Sentences with phrase «majority position»

Both proposals face skepticism in the Republican - controlled state Senate, while the Democrat - controlled Assembly is supportive of the millionaires tax and has not shown a clear majority position on the new congestion pricing recommendations.

[27] In 2008, on a free vote, [28] Ward voted against her party's majority position on abortion, where she unsuccessfully voted in several separate bills for a reduction in the time when an abortion can be carried out from 24 weeks.

It is scaling down its holdings in Brazil as it takes a new tack in India, attempting to gain a majority position in the online retailer Flipkart.

A year later, the partners bought a majority position in Preiss Imports, a specialist alcohol - maker.

It is very difficult to determine who has the majority position.

But Willingen did not use the terms missional or missio dei, it was there that a minority position began to emerge which swelled into a majority position.

Mr Lord said usually when companies realised they could not get a majority position, there was little motivation to retain their minority holding.

But that's not a unanimous or, I'm not sure right now, a majority position.»

Researchers generally posit two psychological mechanisms underlying conformity: (1) people's desire to adopt the majority position so as to feel liked and accepted or believe they share the prevailing opinions of their community (i.e., social acceptance); and (2) people learn from the «wisdom of crowds,» or assume that other people did the research so their collective wisdom indicates something about the quality of the candidate or platform (i.e., social learning).

This meant Democrats were in a more vulnerable position when it came to holding the chambers within which they enjoyed a majority position.

She said that Barca's public comments «have not been consistent with the majority position of the caucus and have served counter to our interest.»

Before you again spam my inbox with 50 + comments arguing about how you disagree about the majority position of certain subcultures on weakly defined political axis» I rewrote that section to be less «controversial».

I've been interviewing these people for years and have often asked Democrats whether they would treat the Republicans as despicably as they have been treated if and when they took the majority position.

As of the end of 2009, Ward has rebelled against the Government's stated or majority position 19 times out of 2,629 votes she has attended, a rebelling rate of 0.72 %.

That majority position on vouchers is supported by NSBA's 2017 - 2018 Advocacy Agenda which cites as a priority «Defend (ing) against privatization by challenging vouchers, tuition tax credits and similar schemes.»

The settlement also seemed to indicate that Quicksilver would be selling down its majority position.

The «minority position» may be that the «majority position» is so full of holes that it can be discarded as scientific rubbish.

I have occasionally been heard to disagree quite strenuously with the majority position (civility anyone?).

Under the terms of the partnership, GI Partners will take a majority position in the combined companies, and current investors, Shamrock Capital Advisors and Trivest Partners, will exit their respective positions.

Bitcoin, once dominant, representing roughly 90 % of the market value for cryptocurrencies, fell in May from its majority position to less than 50 % of the total market value as Ethereum, Ripple, Litecoin, Dash and other cryptocurrencies soared.

In August, REALTOR ® Magazine Online reported that the NATIONAL ASSSOCIATION OF REALTORS ® had a majority position in a newly formed company, Sentrilock LLC, that will manufacture and market lock boxes for real estate professionals.

Coldwell Banker has its own relocation operation, and combining that with PHH would give HFS a majority position in that field.

That's the question some industry observers have been asking since the nation's most well - known stock market guru acquired a majority position (75 percent) in Iowa - based MidAmerican Energy Holdings Co..