Sentences with phrase «more voting rights»

The class of shares issued publically has limited voting rights, while the class issued to insiders carries more voting rights and allows them to retain control of the company.

Dual classes give some shareholders more voting rights per share than others.

Not exact matches

As such, it is likely that the center - right candidate from Forza Italia, Paolo Romani, is elected due to the alliance gaining more voters than the Five Star Movement back on the March 4 vote.

However, the bank noted that whether far - right supporters are certain about their vote, support for Macron may be more fragile than what polls suggest.

The election result was surprising to political analysts as it saw the Lega party overtake Forza Italia, its center - right coalition partner, in terms of vote share giving it more influence in the coalition and potentially at a national level.

Federal judges found more problems in Texas» voting rights laws, ruling that Republicans racially gerrymandered some congressional districts to weaken the growing electoral power of minorities, who former President Barack Obama set out to protect at the ballot box before leaving office.

But J. Gerald Hebert, director of the Voting Rights and Redistricting Program at the public - interest Campaign Legal Center in Washington, said the states drew districts with more black voters than necessary to «dilute their voting strength in order to achieve a partisan gain.»

In 2013, Kennedy sided with more conservative justices to effectively block a key component of the law, although its provisions prohibiting states from diluting minority voting rights remain in effect.

The firms said in a statement that Walmart, which owns Asda, will have 42 percent of the issued share capital of the combined business and will not hold more than 29.9 percent of the total voting rights.

Merkel was weakened after a September election as voters angry with her decision in 2015 to open Germany's borders to more than a million asylum seekers punished her conservatives by voting for the Alternative for Germany (AfD) far - right party.

In Sweden, the country's far - right party, the Sweden Democrats, received more than 12 % of the vote in last year's election.

You also need to determine the voting rights of the partners — normally a simple majority vote of the partners decides what happens and what doesn't, but you can agree that important decisions be made by a «supermajority» vote of two - thirds or more of the partnership percentages..

Yahoo and another large shareholder, SoftBank, agreed to reduce their voting rights to 49.9 percent, even though the two combined still own more than half of Alibaba.

European Union and Asian governments are frustrated that the U.S. Congress has held up a reform of voting rights in the International Monetary Fund that would give China and other emerging powers more say in global economic governance.

The new weighted voting rights structure, still banned by Chinese regulators, aims to incentivize more Chinese technology companies to list in Hong Kong.

In the end, he told his caucus to vote for the Liberal motion, which was enough to get Scheer called a «backstabber» by Ezra Levant, whose Rebel Media more or less defines the far right end of the political mainstream in Canada.

For a privately held firm, a firm is classified as a family firm in case a family controls more than 50 % of the voting rights.

We have entered into a sixth amended and restated stockholders» agreement, dated as of April 20, 2010, with holders of our preferred stock and certain holders of our common stock, including some of our directors, executive officers and holders of more than five percent of our voting securities and their affiliates, pursuant to which the holders of preferred stock have a right of purchase and co-sale in respect of sales of securities by our founders and common stockholders party to the agreement.

Five Star is much better placed to capture the centrist votes than anyone else in Italian politics right now, and much more likely to be able to co-opt the Renzi - hating left into a coalition.

The idea of a bipartisan bill passing through Congress right now doesn't seem likely, especially considering that the Honest Ads Act — a bill proposed late last year that would require more transparency around online political ads — hasn't been put to a vote in either the House or Senate in almost six months.

If there's a more fascinating business story out there right now than today's vote in Chattanooga, TN, on whether VW plant workers should be allowed to unionize, I don't know what it is.

Right now, the TPP is just one more reason to vote out the Conservatives.

In some situations where the owner sells more than 50 %, they can negotiate super voting right controls, which allows them to maintain decision - making control even if they no longer maintain economic control.»

IMHO, there tends to be little electoral overlap between the provincial and federal levels, at least in this province, and in fact the vote splits between right, left and centre are quite different with one unified Conservative party (more aligned with Wildrose than with Alberta PC), and a not - quite - as - moribund Liberal party in play.

the unborn get more rights then a living, breathing, voting woman?

If the GOP would quit trying to take away women's rights (as confirmed by the Supreme Court) and concentrate on FREEDOM for all, the party would gain more votes from women than they would lose from evangelicals who must have other concerns that are just as important as taking away a woman's right to chose.

For one thing, the religious revival of the 70s - 90s was fading, and the successes of the 1990s political marshalling of evangelical votes by the Religious Right had provoked an emotional counter-reaction, one documented by the many books sold by the «New Athiests» and more scientifically by various sociologists.

The voting rights act has been eviscerated and we'll see lots more «voter fraud» laws soon and the likes of Citizens United and dark money PACs will flood the electorate with muck - raking the like of which we have never seen.

There's been much speculation about whether white evangelicals, who have accounted for more than a third of Republican votes in recent elections, will turn out in force for Mitt Romney, a Mormon who for years supported abortion and gay rights.

We need to either, 1) deny believers the right to vote, or 2) round them up, put them to work on some shovel - ready projects, like filling pot holes, or tearing down churches so we have more room for ACORN centers, and free abortion clinics.

The latino vote is going to be absolutely critical in every future election, and they are not incapable of being won over with the right message and more importantly right actions.

Greenawalt concedes that citizens of a secular liberal state have a legal right to vote their religious convictions, but he is more concerned with when and whether they ought to exercise self - restraint in the interests of good citizenship.

The rationalization of southern baptists is truly mind boggling — the idea that each church is «autonomous» as justification for outright racism is pitiful in this day and age — if the Southern Baptist convention had come out strongly and adamantly against this kind of behavior, I'd have at least a measure of respect for them — but to shrug off a blatant act of discrimination as the «work of the devil» and ignore the deacon's cowardice in wanting to avoid «controversy» is laughable — if it weren't for people having the courage to fan the flames of controversy, women and african american would not have the right to vote today — more evidence of the ignorance of most bible thumpers, and Mississippi in particular

The only benefit all of these babies will have to the Christian right is providing more ignorant voters who don't even know how to properly advocate and vote for themselves, politically.

Rush Limbach's comments will be taken as gospel for the Right, but they truely illustrate the reason the GOP is in turmoil... the leaders need the Religious Right to win, but know they are being intellectually dishonest because their values do not match the Religious Right, except on the abortion issue, whhich will never go away because the GOP needs that 20 % of voters who would otherwise vote Democrat becasue the Liberal values match Christian values more closely.

The church also voted, by an overwhelming majority, to change the language about marriage in the church constitution to «two persons» from a «man and a woman,» according to More Light Presbyterians, a group that supports gay rights.

The truth is that many Supreme Court justices appointed by pro-life presidents have voted to uphold abortion rights, so the issue is far more complex than we are often willing to admit.

He's crooked just like every other politician who's tried to use the «faith card» to get more votes from far right conservative Christians.

Though evangelical women have long been involved in political activism, including helping to lead the temperance movement and campaigning for and against women's right to vote, seeking the White House is a more recent and dramatic step.

Economy, Environment, Human Dignity, Human Rights... voting is a privilege, we should take more than just 2 minutes to decide on how to spend that vote.

«Not since Congress voted to ban the brutal partial - birth abortion method has a more important piece of pro-life legislation come before Congress,» said Susan Muskett of the National Right to Life Committee (NRLC).

Wow this is fun to watch... the extreme religious right is being forced to choose between either 4 more years of leftist liberal gay supporting Obama, or having to vote for a guy who they've been taught their whole lives in sunday school belongs to a polygamous satanic worshiping cult.

Those who follow religion and think it means more than their country need to have their right to vote taken away from them.

And I am even more angry as a legislator who must endure the threats of every religious group who thinks it has some God - granted right to control my vote on every roll call in the Senate.

This appears to be a shameless attempt by Gov Romney to reach the conservative religious right (CRR) and suck in a few more votes.

It is the heresy that in even more modern times the churches fell into when they condemned the right of women to vote and interracial marriage.

Me asking why Seo would be preferred to play on the right rather than left got more up votes than down and considering I get down votes for my arrogance... I would not say the question I asked is clear for everyone, or if it is then it is in favor of what I asked.

I hadn't given a whole lot of thought as to when I would do the calls, I just knew that I feel so strongly about this election that I wanted to do something more than exercise my right and responsibility to vote.

Right now there is nothing more important in your future and the future of your children and grandchildren â $» nieces and nephews than getting out the vote and talking to your neighbors.

Say there are four of you who all vote that one has the right «price» then this get's a score of 8 as price was considered to have the importance of «2» — so the more important the point the higher the score.