Sentences with phrase «majority and minority»

Our cases often arise in the context of disputes over corporate governance, including those between majority and minority shareholders.

The groups say one possible solution is to have five commissioners, appointed by the four majority and minority party legislative leaders, and the governor.

The figure includes outright acquisitions, as well as acquisitions of majority and minority interests, and represents a 172 percent increase in deal volume from 2011.

Compliance with the law would be overseen by a three - member board with one member each appointed by the county executive and legislative majority and minorities.

That said, there is no reason why a state couldn't be divided into majority and minority seats.

Abinanti and Maisano serve respectively as Majority and Minority Leader of the Westchester County Board of Legislators.

However, given the reality that the Speaker still controls which bills come to the Floor for a debate and vote, all this provision does is quicken the kill calendar for many bills sponsored by Majority and Minority members.

(1) The right to interrogate the witnesses before the Committee shall alternate between majority and minority members.

Thereafter, she served on the Pennsylvania Supreme Court and was recognized as one of the pros at bringing majority and minority opinions into line.

Joined by former NYC Mayor Ed Koch, fellow Senate Dems and members of the Assembly majority and minority conferences, Sen. Mike Gianaris lit into the missing Senate Republicans, accusing them (yet again) of renegging on their redistricting reform campaign promise.

The federal legislature (Congress), the legislatures in all states except for Nebraska, and many county and city legislative bodies are divided along party lines and have whips, as well as majority and minority leaders.

Coming from majority and minority leaders, it's usually about hands - across - the - aisle, working together for the common good, kumbaya stuff.

These actions have inevitably led to numbers of court cases charging reverse discrimination, and to rivalry, resentment and conflict between majority and minority groups and among various minority groups themselves, each believing that their group is no less deserving of attention, privilege or preference than others.

Of course, the legislative rules don't exactly enable state senators to back whomever they want for majority and minority leaders, and the positions are instead filled by competing resolutions.

Regularly represents majority and minority owners in closely held business disputes, including claims of freeze - out, misuse of corporate funds and mismanagement, and disputes regarding shareholder / limited liability company agreements.

First elected in 2002, the five - term senator and former majority and minority leader became a clean energy advocate after visiting Germany six several times through an exchange program funded by the German government.

From representing majority and minority shareholders, joint venture partners, companies and directors in a diverse range of shareholder, director and investment disputes, rely on a team that has acted in large and complex disputes demanding insight into your industry.

Clearly, however, given the wide disparity among districts and individual campuses in facilities, teacher quality, and student achievement, including the pervasive achievement «gap» between majority and minority children, no objective analysis of the equity of public education in Texas would produce a positive conclusion.

He and colleague, Michael Alves, have developed a new student assignment plan called Controlled Choice that can be used in integrating all schools in a district - racially or ethnically, socioeconomically, and by gender - in a way that is fair to all students (including majority and minority students).

But it is with conversion that the «false concept of majority and minority emerged making Hinduism a religion and caste a Hindu phenomenon».

President Obama meets with the leaders of Congress — majority and minority alike — in the Oval Office at 3 p.m., Washington.

Individually and collectively legislators should seek to uncover and publicise issues of public concern and citizens» grievances, giving effective representation both to majority and minority views, and showing a consensus regard for the public interest.

Both houses of Congress, the House of Representatives and Senate, have majority and minority whips.

Moreover, such an outcome is in the national interest too: these voters are disadvantaged if one party believes they could be taken for granted, and the others that they are out - of - reach, so the convergence of majority and minority voting patterns over time should be seen as a positive indicator of integration.

After the Wednesday vote, leaders of the House science committee's majority and minority blocs issued dueling statements.

The Residential Mortgage Banking segment directly originates primarily first lien residential mortgage loans on a nationwide basis with a significant presence within the retail banking footprint, and also originates loans through majority and minority owned affiliates.

He has frequently represented clients in class actions and multidistrict litigation of antitrust, unfair competition, wage and hour and securities fraud claims, numerous corporate and partnership control disputes representing both majority and minority interests, commercial contract disputes for a wide variety of business clients in the United States and abroad, and conducting internal corporate investigations.

Tensions often develop between majority and minority ownership interests.

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By working together, families and early childhood education and care (ECEC) services can create supportive environments for children from majority and minority racial and ethnic groups.

«There must be clear - cut margin between majority and minority parties as was done in previous assemblies.»

Six out of JCOPE's 14 members and the board's chairman are appointed by the governor, while the others are chosen by leaders of the Legislature's majority and minority conferences.

(2) The chairman, with the concurrence of the ranking minority member, or the Committee by motion, may permit an equal number of majority and minority members to question a witness for a specified, total period that is equal for each side and not longer than thirty minutes for each side.

The regulations require that when human models are used in display advertising, the models should be clearly definable as reasonably representing majority and minority groups, both sexes, and, when appropriate, families with children.

First elected in 2002, the five - term senator and former majority and minority leader became a clean energy advocate after visiting Germany six several times

ALEC enjoys what it calls an «impressive presence» among the leadership of state legislatures, with a membership that includes speakers, presidents, and majority and minority leaders in 22 senates and 30 houses.

NIFA Chairman Adam Barsky said in a statement the «amendments, as submitted by the County Legislative Majority and Minority, do not comply» with a recent NIFA resolution saying any budget changes must include «equivalent and recurring revenue increases or expenditure savings.»

The 2015 results were released this Fall, and they do not speak well of test - based accountability and its impact on the «achievement gap» between majority and minority children:

Both majority and minority stakes were included in this year's ranking, which looked at citywide numbers and borough - specific breakdowns and was culled from Real Capital Analytics and many of the firms.

What one does not have the right to do is to force others to deny that there is a difference between the majority and the minority.

«And they're different in a much more positive way in terms of dealing with both the majority and the minority in terms of using Senate resources in attempt to be even handed and I think we've come a long way and we've proven that.»