Sentences with phrase «than voting like»

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

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Ted Cruz is known more for his arguing skills as an attorney than for his business acumen, but he's banking possible votes like a real pro.

The FCC is slated to vote Oct. 27 on new broadband privacy rules that according to Ars Technica, «will put broadband providers under a stricter privacy regime than the one imposed on websites like Google and Facebook, which are regulated separately by the Federal Trade Commission.

Does a man who received almost 3 million fewer votes than his opponent in the election really have the political capital to carry on like this?

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).

Upon finding out that the results would be far closer than anyone anticipated, Mitchell said that he still believed Clinton would pull out a close win once all of the votes in places like Detroit and Grand Rapids were tabulated.

He won by 342 votes to 198 with 2 abstentions in the lower house, a much wider margin than in Wednesday's vote in the Senate, where he remains vulnerable to further defections by allies like one that forced him to resign temporarily last week.

«This is a strong result for Remain but of course being a nationalist part of the province we would expect Remain to do better there than in the province as a whole - where overall we're anticipating something like a 60 % vote for Remain,» John Curtice told the BBC.

The polling gap between Clinton and Trump right now is a bit wider than final polling between the Leave and Remain camps showed, but after a shock vote like this, it is worth keeping your guard up ahead of the actual vote.

Another mistake pollsters made was to assume an electorate that looked more like the one that voted in 2004 and less like 2008, which had larger - than - usual minority and youth turnout.

The S&P 500 has climbed more than 4 percent this year, but investors have fled stocks for short periods of time after events like Britain's vote to leave the European Union — the so - called Brexit.

Meanwhile, a new poll shows that more than 50 per cent of Canadians are pooping like puffins over the possibility of a Tory majority, but most are unwilling to change their votes to stop it.

Pensioners — who like their U.S. counterparts vote in greater numbers than the young — won't tolerate an impoverished retirement.

It's true that the activist investors on the Exxon vote likely include heavy hitters like financial firms BlackRock, Vanguard and State Street (though the specific votes are not made public), which are the company's biggest shareholders, owning more than 18 percent of the stock.

They arranged a boycott, moaned and complained and so the board voted to ban all religious messages, hence Tatum then moaning again when he said «The compromise was worse than what we had before,» Tatum said, «because the compromise says Christians can no longer advertise and we don't like that.»

More than 3 in 4 white evangelicals like Dobson are voting Trump this November, according to the Pew Research Center.

I know that votes like these can make Christian women feel like less - than, but I believe, deep in my bones, that things will get better for women in the Church.

The first is that you portray your deity, the one you voted for as the thing you'd like most to spend eternity, as nothing more than a murderer.

Thus when Prime Minister Julia Gillard (an avowed atheist who makes Nancy Pelosi seem like Margaret Thatcher) nonetheless announced that a «gay marriage» proposal would get a «conscience vote» in the federal parliament, she was accused by her lefter - than - left opponents of being... undemocratic.

It's unfortunate that people would rather vote for a philanderer like Cain, than a religious person.

It's like I'd rather see a political ad saying why I should vote for guy A, rather than why I shouldn't vote for guy B.

(In many ways it is worse than when John Edwards said in 2004 that if people voted for John Kerry, people like Christopher Reeve would get out of their wheelchairs and walk from embryonic stem cell therapies.)

I think the American people would be more willing to vote for someone like Hugh Hefner who openly and honestly sins, rather than someone who sins in secret and then tries to hide his failures behind more lies and carefully woven webs of half - truths.

You should be saying «The scary thing is that you sound like someone much older than your actual age» because I am definitely not old enough to vote yet.

As a young evangelical myself, I confess I have grown tired... no, weary... of responding to comments like these with some honest suggestions for how my fellow evangelicals might avoid said retirement, only to be discounted and disparaged for believing the earth is more than 6,000 years old, for voting for Democrats from time to time, and for daring to serve communion to gays and lesbians.

Sixty percent of Catholics in Wisconsin support the state marriage amendment, much higher than in a state like Virginia (where Catholics voted «no» 48 percent to 52 percent).

I rather have a straight vote on what people liked rather than a popularity contest.

CAC's guacamole content reached more than 125,000 social media users and yielded more than 19,400 engagements via poll votes, likes, shares and comments.

And Oregon looks like the consensus No. 2 team in the country, with South Carolina sitting at No. 3 and more than half a point (22.60) behind the Ducks despite earning seven first - place votes.

Voters like Zach Lowe of ESPN and Ben Golliver of SI.com are voting for Simmons because he has had a better season than Mitchell.

You should drop any ratings (like a 10 or a 1) that have less than three votes.

This is what the electoral map would look like if only people who think Malik Hooker is better than Jabrill Peppers could vote: pic.twitter.com / 1KEnTGOilF

Ozil is a class player and it's not like we have them in abundance.Sign Mikki and Abua and play them up top with Laca.Skill pace and desire in all of them.Ozil is at his best when he has technically astute players in front of him which is why he was voted German National Team Player of The Year 5 times in 6 years.Giroud - No movement and pace and only dangerous when attacking balls in the box.Despite what is said his hold up play is awfull and goes to ground like he's been shot with a Buffalo Gun at the slightest contact.Walcott - Pace but no brain.The stats tell a better picture of a player who was NEVER good or consistent to ever be considered anything other than average at best.Wellbeck - Good pace and effort but little to offer as a goalscorer.Back - up at best.This is what Ozil has had to work with (I have photo shopped Sánchez from my life forever).

Maybe he'll do better than this year because of the voters who simply won't vote for anybody except IMMORTALS (like Maddux) in their first year of eligibility.

I vote no on Mark McGwire, who I like much better than Bonds.

The only problem is it feels more like a vote against Young than an honor another player has taken away from him.

Outside of the Top 5, almost no one else received first - place votes; the only other player with more than 6 first place votes was QB Josh Rosen, who, like DE Bradley Chubb, had 104 first - place votes.

Oh and I'd like to second the vote for cloth wipes - much better than the diposibles.

Apparently, Barack voted «present» rather than take a stand on controversial bills several times in the Illinois legislature, which is apparently a reason to take after him (sounds like a bit of a stretch, but what do I know).

«It could be a positive experience for Britain if we get it right, but if we get it wrong it'll be a negative one and it carries huge risks to the economy — including areas that voted to leave much more than others, like my own.

There are of course lots of other voting systems than first - past - the - post which promise more democratic election results, like approval voting, alternative vote and their many variants.

So now, even before Emma Benson, a field director for the conservative political organization Americans for Prosperity, knocks on a door, she has more than 700 data points about the person behind it, like magazine subscriptions, car ownership (make, model, year), propensity for voting, and likes and dislikes mined from Facebook and Twitter, from rock bands to baseball teams.

E.g. Michigan was expected to be solidly in Clinton's basket, but in places like Detroit the Clinton vote was less huge than expected, leading to Trump winning that State.

Wary of the headache this issue caused Senate President Malcolm Smith, who had to do a delicate dance to both appease the LGBT community that had invested more than $ 1 million to help him win the majority and the members like Sen. Ruben Diaz Sr. who held the votes to his leadership post, Sampson is both supporting the six remaining «no» voters and refusing to promise to bring marriage to the floor for another vote.

That seems more like it is trying to guess who you might like than to actually predict for whom you might vote.

There's a reasonable case here, particularly in states like Britain or Australia where wage determination and conditions of labour were highly politicised for a long period of time, and the politicisation had deep system wide effects such as the general wage level, return to labour, and a proxy of power stronger than parliamentary votes.

That doesn't explain why Democrats don't like it, but does explain why it isn't present in the bill, since there's no way they could have passed this bill with 60 votes rather than through reconciliation.

It would also allow people to take more time when voting, rather than just voting for president then picking the down ballot candidates by whose last name they like the most.

Oil - rich Shetland may consider becoming a self - governing territory like the Isle of Man rather than stay part of an independent Scotland in the event of a yes vote, the Scotland secretary, Alistair Carmichael, has said.

-- Vote against the finance bill after listening to the people's concerns over issues like the 10p tax rate (assuming the bill remains talking about retrospective taxation)-- Recognise the much bulkier and more vast argument against 42 days legislation and support the rebellion against this legislation rather than supporting the PR men and the policy writers to the hilt regardless of the realities of the situation.