Sentences with phrase «majority of seats on»

In a deal negotiated with creditors, Caesars» lenders and independent directors will gain the majority of the seats on a newly restructured board.

Despite a successful push by charter school advocates to win a majority of seats on the Los Angeles Unified school board, it's is unlikely that there will be a major expansion of charter schools in the state's largest school district within the foreseeable future.

Today, that all flows through the Mayor's office who appoints the extremely powerful Chancellor and has a majority of seats on the PEP.

Orthodox Jews have held a majority of seats on the board since 2005.

As Howard Blume notes in the Los Angeles Times, the school board has traditionally leaned anti-charter, but supporters of charter schools have a good chance to win a majority of seats on the board.

Orthodox Jews have held a majority of seats on the board since 2005.

NOC: No overall control - no one party has a majority of seats on the council.

In the previous election in 2012, Independent Councillors retained a large majority of the seats on the Council, and retained control of the administration.

Independent Councillors retained the large majority of seats on the Council and retained control of the administration.

Republicans, for the first time in decades, won a majority of seats on the Mechanicville City Council.

Councils to look out for include East Riding of Yorkshire, Bath and NE Somerset, Waverley, Rugby, Basingstoke, Barrow in Furness, Brighton and Hove, Braintree, Chester, Ipswich, Maidstone, and perhaps also Bury, as well as winning a majority of the seats on North Tyneside, although a Labour Mayor means that authority will remain under Labour control.

De Blasio has the power to fill a majority of the seats on the New York City Board of Health before he asks it to repeal highly disputed regulations on a Jewish circumcision ritual linked to herpes infections in infants.

In terms of the electoral law — well, it's FPTP, so you're going to have a lot of councils where the winning party won an overwhelming majority of seats on less than 50 percent of the vote.

I think that's the majority of the seats on the emirates, that can send a message big time.

Not exact matches

Democrats have not said whether they will take any seats on the Republican - majority special committee, saying the new probe - following several other congressional investigations on Benghazi - is also aimed at damaging former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's chances if she runs for president in 2016.

But his «safe hands on the economy» message cut through in the end, with the coalition winning a majority of seats in 1998 despite Labor winning 51 per cent of the two - party vote.

The conservatives, liberals and socialists, who command a large majority of the parliamentary seats, will work out a joint motion on Tuesday and expect to debate the issue in parliament on Wednesday and vote on it on Thursday, Tremosa's aide said on Monday.

Elliott wants to keep Genish, appointed by Vivendi, but he told Britain's Sunday Telegraph that his position would be untenable if Elliott and its allies secured a majority of board seats at a shareholder vote on Friday.

The election of a majority Liberal government not only saw high - profile changes in rhetoric — think, «Canada is back» — but also equally lauded announcements on accepting 25,000 refugees from Syria, international peacekeeping, or a bid for a seat on the United Nations Security Council, among others.

On the informal side, Republicans claim not just their seats and numbers in Congress, but the weight and power of the majority as expressed in the clear and powerful message.

The majority of fans that go to the Emirates now never went to Highbury (at a guess, I'd say five to eight thousand) and only know reasonable success, ie, FA Cup wins and continuous Champions League qualification and only read about the «Invincibles», you can tell by the fact they never chant «come on you reds» which was a regular, extremely loud chant in the Highbury days and as ThirdMan pointed out are the prawn sandwich brigade mixed with the tourist support and there you have the empty seats.

Were YOU.I believe on your PLANET NUTCASE you still believe we have Herbert Chapman as the Manager.No mate this is wrong.Hes been dead for a while now and at the moment we have an aging Frenchman who is paid more per season than most people will earn in several lifetimes.He is taking this Club backwards.We are falling behind Clubs who we used to dominate as rivals.He has the majority of the fan base against him and his tired and outdated methods.We now ger beaten away from home by all the clubs facing relegation.We are no longer in the Champions League.We have a 60,000 seater stadium that is now embarrassingly full of empty seats.This is all down to Wenger.

As a matter of fact, a good majority of car seat injuries happen outside of the vehicle according to this report on webMD.

The truth is the majority of parents are not educated on car seat safety, laws and regulations.

Coverings that could be affixed with breaks to the seat come on the majority of top end baby strollers.

Majority of car seat rental companies have a safety guarantee on their seats.

Developmental delays have been noticed in roughly 22 % of infants who spend the majority of time on their backs, and doctors believe that tummy time, time in slings or carrier pouches, and the use of seats which require infants to use their neck and back muscles rather than providing a head rest may prove beneficial in preventing container syndrome as well as related motor skill and developmental delays.

While the majority of your car seat decisions will rest on the type of car seat you need, you should also think about who you will need the car seat for and how long you will need it.

What makes it so is the fact it comes with a universal infant car seat adapter, which fits the majority of the car seats that are on the market.

They wouldn't have won enough seats for a majority on their own but this would be an undeniable victory for the Tories and a vindication of their much - criticised campaign.

So while there is a lot of focus on the youth vote to help explain why Theresa May was stripped of her majority, while the Labour leader defied his critics to gain vote share and seats, this is a big part of the story.

The potentially overwhelming prospects of the nationalists seizing the majority of seats north of the border are underlined by today's ICM / Guardian poll, which puts the nationalists on 43 % to Labour's 27 %.

On the simple numbers, it is of course a challenge for the Tories, who need to win 117 seats to get a majority of just one.

The race, one of the more costly contests for a Senate seat, comes as Republicans hang on to their narrow majority in the chamber.

On the other hand, the National government won with a majority of nearly 250 seats; Baldwin's fears of defeat seem somewhat exaggerated.

The point for all sensible democrats to hang on to is that if the centre - left (Labour plus LibDems and perhaps Greens and some of the nationalists) together command a majority of Commons seats, that entitles them to form a government led by the leader of the largest centre - left party.

Guelleh's UMP, which has a tight grip on power, holds the majority of the seats in Djibouti's parliament.

Senate Democrats on Tuesday won a pair of open seats in the state Senate giving them 32 enrolled members in the 63 - seat chamber, but for now are denied a working majority.

An election where most seats are won by narrow majorities would result in most of the elected (on both sides) having only negligible voting power.

I have been trying in recent weeks to publicise in my blog and in LabourList the little - known procedures in the event of a hung parliament, under which whatever the results in votes and seats, Gordon Brown will be both entitled and obliged to continue in office until he has met parliament as prime minister and ascertained by the vote on his Queen's Speech whether he still commands a majority in the House.

The same's true with three extra seats on the govering NEC for a membership that's soared to 569,000 (more than every other British political party combined) though an additional union place going to an Usdaw shopworkers on the Right of the party translates into a net gain of two in Corbyn's slim majority.

Given May launched this election at a point where it ate up Article 50 time and that it has had a heavy toll on the general appraisal of her abilities, I think anything south of a 60 seat majority is a problem for her.

The New York State United Teachers union on Thursday will endorse Assembly Majority Leader Joe Morelle for the Rochester - area House seat left vacant by the death of Rep. Louise Slaughter.

My research in 2014 has included a weekly national telephone poll, surveys in over 100 marginal seats, two rounds of my Project Blueprint research on the quest for a Conservative majority, a detailed study of voters» attitudes to Europe, polling - day surveys of voters in the European elections, five by - election polls, and regular updates on the state of the parties.

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The Conservatives won 33 seats on the council, but the combination of Labour's 24 seats, the Lib Dems» three and seven independent candidates meant they were denied a majority.

As the night wore on it became increasingly clear Labour were not winning the seats it needed to capture to form the largest party, and by the morning the impossible had happened: David Cameron had pulled the irons of an overall majority from the election fire.

Chambers in either of the «likely» categories are not expected to change party control on Election Day, but it's possible that the minority party could net a non-trivial number of seats and nibble into the majority's margins.

Newsday reporter Robert Brodsky outlines the fight for control of state Senate seats on Long Island, where Senate Democrats are hoping to win enough elections to gain a majority in the chamber.

[1] She took the seat with 24,460 votes — a 50.4 % share and a majority of 8,126 on a marginally lower turnout than in 1992.