Sentences with phrase «line up to vote»

It was a pathetic sight, watching Tory MPs line up to vote on a piece of legislation they knew had no meaning and which undercut centuries of useful British constitutional tradition.

This is, in essence, the small - run independent label 7» before Pogba moves on to multi-platinum albums and everybody starts lining up to vote for him.

De Klerk: The year millions lined up to vote with Nelson Mandela for the first time.

Not exact matches

The White House threatened to veto emergency House legislation that aims to avert a threatened national default, as Republican Speaker John Boehner labored to line up enough votes to pass the measure.

Some voters in Jefferson County ended up crossing party lines to cast their ballots for who they thought was the best candidate in each of the races — defying the practice of party line voting in an election that showed a deep red - blue political divide.

WASHINGTON (AP)-- The White House threatened on Tuesday to veto emergency House legislation that aims to avert a threatened national default, a pre-emptive strike issued as Republican Speaker John Boehner labored to line up enough votes in his own party to pass the measure.

Also, Poutsch users have individual profiles that you can visit to see what users have voted on and whether your answers line up with theirs.

WASHINGTON, Dec 14 - The U.S. Federal Communications Commission voted along party lines on Thursday to repeal landmark 2015 rules aimed at ensuring a free and open internet, setting up a court fight over a move that could recast the digital landscape.

WASHINGTON — Republican lawmakers appeared to secure enough votes on Friday to pass the most sweeping tax overhaul in decades, putting them on the cusp of their first significant legislative victory as leaders geared up to pass a $ 1.5 trillion tax cut along party lines and send it to President Trump by Christmas.

In the second instance, the pastor also stood up to the bullies, but they succeeded in lining up enough allies that he was voted out.

Delegates line up to cast their votes during a plenary session of the National People's Congress at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, Sunday, March 11, 2018

When the council opened in 1962, Vatican officials thought they could line up the gathered bishops to vote for pre-drafted documents.

Residents lined up to taste the food and let their voices be heard, casting votes for the «People's Choice» prize.

I personally believe that SCOTUS crossed a very dangerous line here, one that will put the republicans at risk of losing a large portion of the women's vote and we'll top that with the generation that is up and coming... so a wide range of women who are going to be rather displeased.

After getting up early to vote and making it through a shorter than anticipated line at the -LSB-...]

That might be under - stating the problems felt at the back as a result of injury problems and bedding - in the last - minute signings (not to mention the fact that neither Mertesacker or Santos were around at the beginning of the season), and was probably intended as a vote of confidence in a line - up plagued by injuries.

Basically you'd want to have only one vote against the «party line», so that you don't end up defeating yourself if 20 voters got the same idea.

If she lost the GOP nomination but continued to run as a conservative, with a different candidate on the GOP line, she'd likely split the vote and end up killing any chance for the Republicans to defeat Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand.

But in exchange for getting the popular Democratic gubernatorial candidate on its line — thus ensuring it would well surpass the required 50,000 - vote mark to live another four years (the party ended up moving to Row D)-- the WFP had to agree to Cuomo's «New NY Agenda,» which included a slew of agenda items — the property tax cap, no new taxes to close the budget deficit etc. — that the left had opposed.

«The latest polls are welcome indications of the strong backing for the SNP we are seeing in communities across Scotland - while Labour are continuing to pay the price for working hand in glove with the Tories during the referendum, and lining up with them at Westminster to vote for more cuts.

McDonald was one of four Republicans who crossed party lines to vote «yes» on same - sex marriage at Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo's urging in 2011, and he ended up paying a steep political price as a result.

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.

Public Advocate Letitia James has lined up enough votes in the state Assembly — including its powerful leader, Speaker Carl Heastie — to be named as interim Attorney General, sources told the NY Post.

The idea becomes all the more inane when you consider what they are lining up for, to use a touch screen to register their vote.

Boehner directed the House general counsel to defend DOMA against litigation after the Bipartisan Legal Advisory Group on March 9 voted 3 - 2 along party lines to take up defense of the statute.

Yesterday, for example, during the City Council's vote to overturn Mayor Bloomberg's veto of the stop - and - frisk and police oversight bills, it was startling to hear Barron, following his customary sit - in during the Pledge of Allegiance, stand up and pay tribute to Viola Plummer, his former chief of staff: «There wouldn't be no today if it weren't for Viola Plummer, the December 12th Movement, Rev. Herbert Daughtry, who put it on the line, to make this day history.»

But he added: «Given the fact that the government insists on whipping its own MPs and the line - up we're familiar with I think it's expected the government are going to win the vote today, but it's definitely lost the argument.»

But rather than cleaving along partisan lines, Democrats and Republicans — incumbents and challengers alike — came down on both sides of the issue depending on their states and districts, suggesting national party committees aren't likely to take up the vote in their national messaging.

Traditionally, the kind of progressive movement that's lining up behind Nixon has been critiqued for not giving black voters — a voting bloc vital to winning elections — a seat at the table, and for putting racial justice issues second to those of economic justice.

The cry bullies line up to say how Corbyn is a bully or incompetent, or, or, or... Seems rather reminiscent of something, oh yes, its just the same as the timed resignations... a drip drip drip to keep the negative press in the news cycle, only this time it has to last until the leadership election votes start to roll in.

This allows neighboring precincts (different city council districts or different school districts or something — jurisdictions never seem to line up logically) to share a polling place, or to allow for voting in party primaries.

The most common is that they want more time to line up enough votes.

Although the Liberal Democrats also envisage the CC considering the question of English votes on English laws in the UK Parliament, the CC they propose sounds to me a lot like a tidying up exercise once the main lines of constitutional settlement have been determined.

WASHINGTON — Senate Democrats yesterday defeated a repeal of President Obama's health - care overhaul in a party - line vote, likely leaving the fate of the embattled law up to the courts.

His Shadow Cabinet disintegrated; his Parliamentary Party passed a huge Vote of No Confidence against him — something that would have ended any other leader's time in office then and there — while large numbers of councillors, the Labour London Mayor and the Party's Leader in Scotland, Kezia Dugdale, all lined up to condemn his ideas, or his performance, or both.

As I pointed out earlier in a post on CentreRight, all but nine Conservative MPs were present yesterday to vote in the crunch division - defeated by four votes - which sought to allow the Speaker's committee investigating the raid on Damian Green's office to be set up along the lines that the Speaker originally intended.

His 184,419 votes moved the Green Party up to the 4th line among ballot qualified parties.

Cantor said he plans to vote for Cuomo on the WFP line in November even if by that time it becomes clear that Cuomo hasn't held up his end of the bargain to the satisfaction of party leaders.

Democratic Party faithful lined up to get into Central High School gymnasium in Bridgeport, Conn., for Governor Dannel Malloy's Get Out The Vote rally with President Barack Obama, on Sunday Nov. 2, 2014.

«Several senators who say they'll vote for marriage equality want a larger group to join with them, to give them cover, so they won't be blamed alone for passing it and wind up being defeated next year,» said a well - known Republican working to line up GOP votes.

Cuomo also created a third - party ballot line, the Women's Equality Party — one letter different from the WFP — which ended up siphoning enough votes from the WFP to push the party down below the Green Party to Row E on the ballot line.

«Top Cat» Owen is the only member of the current OMRLP line up ever to poll over 1,000 votes (he polled 2,859 votes in the 1994 European elections), and his dip in fortunes despite a previously strong local following appears to have killed the last realistic chance the party ever had of seeing a saved deposit.

The New York Post reported Wednesday that James had lined up enough votes to secure the appointment.

The statement comes as Republican leaders in the House of Representatives are still trying to line up votes for the health care bill, which has stalled over the last several months, but revived after conservative groups pushed for action on the issue.

Despite Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos» attempts to hold onto power despite the corruption charges he faces, she said, there are two «candidates» who are furiously working the phones in an attempt to line up sufficient votes to replace him.

Neither Flanagan or DeFrancisco appeared to have lined up the needed votes to become the next majority leader as of Sunday afternoon.

But this time around, leaders in both parties are lining up behind Zeldin, who formally announced his candidacy Monday, and is already a target of the DCCC for saying he would not vote for a «clean» continuing resolution to re-open the federal government if he were currently serving in Congress.

If the bill doesn't come up for a vote this year, it's hard to see the GOP letting it out in 2012 when they're fighting like hell to retain the majority — with new district lines, to boot.

Republicans are scrapping a vote to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, lining up in punt formation to pass a temporary measure to keep the federal government funded.

It remains to be seen whether all of this coordination and unity has any impact on the Senate vote, particularly when state Conservative Party Chairman Mike Long has made it clear this is a line - in - the - sand issue for him — a potential problem for the Senate Republicans as they gear up for the next fight for the majority in 2012.