Following the show of hands, a card vote was taken but Murray's block vote is expected to ensure the retention of Muir.
He sailed to the Fame Academy title on this safe card, causing a few young hearts to flutter along the way and winning the housewife's block vote.
Perhaps his greatest claim to fame came in 1993 when he called for the end to the union block vote and was credited with saving the then Labour leader John Smith from a humiliating defeat.
Germany's rhetoric might have angered Luxembourg, but it will put the alpine principality's crucial vote in the spotlight and make it harder for Jean-Claude Juncker to block the vote without gaining much attention, Murphy said.
But this time, some Senate Republicans may even block a vote on this issue.
"I won't block a vote on anything, whether I support it or not, " he said.
Lindsey Graham, a leading Republican and tough Obama critic, told CNN's Jim Acosta that he would not block a vote on gun control in the Senate.
She said last week she opposed but wouldn't block a vote on a proposal that would make it easier for people to sue over stops they felt reflected racial profiling.
Mr Michael has won the block-vote support of a number of unions following ballots restricted to union delegates, and is thought likely to enjoy the support of the majority of assembly candidates.
On Friday, during a rally at City Hall Park preceding the council's third hearing on the bill, three of Ms. Quinn's mayoral rivals denounced her position and her decision to block a vote.
That the group for which so many hurdles have been thrown upon to block the vote has for the first time become the group most likely to vote is something like a big deal.
The NYSE sent out the text of a memo from Chairman Marshall Carter admonishing a seat holder who has been a vocal critic of the Exchange for his attempts to block a vote to approve the Archipelago merger.
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Leahy, however, has said he does not plan a filibuster to block a Senate vote on Ashcroft.
Ukraine nearly botched its agreement with the IMF partly because some members of Mr Yushchenko's Our Ukraine block refused to vote for fiscal cuts.
People familiar with events leading up to Mr. Zelaya's arrest on June 28 say that had the U.S. ambassador not worked behind the scenes to block a congressional vote to remove the president a few days earlier, the dramatic deportation would never have happened.
Mark Kirk of Illinois and Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania also aren't expected to vote to block debate on the bill, since they have been negotiating with Sen.
But having failed to get anywhere with its proposal for voting weights based on the square root of a country's population, Poland is now talking about ways of making it more difficult for large countries to block a qualified majority vote.
Their base will applaud and vote for them again if they block a deal while everyone one who did not vote for them will still not vote for them (they break-even).
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Even with safeguards, and even if the 17 do not vote as a block, habits of co-operation will tell.
The normally low-key Carter ripped into the seat holder, William Higgins, who has filed for an injunction with a New York court to block the Dec 6. vote.
That could mean just a couple of votes on your block, just a single vote in an apartment building, just one or two votes in a college dorm.
Nelson's was the 60th and final vote needed to block a Republican filibuster against the health care bill, which passed in the Senate largely along party lines in December 2009.
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Dozens of yard signs on every block, billboards asking for your vote, and TV ads spinning the issues and ragging on candidates.
What's the point of electing Republicans like Mr. Rehberg if they're going to vote like Democrats and block reform in the 113th Congress?
The United States, which does not want the court to have jurisdiction over American soldiers, tried to block the treaty by forcing a vote.
When minority shareholders are legally protected, as they are in Sweden, with strong rights to block certain decisions with a minority vote at shareholders' meetings, it becomes more advantageous to have large owners nominate the directors.
In the final hours before the vote, Obama tells Melissa Block that he's not predicting he will win the primary.
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