Sentences with phrase «most voting power»

Hi Andrew, I'm definitely looking into this but do you have any plans on creating a directory even if just for some of the major cities with the most voting power.

The first is a familiar one: A shareholder group asked Alphabet to scrap its dual - voting structure, proposed four years ago, that clumps most voting power in Class B shares, which are primarily owned by Google co-founders and Alphabet chiefs Larry Page and Sergey Brin.

Not exact matches

The day before shareholders voted 99.8 % in favour of the merger, Canadian Business sat down for an exclusive interview with the power brokers behind Bay Street's most recent high - profile partnership to discuss the deal, investment banking, the economy and life on the Street.

It also bridled against the power of the railroads and eventually provided votes for Populists who sallied forth against Big Money, the most famous of which was the Great Commoner, the Nebraskan William Jennings Bryant.

No wonder this poorest and most backward segment of India's population is constantly exploited: by politicians for their votes; by religious leaders for their numbers; by their self - styled advocates for power.

The «power of words» jumped up a few places on the chart and peaked as the fourth most - popular topic (behind voting, marriage, and forgiveness) following the release of the Access Hollywood clip portraying Trump's crude remarks on women last month.

Women are grossly underrepresented in political power structures in the United States and around the world, and even in the most «advanced» nations, the vote for women is a relatively recent achievement.

According to him most Ghanaians who voted for the NPP administration wished polls will be organized soon to enable them vote the NPP government out of power.

In a parliamentary system the party in power is the one with the most votes in parliament and that would always correspond to the party that won the most actual votes in the election, even if they didn't get the most seats.

At the time, Felder made it clear that he would sit with whichever conference that would enable him to do more for his constituents — in other words, whoever could provide the most in terms of resources and service - delivery power would be getting his vote.

But while the voting process itself has been described as fair by most international observers, the political campaign and the actual counting of the votes — no doubt the most important part of the democratic election process — has been characterized by the abuse of power, the excessive role of money, extraordinary events such as power cuts in the polling stations, fights between party representatives, accusations of fraud and scandals in denying observers access to polling stations.

If a citizen's vote translates directly to votes in parliament it doesn't matter which way you carve the seats, the party in power will be the one with the most citizens supporting it.

An election where most seats are won by narrow majorities would result in most of the elected (on both sides) having only negligible voting power.

Using the same data a logit regression model improves the predictive power of local elections to tell us who will win the most votes at the next general election, making correct predictions 86.21 % of the time.

The simple flaw in allocating voting power by economic wealth is that it leads to systems of government that have already been tried and rejected by most civilised countries.

@Bobson I think the alternative would be devolution of most powers to smaller sized cities or states where fewer people are voting, since this question only examines the size of the population.

The most right - wing Labour government in history destroyed an electoral coalition that had seen Labour win 13.5 million votes in 1997 but lose five million votes whilst in power — overwhelmingly under Tony Blair's leadership.

The shareholders holding the most shares has much more decision power — the votes of the board count more than others.

After declining the opportunity to vote at the most recent local elections, Michael Rogers, 19 at the time, told the BBC: «I just felt it would have been voting for the party that I hated the least, rather than the one I wanted to have power the most.»

Winning the largest minority of seats, or the most votes, does not guarantee a party power.

The Conservatives were returned to power although Labour increased its vote from 30.7 % to a third of the popular vote, most Conservative gains being at the expense of the Liberals.

Congress may vote against the agreement, but President Barack Obama will have the power to veto their decision, and most observers agree that opponents will not be able to pull together enough members to override the veto.

The I.D.C. announced they were forming a ruling coalition with the Senate's Republican conference in December of 2012, an arrangement that gave I.D.C. members more power and financial resources, and gave the G.O.P. the votes needed to retain control of the chamber, which they've held for most of the past 50 years, despite Democrats» overwhelming registration advantage statewide.

But they do not occupy most positions of power, nor when they are in positions of power (say party president or deputy leader) do they exercise power in the way the left of the Lib Dems might expect (by voting against the Welfare Uprating Bill for example).

He said the Mahama administration is not heartless to introduce any new tax that will burden the masses and most especially the aged unlike the NPP, which has a track record of imposing taxes that made lives unbearable for ordinary Ghanaians for which reason they were voted out of power in 2008.

You can either assert that the basic tenets of the Left still enjoy widespread popularity, and that a party committed to them could still win power — or you can conclude most of the votes Labour needs to regain power are in the centre, so the party should move in that direction.

In 1989, the Supreme Court declared the Board of Estimate unconstitutional, because it violated the one - person one - vote rule by giving New York's least - populous borough, Staten Island, as much power as its most populous borough, Brooklyn.

Congress may vote against the agreement, but Mr. Obama will have the power to veto their decision, and most observers agree that opponents will not be able to pull together enough members to override the veto.

But he pointed hopefully to the power of the 48 - member Senate Democratic Caucus headed by Sen. Charles Schumer, who have enough votes under the current rules to filibuster most Republican legislation.

As the party who recently has benefited the most from FPTP (since 1979, Labour have on average won 12 per cent more seats than proportional vote share would have given them, versus an FPTP bonus of only 6 per cent for the Tories), surely Labour want to ensure they can still win power?

If most people vote «yes» in this referendum, the Assembly will gain powers to pass laws on all subjects in the devolved areas.

Despite the international shale oil boom extracting natural gas with hydrofracking technologies, which most electric utilities, including the local ones, supply to customers as a major part of their power supply, the shift away from petroleum dependency has made remarkable progress in recent years through strategic incentives like the one which prompted this vote in Olive.

Most of the chamber's Republicans voted against the bill, arguing that the policies increased standardized testing and gave too much power to the Board of Regents in implementing the new evaluation system.

She said that the power to defeat Cuomo, who leads in polls and fund - raising, was present, and hopefully, the people who turned out here would be ready to vote for the most credible anti-Cuomo candidate, be he Astorino, Paladino, Trump or Mickey Mouse.

Stein derived most of his power from his seat on the Board of Estimate, which was made up of the mayor, the city comptroller and the city council president, each of whom had two votes, and the five borough presidents, each with one vote.

But let us ask where did John Dramani Mahama most responsibly spend the moneys voted for the education system / ministry all the years he was in power?

If the Conservatives get the most votes, but not a majority of them, «it becomes complicated, very quickly,» said Bratt about the prospect of the Liberals and NDP trying to remove Harper from power after the election through a no - confidence vote.

You led in what is arguably the most important vote in UTLA history — bringing us financial stability, a full local merger to increase our power, and preparing us for the massive fights of the future.

Being invited into the «rooms of power» certainly has its advantages, but I truly believe that unions, including teacher unions, can have a far great impact by standing on principle and reminding candidates that there is a price for turning their backs on the most fundamental values of the people whose votes they want.

Washington, DC — The World Bank is expected to vote tomorrow, April 8, on whether to approve a $ 3.75 billion loan that would help South African utility Eskom build the 4800 MW Medupi coal - fired power plant, which would be one of the world's largest and most polluting.

They voted in favour of stricter rules for capacity mechanisms, often used as backdoor subsidies for the most polluting and uneconomic power plants.

The San Francisco Board of Supervisors is voting on an ambitious bill to put solar power systems on most all new rooftops in the city that have the appropriate site requirements.

Forests, renewable energy and deserts are the three major issues that African nations are most concerned about and its felt that voting as one bloc will give them more power during negotiations.

Secondly, a change in the voting system that perpetually shuts one region (e.g., Western Canada) out of federal power will most certainly engender a constitutional crisis, and the most serious dissolution threat to Canada to date.

Powering the RISE platform is a Delegated Proof of Stake consensus algorithm which is the one of the most environmentally friendly protocols available and thrives on greater decentralisation by allowing the community to vote for block producers.

It's unusual in racing for design changes to be made purely for aesthetic reasons, but with its electric cars and gimmicks like FanBoost (which lets fans vote to give a driver a temporary power boost), Formula E isn't like most race series.

Most of the shares Zuckerberg doesn't control voted in favor of an investor's proposal to get rid of the super-voting powers last year, according to a Bloomberg analysis of company disclosures.

Most of these attacks are populist fear - mongering that simply aims at finding a scapegoat to gain political traction, votes and, hence, power.

The first and most crucial error in your statement is that you actually believe «elections» and «voting» actually gives any voice / power to the common people.

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