Sentences with phrase «lesser voting rights»

So, Buffett outcompeted them by creating a second class with lesser voting rights than the «A» shares, and 1 / 30th of the economic value of an «A» share.

Public investors who don't want lesser voting rights stock simply won't buy it.

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.»

These shares usually have less voting rights than the Class A Shares, which are the preferred share by most investors, although the company or corporation has the right to designate which classification of shares has the most voting rights and when they are issued to the shareholders.

Not exact matches

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

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 Canada.

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

Another good example of a dual class transaction that fails to raise conflict of interest concerns is subsequent issuance of lesser - voting rights shares.

Common shareholders are generally granted voting rights, but can be limited and often have lesser rights than those granted to preferred shareholders.

Common stock generally grant voting rights, which can be limited and often have lesser rights than preferred shareholders.

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.

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.

If I fought against the right of atheists to campaign for atheist candidates, then why should I expect anything less than a counterattack against my own voting rights as a Christian?

It was less than 50 years ago when we finally passed the federal voting rights act in this country and less than 150 years since slavery was abolished.

My own opininon regarding allowing prisoners with sentences of less than four years the right to vote is that it is actually a fudge.

I get less excited by reform of voting systems, Europe and bills of rights.

Making the independence vote a rare and decisive event makes it less likely that the secession right will have the destabilising consequences identified by Sunstein.

FPTP allows people to elected with less than a majority AV shatters the principle of equal voting rights.

The Government first proposed that prisoners should have voting rights unless they'd been sentenced to four years or less but are now giving backbenchers (and PPS's) a free vote.

But unless Conservative MPs turned out en masse to vote against the Party's right - an unlikely course of action, given the»22 Executive results - Liberal and Labour support for less spiky candidates provides the only comprehensible explanation of the results.

Speaking on the same programme, Liberal Democrat deputy leader Simon Hughes said he believed the Tories would suffer the most from Ukip as they are most obviously attractive to people who «want to vote on the right for less public expenditure».

we know that left right voting is becoming less common.»

«It is shameful that 100 years after winning the right to vote, women remain relegated to second class status continuing to earn less than their male counterparts,» Hochul said.

With the right split between Tory and UKIP, and the LDs staying suppressed, Labour should be able to get a majority on less than a third of the vote.

«If they want to challenge the incumbent surely the basis of natural justice and the British sense of fair play, that incumbent has to be in a position to defend themselves in the arena of debate so that the 250,000 people who voted for him less than 10 months ago at least have their say, that's surely the right way to do this,» he told the Today programme.

If YouGov is right, and the Tory share of the vote on 6 May is five percentage points more than Labour's, or less, Labour will be the largest party.

He called for restoring voting rights for incarcerated individuals who paid their dues to society, saying there is evidence that former prisoners whose voting rights are restored are less likely to return to prison.

With the Liberal Democrats reduced to a rump of supporters who are less antagonistic towards the Tories, the right - of - centre vote is looking more split.

He told The World at One: «The one clunking central fact is that the two right - of - centre parties between them got more than half the vote but the Lib Dems won the seat with less than a third of the vote.

That is, if a Government doesn't get things right in those areas where it can succeed, then those who voted for them are going to be less forgiving when things go wrong economically.

Unfortunately, notwithstanding that it's our sovereign right to cast our votes at the UN, for less powerful countries like Nigeria, who thought that their decisions would hardly matter on such decisions of theirs, it seems that by shifting the whole blame on them this time round, Washington has decided to make them scapegoats.

The election may be less than two weeks away, but in some constituencies it seems Russell Brand may be right — you might as well not vote.

The override vote came less than two weeks after U.S. District Court Judge Shira Scheindlin's order for a monitor to focus on stop - and - frisk, a practice she said the department had used in a way that violated the rights of hundreds of thousands of black and Hispanic men.

Jurisprudence concerning candidacy rights and the rights of citizens to create a political party are less clear than voting rights.

The government looks set to ignore a European Court ruling by refusing to give tens of thousands of prisoners, jailed for four years or less, the right to vote.

The latest polls suggest that Le Pen would pick up less than one - third of the vote in a run - off with former prime minister François Fillon, who is running under the banner of the centre - right Republican party, and France's economy is fairly stable.

This gender gap is mainly due to the fact that voting behaviour among men is generally less strongly influenced by the stigma attached to many radical right - wing parties.

It takes less than 5 seconds and the voting icon is just on the top right sidebar of my blog.

I like Suffragette just fine but in no way does its topic (women's voting rights) make it a better film about women than say Carol or Brooklyn or even less high profile pictures like Grandma or I'll See You In My Dreams or Mustang you know?

It was also exciting to see female characters represented in such prominent roles, especially since the film is set less then a decade after women were granted the right to vote.

Right now, Republican hypocrisy is becoming a glaring limitation as a Republican dominated House is forced to square its votes against conservative drives of wanting less bureaucracy and more local control.

In most cases, there are covenants that protect dividend rights and liquidation rights of the lesser voting shares.

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

There are a few exceptions to this rule; e.g., we own about 35 % of GEICO Corporation but, because we have assigned our voting rights, the company is treated for accounting purposes as a less - than - 20 % holding.

We also fought off a «right to farm» measure in Oklahoma, but, despite the efforts of our rural outreach team, a similar measure squeaked by voters in Missouri by less than half of one percent of the vote.

In 1985, for example, expelled right - wing members of the PUP founded the Belizean Popular Party, which received less than 1 percent of the vote in the 1986 Belize City Council elections.

(8) On the regular polling day, the poll clerk shall prepare, at intervals of no less than 30 minutes, using the prescribed form and as directed by the Chief Electoral Officer, a document permitting the identification of every elector who during that interval has voted or forfeited his or her right to vote, other than electors who registered on that day and, on request, provide it to a candidate or a candidate's representative or provide it in an electronic format to a registered party.

Here, in fact, the Supreme Court of Canada has previously determined that TWU and its graduates have rights in play which can not be casually disregarded by a provincial licensing bodies (much less by votes by the members of those bodies).

However, the trial judge also properly concluded that the amendments minimally impaired the right to vote, that there were no alternative, less drastic means of achieving the legislative goals and therefore the infringement was demonstrably justified under s. 1.

New figures reveal that, following the Government's decision in December allowing prisoners serving less than four years to vote, 28,000 prisoners will win the right to vote.