Sentences with phrase «holds the seat of»

In the 2014 local elections, Berry was elected to the Highgate ward of Camden London Borough Council, holding the seat of outgoing Green councillor Maya De Souza in a split result for the ward.

West Sussex County Councillor Anne - Marie Morris has been selected for the LibDem held seat of Newton Abbot - beating Hannah Parker.

In November 1981 Shirley Williams won the Crosby by - election from the Conservatives and this was followed by a victory in March 1982 by Roy Jenkins in the Conservative held seat of Glasgow Hillhead.

But he did win, and he held the seat of governor until 1994, when he failed in his bid for re-election, losing to George Pataki.

Nick Yarker was yesterday selected yesterday for the LibDem held seat of Bristol West.

The former Labour MP had held the seat of Bradford West since 2012 for the Respect Party.

Former SNP leader to run for Lib Dem - held seat of Gordon and says 2015 election could put his party in a commanding position

Democrats said they held the seat of first - term Sen. Mae Flexer of Killingly, who was locked in a tight rematch with Republican John French in the 29th District in eastern Connecticut.

The winner of the November election will hold the seat of retiring Democratic Senator Chris Dodd who chose not to run for reelection.

Openly gay Leeds councillor Stuart Andrew has been selected by open primary for the Labour - held seat of Pudsey.

Jason Falinski, who holds the seat of Mackellar, said the Broken Bay diocese was worried about whether the Catholic sector would have sufficient autonomy over the funding it received.

Not exact matches

And five of the eight seats that are considered «toss - ups» by one or more of the political pundits rating the races are currently held by Democrats.

According to not - for - profit Catalyst, about 20 percent of board seats at S&P 500 companies are held by women.

Less than 7 percent of private tech company board seats are held by women.

Not as well as global frontrunner Norway, where women hold 35.5 % of seats, but not as bad as laggards like Australia, Ireland and Portugal, all of which top out at 13 % or less.

Time and again the Works Council, or Betriebsrat, which holds eight of VW's 20 board seats, has played a decisive role, mobilizing the support of the state government to get its way over the interests of private shareholders.

Globally, they found women now hold 18.5 percent of board seats, compared to 13.6 in 2013.

Flipping the seat currently held by outgoing Flake could be instrumental in changing control of the Senate.

Indeed, according to another study by Catalyst, only 10.3 % of board seats in this country are held by women.

At 17, Rosemary was even younger than her niece when she took a seat on the board of the holding company that in turn owned Cara Operations.

According to Catalyst's figures, women held just 19.9 % of board seats at S&P 500 companies in 2015, up slightly from 19.2 % in 2014.

Together with VW's home state of Lower Saxony, labour representatives hold more than half of the 20 seats on the group's supervisory board that ratifies key decisions on investment, plant closures and executive appointments.

The two companies previously discussed a merger after billionaire Liberty Media Chairman and Starz shareholder John Malone exchanged part of his Starz holdings for a 3.4 % stake in Lionsgate along with a seat on the studio's board.

The party likely needs to win the seat currently held by outgoing Republican Sen. Jeff Flake if it has any chance of winning a Senate majority.

Women hold only 17 percent of board seats in corporate America, Catalyst has found.

While Republicans hold only a slim majority in the U.S. Senate, Democrats occupy most of the seats up for election in two years.

Within Fortune 500 companies, women hold just 16.9 % of board seats and 5.2 % of CEO positions, according to the Pew Research Center.

This combination of a damaged personal brand, a lack of necessary electoral data, and local dissatisfaction over Brexit, meant that Goldsmith faced an uphill battle to hold onto his seat.

With the help of TRF, which now holds a seat on FlagZone's board, he plans to enter the specialty advertising market this year.

LLR holds one seat on Gestalt's five - person board of directors.

Keisling said she and 17 others in the first wave of arrests were seated in a holding area of the county jail and separated by gender.

Today, International Women's Day, brings news that progress in the boardroom remains feeble: 10 % of directors» seats worldwide are held by women, according to a new report.

Sandberg is among the 14 per cent of women who hold executive officer positions and the 16 per cent of women who hold board of director seats, according to Catalyst.org.

With the president's party controlling the Senate by just one seat and the Senate holding not only the power to pass or block legislation, but also to confirm nominees to federal positions, including the Supreme Court, the race in Arizona to replace the departing Sen. Jeff Flake is one of several to watch this fall.

Women of colour, she writes, hold just 4 per cent of top corporate jobs and 3 per cent of board seats.

And of the 5,415 board seats on America's largest corporations, 1,057 (20 %) of them are currently held by females — up 4 % from February.

He's also an investment partner at Green Acre Capital, a cannabis - related private fund; holds director seats at the TSX - V listed food firm Hempco Food & Fibre and the medical marijuana producer Emblem Corp.; and is part of Nesta Brand Co., an operation involving former Tweed Marijuana Inc..

Labour holds two - thirds of Scotland's seats in the British Parliament, and their removal would make it harder for Labour to become the governing party again.

Virginia and New Jersey will hold gubernatorial elections later this year, and all 435 seats in the House and 33 of the 100 seats in the Senate will be contested in the 2018 midterm elections.

The GOP holds just a one - seat majority in the chamber after the surprise victory of Democrat Doug Jones in last year's Alabama special election; that means they can lose just one Republican vote, even under reconciliation (Vice President Mike Pence would cast a tie - breaker in the case of a 50 - 50 split).

At present, the National Front holds just two seats in the French parliament, out of 925.

Buffett admitted that in high school and college he held a deep - seated fear of public speaking.

There are other issues to settle, including the explosive lawsuit filed by Benchmark Capital — which owns more than 10 percent of the company and has a board seat held by Matt Cohler — against Kalanick, whom the venture firm helped oust and has been trying to restrain.

At some point, if these policies are inflationary, then the vigilantes or those that hold dollar reserves, such as China and Brazil and Mexico, they will be in the driver's seat in terms of longer - term Treasury debt, 10 years and 30 years Treasury debt in terms of their yield.

As the chart above illustrates, there is an interesting correlation between the seat - advantage a minority government holds over the official Opposition, and the length of time between general elections when the minority is in power.

According to the Thirty Percent Coalition, which aims for women to hold 30 % of board seats in public companies, there were about 25 board diversity resolutions filed in the first half of 2015.

The Canadian Board Diversity Council reports that women hold 21.6 % of seats on FP500 companies, up marginally from 19.5 % in 2015.

The Conservatives hold a majority of seats in the House of Commons, meaning support from the governing party is required for a motion to succeed.

Republicans hold 23 of the Senate's 40 seats (two are vacant), leaving Democrats with too few votes to block bills on their own.

By the early 1990s, the New Democratic Party — the political ally of the labour movement — was in power in three Canadian provinces, including Ontario, and held 43 seats in Parliament.