Sentences with phrase «lack of voting rights»

Preferred stock typically has a lower price and may appreciate less due to fixed dividends and lack of voting rights.

The Shareholders lack of voting rights gives all control under the Trust Agreement to the Sponsor and the Trustee.

But the stock quickly turned lower, with analysts flagging widening losses, slowing user growth and lack of voting rights for outside investors.

In a conference call with analysts on April 12, Google CEO Larry Page took credit for a similar lack of voting rights at other companies.

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True, shares with inferior voting rights may cost less (the market's way of compensating owners for their lack of control).

Shareholders may be adversely affected by lack of regular shareholder meetings and no voting rights.

«New Yorkers are frustrated with the lack of progress on issues like voting reforms, gun violence prevention, women's rights, and so many more that have been held up by the Senate Republicans for far too long.»

It has even been argued that along with the decline in royal power should come the right to vote: if our new King lacks special constitutional powers, why shouldn't he at least enjoy the ordinary constitutional power the rest of us exercise?

In the statement from Executive Director Geoff Berman, Republicans are blamed for a lack of success on issues like early voting, bolstering abortion rights, the Dream Act and the Child Victims Act.

«Mark Harper admits «exasperation» over prisoner voting rights as he faces the wrath of angry Tory MPs Main Health Minister makes reducing abortion rate «an absolute priority» as Nadine Dorries raises concerns over lack of pre-abortion counselling»

As the Rokita court noted, voters who lack Photo ID undoubtedly exist somewhere, but the fact that Plaintiffs, in spite of their efforts, have failed to uncover anyone «who can attest to the fact that he / she will be prevented from voting» provides significant support for a conclusion that the Photo ID requirement does not unduly burden the right to vote.

Jarret Berg, Executive Director of the New York Democratic Lawyers Council (NYDLC) said: «The premise of our democracy is that Americans have the fundamental right to participate in the election of its leaders, but today, millions of busy New Yorkers lack real opportunities to vote because they are restricted to voting on one workday from one assigned location.

Efforts to limit access to voting, compounded by election security concerns, have created a lack of confidence in the U.S. voting system, said Myrna Perez, professor of law and director of the Brennan Center for Justice Voting Rights and Elections Project at the New York University School of Law.

To that end, he focuses on passing the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which pits Johnson and his Senate ally Hubert Humphrey (Bradley Whitford) against segregationist Dixiecrats, such as Sen. Richard Russell Jr. (Frank Langella) of Georgia, as well as movement leaders like Martin Luther King Jr. (Anthony Mackie), who were disappointed in the bill's lack of protection for voting rRights Act of 1964, which pits Johnson and his Senate ally Hubert Humphrey (Bradley Whitford) against segregationist Dixiecrats, such as Sen. Richard Russell Jr. (Frank Langella) of Georgia, as well as movement leaders like Martin Luther King Jr. (Anthony Mackie), who were disappointed in the bill's lack of protection for voting rightsrights.

One can't help but wonder if some of the emotional and thematic impact that's lacking here might have been better engendered if, say, the film had more room for Rachel (Gugu Mbatha - Raw), a slave on a local plantation who later becomes Newton's second wife, or Moses (Mahershala Ali), a runaway who fights for voting rights for freedmen when the war is finished.

The latter is summarized in an early analysis by Martin Luther King Jr. (David Oyelowo, giving a performance that encapsulates the spirit of that great man), tying together the lack of justice for African Americans in the courts with the Constitutional right to vote, hindered by Jim Crow laws.

This bolsters the case for a greater focus on state courts and state constitutions, all of which contain a general right to vote that the U.S. Constitution lacks.

The 18th district is currently represented in the Senate by Jeff Dial, whose voting record belies a lack of support for contraception access — his vote for HB 2599 helped lay the groundwork to deny state Medicaid recipients the right to receive preventive health care and birth control from Planned Parenthood — as well as his opposition to abortion — as illustrated by his vote in favor of SB 1324, which put severe restrictions around the use of medication abortion, which don't even comply with FDA regulations.