Sentences with phrase «momentous vote»

The UK's momentous vote to leave the EU marks the dawn of an unprecedented period of uncertainty for business.

Following a momentous vote on Thursday, however, the New York school moved to work toward reinstating free tuition.

Days after the United Kingdom's momentous vote in favor of leaving the European Union, the U.K. science community is seething with anxiety.

«Every several years or so a legislator is called upon to cast a momentous vote in which the stakes are high and both sides of the issue are vociferous in their views,» Mr. Schumer said, saying he had thoroughly heard out arguments for and against the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action.

On 22nd February, 157 MPs backed the bill, a momentous vote to end undercutting and abuse.

«Alex Salmond, Nicola Sturgeon and I signed the Edinburgh Agreement which pledged we would all respect the outcome of last year's momentous vote.

Seeing this momentous vote as a motley mix of racism, ignorance and fascist instincts is to ignore the conditions that make Trump possible.

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Remnick's thesis is that the outpouring of racial violence in the heart of the Deep South galvanised the civil rights movement and the nation outside the south and led to the momentous 1965 Voting Rights Act, which ensured that African - Americans in the south got the vote.

As a French and Greek citizen, I won't have a vote in this referendum and yet this is one of the most momentous decisions that will ever be taken in my name, as a European citizen living on this side of the channel.

Whereas, throughout America's history, New York State has been a leader in civil, human, and social rights; this is well illustrated by the number of suffragists who called New York home and the choice of Seneca Falls for the first Women's Rights Convention held in 1848; this momentous event outlined certain rights that women should be granted, including the right to vote, thereby sparking the nationwide crusade for women's suffrage; and

Nine months after the shock referendum vote to leave the bloc, Britain handed over a momentous letter to the EU president in Brussels, triggering Article 50 of the bloc's Lisbon Treaty and firing the starting gun on a two - year countdown towards Brexit.

19:26 - The Freedom To Marry organisation, which put out yesterday's pro-reform letter countering Tory opponents to the bill, has this to say: «We believe today's vote was a momentous step towards the goal of securing the freedom for gay people to marry.»

«By fixing the vote in the Commons next Wednesday, No 10 is bouncing parliament into a momentous decision years before expert opinion says that is necessary,» he said.

After a momentous week which will define British politics until the next election, it is worth pausing to think what might have happened if Mr Cameron had not decided by 7 May to go for a full - blown coalition with the Liberal Democrats rather than a deal under which they would support the Tories in key Commons votes.

The advent of votes for 16 - and 17 - year - olds in Scotland and possibly in Wales marked «a momentous opportunity to increase the pressure on the Westminster government», Smith said.

The former Ukip leader has enjoyed a momentous year as one of the driving forces behind the UK's vote for Brexit before becoming a prominent supporter of Donald Trump on his journey to the White House.

Before people will reform something as momentous as a political election, Urken says, they need to learn about voting methods in less formal situations.

Now, 400 years later, your vote will help make the momentous decision of where to point modern astronomy's most famous telescope.

The momentous decision by Sinn Fein to support the policing and justice services of Northern Ireland ie the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI), the police boards, police ombudsman etc, and the court system — at a specially convened six - hour conference (the ard fheis) in Dublin, on 28 January 2007, attended by 2,000 delegates, where 900 party members voted on the motion — would appear to signal the possibility, if not probability, of the restoration of full devolutionary powers to the Northern Ireland Assembly (NIA) based at Stormont, Belfast.