Sentences with phrase «hand over voting»

As a rule, Milner has said he doesn't take board seats in his later - stage investments, and rarely requires founders to hand over voting shares when issuing company stock.

«WFP should learn from this rejection that power for working people comes from their independent political action, not acting as a faction of the Democratic coalition and handing over their votes to the corporate - dominated Democratic Party, which then takes their votes for granted and reduces their leverage and power to nothing.

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Senators with young children like Duckworth are similarly not allowed to hand over their children to a staffer during a vote due to conflict of interest rules.

Dogwood's Strategy Director Will Horter reflects on this historic day It looks like British Columbians may finally get a government ready to fight for what's right in B.C. Today, Christy Clark announced her intention to bring back the B.C. legislature as soon as possible in June, face a confidence vote and hand over power to -LSB-...]

While the official team picked by UEFA did not include the Arsenal star but did feature his international team mates Toni Kroos of Real Madrid, Jerome Boateng and Joshua Kimmich of Bayern Munich, Squawka.com have reported that Ozil won the fans vote hands down with over a quarter of all the votes polled.

When he voted for that bill he said to the people of his district I approve borrowing more money from foreigners to hand it over to the wealthy so we can have an excuse to cut Medicaid, Medicare, and Social Security after November!

Then, when Democrats still won a majority, he cut a backroom deal that allowed Republicans to take over the State Senate through the Independent Democratic Conference (IDC)-- a group of breakaway Democrats who voted with the Republicans to hand them control, and with it, the power to block almost all of our key Democratic legislative priorities.

With some effort, though, you should be able to get your hands on this really valuable data, which will tell you the party affiliation of each voter and should give you a sense of their voting history over the last few years.

As the letter was handed over in Brussels Theresa May told MPs in the Commons that she was aware there would be consequences of leaving and that many people who voted to remain would be sad however she added: «This is an historic moment from which there can be no turning back.

Nine months after the shock referendum vote to leave the bloc, Britain handed over a momentous letter to the EU president in Brussels, triggering Article 50 of the bloc's Lisbon Treaty and firing the starting gun on a two - year countdown towards Brexit.

«De Blasio and Recchia voted together over 99 percent of the time in the City Council and teamed up to raise almost every middle class tax on Staten Islanders and Brooklynites they could get their hands on.

That possibility remains for former county Democratic Party chair and incumbent county legislator John Parete of Boiceville, who holds a slim 20 vote lead over Democratic challenger Kathy Nolan in the 22nd district, which includes Shandaken, Olive, Denning and Hardenburgh, with 217 absentee ballots on hand at the county board of elections and a possibility of more arriving before they can be opened beginning Wednesday, November 15.

The seat has been in Labour hands since 1918 and the current MP, Wayne David, will defend a notional majority of 13,517 over Plaid Cyrmru, with the Conservatives starting in third place with 14.7 % of the vote.

The Riverhead Health Center will become the last of eight county - run health clinics to be handed over to a private entity after the county Legislature voted on Tuesday to partner with a Westchester nonprofit.

The vote in London also emboldened opponents of intervention in the US Congress, which in turn led the Russian president, Vladimir Putin to use his influence to persuade Damascus to hand over the bulk of its chemical weapons.

The vote was expected to see the first democratically elected leader in 73 years to hand power over to another elected leader [Abbas Dulleh / AP]

In the Commons tomorrow, Labour will use ancient parliamentary rules to force a binding vote which could see ministers having to hand over all the papers presented to the Brexit war Cabinet on the economic effects of both options.

Government whips thought they would lose if the motions were put to a vote and so Tory MPs abstained, with the result that the motions were passed and the documents were handed over to select committees.

The council voted 41 in favor and 6 against on two bills that will largely end cooperation with the federal government when it requests an immigration detainer — which asks Corrections or the NYPD to hold a person for 48 hours when they might otherwise be released so that the person can be handed over the the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency.

«Labour will ensure that the British people, through Parliament, have genuine accountability and oversight over the Brexit negotiations because no one voted to give Prime Minister Theresa May a free hand over our future.»

While Proposal 1 was handed a resounding loss — and a measure to bar officials convicted of a crime of their state pensions easily passed — returns for the land bank were a nail - biter, with «no» votes leading the charge until late - night returns from the Adirondacks put the proposal over the top, carving out a modest 4 percent victory.

The committee vote hands over the baton to the whole Parliament, which is slated to vote on the issue next month.

Nearly 400 of you took the time to cast your vote, and, on the basis of your vote, I am willing to predict that the Duncan Administration is going to hand out awards to well over a majority of the contestants.

Desperate for change, Mr. Seigal and his colleagues voted in 1989 to hand the management of Chelsea's schools over to Boston University.

The State Board of Education voted to give Milner to Jumoke at their meeting in August 2012, but FUSE, the parent company that signed the contract to run Milner, wasn't even formed until October 2012 ---- more than six months AFTER Pryor and his team had decided to hand over millions of state taxpayer dollars to run Milner.

On the other hand, a handful of districts have formally voted to maintain the April votes to continue to give local voters a say over spending, even if within the caps.

Kishimoto, who is leaving as Hartford's Superintendent, has laid out an absurdly inappropriate and expedited process to get the Hartford Board of Education to vote to close Clark and hand the building over to Achievement First, Inc..

Meanwhile, in preparation for a rush vote to close Hartford's Clark School and hand it over to Achievement First, Inc., Hartford Superintendent of Schools Christina Kishimoto has provided the Hartford Board of Education with a «School Redesign Analysis» that attempts to justify her proposal by literally selecting only those measurement criteria that will bolster her fraudulent claims.

Yet very quickly, Florida parents realized that this measure, which died in the State Senate on a 20 - 20 bipartisan tie vote, represented yet another underhanded ploy by corporate reformers, including Jeb Bush and Michelle Rhee, to hand public schools over to private, for - profit operators.

Commissioner Pryor and the State Board of Education voted to hand over a Hartford school to a charter school operator who has no experience with bilingual students AND no experience with students who come from households in which English is not the primary language.

While people may disagree about the appropriateness of handing over a public school, where nearly half the children go home to households where English is not the primary language, to a company that has never educated a single bi-lingual student, no one should misunderstand the nature of last night's Board of Education vote.

I bought shares hand over fist immediately after the Brexit vote.

You put the decision for my next game in the hands of bunch of kids who will vote for a game just because its 3D (doesn't mater if its only a square 3D) over 2 much better choices.

The eleven justices of the Supreme Court heard evidence over four days in December before handing down their judgment today, establishing, by a margin of eight to three, that the UK Parliament must have a vote on whether the government may begin the official Brexit process, triggering Article 50.

There was some hand - wringing, particularly by Justice Samuel A. Alito, Jr., over how difficult it is for a judge to «draw the line» on when a voting requirement would or would not pass a constitutional test.

Arguing in favor of the law banning lying is the sad irony that quite often those with their hands on the very levers of democracy, free elections and the right to vote — candidates, their handlers, public and special interest groups — don't trust the public to make the right decision based on an honest and robust debate over the issues, but instead find it incumbent to win by smearing the opposing candidate.

The documents make it clear that Zuckerberg, a hands - on leader, will retain control over the company even after the stock offering because of special shares he will own that carry 10 times the voting rights of public shares.