After a contentious debate, members of the committee finally voted to approve the funding. |
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Ten members voted for the proposal, six members voted against it, and two abstained. |
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She is politically illiterate and has never voted in an election. |
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On such a day, a holiday having been voted by acclamation, an ordinary walk would not satisfy the children. |
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Ontario lawmakers voted to impose fines on workers and the union if they failed to heed a back-to-work order. |
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The radical group voted to divorce itself from the main faction and start an independent movement. |
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The school board voted to reinstate the school's uniform policy. |
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Within four days, the Scots Confession was presented to Parliament, voted upon, and approved. |
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In early 1782, Parliament voted to end all offensive operations in North America, but the war continued in Europe and India. |
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Irish Nationalists, led by Charles Parnell's Irish Parliamentary Party, voted against the Tories on a land Bill. |
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There an overwhelming vote of the party's branches voted not to affiliate with the Third International. |
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In 1932 the ILP held a special conference and voted to disaffiliate from Labour. |
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A 2005 poll of Radio Times readers voted Loch Lomond as the sixth greatest natural wonder in Britain. |
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In February 2014 Fife Council's Executive Committee voted to close one of Glenrothes' primary schools at Tanshall. |
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However, in the election of 2015, the constituency voted in Hannah Bardell of the SNP as their member for Parliament. |
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In 1967 the Institute of American Architects voted Cumbernauld the world's best new town conferring the Reynold's Memorial Award. |
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The party reportedly targeted seats which had voted to remain in the EU, such as Twickenham, Oxford West and Abingdon, and Vauxhall. |
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Smith defied the Labour whips in 1971, joining Labour MPs led by Roy Jenkins who voted in favour of entry to the European Economic Community. |
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The current members of the Council were voted in 2017 for a term of office of 5 years. |
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In May 2010, Susan Boyle was voted by Time magazine as the seventh most influential person in the world. |
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In March 2017 the club voted to admit women as members for the first time in its history. |
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The CGF members later voted for their preferred candidate in a secret ballot. |
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Gold metal was voted Allergen of the Year in 2001 by the American Contact Dermatitis Society, gold contact allergies affect mostly women. |
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In some areas that held ballots the majority voted against striking but were subject to picketing from areas that had declared a strike. |
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Before that could be voted on, the Montagnards took over the National Convention and produced their own constitution. |
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In 2014, Assembly Members voted to allow Williams's proposed legislation on this issue to be taken to the next legislative stage. |
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The citizens of Chicago have not elected a Republican mayor since 1927, when William Thompson was voted into office. |
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In 2011 National Geographic magazine voted Pembrokeshire the second best coastal destination in the world. |
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In 2006, Time Asia magazine voted him as one of the most influential South Asians in the past 60 years. |
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In his first season in Italy, Charles was Serie A's top scorer with 28 goals, and was voted player of the season as Juventus won the Scudetto. |
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On 17 April 2011, Bale was honoured with the PFA Player of the Year award, as voted for by his peers. |
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On 5 January 2012, Bale was one of the players voted into the 2011 UEFA Team of the Year. |
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In the summer of 2003, the WRU voted to reduce the top tier of Welsh professional rugby union from nine clubs into five regions. |
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Jimmy Wilde was voted as the Greatest Bantamweight Ever in 2014 by the Houston Boxing Hall Of Fame. |
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In 2009, Doctor Who was voted the 3rd greatest show of the 2000s by Channel 4, behind Top Gear and The Apprentice. |
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In August 2015 the Manic Street Preachers nailed the 2 top spots on the best NME covers of all time, as voted by the general public. |
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None of these films were particularly huge at the box office but at the end of the year Baker was voted the fourth most popular British star. |
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In a 2005 poll The Comedians' Comedian, Cooper was voted the sixth greatest comedy act ever by fellow comedians and comedy insiders. |
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In a 2005 poll to find The Comedian's Comedian, he was in the top 50 comedy acts voted for by comedians and comedy insiders. |
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In a 2003 referendum the Swedish electorate voted against the country joining the Euro currency. |
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In June 1990, the Riksdag voted for a new agricultural policy marking a significant shift away from price controls. |
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In 2017 Cairo was voted the most dangerous megacity for women with more than 10 million inhabitants in a poll by Thomson Reuters Foundation. |
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In 1953, legislation to make the ground squirrel the state emblem was voted down in the state legislature. |
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Hammond's Fiat was voted the best by both Clarkson and May, to Hammond's obvious surprise. |
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The Happisburgh footprints won the 'Rescue Dig of the Year' title in the 2015 Current Archaeology Awards, voted for by the general public. |
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It was voted the county flower of Devon in 2002 following a poll by the wild flora conservation charity Plantlife. |
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In April 2011 the Columbia University Senate voted to welcome the ROTC program back on campus. |
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After two bitter referendums, Newfoundlanders voted to join Canada in 1949 as a province. |
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The Republicans again rejected the idea, although a majority of both Northerners and Southerners would have voted in favor of it. |
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In Missouri, an elected convention on secession voted decisively to remain within the Union. |
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Other politicians have become independents in the course of a parliamentary term, but not been voted into office as such. |
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Those members who voted in favour were attacked by the Castilian people and their houses were burned. |
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Hammond's custody of the king had lasted from 13 November 1647 to 29 November 1648, and parliament voted him a pension. |
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In 1967, readers of Melody Maker voted him the Pop Musician of the Year, and in 1968, Rolling Stone declared him the Performer of the Year. |
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The pyramidal orchid was voted the County flower of the Isle of Wight in 2002 following a poll by the wild flora conservation charity Plantlife. |
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In 1918, the Montenegrin national assembly voted to unite with the Kingdom of Serbia, giving the latter access to the Adriatic. |
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A similar law was passed in 108 BC and Marius was voted the command by the People in this special election. |
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Meanwhile, Hamburg's partner city Kiel voted in favour of hosting the event, with almost 66 percent of all participants supporting the bid. |
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The final blow was struck on 1 December, when Ukraine, the second most powerful republic, voted overwhelmingly for independence. |
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On 18 April 1999 the Swiss population and the cantons voted in favour of a completely revised federal constitution. |
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Thus on 28 November 1848, the Federal Assembly voted in majority to locate the seat of government in Berne. |
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On November 12, 1918, the provisional national assembly voted for the republic and for unification with Germany with a large majority. |
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The Athenians, led by Demosthenes, voted to seek alliance with Thebes against Macedonia. |
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In December 2008, he was voted the greatest Russian in the Name of Russia television poll. |
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The law was voted at the Uruguayan senate on the same date with 16 votes to approve it and 13 against. |
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For the first question, 54 percent voted against the current Commonwealth status. |
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Because of this, the area has consistently voted as one of the most Democratic areas of the state. |
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Maine was part of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts until 1820, when it voted to secede from Massachusetts to become a separate state. |
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Four years later, in 1843, settlers of the Willamette Valley voted in majority for a republic government. |
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Tasmanians voted in favour of federation with the largest majority of all the Australian colonies. |
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More than 18,000 people voted at 60 polling booths set up by activists and 17,874 chose to favor the ban the ships from the lagoon. |
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The Court voted for the erecting a Publick Schooll or Colledge in Cambridge. |
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In 1960, nearly a third of African Americans voted for Republican Richard Nixon. |
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After the acquisition of the now defunct Air Jamaica, it became the largest airline and was voted as the Caribbean's leading airline. |
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Of the thirteen Confederation members, Glarus, Solothurn, Fribourg, and Appenzell as well as the Five States voted against Zwingli. |
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On 11 March 2017, The Diocese of South Carolina voted unanimously to affiliate with ACNA at their 226th Convention, held in Summerville. |
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Resolutions may be voted on jointly or by each House, in the latter case requiring passage in all Houses to be adopted by the particular council. |
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In May 1776, Congress voted to suppress all forms of crown authority, to be replaced by locally created authority. |
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During the General Synod of 2017, the House of Clergy voted against the motion to 'take note' of a conservative position on marriage. |
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The recognition was not voted on by the General Synod but was endorsed by the standing committee of the House of Bishops. |
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In April 2016, the diocesan synod voted to dissolve the diocese due to its small size and merge with ACNA's Missionary Diocese of All Saints. |
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Although majorities in both parties voted for the bill, there were notable exceptions. |
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A majority of the Court voted to uphold the convictions and sentences of ten and twenty years, to be followed by deportation. |
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Delaware voted against secession on January 3, 1861, and so remained in the Union. |
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Urban politicians bought large blocks of poll tax receipts and distributed them to blacks and whites, who then voted as instructed. |
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The Smith bill won several early tests in the House, which also voted to substantially cut the NLRB's budget. |
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The five members of the Arab League, who were voting members at the time, voted against the Plan. |
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On 12 June, the United States Senate voted to lift economic pressure on the former Rhodesia. |
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From 2012, England and Wales have voted for regional Police and Crime Commissioners. |
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In 1848 he voted for Hume's household suffrage motion, and introduced a bill for the repeal of the Game Laws. |
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The chapter voted unanimously for the move and agreed to pay for it by withholding various portions of their prebends over the next seven years. |
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The rejection considered the most contentious was of the European Elections Bill, against which the Lords voted five times. |
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After all members have voted in the lobbies, the vote totals are written on a card and the numbers are read out to the House by the Tellers. |
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Despite this prediction, in 1868 the Conservatives lost the first general election in which the newly enfranchised electors voted. |
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However, Almendras voted for Marcos, and the latter wrested the Senate Presidency from the Nacionalistas after more than a decade of control. |
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On April 6, 2017, the Republican controlled Senate voted 52 to 48 to require only a majority vote to end a filibuster of Supreme Court nominees. |
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A referendum was held on May 19, 2007 and a large majority of the electorate voted against removing the president from office. |
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His government also held referenda in which the Scottish and Welsh electorates voted in favour of devolved administration. |
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After the experiment was widely deemed a success, the House voted 342-44 to make gavel-to-gavel broadcast permanent. |
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On 7 June 2006, Florida's wildlife commission voted to take the manatee off the state's endangered species list. |
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The Primates' Meeting voted to request the two churches to withdraw their delegates from the 2005 meeting of the Anglican Consultative Council. |
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In Scotland, each article was voted on separately and several clauses in articles were delegated to specialised subcommittees. |
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York was also voted safest place to visit in the 2010 conde nast readers traveller awards. |
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By 2010, the General Synod voted in favour of extending pensions and other employee rights to clergy in civil unions. |
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In 2017, the House of Clergy voted against the motion to 'take note' of the Bishops' report defining marriage as between a man and a woman. |
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On 18 September 2014, the club voted in favour of admitting female members. |
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Many Tories voted against the Act, and it passed only with the help of the Whigs. |
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Rotterdam was voted 2015 European City of the Year by the Academy of Urbanism. |
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Virginia voted to secede from the United States on April 17, 1861, after the Battle of Fort Sumter and Abraham Lincoln's call for volunteers. |
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The Indian Ocean island of Mayotte voted in referendum in 1974 to retain its link with France and forgo independence. |
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However, with insufficient funds voted by Parliament, Charles was forced to gradually disband his troops. |
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On 5 February the Commons voted 282 to 151 for maintaining the original wording of the resolution. |
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Only the upper and middle classes voted, so this shifted power away from the landed aristocracy to the urban middle classes. |
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In the BBC's 100 Greatest Britons programme in 2002, Nelson was voted the ninth greatest Briton of all time. |
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In 1960, the UN General Assembly voted the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples. |
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In 2013, The Ocean at the End of the Lane was voted Book of the Year in the British National Book Awards. |
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After the election Ramsay MacDonald was voted the first official leader of the Labour Party. |
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A devolved Scottish Parliament was created in 1999 after a clear majority voted in favour of devolution in the second referendum. |
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While jurors voted on oath or affirmation, a Lord could vote upon his honour. |
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Normally, only the Law Lords on the Appellate Committee who were deciding the case voted when the House gave judgment. |
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The Senator claims to be laissez faire, but he voted in favor of the subsidies. |
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In May 2012 residents of the ward voted in favour of the establishment of a Queen's Park civil parish and parish council. |
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A 2011 TripAdvisor poll voted Liverpool as having the best nightlife of any UK city, ahead of Manchester, Leeds and even London. |
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NewcastleGateshead was voted in 2006 as the arts capital of the UK in a survey conducted by the Artsworld TV channel. |
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At the 2016 EU membership referendum, all three Northern England regions voted to leave, as did all English regions outside London. |
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In 2002 the Showroom was voted as the best Independent cinema in the country by Guardian readers. |
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In October 2007, Bradford was voted the greenest city in the United Kingdom. |
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In 2000, the Exchange's shareholders voted to become a public limited company, London Stock Exchange plc. |
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On 4 October 2006 shareholders voted in favour and the sale was completed on 13 October. |
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The like-minded politicians voted the same way so often they were thought of as one person rather than two. |
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In 2007 the airport was voted the world's least favourite, alongside Chicago O'Hare, in a TripAdvisor survey. |
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Terminal 5 was voted Skytrax World's Best Airport Terminal 2014 in the Annual World Airport Awards. |
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On 18 July 2006, delegates to the World Methodist Conference voted unanimously to adopt the Joint Declaration. |
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A machine politician cannot see why the straight ticket should not be voted by every citizen belonging to that party. |
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They had accused Morris of profiteering in 1779 and Willing had voted against the Declaration of Independence. |
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In a 2007 authors' poll by TIME, Middlemarch was voted the tenth greatest literary work ever written. |
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In 2013, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd was voted the best crime novel ever by 600 fellow writers of the Crime Writers' Association. |
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The award was sponsored by Radio One and voted for online by their listeners. |
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Parliament voted against the measure, but George reluctantly increased his son's allowance on the advice of Walpole. |
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Lloyd Webber was made a Conservative life peer in 1997, however by the end of 2015, he had voted only 33 times. |
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The British public voted it the 13th greatest album of all time in a 2004 Channel 4 poll. |
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In 2007, they were also voted the greatest British band in history by BBC Radio 2 listeners. |
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In 2004, the last year of his show, his listeners voted Distance, Digital Mystikz, and Plastician in their top 50 for the year. |
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From 2008 to 2012 the Hall was voted Superbrands leading Leisure and Entertainment Destination. |
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In 2011, Empire readers voted Oldman the recipient of the Empire Icon Award. |
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In 2011, Oldman was voted as a film icon by Empire readers, with the award presented by Colin Firth. |
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One of the best known characters in British children's literature, a 2011 poll saw Winnie the Pooh voted onto the list of icons of England. |
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The playing surface at Portman Road is highly regarded and has been voted best pitch in the league on a number of occasions. |
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Kevin Pietersen, having scored his maiden Test century at a crucial point, was voted Man of the Match by Channel 4 viewers. |
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In October 2009 the IOC voted to instate golf and rugby union as Olympic sports for the 2016 and 2020 Summer Olympic Games. |
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There was an appeal, but the IOC voted to uphold the decision, and the two sports were last scheduled for the 2008 Olympics. |
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He was voted the BBC Sports Personality of the Year and also named the 2003 IRB International Player of the Year. |
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The Albert Goldthorpe Medal is an award voted for be members of the press who cast a vote after every game of the regular season. |
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The best thirteen players in their respective positions are voted for by members of the sports press. |
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Her performances resulted in her being voted the BBC Sports Personality of the Year. |
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The British public voted Lewis the 1999 BBC Sports Personality of the Year. |
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In 2002 the UK public voted Hamed's victory over Kevin Kelley on the list of the 100 Greatest Sporting Moments. |
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Froch was voted Fighter of the Year for 2012 by World Boxing News and BoxRec. |
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In a 2002 UK poll, Red Rum's historic third triumph in the Grand National was voted the 24th greatest sporting moment of all time. |
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His efforts in 1986 led to his being voted the BBC Sports Personality of the Year. |
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Taylor was voted the 2007 Fans' Player of the Year following a vote conducted on the website Planet Darts. |
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Australia and the United States voted against the resolution, with five other nations abstaining. |
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They are the parts of the British Empire that have not been granted independence or have voted to remain British territories. |
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Also for a variety of reasons all the Ulster Unionist MPs at Westminster voted against the Act. |
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That same year a UK poll saw Winnie the Pooh voted onto the list of icons of England. |
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Czech prime minister Bohuslav Sobotka suggested that the Czech Republic would start discussions on leaving the EU if the UK voted for an EU exit. |
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An online survey conducted on the day the referendum result was announced indicated that this group would have voted substantially for Remain. |
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On 4 April they voted to remove James VII from office, drawing on George Buchanan's argument on the contractual nature of monarchy. |
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This time only Charles voted to continue the advance, and he assented while throwing a tantrum and vowing never to consult the Council again. |
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In light of this, Parliament on February 27, 1782, voted to cease all offensive operations in America and seek peace. |
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Indeed, when the Lords voted on the second reading of the bill after a memorable series of debates, many Tory peers did refrain from voting. |
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However, the Lords Spiritual mustered in unusually large numbers, and of 22 present, 21 voted against the Bill. |
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With the exception of Disraeli, every member of the future protectionist cabinet then in Parliament voted against the measure. |
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Gladstone, who had involved himself again in politics, opposed the measure, but less than half his party voted with him. |
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I have voted Conservative in the last three elections, but I am quite sure my next vote will be for a Labour candidate. |
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The British Film Institute drew up a list of the 100 Greatest British Television Programmes in 2000, voted by industry insiders. |
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Each December, the BBC Sports Personality of the Year is announced, as voted for by the British public. |
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It is relatively tame and drawn to human activities, and is frequently voted Britain's national bird in polls. |
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In the Republic, the electorate voted upon the nineteenth amendment to the Constitution of Ireland. |
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She voted in favour of David Steel's bill to legalise abortion, as well as a ban on hare coursing. |
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She supported the retention of capital punishment and voted against the relaxation of divorce laws. |
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The video went showed ten men who had voted, listening to a Taliban militant. |
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In 1997 a referendum was held, and the people of Scotland voted for the establishment of a devolved Scottish Parliament in Edinburgh. |
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The seven ministers are voted into office by the 18 elected members of the Legislative Assembly of the Cayman Islands. |
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It is possible that at least one of the three people that voted 'No' did so out of a desire for full independence. |
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On 7 March 2007, members of the House of Commons voted ten times on a variety of alternative compositions for the upper chamber. |
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The House of Lords, soon after, rejected this proposal and voted for an entirely appointed House of Lords. |
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On June 9, 2009, the Maine House of Representatives voted to form a unicameral legislature, but the measure did not pass the Senate. |
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On 23 March the Assembly of Kosovo voted to accept the proposed amendments although most Albanian delegates abstained. |
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In September 1991 Kosovar Albanians held an unofficial referendum in which they voted overwhelmingly for independence. |
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China, Namibia, and Russia voted for the resolution, the other members against, thus it failed to pass. |
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In 1999, the church voted to prohibit the flying of flags other than St Patrick's flag and the Flag of the Anglican Communion. |
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However, in June 2016 the people of the United Kingdom, in a national referndum on EU membership voted to leave the European Union. |
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In 2008, Stoppard was voted number 76 on the Time 100, Time magazine's list of the most influential people in the world. |
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The Dominican Republic voted against the motion, while France and Brazil abstained. |
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All three major ethnic groups in Iraq voted along ethnic lines, as did Assyrian and Turcoman minorities. |
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In 2015, Durham University were voted number 1 in the UK for best university WiFi, on a review platform StudentCrowd. |
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Twelve States now in the affirmative column at one time or another in the past voted negatively. |
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On 14 January, the deputies voted, nem. con., the guilt of the king, and rejected by roughly a two-thirds majority the appel au peuple. |
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For example, criminal and civil laws can be voted by only the federal bicameral Congress and are uniform throughout the country. |
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On 30 August 2001, the East Timorese voted in their first election organised by the UN to elect members of the Constituent Assembly. |
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In July 2011, an absolute majority of MEPs voted in favour of a single seat. |
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In early 2011, the Parliament voted to scrap one of the Strasbourg sessions by holding two within a single week. |
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If the group passes, it will be newgrouped after five days. If the group fails, it can't be voted on again for six months. |
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The Conventionnels who had voted for the measure included many who had worked closely with deputies now under arrest for their part in the Terror. |
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On Oct. 19, the Standish city council voted to allow federal prisoners, including detainees from Gitmo, to be housed at the local correctional facility. |
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The fire-and-brimstone preacher gave the city council a severe tongue-lashing after they voted on a zoning ordinance allowing a new strip club to open. |
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In 2013, the UK edition of GQ magazine voted him Sportsman of the Year. |
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In 2016, the United Kingdom voted to leave the European Union. |
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In 1945 London announced that a Newfoundland National Convention would be elected to advise on what constitutional choices should to be voted on by referendum. |
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The borough failed to become an unitary authority in the 1990s local government reform and again, in 2011, when the motion was voted down by the council. |
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The Clio was voted European Car of the Year soon after its launch, and was one of Europe's best selling cars in the 1990s, proving even more popular than its predecessor. |
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In 2004, Charles was voted at number 19 in the 100 Welsh Heroes poll. |
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On 20 November 2013, the General Synod voted overwhelmingly in support of a plan to allow the ordination of women as bishops, with 378 in favour, 8 against and 25 abstentions. |
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The House of Laity voted 152 for, 45 against with five abstentions. |
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However, as Scotland voted against independence the issue did not arise. |
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Alan Freeman's 'Saturday Rock Show' was voted 'Best Radio Show' five years running by readers of a national music publication, and was then axed by controller Derek Chinnery. |
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Eight candidates ran for the position, and 58 countries voted for them. |
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In 1978 the Labour government passed the Scotland Act which legislated for the establishment of a Scottish Assembly, provided the Scots voted for such in a referendum. |
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In voting on the Bolkestein directive in 2006, the Parliament voted by a large majority for over 400 amendments that changed the fundamental principle of the law. |
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A considerable number of the Irish Members present voted against the Bill, including Southern Unionists such as Maurice Dockrell, and Nationalists like Joe Devlin. |
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In practice, the Parliament has never voted against a President or his Commission, but it did seem likely when the Barroso Commission was put forward. |
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The study supported polling evidence that there was a gender gap, but countered beliefs that higher earners had supported No and that younger voters had mostly voted Yes. |
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On 1 December 1648, the House voted 129 to 83 to continue negotiations with Charles for reforming the government on terms they had proposed and he had accepted. |
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A Scottish Parliament was convened by the Scotland Act 1998, following a referendum in 1997, in which the Scottish electorate voted for devolution. |
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In international politics within the United Nations, the Marshall Islands has often voted consistently with the United States with respect to General Assembly resolutions. |
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If a voter requests a ballot paper but someone has already voted in their name, or they are listed as having requested a postal vote, they can only cast a tendered ballot. |
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Immediately after the House of Commons passed it, George authorised Lord Temple to inform the House of Lords that he would regard any peer who voted for the bill as his enemy. |
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He has been voted number 6 in a BBC poll of Welsh boxing greats. |
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He was a Colonel of the Royal Marines and voted a Freeman of Bath, Salisbury, Exeter, Plymouth, Monmouth, Sandwich, Oxford, Hereford, and Worcester. |
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A cert petition is voted on at a session of the court called a conference. |
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Walpole agreed to withdraw the bill before Parliament voted on it, but he dismissed the politicians who had dared to oppose it in the first place. |
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They then voted to dissolve themselves and call new elections, which were arguably the most democratic for 20 years although the franchise was still very small. |
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This parliament voted to reinstate the monarchy and the House of Lords. |
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A lengthy sitting of the House saw Michael Martin first proposed, then each of the other candidates proposed in turn as amendments, which were all voted down. |
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After he left, the councillors voted not to charge him with treason. |
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The Parliamentary Labour Party voted to abolish Shadow Cabinet elections at a meeting on 5 July 2011, ratified by the National Executive Committee and Party Conference. |
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Parliament then voted to impose a blockade against the Thirteen Colonies. |
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On 9 July 2015, Grayling said that, following two days of debate in July, a final set of standing orders would be tabled and voted on after the summer recess. |
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At the end, the Lords then voted, starting with the most junior Baron, and proceeding forward in order of precedence, ending with the Lord High Steward. |
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In 2007, it was voted one of ten best bargain retirement spots in America. |
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The compilation was voted by NME magazine as the best re issue of 2011, beating Nirvana's deluxe and super deluxe edition of Nevermind to the top spot. |
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Turner voted against LGBT rights issues during his 16 years in parliament. |
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He voted the tenth biggest British star in Britain at the end of the year. |
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In October 2014, the university court voted for the University to become the first academic institution in Europe to divest from the fossil fuel industry. |
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The street curves down from Grey's Monument towards the valley of the River Tyne and was voted England's finest street in 2005 in a survey of BBC Radio 4 listeners. |
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The Saarland, which had been placed under League of Nations supervision for 15 years at the end of World War I, voted in January 1935 to become part of Germany. |
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In others, church leaders managed to be voted onto boards and restrict the building of board schools, or divert the school rate funds into church schools. |
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However, by this point the ruling council of Tenochtitlan had voted to depose Motecuzoma and had elected his brother Cuitlahuac as the new emperor. |
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In 1632, the Virginia legislature voted to build a fort to link Jamestown and the York River settlement of Chiskiack and protect the colony from Indian attacks. |
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These juries voted by secret ballot and were eventually granted the power to annul unconstitutional laws, thus introducing the practice of judicial review. |
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Many services run from the bus station in the town centre, a postcard of which was voted Britain's most boring postcard in a competition run by the photographer Martin Parr. |
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Owing to the violent protests, Members of Parliament voted on 22 February to remove the president and set an election for 25 May to select his replacement. |
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In what became known as the Peasants' Revolt, fellows led by Patrick Hadley voted an old friend of Chadwick's off the council and replaced him with Bauer. |
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Following the Sutherland Report in 1999, the party voted with the Scottish Executive in 2002 to introduce free personal care for the elderly funded from general taxation. |
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In the 2006 Great British Design Quest organised by the BBC and the Design Museum, the World Wide Web was voted among the top 10 British design icons. |
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This surprise victory is attributed by many to the Romanian diaspora, of which almost 50 percent voted for Iohannis in the first tour, compared to 16 percent for Ponta. |
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In February 2013 the European Parliament voted for reform of the Common Fisheries Policy, including measures to protect endangered stocks, and the ending of discards. |
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At the division at the end of the debate, 97 Labour MPs, 11 Independents, 9 Liberals, 3 Independent Labour Party MPs and 1 Communist voted against the government. |
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On March 17, a referendum was held, in which the vast majority of participating citizens voted in favour of changing the Soviet Union into a renewed federation. |
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The conventions of four dioceses of the Episcopal Church voted in 2007 and 2008 to leave that church and to join the Anglican Church of the Southern Cone of America. |
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The education issue played a major role in the Liberal victory in the 1906 general election, as Dissenter Conservatives punished their old party and voted Liberal. |
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On 20 June 1995, the Southern Baptist Convention voted to adopt a resolution renouncing its racist roots and apologizing for its past defense of slavery. |
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Some churches abstained from the merger while others voted it down. |
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At the University of Cambridge, each graduation is a separate act of the university's governing body, the Regent House, and must be voted on as with any other act. |
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The success of the album led to the Fratellis winning the Brit Award for British Breakthrough Act in 2007, an award that was voted for by BBC Radio One listeners. |
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Socialist MPs favouring outright abolition voted against all the options. |
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In a 1995 BBC opinion poll, it was voted the UK's favourite poem. |
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In 2003 The Magic Faraway Tree was voted 66 in the BBC's Big Read. |
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Dempsey did not last long however, a dispute about a proposed relocation from Parkhead to Robroyston resulted in him being voted off the board five months later. |
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Kilmarnock abstained and the old Rangers company voted in favour. |
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In March 2005, the Orange Order voted to end its official links with the UUP, while still maintaining the same unofficial links as other interest groups. |
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The following day, the Supreme Soviet, the highest governmental body of the Soviet Union, voted both itself and the Soviet Union out of existence. |
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Norway, however, declined to accept the invitation to become a member when the electorate voted against it, leaving just the UK, Ireland and Denmark to join. |
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It subsequently transpired that he had voted several times previously. |
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The common or corn poppy was voted the county flower of Essex and Norfolk in 2002 following a poll by the wild plant conservation charity Plantlife. |
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In May 1798, Congress voted for legislation that would use eight hundred thousand dollars in order to pay for small arms and cannons in case war with France erupted. |
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On June 24, the US House voted against Joint Resolution 68, which would have authorized continued US military involvement in the NATO campaign for up to one year. |
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In 2004, the Labour Party Conference voted by 2 to 1 in favour of a TSSA motion calling on the government to take the TOCs back into public ownership as franchises expired. |
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In 2013, the church voted to allow women to serve as bishops. |
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In October 2011, a proposal from the club to buy back the freehold to the land on which Stamford Bridge sits was voted down by Chelsea Pitch Owners shareholders. |
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In effect, the method produces groups of voters of equal size that reflect the diversity of the electorate, each group having a representative the group voted for. |
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A 2016 UK referendum voted to withdraw from the European Union. |
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During a United Nations vote against the ethnic cleansing of Rohingya people in Myanmar, majority of ASEAN nations voted against the condemnation. |
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The membership of the United Nations voted to adopt the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, despite dissent from some of the stronger countries of the Americas. |
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Despite his resignation, the Senate nonetheless voted to convict him and bar him from holding any office for eight years, due to evidence of bribery and misappropriation. |
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In June 2015 8 of the 12 Super League clubs voted to allow a Marquee Player that can exceed a clubs salary cap as long as they can afford their wages. |
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On 23 June 2016, the British electorate voted for the United Kingdom to leave the European Union, and on 27 March 2017 United Kingdom formally requested such a withdrawal. |
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In 1836, the Georgia General Assembly voted to build the Western and Atlantic Railroad in order to provide a link between the port of Savannah and the Midwest. |
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A special general meeting was held in 1895 which voted decisively to support the breakaway Northern Union as a founder member, resulting in two resignations from the club. |
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A decade later, the Djiboutian people voted for independence. |
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In 1985, Jones was voted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame. |
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The president of Iceland is a largely ceremonial head of state and serves as a diplomat, but may veto laws voted by the parliament and put them to a national referendum. |
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The Ballot Act 1872 introduced the secret ballot, which greatly hindered patrons from controlling elections by preventing them from knowing how an elector had voted. |
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Every person had an equal voice in the affairs of the community whose business affairs was conducted by a board of directors voted in by the community. |
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