Mr Goldsmith said MPs would "easily vote down" any new proposals if they were not acceptable.
Sure, I could see if I could pull the Jewish vote down toward 65%.
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Congress simply will not vote down the defense appropriations bill just because there is a performance tax attached.
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Equities still slipped as Wall Street pondered if the House will vote down the incentive-stuffed, revised bailout package.
But there's little doubt he's preparing to "run against Congress", expecting them to vote down most of his ideas.
Last month, Catholics induced Muslims in Hamtramck to vote down a gay-rights ordinance.
He believes board members who aren't seen as punishing top bosses for poor results may spur shareholders to vote down executive-pay plans.
Ryan said he would vote down the Stop Online Piracy Act, a bill that would have restricted free music trading, to avoid additional regulation.
The Slovak vote is the last country vote of the 17 EU members, and many were thinking the Slovaks would vote down the bailout expansion.
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Many reckoned the Slovaks would vote down the bailout expansion, but another vote is expected soon and the measure is expected to pass this time.
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Facebook had a requirement that at least 30% of its one billion users had to vote down the proposal, so there was little hope anyway.
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The justice secretary said the Conservatives and Labour would try to vote down measures that would make Scotland's communities safer, because they had not "got their way".
"Those of us who are against the war really have no choice if we were to vote down this conference report and give the president what he wants, " McGovern said.
In the Scottish Parliament, Labour, the Tories and Liberal Democrats said they would vote down minimum pricing, saying it might contravene European competition law and would fail to target certain "problem drinks".
The European Parliament could also use the power granted to it under the 2009 Lisbon Treaty to vote down any deal reached by EU governments if its calls for increased funds are ignored.
The stimulus row apart, the Republicans can claim to have behaved reasonably well, confirming Mr Obama's appointments without much fuss, though they did try, unsuccessfully, to vote down his new treasury secretary, Tim Geithner, for failing to pay his taxes on time.
But our Republican colleagues in the Senate have voted unanimously to vote down each and every part so far: to restore 400, 000 jobs for teachers, police officers, firefighters, putting them back in classrooms, on the streets and in the fire houses.
Since the Palestinians first began using the UN to criminalize Israel in the 1970s, it has been the consistent policy of all US administrations to use the Security Council veto to either vote down anti-Israel initiatives or remove them from the agenda by threatening to veto them.
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Sitting on the panel was Steven Nissen, a cardiologist at the Cleveland Clinic and a tough analyzer of drugs who later helped vote down both Bristol-Myers Squibb 's (nyse: BMY - news - people ) Vanlev and AstraZeneca 's (nyse: AZN - news - people ) Exanta.
However, if this Board will not promise to implement our proposal in the event that the Dell shareholders vote down the Going Private Transaction, then we request that the Board announce that it will combine the vote on the Going Private Transaction with an annual meeting to elect a new board of directors.
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People can up-vote or down-vote comments as well.
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And I believe Congress owes the American people a final up or down vote. (Applause.) We need an up or down vote.
Or will they simply compare top pay with their own earnings, and vote it down?
The party won only 13% of the vote, down a quarter on its share in the general election.
Only 58 percent of voters 18-29 say that they are definitely likely to vote, down 20 percent from 2008.
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If Republicans vote it down, they will be directly voting to bring in a tax rise on "ordinary Americans".
But instead, all they have to do is, like, tug on their ear and suddenly a vote goes down.
When the vote came down to the wire, the blue dogs weren't able to muster the opposition they had promised.
On the Senate floor Thursday, the decision to vote came down to a battle of wills between the GOP and Democrats.
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