Sentences with phrase «voted against the rule»

Pai and O'Rielly voted against the rules in October.

Government has come under attack by thousands of Ghanaians engaging in illegal mining threatening to vote against the ruling party in the next elections despite their (illegal miners) hazardous activities on the environment.

Manchin is the only Democratic Senator who voted against the rule change who remains in office.

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Downing Street has ruled out such membership, preferring to be able to negotiate free trade deals with the rest of the world, but the majority of members in the upper house of the U.K.'s parliament, the House of Lords, have voted against that, forcing a debate on the issue.

In both chambers, most Republicans voted to repeal the rules, while Democrats voted against.

They seem to have gotten turbocharged by a ruling in 2007 that permitted people — in practice, mainly hedge funds — to buy shares after a merger has been announced and for the express purpose of voting against it and then seeking an appraisal.

On a party - line vote, Trump - appointed chairman Ajit Pai and two other Republican commissioners voted in favor of revoking the rules, while the two Democrats on the commission voted against the move.

The country voted against joining the euro zone in a referendum in 2000 and last December opted to retain its exemption from EU rules on issues like asylum and border control.

That Spaniards voted so emphatically against the ruling class and business - as - usual politics also makes this an unlikely fudge.

Current proxy rules work against shareowners who are trying to vote in alternative and independent board members, but it is shortsighted of firms to ignore owners» interests.

Airbnb worked to help defeat Prop F, but then held a news conference in which the company said it could mobilize its users to vote down proposed rules that were aimed against it in other cities.

If the Floor Proposal is presented at the meeting, the proxy holders will have discretionary voting authority under Rule 14a - 4 (c) under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 with respect to the Floor Proposal and intend to exercise such discretion to vote AGAINST such proposal.

The SEC ruling was not unanimous, and the sole vote against it was Democratic Commissioner Luis Aguilar who said in a statement, «I am disappointed and saddened by the reckless adoption [of the rule].»

In a guest article, Robert E. Plaze, a partner at Stroock & Stroock & Lavan, analyzes Gallagher's statement; addresses the more interesting case of the two settlements Gallagher voted against; and discusses Gallagher's criticisms of Rule 206 (4)-7.

The Senate voted Tuesday night to kill a controversial rule that would have allowed Americans to file class - action suits against banks instead of being forced in many cases into private arbitration.

politicians go against their supposed religious rules all the time; looking at how they voted on previous issues is the only way to tell what kind of person they are.

The Republican Party is most vulnerable because the Religious Right, a substantial voting bloc, is adamantly against gambling, This was evident recently in an Alabama gubernatorial primary race, when the challenger said that he «would not rule out new gambling rules» and lost, while Governor Fob James agreed to almost all of the right's social agenda, and won renomination.

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.

Voting is the act of choosing those individuals you think ought to rule; to protest against the available options is to not vote at all.

However, the majority of Indians, who had been left behind by recent economic growth, voted against incumbent governments, unseating, among others, many strongly pro-business ruling politicians in Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka (of which Bangalore is the capital city).

This sort of thing is always going to happen when teams are allowed to have a say in the rules because obviously, they'll vote against anything which doesn't benefit them.

The European Parliament today voted today — 393 votes in favour, 305 votes against — to reject draft EU rules on baby food, which would have allowed baby foods to contain high levels of sugar and products to be labelled for use from 4 months of age.

Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) voted on 19 January 2016 (393 votes in favour, 305 votes against) to reject draft EU rules on baby food, which would have allowed baby foods to contain high levels of sugar and products to be labelled for use from 4 months of age.

Baby food regulations: 6 - months recommendation and less sugar Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) voted on 19 January 2016 (393 votes in favour, 305 votes against) to reject draft EU rules on baby food, which would have allowed baby foods...

Carlucci and Diane Savino voted against the bill in the Senate Rules Committee, then voted for it on the floor a half hour later.

The bipartisan Ethics Committee deadlocked, with a vote of 4 to 4, over whether there was enough evidence to show that McLaughlin had violated the Assembly rules against sexual harassment.

Bright kept in close touch with Joseph Chamberlain, his colleague in the representation of Birmingham, and in June after much coming and going he voted with 92 other Liberal members against Gladstone's Home Rule Bill, which was defeated by 341 votes to 311.

In Germany in 2013, SPD convention delegates voted by 196 votes in favour to 31 against, with two abstentions, before entering coalition talks with Merkel (though party leaders had already themselves ruled out a coalition with the Greens and Die Linke).

After a tense few hours of Labour's National Executive Committee meeting yesterday, the party's ruling body decided by 18 votes to 14 that Jeremy Corbyn would have an automatic right to be on the ballot in the leadership election against Angela Eagle.

The Speaker took the Chair and in the division on the motion of dissent the Deputy Speaker voted against the dissent, which was negatived.202 The Speaker ruled that it was in order for the Deputy Speaker to vote in the division.203 On another occasion, having been relieved in the Chair by the Speaker, a member of the Speaker's panel whose ruling had been subject to dissent voted in favour of the dissent.204

Now the SNP have changed their stance and said their MPs are prepared to vote against relaxing the rules on the hunting ban - even though it has no visible impact north of the border.

«If we're faced with a choice of saying look you can either have these regulations that ensure we don't discriminate against people on the basis of sexual orientation, or you can't have these regulations at all, which is the choice, I shall vote for the regulation, because I think it's right that we have in this country clear rules against discrimination,» he told BBC Radio Four's Today.

That paves the way for Miliband to call the SNP's bluff by defying them to vote against him and instead back the Conservatives — a move Nicola Sturgeon has already ruled out.

Failed Presidential aspirant of the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC), Mr. George Boateng says the 61,836 persons who voted «No» representing 4.90 % against the second - term candidature of President John Dramani Mahama are his supporters.

I do remember reading that the Senate had rules such that Harry Reid would vote against bills that he wanted to reintroduce.

That the UK government is now in the position where the court has ruled against it and is insisting that parliament must vote before article 50 can be triggered underlines the chaos and confusion at the heart of the Tories» handling of Brexit.

STATEN ISLAND — A newly elected Staten Island assemblyman called abortion «African - American genocide» before voting against a symbolic bill that reiterated New York's support for the landmark abortion ruling Roe v. Wade.

He also attacked her for voting against de-funding the group ACORN, a measure that was later ruled illegal.

Labour's National Executive Committee is set to vote on the dispute as soon as tomorrow but if they rule against Mr Corbyn the row could end up in court.

«I will be voting against continuous at - sea deterrent, because it rules out any compliance with the nuclear non-proliferation treaty,» he said.

The Assembly Ethics committee met in October 2008, reaching a «not guilty» verdict [86][87] and ruling that no harassment ever occurred, and unanimously voted to throw out the charges against Assemblyman Ball.

But she says that in the past the Conservatives have voted against toughening the rules on face coverings.

The German parliament recently authorised negotiations over a new $ 7 billion loan to Greece, despite 60 members of Angela Merkel's ruling block voting against the move.

Presidential Candidate of the Convention Peoples» Party (CPP), Ivor Kobina Greenstreet has advised Ghanaians against voting for the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC) and the New Patriotic Party (NPP) in the upcoming general elections saying the record of the two parties over the last 16 years does not warrant such a voting.

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.

After the vote to leave the EU, against the backdrop of weakening business and consumer confidence, and volatile financial markets, Osborne ruled out an emergency budget.

Elected officials earning a «thumbs up» designation included U.S. Reps. Elise Stefanik (R - Willsboro) and John Faso (R - Kinderhook) for bucking their party and voting against the Republican - backed Ozone Standards Implementation Act, legislation that would delay federal rules designed to curb smog.

Mr Corbyn's allies had urged the party not to appeal against the ruling, stating that members» money should not be used to try to stop them from voting.

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

With just one exception, Pryce sided with the new Democratic majority on every major bill and rule change that came to a vote in the past two weeks, even voting against her party on a procedural vote, a move considered heretical in the years of GOP control.