Sentences with phrase «majority of the members»

Downing Street has ruled out such membership, preferring to be able to negotiate free trade deals with the rest of the world, but the majority of members in the upper house of the U.K.'s parliament, the House of Lords, have voted against that, forcing a debate on the issue.

The overwhelming majority of members live outside of Chicago, mostly in communities where access to contemporary men's fashion is slim to none.

If a majority of the members were uncomfortable working with the company, then the salesperson would have to turn down the prospective client.

For the first time in history, a majority of members of the U.S. Congress are millionaires, according to an analysis of data conducted by the Center for Responsive Politics, a research group that tracks money's influence in U.S. politics.

The vast majority of the members of the cluster, however, are small businesses in the fuel - cell industry, including suppliers that make pieces of a final product.

There are plenty of women - in - business resources out there, and the majority of our members are also participating in those groups.

The Board as a whole is accountable, in large part reflecting its composition where the majority of members are business people rather than practising economists.

majority of the members of the Governance Committee received a Majority Withheld Vote at the same election, then the independent directors who did not receive a Majority Withheld Vote shall appoint a committee among themselves to consider any resignation offers and recommend to the Board whether to accept such resignation offers.

If the majority of the members don't approve of what a particular member believes, they wouldn't have to vote for them.

If group ABC charishes idea XYZ and the majority of the members of ABC want elected officers who support XYZ they will vote in officers who support XYZ.

A major issue in the early Christian community was whether gentiles should be welcomed into the church and if so, whether they had to observe Jewish rules about purity.1 Mark's gospel is thought to have been written for the church in Rome, of which the majority of members were probably gentile.

The majority of members of each church, nevertheless, gave different meanings to similar events and crises, and each group treated evidence of evil or the numinous or nonsense in a distinctive manner.

The novelty we seek is increasing support from a majority of members because they are maturing spiritually.

Actually, I'd say the majority of members of The Lasting Supper, our online community, are mostly women who have left the church.

Yes Christine, you are absolutely correct, but that only happens when a small home church is allowed to operate the way the majority of the members want it to.

It is all about hiding, disguising the truth until it becomes of the past just as that as did that unlawful country was recognized by the USA with out the UN majority vote and UN members were to face the Reality that the USA is taking advantage of her majority states and voting power rather than the majority of the UN member countries no matter how small or poor they are although at that time the majority of member countries were under occoupation or protection of USA and Allies and after the WW1 & 2!

I currently go to a church where there is a white pastor and a mixed congregation, but the majority of members is white.

This is not entirely surprising: The majority of their members are baby boomers born after 1945.

The fact that the majority of the members of Catholicism, including their leaders, barely know the Bible has proven that.

He finds that the vast majority of members are in between these extremes and that their appreciation of sermons is strongly determined by their subjective, religious, and church attitudes and by their feelings of solidarity with the preacher.

It is clear to me that the vast majority of the members of the various communities that enrich our wonderful NYC are wonderful human beings that are mostly consequent with the ethical and moral standards that they hold dearly and which may have been passed to them through religious education or through family values or acquired through rational thinking..

Why is our government is pandering to religious figureheads when the majority of their members are use some form of birth control?!

Society, by definition, represents the majority of its members unless such a society is a repressive one.

It isn't as if you feel that the church should or shouldn't have that belief, or even if the majority of it members like the rule.

Is it possible that the majority of the members of General Conference were just plain limited to a tight, legalistic conception of clergy morality because of their stage of moral development?

And in any case the pragmatic, somewhat cynical and politically independent attitude of the majority of the members of the Diet remained unchanged.

«Fonterra can comfortably pursue both [higher milk prices and shareholder returns] because its milk price is rules - based and subject to oversight by a panel chaired by an independent director of Fonterra [and with a majority of its members being independent] coupled with oversight by NZ's competition regulator through a very public process,» he said.

At the end of last year, the Badminton Club was under threat of losing the majority of its members.

For the acreage under our care and control, this policy reflects the choice of Mass Audubon's Board of Directors and the majority of our members that these areas remain available first and foremost as wildlife habitat and areas for passive recreation.

Instead, it will continue to allow funding under clearly pre-specified conditions with a rigorous and robust set of safeguards in place, which it said the majority of its members had supported in a consultation.

However, SNA's Board has heard from an overwhelming majority of members who have encountered a myriad of problems under some of USDA's regulations and support requests for flexibility under the most stringent requirements.

They accused the National Chairman of the party, Chief John Odigie - Oyegun, of compromise stating that majority of the members of the NWC had upheld the decision of the party's Appeal Committee to nullify the primary election and conduct a fresh one.

Or do measures pass by a majority of members who are seated in any session?

He denied an insinuation that the NEC meeting was cancelled because of the fear that it could be boycotted by the majority of its members.

It was gathered that the majority of members of the party's Board of Trustees had pitched tent with the Makarfi - led caretaker committee.

«Sheldon Silver has already demonstrated his leadership abilities in this area and defending values that are important to the majority of members of his conference, but also recognizing the realities of a difficult budget situation.

British leaders were celebrating a UN vote against the Syrian regime last night, after an overwhelming majority of member states condemned the violence.

I don't think these charges reflect on the Speaker or the majority of our members,» Morelle added.

How is it possible for the Senate to conduct business with the overwhelming majority of its members...

«When is winning a majority of members enough?

The only thing that seems clear at present is that the majority of members will not support Eagle.

A Labour Party split will inevitably hasten a cross-party movement towards proportional representation, which the majority of members, including myself, support.

The vast majority of its members are teachers and / or administrators in public schools.

It is unclear whether there is a majority of members favour imposing a whip in support -LSB-...]

A majority of its members favour backing airstrikes in spite of the four conditions laid down by Labour's conference only two months ago not being met.

It is encouraging to see the labour leadership inching closer to alignment with ithe vast majority of its members and supporters in the country.

The Hastert Rule says that the Speaker will not schedule a floor vote on any bill that does not have majority support within his or her party — even if the majority of the members of the House would vote to pass it.

According to Newsweek, Morocco left the predecessor organization after a majority of the members voted to recognize the disputed Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR, aka Western Sahara).

Proposing the amendment, Labour peer Lord Alli said it was in line with official party policy and was what the majority of its members wanted.

A majority of members (53 per cent) think Labour is now on course to be in government in 2020, but if Corbyn was replaced only 42 per cent think Labour would win the next general election.