Sentence examples for has passed a vote from inspiring English sources

The University and College Union has passed a vote of no confidence in the principal and organised a letter-writing campaign among former students asking the governing body to rethink the redundancies.

Meanwhile, the Law Society, which represents solicitors across England and Wales, has passed a vote of no confidence in its president, Nicholas Fluck, and chief executive, Des Hudson, for allegedly cutting a deal with the government over legal aid cuts without having a mandate to do so.

Hundreds of teachers have passed a vote of no confidence in the education secretary, Michael Gove, and the chief inspector of England's schools, Sir Michael Wilshaw.

This culminated in June 2010 in Nasheed's whole cabinet resigning en masse and taking to the streets after the parliament had passed a vote of no confidence.

The Morning Chronicle thinks that, "as to the Duke of Victory, as soon as a regularly convened and constituent Cortes shall have passed a vote terminating his Regency, we think he ought to submit to it.

Having passed a vote in the parliament the agreement is now being scrutinized by the Islamic Republic's Council of Guardians; an unelected and powerful body, half of whose members are clerics appointed directly by Iran's Supreme Leader.

The National Union of Teachers (NUT) said it had been disputing the review for 12 months and the entire teaching staff had passed a vote of no confidence in Mr Luckcock in March.

IT WAS just a matter of time until someone in some struggling locale did this Oakland, California has passed a measure (by popular vote) to tax marijuana.

The Senate has passed a bill that ensures that votes cast properly in some races on a ballot will be counted, even if votes in other races have to be discarded because too many candidates were selected.

The Senate, in a bipartisan vote, has passed a surface transportation bill that would keep money flowing for two years.

The Lib Dem conference has passed a motion instructing MPs to vote against the proposed boundary changes because of the failure of the Conservatives to support Lords reform.