Sentences with phrase «more than a vote»

Obama's 2008 election promise to reform immigration became hollow by 2012 and is now seen by some as evidence that the vow was nothing more than a vote - mongering ploy by Clinton's party.

To make this clearer to our presidential candidates, we need to do more than vote and pray for them.

Forwards: Didier Drogba (Montreal Impact), Sebastian Giovinco (Toronto FC), David Villa (New York City FC — AT&T / EA SPORTS ™ «More Than a Vote» Challenge)

The Democrats didn't flinch, for once, so Republicans couldn't lose more than a vote or two in the Senate, which they promptly did when the CBO produced a disastrous score for the bill.

In turning up to the House of Lords, Gould did a great deal more than vote in favour of an amendment by the Labour peer Lord Rea to deny the health and social care bill a second reading.

So, effectively my vote is worth much more than the vote of others, because giving my vote (and money) to another candidate is a much more powerful threat than some ordinary guy giving the vote to someone else.

But even more than voting to the beat of his own drummer, Amash is the first member of Congress to explain his votes on Facebook — something that became particularly important when he voted «present» (an unusual move for a member of Congress) on five significant votes last week.

The bottom line is that a vote to override the County Executive's veto is nothing more than a vote against Term Limits and a vote against the Two - hat Rule regardless of how many monotonic speeches the legislators drone out to explain the inexplicable to the incredulous and the unbelieving.

The main thing is that civic participation is much more than voting.

Consumers value and want to recycle — they recycle more than they vote — and they are interested in purchasing goods from companies using recycled content.

Not exact matches

Thomas added that Ripple's own digital currency, known as XRP, is less vulnerable to forks or unpredictable changes because, unlike bitcoin, it relies on voting measures that favor users more than miners.

And we organized «get out the vote» efforts that helped more than 2 million people register to vote who might not have voted otherwise.

The Senate left open a previous vote for more than 40 minutes as it appeared Republican leaders attempted to persuade McCain to change his vote.

Ted Cruz is known more for his arguing skills as an attorney than for his business acumen, but he's banking possible votes like a real pro.

The new media darling launched to the top of this year's readers» choice poll with a total of nearly 750 votes, far outpacing Etsy, its closest rival, with more than 330 votes.

JERSEY CITY, N.J. / BOSTON, May 2 - Goldman Sachs Group Inc leaders said more than 87 percent of shares were voted in favor of its executive pay at its annual shareholder meeting, and that a stock plan for employees was approved by more than 65 percent of votes cast.

Parent company Frito - Lay developed and released all three and named Cheesy Garlic Bread the winner in May 2013, after more than 1 million consumers voted via Facebook, Twitter or text.

Congress must act by Sept. 29 in order to raise the debt ceiling, a more contentious vote than the one for Harvey aid.

Encompassing more than 60 % of the vote, his supporters include progressives eager to see Edmonton embrace urbanism now, and conservatives happier with the way the city has always been.

More than half of the French electorate want a vote on whether France should be a member of the European Union but many more do not want to leave the euro, research from Citi showed TuesMore than half of the French electorate want a vote on whether France should be a member of the European Union but many more do not want to leave the euro, research from Citi showed Tuesmore do not want to leave the euro, research from Citi showed Tuesday.

More than 800 people were injured during clashes with the police, which tried to prevent people from voting.

The Republican - controlled U.S. Congress will begin voting on Tuesday on the biggest overhaul of the U.S. tax system in more than 30 years.

As such, it is likely that the center - right candidate from Forza Italia, Paolo Romani, is elected due to the alliance gaining more voters than the Five Star Movement back on the March 4 vote.

On Wednesday, Portland's City Council voted to tax companies whose chief executives make more than 100 times the median employee pay.

The Caramel Cocoa Cluster was voted the fan favorite with more than 2 million votes.

However, the bank noted that whether far - right supporters are certain about their vote, support for Macron may be more fragile than what polls suggest.

Soon after his book came out, Uchitelle explained to me that he «made a presentation at a meeting of the American Psychoanalytic Association, and at the end, there was a vote taken among more than 30 psychoanalysts.

Pasco, Hernando, Citrus, Sumter, Pinellas, and Levy counties cast a combined 38,685 more votes for Romney than Obama in 2012.

«That's obviously a very micro level observation but kind of remarkable to have 40 % more people vote in a GOP primary than voted GOP in the last general,» he said.

This time around, voters in those four counties cast nearly 64,000 more votes for Trump than Clinton.

Pai is also expected to call for an initial vote in December to rescind rules prohibiting one company from owning stations that serve more than 39 percent of U.S. television households, Reuters reported on Wednesday, citing two people briefed on the matter.

The county, whose largest city is Wilkes - Barre and whose overall population is more than 320,000, voted for Trump in larger numbers than it did for any Republican presidential candidate since President Richard Nixon in 1972.

Both Ferrance's and DiCeglie's counties flipped from their 2012 vote margins in favor of President Barack Obama by more than 31,000 votes to favor Trump.

In total, her advantage over Trump in the county is by more than 93,000 fewer votes than Obama enjoyed over Romney in 2012.

Of those six counties, none saw a greater flip than Pinellas, where Clinton's and Obama's margins were separated by more than 31,000 votes.

There was way more than we saw through the [former Pennsylvania Gov. Tom] Corbett election, the Romney election — they really projected each county their vote total they wanted to get.»

The county went on to secure more than 78,000 votes for Trump.

But Clinton fell almost 80,000 votes behind Obama at just a hair more than 517,000.

More than 13.2 million people voted for Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders in the Democratic primary, and Clinton received almost 17 million votes.

Dual - class share structures, which give controlling shareholders more than one vote per share or designate some shares as non-voting, are particularly unpopular among governance wonks and institutional investors.

The company has more than 40 million Class B shares outstanding, which carry 10 votes per share.

Tap Oil shareholders have lodged a big protest vote, with more than 35 per cent of votes cast against three resolutions at today's annual meeting, with dissident shareholder Chatchai Yenbamroong accounting for a large share of the opposition.

Known for being a retirement - friendly area, residents here are more likely to choose a Caribbean vacation over Europe or Asia, they ski less than any of their peers in the top 5 richest neighbourhoods in B.C., and are staunch Conservative voters, with 60 % voting Tory.

So much so that he promised — on Twitter, for the world to see — that he'd eat a bug if Donald Trump earned more than 240 electoral votes.

In response to the vote, the British pound had collapsed to a 31 - year low against the US dollar, falling below $ 1.35, while stock futures were collapsing with US futures off more than 3.5 % while London's FTSE 100 down almost 9 %.

In an SEC filing, Facebook has said Zuckerberg will begin by gifting no more than $ 1 billion in stock annually for the next three years, and that he «intends to retain his majority voting position in our stock for the foreseeable future.»

The number of protest votes fell to a little more than a fifth of the total after the advertising company came back last year with a more modest 48 million - pound plan for the executive.

But J. Gerald Hebert, director of the Voting Rights and Redistricting Program at the public - interest Campaign Legal Center in Washington, said the states drew districts with more black voters than necessary to «dilute their voting strength in order to achieve a partisan gain.»

Some 14 states have enacted more restrictive voting laws than they had in the 2012 presidential election, according to the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University School of Law.

Earlier on Tuesday, CNBC reported that BlackRock Inc., which has a stake in Dell of more than 3 percent, was likely to vote against the buyout.