Sentences with phrase «majority show of hands»

Delegates to the conference will be in accordance with voting rights and decisions on motions will be a simple majority show of hands.
Mainline Democrats moved to appeal the ruling — which would force a debate and vote on the issues — but members failed to garner a majority show of hands to support their appeal.

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Dozens of charter schools were closed for the morning; parents and children, the vast majority from Eva Moskowitz's Success Academy network, were handed matching oversize T - shirts, granola bars and water bottles, and encouraged to chant and dance for about two hours in a show of strength and enthusiasm.
Should Murtha win the majority leader post, Pelosi would emerge emboldened, having hand - selected her leadership team and shown the importance of longtime loyalty in her decision - making process.
Among the ill - gotten perks of being Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos» son was a $ 100,000 no - show job at a malpractice insurer, according to a six - count indictment handed up today against Mr. Skelos and his son Adam.
During PAX East, we went hands - on with the majority of Annapurna Interactive's upcoming slate of games and found them to be amongst the most impressive and diverse at the show.
The recent National Assessment Program Science literacy results for Australian Year 6 students (ACARA, 2017) showed on the one hand a majority of students are interested in studying Science and learning new things, but on the other hand there has been a pattern of stagnation in inquiry skills since 2006.
Despite the very long - term trend showing that individual investors are moving assets to passively managed investment vehicles (such as index funds), the vast majority of individual assets are still in the hands of active fund managers.
For the majority of mill dogs, accepting a treat right out of your hand is a huge show of trust.
3D action platformers with anthropomorphic characters are something the majority of the games industry left behind with the PlayStation 2 and N64 but Spearhead Games» latest shows that with the benefit of 20 years of game play and narrative improvements, this genre still has plenty of life left in it when left in the right hands.
During PAX East, we went hands - on with the majority of Annapurna Interactive's upcoming slate of games and found them to be amongst the most impressive and diverse at the show.
On the other hand, I think the large majority of people (including me) would support efforts to reduce CO2 emissions if the consequences of continued increases could be shown to be significant with a reasonably level of certainty.
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