council, however I believe Councilman Commisso voted against the budget, but a position that was supported in the codes department so that we have stronger codes cases and get the property owners into court and accountable.»

His decision to step aside and endorse his former House colleague turned the Democratic Primary into a mere formality — Berman dominated in both fundraising and name recognition, and cleaned up with nearly 96 percent of the vote in her head - to - head against the fledgling campaign of first - time candidate Arthur Morrison.

«Just as we look forward to hearing her explanation of supporting Donald Trump, why she supports turning NYPD into a deportation force, and why she voted against marriage equality and raising the minimum wage.»

«I'm really voting against, instead of for, because I'm tired of the Town of Oyster Bay and Nassau County corruption and the sense of entitlement,» Taggart said as she was about to walk into the polls at Hicksville Middle School.

Civil servants were looking into the constitutional issues should the vote over the war go against the government.