Sentences with phrase «if voting decisions»

But if voting decisions are inescapably dependent on calculations related to subsistence and survival, can women really be said to have meaningful political power?

Not exact matches

Sugar said: «If [politicians] lie, which results in massive decisions like leaving the European Union, or gaining votes in a general election, then this should be a criminal offence as it would be in a public company if I lied to my shareholders.&raquIf [politicians] lie, which results in massive decisions like leaving the European Union, or gaining votes in a general election, then this should be a criminal offence as it would be in a public company if I lied to my shareholders.&raquif I lied to my shareholders.»

People get very vested in the decision, and when things start to get hard about the decision we've made, we come back to that vote — if we want to change the vote, we can change the vote, but this was how we voted.»

If you do take part in the decision, do not disclose the potential conflict, or attempt to influence the vote, you risk detailed legal scrutiny after the fact.

In some situations where the owner sells more than 50 %, they can negotiate super voting right controls, which allows them to maintain decision - making control even if they no longer maintain economic control.»

I worked in a small church in Kansas once, and after about 3 months I figured out that all the real major decisions, including if the pastor got paid that week, were not made by the elders, the board or congregational vote.

But simply put, if your leadership structure is such that it requires continual committee meetings that lead to business meetings where many people get to cast votes on the direction and decisions of the church and where Roberts Rules of Order trumps biblical spiritual authority, multi-site will most likely end in a train wreck!

We need not take a poll to see if more voted the Holocaust morally evil than good before we can make a decision on this.

If religion is a factor in your voting decision, you need to study the Book of Mormon, Doctrine and Covenants and Pearl of Great Price to see the difference in Mormon beliefs and mainstream Christian beliefs.

The Four Dissenters apparently are prepared to sweep aside the unwelcome decisions of the past, if only they can get the votes.

«I would have and could have voted to allow that to go through, if I felt like we had tightly defined the ability for a woman and a doctor to be making this decision together and not have the Legislature get too deep in the weeds of how we would describe when that was appropriate.»

It is as if we have a chairman of our committee of many selves within us who does not integrate the many into one but who merely counts the votes at each decision, and leaves disgruntled minorities....

Recently when ever i watch AW on TV giving an interview i don't know weather to laugh or vote for him for the next president of France, he has become to arrogant, predictable robot like with his answers but most of all his undermining his supporters treating them like Children who don't understand, its possible you can do this if your decisions or play is always correct but to fail and pretend it like its anything ells but a failure is wrong, Arsen man up and say we fuc ed up and show your disappointment at players who are not giving all or just sub them if they are having a bad day its normal,

kronkes influence over the club is minimal at best how many decisions does he actually make in the public club domain that we all know of, i am only guessing here but just because he is majority shareholder it doesn't mean he can just do what he wants without the other board members say so, i suppose the rest of the board would vote him out of power and liquidate his shares if he did something really wrong like leveraged the club against a big debt.

If they cheat or lie to their partner and family, the voting population is hardly likely to trust them to make honest and fair decisions.

When a decision, that needs to be made, has broad implications on large parts of a society, the overall priorities of a society can only be reflected in a vote (even if some of those priorities are not identified by experts).

I got into the position of deputy general secretary because the people voted for me I didn't impose myself on the people and the point I am making is that same way the people determined that President Rawlings will be our leader, the same way people determined President Mills to be our leader, the same way people determined President Mahama will be our leader and he was our leader and if the people determine that leadership should rotate I will respect that decision of the people and respect the leader at any point in time..»

12:30 - Cameron is again asked if the vote on the inquiry decision will be a free vote.

I got into the position of deputy general secretary because the people voted for me I didn't impose myself on the people and the point I am making is that same way the people determined that President Rawlings will be our leader, the same way people determined President Mills to be our leader, the same way people determined President Mahama will be our leader and he was our leader and if the people determine that leadership should rotate I will respect that decision of the people and respect the leader at any point in time, but for now i will not endorse anyone, i will not endorse John mahama.»

Since the Supreme Court has now prevented itself from acknowledging the question of whether Barack H. Obama is or is not an Article II «natural born citizen» based on the Kenyan / British citizenship of Barack Obama's father at the time of his birth (irrespective of whether Barack Obama is deemed a «citizen» born in Hawaii or otherwise) as a prerequisite to qualifying to serve as President of the United States under the Constitution — the Court having done so at least three times and counting, first before the Nov 4 general election and twice before the Dec 15 vote of the College of Electors — it would seem appropriate, if not necessary, for all Executive Branch departments and agencies to secure advance formal advice from the United States Department of Justice Office of Legal Counsel as to how to respond to expected inquiries from federal employees who are pledged to «support and defend the Constitution of the United States» as to whether they are governed by laws, regulations, orders and directives issued under Mr. Obama during such periods that said employees, by the weight of existing legal authority and prior to a decision by the Supreme Court, believe in good faith that Mr. Obama is not an Article II «natural born citizen».

«Cummings» decision to hire data experts instead of the usual politicos, combined with a cynical understanding that it did not matter if what the campaign said was factually correct, made Vote Leave unlike any other political operation,» stated a review of the tome by the FT.

YES, but it won't help their position if they're in favor, or opposed to it and their own vote would split the decision in either case.

To make the point even more directly, if it is a consequence of a «yes» vote in the Scottish referendum that the rest of the UK must reapply to join the European Union and either looses its currency or is required to enter into a currency union with a foreign state, the impact of the decision is such that the English, Welsh, and Northern Irish voters should also have a say.

The rules for the referendum might not be as some of us would have wished but I can't think of anything more likely to increase disdain for MPs than if they vote to reject the people's decision.

Even if an election is influenced by a minority it is still a democratic decision; the majority could have voted differently (or voted at all).

Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos said last year that he would advocate bringing the marriage bill back to the floor if the GOP returned to power in the chamber, but also said he would leave the final decision about whether a vote should be held to his conference.

If Cuomo had truly decided he'd found a way to outsmart the owners of Indian Point — if the D.E.C. proposal weren't, in fact, the result of a decision by bureaucrats to save some fish — he would normally be expected to make sure the voting public found out about iIf Cuomo had truly decided he'd found a way to outsmart the owners of Indian Point — if the D.E.C. proposal weren't, in fact, the result of a decision by bureaucrats to save some fish — he would normally be expected to make sure the voting public found out about iif the D.E.C. proposal weren't, in fact, the result of a decision by bureaucrats to save some fish — he would normally be expected to make sure the voting public found out about it.

41 % of Conservative voters said that if there was not a re-evaluation of the decision by the Government, the probability of their vote being affected would be 4 or 5 out of 5 (with 5 being the most likely)

So the mayor's defense lawyers had recently been pushing Bharara to make a decision sooner rather than later, by arguing that Bharara would be seen as «pulling a Comey» and putting his thumb on the voting scales if he waited much longer.

Even if you were wavering over whether Ed Miliband's decision yesterday to reject the government's motion on Syria (before it was published) was a political stunt, it's a little more difficult to see why the Labour leader plans to continue to oppose the rewritten motion when it comes to a vote in the Commons this evening.

If voting for a party other than Labour was a hard decision for many, it was also a revelation — even a liberation.»

If Cameron was right that the decision was a judgement call, last week's vote has shown that UK parliamentarians now require a higher burden of proof when making judgements on the use of force than they may have done in the past.

If people's votes were fairly represented, under a proportional voting system, any given party which had control of a local authority would have to justify its decisions more frequently as a result of being monitored by a greater number of scrutineers who more accurately reflect the will of local people.

Moreover, the quality of decision making would be improved if the abolition of the Lords was accompanied by appropriate reforms to the House of Commons (such as changing the voting system to PR and greatly strengthening select committees to scrutinise legislation and temporarily appoint outside expert advisers, etc).

In plain English, if unelected members were given a vote on the standards committee, its decisions, such as the suspension of an MP, would lose their protection from judicial challenge.

In the short term, the decision to allow a free vote makes it easier for David Cameron to achieve a parliamentary majority in favour of airstrikes, even if some Conservative MPs rebel.

The saying that «if voting changed anything they would abolish it» rings all too true today in Britain's highly centralised system of government, where so many decisions are made by those who were not elected and can not be removed.

If he had to make a decision on the bill in the form that was passed, he would have held his nose and voted for it.

According to an order for declaratory judgment which was sent by Rosenblum to a New York state Supreme Court judge on Oct. 17, the mayor will seek to nullify a decision by the Democratic majority of Leon Potok, David Finch and Ilissa Miller on the village board to authorize a ballot referendum that — if passed by public vote on Election Day — would restrict Rosenblum's ability to appoint a village attorney as well as certain land use board members.

Mr. Meguin said that Planning Board members were afraid they'd be sued if they voted against the store, even though the burden of proof is very high for those challenging municipal decisions.

If the board votes to remove a fellow member, that person has the right to appeal the decision to the commissioner of education, who reviews the case and decides whether to uphold the decision.

The decision to retain Benn will disappoint some of Corbyn's allies who had warned that the shadow foreign secretary would be at the centre of future rebellions, such as the vote over Syria, if he remained in post.

Yesterday's decision suggests that the younger of the Miliband brothers is emerging as the favourite candidate of trade activists, which will boost his vote but will be used against him by the Tories if he wins.

This means that if the Lords votes to reject Osborne's plans, the Commons can not overturn this decision.

If too many people voted for the Liberals or all these fringe parties, you'd have a government which did not have the authority to take tough and necessary decisions all the time.

He has often proved a troublesome backbencher for Plaid Leader Leanne Wood but ultimately it's a decision for all AMs, who will vote in a secret ballot if there's more than one candidate.

If a vote did result in a decision to destroy the stocks, the United States and Russia would be left in a difficult position, says Tucker.

O.J.: Made In America likely would have made the cut if not for a (totally defensible) editorial decision to classify it as television rather than film, but I voted for three other docs this year: Tower (addressed in the «outlier» section of my ballot), Author: The JT LeRoy Story (which correctly recognizes that letting Laura Albert expand on her own «myth» makes for better cinema than any objective investigative alternative), and Weiner... which ranked lowest on my personal list, but is the one I'm most surprised not to see on the collective list.

The good news is that thanks to the reform movement's decision to challenge him — as well as the fact that he nearly lost office — Zimmer will now choose his votes carefully if only in an attempt to keep reformers happy enough to not mount back another challenger in four years.

Curriculum decisions should be made locally with community input and individuals should have the opportunity to «vote with their feet» by moving to another school if they don't like the curriculum a school may choose.