Sentences with phrase «in the majority for»

Both would lose their seats in the 2010 wave year following a tumultuous single - term stint in the majority for the Democrats.

«You have these, you know, long term white supremacists, you know, Republican senators who've been in the majority for a long time they've lost the majority.

That also means the Senate GOP will remain in the majority for the budget talks.

Says its good to be in majority for a change and mentions that Avella and he are usually Everyone's voting yes, to reject the project, so far.

They've been in the majority for long enough now that they should have been sponsors on some serious legislation.

With the Republicans in majority for both Houses of the 114th Congress, what are the implications for U.S. climate and energy policy?

Not exact matches

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

ATHENS, April 19 - Greece has accepted a 535 million euro offer from a consortium led by Italy's Snam for a majority stake in gas grid operator DESFA, naming it the «preferred investor,» its privatization agency said on Thursday.

A majority of Democrats have supported legalization since 2009 and independents first saw majority support for the issue in 2010.

In Iraq, 58 percent majority of Muslims who support sharia law also support the stoning of adulterers, and 56 percent support corporeal punishments for stealing.

And starting in 2008, the majority of U.S. workers, for the first time, worked at companies with 500 or more employees.

Having been in sales for the majority of my career, Jack's view of «compromise» makes me laugh.

An October 2017 Gallup poll showed 64 % of all Americans and, for the first time since the beginning of the survey in 1969, a majority of Republicans thought that the drug should be made legal.

For the first time since that 1969 poll, a majority of Republican voters told Gallup they are in favor of legalizing marijuana.

Reuters reported last month that Walmart was close to buying a majority stake in Flipkart, Amazon's biggest rival in India, for $ 10 billion to $ 12 billion.

The company's enterprise business, which accounts for the vast majority of its revenues and profits, has locked in gushers of ongoing revenue.

«Prospects for the coming 12 months remain robust; a large majority of firms foresee a rise in sales volumes, with some further pickup in sales growth, suggesting that growth is becoming entrenched,» the Bank of Canada said in its assessment of the latest survey responses to the outlook survey.

While one or two of these signals might be the post-recession «new normal» for your organization, if you see a majority or all of them in place for several months a career assessment is probably in order.

We're not interested in having a dysfunctional majority beholden to a group that wants to blame Republicans for everything wrong in the world.»

She sold a majority stake to Swiss luxury group Richemont for # 50 million ($ 71.8 million) in 2010 before leading Net - A-Porter through a $ 3.2 billion (# 2.7 billion; $ 3.9 billion) merger with Italy's Yoox Group in 2015.

The company acquired a majority stake (93 %) of Riot Games back in February 2011 for a reported $ 400 million.

Your upside is always capped: For the vast majority of employees, annual raises come in the 3 to 4 percent per year variety.

Even though a clear majority of marijuana companies mentioned Trump's name, they account for only 4 % of filings where the president's name gets mentioned in a discussion of risk factors, according to Sentieo.

His youth and enthusiasm for reform work in his favor, in a country where the majority of the population is young and eager for work.

About 100 Boardlist candidates (some of whom already sit on not - for - profit, for - profit, or advisory boards, and the vast majority of whom live in the U.S.) were asked a number of questions about their experiences in business, and also about the fact that so few women serve on corporate boards.

For example, when political newcomer David Brat successfully challenged House Republican majority leader Eric Cantor to represent Virginia in the U.S. Congress, it came as a surprise only to those reporters who didn't bother to go to Virginia and talk to «actual humans,» as Rutenberg observes (echoing an earlier analysis by Washington Post media reporter Paul Farhi).

In essence they are hoping that the vast majority of their potential customers are more likely to stop by if they display a sign saying «we're doing our bit for the planet».

As the majority owner of the National Basketball Association's Cleveland Cavaliers, he received worldwide attention in 2010 for a scathing open letter (published in the much - maligned comic sans font) decrying superstar LeBron James» decision to leave the team to sign with the Miami Heat.

In 2010, for example, Tatel wrote a majority opinion overturning an FCC decision that prevented Comcast from blocking traffic flow over BitTorrent, which facilitates large file transfers and file synching over the Internet.

In the past, sites featuring illegal, illicit, or explicit content were responsible for the vast majority of malware on the web.

About 70 per cent of mortgages in Canada are fixed rate, with the majority of those loans set for five - year terms.

Finally, services account for about 75 % of Ontario's GDP, and the majority of these services are in knowledge sectors such as financial services, insurance, healthcare, information technology and cleantech.

«Overall we view the [third quarter] result as disappointing and suggestive the company continues to lose share in the majority of markets / categories, with prestige beauty brand SK - II accounting for the majority of growth,» wrote analysts at Stifel.

• GI Partners acquired a majority stake in Doxim Inc, a Canada - based provider of customer engagement and content management SaaS solutions for financial services organizations, from Strattam Capital.

Yet a majority of pension plans in North America require a 6 % to 7 % return to stay in surplus, and this doesn't even account for the constraints that will come with an aging demographic.

Written submissions to the Company's consultation events held in November 2016 demonstrated majority support for the project.

In May, the weather dips into the 70s, sending the majority of tourists packing and leaving much of the island for yourself.

For example, in Ontario the majority of undergraduates are now effectively paying less tuition than they have been in a decade.

Recent polls suggest «Together For Yes» will probably fail to reach a majority and may need support from either the far - left CUP or the leftwing Podemos to remain in power.

«A majority of my work in attending a conference is done before I even leave home,» notes conference - goer Dennis Yu, co-founder and CEO of BlitzLocal.com, which provides Facebook advertising for brands and local businesses.

Indeed, RIM relies on smartphones, not services, for the majority of its revenue, and the decline in sales is worrying.

While the majority of account owners hope for a retirement fortune from the sidelines, self - directed account owners are building a financial legacy investing in what they know.

• Clairvest Group, which already owns a majority of Discovery Air (TSX: DA.A), agreed to acquire the remaining stake for $ 0.20 per share in a take - private deal.

September 16 — As many as 30,000 Malaysians, the majority of whom are from the Malay community, march through Kuala Lumpur in a show of support for the government.

«The problem for China is compounded by the fact that, unlike Japan, the vast majority of Chinese have not participated in this boom,» says George Friedman, CEO of Stratfor, a global intelligence company.

Polls show the race is tight and that the large «Together for Yes» block formed by pro-independence parties from the rest of political spectrum will need support from the smaller CUP to secure a 68 - seat majority in Catalonia's 135 - seat parliament.

«In reality, the majority of organizations don't necessarily understand exactly where their profits are coming from, where their key missions are being driven from, and the key things they would need to be able to do and in what timeframe if that was disrupted,» says Lyndon Bird, international technical director of the Caversham, England - based Business Continuity Institute, which provides business continuity certification and guidance for companies around the worlIn reality, the majority of organizations don't necessarily understand exactly where their profits are coming from, where their key missions are being driven from, and the key things they would need to be able to do and in what timeframe if that was disrupted,» says Lyndon Bird, international technical director of the Caversham, England - based Business Continuity Institute, which provides business continuity certification and guidance for companies around the worlin what timeframe if that was disrupted,» says Lyndon Bird, international technical director of the Caversham, England - based Business Continuity Institute, which provides business continuity certification and guidance for companies around the world.

Chris Krueger, managing director of Cowen & Co.'s Washington Research Group, laid out in a note to clients on Monday that he sees four «glaring red flags» for the Republican majority in the House (h / t Axios):

Such groups have used the word «blessed» to describe the ban for reigniting anti-U.S. sentiment in Muslim - majority countries.

Voters have made marijuana legal for medical use in a majority of U.S. states and for recreational use in seven states and the District of Columbia.