Sentences with phrase «votes of old»

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

But tactical voting of the old - fashioned, not very organised kind - backing not your preferred party, but the one most likely to keep out the candidate you don't want - has been critical in the last three elections.

Defending his comments, Cable said that while «one element» for some people in supporting Brexit was a desire to curb non-EU immigration, he was primarily making the point that the vote to leave the EU was delivered predominantly on the votes of older people.

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Fortune «s Grace Donnelly brings you this sweet story about the Girl Scouts of Greater New York's Cookie Executive Committee, «a group of the top - selling Scouts who, despite not yet being old enough to vote, decide everything from logistics to product marketing.»

«What he knows is that the old program covered 20 percent to 30 percent of phone numbers to search for terrorists, Cruz said, by way of explaining his vote.

The 23 - year - old quantitative trader was in the middle of an extracurricular bet — on the web site PredictIt — that Senate Republicans» second attempt at overhauling Obamacare would fall short of the 51 votes needed to pass.

Strikes and riots in Greece, Spain and Portugal have found a new political expression in one - fourth of the vote obtained by a three - year - old Italian party that wants to tear down the political system.

The Republican - led FCC voted 3 - 2 to eliminate the 42 - year - old ban on cross-ownership of a newspaper and TV station in a major market.

One of those GOP voters was D'Ann Riggs, a 53 - year - old emergency room nurse from Beaumont, who voted for Stephens and for Trump.

On June 30, the last day the old provincial sales tax remained in effect, a coalition fronted by former Social Credit premier Bill Vander Zalm presented a petition of 557,383 valid signatures to the province's chief electoral officer, which forces a bill abolishing the HST to be either voted on in the legislature or put to a referendum.

May formally notified the EU on March 29 of Britain's intention to end its 44 - year - old membership, following the shock referendum vote for Brexit last June.

By putting hundreds of kids between ages 18 months and 12 years old in a room to play with 80 toys — and then having them vote on their favorites — the company identified five toy trends ahead of the holidays:

The folks in and around the Duluth metro area know how to rock the vote — more than 70 % of residents 18 and older turn out on Tuesdays to cast a ballot, according to data from the American Community Survey.

That people's capitalism, the system that we have, depends on the age - old system of one - share - one - vote....

The report also gave details about a two - year - old warning from the Presidential Commission on Election Administration, a bipartisan organization, that described the state of America's aging voting system as an «impending crisis.»

News of the approaches came the same day the U.S. Federal Communications Commission voted to end a 42 - year - old restriction on ownership of multiple TV stations in a major market, removing a major roadblock to media company mergers.

The Brennan Center for Justice estimated in August that up to 20 % of US voters would use a digital system without a paper trail to cast votes on November 8, and 42 states would use voting machines that were at least a decade old and had outdated hardware and software.

The 31 - year - old billionaire controls over 57 % of Facebook's voting shares yet reportedly earns a $ 1 salary from the company.

Mariah Jones, a 29 - year - old resident of the District who studies political science at George Washington University, said she thought Obama should have waited until after the final votes were cast in the primary contests to endorse — though she thought endorsements from top Democratic leaders were predictable.

Meanwhile, in the south of the country, 25 - year - old Marion Maréchal Le Pen (Marine Le Pen's niece), has been surging in polls and is likely to win the the vote in the Provence - Alpes - Cote d'Azur region.

We are already barely making ends meet,» says Daren Niemeyer, a 49 - year - old farmer in Nebraska who voted for Trump in 2016, when asked about his thoughts of the trade war tensions between China and the U.S..

Mr. Redstone, 92 years old, is the controlling shareholder of Viacom and CBS Corp. with nearly 80 % voting stakes in each company.

Sheryl Acquarola, a 16 year - old junior from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School is overcome with emotion in the east gallery of the House of Representatives after the representatives voted not to hear the bill banning assault rifles and large capacity magazines.

London's 328 - year old insurance market, Lloyd's of London, is planning to move some of its operations to the continent in reaction to the UK's Brexit vote.

«I'm so ready to vote,» she said, «and people keep saying that «you guys need to go out there and vote,» but most of us that are speaking are not legally old enough to vote.»

The three older parties competing for our votes quibble over carbon: tax it (Liberals) or cap it (Tories, sort of) or both (the NDP).

Perkins's remarks reflect a wider trend among white evangelicals (81 percent of whom voted for Trump in the 2016 election): Many choose to disregard Trump's decidedly debauched, decades - old public persona to focus on his anti-LBGTQ and anti-abortion stances.

Sheryl Acquaroli, a 16 - year - old junior from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, is overcome with emotion in the gallery of the House of Representatives after the vote.

«At the end of the day I'm not voting against a bill that is going to take guns out of the hands of 18 - year - olds,» said Rep. Jared Moskowitz, a Democrat from Broward County.

Voter turnout increases as people get older, a function of greater personal stability (moving less often), and that voting tends to be habitual.

Sheryl Acquarola, a 16 - year - old junior from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, is overcome with emotion in the east gallery of the state House of Representatives after the representatives voted not to hear a bill banning assault rifles and large - capacity magazines at the Capitol in Tallahassee on Tuesday, Feb. 20, 2018.

Cadre, a three - year - old, New York - based online platform helping accredited investors delve into commercial real estate deals in what it claims is a far more transparent way, has received a big vote of

Last week's historic decision by British voters to pursue Brexit — the termination of their 43 - year - old relationship with the European Union — by a 52 % to 48 % vote was shocking and provocative.

The 20 - year - old RA 7721 allowed the entry of foreign banks either through ownership of up to 60 per cent of the voting stock of an existing domestic bank or of a new banking subsidiary or establishment of branches with full banking authority.

Supporters have praised the government for supporting the elderly, who are some of the most vulnerable in society, while critics have said increasing the state pension is a ploy to secure votes from older people, the majority of whom vote Conservative.

are people so simple they crave the misguided beliefs of others to feel better about themselves or are we triing to understand the lunacy of our citizens to believe something as pathic as a 3000 year old IDEA in order to act properly when voting in those who will run this country for the next 4 years a.k.a. voting in one who using rational thinking and logic to make choices!

Less than a week after the tragic shooting at Stoneman Douglas High School, some of the surviving students — who are barely old enough to vote — have become some of the loudest and...

We are not to intellectualize in a way that removes our focus from the very practical concerns of tending the sick, caring for the vulnerable, participating in community life (like Calvin, who concerned himself with the sewage systems in Geneva) or voting, getting the car fixed, recycling old newspapers, making meals.

Around 65 per cent of younger people voted for Jeremy Corbyn's Labour Party earlier this year and YouGov has observed that «age seems to be the new dividing line in British politics», with older people tending to favour the Conservative Party and younger people generally voting Labour.

It's not a binding vote and may not tip the out - of - touch old one - percenters at the International Astronomical Union, but it's a start...

Obviously, this only includes those who have already preregistered to vote, but according to the Secretary of State in Ohio, 16,000 17 - year - olds in the state are already registered.

The internal struggle of the last two decades has resulted not in fragmentation, but realignment: Jerry Falwell, a bitter foe of the old, moderate «dominated SBC, was a voting delegate at last year's convention.

The Eastern Orthodox delegation asked to be excused from voting on the other reports; but they heartily supported this one, which affirmed that the message of the church to the world must always remain the gospel of Jesus Christ — the gift of a new word from God to this old world of sin and death, being the prophetic call to sinful men to turn to God as the only way by which humanity can escape from those class and race hatreds which devastate society, and fulfill humanity's longing for intellectual sincerity, social justice and spiritual inspiration.

In May of this year, members of the 201 - year - old Ascension Church voted 59 to 44 to break with the Episcopal Church and join the Anglican Catholic Church, as the major national organization of breakaway Episcopalians currently calls itself.

The image of a woman who is battered for 20 years by her clergyman husband and who would forgive him, «because the Bible tells her to,» the image of a young mother and father who can not understand why their three - year - old daughter was sexually abused in the day care center to which they had entrusted her each morning; the image of a woman who was sacked from the women's program of her church because she refused to comply to the request of the president of the church that she and the other women vote for him in his election campaign; the image of a 14 - year - old migrant domestic worker who faces the death sentence on trumped up charges, because she would not give in to the sexual demands of her employer; the image of a male priest of a church saying that every time he beats his wife she should thank him, because she is one step closer to salvation; or the priest who would make sexual advances on a woman who out of vulnerability turns to the church for pastoral comfort... these are but a glimpse of the many such images that are gathered during the course of this Decade.

Less than a week after the tragic shooting at Stoneman Douglas High School, some of the surviving students — who are barely old enough to vote — have become some of the loudest and most prominent voices for gun control reform.

Reasons for the disparate treatment of the old and the young include the simple fact that elders vote and children do not.

Yep you are right, I moved down here in the state of Mississippi, north of Crystal Springs from Chicago when I was ten years old but still I visit once in a while, now it's twenty years and sad to not much has change, like the parts you said about non-whites discrimatory or rasicts at other non-whites, when I went to school here they treated me as a alien from another galaxy, they pick at my voice cause I didn't had that southern dialog, unlike them I said my words correctly, but not just me, they even hated at others who had better intelect I am not picking at them, It is what I went through all these years, Mississippi and mainly this small town of Crystal Springs see America in a crazy awful view, They don't like difference that even within they own race, ther not that politcal, when some one say God they got there vote, I don't to say much to waste your time, I still remember when I was ten years old I had a constanct back ground check on me to see were I really come from evn though I had the paper saying Chicago Illinois barely no jobs but a church on every street for a town barely under five Thousand, till this very day, they look at me like I am a alien, did you ever had that experiance down here damn my keybroad mess up,

Did Jehoiachin become king when he was eight years old and then somehow got voted out of office, but re-elected as king when he was eighteen?

(CNN)- The Rev. Robert H. Schuller built the Crystal Cathedral, one of America's first megachurches, from the ground up but now the 84 - year - old has been voted out by the church's board.