Unlike other major central banks, including the Bank of England and the US Federal Reserve, the Bank of Canada's six-member governing council makes its decisions by consensus rather than votes and present verdicts as a common decision, thereby avoiding being labelled hard or soft on policy.
Mr. Suozzi, a Democrat, served for eight years before losing to Mr. Mangano, a Republican, by fewer than 400 votes out of more than 250, 000 cast in Nassau, a suburban county of more than 1.3 million people.
The county wants to get a jumpstart on counting votes, because scanning all that paper will take a lot longer than tallying votes on electronic touch-screen machines.
" But he predicted, "They'll have more success getting the discharge petition than getting votes for Shays-Meehan.
The Senate passed the bill with more than enough votes in the first place, but the House did not.
Fred Thompson followed with 8 percent, with Huckabee beating the former "Law and Order" actor by fewer than 100 votes.
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According to the Star Tribune report, Mr. Coleman was ahead by less than 800 votes with 99% of the precincts reporting.
Buzzie Bavasi, Ken Boyer, Charlie Finley, Allie Reynolds and Luis Tiant rounded out the ballot, and each received fewer than three votes.
Despite securing more than 4m votes in a presidential election in January, his Democratic National Alliance managed only five seats this time round.
In other words, Switzerland provides the contours of a bipartisan solution: one that stands a chance of gaining more than 60 votes in the Senate.
The ranking shows all the lawyers receiving more than four votes.
If we would have simply gotten all of the people that either voted for it or said they supported it, we would have gotten far more than 60 votes.
Mr. Racicot also said Mr. Kerry is trying to "cloud the issue" by complaining that Republicans are attacking his patriotism rather than his votes on defense issues in the Senate.
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The former Yankee owner received less than eight votes.
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There are some difficult issues ahead which are going to need more than Labour votes to become law - the new statutory process for closing and merging schools being just one example.
If Bush wins that vote -- or loses by fewer than 300 votes -- he is likely to win Florida unless court disputes over the state's presidential recount delay certification of the election.
Consider the case of Florida, the state that put George W. Bush in the White House by a margin of fewer than 300 votes out of the five million plus that Floridians cast that year.
Mr Karroubi, for instance, had won more than 5m votes in 2005, but now trailed in last place with a mere 330, 000 out of the 39m cast, fewer than the number of spoiled or blank ballots.
Dianne Feinstein, D-California, and fiercely opposed by the National Rifle Association, Republicans and some Democrats would get fewer than 40 votes, Reid said, far below the threshold needed to defeat any filibuster or pass the Senate.
He passed two Senate committees with more than 40 votes and only one dissenting vote, and obviously a budget director in a time of economic concern and concern about our long-term fiscal picture is somebody that you need at work.
Democratic leaders believe it will get more than 50 votes -- so they will be able to claim it won a majority in the chamber -- but will fall short of the 60 it would need to win Senate approval.
More than 40 votes short of those necessary for passage, Republican leaders were forced to pull the conference report on the fiscal 1998-99 State Department authorization bill (HR1757 -- S Rept 105-432) from the House schedule March 13 and postpone action until March 18.
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The Conservatives came third with 2, 857 votes, 5, 000 fewer than they received in 2010 and it was an even more miserable night for the Lib Dems, who were beaten into seventh, getting fewer votes than the BNP and two independent candidates.
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As the minority staff, we have fewer resources than our counterparts, just as the majority has more votes than the minority to pass whatever inquiry it believes is right.
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The bigger states have more votes than the smaller ones, and a candidate needs 270 electoral votes to win.
Meanwhile, Mr Bouchard did worse than expected in his provincial election: his party was returned to office, but with fewer votes than its anti-separatist Liberal rivals.
Felipe Calderon got more votes than Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador in the election, but it was a tiny margin of victory - 244, 000 votes separated the two candidates.
He denounced as "utterly pathetic" the fact that on conference's key pensions vote, lost by the party leadership, it had been the unions' votes that had carried the day rather than constituency parties' votes.
America's first black president secured more than the 270 votes in the electoral college needed to win.
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Well it does, many local elections are determined by less than a thousand votes.
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