Sentences with phrase «effective veto power»

Simon has also filed a formal lawsuit against the Taubman board challenging the Taubman family's effective veto power over any change in control of the company.

Conversation has so far centered on how the need for a supermajority consensus in network decision - making means that any mining pool with enough hashing power holds effective veto power over any proposal, a fact many believe is responsible for delays in SegWit adoption.

That's why a relatively small group of hardcore anti-clean energy climate skeptics in the right - wing base has exercised effective veto power over American climate policy: they have the intensity and they're backed by money.

As long as he maintains control over the highest seat in the land, Khamenei enjoys wide - ranging authority over the security forces and effective veto power over matters both diplomatic and domestic — including the council that vets and approves presidential candidates.

George Annas, a bioethicist at Boston University, fears that the government employees could wield «effective veto power.»

Not exact matches

First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has been arguing that the draft clauses do not provide «a general power to create new benefits in devolved areas as was promised by the Smith Commission and gives the UK government effective veto over changes to universal credit, including bedroom tax.»

Tokyo Electric Power Co must give a fuller account of the Fukushima disaster and address its «institutionalized lying» before it can expect to restart another nuclear station, the world's largest, said a local government official who holds an effective veto over the utility's revival plan.

This deal gives Commissioner King unilateral veto power of locally developed scales, and it ensures that a teachers whose test scores declare them «Ineffective» can not be categorized as «Effective» no matter how well they do on other parts of the evaluation rubric.