Sentences with phrase «up to a vote of»

Since the NAACP at its national convention voted on a resolution that placed a moratorium on charter schools, the backlash from charter advocates has been angry, well - financed and sometimes just plain mean leading up to a vote of ratification by the national board, which occurred this past weekend.

So instead of doing your jobs and putting games people would want into the Rental collection it's now up to a vote of the «fans»....

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However, the distribution of the UKIP vote may lead to the Tories» piling up votes in areas where they are too far behind Labour for it to make a difference.

Similarly, Paul used the same opportunity to bring up Rubio's wavering on immigration, and his support of the so - called Gang of Eight immigration overhaul bill in 2013, where he voted with Democrats, including New York Senator Chuck Schumer, in favor of the bill.

It suggested Labour could pick up 51 % of the vote, a positive swing of 5.35 % compared to the last time elections were fought in 2014.

In 1996, Buffett created Class B shares worth 1 / 30th of Class A shares, but with lesser voting rights, to stop fee - hungry managers from creating «unit trusts» that sliced up Class A shares for smaller investors seeking «Berkshire look - alikes.»

That means the Obama administration was given free rein to craft the agreement, which must be submitted to a straight up or down vote, with no possibility of amendment or filibuster.

Over one - third of respondents (34.98 %) said they would «give up the right to vote in all elections for life» just to secure an extra 10 % in pay, while 9 % said they would «give up their child's or future child's right to vote» for the rest of their lives.

Theresa May's Conservatives hope to pick up most of the benefit, particularly in Leave voting areas.

There is another oddity at Barça too: The president and board members are required to put up 15 % of the club's yearly revenues as collateral when they're voted in, as a guarantee against possible losses.

According to Wolfango Piccoli, from analysis firm Teneo Intelligence, the Five Star leader faces a dilemma: partner up with Lega and risk alienating his own party due to conflicting platforms, or run the risk of holding multiple inconclusive voting rounds and not end up with a speaker in the House.

So if voting isn't meant to break a tie, what's the purpose of getting a show of hands on an issue that's holding up your meeting?

Although Unifor again claims it has surpassed the 40 % threshold needed to call a vote, organizers are still trying to drum up enough support to comfortably meet the majority of the 7,000 workers required for victory.

A panel of experts which advises the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has unanimously voted to recommend approval of a pioneering cancer therapy from Novartis, setting up a likely approval for the first - of - its - kind treatment.

Exxon Mobil (xom) has stepped up efforts to persuade investors to vote against climate - related proposals at Wednesday's annual meeting with a campaign of calling, writing and lobbying shareholders in person.

Leading up to the election, questions were raised about the security of state computer systems that protect voting data.

Voted one of the top football and sports bars in America by Draft Magazine, Forbes, Esquire and MSN City Guides, the 5 - acre property is legendary to tailgaters, averaging three live bands, three DJs, and 100 part - time employees to manage anywhere between the 6,000 - 8,000 people that show up for a standard Packers home game.

Marcato released a deck in April in which they outlined some of Buffalo Wild Wings» failures and urged fellow shareholders to vote for a board shake - up.

In the run - up to the Brexit vote, the easy parallel to make from an American point of view is that the Leave camp shared many similarities with the Trump campaign.

Some voters in Jefferson County ended up crossing party lines to cast their ballots for who they thought was the best candidate in each of the races — defying the practice of party line voting in an election that showed a deep red - blue political divide.

It is now up to the delegates of the convention to vote on a series of policy proposals that — if done correctly — will enhance the vision laid out by Mr. Trudeau.

Goldsmith may not be exactly white - hot on Khan's tail, but in the outer reaches of the capital his popularity has steadily increased from 27 to 30 %, and his total share of second preference votes is up on last month.

«It's very difficult for me to envision a scenario — scenario where I would end up voting for this bill,» Sen. Susan Collins of Maine said Sunday on CNN.

Nearly 2.6 million comments were filed in the lead - up to the FCC's vote to consider the proposal — many of those seem to have been spurred by John Oliver's call to keep the rules, but hundreds of thousands of others, many in favor of repeal, have likely come from bots.

Since Pai, a Republican, has a majority of votes on the Commission, he is likely to go ahead with his plan to rip up the rules later this summer.

Fast - track votes typically happen as a straight up or down procedure, and they do not give members of Congress the ability to add additional items to the bills.

Scots are expected to vote to Remain by a margin of up to 2:1, but equally important here will be the turnout.

WASHINGTON, Nov 29 - The U.S. Senate on Wednesday took a step toward passage of tax legislation that is a top White House priority, setting up a likely decisive vote later this week even though it was unclear if the bill had enough Republican support to become law.

On the eve of the election, Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump refused to give up on Pennsylvania and its 20 electoral votes.

(Holmes, who agreed to pay a $ 500,000 fine, forfeit shares, and give up voting control of Theranos, did not admit or deny the allegations; there is also an ongoing federal criminal probe into the company.)

The failure of coalition talks is unprecedented in Germany's post-war history, and was likened by newsmagazine Der Spiegel to the shock election of U.S. President Donald Trump or Britain's referendum vote to leave the EU - moments when countries cast aside reputations for stability built up over decades.

Reasons have since been offered for the high - profile provincial misses — in the case of Alberta, a last - minute swing in voting intentions from Wildrose to the PCs; in B.C., the failure of those who said they'd vote NDP to show up on election day.

Inflation in the UK has shot up in recent months — hitting 2.9 % in May — driven higher by the slump in the value of the pound since Britain voted to leave the EU.

The difference was once the television, the radio, and the mailings started, I would now go into essentially the same type of an area and people would come up to me and say, «You're Larry Krasner, and I'm voting for you.»

SolarCity shares were up more than 1 percent, and shares of Tesla Motors were up slightly after shareholders for the two companies voted Thursday to approve a merger.

Eloise Todd, CEO of anti-Brexit group Best For Britain, said: «Theresa May will have to be clear about where the Brexit deal will end up in order for the vote to be meaningful.

So said Britain's new foreign minister and one of its chief Brexiteers, Boris Johnson, in the build - up to the UK's vote on EU membership.

Writing in the Telegraph on Wednesday night in conjunction with f ormer chancellors Lord Norman Lamont and Lord Nigel Lawson, the open letter accused the BoE and Treasury of «peddling phoney forecasts and scare stories to back up the attempts of David Cameron and George Osborne to frighten the electorate into voting Remain.»

The OECD declined to comment on his memo, dated June 24, and a separate one seen by Reuters, written soon afterwards, on the outlook after the June 23 vote for Value Added Tax (VAT) in the United Kingdom, which is made up of Britain and Northern Ireland.

In late August, Yahoo broke news that foreign hackers had breached the state Board of Elections websites in Illinois and Arizona, which the FBI's cyber division followed up with an alert to election officials across the nation to increase voting system security.

Some mechanism must exist to permit outside shareholder reevaluation of the «locked up» voting control,» he wrote.

With the entire House on next year's ballot — and about one - third of the U.S. Senate up for a vote, too — the stakes are high for those in the Bay Area who seek to erode the GOP's control of Congress and erect a new bulwark against Trump's agenda in areas like immigration and climate change.

The big spenders were nonetheless defeated by a citizens» group that spent only $ 15,000 to support the bond measure, which passed with 57 % of the vote on Nov. 7, approving up to $ 150 million in financing for a city - run broadband utility.

In the latest poll of British voter intentions, 52 % of respondents said they would vote to leave the EU - up from 27 % in June!

The opposition parties have panned the move as a reckless and desperate attempt to shore up votes ahead of the spring election.

After she brought up Trump's past criticism of Machado in the debate, she turned to Trump and said, «you can bet she's gonna vote.»

He told a congressional committee that there are several proposals designed to drive up wages in Mexico, including the right of workers to vote by secret ballot on collective agreements.

If you want to peek at how each person voted, swipe up to see all the viewers of your story, and you'll also see their answers displayed next to their names.

As expected, the U.S. Senate's Banking Committee supported Janet Yellen to be the next chair of the Federal Reserve, opening up the nomination for a vote in the full senate.

If Maple fails to clear up some of the uncertainty, shareholders could very well vote for the LSE merger in June, Ditmire predicts.