Sentences with phrase «from achieving a majority»

Since the rules of PR generally prevent any single party from achieving a majority government, parties in all PR nations seek out other political parties to form coalition governments.

Proponents of majority - minority districts maintain that these districts are a necessary hindrance to the practice of cracking, which occurs when a constituency is divided between several districts in order to prevent it from achieving a majority in any one district.

Not exact matches

«It is important that we achieve a two - year agreement that funds our troops and provides for our national security and other critical functions of the Federal government,» the statement from the White House, House Speaker Paul Ryan, and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said.

A vast majority of high - achieving individuals suffer from this harmful thinking at one time or another.

In his first interview since Macron was elected, the outgoing Finance Minister said that Macron could achieve a majority despite stiff competition from right - wing politicians when the country goes to the polls once again for its parliamentary elections on June 11 and 18.

From record - breaking stock market returns to falling unemployment, the U.S. has no shortage of positive economic indicators, and the majority of investors say they feel confident about achieving both their short - and long - term goals, according to the latest «Morgan Stanley Investor Pulse Poll,» which surveyed more than 1,200 investors age 25 to 75 with over $ 100,000 in assets.

When the Conservatives finally achieved majority government in 2011, they ensured that more committee meetings would be held in camera — away from the public's prying eyes.

Just read my post «Why I Wouldn't Attend Pastor Steepek's Church» and you will see from the 190 + comments that the overwhelming majority of people are in favor of the application of emotional violence to achieve a good end.

While the majority of scholars in Europe and America would be unwilling to dismiss so casually the results of nineteenth - century literary analysis, certainly a growing number would agree that the sense of unity achieved in Genesis, or in the Hexateuch (Genesis — Joshua), or for that matter in the entire Old Testament, is impressive despite the diversity of sources from which it was created.

On Monday, it said its offer was unconditional as it raised its bid to $ 9.20 a share, subject to achieving majority control, from the earlier $ 9 - a-share bid.

On Monday, Saputo raised its bid to $ 9.20 a share, subject to achieving majority control, from its earlier $ 9 - a-share bid and declared its offer unconditional.

Not only is a sensor program extraordinarily costly and time - consuming to manage, but achieving short - term practical use from the technology as it currently exists isn't feasible for the majority of organizations.

The fact that both Tony Blair and Paddy Ashdown shared an enthusiasm for this idea helped to ensure that rather more of the Cook - Maclennan agenda of constitutional change was achieved through our co-operation than might have been expected from a Labour government with a large majority.

«However, we substantially cut Labour's majority and achieved a 13 per cent increase in our share of the vote and a 5 per cent swing against an entirely negative campaign on local issues from the Labour Party.»

No such majority is achieved and, despite extreme pressure from Washington, Cook stands firm and, with the overwhelming backing of his party in parliament, refuses to support the American action in Iraq.

He or she needs a 5 per cent swing from 1992 if the party is to win an overall majority, more than it has achieved in any post-war election.

[31] Data gathered from individuals at 130 polling stations around the country suggested a hung parliament, with an initial estimate that the Conservative Party would achieve 307 seats — 19 seats short of a controlling majority.

We sit down with the senator this weekend to talk about her conversation with Cuomo, the conference's goals if they do achieve the majority, and how this group of Democrats is different from the dysfunctional batch that led from 2009 - 2010.

The majority of minorities entering science and engineering are from the middle - and upper - income families, but considerable debt and modest earnings (compared to business, law, and medicine) may deter even some high - achieving minority students from choosing these fields.1 Up to 25 % of academically qualified low - income students either do not apply to college2 or drop out, unable to keep pace with escalating prices.3

The lack of results could be due to various different reasons, however, one reason that is harder to notice and neglected by the majority of people, that prevents them from achieving their ideal physique is consuming too many «liquid calories».

Previous research has demonstrated that the oral arginine needed may be as high as 11 grams, which is not sustainable from a patient compliance perspective in order to achieve a pharmocodynamically effective level of 1650 mgs needed by the majority of the patient population to raise the endothelial NO.

It's just that the scenes outside from Mandela's statements of his belief that the people of his country could stand united as South Africans in spite of its apartheid history and the formulation of a plan to use a primarily white rugby team to help achieve this goal in spite of the majority of the country's initial desire to rid the nation of a vestige of those ugly times are pretty simplistic.

The school board majority that took office in Wake County last December is committed to moving the district toward neighborhood schools (and away from busing to achieve socio - economic diversity) despite a mass march that has been scheduled to take place tomorrow in downtown Raleigh to protest the policy.

Everyone, from the superintendent to Principal Eaton, emphasizes a belief that the state's assessment tool doesn't work well for online schools like Achieve, where the majority of students are enrolled because they weren't successful in a traditional system, and many are adult students.

The visit confirmed that students from minority backgrounds weren't achieving, or learning, at the same level as the majority of students in the district.

The summative grades achieved for each pupil are reported to parents, but it is clear from the low scores on two questions that the majority of pupils are not skilled in using case study examples to support their answers.

District - level reform can not achieve its potential without a consensus around the reform strategy from the district leadership, the school board, the teachers» union, and a large majority of principals and teachers in a system, as well as activist parents.

Refusing to recognize a parents inalienable right to protect their children from a testing scheme designed to fail the vast majority of Connecticut's public school children, Blumenthal and Murphy both voted NO on Senate Amendment 2162 to Senate Amendment 2089 to S. 1177 (Every Child Achieves Act of 2015).

This is despite the findings from the DfE's Academy trust survey 2017 which states that «The majority of MATs, especially those that are larger [those with six or more academies], can provide examples of efficiencies achieved, with trusts able to articulate areas where they have made significant savings including payroll, catering, and grounds maintenance.»

It achieves a mix of driving performance and fuel efficiency for a spirited and fun - to - drive character — an important differentiator from the majority of other Hybrid and Plug - in Hybrid cars that use Continuously Variable Transmissions, often criticized as having rubber - band - like acceleration, Hyundai said.

It is possible to publish a book without achieving a single award in this category, although from what we know of our authors, the majority of them will earn at least one (and the award they win in this category will often vary significantly depending upon the author and / or book).

Achieving fame at a young age is never easy and Carter's rep, Steve Honig, claims that «the overwhelming majority of the debt he is asking to be discharged is from more than 10 years ago when he was a minor and not in control of his finances.»

LifeMiles allows you to achieve status which includes recognition from the Star Alliance elite program crediting the majority of your miles from partner flights, but there is a minimum mileage - flown - with - Avianca requirement for each level as well.

The fame of her early stain paintings and her identification with transparent, fragile hues notwithstanding, the majority of Frankenthaler's most achieved later works - that is, those made from the 1970's on - derive at least part of their expressiveness from the way their luminous (or dark and smoldering) color shifts from brushy, transparent washes to declarative, superimposed strokes.

This artist ultimately managed to do what she desired for the majority of her life — to achieve the perfect purification and remove everything nonessential from her visual vocabulary [3].

Of particular importance among the long - term loans achieved through collaborative agreements are those of the Val del Omar Archive, who loaned the majority of the production and materials used by the artist in his experimentation, that of the Fundación Palazuelo and the one from the Easten Foundation, New York, with a selection of early works by Louise Bourgeois.

The modeling projects that the vast majority of emission reductions achieved by these industries under a cap - and - trade program will be from reductions in the emission - intensity of their production (e.g., increased energy efficiency, or shifts to lower - emission production methods), rather than from declines in production associated with increased imports from unregulated countries.

It will demand sacrifice, investment and restraint from the majority of the world to achieve a positive result that will take decades to manifest itself.

For countries such as the U.S. and Germany, which today produce more than half of their electricity from coal, or China and India, where a large majority of the electricity is generated from coal, it is difficult to see how cost - effective and politically viable emission reductions can be achieved during the next several decades without at least some continued use of coal....

Robinhood faces competition from industry giant Coinbase, which achieved more than $ 1 billion in revenue last year, as well as Square Cash, which recently launched commission - free Bitcoin trading to the majority of its US customers.