Sentences with phrase «more votes on»

Currently they are trying to get on Steam and need more votes on Steam Greenlight.

If liberals continue to break against the standards as they have in his neighbor New York, opposing the Common Core could win him more votes on that end of the spectrum while simultaneously helping him shore up his base on the right.

By contrast, when Eliot Spitzer was cross-endorsed by WFP in the 2006 gubernatorial race, he garnered more votes on the WFP line than the party's lower - level candidates.

If the Conservatives want more votes on Merseyside, they should be more careful with their language.

Or it might have risen from the manipulative county executive branch, which controls more votes on the committee than does the majority.

On November 2012, the Working Families Party New York nominee for U.S. Senate (who was also the Democratic nominee) received more votes on the Working Families line than the Conservative Party nominee for the same office (the Conservative nominee was also the Republican nominee).

Walsh pulled in 4,000 more votes on election day than Democrat Juanita Perez Williams.

«I got more votes in my district — I ran on three lines — I got more votes on the Democratic line than the Republican and Conservative combined,» he said.

Leaders are continuing to work to get more votes on board and will schedule a vote for this week if they believe they have enough to pass a bill, the aide added.

Not exact matches

«And I suppose it is possible that a few more trips to Saginaw or a few more ads on the air on Waukesha could have tipped a couple thousand votes here and there.»

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.

Late last week, nearing the Friday 10 a.m. shareholder vote that was supposed to determine Dell's future — a vote Michael Dell was widely predicted to lose — the founder swooped in with minutes to go and put a new, more lucrative offer on the table.

Launched by the Los Angeles venture - capital firm Science's mobile studio, Wishbone shows you two options and lets you vote on which one you like more — a spin on the popular «Would you rather?»

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.

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.

Speaking to CNBC, Ceccanti confirmed that the process will be more arduous saying «I think the speaker of the Senate will be elected on Saturday, when the two most voted candidates will face each other.

A vote on the measure was delayed for hours after Democrats revolted against provisions to roll back part of the Dodd - Frank financial reform law and allow more big money political donations, while conservative Republicans objected because the measure did not block funds for Obama's immigration order.

May, however, insisted that the spending plans should focus more on working - class voters who feel they have been left behind by globalisation, and who voted in large numbers to leave the European Union in June.

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

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.

At the company's last annual meeting in May, Dimon contended that criticism of the company's compensation by services advising institutional investors on proxy votes was off base in its view that more restrictive formulas are better.

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.

In the meantime, the political math has become far more demanding for Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, with key GOP Senators saying they won't even vote yes on the motion to proceed on the bill, much less the legislation itself.

The legislation could be changed and shift the political ground once more — but GOP leadership's ambitious goal of voting on a bill before the July 4th Congressional recess just became a lot harder to achieve.

With just over four weeks until Londoners cast their votes, an exclusive Opinium survey for the Evening Standard says Labour candidate Khan still enjoys a sizable lead and is more trusted than Conservative Goldsmith on the majority of key issues.

At the very least, she suggested that next week's scheduled vote on the proposal be pushed back so that more views can be solicited.

More worryingly, markets are now starting to price in the impact of a Leave vote on the rest of the European Union.

With the Senate voting on a provisional bill to fund the government for three more weeks, Sara Fagen, DDC Advocacy, and CNBC's John Harwood discuss the road ahead for getting a final spending bill and work on immigration.

On Election Day, more than 69.4 million Americans voted for Obama to become the 44th president of the US — and the first African - American to hold the position.

«More than 1,200 of them sent in submissions that were voted on more than 22,000 times,» writes KhosrowshMore than 1,200 of them sent in submissions that were voted on more than 22,000 times,» writes Khosrowshmore than 22,000 times,» writes Khosrowshahi.

By Nov. 6, the Center for Responsive Politics estimates more than US$ 5.8 billion will have been spent on this year's vote.

Follow @cdnbiz on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram for more: we'll be posting new updates there, and adding to this growing list all the way to voting day.

More broadly, concerns about trade and its impact on workers figured large in the 2016 U.S. presidential election and in Britain's referendum vote to leave the European Union, a free - trade bloc.

The folks in and around the Duluth metro area know how to rock the vote — more than 70 % of residents 18 and older turn out on Tuesdays to cast a ballot, according to data from the American Community Survey.

Also of interest, the groups that were the most negative on the new economic policies were those with college degrees and people living in the Northeast, both demographics that exit polls show voted more for Hillary Clinton.

While fundamentally the consolidation of power could cut Turkey's structural growth potential, cyclically the destructive focus on short - term votes to win the referendum should give way to a more pragmatic focus on returning to growth,» the bank said.

Republicans need just a simple 51 - vote total to confirm a judicial nominee after the filibuster on lower - level court judicial nominees was killed by Democrats when they last controlled the Senate in an effort to help move along some of Obama's nominees more quickly.

Paul threatened to make the final NDAA passage more difficult, opposing «all procedural motions and amendments unless and until my amendment is made in order and we vote on these wars.»

The charges were announced less than an hour after The Intercept published a top - secret document from the U.S. National Security Agency that described Russian efforts to launch cyber attacks on at least one U.S. voting software supplier and send «spear - phising» emails, or targeted emails that try to trick a recipient into clicking on a malicious link to steal data, to more than 100 local election officials days before the presidential election last November.

«It does cost more money to trade in parts of Scotland and therefore those hard costs, in the event of a Yes vote, are more likely to be passed on,» said John Lewis Partnership chairman Charlie Mayfield.

On Wednesday he filed a complaint in the Circuit Court of Montgomery, Ala., calling for a delay in certifying the results of the Dec. 12 Senate election which saw Democrat Doug Jones prevail over Moore by more than 20,000 votes.

Americans vote for more than just the president on November 8.

Moore, whose campaign filed a last - minute «election fraud» complaint on Thursday just before the results were certified just after 2 p.m. EST, claimed that widespread voter fraud had contributed to his more than 20,000 vote loss to Jones, a number that was not significantly altered by the inclusion of military and provisional ballots that were later counted.

Just more than half of StateWest's membership voted on the issue, with 90 per cent of the 30,366 votes cast favouring the end to mutual status.

As the owner of more than 90 % of voting stock at the company, Adderley has control over the election of the company's board directors, its advisory Say on Pay vote, and, at the coming May annual meeting, to renew the Kelly's short and long - term compensation plans.

Since it launched the original offer, Gannett's stock price (GCI) has lost more than 50 % of its value, as investors voted with their feet on the chain's proposed merger.

Effects of currency movements in the quarter were more than the company's expectations due to the surprise Brexit vote in June, co-Chief Executive Safra Catz said on a conference call.