Sentences with phrase «succeed than a vote»

The results of polling to date show that a referendum on «independence - lite» or «devo - max» would be more likely to succeed than a vote that would overturn the last 300 years of constitutional unity in its entirety, and which would create a completely separate state akin to the Republic of Ireland.

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But this latest effort may not succeed given the tight time constraints and skepticism from Senators like Arizona Republican John McCain, who has been insisting that any health care legislation go through a bipartisan committee process in regular order (rather than a pure party - line vote).

The Conservatives» remarkable success in converting coalition into majority government is down to two factors: this was the first governing party to increase its vote share after a full term in office for more than a century and it succeeded in concentrating that vote increase in the seats where it counted.

More than three quarters of all voters, including a clear majority of those who intend to vote Labour on Thursday, think the last Labour government «must accept a large part of the blame» for Britain's economic problems; Mr Miliband is unlikely to succeed in his campaign to persuade the electorate that this idea is a «big lie» put about by the coalition.

Apart from these counties / cities, Labour failed to win more than one vote in every eight cast in all of the other local authority areas, although the party did succeed in winning more than ten percent of all the votes cast in some other local authority areas, namely Fingal (11.3 %), Kilkenny (11.2 %), Galway City (10.8 %) and South Dublin County (10.2 %).

I can predict with a high degree of confidence that Boris Johnson will succeed David Cameron as prime minister - but that is only because more British people and Tory supporters voted for his side of the European argument than for David Cameron's.

Ed Balls will succeed Gordon Brown and Labour will win a narrow majority in 2019 although probably with fewer votes than the Conservatives.

ALBANY — Andrew Cuomo's new Women's Equality Party succeeded last week in its most urgent mission: getting more than 50,000 people to vote for the governor on the W.E.P. line.

Perhaps more than any other vote, the health care bill epitomized a Democratic Congress that succeeded in passing major legislation but paid a big political price for it on Election Day.