Sentences with phrase «by class vote»

Once generated, this list serves as the perfect formative assessment tool by becoming a living document in which, by class vote, teachers can add or remove items from the list as they are answered.

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She has also relinquished her voting control of Theranos by converting her super-majority Theranos Class B Common shares to Class A Common shares.

May, however, insisted that the spending plans should focus more on working - class voters who feel they have been left behind by globalisation, and who voted in large numbers to leave the European Union in June.

If the business is a corporation, «at least 51 percent of each class of voting stock and 51 percent of the aggregate of all outstanding shares of stock must be unconditionally owned by an individual (s) determined by SBA to be socially and economically disadvantaged,» stated the Small Business Administration.

Often by keeping control with two classes of stock: voting shares for founders and original investors, and non-voting for everyone else.

Nonetheless all the directors were reelected by wide margins at the company's annual meeting last year, reflecting how Redstone controls a supermajority of the company's Class A voting shares through his holding company, National Amusements.

The eight members of the Beaudoin - Bombardier family — heirs of Joseph - Armand Bombardier, who invented the snowmobile — control the company through a dual - class share structure that gives class A shares, 54 % of which are owned by the family members, 10 votes apiece.

Furthermore, investors purchasing shares of our Class A common stock in this offering will only own approximately % of our outstanding shares of Class A and Class B common stock (and have % of the combined voting power of the outstanding shares of our Class A and Class B common stock), after the offering even though their aggregate investment will represent % of the total consideration received by us in connection with all initial sales of shares of our capital stock outstanding as of September 30, 2010, after giving effect to the issuance of shares of our Class A common stock in this offering and shares of our Class A common stock to be sold by certain selling stockholders.

Limited voting stock - Limited voting stock is a class of stock providing its holders with smaller than proportionate voting rights in comparison with another class of stock issued by the same firm.

These shares usually have less voting rights than the Class A Shares, which are the preferred share by most investors, although the company or corporation has the right to designate which classification of shares has the most voting rights and when they are issued to the shareholders.

Accordingly, the voting power afforded to the Continuing LLC Owners by their shares of Class B common stock is automatically and correspondingly reduced as they exchange LLC Units and Class B common stock for shares of the our Class A common stock pursuant to the Exchange Agreement.

He is also the author of several IGOPP policy papers, which offer new perspectives on a range of controversial issues including: Dual - class voting shares, Corporate Citizenship, The place of women on boards of directors, Say - on - Pay by shareholders, The Gordian knot of executive compensation, The Troubling Case of Proxy Advisors, among others.

Provided, however, that an incentive stock option held by a participant who owns more than 10 % of the total combined voting power of all classes of our stock, or of certain of our parent or subsidiary corporations, may not have a term in excess of five years and must have an exercise price of at least 110 % of the fair market value of our common stock on the grant date.

We can not predict whether this structure, combined with the concentrated control by Mr. Spiegel and Mr. Murphy, will result in a lower trading price or greater fluctuations in the trading price of our Class A common stock as compared to the market price were we to sell voting stock in this offering, or will result in adverse publicity or other adverse consequences.

The first is a familiar one: A shareholder group asked Alphabet to scrap its dual - voting structure, proposed four years ago, that clumps most voting power in Class B shares, which are primarily owned by Google co-founders and Alphabet chiefs Larry Page and Sergey Brin.

It becomes a vote - buying enterprise financed by transfers from the minority upper classes to the majority middle and lower classes.

Yvan Allaire has a great analysis of Dow Jones» overreaction to Snapchat's IPO and the dual class stock phenomenon in general:» In July 2017, Dow Jones, goaded by the reaction to Snapchat having gone public with a class of shares without voting rights, announced that, after extensive consultation, it had decided to henceforth eliminate companies -LSB-...]

In exchange for providing funding most VC firms obtain majority voting rights by having the majority of the shares (or a preferred class of shares that are senior to common shares), as well as special veto rights.

The Eastern Orthodox delegation asked to be excused from voting on the other reports; but they heartily supported this one, which affirmed that the message of the church to the world must always remain the gospel of Jesus Christ — the gift of a new word from God to this old world of sin and death, being the prophetic call to sinful men to turn to God as the only way by which humanity can escape from those class and race hatreds which devastate society, and fulfill humanity's longing for intellectual sincerity, social justice and spiritual inspiration.

It is a commonplace among scholars of the Women's movement that the 19th century struggle for women's rights in America had lost much of its radical thrust by the end of the century as the vote became the single overriding issue, and that supporters of women's suffrage were not above an appeal to blatant racism and class - consciousness to advance their cause.

By a vote of 9 - 8, the court held that Spain did not violate the European Convention on Human Rights when it declined to renew the contract of a public school teacher who had been offering classes in Catholicism.

Our class was intrigued by the curtailment of Marian piety that seemed to mark the Second Vatican Council, which, in a famously narrow vote, subordinated Mary to ecclesiology.

Vitamix ® blenders have been voted Best in Class Overall beverage blender for eight consecutive years by readers of Foodservice Equipment & Supplies (FE&S) magazine.

Vitamix swept 2014 blender categories, winning Best in Class Overall, as well as being voted Best in Class by dealers and operators.

By the time you read this, the voting results might be known for the 2013 Hall of Fame class.

The Orland Park Village Board decided Monday night, on a 4 - 3 vote, to cancel a controversial hypnosis class offered by the Parks and Recreation Department.

BabyCenter Moms» Picks are awarded each spring and represent the products and gear voted by parents as the best in their class.

The people they are describing, or insulting, Dee warns, are often «the lower working - class families — a lot of people who vote», and they are alienated by the words they hear from politicians.

The principle authors argue that this basic settlement survived both the revisionism of Tony Crosland and the changes wrought by New Labour in the 1990s, contributing to the defeat of 2010, and the situation where Labour has alienated large swathes, not just of the middle class electorate, but of its traditional core working class vote as well.

But the marginal advantage of William Hague's preferred approach is that, whilst allowing MPs from England, or England and Wales, a veto, it avoids creating two classes of MP by allowing all to vote in the first and final stages of a bill's progress.

While UKIP has few / no MPs it is not unreasonable to say that they have taken votes away from the Conservative party in recent years and potential UKIP voters are seen by many as key in some marginal constituencies especially in «working class» areas where many voters are socially to the right and economically to the left.

In fact, she sold hardworking Upstate families out by voting for the disastrous GOP healthcare bill that hurts the middle class and imposes a devastating «Age Tax.»

The unfolding of events in the weeks leading up to the vote on 10 December demonstrated two key points: firstly, the importance of the Labour left taking a clear campaigning stand against such anti-woman, anti-working class and deeply unpopular policies; secondly, the crucial role played by a campaign led by women — the Save Lone Parent Benefit campaign — and orientated to linking up with parliamentary and labour movement opposition.

By attempting to secure the votes of forgotten working - class voters, UKIP risks alienating its core middle - class supporters from the south east of England — who remain attached to the party's libertarian agenda.

(The fact that this is often said by people who both regard themselves as working class and voted Conservative at the last election probably says as much about the strength of the Labour brand as it does about the caprice of voters).

In parts of old industrial Lancashire and Yorkshire, Ukip are beginning to pick the votes of disaffected working class voters, especially the low paid and low skilled workers who feel left behind by Labour.

It is well known that prior to 1974, class based voting was even stronger than shown in the charts here so 2017 could be the election where Labour which founded to represent the interests of the working class find themselves supplanted in that role by the Conservatives.

The actual situation is more complex of course, because votes are not determined by a single class, but by a composite of many issues with less than perfect correlation.

Voter intimidation is any concerted effort or practice by an individual or group to coerce the voting behavior of a particular class or demographic of voters.

Council spending now began to rise again, largely as a result of increases by the GLC, Merseyside and West Midlands councils; whereas Labour votes tended to be poorer and eligible for rate rebates, the burden of higher spending tended to fall on businesses and middle class homeowners.

Aside from lowering the voting age by a year, the bill would also require all pupils in the ninth grade or higher to receive at least eight full class periods of civics education and mandate that every New York high school provide each student with a voter registration form the year they turn 17.

Class Action Litigation — Vote Passed (220 - 201, 1 Present, 7 Not Voting) The bill would prohibit federal courts from certifying proposed classes of individuals for a class - action lawsuit unless each member of the class has suffered the same type and degree of injury, and it would require quarterly reports by asbestos trusts of claims made against the trusts and any payouts made by the trusts for asbestos - related injuClass Action Litigation — Vote Passed (220 - 201, 1 Present, 7 Not Voting) The bill would prohibit federal courts from certifying proposed classes of individuals for a class - action lawsuit unless each member of the class has suffered the same type and degree of injury, and it would require quarterly reports by asbestos trusts of claims made against the trusts and any payouts made by the trusts for asbestos - related injuclass - action lawsuit unless each member of the class has suffered the same type and degree of injury, and it would require quarterly reports by asbestos trusts of claims made against the trusts and any payouts made by the trusts for asbestos - related injuclass has suffered the same type and degree of injury, and it would require quarterly reports by asbestos trusts of claims made against the trusts and any payouts made by the trusts for asbestos - related injuries.

If the 13 million votes received by self - styled «democratic socialist» Bernie Sanders in the 2016 Democratic presidential primaries accomplished nothing else positive, it put the questions of socialism and independent working - class politics up for public discussion.

More importantly, by entering the Democratic Party, Sanders broke with the socialist principle of independent working - class political action.1 He became the «sheepdog» herding progressives, who had the option of voting for the Green ticket of Jill Stein and Ajamu Baraka in the general election, back into a party run by the billionaire class he professes to oppose.2 Nevertheless, the broad liberal to radical American left is now discussing what socialism is and debating whether the Left should be inside or outside the Democratic Party — or both inside and outside.

Linares and Duane were members of the same NYC Council class, (elected in 1992), and grew close during their years there as participants in a small, yet vocal, group that consistently voted «no» on the budget deals reached by then - NYC Mayor Rudy Giuliani and Council Speaker Peter Vallone Sr..

At present, young people have to wait two years before they can put into practice what they learn in their citizenship education classes by voting, a common argument for lowering the voting age to 16.

«Congress has one last chance to stand up for the middle class by voting no on a tax plan that will raise taxes on hardworking families.»

In December 2006 the government published a defence white paper advocating Trident replacement and on March 14th 2007 parliament voted by 409 votes to 161 in favour of authorising the government to take steps to maintain Trident nuclear weapons system after the Vanguard - class submarines leave service in the mid-2020s.

Asked about the traditionally poor turnout of voters in the heavily - minority Fillmore District, Mascia says voters are turned off by nothing being done and says he will run a get - out - the vote campaign for his issues on race, class and economic inequities.

The weighting regimes are very different — I think Ashcroft weights by age, gender, social class and recalled vote; ComRes weight by the same plus housing tenure; Survation appear to weight only by age and gender, with no political or socio - economic weights.