Sentences with phrase «just voted the policy»

Not exact matches

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.

«Just as portfolio managers and analysts are increasingly integrating ESG factors into their investment processes, those professionals responsible for their firms» proxy voting policies and, ultimately their actual proxy votes, also need insights into how these issues are being managed within the boardroom.

SHARE director of law and policy Laura O'Neill said the only other directors she knows of who failed to win majority support this year were on the board of Quebecor Inc., where holders of class B subordinate shares voted just 43 per cent in favour of electing the entire board as a slate.

This is just perfect «Kyev Tatum, pastor of Friendship Rock Baptist Church in Fort Worth, called The T Board's vote «a dangerous precedent» because it only took a matter of days for religion to be taken out of public policy.

He just wants an electorate to vote for his policies / programs / etc, and a taxpayer base to pay for his secular proganda, as he so clearly stated in his own words.

Just as Ryan keeps insisting, contrary to all evidence and common sense, that people don't care whether you cut their taxes or those of their bosses, he will keep insisting that his unpopular policies will win over Democratic - leaning voters, even as those voters keep voting Democrat.

I've met other Christians who vote Democrat because they feel just as strongly that Jesus» call to minister to the poor, sick, and disenfranchised is best answered by the policies of the Democratic party.

Just look at voting records, policies, etc. to decide if a person acts in a Christian way.

In 2010, the Tories won just 16 % per of that ethnic minority vote and critics say recent policies, such as the «go home» vans, will have done little to improve that result in 2015.

It is an example of a European party with hard left policies winning votes, and comparisons with UK Labour underline just how radical Podemos actually is.

«But are they voting Ukip just to stick two fingers up and to scream very loudly, or are they voting Ukip because we're offering positive policy alternatives?»

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.

oh and most of Europe normally decide who to team up with before the vote... I'm not saying it's a bad thing or owt, just that Hughes» shouldn't be blowing the LDs left - leaning trumpet too loudly when it's clear as day that some very nasty, very right wing policies are being implemented under Clegg's watchful gaze.

According to the same poll, just over half (51 %) of those who voted Conservative in last year's general election think the UK government should have control over these areas of policy, while only one in three (33 %) think that the Scottish Parliament should.

Just hours before the meeting began, the board decided to table a vote on a gender policy aimed at making district school's more accommodating to transgender students.

«Nobody is against pay equity who voted against this policy, anyone who suggests otherwise is just looking to invoke political rhetoric.

In summary, if UKIP moved their economic policy to the left, not too far to the left as I mentioned before, just away from the supply side tosh, they could become a major electoral force and convert those 15 to 17 per cent poll numbers into actual votes on the ground.

It's been estimated that just ten per cent of Gypsy and Traveller people voted in the last election, although Matthew Brindley, policy manager for The Traveller Movement, says there is no reliable figure on the proportion who vote.

Just days before lawmakers are set to vote on seven members of the board that drives state education policy, WNY delegates remain divided along political and ideological lines about who might best represent the area's students.

This means that people get a chance not just to vote for their representatives but also to vote on policy matters that can affect their lives.

As a result there are an awful lot of people around who would no longer vote Labour just to keep out the Tories should they revert to the sort of policies you espouse.

One that says lies just to get our vote and another, even worse, that continues the failed policies of George Bush that put special interests ahead of working families.»

The vote comes just days after a task force appointed by Cuomo quietly issued a report that also recommended a reversal of the new teacher evaluation policy.

One that says lies just to get our vote... and another, even worse, that continues the policies of George Bush that put special interests ahead of working families.

Tory lite policies in 2010 and 2015 (lol) Even if this was true we still did better in those elections that when we had hard left manifestos like 1983 (27.2 % Tory MJority of 144) and it wasn't just the SDP or the Falklands, as if the SDP didn't exist, those people would just have voted liberal, who as a party were around before labour were, so had a right to stand

The agreement to push ahead with the policy came as a surprise to both the public and the commissioners on the board, who said just days ago that they didn't expect to vote on the policy at Thursday's meeting.

«Last time I voted for Jeremy out of personal loyalty, but I've been so saddened and really upset by some of the things... this last year that I just feel that Owen's policies are also radical and that's good.

These polls, detailed though they may be, are just a snapshot and the SNP are taking nothing for granted — hard work and good policies are what win votes and we know the scale of the challenge we face if we are to make gains.

Just two days ago, Mark - Viverito and New York's 28 other Democratic electors donated their Electoral College salaries — a total of $ 435 — to the New York Immigration Coalition, a well - known immigrant policy and advocacy organization despite feeling discouraged as they cast their votes for their preferred candidate Hillary Clinton following her bruising loss to Donald Trump last month.

I'm afraid that the world has moved on from the time when a well crafted piece from John Redwood would be enough to send potential Ukip jacks back into their Tory boxes.A party where the old guard of Maude Clarke, Hurd, Heseltine, Gummer, Patten etc clearly now pull the strings of an inexperienced leader just endorses the fear of being conned.What did happen to the Tory policy on fisheries?Why can only backbenchers support BOO whilst shadow (non) ministers and whips are blackmailed into supporting the collective policy of continued EU membership.Why would those seeking disengagement from what even the most active champions of the EU now CONTINUALLY refer to as an experiment vote Conservative?

The state's highest court said a governor is allowed to insert language into the budget's appropriations bills to change policies, and the Senate and Assembly are limited to just a «yes» or «no» vote on the amount of money allotted for the program.

Jeremy Corbyn stood on a platform of investing in public services, standing up for workers» rights, moving to a more just and fair foreign policy, and has been rewarded with a quite remarkable turnaround in the Labour vote.

12.20 pm: Lib Dem delegates have just voted for a motion approving a policy development paper.

Although absent from the Conservative manifesto, the policy is the stated aim of a majority government recently elected at a general election (albeit on just 37 % of the vote) and on which the Commons has voted (twice) in favour.

He was just too unpopular to sell Tory policy to swing - voting parents.

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 as in Scotland, where they voted for a party which espouses policies not so different from those advocated by Jeremy, the sort of «electoral credibility» which bubble - inhabitants believe in is worthless.

To what extent was Labour able to get previously unregistered tenants not just registered but out to vote, and to what extent was their victory due to either Tory abstainers or direct switching to Lab over a sense of disgust with Tory policy towards leaving the EU?

The big policy news this week is the U.S. spending bill, which last night survived a vote in the House of Representatives unscathed but by just 13 votes.

The high court had just ruled that race is a legitimate factor in admissions policies aimed at fostering campus diversity (Science, 27 June, p. 2012), a stance that many took as a vote of confidence in their efforts, too.

Just how that translates into votes is unclear, says Simon Hegelich, a political scientist at the Bavarian School of Public Policy at the Technical University of Munich in Germany.

I just got a notice about my life insurance policy, that the company is holding a vote to convert from a stock insurance company to a mutual insurance company.

Just one of the council's seven Labour councillors voted for the policy, leaving Labour as the only party where a majority of councillors didn't back the policy.

In fairness to you, of course, if the Libertarian Party is going to endorse someone who advocates for policies that are distinctly non-libertarian just because this might get enough percentage of the vote to get federal funding, then being a libertarian and / or a Libertarian is essentially meaningless.

The CREAcrat - inspired rating system that was voted down by representatives of in - the - trenches Realtors could prove fatal, via a targeted negative rating for reasons other than services rendered, to the reputation of an otherwise good Realtor, whereas a poor rating against a resort can easily be explained away as just a one - off occurence by a wayward employee or a misapplication by someone of a policy or simply a minor oversight / mistake.