Sentences with phrase «to defeat the measure»

Ultimately, we succeeded in defeating the measure by a margin of 65 percent to 35 percent.

Critics of the actor - director Rob Reiner's latest early - childhood ballot initiative are fine - tuning their case for defeating the measure on the June 6 statewide ballot.

The older voters rose up as one against VAT on domestic fuel, the Tories were trounced, and rebel Tory MPs helped to defeat the measure in a Commons vote in the wake of the by - election.

Quorums are an interesting case, where you can cause a measure to pass by voting against it, with the result that abstaining from voting can be more effective at defeating the measure than a «no» vote.

A party - line vote last week by the Republican - controlled Senate defeated measures to ban bump stocks, which convert guns into automatic weapons, would have increased background checks and would have created an institute to study gun violence.

After overcoming a strong effort from real estate professionals to defeat the measure when it was first proposed in 1998, the land bank referendum received at least 69 percent of the vote in each of the five East End towns Tuesday.

Broomfield defeated the measure by just 13 votes out of more than 20,500 cast, according to unofficial returns posted on the city's website.

Meanwhile, the string of state - ballot victories by foes of bilingual education was broken in Colorado, where a surge of last - minute spending helped defeat a measure there that would have all but ended bilingual education.

Those of us who pushed to defeat this measure argued that it was not the right solution to improving public education; now it is incumbent upon us to ensure a just education is provided to every student.

In New Jersey, for instance, the education reform bus ran aground in communities of color when voters turned out to defeat measures closely aligned to the reformy cause.

«The act only applies to conduct that is designed to «defeat the measures of the United States» or influence the conduct of foreign governments,» Vladeck said.

A special needs ESA bill was introduced in 2014, but a coalition of House members, including many of the same members who teamed up to kill charter schools legislation, joined together to defeat this measure on the last day of the 2014 legislative session.

After voters defeated a measure that would have curtailed construction, the city's future looks much denser.

Airbnb wins a battle in San Francisco, defeating a measure that would have capped the number of nights an Airbnb user could rent out their home or room.

In any event, the state and national teachers» unions, plus other public - employee unions, predictably poured tons of money into a media blitzkrieg to defeat the measure.

New York State Conservative Party Chairman Michael Long urged the Legislature to defeat the measure.

They had opposed some of their party's misbegotten tax and budget proposals in the recent past, but their votes were not enough to defeat the measures.

Maziarz is promising that he and other members of the state Legislature will work to defeat the measure.

Opponents raised nearly $ 47 million to defeat the measure, including $ 27.5 million from Philip Morris alone.

It's no surprise that the teacher unions and their acolytes are doing everything in their power to defeat these measures.

«If this goes through, these approved private schools are going to disappear, some of them immediately,» said Rep. Dennis M. O'Brien, a Philadelphia Republican who is trying to defeat the measure.

The CTA alone spent more than $ 50 million to defeat his measures, and the teachers were joined by the other public employee unions.

The Save Our Public Schools campaign, coordinated by the Massachusetts Education Justice Alliance, has been mobilizing thousands of community members to knock on doors and make phone calls to defeat the measure.

For the legislators who worked to defeat these measures and deny families access to quality education options, they too have a record, and a day of reckoning with the voters is coming.

The teachers union spearheaded the effort to defeat the measure.

In June, we defeated a measure that would bring a controversial charter school to Cheatham County — a charter school that would draw important funds and attention away from our public schools.

In this month's election, the National Education Association descended from Washington to distant Idaho, spending millions to defeat a measure that limited collective bargaining for teachers and pegged a portion of teachers» salaries to classroom performance.

Unions spent $ 85 million in 2012 to support Governor Brown's tax hike and to defeat a measure that would have prohibited collecting union dues for political campaigns.

However, the Internet is an open system and we can not guarantee that unauthorised third parties will never be able to defeat those measures or use your personal information for improper purposes.

This should deter small children, but I fear teenagers will defeat these measures and kick the snowman anyway.

This week, Mactaggart penned an open letter to Zuckerberg, in which he referenced the Cambridge Analytica mess — the apparent misuse of 50 million Facebook users» personal information by a data analytics firm that worked with Donald Trump's presidential campaign — and called the Facebook CEO out for funding an effort to defeat his measure.

Laughably, the Bar claimed they spent $ 70,000 to defeat the measure so they could be in court less and make less money.

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