Sentences with phrase «voted against the government order»

This has led some to suggest the government ignored dissent among the Lords to shore up Commons» support, with last night's defeat marking only the third time peers have voted against a government order.

The House of Lords last night voted against the government order on casinos, leaving culture secretary Tessa Jowell struggling to claim plans are «very much alive».

Not exact matches

Specifically, these modern tribunes would be entitled to veto one piece of congressional legislation, one executive order and one Supreme Court decision; to call one national referendum, over any issue they wish (only two - thirds votes of both the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives may render the statute unconstitutional); and to initiate impeachment proceedings against one Federal official from each of the three branches of government during their term of office.

This is in spite of new parliamentary Labour Party standing orders which made it a disciplinary offence for MPs to vote against the government.

When Governor Paterson announced that, in order to save money, he would add a one - day - a-week furlough for 100,000 state workers to the next emergency budget bill, legislators had a choice: vote for the bill and pass the furloughs they opposed, or vote against it and shut down state government.

«We voted against control orders repeatedly and I think that all of us in government frankly want to preserve the rule of law.

Invent some sort of fake quibble with the proposals that enables you to vote against them, despite supporting them, in order to inflict an embarassing defeat on the government.

Labour MPs could still be ordered to vote against the triggering of Brexit if the Government refuses to adopt a series of amendments to its Article 50 bill, Diane Abbott has suggested.

(8) the points made in the conclusion are: (1) consistent with avoiding expenditures on the criminal justice system, the federal attorney general appeared to be neglecting the plight of pre-trial inmates in custody in extremely bad jail conditions, and the provincial attorney general appeared to ignore the needs of prosecutors for greater resources of staff and time in order to work adequately; (2) similarly, the other examples presented also support the proposition that the criminal justice system is inadequately resourced because there are «no votes in justice»; and, (3) the reduction in the safeguards against wrongful convictions caused by the radical changes in procedures made necessary because governments do not provide adequate resources for the criminal justice system;

A lot of great commentary on yesterday's decision in Crawford v. Marion County Election Board, upholding as against a facial challenge Indiana's requirement that people present a government - issued photo ID in order to vote.