Sentences with phrase «majority power»

But there is also a good deal to be said for AV, as a major advance on what we have now, particularly if combined with PR for a second chamber and local government, along with other measures such as devolution and entrenched rights that constrain the kind of untrammeled use of majority power we saw in the 1980s.

With state legislative party primaries rapidly approaching, there are several races New Yorkers should keep a close eye on, both in the city and across the state, including some that could play key roles in deciding majority power in the state Senate, which is currently under Republican leadership.

BY PAUL SCHINDLER As the State Senate slogged through its last scheduled day in its 2014 session, a member of the Independent Democratic Conference (IDC) that shares majority power with the Republicans, voiced hope that a measure to bar mental health professionals from performing «sexual orientation change efforts» on minors could yet get a floor vote.

They do not naturally grasp such knotty principles as tolerance, impartial justice, the separation of church and state, the needs for limits on majority power, or the difference between liberty and license.»

BY PAUL SCHINDLER As the State Senate slogged through its last scheduled day in its 2014 session, a member of the Independent Democratic Conference (IDC) that shares majority power with the Republicans, voiced hope that a measure to bar mental health professionals from performing «sexual orientation change efforts» on minors could yet get a -LSB-...]

Given the right set of circumstances, they can wield majority power.

While the scope of the Nuclear Option was relatively limited (only federal judge appointments I believe), there is nothing stopping it from being expanded upon by the current majority power.

Republicans won a one - seat majority in the chamber on Election Day, and with Brooklyn Democrat Simcha Felder conferencing with them, do not need the IDC to retain full majority power in the Senate.

Rather it is the majoritarian culture on those campus use the traditional tools of majority power (elected student governments, for example) to silence what is an unpopular minority.

Foley said that coal will still likely be the majority power source in 25 years in developing economies like China and India, as they have large domestic coal supplies and less domestic competition from natural gas.

We should treat those with whom we disagree theologically as we wish we had been treated; not act as they did when they had the majority power.

Senate Republicans have worked well with the IDC, forming a majority power - sharing coalition when for a two - year term between 2013 and 2014.

The IDC had previously formed a majority power - sharing coalition with the Senate Republicans, and the GOP conference has kept them close even after retaining a majority in the 2014 elections.

By the June 12 plot, a majority power clique, nay criminals, suborned the rest of Nigeria to thwart an election globally hailed as very clean; and levy a war of intimidation against Abiola and his native South West.

So, are there any ways of tinkering with a unicameral legislature in order to add in some check on the majorities power, while still keeping the system unicameral?

The once - a-decade process is controlled by the majority powers of the Republican - led Senate and Democratic - controlled Assembly, a fact that Gov. Andrew Cuomo has promised to end.

Earlier, Senate Democrat leader John Sampson of Brooklyn accused the Republican majority of being more concerned with protecting its majority power and its conservative voter base than approving what he calls a civil right supported by most New Yorkers.

-- This is typical when the minority party do try to highlight the divisions within the majority power (just like the late 80s) when they have their own problems dealing with their base and teabaggers when there is a disconnect between the beltway and local leaders and various special interest groups (considering what had happened to Scozzafava).

Since the previous Congress, House Republicans have exercised their majority power to pass measures calling for expanded oil and gas production, restricting EPA and cancelling other Obama environmental and energy initiatives.»

As one of the countries most vulnerable to climate change, Vietnam must rethink its strategy of keeping coal as the majority power source.