Sentences with phrase «for minor»

While sponsors won't be as eager to sign on to an agreement for a minor league stadium as they would KeyBank Center or New Era Field, if the deal can satisfy a few necessities the ballpark...

On March 5, the Georgia House passed HB 899, which contains all the Secretary of State's election law recommendations except the provision lowering the number of signatures for minor party and independent candidates.

In the Ukrainian elections of March 2006, for which there was a threshold of 3 % (of the overall vote, i.e. including invalid votes), 22 % of voters were effectively disenfranchised, having voted for minor candidates.

@mbomb007 Your prisons are overflowing because for - profit prisons mean they have an incentive to keep prisons as full as possible, even if it means lobbying for heavier criminal penalties even for minor offenses (usually under such auspicious euphemisms as «tough on crime», «law and order»).

The move, initially proposed by standards commissioner John Lyon, would shed light on «rectification» arrangements which saw MPs investigated for minor misuse of expenses escape «naming and shaming» if they repaid the money claimed.

At 6:30 p.m., People's Power Assemblies holds protest on the 1st anniversary of the death of Sandra Bland, who died in a Waller County, TX, jail cell, following her arrest 10 Jul 2015 for an alleged assault after being pulled over for a minor traffic violation, B / Q Church Avenue Train Station, Brooklyn.

In prison I met many young people and women with mental health issues, who were there for minor crimes, and who could have benefited from treatment within the community, saving the Chancellor valuable money.»

Commitment to a «light touch» regime would give clubs confidence that they would not lose their CASC registration for a minor breach of these complex rules.

Mark - Viverito also said the City Council will fund a $ 1.4 million bail fund to reduce the amount of jail time people who can't afford low bail for minor violations have to spend behind bars waiting for there cases to be adjudicated.

«Old warrants for minor, non-violent offenses have hung needlessly over too many people's heads for far too long.

Bland references to declining support for the major parties tend to obscure just how difficult it is for minor parties to win lower house seats, especially if their electoral support is evenly spread over a wide range of districts.

Because independent voters are the voters most likely to vote for minor party candidates, this data shows that a top - two system, which keeps minor party candidates off the November ballot, injures independent voters more than it hurts Republican and Democratic voters.

However, the Tennessee election returns for 2012, when compared to past election returns, dramatically show that a party label increases the vote for minor parties.

Cuomo faces no Democratic primary on Tuesday, so he had little need for the minor party's influence.

It implies mass arrests for all minor offences and the total absence of proportionality and officer discretion.

HB 194 was the bill that supposedly gave Ohio a constitutional ballot access law for minor parties.

The mayoral hopeful also criticized a decision by four of the city's district attorneys to dismiss 700,000 decade - old warrants for minor crimes.

The incentive here is for minor parties to sell their endorsements to the highest bidder.

In the first 16 weeks of a new law that downgraded penalties for minor offenses such as public urination, public drinking and littering, the city has seen a 90 percent decrease in criminal court summonses issued citywide, according to new data.

In systems with a threshold, people who prefer a larger party may tactically vote for a minor party that is predicted to poll close to or slightly below the threshold.

The original law had been declared unconstitutional in 2006, mostly because it required the signatures for minor party qualification to be submitted in November of the year before the election.

Similarly, in New Zealand, some voters who preferred a large party have voted for the minor party's local candidate to ensure it qualifies for list seats on the back of winning a single electorate.

Following the incident, 34 people were treated for minor injuries, according to Fire Commissioner Daniel Nigro, with 17 treated at the scene and the rest taken to nearby hospitals.

This is the case that challenges the March petition deadline for minor parties, at least as applied to presidential elections.

State Senator Bill Avery of Nebraska has agreed to introduce a bill to make it easier for minor parties to remain ballot - qualified in Nebraska.

But with the Milibands» respective movements for changes each trundling on and Andy Burnham's new 9,000 word manifesto o» t» North just out, we're confident that there's a market for minor distraction.

And she pointed to the issue of individuals getting arrested for minor infractions, such as turnstile jumping, arguing that people should not be funneled into the criminal justice system.

The Aug. 4 report, released by Manhattan U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara, said that the civil rights of teenaged inmates were violated by correction officers» routine beatings for minor infractions, as part of «a deep - seated culture of violence» that permeated Rikers and also affected adult inmates.

These days that is no longer an issue as everyone does it, but it is still a consideration for minor parties like the Greens and UKIP.

The two parties advocate these policies for minor party and independent candidate ballot access for 2012:

It has since been criticized by advocacy groups, mostly prominently the New York Civil Liberties Union, for what the organization has called unfair suspensions for minor infractions that had helped compound the so - called school - to - prison pipeline.

«Minor party advocates of fusion say voting for a major party candidate on their line shows support for their minor party's policies.

On March 22, two bills to ease ballot access for minor parties advanced.

The problem is, when they are compared to election results, polls that prompt for minor parties invariably overestimate their support.

One of the key issues of the 2014 secretary of state primary was the signature and filing requirements for minor party candidates under California's top - two primary system.

Under a legal loophole, 17 - year - olds are treated as adults in police stations and are often put in custody overnight or through the weekend for minor offences, such as cannabis possession.

The First Lady, Mrs Lordina Mahama has called on the Ghanaian Society to encourage community service with effective supervision for minor offences as an alternative to imprisonment to help reduce congestion in the prisons.

Walk - in centres were introduced in 1999, with the goal of taking the strain from GP's surgeries by providing care for minor illnesses and injuries on the spot.

A lot of state Senate staffers are notaries — a designation that allows them to authenticate legal documents and gather signatures for minor political parties, with many traveling long distances to volunteer for campaigns.

Because Grayling is now on record, in parliament, saying that these reforms are only for minor points of technical law.

A proposal to reduce arrests for minor offenses such as public drinking that was unveiled by the de Blasio administration is receiving a rough reception from some members of the New York City Council.

Teenagers arrested for minor crimes will soon be diverted to counseling before they ever come before a judge under a new pilot program in Brooklyn and Manhattan, prosecutors said.

«A lot of our members have advocated for minor changes to the cap,» Flanagan said after meeting with Cuomo earlier in the day.

Opposition politicians have attacked the Government over proposals to link fines for minor offences to earnings.

Only ten per cent intend to vote for a minor party, and there are 18 % undecided.

I had planned on voting for a minor party candidate to help them get to 50K.

The highlight of the launch was the presentation of a cheque for the sum of One Hundred and Seventy Six Million, Three Hundred and Fifty thousand Naira (N176, 350,000) to Hon. Aminu Sani Gumel, the Chairman of the Association of Local Governments of Nigeria (ALGON), Jigawa State on behalf of the 27 Chairmen in the state for the operation of the social security scheme where a grant of between N50, 000 and N100, 000 would be given to each polling unit across the state for minor infrastructure repair and social assistance.

They want to know how on earth this young and healthy black woman, who was pulled over by police for a minor traffic violation in Texas on July 10th, ended up dead in a Waller County cell from asphyxiation three days later.

The Conservative Party's candidate for the 23rd Congressional District, Doug Hoffman, running on our line alone, garnered 45.98 % of the vote, the highest for a minor party in a U.S. House race since 1949.

Because Obama won in the first round of voting, we don't see the depth of support for the minor party candidates.