Sentences with phrase «increased voting power»

Increased voting power — ...

After an election, governments have to appoint more peers to increase their voting power in the Lords.

Not exact matches

Microcap fund manager Acorn Capital has increased its stake in listed Perth - based financial planning firm Plan B Group Holdings to control almost 10 per cent of the voting power.

Such conversions of Class B common stock to Class A common stock upon transfer will have the effect, over time, of increasing the relative voting power of those holders of Class B common stock who retain their shares in the long term.

She spoke after Labour, Tory and Green MSPs on Holyrood's Social Security Committee united in June to vote through a series of amendments to the Scottish Government's Child Poverty Bill - including one by Green MSP Alison Johnstone requiring ministers to set out whether they will use new welfare powers to increase child benefit.

The expenses issue will see an increase in the anti-politics vote and a close result could lead to the Lib Dems holding the balance of power.

The ERS's main objection is that the introduction of above the line voting is that closed list PR systems would increase the power of political parties to influence who gets elected, which, in the words of their chief executive Katie Ghose, would result in the Lords being «a mini-replica of the commons, full of party - politicians with pre-set loyalties» whilst «STV would help create a chamber free to provide objective scrutiny».

We clearly need to give more powers to long term shareholders, reduce the voting rights of short term speculators, reduce the power of CEOs on boards, and increase the power and independence of non-executive board members.

The General Assembly should be the legislature with the voting power of each country increasing logarithmically (base 2) with its population.

The Conservatives were returned to power although Labour increased its vote from 30.7 % to a third of the popular vote, most Conservative gains being at the expense of the Liberals.

He'll stand up for us and with the balance of power resting in the senate we need to elect people who will NOT vote to increase NY taxes and will work to foster more economic growth by reducing the tax load.

The Conservatives face the unusual and undesirable prospect of being a governing party which has to increase its vote share to be returned to power with an overall majority.

Still, David Cameron will need to get up towards 40 % of the vote, increasing his party's share in power as no post-war premier has done before him.

Most of the chamber's Republicans voted against the bill, arguing that the policies increased standardized testing and gave too much power to the Board of Regents in implementing the new evaluation system.

Now, with Smith arriving on the scene with a significant new devolution agenda, Scottish politics may gradually revert from being dominated by the grievances of the 45 % who voted yes to independence, to the quieter aspirations of the 75 % or more who tend to back increased powers for Holyrood.

He also aims to grant committee chairs more power in regards to hiring staffers, to increase the Council's oversight powers, to evaluate the process of committee hearings and votes, and to reduce the number of committees.

You led in what is arguably the most important vote in UTLA history — bringing us financial stability, a full local merger to increase our power, and preparing us for the massive fights of the future.

threatening to increase the number of charter schools within the District, the Board needs to make it clear to the CSD that usurping their power is not acceptable and that they must vote on all material revisions to the charters that they have authorized.

As index fund ownership grows as a percentage of shares outstanding, the voting power of index fund managers increases.

Rule 2 of voting power analysis: voting power can be increased by influencing others to buy or sell!

Poland is likely to do this, as standard bearer for the opponents of ambitious EU ETS reform, and because it has reduced voting power under the new rules... Sandbag would like the EU to cancel some suprlus allowances to «ramp up its climate offer»... If the reforms backed today by the European Parliament were implemented, they would be expected to increase prices to between roughly $ 17 and $ 35 by 2020, according to differing forecasts from market analysts Thomson Reuters Point Carbon and ICIS Tschach Solutions.

The changes reduce the voting power of smaller member states, while increasing it for the likes of the UK and Germany.

The right wing increases the scope and power of the federal government just as willy - nilly as the left does, mostly in the same areas with some differences in order to give people an excuse to keep voting.

Session 2: Applications 13:18 Pitch 1: tbd 13:23 Discussion and voting 13:27 Pitch 2: Drakerenergy with the thesis «By integrating monitoring and analytics with SCADA and power plant controllers, it is possible to reduce downtime and LCOE, and additionally to increase earnings with the solar energy produced» 13:32 Discussion and voting 13:36 Pitch 3: Nel Hydrogen with the thesis «Large scale production of hydrogen from PV power plants is already feasible and profitable today, and will help finance PV plants in the near future» 13:41 Discussion and voting 13:45 Pitch 4: First Solar with the thesis «Is it possible to achieve solar penetrations higher than 50 % «13:50 Discussion and voting 13:54 Panel discussion 14:00 END

*... To refresh the raison d'être of the EPA & UN...... To move environmentalism from the fringes to the center of social concern...... To justify increased media coverage of environmental issues...... To give enviro - groups a powerful fund - raising and consciousness - raising tool...... and allow them access to the levers of national and international power...... To give activist & green parties a vote - getting wedge issue...... and a case - study justification for their habitual «hammer» (increased regulation and taxation)...... To provide at - a-loss «engagé / enragé» types with a new stick with which to bash the beastly bourgeoise...... To transfer wealth from the West to the South...... To fund alternative energy developers and researchers...