Sentences with phrase «number of votes ever»

Otherwise the Supreme Court is telling 17 million British people that the whole thing was a waste of time and that the largest number of votes ever recorded on any issue in the history of the British Isles was in fact a bad joke played by the «liberal elite» on a public judged by them to be to dumb to know their own best interests!

My goal, as I have stated more than once, is to increase the reach and real prestige of the Hugo awards: with our beloved genre so widespread that large media - focused conventions draw crowds in excess of fifty - thousand, it is a travesty that the highest number of votes ever cast in a Hugo ballot is below six thousand.

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Liberal Boomers, who seldom if ever seriously criticize the legions of conservative - demonizers in your midst, for this post I will mostly join Mr. Druckenmiller in accusing you outright, that is, I will act as if this was your premeditated plan motivated by selfish interest, and not a pattern of political self - delusion that you fell into, given the drip - drip - drip of Democrat talking points over the years, given your gleeful listening to those who dismissed conservatives as hateful dunces, so that you ceased to even consider the NUMBERS conservatives kept pointing to, and just kept on doggedly voting D.

The poll, in association with the Manchester City Official Supporters» Club, is likely to be one of the closest battles ever, with record numbers of votes expected.

All of the above applies to the SGP Youths as well, but for the Youths I would expect the relatively high number of members to be even more pronounced as young adults raised in a religious family and community where > 20 % of the population vote for the SGP tend to have pretty clear views on their political and religious affiliation at a relatively young age, whereas other people tend to choose their political affiliations at a later age (if they ever choose one).

«What the country needs more than ever is certainty, and having secured the largest number of votes and the greatest number of seats in the General Election, it is clear that only the Conservative & Unionist Party has the legitimacy and ability to provide that certainty by commanding a majority in the House of Commons.

«If the numbers hold, 2010 will be highest percentage share of the gubernatorial vote ever for the still - young WFP.»

In numerical terms, the highest ever actual number of voters who turned out to vote in a referendum election was the 1,823,434 people who turned out to vote in the Citizenship Referendum in June 2004.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo has proposed that New York State fund a study on legalizing marijuana, and the potential number of votes for MRTA appears to be higher than ever.

During his local races, he was the top vote - getter in the town of Yorktown and received the highest ever number of votes cast for a town council member in 2013.

The bill has passed the Assembly a number of times and the Senate is closer than it ever has been to bringing the measure to the floor for a vote.

«Don't have exactly all the numbers in but it appears to be the largest vote total and margin of victory ever for a Democratic candidate, so I want to thank the people of Erie County, sending me back into office saying we like what you do and we know you can do more,» Poloncarz said.

However well intentioned, Labour can't get itself elected by pleading the cause of needy non-voters: so elections depend on ever fewer swing votes in a diminishing number of marginals.

The notion that we have free will flies in the face of much modern neuroscientific research, which suggests an ever - increasing number of our «choices» are somehow hardwired into us — from which candidate we vote for to which flavor of ice cream tops our cone.

«This number, this year, is the largest vote of confidence that Congress has ever given NASA.

But ever since the Academy changed the number of nominees to eight, nine or 10 entries (this year there's nine) and changed the way of voting, the old rules haven't applied.

We won't ever know whether the move to a variable field narrowly deprived Flight of a Best Picture nomination, unless the Academy one day makes their old voting numbers public.

The 2016 round of the awards included some interesting firsts, such as the first time a father and son each won their own awards, a first for the highest number of votes a single book has ever received in any year, and a few authors who'd been nominated in the past and finally won this year.