Sentences with phrase «in a majority vote»

The day following the election, I heard veteran reporter Keith Baldrey comment that the BC Liberals could take heart from the fact that the province turned right in its majority vote for Stephen Harper and this Tories.

good news is there are less and less of them every year and soon, some day rational thought will be in the majority voting rather than insane bible tooting fools.

The senior backbencher Barry Sheerman, the chairman of the schools select committee, called for a secret ballot of Labour MPs on Brown's future, which he predicted would result in a majority vote for the prime minister to go.

The bill breaks with past Democratic proposals by allowing the legislative majority to hire or terminate the inspector general in a majority vote.

But the bill, approved unanimously by the GOP - controlled Rules Committee, breaks with past Democratic proposals by allowing the legislative majority to hire or terminate the inspector general in a majority vote.

The referendum on 23 June 2016 in the United Kingdom resulted in a majority vote in favour of the UK's withdrawal from the European Union.

The referendum on 23 June 2016 in the United Kingdom resulted in a majority vote in favour of the UK's withdrawal from the European Union.

The Tribunal reached its decision in a majority vote and ordered that the case move to a phase regarding the merits of the claims brought by the bondholders.

In a majority vote of eight to three this week, the Supreme Court found the government required an Act of Parliament to notify of its intention to leave the EU.

The referendum on 23 June 2016 in the United Kingdom resulted in a majority vote in favour of the UK's withdrawal from the European Union.

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Anyone can propose a trade, but the majority has to vote in favour for the trade to proceed.

The contest is particularly significant because if Jones wins, Republicans will maintain just a one - vote majority in Congress» upper chamber.

It still needs to pass a vote in parliament later in the day, although that is assured given the AK Party's majority.

Downing Street has ruled out such membership, preferring to be able to negotiate free trade deals with the rest of the world, but the majority of members in the upper house of the U.K.'s parliament, the House of Lords, have voted against that, forcing a debate on the issue.

While a majority of Goldman Sachs (gs) shareholders voted in favor of executive pay plans on Friday at the bank's annual meeting in its Jersey City offices, around 34 % did not.

The Senate speaker of the house is elected through a voting process that requires a simple majority in a run - off ballot.

The vote was actually inconclusive with no party garnering a majority in parliament, although Grillo's anti-establishment party surged dramatically.

A snap election is unlikely, however, as PiS has a majority in parliament and could block any vote of no confidence.

The voting process in that parliamentary chamber is less straightforward, requiring a two - thirds majority in the early stages of the vote before an absolute majority in the final stages of the vote.

The ongoing dispute between so - called Remainers and Brexiteers about this relationship took another turn last week when a majority of the U.K.'s House of Lords — the upper house of parliament — voted that the U.K. should stay in a customs union with the EU, something the government under Prime Minister Theresa May has said would not happen.

The motion, a broadly worded declaration of support for foreign policy, received 158 votes in favor, below the necessary majority of 160 votes and was followed by a chorus of opposition calls for the government to «quit, quit, quit».

The chair of the county's GOP said he first realized there could be a big flip in the vote after the state's April primary, in which Trump attracted the vast majority of Luzerne County voters.

Senators are attempting to craft their own legislation, but Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has stated he's not sure the chamber will muster the 50 votes needed to pass an overhaul, especially in the CBO report's wake.

But his fragile grip on power will be tested again in the coming weeks when the Senate, where he has only a wafer - thin majority, votes on financing Italy's military presence in Afghanistan, a mission opposed by some leftist senators.

«You're so ridiculously proud of your self - declared majority, but you don't have enough votes to approve the Afghanistan decree,» Berlusconi said in parliament.

Indeed, the 2016 election may be the last one in U.S. history before the self - employed comprise a majority of the voting electorate.

«For sure, the priorities are immigration, the control of borders, of Europe, (the issue of) cultural identities and the understanding of how the Italian society should move ahead in a globalized world,» Terzi di Sant «Agata said, following the Italian election result which pointed to a hung parliament where no one party or coalition gained a majority of the vote that would allow it to govern alone.

In an SEC filing, Facebook has said Zuckerberg will begin by gifting no more than $ 1 billion in stock annually for the next three years, and that he «intends to retain his majority voting position in our stock for the foreseeable future.&raquIn an SEC filing, Facebook has said Zuckerberg will begin by gifting no more than $ 1 billion in stock annually for the next three years, and that he «intends to retain his majority voting position in our stock for the foreseeable future.&raquin stock annually for the next three years, and that he «intends to retain his majority voting position in our stock for the foreseeable future.&raquin our stock for the foreseeable future.»

But both the committee and the government are under pressure to resolve the issue sooner with a free vote in the legislature which, given the governing Liberals» slim majority, would likely doom the tax.

The strategy is intended to produce a bipartisan majority vote for Mr. Brennan in the Senate Intelligence Committee without giving its members seven additional legal opinions on targeted killing sought by senators and while protecting what the White House views as the confidentiality of the Justice Department's legal advice to the president.

Musk has recused himself from voting on the deal, but that doesn't stop him from doing media interviews, where he claims he expects a two - thirds majority in favor of the merger.

Already, sticking points in the plan have emerged, threatening the loss of votes for a party that holds only a narrow majority in the Senate.

It's politically risky for the federal government to ride roughshod over state laws voted in by a majority of the people, says William McGrath, a partner at the Washington, D.C. - based Potomac Law Group.

In April, they voted in favor of a shareholder proposal requiring annual majority rule votes for all directors, which Nabors has said they will abide bIn April, they voted in favor of a shareholder proposal requiring annual majority rule votes for all directors, which Nabors has said they will abide bin favor of a shareholder proposal requiring annual majority rule votes for all directors, which Nabors has said they will abide by.

In the meantime, the political math has become far more demanding for Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, with key GOP Senators saying they won't even vote yes on the motion to proceed on the bill, much less the legislation itself.

Opposition leader Julius Maada Bio of the Sierra Leone People's Party led with 43.3 percent of the vote in the first round of elections but failed to secure a majority vote needed to win, according to the electoral commission.

But his «safe hands on the economy» message cut through in the end, with the coalition winning a majority of seats in 1998 despite Labor winning 51 per cent of the two - party vote.

Obama won a majority of the vote in Philadelphia and Pittsburgh in both elections.

As The Information notes, Kalanick and two people close to him control a majority of shareholder votes, an approach that has become frequently used in tech startups.

In 2012, the first election under those new maps, Republicans won a 33 - seat majority in the U.S. House even though Democratic candidates across the country received 1.4 million more votes than their Republican opponentIn 2012, the first election under those new maps, Republicans won a 33 - seat majority in the U.S. House even though Democratic candidates across the country received 1.4 million more votes than their Republican opponentin the U.S. House even though Democratic candidates across the country received 1.4 million more votes than their Republican opponents.

It might seem odd to have a family dynasty at the helm of one of the world's most powerful media organizations, but such an arrangement — in which the Sulzbergers control the majority of the voting shares — used to be the rule in media rather than the exception.

The conservatives, liberals and socialists, who command a large majority of the parliamentary seats, will work out a joint motion on Tuesday and expect to debate the issue in parliament on Wednesday and vote on it on Thursday, Tremosa's aide said on Monday.

Second, the electoral college got stuck in to provide a last line of defense against public stupidity — in case you didn't know it, the electors aren't legally bound to vote as their state's majority has.

The two bickered earlier this week about the so - called «nuclear option» Reid is considering that would dramatically change Senate rules in confirming Cabinet appointees, shifting the approval process to a simple majority vote in the Seante.

Skinny, of course, was the last and most cynical of the various Trumpcare resolutions that the Senate Majority Leader put forth this week — and which the full Senate voted on, and ultimately rejected, in the dead of night.

Zuckerberg plans to retain his majority voting position in the company for the «foreseeable future,» according to a filing.

So slim that the president can easily veto any significant piece of legislation they send to his desk (i.e. repeal of the Affordable Care Act) and there's nowhere near the two - thirds majority vote in both Houses needed to override.

Scrapping the filibuster, known in political circles as the «nuclear option,» would require McConnell to wrangle a majority of senators to vote to suspend the rule.

Projections showing Macron had won a commanding majority in France's weekend vote saw Paris stocks make a 1.1 % gain as the country's bonds also outperformed in fixed income markets.

Second, very few U.S. presidents in recent history have won two elections with a majority of the popular vote.