Sentences with phrase «necessary votes needed»

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There were 282 votes and a massive 254 (90 %) of you agreed that Arsenal do need to make a signing, while only 28 (10 %) of you said it was not necessary.

The report strongly recommends that any proposed change to the voting system would also need to take into account whether it is necessary or desirable to link the National Assembly for Wales constituencies to Westminster constituencies.

Obviously, all of us need to remember these actions, register if necessary and vote carefully next time around.

The more complicated the process by which votes are represented, the more expert knowledge you need to be able to trace the «route» necessary to transform the voters will into something countable and then into the actual result.

They give 29 Republicans the edge needed to garner more than the 32 votes necessary to control the chamber, despite 32 enrolled Democrats in Senate seats, with another reliably Democratic seat temporarily vacant.

What is notable is what is not in the agreement — legislative compensation overhaul, desperately needed stronger ethics enforcement with greater public transparency of votes, comprehensive campaign finance reform with public financing that closes the LLC loophole and bans all personal use of campaign funds, strong disclosure and accountability for all executive and legislative discretionary lump sum funds, and a commitment to undertake the necessary examination and full - scale overhaul of our ethics and campaign finance laws.

She needed to secure approval from at least one Democratic senator to secure the necessary 50 votes, assuming every other GOP senator votes «yes» to confirm her.

Big Republican donors want the scandal dealt with quickly and quietly, but Skelos is now threatening to deprive his party of the necessary 32 votes needed to elect another Republican if he is removed from his post.

If the necessary numbers vote in favour of an 8 June election on Wednesday it would formally fire the starting gun on the election process — the Fixed - term Parliaments Act does not need the input of the Lords.

In «Lincoln,» then, what happens on the way to the president getting the 119 votes he needed to pass the 13th Amendment is a series of high - stakes encounters — with Pennsylvania radical Republican Thaddeus Stevens (Tommy Lee Jones), with his secretary of state and former campaign rival, William Seward (David Strathairn), and, most amusingly, with three disreputable political operatives, played by John Hawkes, Timothy Blake Nelson and James Spader, enlisted to procure votes by any means necessary.

Lincoln is largely concerned with the sordid business of trying to add enough vulnerable Democratic votes to those of the Republicans to amass the supermajority needed to pass the 13th Amendment — if necessary, with threats, offers of positions and other inducements short of direct vote buying.

To be a voting member, additonal criteria apply and you need to have sufficient breed knowledge to make informed decisions when necessary.

(8) the points made in the conclusion are: (1) consistent with avoiding expenditures on the criminal justice system, the federal attorney general appeared to be neglecting the plight of pre-trial inmates in custody in extremely bad jail conditions, and the provincial attorney general appeared to ignore the needs of prosecutors for greater resources of staff and time in order to work adequately; (2) similarly, the other examples presented also support the proposition that the criminal justice system is inadequately resourced because there are «no votes in justice»; and, (3) the reduction in the safeguards against wrongful convictions caused by the radical changes in procedures made necessary because governments do not provide adequate resources for the criminal justice system;

The decades - old entrenched bureaucratic in - house status quo supporters need to be voted out by whatever means necessary in order for the industry performers who really do care about what they do for a living to avoid having their what - should - be-a-profession-but-which-is-not-a-profession undermined in the publics» view to the point that government action kicks in.