Sentences with phrase «matters come to a vote»

When matters come to a vote, Alice, Bob, and Charlie are in exactly the same situation: to win the vote they each have to convince one of the other two to agree with them and it doesn't matter which one.

Not exact matches

Wells Fargo's annual meeting is important to watch, no matter how the votes land or what discussions ensue: will shareholders come out swinging like they did at Citi, or simply retreat?

THE PROXIES ARE ALSO AUTHORIZED TO VOTE UPON ALL OTHER MATTERS AS MAY PROPERLY COME BEFORE THE MEETING, OR ANY ADJOURNMENT OR POSTPONEMENT THEREOF, UTILIZING THEIR OWN DISCRETION AS SET FORTH IN THE NOTICE OF 2016 ANNUAL MEETING AND PROXY STATEMENT.

If you return your signed proxy card or vote by proxy over the Internet but do not mark the boxes showing how you wish to vote, your shares will be voted FOR the election of the director nominees named in this proxy statement, FOR the ratification of the appointment of our independent registered public accounting firm, FOR the amendment of the 2004 Plan, and in the discretion of the proxy holders for any other matter that may properly come before the Annual Meeting.

By the time W finished his second term, I had graduated from college, come to terms with the fact that the criminalization of abortion is highly unlikely no matter the party in power, expanded my definition of «pro-life» to include Iraqi children and prisoners of war, and experienced first - hand some of the major problems with America's healthcare system, which along with poverty and education issues, contributes to the troubling abortion rate in the U.S. I remained pro-life idealistically, but for the first time, voted for a pro-choice president, hoping that the reforms I wanted to see in the healthcare, the economy, immigration, education, and for the socioeconomically disadvantaged would function pragmatically to reduce abortions.

If you really believe Obama is responsible for the mess then the best thing to do is vote for him as the mess is coming no matter who is President.

George Hunt, ponders the ways in which Catholics vote in elections and comes up with this: «One sobering conclusion to all this: Beware all commentators who speak airily of the «Catholic» vote — or a uniform «Catholic» anything, for that matter.»

CNN: My Take: Hard truths matter; I'm Mormon, and I'm voting for Obama There are two moments and two moments only that made my soul sit upright during Tuesday night's presidential debate: President Obama, speaking about the loss of manufacturing jobs to low - wage economies like China: «There are some jobs that are not coming back.»

I would like to vote Republican but my fear of closed minded bible thumpers who want to set back our education system, social reforms, free thought and our culture as a whole, outweighs my fear of skyrocketing national debt, slow economic growth and higher taxes (incidentally higher taxes are coming no matter who is in power.

If we can come to an agreement it doesn't matter what day we vote on it.

Having been let down by one side, then the other, they have come to the conclusion that it doesn't matter who they vote for, so why bother.

Relatively little of what I said ended up in the piece, of course, perhaps particularly because I was generally skeptical that these things will matter much (if at all) when it comes to how people actually vote.

Still, we should not discount the significance of what Citizens United meant for independent expenditures, something that Justice John Paul Stevens argued comes close to direct contributions: «The difference between selling a vote and selling access is a matter of degree, not kind and selling access is not qualitatively different from giving special preference to those who spent money on one's behalf.»

No matter what the polls have been saying, most political observers believe mayor's race is going to be a lot closer than expected, and it's likely going to come down to which campaign has the better get - out - the - vote operation.

What does not make it any since, the Democratic candidate could the second coming of Ronald Reagan, but if he is going to cast his first vote for John Sampson as leader, nothing else really matters, now does it.

Heastie did not respond to a request for an interview, but spokesman Eric Soufer defended his voting record, arguing that the bulk of the missed votes came during a few days in June that Heastie was absent to attend to family and work matters.

Dustin Czarny, an Onondaga County elections commissioner, said New York is lagging behind other states when it comes to voting systems and procedures because state legislators often have partisan views on voting matters.

As for the DREAM Act, no matter how much supporters would like to see a «clean» bill pass, at least one member of the immigrant advocacy community recognizes the reality of the situation, which is that letting the measure come up for a vote in the Senate is likely a recipe for disaster — an all - but certain repeat of the bill's 2014 failure.

While some will vote for Nigel Farage's party come what may, others will only do so if they feel they have nothing to lose — that there is so little at stake in 2015 that it hardly matters who wins.

Lorigo said the proposal to extend the sales tax came to the Legislature later than usual and that the administration offered no evidence that the matter had to be voted on immediately and could not wait to be sent to committee.

Rodriguez is just one of 51 Council members, but his vote counts the most — when it comes to matter of land use, the Council almost always votes the same way as the local member.

The vote was almost unanimous, with the sole dissenting vote coming from Legislator Alden H. Wolfe, who stated that he was not ready to be restricted to county executive C. Scott Vanderhoef's decision to hire private counsel when the county attorney's office is qualified to handle the matter.

By ruling of the presiding officer, or on motion of any Council member supported by at least one - third of the Council members present and voting, any matter on the agenda that has not yet come to vote, with the exceptions of a proposed amendment to the Constitution or a motion to recall an elective member of the Board, may be submitted to the entire Council membership for a mail ballot, or by electronic means, and shall require for its approval a favorable vote of a majority of the Council members, except that a resolution shall require for its adoption a favorable vote of two - thirds of those members.

A self - described «hick» whose finest hours uphold viewpoints sympathetic to Penn's own political skepticism («If you don't vote, you don't matter»... «When they come «round sweet talkin», don't listen»), Stark grows hungrier with each success.

Au contraire, it has led education policy makers to come up with ever - more - costly and damaging changes in educational practices to what is ultimately a non-educational problem — a problem that can not be solved by the schools no matter how much money Congress or state legislatures vote to give local school districts in the name of equity or compensation for the low - income students they happen to enroll.

On the other hand, common shares come with the right to vote on corporate matters, a feature that preferreds lack.

When he again had the opportunity to become informed on the matter at hand, he walked out of the meeting - but came back in to vote.

Here's The Washington Post's Chris Cillizza: «No matter what Obama and his advisers said... there is now no chance that the Administration's climate - change proposal will come up for a vote in the Senate prior to the 2010 election.

Forcing a vote on a matter that may bind the United States» fate to fossil fuels for decades to come is the most irresponsible aspect of all in this debate.

In addition to taking a smaller share of the profit pool, fixed share partners usually have fewer rights when it comes to voting on partnership matters or having a say in how the firm is run, for example.

That won't matter in the short term, but it certainly could matter if the day comes when there are no longer five strong votes to defend Citizens United...

So let's ask the legal question at the heart of this case: are there in fact clear rules on how Councillors are allowed to speak and vote when a Code of Conduct matter comes before Council?