Sentences with phrase «majority of activists»

While Corbyn appears to have the support of the majority of activists, the mood of the parliamentary party is extremely gloomy about the prospects of his victory.

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In Italy, Telecom Italia chief Amos Genish said that his position in the firm would be «untenable» if activist fund Elliott gets the majority of the board seats during a shareholder vote Friday, Reuters reported.

Despite the fact that the majority of shareholders oppose the activist shareholder proposals, because of the current regulatory regime, public companies must dedicate time, and money to defend against them.

Telecom Italia CEO Amos Genish said his position at Italy's biggest phone group would be «untenable» if activist fund Elliott manages to win the majority of board seats at a shareholder vote.

I guess the lesson of Travis Kalanick's resignation as chief executive officer of Uber Technologies Inc. is that you can be the visionary founder of a massive company, stay private to avoid the pressures of the public market, keep control of a majority of the voting power of the shares, and still be forced out in a boardroom coup led by activist shareholders:

«There are people in senior roles in the two provincial parties who are not completely in tune with the views of the majority of free enterprise Albertans who want one party,» says Kenney, calling them «grasstop party activists.»

From the «I can't believe my eyes and ears» file: A group called Majority Action ¯ which describes itself as being «led by veteran Democratic activists and [having] a leadership board that consists of prominent political figures, including several former Members of Congress,....

However, those who believe that the churches can play a role in those problems have never pinned their hopes on the silent majority of clergy.4 Rather, they believe in an impending reformation based on the outspoken minority — a New Breed of theologically liberal, activist clergymen.

The activist New Breed clergy saw compelling Christian issues in the strike, but this view was not shared by a large majority of the clergymen.

Sadly, the majority of feminist thinkers and activists may turn a blind eye to the inconsistencies that define the transgender movement.

Ziegler writes: «[F] or the better part of a decade after the Court's decision, the vast majority of lawyers, law professors, and grassroots activists in the antiabortion movement opposed efforts to strip the Court of its authority or to return the abortion question to democratic politics....

[11] His views are shared among some social activists who are close to the North American unions, in spite of the fact that many economists, by far the majority, have argued that the analyses to which Cobb and the unions appeal are questionable.

Leaving aside your counterintuitive choice of target, you are a seasoned media player: you could have predicted in advance the headlines resulting from your action, that they would feature your name prominently, and the other activists with you would be ignored; that the majority of the press would use it as an excuse to criticise Corbyn (again) and that Syria would be mentioned only in passing.

«the majority of whom - with exceptions including Stephen Nicol, former Scottish deputy first minister, and Susan Kramer - will be known only by party activists» Obviously «Mr Nicol» is not well enough known for you to get his name the right way round!

They arise, too from electoral bases of legitimacy: from Senators» identifications with state interests and cultures, from Representatives» dependence upon their districts» majority party voters and party activists for biennial re-election.

Republican leaders and activists don't seem to have realized that the last two elections may actually reflect real demographic and ideological shifts, which explains their Tea Parties, the anti-gay-marriage hysteria, the flight to the Hard Right, etc.: they're playing to the heirs of Nixon's Silent Majority, which they must still think is a real political force.

«Today, we are one step closer due to the efforts of the Senate Democratic Conference and so many progressive activists who made it clear New York needs a Democratic Senate majority.

At 9:30 a.m., nembers of the state Legislature, including state Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan, meet with lobbyists and activists, The Egg, 1 Empire State Plaza, Albany.

The Unite activist was selected to replace the retiring MP Pat Glass, who had a majority of more than 10,000 in 2015.

How ironic therefore that far from securing the bankrupt ideology of right - wing «modernisers» it has now all blown up in their faces and far from weakening further Party activists it has done the opposite and left the majority of right - wing welfare cutting Labour MPs looking like the unrepresentative, out of touch nasty selfish bunch of careerists that they are.

An overwhelming majority of delegates to the Maine Republican convention tonight voted to scrap the the proposed party platform and replace it with a document created by a group of Tea Party activists.

The Christian Science Monitor has noted that Tea Party activists «have been called neo-Klansmen and knuckle - dragging hillbillies», adding that «demonizing tea party activists tends to energize the Democrats» left - of - center base» and that «polls suggest that tea party activists are not only more mainstream than many critics suggest», [178] but that a majority of them are women, not angry white men.

Eric Pickles, local government secretary, comments on multiculturalism in advance of a new counter-extremism strategy: «A few people, a handful of activists, have insisted that it isn't enough simply to celebrate the beliefs of minority communities; they want to disown the traditions and heritage of the majority, including the Christian faith and the English language.

A significant majority of MPs dismissed him as superficial and not right - wing enough and he gave the impression that he tolerated the activists.

During the Saturday morning rally, SBU and Coalition activists joined with politicians, including Assemblyman Jose Rivera and City Council Members Joel Rivera (the majority leader and Jose's son) and Robert Jackson (head of the Council's Education

The general election result — when the Conservative Treasury minister Jane Ellison was swept out of her Battersea seat after a 10 % swing to Labour — has given activists hope of taking Wandsworth for the first time in 40 years, but in several wards the party would need a significantly bigger swing to take the number of councillors needed for a majority.

In the telling of liberal activists, who hope New York will become a left - leaning bulwark against Mr. Trump, Mr. Cuomo has made only a watered - down effort at establishing a solid Democratic majority in the State Senate.

Labour activists put in a frantic last push to get out the vote in hundreds of make - or - break constituencies in a bid to get Jeremy Corbyn into No10 - and it seems to have had an effect, with the exit poll predicting no overall majority for the Conservatives.

Progressive activist groups angered over the IDC's siding with Senate Republicans are calling on Klein to resign, a move that could weaken the breakaway faction's cohesion and improve the chances of mainline Democrats gaining the majority in the chamber.

Las Vegas, Nevada (CNN)- Acknowledging that he and they don't always see eye to eye, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D - Nevada) on Saturday praised the influence of progressive activists gathered at the annual Netroots Nation convention.

«I know that there are times I am told that I get on your nerves,» Senate Majority Leader Reid said to some laughter in a gathering of progressive activists.

County Democratic Chairman Jay Jacobs has urged party activists to pick a candidate with a «clear rationale» to make the race — and that's expected to be Assemblyman Todd Kaminsky, a former federal prosecutor who won the conviction of former Senate Majority Leader Pedro Espada (D - Bronx).

Centrist activists in Lewisham had feared the NEC, on which Corbyn's backers now have a majority, would only allow them to choose between candidates from the left wing of the party.

(announced Jan. 19, 2016) More than 60 leaders and activists Chairman Secretary of State Matthew Dunlap and including... House Majority Leader Jeff McCabe 4 State Senators 30 State Representatives (plus McCabe makes 31)

Farron has said the three issues he wants to own are housing, civil liberties and climate change — touchstone issues for Lib Dem activists, but there's an open question about how far they will resonate with the wider public, especially an ageing electorate, with over-55s expected to comprise a majority of voters by 2020.

Samuels, an outspoken and sometimes eccentric Democratic activist whose group played a role in ousting former Senate Majority Leader Pedro Espada Jr. last year, declined to tell me how much money he plans to spend or reveal the names of the lawmakers in his crosshairs.

A Long Island activist is pushing for the cluster of soccer and softball fields on the east shore of Hempstead Lake named in honor of now - former Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos to be renamed for a local veteran.

«Tea Party activists are kicking off a grand national tour this weekend with an event targeting Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D - NV) in his small home town of Searchlight, Nevada — an event that Tea Party Express describes as a «conservative Woodstock.»

He has the majority of trade union activists standing behind him.

Democratic activists said that in light of Tuesday's encouraging results they would work even harder to score a decisive state senate majority in the fall.

The Democratic majority was only three weeks old, but by Jan. 26, the grass - roots and Net - roots activists of the party's left wing had already settled on their new enemy: Rep. Ellen O. Tauscher (D - Calif.)

A round of applause in a hall of activists does not necessarily translate to a majority of votes in the wider selectorate that will choose Labour's next leader.

The real unwritten story of this leadership election is the widening gulf between the majority of passive party members and activists.

«You're seeing the majority, the silent majority of progressive activists in this state really stick up for someone who's really got a progressive record.

Instead, party committees and independent groups like House Majority PAC sent an uncounted number of email appeals that collectively raised tens of millions of dollars from activists across the country.

Or perhaps it's a false result, a product of activists and lefties being more vocal than the majority of users.

John Major had to deal with a very significant Europhile tendency in the parliamentary party and in those days I used to come across Europhile activists frequently, they were probably a majority in the constituency I lived in.Now however I doubt more than 20 % of our parliamentary could be classified in any sense as Europhile and amongst the activists that I meet they are rarer than Hens teeth, even on this blog there are only a handful.

A generation ago, Labour activists were notoriously out of touch with the majority view among Labour voters.

The labor organization's involvement underscores an unusually heightened level of interest in this year's School Board races, in which everyone from the county executive to community activist groups is jockeying to upset control of the board from the current majority.

Activist group Queer Rising is calling on amateur paparazzi to join them at a protest of New York State Senator Ruben Diaz Sr.'s fundraiser, thrown by Senate Majority leader John Sampson.