Sentences with phrase «cent of the members on»

The study by Cairns Way noted that, in 2014, men made up 75 per cent of the members on advisory committees across Canada.

Not exact matches

As Aimia's largest shareholder with nearly 20 per cent of the company, Mittleman said he's going to be an advocate on the board for creating shareholder value, something he predicted will spread among management and fellow board members.

The addition brings to four — including original members Ontario and British Columbia — the number of provinces that have signed on to the project, although they represent about three quarters of Canadian listed companies with a market capitalization of 53 per cent of the total.

«Our hypocrisy is astounding when we then insist on ultra-protecting this small part (only 6 per cent) of our agriculture sector,» Martha Hall Findlay, president of the Canada West Foundation and a former Liberal member of Parliament, wrote in the Globe and Mail.

Royal Automobile Club of WA members will be eligible for a 5 per cent discount on health insurance cover through a new partnership with national provider HCF.

On the New York Stock Exchange, 148 of the 919 members, or 16 per cent, are Jews, while fifty - five of the 637 firms listed by the Exchange directory are Jewish, twenty - four are half - Jewish, and thirty - nine have dominant Jewish influence.

«About 50 per cent of our members import from the U.S., and about 25 per cent export, so that's a significant amount, and if there is a decrease in access to the U.S., that will certainly have an impact on our members.

With the plan expected to add a cost of 1.9 per cent per employee and the likelihood that employees over the age of 50 may never benefit from their own contributions, roundtable members were vocal in their concerns about the plan's impact on both competitiveness and employee support.

Many co-ops rely on federal subsidies to ensure that members pay no more than 30 per cent of their income towards housing costs.

As part of a free - trade agreement among members of the ASEAN, the tariff on sugar imported among member states will be halved to 5 per cent next year.

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The program assesses the equivalent of 7.5 cents per hundredweight of milk on imported dairy products and adds two importer members to the National Dairy Promotion and Research Board.

The industry lobby estimates around 60 per cent of its members are unlikely to pass the carbon tax on to customers, placing many businesses «under considerable pressure».

50 Cent appeared on Good Morning America on Friday and was able to meet some members of the US Men's National Team and was given a chance to explain his failed first pitch.

With 85 per cent of businesses relying on a vehicle for work, this is welcome news for members.»

Five banks, with branches on most high streets, hold 85 per cent of the UK's money and they have less than 80 board members - individuals whose decisions have the power to shape the economy.

Their consensus on Remain (supported by the PM, 80 per cent of Cabinet members, and 75 per cent of members of parliament) was quite at odds with the feelings of voters outside select areas such as London.

In 2006, NATO member countries agreed to commit a minimum of two per cent of their Gross Domestic Product (GDP) to spending on defence.

A majority of members (53 per cent) think Labour is now on course to be in government in 2020, but if Corbyn was replaced only 42 per cent think Labour would win the next general election.

Even befor e John Hutton's report was complete, they announced a 3 per cent surcharge on millions of your members.

Britain is one of just four Nato member states which spend two per cent of more of their GDP on defence spending.

Theresa May is on 19 per cent, Sajid Javid is on 7 per cent and Nicky Morgan is backed by only 1 per cent of members.

To ensure that all candidates who are put to the ballot command a substantial body of support in the PLP, the threshold for nominations to secure a position on the shortlist should be raised from 12.5 per cent to 15 per cent of House of Commons members of the PLP.

Under «relief at source» arrangements, members of pension schemes who do not pay income tax are nonetheless permitted to basic rate tax relief (20 per cent) on pension contributions up to # 2,880 a year.

The cost of attending these days has been reduced to # 25 for BASC members or # 35 for non-members - a 70 per cent reduction on the usual price.

Many on the right of the party were then agitated that affiliated unions and societies held 40 per cent of the vote, as compared to 30 per cent each to the PLP and party members.

The poll of 1,800 Tory members and supporters by the ConservativeHome website on the eve of the party's conference shows that 64 per cent want to see bold policies to give voters a clear idea of how the Tories would fix Britain.

That total is up sharply from 46 per cent, and suggests that Party members have been impressed by a better run of news from the Government and a worse from Labour - whose fortunes we look at in a special series on LeftWatch this week, which opens with Christian Guy's excellent piece today.

In advance of the meeting, Labour released a poll of members (based on an «initial sample» of 1,900) showing that 75 per cent opposed intervention, regarded by some as an attempt to bounce the party into opposing air strikes,

Yet the scale of Liz Kendall's defeat in the leadership contest — a derisory 4 per cent (sorry, 4.5 per cent)-- has seen tribe members resort to pinning «We are the 4.5» on their Twitter profiles.

Among the major decisions made is the adoption of a new funding model for the AUC, which will see all the 54 member countries contribute some 1.2 billion dollars to the Union's coffers every year through levying 0.2 per cent tax on eligible imports.

The Member of Parliament for New Juabeng North, Dr Assibey Yeboah, speaking on the floor of the house, said there was no logic in giving out over 55 per cent waiver on a project that the country would have only 30 per cent shareholding in.

Last month 40 per cent of Tory members wanted the PM to battle on, but that has now slumped to just 26 percent.

Even before John Hutton's report was complete, they announced a 3 per cent surcharge on millions of your members.

Frank said over 95 per cent of the nPDP members gave Alhaji Kawu Baraje the authority to speak on their behalf and as such, the contents of his letter conveyed their feelings.

Lazio has cast thousands of votes in Congress on everything from impeachment to prescription - drug benefits, but when asked to name one principled stand he's taken that's cost him politically, he has to reach all the way back to the eighteen - member Suffolk County legislature and a 1992 plan to raise sales taxes by half a cent that had been crafted by the Republican county executive, Bob Gaffney.

Members of the UK armed forces are significantly more likely than civilians to commit a violent offence during their lifetime — and the risk for those who have experienced action on the battlefield is 53 per cent higher than for military personnel with no combat experience.

American physicist Harvey Brooks, a member of the president's Science Advisory Committee during the Eisenhower, Kennedy and Johnson administrations, noted how the 2 per cent of GDP spent on science by the federal government had a «disproportionate social and economic leverage, since the whole thrust of the economy is determined by scientific and technical research».

In a survey of 1,308 U.S. adult Facebook users, University of British Columbia researchers found that 24 per cent — or more than one in five — had snooped on the Facebook accounts of their friends, romantic partners or family members, using the victims» own computers or cellphones.

Members of the Executive Committee shall be allowed, in lieu of their traveling expenses in attendance on meetings of the Committee held apart from the meetings of the Association, a refund amounting to 4 cents a mile for the round trip.

Currently EU Member States renovate building stock at a rate of 0.4 - 1.2 per cent of the stock per year, depending on the country.

In fact, on average, 67 per cent of our members are educated to Bachelor's level (or higher)- a number that rises as high as 81 per cent in bigger Canadian cities like Toronto.

The answer is yes, according to dating site Lovestruck.com, which says nine per cent of its male members have admitted to searching the site for someone they've seen on the Tube - seven per cent of whom were successful in finding that lucky lady.

In fact, on average, 82 per cent of our members are educated to Bachelor's level (or higher).

In fact, on average, 55 per cent of our members in South Africa are educated to Bachelor's level (or higher)- while in cities like Cape Town more than 15 per cent of our members have post-graduate degrees.

The teaching union will support a walk out on Tuesday 5 July, after 91 per cent of its members who voted backed the action, claiming significant change was needed.

However, education secretary Justine Greening has said that rather than all teachers getting a one per cent pay rise, schools should be able to choose which members of staff get an increase, based on performance.

In February's ballot, 86 per cent of NUT members in England's sixth form colleges voted in favour of the strikes on a 44 per cent turn out.

95 per cent of the EIS union's secondary members voted «yes» for the action, which is in response to «SQA bureaucracy and excessive internal unit assessments», which the EIS claims is leading to workload problems and «unacceptable» pressures on pupils.

Top reasons for feeling this way included education professionals doubting their abilities (38 per cent); not getting on with the boss (19 per cent); working with customers and clients (16.7 per cent); being scared of senior members of staff (14.3 per cent); and working alone (9.5 per cent).