Sentences with phrase «of less votes»

It appears the SNP victory consists of less votes than those going to Francis Curran - the Scottish Socialists candidate with the same surname as the Labour candidate.

In most cases, there are covenants that protect dividend rights and liquidation rights of the lesser voting shares.

Not exact matches

In 2015, less than a year after retiring as CEO of convenience store giant Alimentation Couche - Tard, the executive chairman, along with his three co-founders, put forward a resolution to extend their time - limited voting control — the group holds 22 % of the company's equity — to ward off any future takeover attempts.

In 1996, Buffett created Class B shares worth 1 / 30th of Class A shares, but with lesser voting rights, to stop fee - hungry managers from creating «unit trusts» that sliced up Class A shares for smaller investors seeking «Berkshire look - alikes.»

«I was kind of anxious,» Couch says about the day in March when Congress was set to vote on a less robust bill that would replace the ACA.

The voting process in that parliamentary chamber is less straightforward, requiring a two - thirds majority in the early stages of the vote before an absolute majority in the final stages of the vote.

Atlas Iron managing director David Flanagan has described the results of the iron ore miner's capital raising as an immense vote of confidence in the business, despite achieving just less than half of its $ 180 million target.

Known for being a retirement - friendly area, residents here are more likely to choose a Caribbean vacation over Europe or Asia, they ski less than any of their peers in the top 5 richest neighbourhoods in B.C., and are staunch Conservative voters, with 60 % voting Tory.

Of the almost 5.4 million votes cast in 2012, only about 430,000 came from that part of the state — less than 10 Of the almost 5.4 million votes cast in 2012, only about 430,000 came from that part of the state — less than 10 of the state — less than 10 %.

Add a potential multi-billion dollar entertainment industry merger to the long list of economic casualties from the Brexit less than a week after the U.K.'s historic vote to leave the European Union.

Millennials gave Clinton less than 30 % of their votes in key primaries and nearly precipitated her defeat nationwide.

Coke's plan passed, but yes votes represented less than half of the company's outstanding shares, after including abstentions and nonvotes.

And it shows Harris and two other directors — Louis Lataif and Donald Resnick — were named to the board with the approval of less than 40 % of the eligible voting shareholders.

That's not a popular idea with Netflix's board because two of its directors, Leslie Kilgore and Richard Barton, have been re-elected in the past with less than 50 % of the vote.

A less far - reaching proposal in the District of Columbia to allow marijuana possession but not retail sales won nearly 65 percent of the vote with all precincts reporting, unofficial results showed.

Politico reports that the recommendations are also a nod to Republican donors who have told the GOP that they would like Iowa's conservative caucus voters conservative activists — like those who vote in Iowa's caucuses — to have less of a say in the nominating process.

Michigan does not have an audit system, but it's important to note that the state's residents vote on optical scan machines, a type of machine that's considered less vulnerable to hacking than the paperless, touchscreen machines used in some other states.

Then there's the disorganization of the Republicans, that allowed all those idiots to run until the very end, giving Trump the nomination with less than half the Republican votes... And Hillary's wooden affect...

Still, some conservative German lawmakers have indicated ahead of Friday's vote reservations about whether they believe Greece fully meets the conditions required to tap aid from the European Union's bailout fund, much less qualifies for debt relief.

True, shares with inferior voting rights may cost less (the market's way of compensating owners for their lack of control).

When the shares of our Class B common stock represent less than 5 % of combined voting power of our Class A common stock and Class B common stock, the then - outstanding shares of Class B common stock will automatically convert into shares of Class A common stock.

All outstanding shares of our Class B common stock will convert into shares of our Class A common stock when the shares of our Class B common stock represent less than 5 % of the combined voting power of our Class A common stock and Class B common stock.

Minority Ownership - Minority Ownership is less than fifty percent ownership of a corporation voting stock, or not enough ownership to control the company operations.

On behalf of the Lesser of Evils Party, may I suggest you tell your supporters to just plain vote against Stephen Harper?

These shares usually have less voting rights than the Class A Shares, which are the preferred share by most investors, although the company or corporation has the right to designate which classification of shares has the most voting rights and when they are issued to the shareholders.

Access to the Proxy: Companies should provide access to management proxy materials for a long - term investor or group of long - term investors owning in aggregate at least three percent of a company's voting stock, to nominate less than a majority of the directors.

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 the same reason, issuance of lesser - voting rights shares as consideration in a merger or other corporate acquisition should not be objectionable.

Another good example of a dual class transaction that fails to raise conflict of interest concerns is subsequent issuance of lesser - voting rights shares.

The FTSE Russell consultation resulted in a decision to exclude past and future developed market constituents whose free float constitutes less than 5 percent of total voting power.

However, the same way investors are growing leery of Washington's political rhetoric, they are also putting less weight on the endless parade of speeches by voting members of the Fed — specifically, Janet Yellen, Stan Fischer, Bill Dudley, and Lael Brainard — in an effort to manipulate markets without doing anything.

A proposal from an individual investor with 60 shares to «reform executive compensation policy with social responsibility» garnered less than 7 percent of the vote.

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.

Together, they form the 12 - member FOMC, though presidents of districts other than New York only get a rotating policy vote, and thus considerably less say over interest rate policy.

Voter turnout increases as people get older, a function of greater personal stability (moving less often), and that voting tends to be habitual.

Ackman's nominees received less than 20 percent of votes from shares outstanding and less than 25 percent of shares voted at the meeting.

Kenney may have been less popular than his main rival Brian Jean overall, but as former MP Patrick Brown's own victory in the last Ontario Tory campaign demonstrated, the capacity to bring one's supporters inside a party tent matters more to the outcome of a leadership vote than one's standing in the outside world.

Diller, who is chairman of IAC, has along with his family 44 percent of the vote with less than 8 percent of the stock.

The CLC president said that the presence of peacekeepers in East Timor calls for a less extreme response but that the boycott should continue until Indonesia's military is out of the country and Indonesia acknowledges the East Timorese vote for independence.

Inspired after a string of awful - to - middling governors won with less than 50 per cent support, a Maine ballot measure will ask voters to endorse ranked - ballot voting and instant run - offs — one of the electoral alternatives the Trudeau government is considering.

Legal & General Investment Management said on April 17 that it will vote against the reappointment of chairs at large UK - listed companies if less than a quarter of the board are women.

Neither, of course, expected the vote to go through, much less survive a presidential veto.

But he feels a lot less lonely after his party voted to place a deep - green manifesto at the heart of its new soul - searching exercise.

, now they have 9.7 percent of Allergan's shares, which they can vote in favor of their deal, making it more likely that the deal will happen and less likely that someone else will come in to outbid them.

Or should voters in his home state simply vote him out, and the rest of us should care less?

Even when they had the White House (George W) and both Houses of Congress the GOP never even introduced, much less voted on, any bill banning abortion, allowing prayer in school, banning gay marriage or any other of the wedge issues they use to attract a certain mentally deranged segment of the population to their side by pretending to defend those things that are important to Christian conservatives.

(CNN)- The number of Muslims in the United States is tiny - less than one in 100 Americans - but their votes could sway the results of the presidential election in November, a new study says.

Less than half of David Cameron's party voted in favour of same - sex marriage, with the Prime Minister needing support from other parties to get the legislation through.

If I fought against the right of atheists to campaign for atheist candidates, then why should I expect anything less than a counterattack against my own voting rights as a Christian?

Although many outside the US are drawing conclusions about Americans based on our presidential candidates, they might be surprised to learn that only 14 per cent of eligible voters chose either Clinton or Trump during the primary elections, (where both parties vote to nominate a candidate to represent them in the general election) and less than 30 per cent of eligible Americans voted at all.