Sentences with phrase «largest voting group»

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Programmed Maintenance Services» $ 424 million takeover of its larger competitor Skilled Group is a step closer to fruition, after Skilled shareholders voted in favour of the scheme of arrangement today.

As it happens, the largest plaintiff among the dissenters, T. Rowe Price Group, inadvertently voted all its shares for the merger, though it meant to vote against, so it ended up being ineligible for the appraisal.

Thanks to all who voted for one of our brands, and to the nearly 3,000 Zillow Group employees who work fearlessly toward our mission: Build the largest, most trusted and vibrant home - related marketplace in the world.

In 1993, after the Liberals won their largest vote share with 39.7 % and 32 seats, a group of MLAs and party members were not satisfied with official opposition status called for his resignation.

So I ask one more time, which group is likely to be larger, Obama approvers who vote for....

@Howard — As a republic, which is a version of representative democracy, it means we do not have a true or direct democracy where each law would be voted on by each citizen, but an elected representative for larger groups of people that gets to cast the vote, which may or may not at times represent the will of the voters who elected the representative.

Francis was a big promoter of last year's peace deal with the rebel group but in visiting Colombia he will have to be sensitive to the viewpoints of the large number of conservative Roman Catholics who voted against the accord in a nationwide referendum.

«There are a number of Democratic members of Congress who are calling themselves pro-life, but it's hard to do that after voting for healthcare, which was the largest expansion of abortion we've seen,» says Tom Minnery, senior vice president of CitizenLink, a conservative advocacy group connected to Focus on the Family that is also spending money this cycle.

The Catholic Church is like a large lobby group this year, tellling members that it's a sin to vote for pro-choice candidates.

Also, the voting panel seems to often change significantly (it used to be a much larger group) all this depending on the organization's whims, and some fighters are removed / inserted somewhat arbitrarily by the UFC.

This data is certainly not sufficient to make projections on the voting habits of the group at large, but it certainly shows that there is something approaching parity between the two parties amongst this group.

So given the 6 point win for Obama in 2012, it seems that the votes that «put him over the top» as @Affable Geek rightly calls it were the groups he won by decidedly larger chunks (i.e. blacks, Hispanics, Asians, younger voters and women), rather than a specific economic group:

It made increasing levels of international trade undesirable for large groups of American workers, which prompted them to vote for Donald Trump.

Rich Beeson, the political director for the Romney campaign, says that the problem wasn't the GOP get - out - the - vote efforts, but the astounding success of the Democrats to turn out groups that generally didn't vote in such large numbers.

Which brings me to my favourite part of this result: the strongest Green list vote we've seen since this polling sequence began, indicating a Green group five times larger than that which currently sits at Holyrood, primarily because Labour would no longer be so substantially under - represented in the constituencies.

«Our campaign will continue to consolidate the Republican base, split New York's large independent vote, and reach out to all ethnic groups to vote for John Cahill on November 4th.»

«Several senators who say they'll vote for marriage equality want a larger group to join with them, to give them cover, so they won't be blamed alone for passing it and wind up being defeated next year,» said a well - known Republican working to line up GOP votes.

On Tuesday morning - Election Day - in Manhattan's Foley Square, a large group of New Yorkers will hold a rally, kicking off a campaign to address two of New York's enduring problems: voting access and voter turnout.

Imagine1 that there is a large enough group of people that say that to get voting rights you need to know how to play a musical instrument; a mainstream candidate appealing for their support could lose a lot of votes elsewhere.

Green groups have held weight for quite some time now, of course, and to a large minority of conscientious voters their pronouncements about the government's behaviour have been a cause to vote, or not vote, as the case may be.

Apart from seniors, this group of people, cutting across all lines of geographic location, class, race, religion, age, sexual preference, gender, etc. is potentially the largest voting block.

A large group of his party wanted to oppose sanctions, while a slightly smaller, but equally vocal section wanted to support Wilson in the voting lobbies.

A report published by the Commission today (3 March) suggests that several million people will not be able to vote at the general election because they are not registered, that only a minority of the 17 - 24 age group are registered, and that large numbers of black and ethnic minority people will also be without a vote.

MADISON, Wis. (AP)-- Wisconsin will no longer be obligated to bargain with its largest public employee unions after the weakened labor groups decided Thursday against seeking recertification votes in the state that was the forefront in this year's fight over union rights.

In the 2012 presidential election it improved its vote total by ninety percent compared to the 2008 election, without funding from special interest groups or large donors.

Many would complain that a coalition of the second and fourth largest parties would be «undemocratic,» but in our representative system it is the grouping that can win a confidence vote in the House of Commons that forms the government.

When you take time out of your day to vote, you're paying a small cost to help a larger group.

When faced with similar but more impersonal dilemmaswhether to flip a switch to divert the trolley or vote for a law that would kill a smaller group of people instead of a larger onetheir brains showed greater activity in places associated with working memory.

He has amassed praise from some Western conservation groups in large part because he has repeatedly voted against measures to sell off public lands.

The biggest reason for this is that the actors who make up this guild also make up a large part of the voting group for the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

Once such a large group votes to defeat it, we cant bring it back.»

Compared to the American public at large, members of the affluent group are 16 percentage points more likely to report having voted.

By a 7 - 0 vote, the board made it clear that it would do what it could to discourage the effort by the Broad - affiliated group, Great Public Schools Now, to grow what is already the largest charter school population of any school district in the country.

The unions, even if they don't outspend their opponents, have a great advantage because of their organizational mechanism and a large group of ready voters (teachers and other school workers) who reliably turn out to vote for the union - endorsed candidates.

The largest renovation to make our Westbury VIP Auto Group Company's # 1 Long Island NY voted state of the art Service Center full of factory trained auto technicians.

Bulldog Investors, the representative of the largest group of shareholders of FAV, has agreed to vote the shares of FAV for which it has the power to vote or direct the vote in favor of the proposed transaction subject to applicable law.

Figure 1: Percentage ownership (blue), and voting power under two schemes — standard (red) and BBEP's 20 % cap (green) for Quicksilver Resources Inc. and The Baupost Group, the two largest stakeholders of Breitburn Energy Partners.

The rescue group with the largest number of votes by 10 pm on May 31st will win a 6 month supply of Advantage II for either one cat or one dog.

When bans come up for a vote, city leaders get lobbied to reject new regulations by groups like the American Kennel Club, which advocates for breeders, and the Missouri - based Hunte Corporation, the world's largest pet breeder.

Kota Ezawa's large - scale wooden tableau features a group of people raising their hands to vote in what appears to be a town hall meeting.

People are fearful to vote for a third party, because it's safer to identify with a large social group, so they limit themselves to Republicans or Democrats 2.

More than half of the nearly 200 survey respondents (56 %) said they planned to vote for the Conservative party, with the Liberal Democrats looking set to secure the next largest share of the group's vote at 25 %.

The company which started in 1937 is now the rated as one of the largest car insurers in the US and it has been voted as the best auto insurer by several groups and magazines.

This was Vote Leave's senior director and Vote Leave's head of compliance acknowledging that this was a group of young people without the experience or wherewithal to handle such a large sum of money.