Sentences with phrase «votes cast against»

In order for your proposal to be accepted, your trustee must not receive a majority of the votes cast against your offer.

To be accepted, Joes» trustee must not have received a majority of the votes cast against his consumer proposal.

Tatts received a significant protest on executive pay with 22 per cent of votes cast against the remuneration report, just short of the 25 per cent level required to record a strike.

Tap Oil shareholders have lodged a big protest vote, with more than 35 per cent of votes cast against three resolutions at today's annual meeting, with dissident shareholder Chatchai Yenbamroong accounting for a large share of the opposition.

Not exact matches

All four were unsuccessful, including Friday morning's dramatic 2 a.m. vote that failed when Sen. John McCain cast his ballot against the measure.

(Three - quarters of votes cast at the company's annual meeting in April went against Barrick's pay practices, and the company has vowed reform.)

Shareholders who have already cast their votes in the $ 24.4 billion buyout have lined up against the Dell deal, sources said.

Blackrock is also reportedly going to cast its vote against the deal.

She cast the lone vote against Dauman.

Activists seeking to derail President Trump's nomination of Gina Haspel to lead the CIA are looking to Sen. John McCain to cast the deciding vote against her — assuming he is well enough to return to Washington.

Further, in an effort to encourage transparency and responsiveness to AGM voting, companies will need to explain what action has been taken to consult with shareholders when more than 20 % of votes have been cast against the board's recommendation.

But if they do cast a vote against gay marriage then yes, they are a bigot.

So a vote for or against Trump — and all the associated aspersions we cast on our opponents for their vote — becomes the test by which we decide whether to fellowship together as evangelicals.

And residents of Horatio Gardens cast 153 of those negative votes, voting more than 2 - 1 against the increase, which was to have paid for a community center and other facilities.

Library Board member John Shay cast the lone dissenting vote of the two boards against the agreement.

Lautz accused parks board members of maneuvering behind his back and lashed out at Park District Assistant Supt. Ken Kutska, who also sits on the Wheaton Plan Commission, for casting the lone Plan Commission vote against his development.

With all 17 Lake County precincts reporting, 62 percent of the voters there cast ballots in favor of the bond issue, and 38 percent voted against.

As IPPR's new report into political inequality shows, less than half of 18 — 24 - year - olds voted, compared to nearly four - fifths of the over-65s, while three - quarters of «AB» individuals cast a ballot, against just over half of «DE» registered voters.

Buffalo Comptroller Mark Schroeder, who vacated the 145th in January to take his current job, routinely voted against Silver for speaker — often casting the lone «no» vote — and regularly criticized him publicly, particularly on his perceived lack of support for UB 2020.

None of the Republican senators cast a vote against the budget bill that included the wage increase.

Although the odds remain against Smith, he will be hoping that an enthusiastic campaign over the next month will do enough to persuade Corbyn backers, including among the third tranche who can take part — the 70,000 union affiliates — to either switch their vote or not cast it at all.

U.S. Rep. Elise Stefanik, R - Willsboro, on June 16, cast a deciding vote against an amendment that sought to stop the military from enlisting undocumented youth.

He would have cast a vote against lifting the military's «don't ask, don't tell» policy, which recently passed Congress, citing flaws in a recent report that found support among soldiers for a repeal of the policy.

Corbyn called on MPs who were considering voting for airstrikes to «think again», telling BBC Radio 2's Jeremy Vine show on Tuesday: «Think of the complications and the implications of what we are doing and please cast your vote against supporting this government's military endeavours in Syria.»

The only reason I was hesitating to cast my vote for her was to cast a protest vote against Dov.

«He's the one who cast the lone vote against the terribly flawed PATRIOT Act in 2001.

His bid to seek re-election in 2016 hit a snag when he could only garner 44.4 % of valid votes cast as against Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo - Addo of the New Patriotic Party (NPP)'s 53.8 %.

Malliotakis cast herself as one of the few New York City legislators to have voted against allowing a recent increase in that debt and suggested that the governor should «take some control over the MTA or dismantle it.

Before last night Europe accounted for just 5 % of the Conservative rebellions so far this Parliament but 35 % of all the rebellious votes that had been cast by Conservative MPs — with European rebellions more than double the size of the other revolts against the whip.

She has been vocal in opposing Trump policies, especially the Muslim travel ban, and reportedly cast more «no» votes against Trump administration nominees than any other senator.

The budget passed along party lines in the House, with four Republicans voting against the proposal and 189 Democrats casting no votes.

McMahon was under pressure to support the Democrats» healthcare reform bill in March but ultimately cast a vote against the legislation.

He won about 53 % of the total valid votes cast, against his main contender and incumbent President, John Mahama's 44 %.

It was, as Owen Jones wrote a «working class revolt against the political establishment» achieved through the «furious, alienated working - class votes» cast against «the lack of affordable housing; -LSB-...]

I still expect Nigel Farage's party to do well in the European elections, as people take an early opportunity to cast what they regard as a cost - free vote against Brussels, register their mid-term disgruntlement, and remind the Tories of their promise.

Given that this was the decade that saw two whole parliamentary sessions without a single vote being cast against their whip by a member of the governing party, this observation was at least more accurate then than modern - day attempts to paint politicians as a bunch of spineless sheep.

There's a variety of factors why Cuomo fares so poorly in some of these districts, ranging from staunch opposition SAFE Act to his truculent relationship with public - worker labor organizations (never mind that Tkaczyk, a Democrat who narrowly won her race by 18 votes in 2012, did not cast a vote for or against the legislation considering her race had not been resolved at that point).

Turnout was low in Kumasi - only 66 % voted which was terrible and so there's now going to be a lot of campaigning against voter apathy to get everyone here to go and cast their ballot.

A series of public polls suggest Limbaugh is a broadly disliked figure among Democratic base voters (no surprise there) but it remains to be seen whether that disdain will translate into a desire to turn out on a random Tuesday in March to cast a vote against a Republican House candidate.

With a turnout of 69.2 % (88,197), Renfrewshire strongly voted remain in the 2016 European Union membership referendum with 64.8 % (57,119) of votes cast in favour of remain against 35.2 % (31,010) votes in favour of leave.

«Every several years or so a legislator is called upon to cast a momentous vote in which the stakes are high and both sides of the issue are vociferous in their views,» Mr. Schumer said, saying he had thoroughly heard out arguments for and against the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action.

A unofficial running tally on the Minneapolis Star Tribune's Web site had Democrat Al Franken leading incumbent Republican Sen. Norm Coleman by 251 votes on Sunday - in a race in which nearly 2.5 million votes were cast - but Ritchie cautioned against pronouncing either candidate ahead until all votes are counted.

With Teachout getting more than 30 percent, it indicated some of her supporters were casting a vote against the incumbent top dog in Albany, Kramer reported.

He cast the senate's sole Democratic vote against New York State's gay marriage law in 2011, later saying he believes marriage is «between a man and a woman,» and said that he was «honored» when Cruz accepted his invitation to visit The Bronx in April 2016, shortly before New York's presidential primary.

«It's the equivalent of a guy who's about to get his house foreclosed on putting a new media room in the basement,» said Trotta, who cast the only votes against two resolutions to fund the projects through a bond issue and said he'd been provided with little information beforehand.

Everyone knew he was a closet case, but this corruption case has blown the door wide open for the hypocrite politician, who cast votes against same - sex marriage last year.

«In 2011, President John Evans Atta mills, against fierce competition from Mrs Konadu Agyeman Rawlings, secured 96.7 % of valid votes cast.

He cast the sole Democratic vote against the state's gay marriage law in 2011 and last year invited Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz to The Bronx, yet still enjoys support from the Bronx Democratic County Committee.

The Presidential candidate of the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) Nana Akufo - Addo defeated President Mahama with a 53.85 percent lead in all valid votes cast, against the latter's 44.40 percent.

In March, as Speaker Nancy Pelosi and the Democratic House leadership scrambled to find the votes necessary to ensure the passage of the health care bill, one of the most important parts of the political calculus was which of the most vulnerable Democrats would be allowed to cast their votes against the legislation, thereby increasing their chances of reelection in 2010.