Sentences with phrase «vote of only»

In the 2005 general election, Labour was re-elected for a third term, but with a reduced majority of 66 and popular vote of only 35.2 %, the lowest percentage of any majority government in British history.

This action was opposed by the president, and funded by a board vote of only 12 - 11.

Having won the votes of only 15 MPs in the leadership contest (the other 20 MPs who nominated him did so to ensure the Left had a candidate), Corbyn has struggled to maintain his legitimacy within the parliamentary party.

With solid opposition of the 48 - member Democratic caucus, the Senate Republicans can afford to lose the votes of only two of their 52 members and still pass the legislation with a tie - breaking vote from Vice President Mike Pence — who postponed a Mideast trip just in case.

Not exact matches

Last October, Catalonia's leaders defied the Spanish government by holding an independence referendum; 90 % of Catalans voted sí (although only 42 % of registered voters went to the polls).

(The 32 % figure is because only about 60 % of corporate voting rights are ever exercised.)

A similar series of bills were voted down recently in the Senate, a vote that was only called after a long filibuster by Senator Chris Murphy.

Baillie Gifford and Fidelity are among the investors in a new $ 143 million round that values the company at $ 1.7 billion, giving Carbon a strong vote of confidence from later stage investors who typically come in only after a business is going strong.

But the only shareholders who can collect the rest of the money that the court deemed their shares were worth are those who voted against the deal, and Magnetar is the largest of just a few investors who did, according to The Wall Street Journal.

If you told her she had to drape her body in a billowing black sack every time she went outside, or that her right to vote was only a right as of a few years ago, she'd tell you you'd lost your mind.

But only 65 percent of Macron followers are sure about who they will vote for.

Mitchell said that he had projected only 8.7 % of the total vote would come from those between 18 and 39.

After spending a reported $ 25 million to launch his own political party in Austria, the auto - industry - magnate - turned - politician won only 6 % of votes.

But without the votes, Democratic opponents and a handful of Republicans who crossed party lines to oppose the measure, were left only to deliver emotional pleas to block it.

Only about a third of Republicans said they have a great deal or quite a bit of confidence that votes on Election Day will be counted fairly, according to recent poll from the Associated Press - NORC Center for Public Affairs Research.

Of the almost 5.4 million votes cast in 2012, only about 430,000 came from that part of the state — less than 10 Of the almost 5.4 million votes cast in 2012, only about 430,000 came from that part of the state — less than 10 of the state — less than 10 %.

Several polls have shown that only 1 % to 2 % of African Americans plan to vote for Trump, an all - time low even for a Republican presidential candidate.

Already, sticking points in the plan have emerged, threatening the loss of votes for a party that holds only a narrow majority in the Senate.

But Grillo said the two parties had only voted together around 20 percent of the time over the past 2-1/2 years.

Zuckerberg said Thursday that «voters make decisions based on their lived experience,» continuing, «Part of what I think is going on here is people are trying to understand results of the election, but I do think that there is a certain profound lack of empathy in asserting that the only reason that some of them are voting the way they did is because they saw some fake news.

In areas where farming is a major industry, the President - elect won 62 percent of the votes while Hillary Clinton received only 34 percent.

Not only that, but around a third of voting shares abstained from the reelection of every member of the board's compensation committee.

That said, these estimates count only about 20 percent of the total vote, mostly from urban areas.

There were scattered reports of voting machine glitches in Pennsylvania, where some voters said they tried to vote the Republican ticket only to see the Democratic boxes checked on their touchscreen.

But most of the state's African - American residents said they were contacted about voting by only one candidate during the campaign: Democrat Hillary Clinton.

Only time will tell, of course, if the peso is truly an accurate indicator of the election — FX traders don't necessarily vote in the U.S., after all.

Following McCaskill's tweet, Markey said in a statement Monday, «We've reached the magic number of 30 to secure a vote on the Senate floor, and that number will only continue to climb.

The left - wing organisation was only founded two years ago, but managed to win 21 % of the vote and come third in Spain's 2015 parliamentary elections.

Last month, Dimon prevailed at the bank's annual meeting when only 32 percent of shareholders voted in favor of a proposal — backed by activist groups after the «London Whale» trading losses — to strip him of the chairmanship.

First of all, the founding fathers originally had only people paying taxes — at the time, landowners — voting.

They also discounted the apathy of the millennial generation, which favored Remain but only 36 % voted.

They are asking for policies that most well run companies have adopted; things like majority vote standards, so directors are only elected to the board if a majority of shareholders want them there.

LONDON — European negotiators will insist that Britain must agree «detailed» terms on Britain's future relationship with the EU, in plans that would scupper any attempt by Theresa May to avoid parliamentary defeat by only offering MPs a vote on a vague «declaration of intent» deal.

Only 70 percent of Millennials surveyed said they had bothered to register to vote, versus 90 percent of Boomers.

Basically, no matter which way tonight's vote goes, Greeks on both sides of the question believe the future will only get worse.

Pincus» stake in the online gaming company will still have the same economic value, but he will now only control about 10 % of the vote.

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.

Gary Johnson won only 1 % of the vote when he ran as the Libertarian candidate for president in 2012.

During that span, the battle with Samsung is the only one that went all the way to a vote, and the only one in which the firm didn't get what it wanted — a sign of just how effective Elliott is at pressuring management to agree to its demands.

KryptoKit's new hires not only represent a vote of confidence in the startup's growth potential but also reflect the cameraderie that exists among Bitcoin pioneers.

For Quantopian, the investment is not only a vote of confidence for the firm, but it also means larger rewards for algorithm creators.

That order followed a similar, non-binding independence vote that took place that year, in which more than 80 % of voters chose independence — although only 2.3 million out of the region's 6.3 million eligible voters took part, AFP noted.

So after the pro-democracy legislators in Hong Kong's Legislative Council (Legco) voted down Beijing's proposal to replace the former British colony's undemocratic electoral system with another equally undemocratic version, the only thing we should expect is that this is not the end of the story.

Sen. Bob Corker was the only Republican to vote against the bill, which, among other things, proposes to cut the corporate rate to 20 % while changing individual tax brackets and significantly undercutting portions of the Affordable Care Act.

«The only way that could happen is for a very significant number of Trump voters — red voters, Southern voters — to vote in favor of cannabis reform.

These folks either didn't know or didn't remember that these companies opted out of the city after a vote last May preventing them from operating with only their own background check systems in place.

The report said that while Russian operatives did not change vote tallies, Russian President Vladimir Putin had ordered an elaborate effort to propel Trump to the presidency — not only via hacking but also through the dissemination of «fake news» aimed at undermining Clinton and boosting Trump.

Only 21 % of the people surveyed by Ipsos MORI in nine EU countries wanted to leave the EU... Even where protest parties are gaining momentum, it appears unlikely that they will garner sufficient votes to muster a majority.»

And Chipotle's only female director (and a veteran of the board since 1995), Darlene Friedman, saw a protest vote of almost 10 %.

The provisions in the bill must directly affect the federal government's spending or revenue — it's a way to restrict what policies can pass under the special privileges of reconciliation, which allows a bill to advance with only 50 votes instead of the usual 60.