Sentences with phrase «vote against the agreement»

Board President Daniel Petro, who voted against the agreement, said, «I'd like to limit it to five years without the ability to extend.»

Schumer, who announced on Thursday night he would vote against the agreement to limit Iran's nuclear arms reached last month, should actively seek to block the agreement, Cox said.

Congress may vote against the agreement, but President Barack Obama will have the power to veto their decision, and most observers agree that opponents will not be able to pull together enough members to override the veto.

Congress may vote against the agreement, but Mr. Obama will have the power to veto their decision, and most observers agree that opponents will not be able to pull together enough members to override the veto.

New York's Junior Senator Kirsten Gillibrand says she will support what she calls an imperfect deal while New York's Senior statesman Chuck Schumer is splitting with democrats and will vote against the agreement.

Not exact matches

He touched on his past opposition to free - trade agreements, his support for heavier regulations of Wall Street and the nation's banking industry, and his vote against the Keystone XL oil pipeline as a preview of his campaign.

If Benchmark had no problem with the voting agreement for 14 months, as Kalanick alleges, then that could help Kalanick's argument against the need for an injunction.

It also included an agreement that he could be forced to sell his team if 75 % of his fellow cartel members voted against him.

As a result, we should allow for a range of opinions, affirming our areas of agreement (e.g., that a vote is a gift to be stewarded) and recognizing Christian liberty in areas of disagreement (How should we weigh the personal conduct of one candidate against that of another?

Library Board member John Shay cast the lone dissenting vote of the two boards against the agreement.

In her speech, she singled out Labour and the Liberal Democrats, as well as the House of Lords: «In recent weeks Labour have threatened to vote against the final agreement we reach with the EU.

«In recent weeks Labour has threatened to vote against the final agreement we reach with the European Union.

If the Lib Dems were to vote against something that wasn't included in their coalition agreement as something that the Lib Dems either had to support or abstain on, would it automatically be taken as a vote of no confidence?

MPs and peers will be allowed a vote on whether to accept a final Brexit deal, achieved against an almost impossible timetable and therefore unlikely to be a very favourable one, or walk away from any agreement — and jump over a cliff.

Schumer voted against the North American Free Trade Agreement, and he said since then, his views have become even stronger.

A clever lawyer could argue that voting for PR wouldn't be violating the coalition agreement in word, although it's obviously against the spirit...

Legislator Jay Schneiderman (I - Montauk), who voted against the 2014 budget which included dipping into the fund, said «I am certainly encouraged that there is an agreement, and I think we all need to work together on achieving water quality goals.

While Higgins routinely votes against trade agreements — arguing they are often too broad, too vague and skewed against the American worker — he acknowledged the Buffalo area would likely suffer if the United States did not have a trade agreement with Canada.

Although the failure to reach a living wage agreement with the developer had been a key issue in the weeks of debate leading up to the City Council vote, City Council Speaker Christine Quinn cited traffic issues as integral to the decision to vote against the project.

Senator Kirsten Gillibrand today announced that she would vote for a President Barack Obama - backed agreement to drop sanctions against Iran in an exchange for a pause in its nuclear program — even as she called the deal «imperfect.»

As reported, the only person who voted against the new PILOT agreement was town supervisor Kelly Myers.

On Thursday, April 21, county Legislator Catherine Parker, a Rye Democrat who has been critical of the latest agreement with Standard, revealed that she will be voting against the deal if it remains unchanged by its May 2 deadline.

Some 47 Conservatives had voted against the Second Reading of the Bretton Woods Agreement Bill on 13 December 1945, with nine Conservatives voting in favour.

Congressman Eliot Engel, a Bronx Democrat, told the Observer last week that he found aspects of the agreement «very troubling» and hinted he could vote against it.

None of the three Senate Democrats who appeared to be contemplating voting against Governor Dannel P. Malloy's ruinous agreement with state public employee unions broke ranks.

As NJ notes, this would set up the bill to be voted on when the Senate returns in January, and would represent a «bold act of defiance against the administration, which was still begging lawmakers this week to sit back and wait to see whether a comprehensive agreement can be reached.»

Last week, the Common Council's Finance Committee voted 3 - 2 against the sales tax agreement their mayor had negotiated, with some members reserving the right to vote the other way when it comes to the floor at regular session on June 7.

At the time of the agreement, Citizen's Union's Dick Dadey expressed some doubts about a structure where three commissioners could potentially block the wishes of the other 11 commissioners if they voted against an investigation.

Cameron allowed Conservative MEPs to vote against increasing the EU carbon reduction target from 20 % to 30 % by 2020, despite it being a key pledge in his own Coalition agreement,

Stefanik, who sits on the House Armed Services Committee, voted against the initial legislation in 2015, expressing doubt that the agreement would fail to shut down the regional power's path to a nuclear bomb.

A group of state and city legislators from Queens today released a letter to Congressman Gregory Meeks urging him to flip his current stance and vote against the Trans - Pacific Partnership — a free trade agreement backed by the Obama administration but opposed by numerous labor and environmental groups.

Katko said he broke with his party when he voted against the Tran - Pacific Partnership agreement which lowers taxes on imported goods and services from 12 Pacific Rim countries.

Former School Board candidate John Fernandez is among a handful of voices urging to teachers to vote against the tentative agreement struck between UTLA and LAUSD regarding teacher evaluations earlier this year.

We won a re-opener bargaining agreement, ratified by 97 % of voting members, that reflects the next steps in fighting for control of our profession, including a reduction in the number of elements used for evaluations and cutting back against ridiculous workloads that take away from instruction.

Founder and CEO of Smashwords Mark Coker is against Amazon's exclusivity agreements, saying «every book enrolled in KDP Select is a vote to put Amazon's competitors out of business.»

GAMCO has announced that, to the extent it has voting authority over its investment advisory accounts, GAMCO intends to vote AGAINST approval of the Incentive Bonus Agreement between the Issuer and Sardar Biglari, dated April 30, 2010 (the «Agreement») at a special meeting of shareholders of the Issuer at which the Agreement will be submitted for approval by the shareholders of the Issuer.

In 1997, the U.S. Senate voted 95 - 0 against accepting agreements in which developing countries are not held to similar standards as America.

On Thursday, 243 members voted in favor of ratifying the agreement, with three against and six abstaining.

If the obligation were removed completely, agreement in the future to re-enact the application of the EU ETS to international flights will not be granted, and it is certain that no serious agreement will be reached at international level (see the case of shipping, where China and Brazil voted last year against the modest SEEMP and EEDi)

«Under the agreement, once the Malkins achieve 80 percent approval, anyone who voted against it has 10 days to switch, or they could receive only $ 100 for their share,» The New York Times reports.