Sentences with phrase «than votes»

I have to admit, though, that single issues are far more likely to cause votes against than votes for.

To make this clearer to our presidential candidates, we need to do more than vote and pray for them.

Rather than vote in the booth for new people, we can simply vote with our money and actions to restrict the resources they have available.

I have no idea what I can do as a consumer, other than vote — at the voting booth and at the grocery store with my dollar.

Sure, some of them would rather eat their children than vote Labour.

That's a million fewer than turned out for each of the three most recent gubernatorial elections, and more than 1.5 million fewer than voted in 1994.

In contrast to our view about voting, one prominent index fund sponsor has stated that its «engagement» with companies is more important than its voting record.

He said the last time the convention was proposed in 1997, more people left the space blank than voted either for or against the question.

I'd add there's more to political action than voting.

Too bad if more people vote FOR those who support giving poor women access to health care than vote as you do.

And if we don't, I think it's fair to say that the whole discussion is moot, we have bigger problems than our voting system.

That is why even today if someone is from an ethnic minority, even if they are highly educated or rich, they are much more likely to vote Labour than vote Conservative.

This means that each vote in those states has much more power than the votes in other states.

But the feedback from the people is provided with other mechanisms than voting: for instance, appeals, petitions, internal party criticism and discipline investigations etc..

I do know there are certain parties that I'd never go near in a million years and that I'd rather eat my own shoe than vote for.

Rather than voting like the ABA, I wanted Canadian legal bloggers & blog readers to have a hand in the process.

So, the model concentrates on seats rather than votes.

But naming a real - world business should be based on much more than a vote and a promise.

«Sometimes your dollar is more important than your vote,» she said.

He says the last time the convention was proposed in 1997, more people left the space blank than voted either for or against the question.

«If vulnerable Democrats are allowed off this vote, it's likely that Republicans will consider this a political issue rather than a vote of conscience.

Nearly four times as many people from ethnic minority communities voted Labour than voted Tory — and those different communities are a growing part of our population.

«The only thing better than voting on tax cuts once is voting on tax cuts twice,» Brady said with a smile.

Thompson came surprisingly close to defeating Mayor Bloomberg — but that vote, frankly was less of a vote for Thompson than a vote against Bloomberg's abrogation of term limits.

Reminder... ten million more Americansvvoted for someone other than Trump than voted for Benedict Donald.

According to polling data, a significantly larger fraction of African - American and Hispanic voters have right - leaning policy preferences when it comes to size of government issues than voted for Romney.

The Liberal Democrats (Lib Dems) have been a third force, but their share of seats has been far lower than their vote share under the FPTP system.

But the story is bigger than vote tallies — by how much did these ballots pass?

This stock of pale blue Tories would vote with the Tories rather than vote with Corbyn.

Indeed, a protest against an EU in serious need of democratic reform would be less dramatic than a vote based on the nativist feelings core to the FN's ideological message.

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«That's obviously a very micro level observation but kind of remarkable to have 40 % more people vote in a GOP primary than voted GOP in the last general,» he said.

Of the smaller parties, the SNP received a greater share of seats than votes, whereas UKIP and the Liberal Democrats gained very little representation compared to the share of the vote they received.

«Our direct engagement with companies has the benefit of being far more nuanced than voting for or against a proposal.»

Over the long term, we think the weighing machine will provide a much different assessment on these areas than the votes currently being tabulated.

A larger fraction of African - American and Hispanic voters favored restricting late - term abortion than voted for Mitt Romney.

But the problem is that after ten years, I'm getting tired of trying to convince fellow Christians that I am, in fact, a Christian, even though I may vote a little differently than they vote, interpret the Bible differently than they interpret it, engage with science a little differently than they engage with it, and understand sovereignty and choice a little differently than they understand those things.

It's becoming more and more clear that there is no difference between religious leaders and civic leaders and voters need to learn about the issues and inform themselves rather than vote how they're told to vote on Sunday mornings.

No longer defined by its original ethos — spreading the gospel of Jesus Christ — evangelicalism has been reduced to little more than a voting block, and I get the idea from many of my evangelical friends that so long as a person shares their political convictions, it matters not how they live their life or speak about other people; a person is on the Christian «team» as long as he votes for conservative candidates come election day.

Second, Britain is far more pro-trade and internationalist than its vote to leave the world's biggest free - trade area suggests.

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.

I know of no firm metrics (other than voting patterns, which are flawed as participation rates are so low 38 % - 62 % typically for national elections), though there is a plethora of writing on the effectiveness of government.

Does this option not make more sense than voting to leave pre-emptively, just in case the promise was not fulfilled?

I'm not sure if that makes me part of the tribe, but isnt it better I vote labour in the hopes it will make the country fairer than vote Tory out of selfishness.