Sentences with phrase «on voting issues»

You influence paritioners on voting issues, then churches should be TAXED!

Theresa May, meanwhile, is also said to be unwilling to give any ground on those vote issues.

Not exact matches

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Downing Street has ruled out such membership, preferring to be able to negotiate free trade deals with the rest of the world, but the majority of members in the upper house of the U.K.'s parliament, the House of Lords, have voted against that, forcing a debate on the issue.

So if voting isn't meant to break a tie, what's the purpose of getting a show of hands on an issue that's holding up your meeting?

We'll put the issues on the board, and we'll vote.

Why she could vote no: Murkowski previously helped bring down the GOP push to repeal and replace Obamacare, so she has a track record of voting against the party - line on contentious issues.

By converting «wasted» presidential votes into «none of the above» or support for third - party candidates in Oklahoma, Arizona and other deep red states in the South — the Confederacy, essentially — black voters would exert pressure on party leaders to not take black voters and their issues for granted.

«So it would be people voting directly on issues.

Indeed, the last big vote on the free trade issue went free - traders way, when Congress voted to give President Obama fast track authority to negotiate the Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement.

WASHINGTON (AP)-- The White House threatened on Tuesday to veto emergency House legislation that aims to avert a threatened national default, a pre-emptive strike issued as Republican Speaker John Boehner labored to line up enough votes in his own party to pass the measure.

Whatever their stance on the issue, customers vote with their wallets.

With just over four weeks until Londoners cast their votes, an exclusive Opinium survey for the Evening Standard says Labour candidate Khan still enjoys a sizable lead and is more trusted than Conservative Goldsmith on the majority of key issues.

«They're women who vote not on traditional «women's issues» — education, abortion, etc. — but on foreign policy,» the Post's Naomi Schaefer Riley said.

«Canadians might not like them as politicians — they may not vote for them because they're too conservative on social issues — but they're not the kind of governors that make trouble for Canada.»

It's often hard to pigeonhole a generation of business owners, but as a voting block they do seem to come together — at least on one issue.

Musk has recused himself from voting on the issue at either company, but his previous actions raise eyebrows.

The conservatives, liberals and socialists, who command a large majority of the parliamentary seats, will work out a joint motion on Tuesday and expect to debate the issue in parliament on Wednesday and vote on it on Thursday, Tremosa's aide said on Monday.

The country voted against joining the euro zone in a referendum in 2000 and last December opted to retain its exemption from EU rules on issues like asylum and border control.

The law, which was first introduced by Congresswoman Bella Abzug, technically states that the president is «authorized and requested to issue a proclamation in commemoration of that day in 1920 on which the women in American were first guaranteed the right to vote.»

The House had been preparing to vote on the Obamacare replacement Friday after Trump issued an ultimatum Thursday demanding that a vote be cast the following day or else Republicans would be «stuck with Obamacare.»

The pricing issue, which has drawn scrutiny from members of Congress and the U.S. Department of Justice, and Chairman Robert Coury's nearly $ 100 million pay package last year have caused a group of investors to launch an effort to vote down the company's board at its annual meeting on Thursday.

Sky - high CEO compensation emerged as an issue again in 2015, after say - on - pay votes resulted in shareholders rejecting proposed compensation plans at both CIBC and Barrick Gold.

Employees own the shares through the trust, but closely held companies can control the voting of the trust on almost all issues if they so choose.

Jacobs: I was talking to Fordham professor John Pfaff recently, and he said that difference in this race is that the traditional base that votes for a DA is white, middle - class, affluent, and not that knowledgeable on the issues.

And Lisa Lindsley, director of capital strategies at AFSCME, says Exxon did not reach out to AFSCME to discuss its views or meet with the organization either before or after it issued a negative voting recommendation on Exxon's executive pay plan.

And for now, it appears that other fiduciaries are not engaging with Google on the voting rights issue either.

Republicans could still try to delay the final vote to focus attention on other issues.

Just more than half of StateWest's membership voted on the issue, with 90 per cent of the 30,366 votes cast favouring the end to mutual status.

Last year, officials from Moscow's government told local media that they were looking into the technology in a bid to reduce the risk of fraud when people are voting on city management issues.

Yet the area is one that has attracted interest from Russia's private sector as well, including its central securities depository which began testing blockchain proxy voting - allowing shareholders to issue votes on corporate decisions - last year.

Depending on the type of stock purchased, a shareholder is also entitled to one vote per one stock on company management issues decided at the company's annual shareholder meeting.

If Trump does decide to take a risk and lead the charge on an issue that would require tough votes by conservative lawmakers — perhaps on strengthening background checks for gun purchases — it would be a departure for his presidency

Sen. Rob Portman told CNBC on Wednesday that fellow Republicans will vote to approve tax reform despite any issues they may have with President Donald Trump.

While I understand that the NDP must feel intense pressure to capture votes — including from people who have never taken a course from John Smithin — I often wish that the NDP would show a bit more policy leadership on the issue of the deficit and debt. I was particularly disappointed during the 2008 federal election campaign when Mr. Layton stated, unequivocally, that the NDP would not run a deficit in the following year if elected (even though it was clear that Canada was entering a recession).

Steve said «this honour really belongs to CCGG as a whole and is based on what everyone involved with CCGG has done in the last 10 years to bring the majority voting issue to light in Canada and to keep it top of mind with federal and provincial governments, the TSX, directors and the press».

Such conversations can reveal which issues your shareholders actually care about — maybe board diversity isn't even on their radar, and won't be a deal - breaker come vote time.

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It wasn't the ideal way to start out as a public company, but it was a clear reminder how much board compensation remains a hot issue, especially with say - on - pay voting continuing to spread.

Pressing the issue further, Ms. Pelosi and the next two highest - ranking House Democrats sent a letter to Mr. Ryan noting their desire for the government to remain open and imploring him to make a public statement about the scheduling of a vote on legislation to protect young undocumented immigrants who are now shielded from deportation by the Obama - era Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, or DACA.

The affirmative vote of the holders of a majority of the Shares present in person or represented by proxy at the meeting and entitled to vote on the proposal at issue is required for: (i) the ratification of the appointment of E&Y as Walmart's independent accountants for fiscal 2014; (ii) the adoption of a non-binding advisory resolution to approve the compensation of the company's NEOs; (iii) the approval of the Management Incentive Plan, as amended; and (iv) the adoption of each of the shareholder proposals.

The documents were presumably provided by Wylie (pictured below), who has also handed email and other documentary evidence to the DCMS committee investigating online disinformation in political campaigning, as well as to the UK's data watchdog and Electoral Commission — both of which are also probing digital political campaigning issues (including around the UK's 2016 Brexit referendum vote, which Wylie alleges CA also worked on).

Icon launched its Mainnet on January 24, 2018, which got them off the Ethereum network and onto their own unique blockchain network known as a «loopchain» which allows individual connected blockchains to maintain their own affairs but also vote on issues that affect the entire ICON «loop» of blockchains.

Last month, it gave Listed an update, noting, «The CSA has heard concerns about the role of proxy advisers in influencing shareholder voting and has solicited formal feedback on this issue.

Meanwhile, those who oppose stricter gun laws are simply more likely to make it the one issue they'll vote on.

The Board has also determined to include an advisory vote on executive compensation at each annual shareholders» meeting until the next required vote on the frequency of shareholder votes on executive compensation because the Board believes it is important to receive feedback from shareholders on this important issue annually.

At any meeting at which a quorum has been established, the affirmative vote of the holders of a majority of the Shares present in person or represented by proxy at the meeting and entitled to vote on the proposal at issue is required for: (i) the ratification of the appointment of EY as Walmart's independent accountants for fiscal 2016; (ii) the adoption of a non-binding advisory resolution to approve the compensation of the company's NEOs; (iii) the approval of the Stock Incentive Plan of 2015; and (iv) the adoption of each of the shareholder proposals.

Even with the failed votes, there was little disagreement among the various plans on two major issues: the DACA recipients themselves and border security funding.

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