Sentences with phrase «large voting block»

SAG shares a large voting block with AMPAS, which is part of the reason behind the accolades» parallels.

But it has also been part of her support among this large voting block (more on that later).

BO's support of abortion however vitiates has Christianity as he is the leader of the Immoral Majority who are now the largest voting block in the country.

In recent times, that has meant that Assembly Democrats have the greatest influence in choosing Regents, since numerically they are the largest voting block in the entire legislature.

Mangelli ran on the Democratic ticket but is part of the town's next largest voting block, the 23.8 percent who do not belong to a political party.

Apart from seniors, this group of people, cutting across all lines of geographic location, class, race, religion, age, sexual preference, gender, etc. is potentially the largest voting block.

Historically, once Reform Party candidates break past the 5 % mark in a statewide race, it indicates that there is a much larger voting block out there that is looking for an alternative to the two major parties.

He should not forget that «those with grey hair» would form the largest voting block at the next election, Lady Winterton said.

¬ † Actors make up the largest voting block at the AMPAS, and since the SAG...

And millennials «are quickly becoming the largest voting block.»

As I have mentioned herein before, on a couple of occasions, CREA needs to be wound up, and a new organization formed to take its place, with head office being located either in Toronto or Ottawa, wherein the largest voting block of organized pissed - off Realtors resides, right next door to the rightfully pised - off Quebecers who are seriously thinking the same thoughts.

Not exact matches

«Nearly 3 out of 10 are presently undecided, making them the largest block of undecided votes still up for grabs,» stated George Barna.

And yet, despite winning the largest block of votes in the 2013 parliamentary elections, Grillo refused to articulate concrete proposals for how the energies of M5S might be unleashed for the betterment of Italy.

As they constituted such a large number and always voted in a block, Smith used this power to wrest from the Illinois legislature unheard - of powers for his town.

Also, with electorate nearly equally split over a majority of important issues, the size of the body matters slightly less, but a larger body is more likely to allow passing more laws since you can always trade votes between blocks on random laws that a given block cares less about (e.g. I'll vote for your farm bill if you vote for my factory bill).

Like clearing the field and delivering large blocks of votes.

Among the external players, the most powerful are the counties of Queens and the Bronx, who collectively control a large block of votes in the Council — 14 members are from Queens, another eight are from the Bronx — and have strong organizations with the ability to help move forward, or hinder, a local politician's career.

It has a large contingent of delegates on Labour's National Policy Forum, and wields a block vote at annual conferences that is almost as big as the votes of all the constituency Labour parties.

He says most local governments have a large majority of representatives of the same political party, who are more persuadable to vote as a block.

Some senior figures who worry about the unions» grip on the party fear that a move aimed at diminishing organised - Labour's influence could end up handing them even more power than they had before: although they will lose their block votes, some fear that the unions will use their formidable organisation machines to register large numbers of associate members, and then attempt to influence their votes.

They could form a voting block with the unhappy New York GOP members that is large enough to defeat the bill.

We don't know how the Academy ranking is going to go but there is the possibility that a large number of voters will block vote for women to help women, to show the world that they care about women in the industry, to make up for Hillary's loss; for all of those reasons it's possible we could see wins, like we saw at the DGA in the television categories.

Until the 1970's, white southerners who wanted to maintain legal segregation of the races and the option of private schools for their own children, and northern Catholics who sought support for parochial schools comprised large blocks of Democratic votes.

The SRC's practice of voting on resolutions in large blocks, with little or no deliberation, continues.

Though they were ultimately voted down, large blocks of stockholders voted for a resolution that would have forced Southern to respond directly to climate change by preparing a study for how the company can help keep global warming below 2 degrees centigrade, and another to study how its business may be affected by the potential stranding of its coal assets.