Sentence examples for icms from inspiring English sources

Because we wanted to reduce the 27 tax rates of the ICMS [Imposto sobre Circulação de Mercadoriase Prestação de Serviços, the tax on the exchange of goods and services] in the states to two, or three, or five, and no governor wanted this.

It happened because when ICMS [a state sales tax] was grafted onto the 1988 constitution, the relevant rule was meant to be applied the following year.

But one, by ICM for Scotland on Sunday, found that one in 10 no voters would switch to support independence if there was no clear pledge to give Holyrood more power before the referendum is held, bringing the yes campaign closer to winning the vote.

A poll conducted by the Guardian and ICM on Monday, which named the candidates, showed the Lib Dem leader seven points ahead of Coppard and suggested that a significant number of natural Conservative voters had decided to vote for the Lib Dems to keep Labour out.

Related: ICM poll: Labour faces wipeout in Scotland after new leader fails to dent SNP support A coalition – technically defined as a government with ministers of both parties – between Labour and the SNP is highly unlikely, and both parties have in fact ruled one out.

Not only that, Miliband outscored Cameron by 48% to 42% in Thursday's ICM poll when voters were asked who between the two made the strongest arguments.

Ed Miliband's party has pulled back three points on ICM's previous campaign poll, published nine days ago, with the Conservatives remaining unchanged.

Martin Boon of ICM Unlimited said: "When the race is this tight, the methodological judgments made by us pollsters can become all-important".

Martin Boon, of ICM Unlimited, who developed the "wisdom" approach, argued that it could sometimes be more informative than asking voters what they will do.

Labour is now behind by 11 points according to the latest ICM poll for the Guardian.

The party may only be narrowly ahead of the Conservatives in ICM voting intention – although some other pollsters including online YouGov regularly find a bigger lead, with Labour above 40% – but the poll does find that 41% agree that Labour "has the right policies to appeal to someone like me" – one point ahead of the 40% who disagree.