Sentences with phrase «opposed by an overwhelming majority»

Under the default rule applicable to virtually every corporation in the United States, however, corporate directors are elected through a standard that guarantees that a director could be elected with even a single affirmative vote, even if that director's candidacy is opposed by the overwhelming majority of shareholders.

In a press release issued Thursday in opposition to the creation of the Women's Equality Party line, Republican gubernatorial candidate Rob Astorino said «the provisions in that bill are opposed by an overwhelming majority of New Yorkers.»

Given the potentially economically catastrophic vote to leave the EU last Thursday, an outcome that most Labour Party members, and most Labour voters opposed; and which was opposed by the overwhelming majority of affiliated trade unions; then it is essential that the Labour Party quickly develops a policy of how to deal with the fall out.

Not exact matches

I would like to think that from here on, updates will be limited and changes will be calculated (basically: bug fixes, and balance adjustments that have been carefully debated and agreed upon by the overwhelming majority of the community), as opposed to experimental, unnecessary, and sometimes seriously stupid.

Yes, we have 30 large firms (not a bad number considering the entire Ontario legal market is the size of Los Angeles's), but the overwhelming majority of firms consist of 1 to 5 lawyers, and if some of them close for bad reasons (as opposed to a sole practitioner simply retiring), then the fallout is nothing by comparison.