Sentences with phrase «night of the vote»

The final night of voting included some mini-drama — Democrats from Westchester fought for a sales tax increase in Yonkers as well as new hotel levies, and chamber leaders took the rare step of calling off a bill during voting because it lacked support — but was mostly spent approving an omnibus bill for outstanding housing and education issues.

She came to oppose it, but on the fateful night of the vote, as I hovered outside the voting lobby, she was inside the lobby door, accompanied by her parliamentary private secretary, the late Dennis Turner.

In the tense atmosphere of the city council meeting the night of the vote, Presbyterian minister Paul Miller acknowledged that emotions were running high but told the overflow crowd he spoke from «deep pastoral concern»; he then read a prepared statement signed by 18 members of the clergy who decried «the recent efforts to single out a given group... and to seek to castigate them as being unworthy and unfit to belong to our community.»

The violence of the recriminations which immediately broke out within the Tory Party on the night of the vote simply reflected the scale of what had happened.

In the Queen of Soho, Margaret Thatcher finds herself lost in the rainy streets of London on the night of the vote for Section 28, an experience which makes her realise that the legislation is both wrong and unacceptable.

Ms. Throne - Holst, a former Southampton Town supervisor, held a narrow lead over Mr. Calone in a 1st District primary race that was too close to call on the night of the vote.

A furious David Cameron was reported to have confronted the leader of the rebellion, Jesse Norman MP, just outside the House of Commons division lobbies late on the night of the vote as it became clear that normally loyal Tory MPs were determined to register their opposition.

He wrote about the chaos that ensued on the night of the vote, and how they prevented me and stopped me from speaking on the bill.