Sentences with phrase «less vote in»

The result could also become a factor in upcoming legislative battles, as Republicans will have one less vote in the narrowly divided Senate in 2018.

Some members of the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP), have said that the NDC will receive less votes in the region in the upcoming elections although it is their stronghold, since they have failed to develop the...

Not exact matches

In 2015, less than a year after retiring as CEO of convenience store giant Alimentation Couche - Tard, the executive chairman, along with his three co-founders, put forward a resolution to extend their time - limited voting control — the group holds 22 % of the company's equity — to ward off any future takeover attempts.

In 1996, Buffett created Class B shares worth 1 / 30th of Class A shares, but with lesser voting rights, to stop fee - hungry managers from creating «unit trusts» that sliced up Class A shares for smaller investors seeking «Berkshire look - alikes.»

Clinton lost to Trump in Wisconsin by about 22,000 votes, or less than 1 percentage point.

«I was kind of anxious,» Couch says about the day in March when Congress was set to vote on a less robust bill that would replace the ACA.

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.

Traditional actively managed funds are «less likely to vote in a «one size fits all» manner,» according to the paper.

Atlas Iron managing director David Flanagan has described the results of the iron ore miner's capital raising as an immense vote of confidence in the business, despite achieving just less than half of its $ 180 million target.

Known for being a retirement - friendly area, residents here are more likely to choose a Caribbean vacation over Europe or Asia, they ski less than any of their peers in the top 5 richest neighbourhoods in B.C., and are staunch Conservative voters, with 60 % voting Tory.

Of the almost 5.4 million votes cast in 2012, only about 430,000 came from that part of the state — less than 10 %.

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.

Millennials gave Clinton less than 30 % of their votes in key primaries and nearly precipitated her defeat nationwide.

Another mistake pollsters made was to assume an electorate that looked more like the one that voted in 2004 and less like 2008, which had larger - than - usual minority and youth turnout.

That's not a popular idea with Netflix's board because two of its directors, Leslie Kilgore and Richard Barton, have been re-elected in the past with less than 50 % of the vote.

A less far - reaching proposal in the District of Columbia to allow marijuana possession but not retail sales won nearly 65 percent of the vote with all precincts reporting, unofficial results showed.

They might pretend in order to fool women, LGBTQ folk, and racial or ethnic minorities into voting for them, or they might pretend in order to make other folks feel less bad about voting for them.

Since the popular vote for the Conservatives in 2011 was less than that, Mossop doesn't think Harper will pay any great political price for approving the pipeline.

Politico reports that the recommendations are also a nod to Republican donors who have told the GOP that they would like Iowa's conservative caucus voters conservative activists — like those who vote in Iowa's caucuses — to have less of a say in the nominating process.

Michigan does not have an audit system, but it's important to note that the state's residents vote on optical scan machines, a type of machine that's considered less vulnerable to hacking than the paperless, touchscreen machines used in some other states.

While a Trump presidency is looking less and less likely, many Canadian companies with stakes in the U.S. are, like Bedard, feeling skittish about their business prospects in the lead - up to the November 8th vote.

In Iowa — the first state to vote in the presidential primary, in less than two months — the outspoken Texas senator dethroned Trump in a poll for the first time this week as the mogul became ensnared in yet more controversIn Iowa — the first state to vote in the presidential primary, in less than two months — the outspoken Texas senator dethroned Trump in a poll for the first time this week as the mogul became ensnared in yet more controversin the presidential primary, in less than two months — the outspoken Texas senator dethroned Trump in a poll for the first time this week as the mogul became ensnared in yet more controversin less than two months — the outspoken Texas senator dethroned Trump in a poll for the first time this week as the mogul became ensnared in yet more controversin a poll for the first time this week as the mogul became ensnared in yet more controversin yet more controversy.

With a slim majority in the Senate, the party chose to use «budget reconciliation» — a process that allows a bill to pass with only 50 votes (plus Vice President Mike Pence) but comes with restrictions that make it less than ideal for complex policymaking — to pass their plan.

Access to the Proxy: Companies should provide access to management proxy materials for a long - term investor or group of long - term investors owning in aggregate at least three percent of a company's voting stock, to nominate less than a majority of the directors.

In the end, he told his caucus to vote for the Liberal motion, which was enough to get Scheer called a «backstabber» by Ezra Levant, whose Rebel Media more or less defines the far right end of the political mainstream in CanadIn the end, he told his caucus to vote for the Liberal motion, which was enough to get Scheer called a «backstabber» by Ezra Levant, whose Rebel Media more or less defines the far right end of the political mainstream in Canadin Canada.

For the same reason, issuance of lesser - voting rights shares as consideration in a merger or other corporate acquisition should not be objectionable.

The FTSE Russell consultation resulted in a decision to exclude past and future developed market constituents whose free float constitutes less than 5 percent of total voting power.

If the Republicans, who are holding out for concessions on the health care law — the Affordable Care Act — in exchange for a budget vote, back down or are blamed for a shutdown, they would have even less ability to push their wishes by refusing to raise the debt ceiling, analysts at DBS in Singapore wrote Tuesday.

However, the same way investors are growing leery of Washington's political rhetoric, they are also putting less weight on the endless parade of speeches by voting members of the Fed — specifically, Janet Yellen, Stan Fischer, Bill Dudley, and Lael Brainard — in an effort to manipulate markets without doing anything.

And, as America votes for a new president in less than a week, how do we make sure that our enormous health care challenges and opportunities play a larger role in the national conversation?

Pursuant to Section 228 of the DGCL, any action required to be taken at any annual or special meeting of the stockholders may be taken without a meeting, without prior notice and without a vote if a consent or consents in writing, setting forth the action so taken, is signed by the holders of outstanding stock having not less than the minimum number of votes that would be necessary to authorize or take such action at a meeting at which all shares of our stock entitled to vote thereon were present and voted, unless the certificate of incorporation provides otherwise.

Baghdad has much less influence, so if Turkey declines to follow through on its threats, the independence vote could give the Kurdish government some leverage with Baghdad in negotiations over revenue sharing, a longstanding grievance that has not been addressed.

Menlo, First Round and Lowercase have attracted less attention than either Benchmark or Kalanick, but could very well be the swing votes in whether the sale is successful.

Less extreme cases took place across central and southern Alberta, where Wildrose candidates were elected in long - time Tory voting constituencies.

Kenney may have been less popular than his main rival Brian Jean overall, but as former MP Patrick Brown's own victory in the last Ontario Tory campaign demonstrated, the capacity to bring one's supporters inside a party tent matters more to the outcome of a leadership vote than one's standing in the outside world.

Magna's voting results highlight a controversial gap in Canadian law, which allows directors to be elected despite winning less than 50 per cent voting support.

The CLC president said that the presence of peacekeepers in East Timor calls for a less extreme response but that the boycott should continue until Indonesia's military is out of the country and Indonesia acknowledges the East Timorese vote for independence.

The TSX amendments were a step in the right direction, but they left open an «exceptional circumstance» loophole, which has the potential to render majority voting less meaningful.

In their article, «SEC Votes to Propose Stricter Broker Standards», the Wall Street Journal reported on April 18, the SEC's rule would likely be far less stringent than DOL's.

, now they have 9.7 percent of Allergan's shares, which they can vote in favor of their deal, making it more likely that the deal will happen and less likely that someone else will come in to outbid them.

Or should voters in his home state simply vote him out, and the rest of us should care less?

Even when they had the White House (George W) and both Houses of Congress the GOP never even introduced, much less voted on, any bill banning abortion, allowing prayer in school, banning gay marriage or any other of the wedge issues they use to attract a certain mentally deranged segment of the population to their side by pretending to defend those things that are important to Christian conservatives.

(CNN)- The number of Muslims in the United States is tiny - less than one in 100 Americans - but their votes could sway the results of the presidential election in November, a new study says.

Less than half of David Cameron's party voted in favour of same - sex marriage, with the Prime Minister needing support from other parties to get the legislation through.

The right to vote in this country for women and minorities would seem to be as obvious as the nose on your face, yet less than 100 years ago neither group enjoyed this right.

(Hint: I have a Ph.D., have lived in 8 states and spent 5 years abroad, voted Obama, make less than 60K, was born in Utah but left it 21 years ago, have never divorced, and raise three awesome children who you'd want your children to be friends with.)

Although many outside the US are drawing conclusions about Americans based on our presidential candidates, they might be surprised to learn that only 14 per cent of eligible voters chose either Clinton or Trump during the primary elections, (where both parties vote to nominate a candidate to represent them in the general election) and less than 30 per cent of eligible Americans voted at all.

«In their comments, some evangelical leaders suggested that voting for a third party candidate or abstaining for that office was futile or a vote for the winning ticket,» noted the NAE on the «lesser of two evils» choice.

I know that votes like these can make Christian women feel like less - than, but I believe, deep in my bones, that things will get better for women in the Church.

So, to me, the real question becomes do you, as a devout Christian, vote for someone that has rejected the Bible and its Christian tenets in favor of a different path to salvation, or someone that actually does believe in the Bible and its Christian tenets but interprets those tenets in a less literal way that seems to run counter to your more literal beliefs?