Sentences with phrase «presided over the vote»

«Let the voting take us where it will,» as McConnell put it while presiding over the vote.

Mickey Revenaugh, the virtual school executive overseeing the committee, presided over the vote endorsing the measure.

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A month after the hack — and mere days after presiding over a controversial vote to initiate a «hard fork» process that would recover the DAO's stolen funds and make whole its backers — Vitalik Buterin is listening impassively to a guy wearing a beanie cap shaped like a Pokémon dragon.

SEC members voted to remove the doctrinal clause which stated that marriage is a «union of one man and one woman», replacing it with a clause which asserts that clergy who do not wish to preside over same - sex weddings will not be compelled to do so «against their conscience».

(Samuels also plans on running for the Senate president job, which the LG traditionally holds, presiding over the chamber and breaking ties, if necessary — although there's been some debate over when he can cast that vote).

Yet this is from the same people who presided over losing five million Labour voters from 1997 to 2010 whilst Ed Miliband increased Labour's vote by 600,000.

But liking him and securing votes are two separate issues, especially considering it's been over fifty years since a Republican presided over Borough Hall when James Lundy was elected to just one term.

There is now a Tory Prime Minister with a majority in Parliament with the lowest share of the popular vote ever, who presided over the longest decline in living standards, yet Labour lost seats.

But there's no way Klein would vote for Sampson, who has been widely speculated to be on his last legs as leader for months now — a speculation that has continued despite the fact that he just presided over a campaign effort that might have returned his party to power.

The Erie County Legislature is presided over by a Chairperson elected each year by a majority vote of the full Legislature.

Instead, it went ahead to preside over a charade, for which it is now attempting to illicitly handover the vote cast for a dead man to another person, who did not participate in the overall election.

«It's laughable that Andrew Cuomo, who received thirty - four percent of the vote in the 27th District, and Nancy Pelosi, who has presided over one of the biggest Democrat losing streaks in history, would come together to attack Chris Collins and other New York House Republicans,» said Collins campaign adviser Chris Grant.

On Monday after presiding over the state's electoral college vote, Cuomo brushed off a question as to whether he'd run in 2020.

A spokesman for Ms. Mark - Viverito zinged Ms. James — who does not get a vote in the Council but does preside over stated meetings — for not attending a hearing on the bill.

[32] The Parliamentary Speaker İsmail Kahraman, who is unable to take part in the vote by virtue of being the Speaker, was hospitalised during the vote, meaning that AKP deputy speaker Ahmet Aydın presided over the proceedings and was therefore unable to cast a vote.

That left him to deal with a largely indifferent voting public and an entrenched, well - financed incumbent who, through little doing of his own, is presiding over a modest revival of the city.

When in power as part of the Tory - led coalition from 2010 - 15, the Lib Dems voted through a raft of benefit cuts including the bedroom tax, cuts to council tax benefit, housing benefit and tax credits, as well as presiding over a disability benefit testing system that wrongly denied benefits to thousands of people, and a job centre sanctions system that saw benefits docked for hundreds of thousands of jobseekers.

ALBANY — For the first time in two decades, the State Assembly voted overwhelmingly today to elect a new speaker, Carl Heastie of the Bronx, to preside over the chamber after Sheldon Silver's swift and stunning downfall.

«While it's well - intentioned by them,» said Mike Reich, a member of the Queens party who presided over the meeting, «the executive committee has voted to table this because the additional expenses would be astronomical and the restrictions on it would hamper the ability of the political party to operate in an election time where you have to make quick expenditures in response to Republicans — as you know, Republicans can drop a million dollars in a district in a blink of an eye — and we have to be able to respond.»

A choice between a Conservative leader who is beginning to get his message right and a Labour Prime Minister who has increased tax to record levels, presided over the defeat in Basra and denied people a vote on the EU Treaty.

He presided over a drop in the Tory vote in 2015 (down to 31.7 %) however does have some name recognition in the constituency now, albeit not much.

However questions were raised about the suitability of the new children's minister, Robert Goodwill, to preside over SRE changes after Schools Week revealed that Goodwill voted against the legalisation of same - sex marriage.

The Crown Colony system of Government was introduced in 1871, and the Legislative Assembly by its own vote was replaced by a nominated Legislative Council with an official majority presided over by the Lieutenant Governor.

Bangkok, 18 May, 2017 — The Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) will open voting on the People's Choice Awards Thailand Voted by Chinese Tourists 2017 from 26 May to 8 June via www.peopleschoiceawardsthailand.com The winners will be announced at an awards ceremony in Bangkok on 12 June, 2017, which will be presided over by H.E. General Tanasak Patimapragorn, Deputy Prime Minister of Thailand.

David Vote - Blue - Go - Green Cameron, like his predecessors Brown and Blair have presided over a growing chasm that exists between the public and the political establishment.

A month after the hack — and mere days after presiding over a controversial vote to initiate a «hard fork» process that would recover the DAO's stolen funds and make whole its backers — Vitalik Buterin is listening impassively to a guy wearing a beanie cap shaped like a Pokémon dragon.

Vice President Mike Pence presided over the Senate vote, which was interrupted repeatedly by protesters, some of whom chanted, «Kill the bill, don't kill us!»