Sentences with phrase «number of votes at»

Ten $ 25,000 projects will be selected by the number of votes at the end of the month and awarded the money.

«I know one of your top priorities is the recognition of marriage between same - sex couples — something that I strongly support, something that I believe in and something that we will make happen together... Although we do not have the number of votes at this time needed to pass the marriage equality gender bill this legislative session, we are committed to pursuing its passage.

Said Smith: «I know one of your top priorities is the recognition of marriage between same - sex couples — something that I strongly support, something that I believe in and something that we will make happen together... Although we do not have the number of votes at this time needed to pass the marriage equality gender bill this legislative session, we are committed to pursuing its passage.

UKIP won a substantial number of votes at this election, increasing its vote share by 30.5 %, but only won a single seat.

Nearly two - thirds of the time the party that receives the most number of votes at local elections goes on the get the most votes at the next national election.

Not exact matches

Over the next week, the board will encourage the apparently large number of shareholders that had not cast votes to support the deal, said mergers expert Brian Quinn, an associate professor at Boston College Law School.

At a vote to extend the previous bailout package in February, a record number of dissenters from the chancellor's conservative camp showed growing impatience with the anti-austerity government in Athens, with 29 voting against it.

This week, the House is voting on a Fiscal Year 2018 budget while at the same time the Senate is debating its own version — and there are a number of stark differences.

If your Shares are held in the name of a broker, bank, or other nominee and you want to vote in person, you will need to obtain (and bring with you to the 2015 Annual Shareholders» Meeting) a legal proxy from the record holder of your Shares (who must have been the record holder of your Shares as of the close of business on April 10, 2015) indicating that you were a beneficial owner of Shares as of the close of business on April 10, 2015, as well as the number of Shares of which you were the beneficial owner on the record date, and appointing you as the record holder's proxy to vote the Shares covered by that proxy at the 2015 Annual Shareholders» Meeting.

Mr. Diess won favor with the Porsche and Piëch families, who own a majority of Volkswagen's voting shares, by improving profits at the division that makes Volkswagen - brand cars despite a decline in the number of vehicles sold.

The Ways and Means Committee voted on a number of tax bills last week, including legislation that would restore and expand bonus depreciation at a cost of $ 360 billion over the next decade (including interest).

Pursuant to Section 228 of the DGCL, any action required to be taken at any annual or special meeting of the stockholders may be taken without a meeting, without prior notice and without a vote if a consent or consents in writing, setting forth the action so taken, is signed by the holders of outstanding stock having not less than the minimum number of votes that would be necessary to authorize or take such action at a meeting at which all shares of our stock entitled to vote thereon were present and voted, unless the certificate of incorporation provides otherwise.

But when NDP members decided by a narrow margin to show Thomas Mulcair the door, they ended up trading a leader who was considered prime ministerial by a significant number of voters for one who is not — or at least who may not be in time for next year's federal vote.

In a shot across the bows for a number of companies, LGIM said it would vote against British companies where women did not represent at least a quarter of the board, and wanted a full breakdown of any gender pay gap and plans to close it.

However, such esoteric hipster knowledge (esoteric, if only because it played on inside knowledge that was common knowledge and what everyone knew merely 15 years ago or so) comes across as mere pandering to an electorate of Gen Xers who in their indecisiveness are at best a vote on the margins — at least in terms of their actual numbers.

These so - called «broker non-votes» will be included in the calculation of the number of votes considered to be present at the meeting for purposes of determining a quorum, but will not be considered in determining the number of votes necessary for approval and will have no effect on the outcome of the vote for Directors, the advisory vote on executive compensation, the amendment of the Restated Certificate of Incorporation and the shareholder proposals.

Amazingly, some extraordinarily courageous individuals (initially Arnold himself, journalists David Quinn and Breda O'Brien, the Iona Institute; later on, John Waters, retired Regius Professor of Laws at Trinity College Dublin, William Binchy and the distinguished historian Prof. John A. Murphy; the gay campaigners for a «No» vote, Paddy Manning and Keith Mills, deserve special mention) did succeed in making a difference to the eventual numbers, although not the outcome: in the early Spring, polls indicated that 17 percent of the electorate would vote against the amendment, but by the time the actual referendum came around, 38 percent were indicating a «No» vote, and that was the eventual outcome.

While the number of people who say they wouldn't vote for an atheist candidate sits at 70 % among Republicans, that number drops to 42 % among Democrats.

Well, we recently had our elections here in Rutherford County, and it's humbling and sad all at the same time ¯ humbling to see the number of folks who give themselves selfishly to causes they believe in, humbling to see men and women subject themselves to the mauling they get when they run for office, humbling to see folks waiting to vote in the heat of this miserable Tennessee summer we're having, but also sad to see how insular and crimped a lot of us have become.

«A growing number of people are afraid to vote for him because they are not sure how his Mormonism will affect his presidency,» says Jonathan Meyer, a pastor at Grace Church in Des Moines.

«As there were a number of pig producers who voted against this decision, we have justifiable concerns at their willingness to comply with this voluntary phase out even by 2017.

They say the specific number of clubs who voted in favour of the rule change is not yet clear but at least fourteen of the twenty clubs must have voted for the proposal in order for it to be sanctioned.

Byrne believes the Village Board acted within its authority when it voted to deny the Park District's request to increase the number of parking spaces at the Warrington Road entrance of Deerpath Park from four to 25 spaces.

Charlotte Wright, professor of community child health at the University of Glasgow and one of the members campaigning for the change in the policy, told The BMJ that she had no objection to the college surveying its members given that the numbers who voted at the annual general meeting were so small — 66 delegates supported the motion and 53 were against it.

That number is up for Slaughter, who led Assini by about 600 votes at the end of election night, making the race too close to call at that time.

Define a coalition as winning if the total number of electoral votes of the state in that coalition is 270 or more (let's ignore at first that two small states make things more complicated by allowing a mixed elector group).

At today's Puerto Rican Day Parade, Gov. David Paterson downplayed the possibility that there will be a government shutdown, insisting a sufficient number of senators will vote «yes» and pass his latest budget extender bill tomorrow afternoon.

When discussing the matter at a recent party meeting, a number of us made the point that, in supporting a «veto vote» for English MPs that nevertheless gives the whole Commons the final say, we should remember asymmetry has traditionally been the price England pays to ensure Scotland stays in the Union.

«We're at about 4o percent of the vote and I think Mr. Lazio is too... I feel very confident I can split that vote and get the numbers we need for June,» Levy insisted.

All of the above applies to the SGP Youths as well, but for the Youths I would expect the relatively high number of members to be even more pronounced as young adults raised in a religious family and community where > 20 % of the population vote for the SGP tend to have pretty clear views on their political and religious affiliation at a relatively young age, whereas other people tend to choose their political affiliations at a later age (if they ever choose one).

Woodbury did not receive the necessary number of votes to be elected in the 1845 at - large election, and no winner was subsequently chosen in a special election.

Barron, who hopes to receive at least 50,000 votes on the Freedom Party line, establishing a new third party that will have automatic ballot status in the 2014 elections, told me the vast number of signatures he has amassed should serve as the equivilent of a political «no trespassing» sign to any of his detractors.

«There is no difference between the vote of a king and the vote of a messenger so at the end of the day it is all about votes... numbers,» he added.

You might now look at recent US election results and reason that even if the US would use the European counting model, the number of votes for other parties than Republicans and Democrats are usually so few that it wouldn't be enough for noteworthy representation in Congress.

It is too early to write him off, and at the very least he will continue to siphon off a considerable number of votes, undermining Santorum's challenge to Romney.

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi appears determined to remain in power, but her resolve is at odds with growing numbers of Democratic candidates who view her as politically toxic and are pledging to vote against her as their leader.

At the end of voting, each observer gets a copy of the Voting Protocol with the final figures (turnout, votes given for each candidate, number of ballots used, number of ballots spoiled, etc.).

He warned that the party faces «existential» threats and suggested it had failed because while it increased its number of MPs it had lost votes at the last election despite an «empty, voiceless, vacant and uncontested» space at the centre of politics.

Looking at the numbers, reinforced by today's Survation poll, her optimism about the powers of tactical voting don't look very realistic.

In all elections of directors, each shareholder shall have the right to vote the number of shares owned by him for as many persons as there are directors to be elected -LSB-...] and in deciding all other questions at meetings of shareholders, each shareholder shall be entitled to one vote on each share of stock held by him; -LSB-...]

has not achieved a total that is at least 5 % of the total number of all the party votes received by all the parties listed on the part of the ballot paper that relates to the party vote; and

But, look at the number of people who turned out to vote.

The duo's act of defiance brought the number of Republicans signed onto the effort to 20, just five short of the number they need to force votes on four competing measures aimed at preserving the Obama - era Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program.

And it's likely the number of happy campers will further decline at the 2016 Holyrood election where the argument that voting Labour will stop the Tories is an irrelevance.

It's showed up in terms of the number of people who do come to the polls and vote, but take a look at that race in Delaware, for instance, with Christine O'Donnell, and here's someone who got a big victory over a moderate Republican that was supported by the party structure.

There are statistics which show a very low number of reported voter fraud cases, but at the same time such statistics are useless unless the voting officials are focused on catching immigrants voting illegally.

It is notoriously difficult to convert opinion poll figures for the share of the votes into the number of seats likely to be won at a General Election.

The group invited a number of politicians to the meeting, asking them to pledge their support for its cause, testify at public meetings and pledge to vote «no» on any map that divided the community.

The party improved on their 1997 results at the 2001 general election, increasing their number of seats to 52 and their share of the vote to 18.3 %.

Conservative MPs I have spoken to since have remarked that they were surprised at how close the vote was, and that they felt that a number of Labour MPs were persuaded to defy the strong Labour whip - or at least abstain - as a result of listening to the debate.