Sentences with phrase «voted against the land»

Only Councilor - At - Large Helen Hudson voted against the Land Bank resolution.

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Michelle Hirschberg and Karen Land Short, were both devastated following the election result and were deeply disappointed that the majority of white women voted against having a female president.

U.S. opposition to the ICC is of a piece with its vote a year earlier against the treaty to ban antipersonnel land - mines, its refusal to pay UN dues, its economic sanctions on allies that do business in Cuba, and its implicit foreign policy of demanding a «superpower exemption» from international rules.

Voters might have been voting against a swim center and development of playing fields, not the purchase of the land, he offered.

In December of 1972 the vote went against the Park District's referendum to issue $ 2,550,000 in general obligation bonds for park improvement and development including the construction of a fieldhouse at Dryden Park, land acquisition, the construction of a north side maintenance garage, and the construction of an indoor ice rink complex along with increasing the corporate tax rate by.025 %.

Commissioner Steve Welch, who voted against the ordinance, said, «I want open space as much as anyone else, but my objection has always been that the Park District needs land to have active recreation on.»

Naughty rebels of the week: The three Conservative MPs who voted with Labour against sale of forestry lands.

It is recalled that sometime this year 2016, some selected Chiefs from the Akyem land poured libation and invoked curses on anybody from their land who would vote against their own son Nana Addo.

He said that was his reasoning for being the only vote against transferring the land from the city to COR.

A Deputy Minister for Lands and Natural Resources, Benito Owusu Bio, has reiterated the Akufo - Addo administration's resolve to win the war against illegal mining, even if it meant losing votes in the 2020 elections.

In a signed statement to the court last week, Denno said he cast the lone vote against transferring the land to COR precisely because the company refused to rule out applying for a PILOT, or payment in lieu of taxes.

The law requires that at least three - quarters of the city legislative body must vote in favor a project if 20 percent of those owning land within 500 feet of a proposed zoning change sign petitions against it.

The board, which plays an advisory role on land use and community policy issues in the city, unanimously voted against the Mandatory Inclusionary Housing and Zoning for Quality and Affordability proposals with the exception of City Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito's office, which abstained from both votes.

Greenfield argued against that characterization, too — insisting that the full Council would contradict the local member if if there is not a «legitimate land use rationale as to why the Council member is voting against it.»

Congressmen Sean Patrick Maloney, a Democrat, and Chris Gibson, a Republican, voted against legislation that would prohibit any federal oversight of oil and gas drilling using fracturing, or fracking, on federal lands.

He has amassed praise from some Western conservation groups in large part because he has repeatedly voted against measures to sell off public lands.

Promised Land makes a surprisingly good case for explaining how people frequently vote against their interest.

Strangers in Their Own Land goes beyond the commonplace liberal idea that these are people who have been duped into voting against their own interests.

April 7, 2016 Wintergreen Advisers today announced that it intends to vote against certain proxy items proposed by Consolidated - Tomoka Land Co., including the Item 5 proposal to issue additional shares of common stock.

[11] In 2014, the council voted against an 895 - acre project that would have extended development on agricultural lands east towards the Conejo Grade.

Every oppression that has been foisted upon Aboriginal people in the history of Canada has been implemented through [colonial law]... This includes child welfare apprehension, residential schools, the outlawing of our sacred ceremonies, the prohibitions against both voting and hiring lawyers, the impact of the criminal justice system, and [the taking of land and resources]... Law is not the answer.

This is now the law of the land, just in time for the end of 2014, and shockingly, it passed both the House and Senate with bipartisan approval and high votes of approval (not many voted against it).