Sentences with phrase «vote buying at»

Number one, INEC is worried by the recent trend of vote buying at open polling stations.

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«Instead of deposing him, the Dell board froze out shareholders, and last week voted to allow the CEO to buy the company at a bargain price using shareholders» own cash,» Icahn wrote.

Clearwire's board last week recommended that its shareholders vote against Sprint's $ 3.40 per share offer at a special meeting scheduled for June 24 and instead urged them to accept Dish's tender offer to buy Clearwire shares for $ 4.40 each.

Importantly, as James Wollman (VP of Franchising at NTY Franchise Company) notes, «Our franchises buy and sell the YES votes of what people like in fashion, electronics and other household items; we don't deal in the NO's that are the primary inventory of most other major discount stores.»

However, when the club ran into financialdifficulties a few years ago, local residents, who at the start had joked aboutthe Mafia Open, voted to buy it out.)

Instead, I voted to approve the draft standard because, without an established standard in place to regulate the headgear that has come on to the market in recent years (none of which, according to US Lacrosse, has been developed based on scientific testing, and none of which the organization - the governing body for both the men's and women's game - has endorsed), consumers are essentially «buying a pig in a poke»: in other words, without a clue as to whether the product they are buying has any safety value at all.

The village's plan commission recently voted 8 - 0 to approve a request by the Buffalo Grove Park District to buy the Congregation Beth Am property at 225 McHenry Road, village planner Robert Pfeil said.

Members of the United branch of the Association of Flight Attendants were the first to vote on tentative concessionary contracts at the heart of the effort to buy United parent UAL Corp..

«Donations to the Labour party buy votes at your conference, candidates and MPs in this House and pay for the votes that gave him his job,» Cameron replied.

Voted to leave in» 75, voted against Maastricht, voted against Lisbon — but now the Blairites have got him supping cream from the same EU bowl as Cameron, Osborne and the crooked mega-banks who are the real fat cats in this referendum, drooling at the prospect of being able to buy up huge chunks of the health service after Brussels finalises its dodgy TTIP deal with thVoted to leave in» 75, voted against Maastricht, voted against Lisbon — but now the Blairites have got him supping cream from the same EU bowl as Cameron, Osborne and the crooked mega-banks who are the real fat cats in this referendum, drooling at the prospect of being able to buy up huge chunks of the health service after Brussels finalises its dodgy TTIP deal with thvoted against Maastricht, voted against Lisbon — but now the Blairites have got him supping cream from the same EU bowl as Cameron, Osborne and the crooked mega-banks who are the real fat cats in this referendum, drooling at the prospect of being able to buy up huge chunks of the health service after Brussels finalises its dodgy TTIP deal with thvoted against Lisbon — but now the Blairites have got him supping cream from the same EU bowl as Cameron, Osborne and the crooked mega-banks who are the real fat cats in this referendum, drooling at the prospect of being able to buy up huge chunks of the health service after Brussels finalises its dodgy TTIP deal with the US.

The town board's interest in acquiring land for open space and other community purposes has been in high gear this month, as it also voted to issue a $ 2 million bond to buy 12 acres at 359 Pantigo Road and scheduled or held hearings on the purchase of properties on Old Stone Highway in Springs and on West Lake Drive in Montauk.

Head of Operations at the GII, Mary Addo, in an interview with Accra - based Citi FM, called on EOCO to investigate the move since it constitutes an attempt to buy votes ahead of the Congress

On Tuesday, reports quoted the International Society for Civil Liberties & the Rule of Law (Intersociety), as estimating that at least N1.5 bn was used in buying votes by some of the political parties that participated in the election.

Politicians and voters also need to be educated at the beginning of each election cycle about such laws and about the negative impact of selling and buying votes on the processes of democratic renewal.

Nwankwo said some candidates spent as much as N5, 000 to buy one vote and expressed disappointment at this unprecedented level of abuse.

It claimed that the Minister of Mines and Steel Development, Dr Kayode Fayemi had earlier boasted of providing N8 billion from his own pocket and allegedly gave the assurance of N20 billion from the Presidency to buy one vote at N20, 000.

Look at Orson Welles — when [War of the Worlds was broadcast on the radio], people were jumping out of their windows, so people should not feel so bad about buying into the lies that were told about a hard - working public servant and having it influence their vote.

Now it's the store where everyone goes to shop; no one feels they are stooping to buy pies at Tesco, and people shouldn't feel they are stooping to vote Tory.

Jubilation among rebel Labour MPs on Tuesday evening at Angela Eagle dropping out to give Owen Smith a clear run against Corbyn was followed by what felt close to a wake on Wednesday night after news 184,000 registered supporters had paid # 25 each, a figure subsequently reduced to a still considerable 140,000 after duplications and the overtly hostile were stripped out, to buy a vote in the leadership race.

Cuomo, speaking when the amendment was first proposed in late March, said it's a «despicable» attempt to buy votes at the «cost of the state of New York» and their own districts, and that he is considering legal action.

«[M] y understanding is that Vote Leave did not buy advertising services to gift to BeLeave but discharged BeLeave's debt to AIQ by a transfer of cash at our request.

But Downing Street bought off potential Tory rebels with the promise of a white paper on the government's negotiating plans, which will be published on Thursday, and a vote at the end of the process, though Brexit secretary David Davis has stressed that does not mean parliament will be able to block Brexit.

They absolutely will not vote Conservative, many will not vote at all, but all are completely disillusioned with the Blair / Brown years and feel like they bought a pig in a poke.

But prosecutor Thomas McKay argued the «brazen» nature of the schemes — Adam Skelos blew off work at the insurer, which needed regular legislation from the Senate — was what persuaded jurors, along with testimony from cooperating witnesses who said they were buying Skelos» vote.

Rep. Louise Slaughter, D - N.Y., called the GOP plan «a political sleight of hand» that seeks to buy GOP votes - and pay for tax cuts for the wealthy - at the expense of New Yorkers.

The Erie County Legislature unanimously voted to authorize spending $ 70,000 to buy larvacide for the county's Project SWAT mosquito control program at its July 9 session.

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With all due respect to the folks at About.com, the About.com Best Dating Awards are a complete sham and are being co-opted by people who are buying votes.

At that moment, the teacher lays on his campaign to win her «not guilty» vote with charm and the promise to buy her art.

But it wasn't just many critics who loved the movie: The ticket - buying audience at the public screenings in Toronto also voted to award the film the People's Choice Award, historically a solid indicator of future awards - season success.

Look at the competition, vote with your dollar, and tomorrow you'll be happy in your Sante Fe... If you buy the 3.3 v - 6, cuz we're American and need the power!

What makes this different is that instead of flinging stars and diatribes at books, the customers are voting with their feet: this tracks how they're spending their time (reading) and money (buying) books.

I've little compunction about slurping at the public trough like everybody else once politicians who didn't earn my vote have decided to borrow even more money from the Chinese to buy yet another bucketful of «slop.»

Last Friday, betting that the result of the Brexit vote would be Leave and a «shock» to the markets, I bought a JAN17 Put on SPY at 205.

Buying the subscription right now at $ 2.75, we still face the risk of the vote not going through.

The record date is next Friday, so stock buying will have to be complete by Tuesday for trades to clear in time for votes to count at the annual meeting.

Vital Essentials asked attendees at Global Pet Expo and visitors to the company's website to vote on which flavors they would buy.

Today we are going to look at our Top 5 accessories for dwarf hamsters, the best places to buy them and why they are voted our best accessories.

These Tokens represent the backstage politics that go on at awards, how votes can be bought and people persuaded and suchlike.

The smart man will vote on the game he wants to buy at a discount, and enough smart men will vote in this manner that the winner's merit will be questionable.

If hardly anyone wants to buy indies at inflated PSN EU prices and indie devs are not favoured in the PS + vote, then it shouldnt be hard for those devs and Sony to come to the conclusion that playstation isnt the best platform for them.

Each year, members consider a selection of possible acquisitions put forward by the museum's curators, and vote on which new works should be bought at the Annual Selection Dinner.

To avoid putting the resolution to a vote of all its shareholders, Dunkin' More than 400 sustainability - focused shareholder resolutions were filed at U.S. companies this year.agreed to only buy oil from members of the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil.

We track individual and company PAC contributions to Senators and Representatives at the federal level — and in turn how these actors vote — to show how our government is bought and paid for.

50,000 votes made it official: If a phone has a notch, 75 percent of Android fans will either not buy it, or at the very least, really not like it.

«The next layer of scum — Cambridge Analytica, who seized the opportunity to scrape your details from Facebook, value - add with other big data, and build tools for political parties to microtarget you with just the right words at just the right time to buy your vote — add to this the fact that the Australian Privacy Act does not apply to politicians, political parties, or those acting on their behalf, and you have a recipe for the wholesale violation of the privacy rights of Australian citizens,» he told the Senate.

This violates the one - CPU - one - vote ethos as described in the Bitcoin white paper, because while everyone can buy CPU at the same price, the same is not true for ASIC hardware.»

We asked, you confirmed: Android notches are a no - go 50,000 votes made it official: If a phone has a notch, 75 percent of Android fans will either not buy it, or at the very least, really not like it.

Those often come without voting rights at all — I will consider condos if I am buying so many of them that I become a big - time voting member.

So, after spending an hour at the election booth with that ridiculous Senate voting paper, filling in EVERY number on the top line, because I understood that would make my vote more worthy, I headed off to buy a new toilet suite.