Sentences with phrase «symbolic votes»

Without an alternative, the congressman said he would not take part in mostly symbolic votes to repeal Obamacare.

What are the most common symbolic votes to be cast?

Their aim has been to prepare the ground for a backbench debate on Thursday in which MPs will hold a symbolic vote on returning to the old days when Prime Ministers had full discretion to call elections as they saw fit.

Last week, pushback from conservative groups helped to topple the House leadership's attempt to pass a continuing resolution that would have forced on the Senate a symbolic vote to defund Obamacare.

What is the meaning and purpose of a symbolic vote?

Introducing the report, MAP President Baroness Morris of Bolton highlighted the importance of Palestinian statehood recognition, supported by UK Parliament in a symbolic vote in October 2014: «Recognition will bolster those Palestinians who believe that the path of non-violence will lead to a state coming into being through diplomacy and democratic expression, not destruction, a state which lives side - by - side with Israel in peace and prosperity.»

Possibly riding high on the relief — rather than out - and - out joy — of winning an important symbolic vote this morning when a motion was put to the conference hall on continuing the coalition's economic policies was carried, a debate where the Lib Dem leader himself summed up, he continued to push coalition strength and struggle over capitulating to his party's leftwing.

Magee ousted a three - term incumbent, and teachers held a symbolic vote of no confidence in Education Commissioner John King, over what critics call a botched rollout of the new Common Core learning standards.

Magee ousted a three - term incumbent, and teachers held a symbolic vote of no confidence in King, over what critics call a botched roll out of the new Common Core learning standards.

She was heavily defeated in the Lords last week and Remain - backing MPs are staging a symbolic vote on Thursday.

Not exact matches

The Mueller legislation approved by the Senate panel may be largely symbolic, since Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has said he won't bring it up for a full Senate vote.

French President Emmanuel Macron starts Thursday a highly symbolic visit to New Caledonia, a French territory in the South Pacific that is getting ready to vote on its independence.

There are atheists out there that will not vote for a LDS Bishop simply because they can not understand symbolic underware.

Pollan goes on to suggest «find one thing to do in your life that doesn't involve spending or voting, that may or may not virally rock the world but is real and particular (as well as symbolic) and that, come what may, will offer its own rewards.

With retailers and manufacturers already phasing out use of BPA, the unanimous vote is largely symbolic.

So I'm going to vote that we stop with the cutesy gifts for women, and go to cash * or * things that really are just symbolic.

But some people would say that for people who believe in civil liberties, 90 - day detention - which just seems symbolic of everything, Habeas Corpus and so on - on principle you couldn't possibly have voted for it.

Sunder, absolutely, was symbolic in many respects, except it did give Tories access to constituencies and voters that would never ever vote Tory; areas in the Highlands, etc..

The presence of some young people in parliament may act as a strong symbolic gesture to reengage young people in politics, potentially increasing their voting turnout.

But with the Democrat - led Assembly balking, that vote has been viewed as symbolic, with the governor and the two houses likely to discuss a more detailed proposal later.

The Senate twice passed a one - house property tax cap bill when the chamber was under Democratic control, but that was back when it was assured the Assembly Democrats wouldn't take up the measure, making the vote entirely symbolic.

While the presidency is a mostly symbolic post, the race had attracted Europe - wide attention as the next possible victory for populists after Donald Trump's presidential win in the United States and Britain's Brexit vote.

At the time many pundits and reporters saw those votes as symbolic, rhetorical and lacking substance because the disgruntled disrupters knew that then - President Barack Obama would immediately veto the measure.

Peralta, clad in his signature DREAM Act T - shirt, which he sports over his chamber - dress - code - appopriate shirt and tie, told me during a CapTon interview last night that he and his fellow Latino lawmakers in both the Senate and Assembly are in discussions to reject the education bill, even though they are well aware their «no» votes will be merely symbolic.

STATEN ISLAND — A newly elected Staten Island assemblyman called abortion «African - American genocide» before voting against a symbolic bill that reiterated New York's support for the landmark abortion ruling Roe v. Wade.

The vote is symbolic and will not automatically change government policy, although the Home Office may now find it impossible to resist demands for a radical rethink.

Meng has said the vote was symbolic, while Lancman has called the hypothetical vote «reckless.»

Aides say the vote is a symbolic endorsing of the policy but accept it does not necessarily make the party more or less committed to it - reflecting the limited influence which the Labour conference actually has on policy decisions.

The Cortland County Legislature Thursday night voted on a symbolic resolution to send to Washington to protest threatened cuts to federal Title X family planning funding for the Jacobus Center.

With the vote 23 days away, the debate on the NBC program «Meet The Press» provided national exposure to one of the most symbolic Senate races of 2010.

Williams and 9 other council members refused to vote Wednesday for a symbolic resolution condemning the Palestinian - backed Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions movement, an effort to delegitimize Israel over its treatment of Palestinian people.

The House voted 235 - 188 on Tuesday to pass the mostly - symbolic measure, with only four Democrats joining 231 Republicans.

At one point, when the union members were considering symbolic resolutions that offered NYSUT's support or opposition for a variety of political issues, the teachers voted to remove Cuomo's name from a pledge to support the Women's Equality Act, which he championed.

«The right to vote is only symbolic without the access to vote.

The Gill Action Fund, on the other hand, wants a win and is arguing against a vote if all it will be is a symbolic victory.

Wednesday's vote by the Otsego Board of Representatives was a symbolic one that puts the county on record as being in support of repealing the law.

No MPs voted against the SNP's backbench motion to stop the planned cuts to employment support allowance and universal credit, with 127 MPs voting in favour, though the motion is purely symbolic.

In an effort to further underline the continued unity at the top of the coalition after the divisive May 5 vote, No 10 are lining up a symbolic photo opportunity featuring Jenson Button and Lewis Hamilton, the British Formula 1 rivals who both drive for the same team.

That's because the vote wasn't binding - it was only symbolic.

«But I think many people of good will would have voted yes, in a sort of symbolic fashion.

She also noted that Cerf gave the board permission to call itself the Newark Board of Education — a symbolic gesture to drop the «advisory» label, which was appreciated by board members — and allowed it to vote on district expenditures before they are made, although he still has the final say.

The Senate, in a largely symbolic gesture, recently voted to prohibit the U.S. Justice Department from taking «any sort of action» requiring the busing of students to schools other than those nearest their homes.

LAUSD's school Board President Steve Zimmer led the board in March to make a controversial — and largely symbolic — vote in favor of one of the more noxious school - union - backed bills to get a hearing in the state Capitol.

As the US Conference of Mayors wrapped up in Miami Beach on Monday, leaders from more than 250 cities voted on symbolic resolutions pushing back against Donald Trump on climate change and immigration.

The bill's introduction claims to cap emissions and expand clean energy, and though it would do neither, in the simulacrum that is global warming politics, these symbolic intentions were more than sufficient for Democrats and greens to proclaim the bill a «breakthrough» and for Republicans to vote en masse against it.

Arkansas Senator Mark Pryor was one of one the seventeen Democrats that joined all the Republican Senators in voting for symbolic approval of the Keystone XL pipeline.

In a symbolic resolution, San Juan Capistrano City Council condemned California Senate Bill 54 (SB 54), also known as the California Values Act or Sanctuary State Law, in a 4 - 1 vote with Mayor...

See further: L. Schetzer, op.cit., pp119 - 120; G. Zdenkowski, «Mandatory imprisonment of property offenders in the Northern Territory» (1999) 22 (1) University of New South Wales Law Journal 302 at pp302 - 303; R. Hogg, «Mandatory sentencing laws and the symbolic politics of law and order» (1999) 22 (1) University of New South Wales Law Journal 262; N. Morgan, «Capturing crims or capturing votes?