Sentences with phrase «give equal voting»

The business owner does not want to give equal voting rights to all the children.

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.

Not exact matches

Had they voted to give equal rights to the pro choice proponents, this would not have been an issue.

Schlafly, again nearly single - handedly, managed to stop the feminist - backed Equal Rights Amendment to the Constitution dead in its tracks in 1982 — a startling feat, given that the ERA had the backing of nearly the entire political and intellectual establishment, Republicans included, and had garnered ratification votes during the 1970s from thirty - five of the necessary thirty - eight states.

Politicians are notorious, particularly in the country, for giving people what they want in order to garner votes regardless of the long term effects (say it with me: 16 trillion dollars) The mere fact that a political decision is made may suffice for proponents but you and I both know that political victory doesn't equal moral certainty

It is not about getting votes: regardless of whether a candidate receives one nomination or ten, each candidate is given equal consideration.

More than three quarters of respondents (77 %) reported having been discriminated on the basis of their disability and 73 % said they had not been given fair and equal opportunities when applying for teaching jobs or promotion Other results from the real - time interactive voting session included:

This plan gives upstate and downstate equal voting power rather than systematically advantaging one over another.

While the exact rules vary from state to state, essentially a voter is voting for a set of electors chosen by the party, and the most votes for a given party / candidate selects that set of electors, so where there is winner takes all, the set of electors is equal to the total number of electors for that state

Campaign staff MUST weigh the risks and rewards of any given tactic, since they are painfully aware that wasted time equals lost opportunities (lost votes and lost donations).

He demanded union party members should be given the right to choose Labour candidates in constituencies, have an «equal say» in the election of the party leader and the «right to a level playing field in the party where their views and votes count as much» as other party members.

These include: pension forfeiture for convicted felon elected officials who betray their oath of office, term limits for leaders, truth in spending to bring sunlight to state spending in the shadows to end quid pro-quos, equal staffing and resources for members, and giving rank and file members the ability to bring legislation to the Floor for an up or down vote.

Being influenced to Vote as a result of things that are given out during the electioneering period can not be equalled to any proper sense of voting.

Council Speaker Christine Quinn said «every voter must be given equal opportunity to exercise their right to vote.»

«Every voter must be given equal opportunity to exercise their right to vote,» Quinn said in a statement.

Her about - turn will bring to mind the actions of education secretary Nicky Morgan, who also voted against equal marriage and then indicated she had changed her mind after being given the equalities portfolio last year.

Subject to the vagaries of constituency size, it gives each vote equal weight: the duke's vote is worth no more than the dustman's.

It was also a Liberal / Conservative National Government that gave women over the age of 30 the vote in 1918 and a Conservative government under Stanley Baldwin that in 1928 established an equal voting age of 21 for men and women.

The Deputy Leader wants to scrap the «one member one vote» system used for electing Labour leaders, and restore the old «electoral college» which gave an equal say to party members, trade unions and Labour MPs.

One of the pragmatic reasons the union officials who play such a big role in the WFP's operation wanted to give him its nomination rather than backing an obscure law professor whose lack of name recognition at the time was equaled only by her paucity of funding was that they felt more confident he could produce the 50,000 votes on the WFP line necessary to preserve its spot on the state ballot four years from now.

Labour leadership elections have previously been decided by a complex electoral college system, with equal weight given to the votes of three groups - one third to MPs and MEPs, one third to ordinary party members and one third to trade unionists.

No it would be crazy not to have an English Parliament, as such its is appreciated that Scots think the West Lothian question is a problem, how big of them, but then it matters not one jot, for the Scots voted for what they wanted, and got it, now its long past the time when English people get to vote for what they want, and if they want to be fobbed off with some rubbish Grand Committee fine I'll go along with it, but English people should also be given the opportunity to vote for an equal settle to what the Scots vote for themselves, unless you are saying Britain no longer does equality?

At the moment, Labour leadership elections are decided by a complex «electoral college» system, with equal weight given to the votes of three groups - one third to MPs and MEPs, one third to ordinary party members and one third to trade unionists.

And because some voters not inclined to vote for Oldman may have this very thought on their minds, we give Kaluuya's seething struggle in the face of molecular - level marginalization in Get Out equal odds to upset alongside Chalamet, stunning in Call Me by Your Name as any privileged character possibly could be in 2017.

Given the Constitution's protection of the right to vote, the equal protection clause also would support a federal right to an education that prepares students to be competent voters and civic participants — enabling them, for instance, to comprehend complex ballot initiatives and serve competently on a jury, as education law scholar and litigator Michael Rebell has contended.

Given the NAACP's long history of advocating for equal resources for all traditionally public schools, it was no surprise the board voted in favor a moratorium, said Brown.

By 1930 (except in some particulars in a very few backward states) women had been given equal legal rights with men to vote, to hold office, to serve on juries, to control their own property, and to be guardians of their own children.

The sum total of all shares, theoretically, equals the entire value of the company, and so with N shares in existence, one share is equivalent to 1 / Nth the company, and entitles you to 1 / Nth of the profits of the company, and more importantly to some, gives you a vote in company matters which carries a weight of 1 / Nth of the entire shareholder body.

This is most likely in an effort to avoid some sort of level voting process while also giving each map equal playing time, but it seems a little strange that not all maps are always available.

The DePaul study confirms Rehnquist's anecdotal experience, concluding that «all things being equal, the presence of additional liberal clerks in a given justice's chambers makes a liberal vote more likely, the study says, while the presence of additional conservative clerks pushes justices in the opposite direction.