Sentences with phrase «just voted against»

The day after the election, one of my students said to me, «I feel like the American people just voted against my future,» which was absolutely heartbreaking.

Mr Howarth said: «We can not go on with a political system under which unpopular governments are elected by a little more than a third of those voting and who push through policies that two - thirds of those voting have just voted against.»

Just voted against Tory Welfare Bill.

Well we had Andy Burnham claiming on Friday's Any Questions that resisting the fees hike was «unsustainable», clearly implying (even though he'd just voted against it along with his party) that had New Labour been in office they would have raised them too.

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.

Others urged to support the plan in parliament, and just vote against it in the referendum.

Not exact matches

«I promised Kentucky to vote against reckless deficit spending and I will do just that.

But the only shareholders who can collect the rest of the money that the court deemed their shares were worth are those who voted against the deal, and Magnetar is the largest of just a few investors who did, according to The Wall Street Journal.

HARWOOD: I just want to ask you about that in light of two votes you made recently: one for a partisan tax bill that increased the deficit, the other against a bipartisan spending deal that also increased the deficit.

«So I think that if we just run against her record as it has been, she voted to take away our guns, she voted for an assault weapons ban.

The 30 sandwiches came from a list of about 200, which executives had previously voted either for or against based on just their names.

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.

On behalf of the Lesser of Evils Party, may I suggest you tell your supporters to just plain vote against Stephen Harper?

Last year, over a quarter of Clarkson plc's shareholders voted against the company's remuneration report and binding pay policies after CEO Andi Case received a bonus of just under # 3m.

When the votes were announced, investor discontent was even higher than expected, with shareholders resoundingly rejecting the Company's advisory proposal on the remuneration report — in total, just shy of 60 % of voting shareholders registered against votes at the Company's heated AGM.

Tatts received a significant protest on executive pay with 22 per cent of votes cast against the remuneration report, just short of the 25 per cent level required to record a strike.

Some argue using a permission blockchain would help as it would only allow a few people to fully access the records, but the possibility of having a government official (or just the regular public) know how an individual vote goes against the premise of free and fair elections.

I would neither vote for nor against a candidate JUST because they are Mormon.

Uh, I doubt members of any Organization would vote for someone who is against the values / mission of the Organization as thier leader, just saying.

I am not a Mormon and don't find it appealing or convincing but I wouldn't vote against him just because he is a Mormon.I do apologize for that last sentence.

Were religious people promoting peace when they voted down gay marriage (a civil rights issue, opponents of which will be viewed in the same light as the opponents against civil rights in the 50s and 60s) You are just so comfortable in the majority, you can't see the prejudice and bias you put on people that aren't like you.

You know Romney tells you now he's against abortion just so you'll vote for him don't you?

People of color have voted and will continue to vote for Barak Obama... The only thing he has done for people of color is be of color and be the elected POTUS... When Obama's eight years is at an end the person who runs against the next democrat will only have to campaign by stating repeatedly «I am a Republican»... Whatever doesn't go right in his administration will be blamed on Obama just as he blamed his failures on Bush... His signature health care program exempts Muslims, Scientologists, Amish etc..

Anyone that thinks Obama's race is the primary reason Americans are voting against him in droves is too stupid to even read the news or just plain doesn't understand politics.

Just in case a reader may be confused by my apparent aloofness, I am voting for Romney against Obama for all the intelligent reasons that are put forward on Postmodern Conservative — such as this.

Just because a violation of Biblical guidance is voted and approved by a legislative body and signed by a president the transgression against God's plan remains intact.

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

Here's hoping that the real Americans out there really get to the voting booth and for lack of a better term (just don't care) select a backlash vote against this evangelical crap.

«I just don, t get how these Southern Evangelical «Nut Jobs» keep voting against their own interest???? No Abortion and Guns are the only thing they vote for?

Progressive is generally just a code word for someone who leans toward socialism, who does not believe in God, & who will likely vote against Godly principles that are so important to our nation.

He then told followers that not only was the word «progressive» «just a code word» for «for someone who leans toward socialism,» he also added that it's code for someone «who does not believe in God, & who will likely vote against Godly principles that are so important to our nation.»

kronkes influence over the club is minimal at best how many decisions does he actually make in the public club domain that we all know of, i am only guessing here but just because he is majority shareholder it doesn't mean he can just do what he wants without the other board members say so, i suppose the rest of the board would vote him out of power and liquidate his shares if he did something really wrong like leveraged the club against a big debt.

Mostly, they're just a bunch of people who think a vote for Jack Morris is a vote against Alan Trammell or Tim Raines, and who are persistent in their frustration that, no matter how many facts they marshal in response, another voter will pop and spout a bunch of bullshit about Morris just knowing how to win.

The inquiry will begin on May 29 just days before the committee will meet to vote for the next president of the World's governing body of which Bin Hammam is the only candidate running against Sepp Blatter.

Aaron Lennon, playing against his former club, had his best game yet for Burnley and, although he won just 7 % of the vote, came in third whilst fourth place went to the returning James Tarkowski who just beat Ashley Westwood with both having a 5 % share of the vote.

Just recently, Robin van Persie's first time volley against Aston Villa in 2013 was voted the best goal of the Premier League so far, but not much has been said about Rooney's fabulous 50 yard cross-field pass that set RVP up to score.

Concern has been expressed that the tax was unnecessarily rushed through the approval process just before an election that would have added two more people to the 5 - member board that could have swung the vote against the tax.

In another part they simply thought that the «blue dogs» (Democratic voters that always voted Democrats), would all vote for Hillary (as well as she herself thought that) but after what she pulled of against Sanders many of them just didn't vote at all or voted Trump just to pay Hillary back.

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.

Spano is the brother of former Sen. Nick Spano, who lost his seat in 2006 in a re-match against Democratic Sen. Andrea Stewart - Cousins after beating her by just 18 votes two years earlier.

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).

Just last year, our members delivered a vote of no confidence against him and called for his resignation.

It was a great idea and passed with just one vote against.

Speaking on the floor of the House just prior to the vote, King said he plans to vote against censure.

I don't have polls to back this up, but a simplified version of what I just said would be: A libertarian is likely to vote FOR «pro-gay-marriage» specifically - e.g. in a referendum - but vote against politicians («D») who are for gay marriage for reasons that have nothing to do with gay marriage but with the politicians» other policies.

The SNP managed to win nearly all the seats in Scotland with just under half the votes because the votes against them were spread out between several parties, at the local as well as the national level.

Just 142 peers voted for the amendment, 209 voting against, with a majority not attending at all.

Voters aren't likely to vote against someone just because they have an empty YouTube profile, but consistent sloppiness and neglect in a public place WILL contribute to the overall impression of a campaign.

However members of the Commons Standards Committee have just voted 3 - 2 against allowing Parliament's watchdog to investigate the claims.

«Most defence committee members probably intend to vote for such airstrikes, but I shall vote against airstrikes, in the absence of credible ground forces, as ineffective and potentially dangerous, just as I voted against the proposal to bomb Assad in 2013.»