Sentences with phrase «major voting groups»

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Besides Mr. Drexler, major (5 % or greater) shareholders in the firm, as of the annual proxy in April, include FMR LLC (which includes the Fidelity Contrafund), Baron Capital Group, BlackRock, and T Rowe Price, all of whom voted in favor of the directors up for election as well as the other management proposals — and Columbia Wanger Asset Management (whose parent Ameriprise, did not return requests for information).

Uber has survived numerous taxi protests in cities around the world, and won a major concession from New York City officials in July who scrapped plans for a vote that could have limited the group's expansion.

Following the egregious no - vote IPO of Snap Inc. and requests by CII and other concerned investor groups, three major index providers opened public consultations on their treatment of no - vote and multi-class structures.

The showdown also marks the first time in recent memory shareholders of a major oil and gas company have been given a choice of directors between what the company wants and what the dissident group wants (it is pushing for four of its nominees to be voted to the board).

This categorization is very helpful: we can identify religious groups with distinctive voting behavior while also showing substantial political differences between «traditionalists» and «modernists» in each major tradition.

Second, we have assumed that within each local authority the variation in turnout between different demographic groups will be the same as that which pertained in last year's general election across the country as a whole (as measured by the British Election Study, a major academic high quality survey of how people voted in last year's general election).

The comment I made to the press was inclusive and rebuts the idea of a «formal» group or any faction but recognises that perhaps on other major European votes, some of the MPs who voted for the Motion last Monday, may or may not vote along similar lines in the future.

The coalition government is facing the prospect of its first major Commons defeat after a 70 - strong group of Tory rebels signed a letter opposing House of Lords reform before a crucial vote on Tuesday.

The sad fact is that the more young people disconnect from politics, the more we become neglected as the major parties prioritise the age groups who they might be able to claim a vote from.

Environmental group Friends of the Earth (FoE) has attacked the plans after a climate change amendment - which would have created a statutory requirement to consider climate change when approving major infrastructure projects - was defeated by 15 votes (with 24 Labour MPs rebelling).

A major row has broken out between the two leading groups campaigning to take Britain out of the EU, with the co-chair of the Leave.EU campaign taking aim at Vote Leave's campaign director.

The Labour For Britain group is expected to support an out vote in the referendum unless David Cameron wins major concessions from EU heads.

«Today I call on Gov. [Andrew M.] Cuomo to tell the people of New York without any equivocation whether he supports a yes or a no vote on the Constitutional Convention referendum this Election Day,» said Bill Samuels, a major campaign contributor for decades who created an advocacy group to hold a constitutional convention next year.

«A Ghost Story,» a surreal drama about death and grief, is the best movie of 2017 — so say the members of the Utah Film Critics Association, who voted Sunday on the group's major awards.

Despite the sophisticated and extensive campaign the «Vote Yes» forces implemented, all three of the major funders managed to engage in extensive campaign finance violations, actions that will mean that all three groups will probably face significant civil, or even criminal, fines, in the near future.

An initiative sponsored by the Nevada State Education Association, the state's teachers» union, to raise taxes on businesses by some $ 700 million has drawn a thumbs - down from the state's AFL - CIO, which this weekend voted to join major business groups in opposing the so - called Education Initiative...

Under the terms of the constitution fresh elections were conducted in December 2005, but the three major ethnic groups voted along ethnic lines and no consensus was reached.

If only that instruction were given to more politicians... Then again, this DLC addresses one of the major issues of the game — groups vote too closely along the lines of how policies have affected them.

Her exhibitions include co-curating the 2004 and 2006 Whitney Biennials, and curating major survey exhibitions of Dan Graham, Louise Bourgeois, Sol LeWitt, Donald Judd, and Yoko Ono, as well as exhibitions of Paul McCarthy, James Lee Byars, Jack Goldstein, and several group exhibitions including «Signs of the Times: Film, Video and Slide Installation and Britain in the 1980s», «Scream and Scream Again: Film in Art», and «Into the Light: The Projected Image in American Art 1964 - 1977», voted best group show in New York in 2001 by the International Association of Art Critics.

Come November, most Republicans, most voters in major farmer, rancher, stockgrower, and irrigator groups, most voters in major cities, and all Democrats and Indians, will vote only for a candidate who supports the Compact.

I am not a member of any political group, and I am a swinging voter, having voted for both major parties depending on policy.

AggregateIQ, a Canadian firm employed by SCL Group that was reportedly referred to internally as a branch of Cambridge Analytica, is hired by the other major pro-Brexit group, Vote LGroup that was reportedly referred to internally as a branch of Cambridge Analytica, is hired by the other major pro-Brexit group, Vote Lgroup, Vote Leave.

(Bloomberg)-- A key concession that helped clear Republican tax legislation for a Senate vote as early as Thursday is drawing sharp opposition from conservative groups and some lawmakers, signaling that GOP leaders still face challenges in achieving a major legislative victory before year's end.