Sentences with phrase «majority against the measures»

Too many times I have spoken to MPs who say the party can't do anything about it because there is no parliamentary majority against the measures.

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The fund's performance is measured against a benchmark, and that's where the majority of actively managed funds fail.

This could result in Catholic ministers and MPs voting against the three specific measures but being whipped to accept the bill as a whole if a majority in the Commons votes for the reforms.

Skelos» legacy as majority leader includes allowing senators to vote for the first time on bills that legalized gay marriage and the NY Safe Act, a strict gun control measure, although Skelos personally voted against both laws.

Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos has called the DREAM Act a nonstarter in his house, and with good reason — politically speaking — considering the fact that a number of his new members actively campaigned against the measure during the 2014 elections and were successful at the ballot box as a result of their opposition.

Senate Republican Majority Leader Dean Skelos acknowledges that the state's Conservative Party, which cross endorses many GOP Senators for reelection, is against the measure, but he says he was opposed before that because the amount 25 grams, is set too high.

Privately, they conceded that passing the measure was an attempt to derail a threatened big - ticket political campaign against them by Mayor Bloomberg and other prominent charter - school supporters that could cost them their razor - thin majority in the November elections.

Several ministers, including Justice Secretary Chris Grayling, voted against the measure which was carried by a majority of 254.

Senator Daniel Squadron, who sponsors the Senate bill to close the LLC Loophole, criticized the Senate Majority's removal of a measure from the budget resolution in a statement referencing the recent firing of U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara, who has famously crusaded against corrupt Albany lawmakers, including the former leaders of both legislative houses.

Unfair, inappropriate and discriminatory because the Common Core SBAC test fails to measure what has actually been taught in the classroom, that the SBAC test is based on materials that is more than two to three levels above grade level, that the SBAC test pass / fail score is calibrated to fail the majority of public schools students and that the SBAC test is particularly unfair because it discriminates against those who face English Language barriers or need special education services.

Voting against the action were Richard W. Fisher, who believed that, while the Committee should be patient in beginning to normalize monetary policy, improvement in the U.S. economic performance since October has moved forward, further than the majority of the Committee envisions, the date when it will likely be appropriate to increase the federal funds rate; Narayana Kocherlakota, who believed that the Committee's decision, in the context of ongoing low inflation and falling market - based measures of longer - term inflation expectations, created undue downside risk to the credibility of the 2 percent inflation target; and Charles I. Plosser, who believed that the statement should not stress the importance of the passage of time as a key element of its forward guidance and, given the improvement in economic conditions, should not emphasize the consistency of the current forward guidance with previous statements.

The addition of a requirement of a 50 % majority is likely to be effective given the relatively low level of support some ballots have achieved when measured against all those entitled to vote.

In the face of non compliance with UNSC Res 1970, several cease - fire declarations by the Gaddafi regime which were not honoured, and a continued threat of force against civilian populations, on 17 March 2011, a majority of the UNSC (five members abstaining namely Brazil, Germany, India, Russia and China) invoked Chapter VII, re-iterated the references to gross human rights abuses and adopted the following additional measures:

Sure, it's a measure against an illusive service benchmark and could provide markers on an aggregate basis that would help flag a trend, but if one of your best clients was dissatisfied with their lawyer there's a darn good chance they are among the majority who don't complete your survey.

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