Sentence examples for firm vote from inspiring English sources
To claim neutrality is to cast a firm vote for the status quo.
Although she has come late to the cause of campaign reform, we believe that she would be a firm vote in support of the McCain-Feingold soft-money ban and that she would work tirelessly toward the long-term goal of full public financing of election campaigns.
Vote Leave – the official leave campaign group in the referendum – was entirely separate from Leave.EU, but the data analytics firm Vote Leave used, AIQ, was linked to SCL Elections, the parent company that set up Cambridge Analytica with Robert Mercer's funds.
Still, the A.F.L.-C.I.O. said that in 2012, the firm voted against board nominees at just 6 percent of United States companies.
The firm voted to go public, at Jon Corzine's urging, last June; the writer lists and then critiques Corzine's reasons for taking Goldman public.
Several Republicans privately said Tuesday that the Thursday vote could be postponed if leaders are unable to secure enough firm votes for passage beforehand.
Heinel said the firm voted against management 380 times in 2015 over concerns that not enough was being done to refresh the faces of people at the top.
One shareholder, who asked not to be named because of a policy against speaking to the media, said that last year the loss was fresh and it wasn't a big factor in how his firm voted.
Mark Preisinger, director of corporate governance at Coca-Cola, said his company was happy with its board but knew BlackRock's policy, so that it was no surprise when the firm voted against these directors.
On executive compensation, she stressed that the firm voted against pay practices or compensation committee members at 10 of the 50 companies with the highest-paid chief executives this year.
A French friend who came to London to work for a financial firm voted for Hollande largely because of his distaste for Sarkozy and for Sarkozy's entourage — here you can watch Nadine Morano, Sarkozy's minister for apprenticeships and training, hassling a Senegalese vendor ("we can't welcome all the Senegalese").
