Sentences with phrase «controlling vote position»
I think that most people would be pretty outraged at the idea that some grubby little deal between the Conservatives and the Liberals that says we will give you permanent controlling vote position in the House of Lords in return for you to agreeing to vote for boundary changes that will give us 20 extra seats.
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His large buyout firm Onex Corp. controls all of Celestica's multiple voting shares, granting him unassailable control even while owning a minority position.
But are they going to vote on their «control» position?»
Lastly, there are entrepreneurs with soon - to - be-insolvent firms that hold controlling preferred equity positions and Board seats, leaving a potentially deadly vacancy in governance and voting control.
When I claim that label, I'm connecting not only with a number of active feminists who are working today to help women, but with an ongoing history of feminists who got women the vote, who made birth control happen, who got women into positions of power in the government, who worked to rectify racial inequality and fight against things like mandatory sterilization of welfare recipients.
Croci is the fourth Republican in a week to not seek re-election, leaving the party that controls the New York state Senate by just one vote in a potentially precarious position.
Gun rights groups claim a slim majority for their position in the Senate, given the two or three Democratic Senators representing rural districts who often vote against gun control — although there are also Republican Senators from urban districts who tend to waver.
For most of the last decade they have been seen by Tories as a form of political pest control, helpfully eating away at the Labour vote by positioning themselves as the anti-war party of the left.
A person familiar with Crist's firing said Meyer's supporters were concerned that Crist, who has been a powerful figure in county politics for many years, would use his connections to get the Independence and Conservative lines for McLaughlin, who controlled those voting lines in his Assembly position.
Knapp said mayoral control is «a concern of folks, taking away their vote on those positions.»
First, it determined that VOTE / COPE Committee, which has attacked Republican Assemblyman Sean T. Hanna's positions on hydraulic fracturing, women's health and gun control, is actually the political arm of the teacher's union, New York State United Teacher.
She argued that her vote actually puts her in a better position to negotiate with her colleagues about «common sense amendments» that should be made to the gun control law.
Rangel is one of the state's more liberal members, and a longtime advocate for immigration reform, gun control, and the Affordable Care Act — positions that often put him on the opposite side of votes from Hochul, who was attempting to defend her seat in a heavily Republican district.
The proposal's sponsors, Councilmen Brad Lander (D - 39th) and Jumaane Williams (D - 45th), urged her to reconsider her position but said they would see that the measure got a vote regardless — an uncommon pledge in a council where Quinn generally controls what comes to the floor.
By unanimous vote, the delegates agreed and resolved to reconvene a mayoral control committee that would meet with UFT members and community partners to make a recommendation on the union's position.
Fail to prove what my position is on gun control, abortion, immigration policy, or show who I vote for or which campaigns I contribute to, and your readers are left wondering «is that the best Ben can do?»
«The AFBF position on removing hemp from the Controlled Substances Act demonstrates a positive shift at the grassroots level, it shows that farmers all over the U.S. see industrial hemp for what it is - a versatile, low - input crop,» said Eric Steenstra, President of Vote Hemp.