Sentences with phrase «of voting bodies»

It's highly significant that Danny Boyle's film managed to claim this gong, in particular; as Kris pointed out yesterday, of all voting bodies, it's the PGA that -LSB-...]

In another year, his film might have had a shot in Best Picture, filling one of the period slots that are often left open, but Lincoln and Les Misérables most definitely have those bases covered, gobbling up citations from a whole host of voting bodies.

Because of the size of the voting body (111,228 eligible members and counting!)

SAG voters have established clear favorites over the years (Alec Baldwin has never lost for «30 Rock»), and, because of the size of the voting body, the prizes typically go to consensus candidates.

After all, the de facto position of this voting body is to reward movies that provide some bit of uplift.

To this tall prerequisites list, we have to add major factors of any Oscar campaign: the politics and biases of the voting body.

SAG snub for The Post i still fear was due to screeners and not enough of the voting body seeing it BAFTA is never a sure thing especially for a patriotic American Film - Streep has earned Oscar nominations without the BAFTA The Post will get a Best Pic nomination and Meryl will be nominated for Best Actress at the Oscars Dench snub a good sign and Bening too late to gather the buzz / votes

Category fraud is exemplified by Viola Davis, whose push as a leading star is, admittedly, a falsity of the filmmakers and not of any voting body, but who should nevertheless be considered as supporting.

Not exact matches

Seattle's City Council voted on Monday to levy a special tax on sodas and other sugary beverages sold to consumers, becoming the latest of several local government bodies across the country to take such action for the sake of public health.

If you told her she had to drape her body in a billowing black sack every time she went outside, or that her right to vote was only a right as of a few years ago, she'd tell you you'd lost your mind.

So it's disheartening that the student body at Barnard, a women's college that is part of Columbia University, voted Wednesday to encourage the administration to divest from companies that do business with Israel.

The Nebraska Public Service Commission, a five - member regulatory body, voted 3 - 2 in favor of the project, which would give TransCanada permission to build the pipeline through the state.

You can relax on what have been voted as some of the best beaches in the world and once your body has recharged with a healthy dose of Vitamin D, go play a round of golf on a course overlooking the water.

Assange and his attorney said Britain's vote to leave the European Union could complicate his situation by limiting his ability to appeal to the European Court of Justice or the Council of Europe, a European human rights body.

While this may not increase your faith in the voting process, it does show that perception of competence has a strong foundation in body language.

Venezuelan crisis intensifies after vote, arrests Following a disputed election for a new legislative body last weekend, in which voting tallies were reportedly manipulated, and the arrest of two high - profile opposition leaders, Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro faces increased pressure both from within Venezuela and without.

The rulebook of virtually every parliamentary body provides for that, usually by a two - thirds vote.

I will also no longer act as if I need a majority vote of some ecclesiastical body in order to bless, ordain, recognize and celebrate the lives and gifts of gay and lesbian people in the life of the church.

Speaking after the vote, the Bishop of St Asaph, Gregory Cameron, who introduced the motion, said, «I am delighted that Governing Body is able to add its voice to this important issue to call for peace and justice in the Middle East.

For many nominal Catholics may not live a Christian life at all and may be quite uninterested in the Church, but might nevertheless claim their right to vote for electoral bodies precisely in order to work against the interests of the Church.

On Saturday, the Sandy Valley Conference of Free Will Baptists, the regional body of the denomination, released a statement saying the church policy was «Null and Void,» because the vote was not held in accordance with proper parliamentary procedure.

One of the most extraordinary aspects of this referendum was the extent to which bodies which had no business recommending a vote one way or the other took sides: the Industrial Development Authority called for a «Yes» vote, as did the Gaelic Athletic Association, as did the representative organisation of the Irish police in the Republic, the Garda Representative Association — a move which drew a sharp rebuke from Baroness Nuala O'Loan, the legal expert who oversaw the changes in Northern Ireland which improved the policing situation there immeasurably.

Devotion to «diversity» doesn't mean having a faculty or student body with the ideological diversity of our country, a place where more or less half the population unjustly votes Republican.

Just because a violation of Biblical guidance is voted and approved by a legislative body and signed by a president the transgression against God's plan remains intact.

They attend mass, confession and partake of communion, but when they pull the voting booth curtain closed they vote against MEN telling them what they can and can't do with their body.

Earlier this week, the Southern Baptist Convention — which is the largest Protestant denomination in the world — voted to «call [their] brothers and sisters in Christ to discontinue the display of the Confederate battle flag as a sign of solidarity of the whole Body of Christ.»

A Black Ministry Convocation in the Lutheran Church — Missouri Synod, not one of the country's more radical bodies, has voted overwhelmingly for a separate black district (a district is an LCMS diocese, so to speak) because of the «institutional racism» blacks have experienced in the church.

While the roots of these splits are deep, the precipitating cause in each case has resulted from majority voting on procedural, legislative, and regulatory matters in democratically constituted governing bodies.

However, with respect to the first of those issues, I find fascinating the British idea of «virtual representation,» which meant that so long as Parliament was a mixed deliberative body of persons that represented a variety of interests and opinions, then representation was real and valid even though citizens could not vote for members of Parliament.

Henry notes that of the almost 500 member synod (the three voting «houses» that constitute the Anglican Church's decision - making body) only 15 are from BAME heritage.

But this power did not come from any ecclesiastical body, or through control of the sacraments, or by virtue of an academic degree or training, or by a majority vote of a church assembly.

The hearings, stemming from a voice vote last November, will study a little - known loophole that circumvents federal laws banning the commercial sale of human body parts.

Four years later — the year of her retirement — Alice von Hildebrand was voted the top professor, out of eight hundred teachers, and a student body of 25,000.

I think this is one of the best comments about food I have ever heard; «I realised that with every bite of food we take we are voting for how we want our mind and body to feel and how we want the world around us to be.»

The strength of the European food industry's opposition to the traffic - light system is illustrated by the volume of scientific reports produced by food industry bodies in Europe and the intensive lobbying of EU parliamentarians around the time of the vote.

The student body gave the original proposal to sign up to MFM a resounding thumbs - up late last year, passing it with 81 per cent of the vote.

A proposal that the college kitchens ditch meat and fish for one day a week was initially put forward at a meeting of the JCR (undergraduate student body) then put to a college - wide vote after a well - attended debate.

I vote a rookie fourth rounder, because whatever white has in experience is offset by the lack of talent we've seen and a body that is full of once broken bones.

The inquiry will begin on May 29 just days before the committee will meet to vote for the next president of the World's governing body of which Bin Hammam is the only candidate running against Sepp Blatter.

That was the day when Africa's delegates voted to end Issa Hayatou's seven - term reign as head of the continent's footballing governing body, and instead point Madagascar's Ahmad Ahmad in his stead.

Almost 8.8 million fans voted in this year's poll to pick the UEFA Team of the Year, and the governing body has revealed some shock results.

Michel Platini is serving out his last term of president of European federation UEFA, whether or not he wins the vote next February 26 to take over at world governing body FIFA.

Instead, I voted to approve the draft standard because, without an established standard in place to regulate the headgear that has come on to the market in recent years (none of which, according to US Lacrosse, has been developed based on scientific testing, and none of which the organization - the governing body for both the men's and women's game - has endorsed), consumers are essentially «buying a pig in a poke»: in other words, without a clue as to whether the product they are buying has any safety value at all.

Also key was an «AIDE Memoire», issued by European Commission to MEPs before the vote, that failed to make the key point that the European Food Safety Authority (the body tasked with evaluating the claim) had seen no evidence of any benefit from adding the ingredient to follow - on formulas.

The MEPs voting for the Resolution were heeding the expert opinions of medical and public health bodies from across Europe, US, Asia and Latin America and from UN bodies, including WHO, UNICEF, Save the Children, the UK Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, the Standing Committee of European Doctors (CPME), the European Midwives Association, Eurochild, Association of European Cancer Leagues, the European Federation of the Association of Dieticians (EFAD), the European Federation of Nurses Associations (EFN), COFACE (the Confederation of Family Organisations in the European Union), EPHA (the European Public Health Association) BEUC (the European Consumers Association), the German Midwives Association, the California Women Infants and Children Association, Sustain's Childrens Food Campaign, the National Childbirth Trust, the Baby Feeding Law Group and the International Baby Food Action Network

Conferees are of course still bound by the need to get the final bill passed in both bodies, but working behind the scenes they're more able to make the swaps and changes to shape a bill (however ugly) that'll get enough votes to survive.

Convening such a body would provide a space to debate how best to address systematic political inequality, whether through thorough - going electoral reform including PR and compulsory voting, the radical overhaul of the democratic aberration that is the Lords, or in reforming party funding, all of which the report supports.

The result of all this is that FPTP bodies tend towards dual party systems after a while; the similar candidates fight it out in primaries so that in the real election, there's only two major choices and the effect of vote splitting is minimized.

Compare this model with that of the current government, whereby we have an unelected body of wealthy individuals, laden with conflicts of interest running the country and forcing through policies made up in a closed room that not one member of the electorate has had an opportunity to vote on.

U.S. Senate Democrats appeared to secure the votes necessary to filibuster the Supreme Court nomination of Judge Neil Gorsuch, sending the body hurtling toward a bitter partisan confrontation later this week.