Sentences with phrase «majority over the minority»

Right now, we have a two - party system with a winner - take - all election system which incentivizes negative campaign and basically legislation being rammed through by the majority over the minority.

Not exact matches

However, when the substantial majority of over 60 per cent gets split among four other competing parties, the Conservatives — with a minority of the vote — could wind up forming the government.

We seek situations characterized by large potential markets and unmet needs and invest with a flexible approach, including minority and majority stakes, through which we can provide sufficient capital to allow companies to grow over time.

- Majority voting policies provide minority shareholders with greater influence over the composition of the board of directors, who are their key representatives.

Majority voting policies provide minority shareholders with greater influence over the composition of the board of directors, who are their key representatives.

As soon as the election is over, those who have won the majority undertake to act according to their speech, while the minority, abstaining from action, must satisfy itself with talk in order to prepare for the next election.

The minority has no obligation to roll over and play dead if the majority wants to discriminate against them.

The founding fallacy in the new church was a «defective ecclesiology» that provided for governance by a lay majority, dominated under a quota system by minorities and feminists, in which theologians were marginalized and issues of race and gender took precedence over traditional ecclesial and confessional concerns.

To avoid majority religious views from being favored by the state over the views of the many minority religions.

The country has long been considered a model of tolerance, but religious tensions in the past few years — including the demolition of 20 churches, protests over attacks on Christians by Islamist extremists, and a law requiring minority religious groups to collect signatures from local majority groups before building churches — highlight the country's increasing struggles to maintain harmony between its religious groups.

While they have not mandated prayer, they permit the majority to impose unwelcome prayer over a minority.

I think a majority of Evangelicals are with it, but that large minority needs to get over their fears of Mormons.

The ironic and indirect ways of affirming and denying — God bless the Czar and keep him far, far away — modes of speaking that are so important for Jewish humanism, are found in Yiddish, a plastic language that hung like a long suspension bridge over the chasm that separated the world of an isolated, vulnerable religious minority from the dangerous Gentile - dominated majority culture.

We know that majority ethnic groups can tyrannize over minorities.

you can't hear the intelligent majority over the loud obnoxious minority.

There was a small but very passionate pro-slave minority, and then a majority who recognized a right to freedom for blacks, but didn't want to fight over it.

He has observed that the marginalization of women, racial / ethnic / minorities, Dalits, the poor, children, elderly and the sick, in short the majority of the people the world over, has escalated with the spread of the forces of globalization.

Please try to keep in mind that the vast majority of atheists you're likely to come across believe in democracy, perhaps even more than conservative Christians who believe that simple majorities ought to dictate over minorities.

The majority of mainstream Christians have allowed a vocal minority to take over our government and interpret scripture and Christian values for all Christians.

They are not a «hated minority» they are a «hated majority» and hold power over others hiding behind religion to justify their oppressive practices.

The belief so prominent in Marxism that human history is governed by law and culminates almost automatically in the victory of the exploited majority over the exploiting minority seems indebted to the Jewish - Christian conception of history.

They control the majority of the World's wealth and arguably are one of the most powerful blocks in the world, hardly a quality one would associate with a «minority» Perhaps the millions of non Christians who lost land or culture (not to mention millions of lives) as a result of Christian nations colonizing the World justifiably would call this headline atrocious as it simply is historically untrue if one looks at the World over the past 300 or so years and it ignores the reality of suffering brought forth by a particular religion that seeks to change all people to any one particular religion.

What we oppose is a food system that privileges short - term financial gain for a tiny minority, over the long - term well - being of the vast majority of humanity, non-human species, and ecosystems everywhere.

Belvino, which owned over 7000ha of vineyards in Australia prior to the latest divestments, is majority owned by Hong Kong - listed CK Life Sciences with ASX - listed financial services group Challenger holding a minority stake.

It had the opposite effect, it told the boss and the board that a minute minority were making allot of noise while the majority can be won over with better game results.

Klein can over play his hand one way: Being seen as denying significant power to Sen. Andrea Stewart - Cousins, the Democratic minority leader who would be the first black woman to hold the majority leader post in state government.

But City & State has reported while Felder would likely caucus with his fellow Democrats, he would also probably cast a tie - breaking vote — if necessary — for Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos over Minority Leader John Sampson.

With one other non-IDC Democrat named Simcha Felder, these 9 Democratic State Senators chose to abandon their party for a «majority coalition» with the minority Republicans, giving them control over what bills come to a vote, who gets important committee posts, and makes it impossible for any progressive legislation to become law.

Indonesia represents a case of sectarian discrimination, in which radical groups associated with the Muslim majority are attempting to assert their influence and establish dominance over the Christian minority.

The house elected Abubakar Isa (APC - Shelleng) new deputy majority leader while Mr Lamsumbani Dili (PDP - Demsa) took over as the minority leader.

Republicans hold a 245 to 188 edge over Democrats in the House and a member of the majority may be more successful than the minority members in advancing New York City's interests.

Minority Leader Hector Rodriguez, Democrat of New Paltz, had the oratorical edge over Majority Leader Mary Beth Maio, Republican of Highland — if only as the one - eyed man in the kingdom of the blind.

It not only gives incumbents an advantage, but has given the longtime majority parties in Albany — Republicans in the Senate and Democrats in the Assembly — an edge over the much - more modestly staffed minority conferences.

For the past 40 years, Sheldon Silver ruled over the 65th Assembly District, commonly referred to as a majority - minority district.

Many of Mr. Schneiderman's proposals have passed the Assembly in various forms over the years, only to founder in the State Senate, where they have enjoyed support from the Democratic minority but not the GOP majority.

Senate Minority Leader John Sampson is upping the ante considerably this morning in his war of words with Majority Leader Dean Skelos over rules changes, accusing the GOP of creating a «constitutional crisis» by moving to strip LG Bob Duffy of his right to break a tie in a leadership vote.

The district has been fighting for some time over funding, with the Orthodox Jewish - controlled school board diverting funds to Yeshivas — religious private schools that educate a minority of students — and away from the public schools attended by a majority of students, many of whom are black and Latino.

No As a general rule, libertarianism is opposed to changes imposed by majority rule over the objections of a minority.

Senate Democratic Leader (or, if you prefer, Minority Leader) John Sampson sent an upbeat memo to conference members and staffers today, announcing some internal changes and sounding a confident note about the upcoming re-match with the Republican majority over control of the chamber.

On Wednesday, Schumer, a Democrat and the Senate Minority Leader, and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, announced a two - year budget agreement that increases military and non-defense spending by $ 300 billion over the next two years and includes more than $ 80 billion in disaster relief.

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Well another politician who stands by a minority (the wealthy) and not the majority (the working class) when over 72 % of the public agrees we should bring back the wealth tax so we don't have to lay off Goverment employees and cut back on services such as education fire fighters law enforcement then we are not living in a Democracy.

After calling on then - Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver to step down after he was arrested in January, Assembly Minority Leader Brian Kolb is staying out of the fight over whether Senate Republicans should oust their majority leader, Dean Skelos.

Members of the Minority on Parliament's Appointment Committee say they were forced to boycott today's vetting over the Majority's decision to «surprise» them by holding the vetting in spite of an agreement to go on break today [Wednesday], ahead of Easter.

The only problem with this is that a) they are a minority of voters, b) the Lib Dems have already claimed some of them and even if we won them over it still would not be a majority.

«The Minority Caucus has control over whether or not the County will spend surplus dollars or bond for expenditures because both actions need a super majority approval, eight votes,» said Minority Leader Mills.

[21][clarification needed] He subsequently became MP for Plymouth Sutton at the February 1974 general election with a majority of 8,104, [22] when Harold Wilson took over from Edward Heath as prime minister of a minority Labour government.

The candidates seated on either side of him ranged from Robert Carroll, the Democratic Party - backed favorite to succeed Brooklyn Assemblyman James Brennan, to Kent Iverson, a white independent hoping to take over Congressman Charles Rangel «s majority - minority district — to Arthur Schwartz, a Sanders campaign lawyer challenging long - sitting Manhattan Assemblywoman Deborah Glick.

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.

The statement reads partly: «The leadership and entire family members of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) is horrified at the recent killing of over 46 innocent citizens in Kaduna State and the seeming silence of the majority over atrocities committed by a minority.