Sentences with phrase «to vote against something»

When the motion failed last year, nearly all the legislators who voted against it represented districts in the western end of the county.

Others urged to support the plan in parliament, and just vote against it in the referendum.

That means just three Republican votes against it will doom it.

He admits regret for voting against her for the bonus and that he's been thinking about it ever since.

Not much, if the winner had 85 percent of party members voting against him or her.

They could theoretically form a minority coalition government, which could only be brought down if the SNP voted against it on a no confidence motion.

Three lawmakers from his own party voted against him.

But with the availability of the new federal funds at stake, some think legislators will have a tough time voting against them.

They may have had 6.5 % of the electorate voting against them yesterday, and approximately the same in their favor.

Would you definitely for him, definitely vote against him, or does it depend on who is running against him?

Then last month, he reversed course on the health - care bill, voting against it along with 33 of his Democratic colleagues after supporting it for months.

(More reasons why some people would vote against it besides sin) 31 states now have this ban on gay marriage.

It seems like those who voted for him think he can do no wrong, while those who voted against him think he can do no right.

Which sort of raises the question: if you don't believe it exists, why whip your peers into voting against it?

Those who voted against it cited several reasons, from the inconvenience of moving staff to the cost of added mileage.

Both bills would make television coverage is mandatory, unless the justices collectively vote against it.

I'm disappointed in the whole board for voting against it.

You would ask of your politician to slaughter those who voted against him?

It was at the second voting that the rejection of the bill was clear, as the majority of the members voted against it.

What George may not remember is that Ulster County voted against him because of his stance and votes on key issues ~ marriage equality (he voted against gay marriage) ~ and he has stated that he is opposed to abortion regardless of reason (including the potential death of the mother)....

Led by Ms. Warren and egged on by labor union leaders, most of Mr. Obama's fellow Democrats voted against him in Congress on the trade negotiation measure, which passed only with the active leadership of Republicans.

Andrew George, the MP for St Ives, an early supporter of changes to the Bill (despite not voting against it at Second Reading), said:

He continued: «In the end the same people voted against us as if we didn't do anything at all.

«The issue is that the people voted against it twice.»

But many Labour MPs made clear their opposition to the bill and vowed to defy Mr Corbyn by voting against it.

His opponent, Chris Gibson, on the other hand, has failed to live up to his word, saying he supports raising the minimum wage, then voting against it in Congress.

The data retention and investigatory powers bill (Drip) went through all its changes in a matter of hours last night, with a rump of 33 MPs voting against it at third reading, and 416 voting it through.

You may also mistakenly believe that your freedom of speech should and does trump our right to be free from discrimination and from the right to have an equal opportunity to practise law, but the majority of the votes of benchers and a majority of the lawyers in Ontario, racialized or not, think you are wrong and have voted against you twice already.

Pat Flynn, director since 1998 and a 39 - year McDonald's veteran — so not really an independent director since McDonald's was the largest investor during most of Chipotle's growth period — saw almost 30 % of shareholders vote against him.

It doesn't matter that over 50 % of Dems voted against it.

According to unofficial results, 51.3 percent of voters said «yes» to the borrowing plan, with 48.7 percent voting against it out of a total of 10,080 votes cast.

Those havent changed, and no one is voting against them just because of some arm twisitng in a leadership race.

they were already planning to vote against him from the get go.

A particularly stressful week for farmers has come to a relieving end with the Greens today supporting the federal government's proposed 15 per cent backpacker tax after voting against it yesterday.

A vote to overrule failed by three votes, with 29 Democrats lending their support and the entire present majority voting against it.

Bloomberg's Independence USA PAC put $ 6 million in ads behind Pennsylvania Sen. Pat Toomey for his leadership on gun control legislation after the Newtown shooting and punished New Hampshire Sen. Kelly Ayotte for voting against it with $ 8.5 million in ads backing her opponent, Gov. Maggie Hassan — while Bloomberg donated another $ 1 million to Planned Parenthood Votes to further boost Hassan.

Washington Square Partners and Acadia Realty Trust wanted to build a 15 - story property with 175 affordable apartments in Inwood, but the City Council voted against it.

The measure known as «skinny repeal» failed early Friday morning with three Republican members of the U.S. Senate voting against it.

Thus it's not surprising that when the United Nations General Assembly voted on the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (the DRIP — an unfortunate acronym if ever there was one) in September 2007, only Canada, Australia, New Zealand and the United States voted against it.

I tried to give permission to those Jews who wanted to vote against him despite his Jewishness.

One of the six lawmakers voting against it was Stephanie Miner.

Cruz voted for the bill, while Rubio voted against it.

The SEC ruling was not unanimous, and the sole vote against it was Democratic Commissioner Luis Aguilar who said in a statement, «I am disappointed and saddened by the reckless adoption [of the rule].»

Out of a total 300 members, the vote, held Wednesday midnight, was supported by 155 legislators of Syriza and Independent Greek parties (forming the twoparty coalition government) while the rest voted against it.

«We created the NHS... the Tories voted against it at that time.