Sentences with phrase «vote over the war»

Civil servants were looking into the constitutional issues should the vote over the war go against the government.

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A war erupted inside the Labour Party, the government's official opposition, over leader Corbyn's decision to make the party's parliamentarians vote in favour of May triggering Article 50.

Italy's government, divided over the Afghan war and ties with the U.S. military, lost a crucial vote on foreign policy on Wednesday that plunged Prime Minister Romano Prodi into his worst crisis since taking office in May.

Internet service providers clashed with Democrats and celebrities like «Star Wars» actor Mark Hamill ahead of a vote this week as the battle over net neutrality stretched from Hollywood to Washington.

The only military reason to vote for Obama is that Romney has already pledged to go to war with Iran over their nuclear program.

But in November 2004, regardless of claims about voter fraud, Bush actually won the popular vote by over 3.5 million ballots, making his regime and his wars ours.

So, that's 111 Democrats who voted for it, which pushed it over the edge, and thus, your statement that Republicans started the war isn't correct.

With one vote, the US National Organic Standards Board may have created the perfect conditions for a civil war over the soul of the organic food concept.

Andrew Murray, who took over from the Labour leader as chair of the anti-war group, accused him of «clearing the way for a vote to send the country to war».

Chairman of the Broome County Legislature Daniel J. Reynolds (R) engaged in a war of words Friday with Broome County Executive Jason Garnar (D) and New York State Senator Fred Akshar (R) over the delay of the vote.

He had never made any compromises with either the Blair or Brown governments, had consistently voted against the Iraq War and welfare cuts and was untouched over the parliamentary expenses scandal.

«After 60 per cent votes for sure fire election losers, IRA - supporting Shadow Chancellors and Scottish Labour unnecessarily splitting the party on issues over which it has no responsibility, we have a Shadow Minister telling «Stop the War» — a madcap coalition of trots, Islamists and anti-west fury chimps — that Labour will consult them on how it will vote on Syria.

Senate Minority Leader John Sampson is upping the ante considerably this morning in his war of words with Majority Leader Dean Skelos over rules changes, accusing the GOP of creating a «constitutional crisis» by moving to strip LG Bob Duffy of his right to break a tie in a leadership vote.

He asked where Gordon Brown had been, and questioned why the chancellor always seemed to «disappear» at times of crisis, citing not only the current police probe, but the rebellion over trust schools and the vote on the war on Iraq.

Although the vote shows that keeping in - line with US policy was not a persuasive case on its own, it should be remembered that the transatlantic relationship has seen differences and divergences before and recovered (for example, over the Falklands War).

Department for Business blockaded over its continued military contracts with Israel, as UK abstains from UN war crimes vote

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In a sign that leadership expected the vote in the House to be tight, sources told The Hill on Thursday evening that Defense Secretary James MattisJames Norman MattisOvernight Defense: Over 500 amendments proposed for defense bill Measures address transgender troops, Yemen war Trump taps acting VA chief as permanent secretary Defense bill amendment would protect open transgender military service Overnight Defense: Senate confirms Haspel as CIA chief Trump offers Kim «protections» if he gives up nukes Dem amendments target Trump military parade MORE was calling members urging them to support the agreement.

The outcome of the election is a clear vote of confidence in the sterling leadership provided by Alassane Ouattara, who, over the last four years, has transformed a war - ravaged country into a rare African bright spot, the stand - out performer in the Region, and has accelerated the process of national reconciliation.

Mr. Espaillat came just over a 1,000 votes of beating Mr. Rangel two years ago in a vicious primary battle that oftentimes seemed to devolve into a war between the black and Hispanic alliances in the quickly - changing 13th Congressional District, which spans from Harlem though Washington Heights to the Bronx.

That, coupled with Andrews» unpopular vote for the Iraq war in 2002, resulted in an easy Lautenberg win in the primary, followed by an easy general election win over former then - congressman Dick Zimmer.

In the Commons tomorrow, Labour will use ancient parliamentary rules to force a binding vote which could see ministers having to hand over all the papers presented to the Brexit war Cabinet on the economic effects of both options.

If you don't want to wage wars all over the place while flogging off the hospitals to crooks and the schools to cranks, then don't vote Labour.

Cuomo's challenger, Fordham Law School Professor Zephyr Teachout, managed to win over one - third of the vote against the incumbent governor, despite Cuomo's multi-million dollar war chest and near unanimous support from the state's Democratic political establishment, from Hillary Clinton to local mayors.

If Britain does remain in the EU, Labour's divisions will be exposed once again over the summer: the Conservatives will twist the knife over the Chilcot report on the Iraq war, due to be published early next month, and the future of the Trident nuclear weapons system, on which the government has said it will call a vote soon.

Cuomo's challenger, Fordham Law School Professor Zephyr Teachout, managed to win over a third of the vote against the incumbent governor, despite Cuomo's multimillion dollar war chest and near unanimous support from the state's Democratic political establishment from Hillary Clinton to local mayors.

So far as the English Local Elections go - it's a major extension of control of English Local Government for the Conservative Party, but following on from results in 2003 that were still before Labour were hit by a backlash over the War in Iraq - if the Conservatives had failed to advance from 35 % in 2003 and Labour had held it's vote of 30 % then it would have been remarkable, it's still slightly up on 2006 for the Conservatives and Labour have only recovered marginally so far - it's a sign of continued revival of the Conservative Party, but also of a Labour revival, disappointing news for the Liberal Democrats who lost support even compared with last year where elections were fought, heavy losses of support nationally compared to 2003.

Labour MPs turned out in force on Wednesday to help defeat a parliamentary motion calling for Tony Blair to be held to account for allegedly misleading parliament over the Iraq war by 439 votes to 70, after a sometimes angry debate.

The top three vote - getters in the Gold Derby poll for Best Picture remain «The Artist,» «The Descendants» and «War Horse,» with the first two films flip - flopping for the lead over the past month.

3) One other hard reality, hidden by squabbles over which side wielded a bigger portion of its giant war chest, alliances and person - hours toward climate victory or defeat, is that the issue has never had the salience that would be required to get anywhere near 60 votes in the Senate, let alone a simple majority.

Or the UN votes to freeze Chinese / Indian emissions immediately, and they decide to go to war over their right to economic development.

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