Sentences with phrase «leading up to the vote»

The British pound has already sunk in value this year amid uncertainty leading up to voting day.

Ed Perks: Rick touched on some factors to think about in terms of political uncertainty, but as I reflect on the Brexit implications and the unpredictability leading up to the vote, there was a fair amount of surprise.

The unfolding of events in the weeks leading up to the vote on 10 December demonstrated two key points: firstly, the importance of the Labour left taking a clear campaigning stand against such anti-woman, anti-working class and deeply unpopular policies; secondly, the crucial role played by a campaign led by women — the Save Lone Parent Benefit campaign — and orientated to linking up with parliamentary and labour movement opposition.

That would provide an incentive for the media to provide free time during the two weeks leading up to the voting.

In the lead up to the vote, Arab League secretary - general Amr Moussa's outspoken attack over alleged civilian casualties raised concerns in Westminster about the extent of international support for the mission.

In the period leading up to the vote polls suggested Labour was popular while Ken was not, and the Tories were unpopular while Boris was not.

The group, which lobbied against the bill heavily in the weeks and months leading up to the vote, said the fund is being set up for town clerks like Laura Fotusky, the Barker, Broome County official who resigned rather than approve gay unions who could face «harassment, denial of rightful promotion, or unfair termination.»

The opposition, which also include pro and anti abortion rights groups, second amendment advocates and the state's Conservative Party, spent over one million dollars running ads and distributing lawn signs in the weeks leading up to the vote.

Stefanik has declined interview requests leading up to the vote.

In a nod to the political battle that led up to the vote, Garodnick said he intended to back Mark - Viverito and her goals, vowing, «I will do my part to resolve any rifts this process may have caused among our colleagues, and am here to take any steps necessary to help move forward together.»

Literally across the country school choice advocates have stood up against the NAACP in defense of charter schools these past couple of weeks leading up to the vote.

The contentious political discourse leading up to the votes largely ignored the research on best practices for educating English language learners, as well as the practical and pedagogical issues facing educators.

Leading up to the vote, there was concern from both unionists and reformers who felt their sides were losing something.

Despite having his own full agenda of issues, it turns out that we have Mayor Bloomberg to thank for the obnoxious television advertising blitz that Michelle Rhee and StudentsFirst ran here in Connecticut leading up to the vote on Governor Malloy's «education reform» bill.

Since the NAACP at its national convention voted on a resolution that placed a moratorium on charter schools, the backlash from charter advocates has been angry, well - financed and sometimes just plain mean leading up to a vote of ratification by the national board, which occurred this past weekend.

In the days leading up to the vote, he even started handing out flyers.

«One thing that investors could do in the lead up to the vote is to purchase protective puts [a risk - management strategy that limits downside risk].

Take, for example, the fake news stories that tried to sully Hillary Clinton in days leading up to the vote.

The campaign leading up to the vote was bitter at times, much opposition to the proposal centring on the xenophobic and, many alleged, racist nature of the proposal, evidence of which was found in the SVP poster advocating approval that showed white sheep kicking a black sheep off the Swiss flag:

In the days leading up to the vote, the New York Times revealed that Andreas Schwab, the German conservative who initiated the Google break - up proposal, provides competition policy expertise to a German law firm whose parent company has done work for publishers that are involved in the antitrust case against the company.

REALTORS ® sent the committee thousands of letters in the days leading up to the vote.

The absence of the kind of democratic goodwill that would be associated with any real CREA general membership involvement was a feature leading up to the vote on the Consent Agreement in St. Johns Nfld and there is a particular irony to this because the matter involved a Federal Government entity, namely, the Competition Bureau of Canada.

Not exact matches

However, the distribution of the UKIP vote may lead to the Tories» piling up votes in areas where they are too far behind Labour for it to make a difference.

Leading up to the election, questions were raised about the security of state computer systems that protect voting data.

Last year hackers infiltrated many state and local election databases in the U.S. during the lead - up to last year's vote.

Nearly 2.6 million comments were filed in the lead - up to the FCC's vote to consider the proposal — many of those seem to have been spurred by John Oliver's call to keep the rules, but hundreds of thousands of others, many in favor of repeal, have likely come from bots.

Many have criticised Corbyn for running a half - hearted campaign for Britain to stay in the EU leading up to Thursday's referendum, in which the UK shocked the world by voting to leave.

While a Trump presidency is looking less and less likely, many Canadian companies with stakes in the U.S. are, like Bedard, feeling skittish about their business prospects in the lead - up to the November 8th vote.

And the fourth was to breach US voting systems in as many as 39 states leading up to the election, in an effort to steal registration data that officials say could be used to target and manipulate voters in future elections.

In the days leading up to yesterday's vote, global financial markets were positioning themselves for the U.K. to remain in the EU.

The page paraphrases Ninou Sarwono, the firm's emerging technology lead, as saying, «All sorts of transactions — from stock and bond trades to voting — can be sped up, made more secure, and executed at lower cost using blockchain.»

The group said the run up to Thursday's vote had already led to «significant uncertainty» across London residential markets.

It also led to excitement and euphoria which swept up many in the swelling numbers that just a week before the vote seemed to be on the verge of winning a Yes vote.

CNN: Pew poll: Obama opens up lead over Romney among Catholics President Barack Obama has opened up a significant lead among Catholic voters, a crucial swing voting bloc, according to a recent Pew poll.

It's a little too late for praying, it's Mrs.Clinton's call to be @ the helm; now, with her hubby Mr.Clinton as VP; and one of you out of all of you, need to tell Romney he's committed fraud, for leaving the Post of so - called gov.that theirs a 2 yr.interval that must be met; the same fo Obama; whom is worst off then Bush Jr.then for none of you to have no Allegiance to be nothing but commander of thieves, since April 4th, 1968 to presently; in the killing of Dr.King Jr.must still go under Oath to all you perjurers; that mustn't go unpunished to the array of charges I have stored up against each of yo on every job, on every public premise; that Obama didn't praywhen he lied to GOD ALMIGHTY in perjury; to have left the seat of sen.to jump to the office; knowing he hadn't a clue what to do; so he got Joe, which is Cheney all over; whom should of been out of public; and he knows that and all the fugitives, even in the Italian led court in DC; that will have to answer to what is -LCB- H.R. 7152 -RCB-; and why they let Olsen for Bush Jr.waste the American's People's time, not to mention all the lives that's been lost; for the tyrannies since 1968 to presently has cost; Vote I, Edward Baltimore; to confirm I; Governor of DC; as of 2/16/12; cause DC; has been a State, already; and all you slaves from State to State; need to snap out of your peonage which is prohibited by Federal Laws; on anybody!!!!!!!

Leading up to the Brexit vote, which took place in the Summer of 2016, the odds of «staying» reached -425.

With more than 10 qualified players on ballots lately but only 10 votes to give, this has been important: hopefully we'll continue to see ballots revealed publicly leading up to the announcement so Thibodaux can track them, with the full reveal coming after the results are announced to fill in the blanks.

Our members made over 600,000 constituent contacts just in the couple months leading up to the final vote.

In the time leading up to the election, party members voted for who would represent their party in their constituency.

That number is up for Slaughter, who led Assini by about 600 votes at the end of election night, making the race too close to call at that time.

And the ongoing row over a cut - off date for the leadership election led to McDonnell attacking the «small clique» on the National Executive Committee that was trying to restrict the vote to members who had signed up before 12 January.

«In May the people of Scotland have the chance to vote for an SNP government led by Alex Salmond who, unlike the anti-Scottish Tories, will stand up for Scotland and focus on building Scotland's success.»

Working together we will build on all that we've achieved and continue to lift up New Yorkers by investing in our infrastructure, passing the DREAM Act, enacting campaign finance and voting reform, and further strengthening New York's nation - leading gun safety laws.

Were an individual Gloucestershire voter given up to seven votes to distribute as s / he saw fit, it is of course impossible to know whether this would lead to seven Conservative MPs returned (as was the case in the 2015 election), or a mixture of parties (in 2005 the seats were split three Conservative, two Labour and two Liberal Democrat).

Members of the Five Star party led by comedian turned politician Beppe Grillo today voted to quit the Europe of Freedom and Direct Democracy (EFDD) group which is made up mainly of Ukip MEPs and co-chaired by Farage.

Kellner contended that all of this added up to a «mid-point prediction of an 8.5 % lead for remain, or a majority of around 2.5 million of votes cast».

This has led some to suggest the government ignored dissent among the Lords to shore up Commons» support, with last night's defeat marking only the third time peers have voted against a government order.

But as the costs of departure come in, workers who voted to quit picking up the tab, not the Ritz crowd who led the campaign with disinformation and lies, Ukip won't look so clever.

Obama's ads pushing early voting even appeared in online games leading up to the election.

Even as the polls leading up to election night showed Slaughter in the lead, conventional wisdom kept telling me Republican voters would vote the party line.