Sentences with phrase «right before the voting»

He led the team from the front and he closed up the gap right before the voting started.

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In announcing his vote, McCain came to the Senate floor and put his right thumb down before walking off.

The vote began, and McCain came to the Senate floor and put his right thumb down before walking off.

He instructed audience members to raise their right hand and repeat the following: «I do solemnly swear that I, no matter how I feel, no matter what the conditions, if there are hurricanes or whatever, will vote on or before the 12th for Donald J. Trump for President.»

Federal judges found more problems in Texas» voting rights laws, ruling that Republicans racially gerrymandered some congressional districts to weaken the growing electoral power of minorities, who former President Barack Obama set out to protect at the ballot box before leaving office.

In 1924 the writer and civil rights activist James Weldon Johnson observed that «practically every Negro vote is labeled, sealed, delivered and packed away long before election.»

Under Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act, about 800 counties with histories of racially - discriminatory voting laws — going back to poll taxes and literacy tests — had to get the Justice Department's approval beforehand (a process called pre-clearance) before such laws could take effect.

Before the 19th Amendment was passed, no woman had the right to vote.

Fibrant built its network in North Carolina before the state legislature voted to limit cities» rights to offer broadband, according to Ars.

Some of these rules were written before women even had the right to vote.

Wells Fargo's stake of 479.7 million shares in Wells Fargo was worth right at $ 23 billion last Thursday before the Brexit vote.

Even the value of Kraft Heinz Co. (NYSE: KHC) dropped from $ 86.36 before the Brexit Vote to $ 83.73 on Friday and then was at $ 83.65 right before the close on Monday.

Preferred shares generally have a dividend that must be paid out before dividends to common shareholders, and the shares usually do not carry voting rights.

Online voting continued right up until midnight the night before the announcement, with about 2,000 votes tallied overall.

For all those who are talking to themselves today, thinking that some supernatural deity is listening to them, please seek professional psychiatric help before you hurt someone or yourself in the name of your sky fairy, vote against others» rights, or promote your chosen flavor of insanity over the scientific method.

I vote for a low key servant leadership in a democratic system, structures that help us focus on the right stuff without dictating what should happen, and conserning norms, I prefer values before rules.

Before the 1970s, evangelicals voted as often for Democrats as for Republicans, but in the wake of the Civil Rights movement in the 1960s, a Supreme Court decision ending prayer in public schools, and the legalisation of abortion in 1973, the Republican Party recognised an opportunity to build a new coalition of Christian conservatives upset with the cultural changes sweeping the country.

How funny... he managed to pause right at the exit of the church door... for all the world to see him... in a perfectly orchestrated photo shoot... 45 days before voters go to the voting booth.

Boehner is manipulative and a hypocrite — actually helping the oil companies by handing out their campaign checks for them right there on the house floor (you couldn't make this up) before a related vote.

Instead, they set their sights on a court fight with Proposition 8, whereby a majority of voting Californians had amended their state constitution to undo a judicial decision that had found a never before seen right to gay marriage.

Maybe we have to go back way before I was born, when atheists had no voting rights, or had to sit in the back of the bus, or had their own «separate but equal» schools.

Priscilla risked her life for the Gospel long before women risked their lives to obtain the right to own property or to vote.

A combination of bad luck, the legal architecture of the nomination process (which makes candidates getting in late difficult - to - impossible - and defines late as December of the year before at the latest), the center - right media environment and the mood of some center - right voting blocs has given us a terrible field and an even worse debate.

They were too use to being picked up by their church buses and driven right up to the doors to vote, and returned home before their soaps came on.

«Not since Congress voted to ban the brutal partial - birth abortion method has a more important piece of pro-life legislation come before Congress,» said Susan Muskett of the National Right to Life Committee (NRLC).

Like I have said before, we need to vote the religious right wing out of office.

«She has no right to spend millions of dollars without letting residents vote on it,» said Hadac, 34, an attorney who was a Berwyn Park District commissioner before she moved to Grayslake three years ago.

«I don't think Ghanaians listen to Martin Amidu before voting, otherwise they would have voted for us (NDC) when he was made the running mate... he has the right as a citizen to express his opinion but I don't think Ghanaians vote based on what he tells them...,» he said.

Opposition groups had complained of curbs on freedom of assembly before the vote, while rights groups have denounced political repression and crackdowns on basic freedoms.

If right - to - die were put to a free vote in the Commons before the next general election, it would very probably be defeated.

New Yorkers gave women the right to vote before it became a federal right, but not a lot sooner.

Because of Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act, which requires that states with a history of discrimination receive preclearance before making changes to voting laws.

A lot of Democrats are up in arms about ABC's upcoming miniseries, «The Path to 9/11» — an email I got from the Democratic Party described it as «a bald - faced attempt to slander Democrats and revise history right before Americans vote in a major election.»

oh and most of Europe normally decide who to team up with before the vote... I'm not saying it's a bad thing or owt, just that Hughes» shouldn't be blowing the LDs left - leaning trumpet too loudly when it's clear as day that some very nasty, very right wing policies are being implemented under Clegg's watchful gaze.

«[I] f the dictator of a third world nation threw open its prison doors and granted voting rights to the criminals right before a re-election, we all would be appalled,» he said in a statement.

He added, «The legislature is now running for re-election and what we're saying is we want a legislature that will pass the Women's Equality Act and we have a right to know who's going to pass it, who's not going to pass it before we vote.»

The procedures proposed for the European selections — to have been completed, with candidates in place, before this year's Labour Party conference — would give the party membership merely a right to nominate, not to select or vote for, candidates.

However, I don't understand why they've been compelled to do it straight away and with this secretive process where senators only get the content of a bill right before they need to vote on it.

Angle has alleged voting irregularities before: she quit a 2011 special elections for the US House, calling the process a «mockery» of voting rights.

Last week, Attorney General Eric Schneiderman stood before a crowd of New Yorkers gathered at Federal Hall and announced the introduction of a comprehensive reform bill aimed at expanding voting rights in New York.

«If the dictator of a third world nation threw open its prison doors and granted voting rights to the criminals right before a reelection, we all would be appalled,» Molinaro wrote on Twitter.

Before joining Common Cause in 2005, she headed the Voting Rights and Anti-Discrimination Unit at the Asian Pacific American Legal Center, where she fought for voting rights and civil libeRights and Anti-Discrimination Unit at the Asian Pacific American Legal Center, where she fought for voting rights and civil liberights and civil liberties.

But with same - day voter registration, he said people would be allowed to update their addresses and register to vote right before the election.

And de Blasio is right - there are 49 more states and the District of Columbia to vote before the primary season is over.

This vote is the first of a two part vote that Governor of Puerto Rico, Luis Fortuno, signed into law, right before the start of the New Year.

Everyone wants to give Gordon Brown a kicking right now, especially since the government - in their infinite wisdom - decided to unveil their reforms to unemployment and incapacity benefit right before today's vote.

The fact of the matter is electoral violence before and during elections threatens the individual's right to vote, which is valued both as an opportunity to affect the outcome of specific elections.

«Let's keep the big picture in focus: Seneca gaming works and right now it's the only gambling mechanism that provides economic benefits to the state and its people, and will continue to for years before any amendment might be put to a vote.»

Of course she's perfectly within her rights to do so as a May government, with those 10 DUP MPs voting with them, commands a working majority the same as they had before parliament was dissolved.

Tory MPs voted down a motion to unilaterally guarantee EU nationals» rights in the last parliament before the government brought forward its own proposals.