Sentences with phrase «meaningful voting rights»

Non-voting and subordinate - voting shares only have meaningful voting rights in extraordinary circumstances.

Not exact matches

The TSX amendments were a step in the right direction, but they left open an «exceptional circumstance» loophole, which has the potential to render majority voting less meaningful.

Students at a Brooklyn rally organized by Borough President Eric Adams, declared war on lawmakers who have resisted meaningful gun control, and registered for their own weapons — the right to vote.

Conservative rebels inflicted a humiliating defeat on Theresa May in the House of Commons as they backed an amendment to her flagship European Union withdrawal bill over parliament's right to a meaningful vote on the Brexit deal.

And we've pushed the government to act to guarantee the rights of EU citizens living here and of UK citizens who have made their homes elsewhere in Europe; to ensure a transition period on the existing terms; to minimise disruption and avoid an economic cliff edge; to avoid any return to a hard border in Northern Ireland; and to guarantee Parliament a meaningful vote on the final deal.

You can not be a «powerful force» for meaningful change on behalf of workers by spewing leftist lite rhetoric and backing neo-liberal right wingers like Andrew Cuomo... and that's all WFP ever does... they support horrific Democratic Party candidates and sheepdog many well - intended folk into voting for establishment candidates on their line.

The House of Lords will start debating the Article 50 bill on Monday with amendments tabled to guarantee the rights of EU citizens in the UK, for greater scrutiny on the process and for a «meaningful vote» at the end of Brexit negotiations.

As the Brexit bill heads to the House of Lords this week, Mandelson also said he believed the government could be defeated in the upper chamber on the issues of a meaningful parliamentary vote at the end of negotiations and guaranteed rights for EU citizens in the UK.

I could move to a totalitarian nation where I have no meaningful vote, no ability to speak out, and thus no responsibility for the outcome, but then I would have no rights either and I would be nothing more than cattle.

Prior to this decision there was an assumption that Parliament already had the power to unilaterally change our electorate model, as long as the system maintained relative parity of voting power, played a meaningful role in the democratic process, and promoted the right of each citizen to participate in the electoral process.

At best, she ensures that she will be able to exercise her right (to vote or to protest) next time, but that hardly seems like a meaningful remedy.