Sentences with phrase «voting against his wishes»

Indeed, the committee has been notorious for voting against the wishes of the current governor, Sir Mervyn King.

The Black Country MP said it was an unusual vote, held through a ballot, but he «no idea» what he was thinking when voting against his wishes, and backed the government.

Fox also says that opponents are also increasingly sophisticated in their attacks, understanding that elected officials are unlikely to vote against the wishes of an angry electorate.

Not exact matches

SEC members voted to remove the doctrinal clause which stated that marriage is a «union of one man and one woman», replacing it with a clause which asserts that clergy who do not wish to preside over same - sex weddings will not be compelled to do so «against their conscience».

The youngster was voted Ligue 1 Best Young Player of the Year and Rybolovlev says he has no intention of keeping him «against his wishes».

I wish I could have a home birth next time but my entire family voted against it even though they didn't see how unkind the hospital staff were.

Specifically, these modern tribunes would be entitled to veto one piece of congressional legislation, one executive order and one Supreme Court decision; to call one national referendum, over any issue they wish (only two - thirds votes of both the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives may render the statute unconstitutional); and to initiate impeachment proceedings against one Federal official from each of the three branches of government during their term of office.

They put an X vote against their chosen candidate in the first preference column, and then (if they wish) an X vote in the second preference column.

Councilmember Brad Lander said he would vote against Torres» bill because it disregarded the wishes of police reform advocates who helped push for the bill in the first place.

Since the morning after the first independence referendum three years ago, the thin - skinned tyrant of English nationalism has treated Scotland with nothing but contempt - English Votes for English Laws, hysterical Tory election posters demonising Scotland's largest party, voting for Brexit, ditching the single market against the express wishes of First Minister Nicola Sturgeon, and generally behaving like an abusive husband who's hidden the new PIN for the joint bank account.

In reality, Benn was desperately lucky to get as close as he did — and only did so because Labour's largest union, the TGWU, gave him their vote in the second ballot, against the wish of a clear majority of its members, who wanted Denis Healey.

Tony Banks, Hague a «foetus» In one of the nastier put - downs of recent history, Labour MP Tony Banks in 1997 described Conservative leader William Hague as a «foetus», later remarking: «I bet a lot of them wish they hadn't voted against abortion now!»

Writing in the Telegraph, Chris Grayling said that there can not be a situation where Scottish MPs «come to Westminster and vote on English - only issues», influencing the destiny of health, education, justice, environment and probably taxation in England, «potentially against the wishes of most English representatives».

Even with a big majority, there were times when backbench rebellions meant their plans for England were pushed through Parliament against the wishes of English MPs, and only Scottish votes secured a majority for Tony Blair and Gordon Brown.

We can not have a situation where more and more decisions about Scotland are being taken in Scotland, and yet Scottish MPs come to Westminster and vote on English - only issues, shaping the destiny of health, education, justice, environment and probably taxation, too, in England, potentially against the wishes of most English representatives.

At the time of the agreement, Citizen's Union's Dick Dadey expressed some doubts about a structure where three commissioners could potentially block the wishes of the other 11 commissioners if they voted against an investigation.

To force a floor vote against the speaker's wishes, Reynoso and Torres would need a majority of their 51 colleagues to back them in a parliamentary maneuver called a «discharge of committee.»

[10] The Court also ruled that a state may not mandate a «closed primary» system and bar independents from voting in a party's primary against the wishes of the party.

Knowing Corbyn could win meant he was scrutinised rather than being treated as the traditional left - wing also - ran, meant Labour members could cast their votes in the knowledge of the effect it might have, and vote tactically for or against a candidate if they wished.

In the upcoming election, the Stop Common Core line will be available for those wishing to vote against heavy - handed centralized government curriculum czars.

«The unprecedented majority votes at Occidental and PPL in favor of a 2 ˚C scenario analysis and against management's wishes demonstrate that the issue is material to investors and the markets need useful, forward - looking scenario analysis of the world's climate objectives.

Is it not more accurate that voters arrive at the polling station with the name of the «political party» they wish to vote for or against.

But the SCRA surely would not get 70 votes in Prez Trump were to come out vocally against it, and Senator McConnell surely will not bring it up for a floor vote if he knows doing so would be against the wishes of Prez Trump.

(Mr. Harper's insistence that «the people» must decide reflects his apparent wish to be President and not Prime Minister and tends to overlook that more people voted against his party than for it.)