Sentences with phrase «votes of many»

Oregon earns 44 first - place votes in the Week 12 BlogPoll, more than half of the total cast, but Kansas State earns 24 first - place votes of its own and is less than half a point per ballot behind the Ducks.

Because while I'm all for recognizing a great career, the legacy votes of old were often scattered to overrated players from large markets.

By relying on statistical accuracy, transparency, discerning palates and weighted votes of members, the Opinionated About Dining survey provides a more distinctive approach to rating restaurants.

Fan votes will count along with the votes of a celebrity judging panel including Cat herself, CBS News Anchor Alexis Christoforous, FOX News Anchor Ernie Anastos, book agent Karen Strauss, representatives from St. Jude Children's Research Hospital & Chefs for Humanity and others.

It was precisely the votes of Catholic, especially Latin American, countries that put the UN vote over the top and made possible the creation of a Jewish State in the Land of Israel for the first time in almost two millennia.

It's making the whole gay lesbian group look bad and they are losing the votes of a lot of straights.

The report as prepared by the commission and adopted by the conference has the appearance of having been written by men who, rather radical themselves, were aware that it would have to be adopted, if at all, by the votes of those less so.

The Emperor was attempting to buy the votes of the Electors for the imperial election which must follow his death.

The last election showed that pandering to backward beliefs will not get the votes of the majority.

In 2012, Rick Santorum won Iowa on the strength of his support among evangelical voters, but he got only 8 percent of the votes of New Hampshire Catholics — despite being Catholic himself.

Prayer has not been shown to accomplish anything (outside of some individual meditative sort of benefit), so what is the point of declaring a day of prayer besides politicians trying to get the votes of a particular segment of society?

Last week, the group announced it is partnering with other socially conservative outfits to spend $ 240,000 in TV ads «highlighting pro-abortion health care votes of so - called «pro-life Democrats.»»

Pat Buchanan may speak for a wing of the Republican Party, but he has not attracted the votes of Republicans who are economically conservative but socially tolerant.

One might argue with their angle of vision, as a number of my conservative Jewish friends do, but no one would label it, as Frank describes the Republican votes of the less well - off, a «species of derangement.»

They just want the votes of those gullible enough to believe them.

If we still have our laws determined by the European Court of Justice, then our parliament is no longer able to make all our laws, and the votes of the British peoples do not count because our laws are made and interpreted by a foreign court.

«Again we are told that women are virtually represented by the votes of the men.

As the polls open tomorrow, we find out how the major parties are hoping to win the votes of Christians across the country.

The real «Obamacare» i.e. getting re-elected on the backs of 39 million aborted womb babies by using the votes of the 78 million voters involved in said abortions.

So, you want to buy the votes of anyone who opposes our President, eh?

Black smoke poured from the chimney fixed to the roof of the Sistine Chapel on Wednesday morning, indicating that the cardinals» first two votes of the day were inconclusive.

Even the UN Security Council, which offers to its members the «best way to protect their own sovereign rights and national interests» by exercising the veto power, counts the votes of an absent member as an abstention.

He has ONLY changed his stance recently to gain the votes of evangelical Christians.

Your party appeals to fear and bigotry if it seems likely to attract the votes of the fearful and the prejudiced.

One, there was to be an election soon and one party decided to remain silent knowing ahead of time the possible consequences of the carnival because, they believed that if they opposed the barker they would lose votes of some increasingly large grass roots organizations and voters.

No party should take the votes of Albertans for granted again.

The former federal minister campaigned for eight months, grabbed an unfamiliar delegate selection system by the lapels, and shook free 1,113 votes of 1,476 ballots cast at the weekend convention.

In the Public School Board races, Michael Janz was re-elected in a landslide in Ward F. With 15,671 votes and 71.4 percent of the total vote, Janz earned the most votes of any trustee and council candidate and the highest percentage of any candidate in this election except Don Iveson.

In an October 2014 by - election, Mr. Clark placed a strong second and came within 800 votes of defeating appointed Progressive Conservative Education Minister Gordon Dirks.

The distinction between the competing claims is that Gannett highlighted percentages of unaffiliated shareholders while Tribune Publishing included votes of management as well.

House members stream down the Capitol steps early on a Wednesday evening, just after the last votes of the week.

Importantly, as James Wollman (VP of Franchising at NTY Franchise Company) notes, «Our franchises buy and sell the YES votes of what people like in fashion, electronics and other household items; we don't deal in the NO's that are the primary inventory of most other major discount stores.»

The report's prime focus is shareholder votes on these pay packages, particularly the votes of large financial managers, mutual funds, and pension funds.

Horgan has already backed several other projects — the Site C dam and an LNG terminal — that environmentalists oppose, and his government would fall without the votes of three Green MLAs, so he likely can't back down.

The power behind Fink's threat to enforce his views hinges, in part, on the standard of one share, one vote — that shareholders» voting power is based on the number of shares they own in a given company rather than the votes of entrenched founders or early investors.

Still, he was grateful for the votes of confidence.

Because the deal that secured the votes of the conservative House sect known as the Freedom Caucus, allows states to seek waivers that let them opt out of basic protections for some citizens — rules, for example, that prevent insurers from charging virtually anything they want to «cover» those with preexisting conditions or that demand that insurers provide certain basic health and preventive care services.

If your content is outstanding it will earn social shares and links that act like votes of confidence which will help boost your rank.

Even if you do have that vote of confidence from the friend in common, make sure that you are the one to put your cards on the table.

It had earlier passed the Senate by a vote of 98 - 7.

It passed the House without objection and cleared the Senate by a vote of 97 - 3.

And Ripcord just got a massive vote of confidence from GV, formerly known as Google Ventures, the venture - capital arm of Alphabet — which just led a new investment of $ 25 million into Ripcord.

JPMorgan Chase Chief Executive Jamie Dimon, who won a strong vote of confidence from shareholders last month, on Tuesday defended the disclosures the bank made last year about its unfolding London Whale derivatives loss.

«This is a major event for GetGlue, a big vote of confidence from investors, and a huge opportunity to continue to play a defining role in the social TV space,» said CEO Alex Iskold in a blog post.

The stock market has added a quarter to its value since the election, a $ 5 trillion vote of confidence.

Baillie Gifford and Fidelity are among the investors in a new $ 143 million round that values the company at $ 1.7 billion, giving Carbon a strong vote of confidence from later stage investors who typically come in only after a business is going strong.

A snap election is unlikely, however, as PiS has a majority in parliament and could block any vote of no confidence.

Taking it one step further, the board also plans to state that it will abide by the vote of shareholders on this proposal.

Atlas Iron managing director David Flanagan has described the results of the iron ore miner's capital raising as an immense vote of confidence in the business, despite achieving just less than half of its $ 180 million target.

«The fact that quality people with their resumés are joining the company is a big vote of confidence in what General Fusion is doing,» says the company's chairman, Rick Wills.