Sentences with phrase «give more votes»

If someone didn't understand - I mean active votes, not passive (rich man can give more votes to his fav candidate than not rich)

Not exact matches

Its mission is to «help voters take back control of their democracy» by giving them a place to debate issues, research candidates» platforms, recruit vote pledges from others and more.

Dual - class share structures, which give controlling shareholders more than one vote per share or designate some shares as non-voting, are particularly unpopular among governance wonks and institutional investors.

The election result was surprising to political analysts as it saw the Lega party overtake Forza Italia, its center - right coalition partner, in terms of vote share giving it more influence in the coalition and potentially at a national level.

Giving Republicans more Benghazi information, like that demanded by Graham, «would probably win at least some Republican votes for Mr. Brennan,» say Shane and Mazzetti.

And Democrats like Sen. Ron Wyden (Ore.) are threatening to vote against the CIA nominee unless Obama gives lawmakers access to more classified legal documents underpinning Obama's drone policy.

While fundamentally the consolidation of power could cut Turkey's structural growth potential, cyclically the destructive focus on short - term votes to win the referendum should give way to a more pragmatic focus on returning to growth,» the bank said.

Dual classes give some shareholders more voting rights per share than others.

European Union and Asian governments are frustrated that the U.S. Congress has held up a reform of voting rights in the International Monetary Fund that would give China and other emerging powers more say in global economic governance.

The Senate is preparing to scale back the sweeping banking regulations passed after the 2008 financial crisis, with more than a dozen Democrats ready to give Republicans the votes they need to weaken one of President Barack Obama's largest legislative achievements.

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This way the shareholders can retain their level of control in the company without having to go out and purchase more shares just for the power of the vote that will give the shareholder more clout at the board level for his / her interests in corporate activities.

And give us more of the vote, I suppose.

The alternative route needed more study on both the state and federal level, she said before the final vote, and it failed to give landowners along that different path the ability to address the commission.

Too bad if more people vote FOR those who support giving poor women access to health care than vote as you do.

Just did, thank you for pointing that out... It does appear that the more precise and correct word, when applied to the voting example I gave above is plurality which is synonymous with «relative majority».

But there the crusty pol and the personable young professor recently raised to political prominence were, going on and on about the minutiae of which health care plan will give more money and choice to the middle class and who voted for what and when in the fetid world of senatorial maneuverings.

They threaten anybody that doesn't vote republican; now they have a bunch of crooks who want to give more money to big oil and take it from the working people of this country.

Anti-trafficking campaigners are celebrating victory in the House of Lords after a vote to give greater protection... More

As politics is governed more and more by the wealthy, masses of people have given up hope in democratic policies and do not even vote.

When it comes to voting though I tend to give more weight to fiscal issues rather than social.

However, I can tell you that if Barack Obama had been pro-life or was even just more pro-life than Mitt Romney, I would not have even hesitated in giving my vote to Obama.

Santorum's views on Satan and his attack on America give me more reason to vote for him.

The reason for the present Republican surge is that this isn't change that most Americans believe in, although it is change they voted for (at least if any of them gave a moment's thought to the more or less inevitable policy consequences of their votes for Obama and a Democratic Congress).

U.S. government leaders and an «objective» press described the Sandinistas in Nicaragua as «communist,» «Marxist,» «Marxist / Leninist,» «totalitarian,» «Cuban - backed,» or «Soviet - backed» so often that few U.S. citizens knew that Sweden was giving more aid to Nicaragua per capita than to any other country or that while Nicaragua does have both a Communist party and a Marxist - Leninist party these two parties together received less than 3 percent of the vote and are distinct from and hostile to the Sandinista party.

I'm far more comfortable giving money to government and then voting someone out of office if I don't like what they do with it.

But just as religiously committed Evangelical and Mainline Protestants were much more likely to vote Republican than their nominally religious brethren, regularly attending white Catholics gave Bush a narrow plurality over Clinton (41 percent to 39 percent), while less - observant Catholics gave Clinton a bigger margin (44 percent to 33 percent).

But more unexpectedly, given that Hawaii was one of the first states where the issue surfaced, a Hawaii state representative has caused waves for becoming the first openly gay lawmaker to vote against a state's same - sex marriage bill.

Ray I agree with you 100 % and more Pat roberson is a confuse old man who will not give up power to his son, poor billy can not remenber, and his son is in charge, if Billy son and all the born again christians vote for a cult may God help then, do you want a mornan President in the White hous with 4 Wives, and worship a man name Joseph Smith, rather than Jesus Christ, Pat Roberson need to tell his listeners the truth about cults.

I am as capable of judging for myself as they were, and I think more so, because, as they made a living by their religion, they had a self - interest in the vote they gave.

«You can not take countries away from Europe and if you want to be elected as Fifa president, you need the votes from the African countries, so you want to give more to Africa.

last year and the year before and before I gave WENGER the vote of confidence and to some extent agreed with his thinking but NO MORE this man needs to leave I don't care if the next one after him is worse....

The announcement comes the same day that the Chelsea front office gave Mourinho the dreaded «public vote of confidence» — an ironic public statement that more often than not has spelled the end for many elite manager's tenures.

The German midfielder, who has just won the Player - of - the - Month for November with more than half the votes, will give the club a nice Christmas present if we can get him signed up quickly.

That's just ridiculous and people giving you up votes are more ridiculous.

With more than 10 qualified players on ballots lately but only 10 votes to give, this has been important: hopefully we'll continue to see ballots revealed publicly leading up to the announcement so Thibodaux can track them, with the full reveal coming after the results are announced to fill in the blanks.

I voted for Alexis why, cos 1) he runs around too much without an end product most times 2) his game is more readable by most defenders now 3) if he's all that, why did Barca get rid of him 4) his interlink play is not that good 5) he gives the ball away far too often 6) too independent really - not much of a team man

However, more than 51,000 fans voted for Ozil this year, giving him 45.9 per cent of the vote, and placing him well ahead of Bayern Munich's Thomas Muller (15.9 per cent) in second place.

More than two - in - five (44 %) respondents to our Sentiment Survey gave the title to Fornaroli with team mate, Aaron Mooy, in second place with a little over a quarter of the vote (26 %).

I'm giving them a pass on the 3 - 1 loss to Baylor, because while the Bears were picked to finish sixth in the nine team Big 12 (insert joke here), there are two Big 12 teams ranked and three more getting votes.

I hadn't given a whole lot of thought as to when I would do the calls, I just knew that I feel so strongly about this election that I wanted to do something more than exercise my right and responsibility to vote.

The district's commissioners voted 4 - 1 to give up land for a proposed road in exchange for more land and a cash donation.

Earlier this week, the House of Representatives approved the legislation that will modernize food safety laws, voting 215 to 144 in favor of giving the FDA more oversight over food production.

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 year, a few thousand more votes in marginals would have given Cameron an overall majority.

Second, the electoral college was set up to weed out «unacceptable» candidates not by dividing fringe voters in different states per se but by giving the electors the power to elect the candidate who lost the popular vote in the event that the more popular candidate turned out to be unacceptable for whatever reason.

Therefore, conceptually, if two people already - as universally supported - don't necessarily have the same voting weight (you can have a vote taken away from you for presumably doing wrong to society), what is the moral / philosophical argument against having select people being given additional votes for presumably doing more than average for society?

Given that low - income individuals are the most likely to not vote largely because they need to work - often being paid hourly and needing the money more desperately than others, and that low - income individuals are more likely to be Democrats than Republicans, why hasn't a democratic politician spearheaded this effort that could see increased turnout from their base?

Molinaro announced he had secured the endorsements of three more county chairs from Westchester, Niagara and Albany, giving him more than 80 percent of the weighted vote heading into next month's Republican convention in New York City.

Direct democracy is obviously superior as it gives you more flexibility and freedoms when it comes to voting.