Sentences with phrase «vote upon any question»

«No senator shall be permitted to vote upon any question in which he or she is directly or immediately interested.»

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A bigger question remains how can Dirty John Flanagan not allow a vote on extending the rights of minors who were sexually preyed upon to file a lawsuit?

Your question also touches upon another problem: The fact that first - past - the - post and other systems based on gaining a plurality of the vote in single - seat constituencies distort the vote and can be used to durably keep minority parties out of the parliament and government politics.

If you stir in legislation such as the European Referendum Act 2015 which set the question to appear on the ballot paper but failed to address the legal consequences of a vote to leave, and the anomalies thrown up by the Fixed Term Parliaments Act 2011, not least the ability to avoid a fixed - term, then the unsatisfactory basis upon which the country has gone to the polls three times in the last three years is underscored.

Upon realising that the vote meant that he would not be questioned on the budget, Johnson referred to his political opponents as «great supine protoplasmic invertebrate jellies».

Both Ashcroft and ComRes asked a voting intention question that prompted people to think about their own constituency, candidates and MP to try and get at the personal and tactical voting that Lib Dem MPs are so reliant upon.

The Board hears presentations from City officials and others and, as part of the land use review process, is sometimes called upon to vote on land use questions that impact more than one Community Board District.

Digg is interviewing Austrian model & fashion reporter Bruno and asking him the most popular questions as submitted and voted upon by Digg users.

At a meeting of partners I posed a number of questions for the group to both express their views and vote upon.

Upon the affirmative vote of sixty percent of those persons voting on the question, the county governing body is required to disincorporate the city, town, or village.

, prior directions had gone out from CREA to the grass roots members (us), who by the way paid for all of that grand venue, not to discuss relevant issues to be voted upon thereby with the media should the media ask us every - day in - the - trenches - Realtors questions about said issues.