Sentences with phrase «achieving a majority in»

NationBuilder co-founder Joe Green says that the company is having productive conversations about those features with Democrats in other types of organizations, like the caucus committees that seek to achieve majorities in state legislatures by bringing in support for key candidates.

Proponents of majority - minority districts maintain that these districts are a necessary hindrance to the practice of cracking, which occurs when a constituency is divided between several districts in order to prevent it from achieving a majority in any one district.

I wonder if these figures were obtained by the same pollsters who told us the Conservatives would be unable to achieve a majority in parliament?

Not exact matches

North Carolina Republicans have used the current districts to achieve veto - proof majorities in both chambers.

All this to achieve their namesake, a passionate play off a recent prediction that in 2040, non-whites will form the majority of the American population for the first time ever.

In his first interview since Macron was elected, the outgoing Finance Minister said that Macron could achieve a majority despite stiff competition from right - wing politicians when the country goes to the polls once again for its parliamentary elections on June 11 and 18.

From record - breaking stock market returns to falling unemployment, the U.S. has no shortage of positive economic indicators, and the majority of investors say they feel confident about achieving both their short - and long - term goals, according to the latest «Morgan Stanley Investor Pulse Poll,» which surveyed more than 1,200 investors age 25 to 75 with over $ 100,000 in assets.

Today, flexibility is a top feature employees look for in a job with the majority of workers willing to change jobs, change careers, or give up a promotion to achieve better work - life balance.

Conversion of preferred stock occurs automatically and immediately upon the earlier to occur of the closing of a firm commitment underwritten public offering pursuant to an effective registration statement filed covering the offer and sale of common stock in which (i) the aggregate public offering price equals or exceeds $ 25 million, (ii) with respect to the Series F convertible preferred stock only, the public offer price per share of which is not less than one times the original issue price of the Series F convertible preferred stock, (iii) with respect to the Series E convertible preferred stock only, the public offer price per share of which is not less than one times the original issue price of the Series E convertible preferred stock and (iv) with respect to the Series D convertible preferred stock only, the initial public offering price per share of which is not less than two times the original price of preferred stock, or the date specified by holders of at least 60 % of the then outstanding Series B convertible preferred stock, Series C convertible preferred stock, Series D convertible preferred stock, Series E convertible preferred stock, Series F convertible preferred stock and Series G convertible preferred stock, provided however, that in the event that the holders of at least 65 % of the then outstanding shares of holders Series G convertible preferred stock, at least a majority of the then outstanding shares of Series F convertible preferred stock or at least of 65 % of the then outstanding share of Series E convertible preferred stock do not consent or agree to the conversion, conversion shall not be effective to any shares of the relevant series of Series G convertible preferred stock, Series F convertible preferred stock or Series E convertible preferred stock for which the approval threshold was not achieved.

When the Conservatives finally achieved majority government in 2011, they ensured that more committee meetings would be held in camera — away from the public's prying eyes.

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One study of an AA Group in a mental hospital showed that slightly over 50 percent achieved stable sobriety, the majority with no slips.

DO allow religious voices to have dominance in the public sphere if they can not achieve majority support through democratic means.

A great many of our contemporaries, perhaps the majority, still regard the technico - cultural knitting together of human society as a sort of para-biological epi - phenomenon very inferior in organic value to other combinations achieved on the molecular or cellular scale by the forces of Life.

I am convinced that the state of Israel's only hope for long - term survival is to achieve reconciliation with at least the majority of the Palestinian people in the further hope that this will defuse Muslim extremism.

DO NOT allow religious voices to have dominance in the public sphere if they can not achieve majority support through democratic means.

Just read my post «Why I Wouldn't Attend Pastor Steepek's Church» and you will see from the 190 + comments that the overwhelming majority of people are in favor of the application of emotional violence to achieve a good end.

While the majority of scholars in Europe and America would be unwilling to dismiss so casually the results of nineteenth - century literary analysis, certainly a growing number would agree that the sense of unity achieved in Genesis, or in the Hexateuch (Genesis — Joshua), or for that matter in the entire Old Testament, is impressive despite the diversity of sources from which it was created.

In a land where Christians have been culturally dominant and are still the majority, achieving such a public equity seems almost to require that Christianity be discriminated against.

Not all attempts to achieve full loyalty to Jesus as against the compromises of the church of the majority resulted, as did monasticism, in continuing agencies for the spread of the faith.

Concessions were primitive in the extreme: rubbery Esskay hotdogs; salty, stale popcorn; Nation Boh for those who had achieved their majority and watery Cokes for us small fry.

Remember he achieved a majority those stats by playing with Suarez and Sturidge in a 4 -3-3 false 9.

The vast majority of fans want Wenger gone because they have not come to terms with the effect the oil money had on the natural pecking order and because he is a victim of his over achieving in his early years leading to unwarranted expectations.

Students at these high - achieving schools can be ranked in the bottom quartile even with excellent grade point averages, and consequently feel «dumb» and «less worthy» compared to the majority of their peers.

After working as a childbirth educator and attending a couple hundred births (as a doula — labor assistant) in birth centers, homes and hospitals, I've come to believe that the overwhelming majority of women intuitively gravitate to which location, type of support and «methodology» is best for themselves and their unborn babies to achieve a safe passage through the giving birth / delivering experience.

Silvio Berlusconi was a newbie when he started his political career and won a surprisingly large majority in the 1994 election, but what did he actually achieve?

In parliament, a majority is achieved when the largest party has more seats than all other parties put together, which requires 326 seats.

A deal to form a working majority with the mainline Democratic conference and Independent Democratic Conference would be triggered with a numerical majority in the chamber, which this race and the contest to replace Ruben Diaz in the Bronx would achieve.

In 1974, Prime Minister Ian Smith, who claimed he would achieve true majority rule but still declared his allegiance to the British colonial government, allowed Mugabe to leave prison and go to a conference in Lusaka, Zambia (formerly Northern RhodesiaIn 1974, Prime Minister Ian Smith, who claimed he would achieve true majority rule but still declared his allegiance to the British colonial government, allowed Mugabe to leave prison and go to a conference in Lusaka, Zambia (formerly Northern Rhodesiain Lusaka, Zambia (formerly Northern Rhodesia).

The enormous 338 majority achieved on second reading was even described as a «triumph» by Nick Clegg in an email to supporters.

Unless and until Labour achieves some sort of coherence, it is a peculiarity of this parliament that opposition to a government with a truly precarious majority, arises in the oddest places: powerful individual performers, such as Keir Starmer and Angela Eagle, or dynamic parliamentary committees, such as the Women's Committee, chaired by Maria Miller.

Not only history but also political and economic circumstances in recent months, and especially current polls for individual Senate races suggest the Republicans have, according to the main forecasters, at least a two - thirds chance of achieving a Senate majority.

Since the rules of PR generally prevent any single party from achieving a majority government, parties in all PR nations seek out other political parties to form coalition governments.

However, between them they currently have just 10 MPs and are predicted to lose some seats, making May's chances of achieving a working majority, even in a coalition, appear slim.

The system of government in the United States, however, is explicitly designed to make such an overwhelming majority very difficult to achieve.

This time, we achieved a substantial majority in favour of law making powers, meaning that, for the first time in over 600 years, laws that effect only Wales are made only in Wales.

Yet the 2015 election has demonstrated that with small shifts in voting they can achieve the holy grail of majority government.

«Mr William Cash (Stone)(Con): Given that the single market, including the City of London, is governed by qualified majority voting, how does the Prime Minister propose to achieve a majority to protect our interests in the context of the fiscal union that he advocates?

Project Blueprint, launched in May 2011, aimed to examine the state of the Conservative voting coalition and to help identify what the party needed to do to achieve an overall majority at the next election.

These are priorities for the Assembly Majority and while we will continue to advocate for them, we can not achieve these goals without the support of our partners in government.

Hanging on in power by a thread through a delicate agreement with the DUP, the party must broaden its electoral appeal in order to achieve the healthy parliamentary majority it so dearly craves.

«However, we substantially cut Labour's majority and achieved a 13 per cent increase in our share of the vote and a 5 per cent swing against an entirely negative campaign on local issues from the Labour Party.»

He chaired a six - week conference in 1976 in Geneva on what was then Rhodesia, which failed to make progress on achieving majority rule for what is now Zimbabwe.

In this system, second preferences come into play when no candidate in a constituency achieves an outright majority of the votIn this system, second preferences come into play when no candidate in a constituency achieves an outright majority of the votin a constituency achieves an outright majority of the vote.

Both Lamont and Davidson secured big majorities in the union section (65 % and 61 % respectively) whilst even Lamont failed to win a majority amongst individual members by a long way, winning less than 37 % in the first ballot — Davidson won just a quarter of that section, whilst Cathy Jamieson won about 43 % in the last Leadership election in 2008 (admittedly in the second ballot — Lamont may also have achieved that had this gone to another round).

And in the event of the Conservatives achieving more than the bare minimum required for an overall majority, then the percentage with experience will be smaller still.

We are confident that when the Senate convenes in January, there will be that Democratic Majority and we look forward to working with Governor Cuomo to achieve the progressive agenda he has laid out.

No such majority is achieved and, despite extreme pressure from Washington, Cook stands firm and, with the overwhelming backing of his party in parliament, refuses to support the American action in Iraq.

With boundary changes coming in at the next election, Annunziata has to overturn a notional Lib Dem majority of 595 in order to gain the seat, which will entail achieving a swing of less than 1 %.

On 8 May 2015, he was elected as the Member of Parliament for Croydon South, and with a majority of over 17,000; the highest achieved in the constituency for over 20 years.