Sentences with phrase «tie votes in»

Darien Mayor Kathleen Weaver recently broke a tie vote in favor of a park development that will be built next to a proposed strip mall project.

A letter to the town board authored by Eddy was read — it objected to the bill he received from the town for $ 1,282 to reimburse taxpayers for the cost of his inquiry to the town's Attorney months ago requesting advice on the tie vote in the November election and the legality of the subsequent «holdover» of incumbent board member Gail Seaman — to which Eddy had opposed.

Even after an amendment gave local school boards greater veto power, the bill died on a tie vote in the State Senate for the second straight year.

Not exact matches

A poll released by Le Monde / Cevipof poll on Tuesday showed Macron tied with the far right leader in the first round with 25 percent of the votes.

Remember that if President Trump is elected, Vice President Mike Pence will have a tie - breaking vote in the Senate, which will likely be nearly evenly split between Democrats and Republicans.

Because the case was tied up in court for years, he said, the narrative from the Democratic side ended up being about how unfair and difficult the law made it for many to vote.

Italy's government, divided over the Afghan war and ties with the U.S. military, lost a crucial vote on foreign policy on Wednesday that plunged Prime Minister Romano Prodi into his worst crisis since taking office in May.

Rebels said the vote could strengthen Cameron's position at budget talks in Brussels next month because he will be able to say his hands are tied by the British parliament.

Though Smith won the user vote, the top five finishers in this category were all very close: Smith came in first, Hoffman second, and Bill George and Hank Paulson tied for third.

But some of Aimia's research made it very clear that the online votes were tied to how the artwork looked online versus how it looked in the gallery.

The GOP holds just a one - seat majority in the chamber after the surprise victory of Democrat Doug Jones in last year's Alabama special election; that means they can lose just one Republican vote, even under reconciliation (Vice President Mike Pence would cast a tie - breaker in the case of a 50 - 50 split).

The dates of his trip have been in flux because of Trump's U.S. tax overhaul push and the possibility that Pence would be needed to provide a tie - breaking vote in the Senate.

Usually the speaker breaks a tie in favour of the government, but if the speaker does this for every vote, how neutral will that speaker really look?

But Yellen would be unlikely to lose any Democratic votes and she's not tied to the Obama administration's economic policies in the way Summers is, so it's hard to imagine her inspiring much bloodlust among Republicans, either.

In the event of a tie vote on any issue, the Chairperson's vote shall decide the issue.

Beyond closer economic and political ties within the island chains, China also gains influence at the U.N., as the islands account for 14 votes in the General Assembly.

In most developed markets, investors with ties to an acquirer are barred from voting on a transaction.

AFR sent a letter urging House members to vote «No» on H.R. 4296 — a bill that would tie regulators hands in setting operational risk capital.

The chamber voted 50 — 49 — calling on Vice President Mike Pence to break a tie vote for the second time that day — to install Brownback in the vacant State Department position, which monitors persecution and discrimination on a global scale through the Office of International Religious Freedom (IRF).

The «Yes» vote on allowing gay couples to tie the knot won in all six Australian states, despite the most senior figure of the country's Anglican Church warning such a move would have «irreparable consequences» effects.

His Trump ties: My Faith Votes national chair Carson endorsed Trump in March, and My Faith Votes hosted the discussion between Trump and religious leaders in New York City this week.

Acting in his capacity as president of the Senate, Vice President Mike Pence twice cast tie - breaking votes to gain passage in the upper chamber.

The ensuing vote resulted in a tie, which the faculty moderator, a devout Catholic, broke by voting for the proposal.

While China's response was tied to Trump's steel and aluminum tariffs, it could end up hurting American ranchers and farmers — many of whom are from regions that voted for Trump in 2016.

In 1973, the teams tied, and an infamous vote of Big Ten athletic directors gave the crown to the Buckeyes.

Vote is tied in the Senate, 49 - 49.

A tie - in with a cologne manufacturer throughout the league features a «10 1/2» competition, wherein distaff fans are asked to vote for the best - looking players.

That remark referred to a now - infamous Sports Illustrated poll in which their PGA Tour peers anonymously ranked Fowler and Poulter as the most overrated players in golf (they tied, both receiving 24 percent of the vote).

At the end of his first year in the majors, after tying a National League rookie record with seven shutouts, Koosman missed winning the Rookie of the Year Award by one vote.

The Pioneers earned votes in the most recent media top 20 poll, and the Hoyas are the team tied with Vanderbilt for third place.

Votes will be tallied and 5 months gives us a chance for a clear winner or a tie breaker, and baby Shoemaker will should be born in December, and we'll find out who was right!

Labour is careful about the 16 - year - old vote, tying it to improved citizenship education (as they have done in the past).

«At the top of the Conservative party, the narrow vote in favour of leaving the EU has now been interpreted as the pretext for a drastic cutting of ties with Europe, which would have dire economic results - and as an excuse for the most toxic rhetoric on immigration we have seen from any government in living memory,» the statement reads.

India benefits directly from the economic ties with wealthy nations, and leaving the Commonwealth would disenfranchise millions of Indians living as Commonwealth Citizens, stopping them from voting in the UK and other countries that allow Commonwealth citizens the vote.

While it will now be more likely that the justices will divide evenly on difficult cases, Justice Kennedy will remain the swing vote, providing a fifth vote for a majority of progressive justices (Ginsburg, Breyer, Sotomayor and Kagan), and remaining with the conservatives (Thomas, Roberts and Alito) in tie votes, which will leave the lower court's judgment in place and will not operate as binding precedent on lower courts.

A tie vote would leave the plaintiffs» damage award in place: a victory for the progressives.

During an interview with me that will air in full on «Capital Tonight» this evening at 8 p.m. and 11:30 p.m., Levy again insisted that he and Lazio are tied at 40 percent of the weighted convention vote.

Even in Ancient Greek democracy, in the play Agamemnon the goddess Athena comes down to Earth and casts a coloured pebble to vote for a candidate in a tie.

According to this Wikipedia table, there have been cases where the Vice President has voted when the vote was tied 49 - 49 (or even as low as 46 - 46), resulting in a 50 - 49 (or 47 - 46) vote which passed the bill.

A US senator can not guarantee that the vice president won't be able to vote by staying away from the chamber, because there is no way to guarantee that another senator or senators might also refrain from voting, resulting in a 49 - 49 tie (or indeed any smaller number of votes, evenly split), whereupon the vice president would be able to vote.

Warren was able to tie Richards in committee votes in the city's 29th district, but lost by 63 votes in the 23rd district.

The full extent of the possible effects of agenda control was first noted by a colourful 18th Century French mathematician, the Marquis de Condorcet who in his famous paradox noted that in a situation with a tie between three options a voter can determine the outcome of an election by voting insincerely on one of their preferences.

A month after the coup began, Paterson appointed Richard Ravitch as lieutenant governor, and with a tie - breaking vote in place over the 62 - member chamber, Espada relented.

He built strong ties within the Democratic caucus after helping them win control of the Senate in 2006 and build a 60 - vote supermajority in 2008 as a strategist and prolific fundraiser.

But he added that the need for Pence to cast a tie - breaking vote «is another glaring reminder of the unprecedented obstruction that Senate Democrats have engaged in throughout this process.»

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Didn't he cave in a couple of years ago after taking thousands of dollars from NYSUT and vote with a «heavy heart» for a budget that included changes in the teacher evaluation law that quite severely tied teacher ratings to test scores?

The Jefferson - Burr ticket of the Democratic - Republican party executed this plan successfully in 1800, with just one little hitch: With no distinction between first - choice and second - choice votes, the two winning candidates tied each other, so the House of Representatives had to choose who would be President and who would be Vice President.

And, to make matters worse, Romney's supposed 8 - vote win in Iowa has now been ruled a tie between him and Rick Santorum, who apparently is up 34 votes.

The state Senate is tied 18 - 18 for the first time in more than 100 years, and lawmakers have learned that they can only pass hybrid budgets with ideas from both parties because three moderate Senate Democrats will not vote for budgets with too much taxing and spending.