Sentences with phrase «keep voting against»

This amount of competition should have John Faso scared to keep voting against his constituents.

«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?

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Nabors» board is not legally compelled to abide by the majority vote against Sheinfeld's election, and it has decided to keep him on the board.

Either it means that other members of his party — the finance minister, who is against the referendum — will come in and not hold a referendum at all, and try to keep Greece on the austerity plan, or there will be a fall in the government, a no - confidence vote, and people will presumably vote for the Conservative Party, which is very much like the Republican Party in the United States.

Rep. Juan Vargas, a California Democrat who voted against the omnibus because it lacked protection for Dreamers, said his party has to keep proving itself to Dreamers after disappointing in the budget process.

I am of the opinion that voting to keep a segment of society from enjoying the same rights as everyone else goes against everything this country supposedly stands for.

Keep that in mind the next time you vote against gay marriage.

Millions of citizens actually vote against their own self - interest, and cries like «Let's keep the government out of Medicare!»

Nothing against voting for a Morman, but it his way to validate to keep his bit of name as the leader for evangelicals..

Although shark fins for 2018 are banned, teams actually wanted to keep them for sponsorship reasons and voted to reverse the ban, but McLaren voted against it.

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The youngster was voted Ligue 1 Best Young Player of the Year and Rybolovlev says he has no intention of keeping him «against his wishes».

All of this means that Cameron finds himself in a fairly tricky position, having to rely on mobilising Remain votes from large numbers of people who voted against him last May while hoping that the leader of the Labour Party will actually stand up and make a direct and unequivocal plea for voters to keep Britain in the EU.

Noting that «There is no greater voice against Republican candidates than this Republican candidate,» the filmmaker argues that a carefully considered vote for Romney can «keep this circular firing squad of jerkos alive.»

The 30 - member Senate Republican conference is poised to vote en masse against the bill that would keep state parks open and also has issues with a measure that would boost the charter cap from 200 to 460, GOP sources confirm.

The amendments, though voted down, come as Republicans in the state Senate have signaled support for possible gun control legislation, which could include making it harder for those deemed too dangerous to obtain a firearm and closing up loopholes in the prohibition against people convicted of misdemeanor domestic violence from keeping and obtaining guns.

If your only goal was keeping Johnson out, voting against him in the Democratic primary was a more reliable method than voting for someone in the Republican primary.

Crucially, the ComRes poll also found that among divided Labour supporters - who could decide the referendum as the Liberal Democrats are united for AV, while the Conservatives want to keep first - past - the - post - 61 % would vote against reform.

Bright kept in close touch with Joseph Chamberlain, his colleague in the representation of Birmingham, and in June after much coming and going he voted with 92 other Liberal members against Gladstone's Home Rule Bill, which was defeated by 341 votes to 311.

East Side members also voted Sunday to team up with Pledge 2 Protect, a coalition of community groups that recently launched a campaign against the East 91st Street project — and has vowed to keep any pro-MTS politician out of office.

Heavy on rhetoric but light on specifics, the statement from the party called for «targeted political action» to ensure the 124 MPs who voted against Lords reform last night do not keep their seats in the next election.

Time and time again the Labour party has voted against the Welsh national interest, has failed to empower our National Assembly with additional powers and responsibilities, and has instead chosen to keep power in the hands of the Westminster elite.

Many Party members will take the same line as LabourList and want to convince themselves that elections in our Party are fair and above board.Sadly this is not the case.Last year after the CAC Election a number of delegates, from several different Regions, came forward and said full time officials encouraged them to vote against Katy and myself.This is totally against the Code of Conduct and, to me, is little different to ballot rigging.An investigation is underway.We have a good idea who was behind it.LeftFutures will keep you updated.

«The choice for Republicans is clear: they can keep Richard Hanna, who votes to raise taxes, to extend U.S. debt to economically dangerous levels by voting with Obama, Reid and Pelosi to raise the debt ceiling while bankrupting our nation, or they can choose a commonsense Republican like me who has a proven record of voting to reduce taxes, voting against the implementation of Obamacare in New York, votes against funding an illegal database (including ammunition database) against legal gun owners, voting against increasing our debt ceiling in New York and supports countless initiatives to reduce the burdens of government red tape on individuals and small businesses, including family farms,» Tenney said.

It's time our elected officials learned that they can't vote against equality and expect to keep their seats.

Councilman Jimmy Van Bramer, who represents the section of Queens where the bridge ends, voted against the plan Tuesday, arguing that the structure should keep the borough's name front and center.

Her decision to vote against her caucus on an issue months ago resulted in a disagreement among her colleagues that kept her from attending certain meetings.

Republicans must keep their plan's shortfall from spilling over that $ 1.5 trillion line or the measure will lose its protection against Democratic Senate filibusters, bill - killing delays that take 60 votes to overcome.

Plainly a lot of voters took a decision to vote SNP to keep out the Tory, and Moore's decision to campaign against the nastiness of the Tories backfired on him as he took blame for coalition policies.

He paired the emergency money with structural cuts, loading the bills — each of which kept government running for a week — with farther - reaching measures to correct the deficit, and dared legislators to vote against them, thereby shutting down government.

«I've kept my promise to fight for Long Island by voting over 175 times against raising taxes, delivering a $ 20 million increase in aid for South Shore schools, and passed a plan to prevent corrupt pols from receiving taxpayer funded pensions.

It urges Corbynites: «Make your voice heard against the Blairites and keep Jeremy as rightful leader of the Labour party... People don't want him to resign despite how they voted in the referendum.»

The commission, headed by Lord Plant, professor of politics at Southampton University, voted by 10 to 6 against keeping the present scheme for electing MPs - while, as predicted by the Independent, a narrower 9 - 7 majority decided it should be replaced with a «supplementary vote» (SV) system that would retain constituency links.

Is it not ironic, if not baffling, that I will impress on electorates to vote for me and vote against President Mahama in a constituency that has kept faith with the NDC since 2004 when it was created?

He is seen as a key figure on the left of the party and his candidacy has been helped by the fact that he kept his hands clean of the coalition's most unpopular policies, voting against the bedroom tax and, crucially, higher tuition fees.

Community Education Council 9 voted against the proposal to shutter J.H.S. 145, representatives said, and elected officials such as Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr. wrote a letter urging the DOE to keep the school open.

He is an outspoken critic of Gov. Dannel P. Malloy and was the sole state senator to vote in September against a Malloy plan for a $ 220 million incentive to Lockheed Martin to keep its Sikorsky Aircraft unit in Connecticut.

«We would like to thank Team Schneiderman for producing an ad with a courtroom setting, which only serves to highlight that D.A. Donovan has spent the better part of the last 15 years prosecuting cases in actual courtrooms while State Senator Schneiderman was busy voting to raise taxes, proposing legislation to line trial lawyers» pockets, voting against civil confinement for sex offenders and cutting deals to keep Pedro Espada and Hiram Monserrate in the majority fold in Albany,» Shapiro said.

As The Guardian reports this morning, Conservative and Liberal Democrat MPs are set to join forces to vote against Harriet Harman's attempts to exempt MPs from provisions of the Freedom of Information Act - all in a bid to keep some details of their taxpayer - funded expenses secret.

UPDATE: SRCC spokesman Scott Reif e-mailed a response, noting that Farley voted against using EPF money to keep state parks open — a big issue for the environmental community.

The Liberal Democrat leader, Tim Farron, said this demand was «beyond parody», given that Labour peers recently voted against an amendment to the article 50 bill in the House of Lords that would have required the government to keep the UK in the single market.

Albans), the only lawmaker who represents part of Long Island to vote against the bill, said the current vetting process is «highly stringent» and has so far kept America safe.

Commons votes against extending franchise for EU referendum but Labour sources say party will keep pushing for the change

BY ANDREW MILLER In the days leading up to the shutdown of the federal government, Congressman Sean Patrick Maloney, an upstate New York Democrat, twice voted to keep the government funded and against overturning Obamacare or delaying its implementation.

Like the rest on Wall street, He made his first $ 10 Million Dollar's by inside - trading when Solomon Brother's (where he was a partner) was sold to another company (great inside info only reserved for the member's of the inner - circle who have ton's of shares in the company) who sent him packing (in my opinion a ruse (i.e. bonus) to keep the SEC from sticking their nose into the matter) and with that money started his own business & bought his way into City Hall where he now sits on his throne denying benefits to the familie's of those who sacrificed their lives to help other's on 9/11, threaten the political future of community representatives (Councilmember's) who dared to disagree with him or voted against one of his policie's etc., etc..

And when given the option, Sanders voted against — voted against — keeping Latino and immigrant families together,» Ms. Mark - Viverito continued.

«When I vote for or against a bill, I read through these pieces of legislation and in many of them I find language that changes the entire meaning of the bill, and you have to keep that in mind.»

Johnson sees the portrayal by Patrick and others of a dysfunctional public school system as a rhetorical ploy to advance narrow private interests, and he hopes that the Senate can keep the bill from coming to a vote where legislators can be pressured into a «for us or against us» position on school choice.

Chrysler says power windows originally were proposed for the car, but consumers who took part in product clinics before the car's introduction voted against them to keep the price within reach of youthful buyers.

Each time, the church members voted on whether to keep him as their preacher, and sometimes they went for him and sometimes against him, but he always ended up leaving (for he would get restless, he wanted to be a Jerry Falwell, leading a church that had thousands of members) with hard feelings on all sides.