Sentences with phrase «class vote gives»

The Labour northern / working - class vote gives them a solid block of seats they can always rely on; even in 1983, when they polled just 27 % of the vote, they secured 209 seats.

Not exact matches

Dual - class share structures, which give controlling shareholders more than one vote per share or designate some shares as non-voting, are particularly unpopular among governance wonks and institutional investors.

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.

Dual classes give some shareholders more voting rights per share than others.

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.

But there the crusty pol and the personable young professor recently raised to political prominence were, going on and on about the minutiae of which health care plan will give more money and choice to the middle class and who voted for what and when in the fetid world of senatorial maneuverings.

I was reminded of something the British writer G.K. Chesterton wrote in his book Orthodoxy (Chapter 4): «Tradition means giving a vote to most obscure of all classes, our ancestors.

Chelsea is champion but the will buy De Griezman from Atletico de Madrid they have the best defence in the league, the best Midfield in the league with De Griezman, hazard and Costa they will be came invecibles that what Mourinho want to take from Wenger and do not forget that Wenger will never beat Mourinho, we just need 3 world class players just like Henry said, But Wenger have no ambitions to win the league, next year will be the same excuses why we fail again, Mourinho sold Mata even so he was voted the best Chelsea player the previous two years, and Wenger want to keep ineffective players like Walcott, Wiltshere, Diaby, Flamini, Ryo.Sanogo.Welbeck, sad but that is our fate with Wenger only problem for us the risk of loosing player like Alexis will be great if we do not win next year, we must to buy like Henry said, like Carzola is saying, we lost so many good players because they want to win and they are winning with others clubs.why we do not give ouself a chance of winning the EPL?

Imagine, for instance, a typical voter profile: in this case, imagine a young female independent who has voted in a given set of elections and lives in a middle class neighborhood.

As I wrote before the election, speaking with Americans gave me the impression that voter turnout could put Trump in the White House; it seemed that an increase in white, working class Republican votes together with a decrease in Democrat voters from parts of President Obama's support base could tip the result Trump's way.

Bluntly, your hope is that an issue that matters to you and to many educated middle - class people (but not to most Labour voters, who may well regard the idea in the same way as many Conservatives, as a way to give unfair influence to Liberal Democrats), electoral reform, is important enough to form an electoral alliance over, despite the fact this would leave many party members unable to vote (and who would get to stand in say Durham or Redcar anyway?).

The Leave vote gives Labour the opportunity to look forward, set out positive vision for the country, think creatively about our future, and excite people, including its withering working - class base.

How Nick Clegg can seriously class himself as Liberal is beyond me and given the party's record while in this despicable coalition, I feel many supporters and potential voters will never vote Liberal while Clegg is the two faces of modern liberalism.

The Democratic Party failed to retain the presidency and make electoral gains last year because they didn't give voters «anything to vote for» in November and failed to boost middle class issues, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said at a fundraiser on Monday night.

We lost our working class vote during the Labour Years because we didn't give good jobs to working class people and we didn't build homes for their kids.

Maloney also supported giving Congress taxpayer - funded health care for life, while voting against efforts to stop Congress from flying first class on our dime.

Thatcher gave the working classes of Britain a foot on the property ladder and they repaid her in votes.

Not sure, if this is undetAnd, labour spent more than the Tories in 2005 75 % of labours spending in 1997 came from the private side, and recall 1979 when the closed shop meant everyone had to joina Union, that union had to give money to the labour party, we knew the next election would be the most vicious since 1992 ′ we win the campaign, lost the election that time, The Tory press isn't as strong as it was then, the tories haven't got lost of «extremist» stories about labour they had thrn to smear us now, They're a smaller party not just cos of Ukip, But labour has a lot of keen strong members, and it'll come doen to 70 or so marginal seats what happens, while not losing our working class votes in Newcastle, birmingham Luton Rotherham, Scotland, and if they're not abstaining, or voting Ukip, we have to ask why they're voting tory

«So he gave a lovely talk and then we [slaps her hands] hit him with our Styrofoam presentations, and they presented the bill to the legislature September 11, voted on it October, I think it was October 10, with a 23 - 1 «yes,» but the beautiful thing was they invited the children from that class to go and speak to the legislature about their concerns.»

It was the Conservatives who extended the franchise to the working class (Reform Act 1867) and gave equal votes to women (Representation of the People Act 1928)- David Lloyd George's government in 1918 only gave votes to some women.

The people of MINESOTA tried giving the republicans a break and Voted in THE GOP and now their collective bargaining rights for law enforcement and teacher and child education is in jeopardy - the Gop is for the rich and does nt care at all for the middle class but that is my opinion and I COULD BE WRONG but I doubt it»

Cameron gave a master class in message discipline, deftly turning every question back onto his main point, that a vote for Clegg was a vote for five more years of Gordon Brown.

It gives you an idea of how the working class are voting these days in this part of the world.

«That million joins another six million voters — primarily working - class people — who are so disgusted at the two major parties that they have given up on voting.

That is why I believe as long as we have Davis as leader and a strong, intelligent, varied Shadow Cabinet, we can retain our core middle class vote and secure the vote of the less well off, thus giving us the land slide result we need to win the 2009 election.

The online mode will give gamers the chance to vote for the circuit, bike class, and number of laps before they take to the track and compete in an online Arcade racer or Career mode championship. Once the race comes to an end it's over to the online leaderboards to see where you rank against the rest of the world. Not only will you find competitors» lap times but the option to upload and download racing ghosts and riding lines, which will help you compete against the very best or for those new to the series learn the skills they need to race to the top of the leaderboard. There will also be a demo available on XBox Live and PSN before the game launches.

Host a class competition where students cast a vote, and give an award to the team that produces the most clever, creative 30 - second advertisement.

The Mississippi Senate has voted to give school districts the option of keeping children in class five fewer days for each of the next two academic years.

When students answer an in - class conceptual question individually, then discuss it with their neighbors, and then vote again on the same or a conceptually similar question, the percentage of correct student responses typically increases, even in groups where no student had given the correct answer previously (Smith et al., 2009).

They have already voted no to across the board teacher salary increases and continued the freeze on teachers» salaries that has been in place for 5 years (at the same time passed a tax break for the wealthy, and now, with reduced revenue can not give raises), increased class size, taken away additional pay for Masters degrees, eliminated most of the state's teacher assistants, gone after tenure and offered the top 25 % of the teachers in a district $ 500 to give up their tenure immediately, increased the number of charter schools (many funded by Republicans in the private school business) and finally, the most recent scheme pondered is to let kids go to any school in the state regardless of their home county.

When Jefferson teachers were given an opportunity earlier this year to vote to change to a more traditional daily schedule, which district officials said would have alleviated many of the problems that have left students with empty class time, they refused.

I also think Berkshire Hathaway is attractive at current valuations, but I don't like the Class B shares because I believe they give less voting privileges per dollar invested (correct me if I'm wrong).

This Proposal (scheduled for shareholder vote on February 22nd) would give the Company the ability to issue 12,500,000 millions shares of Class A Common Stock under their Form S - 3 covering the sale of up to $ 30,000,000 of securities.

Taubman Centers was saved when the Michigan legislature approved a law making the family's B - class common shares legal, giving them the votes they needed to veto the proposed takeover.