Sentences with phrase «of tie vote»

In the event of a tie vote, the President shall determine the position to be taken with respect to the particular issue.

On judicial review the chambers justice dismissed the application on the basis that he was bound by the Court of Appeal decision in Ostrensky v. Crowsnest Pass, 1996 ABCA 18 in regards to the effect of a tie vote and that the privative clause in the Teaching Profession Act «insulated all decisions from judicial review except on questions of jurisdiction».

The Court of Appeal determined that the wording of the ATA bylaws did not allow an appeal to be dismissed on the basis of a tie vote.

The possibility of a 4 - 4 ruling in the Exxon Valdez punitive damages case as a result of Justice Alito's recusal (he holds stock in Exxon) has triggered a discussion around the blogosphere over whether there's a better way for the Court to handle recusals so as to avoid the possibility of a tie vote (in which case, the appellate court's ruling stands).

Supervisor Wood declared at the town board meeting on Dec. 8, 2015, Gail Seaman as incumbent was to be brought forward because of tie vote and failure to elect a candidate to fill the vacant board seat.

In the event of a tie vote on any issue, the Chairperson's vote shall decide the issue.

Not exact matches

A poll released by Le Monde / Cevipof poll on Tuesday showed Macron tied with the far right leader in the first round with 25 percent of the votes.

So if voting isn't meant to break a tie, what's the purpose of getting a show of hands on an issue that's holding up your meeting?

Yet they could attract enough voters to make things difficult for either Trump or Clinton, where according to at least one recent poll, the Democrat and Republican tie at 35 %, with Johnson garnering 13 % of the vote.

But some of Aimia's research made it very clear that the online votes were tied to how the artwork looked online versus how it looked in the gallery.

The GOP holds just a one - seat majority in the chamber after the surprise victory of Democrat Doug Jones in last year's Alabama special election; that means they can lose just one Republican vote, even under reconciliation (Vice President Mike Pence would cast a tie - breaker in the case of a 50 - 50 split).

The dates of his trip have been in flux because of Trump's U.S. tax overhaul push and the possibility that Pence would be needed to provide a tie - breaking vote in the Senate.

Usually the speaker breaks a tie in favour of the government, but if the speaker does this for every vote, how neutral will that speaker really look?

Her foreign wars, NAFTA / TPP support & Wall Street ties are driving away millions of votes.

Mason's principal and co-founder Michael Martino responded: «Mason will vigorously oppose Telus» latest attempt to take value from voting shareholders and transfer it to the non-voting shareholders, including Telus» board of directors and company executives, whose personal economic interests are tied to the non-voting stock.»

While Devon's reaction to the 2011 say - on - pay provides positive evidence that boards can and do respond effectively to a negative vote, its failure to alter its pay programs prior to that point as natural gas prices sank suggests that owners of companies whose fortunes are closely tied to commodity prices should be wary of lax compensation structures.

Weston received about 22 % of the votes, followed by BCE chief executive George Cope and former Blackberry CEO Thorstein Heins, who tied for second place with 17 % of the votes each.

If instead we voted to approve funding directly by program, money would be tied to those programs and thus be nearly impossible to lose track of.

It only affected the Electoral College because Florida's own method of determining Electors is tied to its own popular vote count.

The chamber voted 50 — 49 — calling on Vice President Mike Pence to break a tie vote for the second time that day — to install Brownback in the vacant State Department position, which monitors persecution and discrimination on a global scale through the Office of International Religious Freedom (IRF).

The «Yes» vote on allowing gay couples to tie the knot won in all six Australian states, despite the most senior figure of the country's Anglican Church warning such a move would have «irreparable consequences» effects.

Polls show that AL and MS are pretty much three - way ties, with the not - Romney vote, of course, split down the middle.

Cruz performed higher among evangelicals, winning one - third of the vote (34 %), while Donald Trump (22 %) and Florida senator Marco Rubio (21 %) were nearly tied.

Two weeks ahead of the Iowa caucuses, Trump (31 %) and Cruz (29 %) are virtually tied for Republican votes, according to Quinnnipiac University.

His authority was something like that of the Vice President to the Senate, a tie - breaking vote.

Acting in his capacity as president of the Senate, Vice President Mike Pence twice cast tie - breaking votes to gain passage in the upper chamber.

While China's response was tied to Trump's steel and aluminum tariffs, it could end up hurting American ranchers and farmers — many of whom are from regions that voted for Trump in 2016.

In 1973, the teams tied, and an infamous vote of Big Ten athletic directors gave the crown to the Buckeyes.

1 Black Tie Affair, winner of the Breeders» Cup Classic, is voted Eclipse Award as the 1991 Horse of the Year.

SI.com's Sam Amick did a quick survey of front office types on the most popular prospect behind Davis, and Beal actually tied Robinson with six votes, with Michael Kidd - Gilchrist falling behind.

That remark referred to a now - infamous Sports Illustrated poll in which their PGA Tour peers anonymously ranked Fowler and Poulter as the most overrated players in golf (they tied, both receiving 24 percent of the vote).

At the end of his first year in the majors, after tying a National League rookie record with seven shutouts, Koosman missed winning the Rookie of the Year Award by one vote.

Darien Mayor Kathleen Weaver recently broke a tie vote in favor of a park development that will be built next to a proposed strip mall project.

The vote came a month after a tie vote by the board, including Tenuto «s nay, which prevented approval of the range at the May 8 meeting.

«At the top of the Conservative party, the narrow vote in favour of leaving the EU has now been interpreted as the pretext for a drastic cutting of ties with Europe, which would have dire economic results - and as an excuse for the most toxic rhetoric on immigration we have seen from any government in living memory,» the statement reads.

HTC political director Josh Gold said the assemblywoman, who is being challenged by Democrat John Mancuso this fall, has family ties to the union and also has made a point of voting on several priority HTC bills.

India benefits directly from the economic ties with wealthy nations, and leaving the Commonwealth would disenfranchise millions of Indians living as Commonwealth Citizens, stopping them from voting in the UK and other countries that allow Commonwealth citizens the vote.

Nwakali, who was voted Most Valuable Player of the Tournament and earned the Golden Ball, tied with compatriot Chukwueze for third place with three goals and three assists.

While it will now be more likely that the justices will divide evenly on difficult cases, Justice Kennedy will remain the swing vote, providing a fifth vote for a majority of progressive justices (Ginsburg, Breyer, Sotomayor and Kagan), and remaining with the conservatives (Thomas, Roberts and Alito) in tie votes, which will leave the lower court's judgment in place and will not operate as binding precedent on lower courts.

According to the Constitution, the Vice President is the head of the Senate, but doesn't really explain what that means except to say that he doesn't get to vote except to break a tie.

During an interview with me that will air in full on «Capital Tonight» this evening at 8 p.m. and 11:30 p.m., Levy again insisted that he and Lazio are tied at 40 percent of the weighted convention vote.

A US senator can not guarantee that the vice president won't be able to vote by staying away from the chamber, because there is no way to guarantee that another senator or senators might also refrain from voting, resulting in a 49 - 49 tie (or indeed any smaller number of votes, evenly split), whereupon the vice president would be able to vote.

This suggests the entire premise of tying wealth to votes is asking for trouble.

The latter would tie the Prime Minister's hands if ever he wished to threaten an election through a vote of confidence.

The full extent of the possible effects of agenda control was first noted by a colourful 18th Century French mathematician, the Marquis de Condorcet who in his famous paradox noted that in a situation with a tie between three options a voter can determine the outcome of an election by voting insincerely on one of their preferences.

He built strong ties within the Democratic caucus after helping them win control of the Senate in 2006 and build a 60 - vote supermajority in 2008 as a strategist and prolific fundraiser.

But he added that the need for Pence to cast a tie - breaking vote «is another glaring reminder of the unprecedented obstruction that Senate Democrats have engaged in throughout this process.»

In three of the seats I found UKIP ahead by up to six points on the standard voting intention question, and they were tied with Labour in Dudley.

Didn't he cave in a couple of years ago after taking thousands of dollars from NYSUT and vote with a «heavy heart» for a budget that included changes in the teacher evaluation law that quite severely tied teacher ratings to test scores?

Also, is an individual's likelihood of voting tied to their level of education or knowledge of current political issues?