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But on Saturday, despite the competition bureau investigation, the organization decided to go ahead with the controversial changes to the MLS rules at their Annual General Meeting in Ottawa, in an overwhelming vote of 92 per cent in favour of the new guidelines, according to one source.

Bill 106, The Protecting Condominium Owners Act, 2015, passed third reading in the Ontario legislature by an overwhelming vote of 89 - 0.

Sequanna, who is president of the Milwaukee Educational Assistants» Association and sits on the Executive Board of the Milwaukee Teachers» Education Association, was elected by an overwhelming vote of delegates to the NEA Convention in Boston.

UTLA Delivers No - Confidence Vote to LAUSD Superintendent John Deasy LAUSD's teachers union issued an overwhelming vote of no - confidence Thursday in the leadership of Superintendent John Deasy as he finishes his second year, while a rival survey released by civil rights groups showed strong support for his reform strategies and called for an even more aggressive...

However, aides were unable to add details to how Corbyn might be able to reach a consensus, while MPs opposing him said there was no substance in the Sunday Mirror article, and called on him to show leadership and respond to the overwhelming vote of no confidence among MPs last week.

There have been more than 60 frontbench resignations, and an overwhelming vote of no confidence in Corbyn, since this newspaper's revelation that Hilary Benn was orchestrating a plot to remove the leader.

Labour MPs are preparing to launch a bruising leadership contest that will aim to topple leader Jeremy Corbyn after he reacted to an overwhelming vote of no confidence by declaring he had no intention to resign.

Mr Corbyn has refused to resign despite a mass frontbench walkout and overwhelming vote of no confidence by MPs.

But the YouGov poll for The Times shows Mr Corbyn's support within the party's membership remains strong - despite the resignations of scores of frontbenchers and an overwhelming vote of no confidence in his leadership from Labour MPs.

Mr Corbyn has refused to quit as leader despite more than 60 Labour MPs resigning their frontbench positions in an attempt to force him out and an overwhelming vote of no confidence.

The $ 41 billion two - year budget passed by an overwhelming vote of 33 to 3.

Howie Hawkins, the Green candidate for New York Governor, expressed his support today for the members of CSEA Onondaga County Local 834 who voted down a county contract offer yesterday by an overwhelming vote of 1,528 to 100.

Health secretary Andrew Lansley has received an overwhelming vote of no confidence at the Royal College of Nursing annual conference.

Mr Corbyn has refused to resign as leader despite more than 60 Labour MPs resigning their frontbench positions in an attempt to force him out and an overwhelming vote of no confidence.

They panicked in the febrile post-Brexit atmosphere, and fatally assumed that Corbyn would resign after an overwhelming vote of no confidence.

A defiant Corbyn has vowed to fight on despite an overwhelming vote of no confidence by his own MPs, who declared their wish to see him gone by a margin of more than four to one.

At the time of writing, despite an overwhelming vote of no confidence among Labour MPs, he clings on, citing a democratic mandate of party members.

Having apparently received an overwhelming Vote of Procrastination from the West Ham Board it now looks like manager Slaven Bilic is effectively on a one day at a time rolling contract to save his job.

It is, of course, about the overwhelming vote of the bishops for implementing Ex Corde Ecclesiae, a measure aimed at advancing the controversial view that schools claiming to teach Catholic theology teach Catholic theology.

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The vote returned an overwhelming result in favour of independence but turnout was low.

He said that, because of the «overwhelming media narrative based on the polls that Michigan was a blowout for Clinton,» Democrats found it worthwhile to vote Republican.

Ackman brought a proxy contest, winning an overwhelming majority of the vote and garnering a majority of the board seats.

In a secret ballot on 23 June 2015, Yindjibarndi people throughout the State voted by an overwhelming two - thirds majority for change in the management and leadership of Yindjibarndi Native Title business.

With more than 60 % of the results counted, official projection from Greece's interior ministry shows no vote set to win with an overwhelming 61 % share

Their control of the House has been strengthened by two factors: 1) Democrats» tendency to win with overwhelming margins in heavily Democratic urban areas, thus wasting votes; and 2) gerrymandering, which is the process of redrawing the boundaries of legislative districts to favour one's party.

Shareholders of Calgary - based construction company Aecon have voted overwhelming to approve a C$ 1.5 - billion takeover of the company by a Chinese firm.

Under the default rule applicable to virtually every corporation in the United States, however, corporate directors are elected through a standard that guarantees that a director could be elected with even a single affirmative vote, even if that director's candidacy is opposed by the overwhelming majority of shareholders.

The other is the Windsor case — discussed by Carl Scott earlier — in which the majority opinion not only sets aside part of the Defense of Marriage Act passed with overwhelming support in 1996, but also dismisses and disparages the motives of those who voted for it.

With the assistance of foresighted men like Msgr. Oesterreicher, and the unofficial but crucial input from Jewish historians and theologians, the declaration — after numerous drafts, several years of intense debate, and even a last second bid by reactionaries to thwart it — was voted on and finally passed at the Council, by an overwhelming margin.

But when the anti-corruption crusader was accused of distorting a Qur «an teaching to convince the nation's overwhelming Muslim majority to vote for a Christian, public opinion shifted dramatically.

Although it was not without opposition, it was approved by an overwhelming voice vote at the general assembly and, perhaps more significant, received the required ratification from the presbyteries by a count of 205 to 35.

His overwhelming vote as the Arsenal fans» player of the season highlights what a massive impact Alexis had in his debut season.

After he and Baba Rahman got the most tweets suggesting they were candidates for man of the match, we put it to a vote and the result was overwhelming.

At the club's AGM on Friday he won an overwhelming majority of the vote.

«I was not expecting to be captain of the team and am overwhelmed and thrilled to be voted in by my peers and will do my utmost to support them and lead by example.

However, I haven't had the best of luck opposing the overwhelming favourites this season, particularly of late, so a lack of courage has swung my tentative vote in the direction of the hosts, a United side who simply must register maximum points what with league leaders City facing Chelsea on Monday night.

I think our members of Congress, who will be voting on any proposed changes to school meal rules this year, should take note of the fact that the overwhelming majority of people surveyed don't want school meal regulations weakened.

Aden + Anais classic and bamboo swaddle blankets received an overwhelming number of votes for best blankets must - haves.

I am completely overwhelmed by the amount of votes that came in for this November 2016 baby competition, maybe the next baby competition should have a TOP 100 too?

The 72 - year - old Akufo - Addo beat President John Mahama of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) by over one million votes to win the presidency at the third attempt while his party, the NPP snatched almost 50 of the NDC's seats to win an overwhelming parliamentary majority in the elections.

«I'm absolutely delighted to have had the overwhelming support of the association meeting and I will be continuing with my work on behalf of the people of St Albans,» she said after the vote.

NYC has so many people that it overwhelms the votes in the rest of the state.

The overwhelming majority of «no» voters who voted Labour in 2010 also voted Labour in 2015, as the British Election Study shows.

British leaders were celebrating a UN vote against the Syrian regime last night, after an overwhelming majority of member states condemned the violence.

Interestingly, the Svoboda party came first in the foreign electoral district, gaining overwhelming majority of votes from Ukrainian residents living in the USA, Canada, Australia, Great Britain, Sweden, Italy and Spain.

According to the SNP leader, if Scots vote to Remain while the UK as a whole takes the Brexit option, the clamour for the break - up of the UK would become overwhelming.

«Demented fury» is not the kind of language I would use but if Wales and Scotland does vote «Yes» by a large enough margin to overwhelm an English «no» it would certainly vindicate those MPs who said that the referendum should not take place on the same day as the elections to Holyrood and the Cardiff Assembly.

Unite's Policy Conference sent a very clear message to rebel Labour MPs yesterday by voting by an overwhelming majority to support a rule change to the Labour Party rulebook to reintroduce mandatory reselection of MPs before each general election.

An overwhelming 57 percent of the respondents told us they would vote for Donald Trump over Hillary Clinton if the election were held again.

Despite an overwhelming feeling among participants that corruption is still a major problem in the New York State government and general disagreement with Governor Cuomo's claim that the Moreland Commission was successful, 58 percent of voters said they would vote to re-elect him.