Sentences with phrase «votes matter when»

Not exact matches

The Mayor insisted on chairing the discussion, and indeed even voted on the matter when it came up for a vote.

The year before that, though, politics mattered when the United Kingdom's vote to leave the European Union shook markets around the world.

And you may vote a certain way or not but that doesn't matter, you've got 27,000 employees and I think the fact is that you're operating under a Federal Trade Commission consent decree from 2011, that's a real thing and it goes for twenty years so when someone said «do we need more regulations, do we need more legislation?»

We are not saying that the individual retail investor's vote does not matter, but when most of the proxy materials are cast into the garbage or just voted as suggested, it becomes more difficult to defend the argument that having each individual investors voice heard is of the utmost importance.

It is unclear when more countries will vote on the matter, or how long the process may take, but a European country has never failed to ratify a trade agreement at this stage.

In upholding the prohibition against artificial methods of birth control, the encyclical dashed the hopes of many believers for a change in church teaching — hopes that had been raised when the National Catholic Reporter leaked the news that the lay and clerical members of the hand - picked papal commission studying the matter had voted decisively to support the limited use of artificial contraception within the context of marriage.

When I vote I will vote for a grown - up, and party affiliation will matter less to me than this quality of maturity.

But increasingly, that's not enough, when it just doesn't matter how we vote anymore.

These men of God need to tell their flocks that the devil is loose on us now and they are helping him destroy their country too, but this will never happen when blacks can only see to vote for a black person no matter how flawed he is.

Like Rockefeller said when they created the federal reserve...» it doesn't matter now who you vote for now, you're always voting for us»

Funny, but when Clinton won his elections, no one seemed to question who I voted for, so race seems to matter for some people.

Whether or not Arsene Wenger can persuade Riyad Mahrez to sign for Arsenal or convince the champions elect Leicester City to sell us the man just voted the PFA Player of the Year for this season is another matter, but i8f the Arsenal transfer rumours are right then the boss is at least going to try when the current season ends, according to a report in The Mirror.

I'm not exactly here to argue whether it SHOULD matter or not, but whether it HAS or WILL matter when it's time for the voting process.

Algonquin resident Larry Mountain, one of about a dozen people who attended Wednesday's gathering when the master plan was unveiled, said he thinks Algonquin citizens also might vote down a tax hike for more recreational services no matter who runs them.

Relatively little of what I said ended up in the piece, of course, perhaps particularly because I was generally skeptical that these things will matter much (if at all) when it comes to how people actually vote.

When citizens of a nation queue, as in our case in Ghana, to vote and elect a president to steer their affairs, it is a matter of trust.

When discussing the matter at a recent party meeting, a number of us made the point that, in supporting a «veto vote» for English MPs that nevertheless gives the whole Commons the final say, we should remember asymmetry has traditionally been the price England pays to ensure Scotland stays in the Union.

Let this campaign be a lesson to all political Web 2.0 enthusiasts — in electoral politics, the voter opinions that ultimately matter are the ones they have in mind when they pull the lever on a voting machine.

After the SNP gained control of the Scottish Parliament it was a matter of when, not if, a vote on independence would be held.

The convention votes are weighted and the 69th Assembly District, which is where the Broadway Democrats are located, is the most Democrat - dominated in the state, and also generally has the highest turnout, which means its support matters when the weighted vote is calculated.

When canvassers like Darley - Emerson get a list of names, it has been edited according to the one criterion that matters: how likely her visit is to generate a new vote towards the president's re-election — whether the canvasser remembers to ask who the voter is supporting or not.

When casting his initial votes on the matter, Carlucci can be seen looking at how his colleagues were voting, then siding with Democrats even after Savino explained the vote to him.

When we return, which candidate has the best chance to beat Barack Obama, and should it matter in your vote?

It has now been agreed that when the European Banking Authority votes on banking union matters a double vote will take place: one for eurozone countries and a separate vote, requiring a simple majority for approval, among the EU's ten other member states.

«When a big item like that comes up, no matter what political affiliation, they're voting against it, you're bringing that volume of people out and jump on that Democratic line and voted right across and that's what they did,» said current Legislature Chair John Mills.

«When the previous Government consulted on this matter, the right hon. and learned Member for Beaconsfield (Mr Grieve), who was then the shadow Secretary of State for Justice and is now the Attorney - General, described the prospect of giving prisoners the vote as «ludicrous».

Normally shunned into irrelevance by their small stature in parliament, it's on these rare occasions when their voting intentions really matter.

Another example would be when elected officials vote against the party line for the sake of publicly standing when a bill is unpopular (conversely, popular) in their constituency, all while knowing that the majority is comfortable enough that a few dissenting voices (or a few more votes) won't matter.

Dustin Czarny, an Onondaga County elections commissioner, said New York is lagging behind other states when it comes to voting systems and procedures because state legislators often have partisan views on voting matters.

«Why should Scottish MPs be able to vote on what is taught in English schools, to reduce spending on English hospitals, or even vary English or Welsh income taxes, when under the new settlement English or Welsh MPs would have no say in such matters in Scotland?»

But right now, the only poll that matters is the one that's going to hapen tomorrow when voters go to the polls and vote their conscience.»

MPs hold their mandates as individuals and although the mass of votes, as in almost all constituencies, will have been for the national party they represent, that doesn't mean that a party should simply be able to nominate a successor when a seat falls vacant, no matter how tragic the circumstances.

Auditability (that is, the ability to recount votes when results get challenged) is the most important problem by far for elections that matter.

His public statements are to just let the healthcare industry implode, but as a President that is not a politically viable option so «deal making» maybe will still have a chance to happen, if and when improvements to the current system can be identified, proposed and debated, but the Big Deal ™ is that Obamacare survives (for now) during a time of Republican control after years of not only talking about repealing it from the ground up but actually voting to do it when it didn't really matter.

In response to Lord Levy's claims, a Labour source said: «Jeremy was shown some text on someone's phone for a matter of seconds when he was on his way to vote.

When the MPs resumed sitting on the matter on Wednesday, the approval was done through a voice vote, giving Finance Minister Seth Terkper the green light to go back to the international market to issue another Eurobond.

When the confidential settlement agreement was approved by the Town Board last October, Lewza abstained from voting on the matter without disclosing why.

When NBC 4 New York / Wall Street Journal / Marist asked Democrats earlier this month if Spitzer's sex scandal would impact their vote, only 34 % believed it would have an effect on how they cast their ballot, and 62 % reported it would matter little or not at all.

49 %, however, say these activities matter little or not at all when deciding their vote.

When Observer asked Stringer and James whether their potential mayoral bids were connected to their push for instant runoff voting (Adams had already left the press conference by that point), James would not weigh in on the matter.

Why should any of us who are not from Anambra, no matter how highly placed, descend to the arena and dictate for Anambra people when to vote, whether to vote or who to vote for?

Like the rest on Wall street, He made his first $ 10 Million Dollar's by inside - trading when Solomon Brother's (where he was a partner) was sold to another company (great inside info only reserved for the member's of the inner - circle who have ton's of shares in the company) who sent him packing (in my opinion a ruse (i.e. bonus) to keep the SEC from sticking their nose into the matter) and with that money started his own business & bought his way into City Hall where he now sits on his throne denying benefits to the familie's of those who sacrificed their lives to help other's on 9/11, threaten the political future of community representatives (Councilmember's) who dared to disagree with him or voted against one of his policie's etc., etc..

Rodriguez is just one of 51 Council members, but his vote counts the most — when it comes to matter of land use, the Council almost always votes the same way as the local member.

The vote was almost unanimous, with the sole dissenting vote coming from Legislator Alden H. Wolfe, who stated that he was not ready to be restricted to county executive C. Scott Vanderhoef's decision to hire private counsel when the county attorney's office is qualified to handle the matter.

«As a county legislator, I believe it is critical to be kept abreast on the New Stadium Working Group's discussions in order for the Legislature to make informed decisions when voting on a matter concerning public dollars and county resources.

No it would be crazy not to have an English Parliament, as such its is appreciated that Scots think the West Lothian question is a problem, how big of them, but then it matters not one jot, for the Scots voted for what they wanted, and got it, now its long past the time when English people get to vote for what they want, and if they want to be fobbed off with some rubbish Grand Committee fine I'll go along with it, but English people should also be given the opportunity to vote for an equal settle to what the Scots vote for themselves, unless you are saying Britain no longer does equality?

Game theorists noticed, though, that in large populations, your vote matters only when there's an exact tie.

They're like when aging NBA stars get voted into the All - Star game no matter how they played.

A self - described «hick» whose finest hours uphold viewpoints sympathetic to Penn's own political skepticism («If you don't vote, you don't matter»... «When they come «round sweet talkin», don't listen»), Stark grows hungrier with each success.

When our inspector of election tabulates the votes for any particular matter, broker non-votes will be counted for purposes of determining whether a quorum is present, but will not otherwise be counted.