Sentences with phrase «back in the majority»

I want to get back in the majority.»

Nevertheless, it might be a tough sell for Mujica to move from the third floor of the Capitol to the second — especially now that the Senate Republicans are back in the majority.

In a series of interviews that followed his ascent to the DSCC chairmanship, Gianaris predicted the Democrats would be back in the majority prior to the 2012 elections.

They need that kind of housecleaning to inspire the troops out here to work to get them back in the majority.

Ms. Wolfe took leave to assist State Senate Democrats in their effort to put Democrats back in the majority.

Not exact matches

Labour, is predicted to make big gains in London — where a majority of voters backed Remain.

The company acquired a majority stake (93 %) of Riot Games back in February 2011 for a reported $ 400 million.

• A Chinese state - backed consortium including China Jianyin Investment and Tamar Alliance acquired a majority stake in Nature's Care, an Australian vitamin company.

If a member of your team from one of the seven Muslim - majority nations leaves the US, you can no longer assume their visa will get them back in.

As a result, the majority of desk - bound workers have lower back pain (80 % of all back injuries affect that area) due to compressed discs in their spine from slouching.

«Marissa Mayer, CEO of Yahoo, even refused to get broadband installed at home until the majority of U.S. households got it, in order to get an authentic experience of the products she was responsible for (back then at Google),» he offers as an example.

SoftBank is an investor in Didi Chuxing, the majority owner of Uber's China operations, and has backed Grab, a ride - hailing company in Southeast Asia, as well as India's Ola.

Last September, the former Facebook executive and University of Waterloo alum looked back across the border from Silicon Valley and bought a majority stake in Toronto - based mobile development firm Xtreme Labs for a reported $ 20 million.

There is still a chance Maria could make landfall farther up the east coast later in the week, but the majority of the predicted paths take the hurricane back out into the Atlantic Ocean.

The move sends the politically charged issue back to Congress, where Republicans haven't shown they can muster the two - thirds majority in both chambers needed to override Obama's veto.

He notes Sinopec's disappointment when French - based Total SA, the majority owner and operator of the Northern Lights oilsands project, pushed the in - production date there back to 2024.

The majority of CNBC Global CFO Council members surveyed believe the Dow will cross 22K before it falls back under 20K, demonstrating confidence in the current market momentum.

«EU exit could hardly win the backing of a majority of Germans anytime soon — too obvious has been Berlin's influence in Europe,» Barroso said.

The Six Sigma standard needs to take a step or two back because; while it's a great goal and a significant standard to shoot for in some businesses and contexts, it's a foolish fantasy and a false formula in the majority of cases.

«The difficulty the Republican majority is having addressing a key political priority suggests that lawmakers might ultimately need to scale back their ambitions in other areas as well, such as tax reform.»

In a majority opinion written by Judge Christopher F. Droney, the appeals court said the Barry Diller - backed Internet company does not appear to violate copyright law because subscribers are assigned to their own tiny antennas at Aereo's Brooklyn data centre.

Taiwanese giant HTC bought a majority stake in the venture for $ 309 million in 2011 (Beats bought back half of HTC's investment in 2012 and now owns the controlling stake) and Adams used a portion of his proceeds as seed capital for the i.am +.

Dangote bought back a majority stake in Dangote Flour Mills — which had grown unprofitable after he sold a large stake to South African food company Tiger Brands three years ago for $ 190 million — in December for just $ 1.

Sandberg signed The Giving Pledge back in 2014, the commitment by the world's hyper - wealthy to «dedicate the majority of their wealth to philanthropy» over their lifetime.

(Bloomberg)-- The White House is scaling back its plan to seek cuts from already - passed spending bills in the face of resistance from Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and spending panel Republicans, two GOP congressional aides briefed on the plan said Thursday.

Paytm Mall is backed by Chinese e-commerce behemoth Alibaba, which holds a majority stake in the company.

While traditional long - term «buy and hold» investing enables investors to firmly capture solid gains in uptrending markets, the problem is they frequently give back a substantial, or even majority, of their gains when the inevitable corrections come.

For example, some companies are yet to budge on Trump's requests to bring production back into the U.S. Apple CEO, Tim Cook said that there is a lack of workers with the required skills in the U.S. Not only that, but if the majority of production comes back into the U.S., the cost of its products will rise by at least 100 %.

Lastly, Atieva has made recent ground in the EV market after securing the majority - backing of one of China's largest automakers.

SAN FRANCISCO — Apple, which had long deferred paying taxes on its foreign earnings and had become synonymous with hoarding money overseas, unveiled plans on Wednesday that would bring back the vast majority of the $ 252 billion in cash that it held abroad and said it would make a sizable investment in the United States.

Luxury industry giant Compagnie Financière Richemont, which acquired a majority stake in Net - a-Porter back in 2010, didn't give her one despite that Massenet thought the deal undervalued NAP.

Ever since their restructuring moves last year, German power firms are back on the M&A radar, with RWE (RWEG.DE) exploring an asset swap with Engie (ENGIE.PA) involving its majority stake in Innogy (IGY.DE).

The election of a majority Liberal government not only saw high - profile changes in rhetoric — think, «Canada is back» — but also equally lauded announcements on accepting 25,000 refugees from Syria, international peacekeeping, or a bid for a seat on the United Nations Security Council, among others.

Health and human services secretary nominee Tom Daschle, the former Senate Majority Leader, also withdrew after the Finance Committee discovered his failure to pay more than $ 100,000 in back taxes.

Republicans only need a 51 - vote majority in order to slap them back on Iran, but enough GOP lawmakers have said they're uncertain about what to do with Iran that sanctions may be difficult or impossible to pass.

Strong, bipartisan majorities nationwide back the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's rule curbing forced arbitration and giving consumers their day in court.

At this point, the vast majority of people my age — being honest, the dividing line seems to be around 45 years old — roll their eyes and, in a perfectly rational manner, argue that a currency is usually boring and backed up by meaningful institutions such as central banks.

In fact, 49 % of organizations currently have an employee advocacy program in place and the vast majority (76 %) are now backing it with resourceIn fact, 49 % of organizations currently have an employee advocacy program in place and the vast majority (76 %) are now backing it with resourcein place and the vast majority (76 %) are now backing it with resources.

Back in 1993, as NAFTA was being negotiated, a majority of Canadians (58 %) told Angus Reid they opposed the deal.

In its opposition to the tariffs, the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) had not only the backing of the majority of the solar industry, but also enlisted the aid of right - wing think tanks including the Heritage Foundation and American Legislative Exchange Council, as well as a host of manufacturing interests and large energy consumers.

Varoufakis has the backing of a majority of Greeks, according to an Alco survey published in Proto Thema newspaper.

«We're bringing millennials back to the theater,» said Ted Farnsworth, chairman and CEO of Helios and Matheson, which last week acquired a majority stake in MoviePass.

Justin, as much as this would be a completely black & white, rational decision for you on the subject, the majority of humanity floats in a gray area on this, drifting back and forth between atheism and strong spiritual beliefs (usually rooted in the culture they were raised in).

Knowing that the majority (Christians here in the states) can pull some crazy crap and make policy that by law, they shouldn't be able to is in the back of my mind at least.

So by your logic, back when the majority of people in the world once thought the earth was flat, then God's truth at that time would have been «Flat Earth»?

and I think Crossan is one of those... His interpretation is not in agreement with the overwhelming majority today or going back thru 2000 years.

It appears it's worse than ever now and all began with the Moral Majority that Reagan used to his advantage back in the 80's.

So, they wanted the same funding that majority Anglicans had been receiving since back in the day when everybody were all of the same mind / religion.

Back then, as with the vast majority of believers, probably you, probably Rhology, all that was needed to persuade me was the claims from other believers that — «you are a lost sinner, God loves you, Jesus died for you... see, it's all right here in the bible, Gods word.»

Exit polls also indicated that Trump swung the Catholic vote back to the GOP by a 52 percent to 45 percent margin, after a majority of Catholics sided with Obama in the previous two elections.