Sentences with phrase «voted at last week»

The resolution failed to get enough votes at last week's town board meeting, although Mondello said he had urged Santino, D'Esposito and Dunne to cooperate with the incoming supervisor.
With a unanimous vote at last week's Town Board meeting, Olive joined the trend of New York municipalities looking toward alternatives to petroleum — in particular solar.
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Last week, the Communications Workers of America (CWA) and International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers that represent over 37,000 wireline employees said they had voted to go on strike, if needed, after their contract expired on Aug. 1 at midnight.
Since House Speaker Paul Ryan cancelled the vote for the Obamacare replacement plan last week, also known as the American Health Care Act, the Nasdaq has risen a quiet 0.2 % at the same time the Dow and S&P 500 slid 0.2 % and 0.8 %, respectively.
Last week, Cal Henderson, the co-founder and CTO at Slack, cast his vote in a U.S. election for the first time.
«Instead of deposing him, the Dell board froze out shareholders, and last week voted to allow the CEO to buy the company at a bargain price using shareholders» own cash,» Icahn wrote.
During the Federal Court hearing this week, Mr Kirwan's lawyer, Tottle Partners» Stephen Penrose, questioned the voting procedures at last month's meeting of StateWest members, where they voted strongly in favour of demutualisation.
Clearwire's board last week recommended that its shareholders vote against Sprint's $ 3.40 per share offer at a special meeting scheduled for June 24 and instead urged them to accept Dish's tender offer to buy Clearwire shares for $ 4.40 each.
As he did last week, Commissioner David Hays provided the swing vote at a jammed meeting at the courthouse in Georgetown, the county seat.
The Ways and Means Committee voted on a number of tax bills last week, including legislation that would restore and expand bonus depreciation at a cost of $ 360 billion over the next decade (including interest).
In the week ahead, investors will be watching the PMI reports to see if there have been any improvements that could validate the 2 dissenting votes that favored a rate hike at the last meeting.
Entries can be voted on by «Liking» them and at the end of the party (each party will last 1 week) we will all announce the «winners» the same day as the NEXT linky party begins.
Someone asked me last week to look for truly wack ballots instead of listing who voted for non-Alabama teams at No. 1.
Last week, at his graduation from Breckinridge County High School in Hardinsburg, he was voted the Rotary Club's Citizenship Award by his mostly white schoolmates.
Ashley Barnes scored the equaliser, his second goal in successive weeks at Turf Moor, to set us on our way to a 2 - 1 win against Everton last Saturday and that, along with his overall performance, has won him both the man of the match vote and the player ratings.
Last week, the FSF expressed disappointment at the refusal of the Premier League clubs to even vote on a proposal to cap away ticket prices.
Last week, Gooners voted to keep Cesc Fabregas at Arsenal, with Andrey Arshavin in second.
The Park District Board unanimously voted down the proposal for new directors last week at the urging of Commissioner Charles Hegarty, who serves as the district representative on the museum board.
Park District commissioners, who voted to approve the $ 15.9 million tax levy last week, marveled at the relative rarity of a municipality reducing taxes.
Commissioners voted last week not to build the facility on top of the city's central reservoir on Myrtle Avenue at the Union Pacific railroad line after residents and Union Pacific officials testified at a public hearing that the site would be unsafe.
The City Council voted last week to hire a grant writer to secure up to $ 125,000 to put ball fields, soccer fields and other recreational facilities in the park that would be at Illinois Highway 173 and Ramer Road.
Over the last two weeks, residents living near Sherwood Forest Park cast their vote at Park Place on six styles of playground equipment.
But these were rejected by his fellow MEPs in the European Parliament's Environment, Public Health and Food Safety Committee (ENVI) last week, meaning only the objection to sugary baby food was put to the vote at today's plenary session in Strasbourg.
«Take a look at that voting and you will see that colleagues in New York, for example — Sean Patrick Maloney and Dan Maffei — take a look at our votes in the last couple weeks, and you're going to see they're almost identical.»
As voting was underway last week, Felder declared he would remain with Republicans in the Senate at least through the end of the legislative session in June, giving the GOP the needed 32nd member in the 63 - seat Senate.
UKIP's share of general election vote intention, at 14 % last week, is much more muted than the 23 % they achieved in the Projected National Share of the vote (PNS) from the local elections.
Vote shares for the four biggest parties remain unchanged since last week, with the Tories on 30 %, Labour on 29 %, UKIP on 16 % and the Liberal Democrats holding on to their 10 %, a result which party president Tim Farron joked was causing champagne corks to pop at Lib Dem HQ last week.
State Sen. Toby Stavisky greets potential voters before voting during last week's primary at a polling station in northern Queens.
Democrats were tallying their votes electronically, rather than the town - by - town roll call that Republicans used at their convention last week.
Last week's High Court decision means that MPs are likely to be presented with a vote for triggering Article 50 at some point in the new year.
The Albany County GOP, whose chairman, John Graziano, initially supported Suffolk County Steve Levy for governor and voted in favor of a primary at the convention last week, will feature gubernatorial designee Rick Lazio at a «meet the candidates» fundraiser later this month.
Last week, teachers voted to keep the Caucus of Rank - and - File Educators at the helm of the Chicago Teachers Union.
The political atmosphere at the Capitol has changed because nine Democrats broke with their party last week and voted in favor of the Republican - written budget.
A handful of Democratic House female members did an absurdly normal thing together one night last week: Instead of splintering off to fundraisers, the group of perennially vulnerable incumbents met for a laid - back dinner at a Thai restaurant on Barracks Row after evening votes.
Last week, Attorney General Eric Schneiderman stood before a crowd of New Yorkers gathered at Federal Hall and announced the introduction of a comprehensive reform bill aimed at expanding voting rights in New York.
The Hempstead Town Board voted Tuesday to approve 18 personnel matters and entered into at least nine contracts, a day after Supervisor - elect Laura Gillen wrote asking Supervisor Anthony Santino, whom she defeated last week at the polls, to refrain from doing so.
In the last past week I have had dinner with a few members and they feel both side need to make there case more and to «THEM» they have the votes and are at the grassroots.
The MPs - who make up nearly two - thirds of the parliamentary Labour party - all represent constituencies which voted Leave at last week's EU referendum.
Instances of vandalism have been reported at Democratic Party and congressional offices since just before the vote last week on federal health - care legislation.
Ms. Mark - Viverito, a Manhattan Democrat, told council members last week that there would be no vote on two bills aimed at overhauling how officers interact with the public.
Mr Miliband said that at «a time of acute national crisis» in the wake of last week's Brexit vote, the opposition must be united.
The union's regional leaders recommended backing Sampson's primary challenger Dell Smitherman, a former 1199 SEIU political coordinator, and Libous» Democratic opponent, former Vestal Town Supervisor Anndrea Starzak; but those suggestions were not heeded when a final vote was taken at PEF's conference last week.
After Paterson's re-emptive display last week of blowing up a tentative two - way deal, look for the Senate to make a last - ditch attempt by passing a one - house bill — likely the governor's plan — to provide at least some cover for Sen. Bill Stachowski to also vote for the revenue bill so he and his colleagues can get paid for the first time since they blew the April 1 deadline.
Although his office can not mandate repairs to the voting system, de Blasio announced that the city would spend $ 20 million to improve the Board of Elections, provided it would agree to a series of changes aimed at addressing the problems with last week's primary.
Whatever Ed Miliband did or did not promise the prime minister ahead of last week's vote on Syria, Cameron's estimation of the Labour leader - which it's safe to say was already at the low end of the dial - has plummeted through the red and out of sight.
He said: «We have seen Tory backbenchers last week defying the prime minister to vote against the Queen's Speech; former Tory chancellors openly calling for Britain to leave the European Union; serving Cabinet ministers joining the chorus at the weekend, saying they would vote for Britain to leave the EU now; and the embarrassing spectacle and truly ludicrous sight of a British prime minister in Washington negotiating an EU - US trade deal, while back home members of his own Cabinet say they would vote to exclude Britain from its benefits.»
I reported from down there last week and while there was a sense of anti-Farage tactical voting, it was not at the level you'd expect for him to actually come third.
While last week's vote on the Government's Article 50 bill at second reading was widely described as «historic», the sessions between Monday and Wednesday could have a big impact on how Theresa May negotiates Brexit.
In a dramatic vote in the Commons last year, MPs voted to keep the abortion limit at 24 weeks.
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