Sentences with phrase «rule as a minority»

Speculation about the Tories abandoning their Liberal Democrat partners and attempting to rule as a minority in the final stages of the parliament has been growing in parliament in recent weeks.

Nationalists Plaid Cymru take 28 per cent but Labour wins with 38 per cent; they choose to rule as a minority government.

Not exact matches

Specific rules that mention net neutrality or traffic prioritization and the like are still a minority, but it can be a matter of interpretation as to the application of more general regulation to do with competition issues by sector specific regulators or competition authorities.

The Rooney Rule requires all NFL teams to interview minority candidates as part of the hiring process for head coaches and senior football operation jobs.

Absent such a standard, the shareholder proposal rule becomes nothing less than a species of private eminent domain by which the federal government allows a small minority to appropriate someone else's property — the company is a legal person, after all, and it is the company's proxy statement at issue — for use as a soap - box to disseminate their views.

Bovespa — April 28, 2016 Proxy access, a hot topic in the US, is making waves this Brazilian AGM season as shareholders take advantage of new access rules meant to facilitate nominations for board seats reserved for minority or preferred shareholders.

Another way of calculating the proportional reduction in the content rule, is to consider the combined effect of the two thresholds. An auto part can qualify as TPP - made with just 30 % TPP content. A vehicle can qualify as TPP - made if 45 % of its content originate within the TPP — including auto parts which only had minority TPP content in the first place. This «double jeopardy» effect means that the theoretical minimum regional content for a finished vehicle to qualify for TPP trade preferences would be only 13.5 % (equal to 30 % of 45 %).

Under BJP rule, persecution of religious minorities, especially Muslims and Christians, has markedly increased, as the party often turns a blind eye to the actions of its more militant supporters.

It is a nation of minorities ruled by a minority of one — it thinks and acts as if it were a nation of white Anglo - Saxon Protestants.

Special care should be taken to discourage young people, who in their search for personal identity tend to be conformists, from interpreting and practicing democracy as majority rule, in disregard of individual and minority rights and careless of the proper subordination of the will of the group to the principles of justice.

Both Obama, the nation's first black president, and Romney, a Mormon, have found that their shared status as members of minority groups and political pioneers, in many ways, has also changed the rules of this presidential campaign cycle, said Nancy Wadsworth, co-editor of the anthology «Faith and Race in American Political Life.»

There Offensive Coordinator Mike Shula should technicaly count as a Rooney Rule interview for any interested teams since he's a minority as the son of a coach, and the NFL dosent have any nepotism.

Senate Minority Leader Dean Skelos has seized on today's scathing IG report on AEG as proof that state government is suffering mightily under the «arrogance» of single - party rule.

To be allowed to apply to join the EU, Catalonia as an independent nation must be able to demonstrate they meet the Copenhagen Criteria which are defined as follows Political criteria: Stability of institutions guaranteeing democracy, the rule of law, human rights and respect for and protection of minorities; Economic criteria: A functioning market...

Senate Minority Leader Andrea Stewart - Cousins on Monday did not rule out further primary challenges to members of the Independent Democratic Conference and derided their coalition with the Senate Republicans as a «false majority.»

«Leaders should play by the same rules as the citizens they seek to represent, and this bill simply helps New Yorkers see if their Presidential candidates pay taxes like the rest of us,» Senate Minority Leader Andrea Stewart - Cousins said.

Despite Gov. Andrew Cuomo not ruling out supporting Republicans this year, Democratic Senate Campaign Committee Chairman Mike Gianaris remains upbeat, telling Liz last night on the show that Cuomo will ultimately settle with the minority conference given their agreement on bread - and - butter party issues such as women's» health and increasing the state's minimum wage.

The Hastert Rule, also known as the «majority of the majority» rule, is an informal governing principle used in the United States by Republican [1][2][3] Speakers of the House of Representatives since the mid-1990s to maintain their speakerships [4] and limit the power of the minority party to bring bills up for a vote on the floor of the HoRule, also known as the «majority of the majority» rule, is an informal governing principle used in the United States by Republican [1][2][3] Speakers of the House of Representatives since the mid-1990s to maintain their speakerships [4] and limit the power of the minority party to bring bills up for a vote on the floor of the Horule, is an informal governing principle used in the United States by Republican [1][2][3] Speakers of the House of Representatives since the mid-1990s to maintain their speakerships [4] and limit the power of the minority party to bring bills up for a vote on the floor of the House.

As political scientist Terry Moe has shown, as the number of rules in teacher contracts goes up, student performance goes down, especially that of poor and minority studentAs political scientist Terry Moe has shown, as the number of rules in teacher contracts goes up, student performance goes down, especially that of poor and minority studentas the number of rules in teacher contracts goes up, student performance goes down, especially that of poor and minority students.

As long as neither the Indonesian government nor the courts take a stance opposing and condemning «mob rule», the fate of religious minorities» basic rights will be at stakAs long as neither the Indonesian government nor the courts take a stance opposing and condemning «mob rule», the fate of religious minorities» basic rights will be at stakas neither the Indonesian government nor the courts take a stance opposing and condemning «mob rule», the fate of religious minorities» basic rights will be at stake.

Nevertheless, a Cameron minority government could easily inaugurate a long period of Conservative rule, as the economic difficulties could be blamed on Labour.

Rochester - area Democratic Rep. Louise Slaughter delivered the opening statement for the minority as the House Rules Committee approved the Republican tax reform plan last night.

For the past 40 years, Sheldon Silver ruled over the 65th Assembly District, commonly referred to as a majority - minority district.

Membership requires that candidate country has achieved stability of institutions guaranteeing democracy, the rule of law, human rights, respect for and protection of minorities, the existence of a functioning market economy as well as the capacity to cope with competitive pressure and market forces within the Union.

As is true of the period before 2000, opposition to the ZANU - PF came from the minority ethnic Ndebele, but also and more importantly from among the majority ethnic Shona, which meant that the ruling party found itself with a declining popular base.

The SNP are preparing to rule Scotland as a minority government, after their potential allies the Green Party joined the Liberal Democrats in ruling out a full coalition.

Hopefully there will be some administrative reforms at HCR that will benefit minorities who had encountered a financial setback as he go along in his new post.To many rules in housing ususally can be a disservice to people in need of housing...

The Nuffield Council on Bioethics has today launched a consultation on whether the current rules should be changed, arguing that certain groups such as young men and people from ethnic minorities are overrepresented on the database.

No As a general rule, libertarianism is opposed to changes imposed by majority rule over the objections of a minority.

Republicans also advanced two other cabinet nominations — Steve Mnuchin as Treasury secretary and Georgia Rep. Tom Price for secretary of Health and Human Services — suspending quorum rules that require a member of the minority party to participate in confirmation votes.

Klein, Valesky etc have split from the Minority for perks and power and will go along with this ruling as soon as they get theirs.

The Common Council «rule» which defines the minority leader as the head of the non-majority Party with the second largest number of members is hardly clear.

The monumental hubris of the ruling party has earned it an extended turn as the minority party.

Despite support from the Democratic Assembly majority, as well minority state Senate Democrats, and the Independent Democratic Conference, which forms a ruling coalition with Senate Republicans, Assemblymember Andrew Hevesi's Home Stability

As Senate Minority Leader, Senator Smith is an ex officio member of all Senate standing committees and the ranking Minority member of the Rules Committee.

To prevent disparities in jury rulings, more attention needs to be placed on the pre-trial aspects of the jury selection process, such as minority underrepresentation and measuring bias in potential jurors.

In fact, the only reason for a member of the majority to fear the changing demographics is if they feel past mistreatment of minorities means that they will suffer as they have seen minorities suffer at certain times from majority rule.

The provision seeks to reverse the recent federal appeals court ruling these parents obtained, which held that the regulation patently violated NCLB's unambiguous requirement that only fully prepared teachers be deemed «highly qualified» and that, as such, teachers still in - training must be publicly disclosed and not concentrated in low - income, high - minority schools.

As civil rights activists learned after the Morgan ruling, reformers must realize that the federal government must play a strong role on behalf of poor and minority children.

The San Francisco and Los Angeles Unified School Districts have both struck down their willful defiance rules as grounds for suspension, citing concerns that suspensions under this rule disproportionately affect minority students.

The U.S. Department of Education is contemplating issuing new rules that could prod states to ensure that poor and minority children get access to as many high - quality teachers as their more - advantaged peers.

Independent charter schools, while funded by state taxpayers, operate outside most traditional public school rules in a way that supporters say make them more effective and perhaps better able to address long - standing challenges, such as raising test scores for low - income and minority students.

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On top of each drawing, Chiurai has inscribed imagined letters by Foucault, writing on the intrinsic nature of madness — a diagnosis Chiurai believes was used to motivate colonial expansion and white minority rule in Africa and continues to serve as a contributing factor to the failure of post-colonial African nation states.

This overwhelmingly «christian» congress represents an overwhelming «christian» nation has that: performs a million abortions a year, has out 40 % of births out of wedlock (approaching 70 percent in minority communities), has a Supreme Court that has ruled that virtual child pornography is protected by the first amendment, has a culture that teaches ever younger girls (through movies, music, tv, books and magazines) that their primary function is as living sex toys for men, forces religions to provide insurance to include abortifacients against their faith, and is rapidly redefining marriage by judicial edict.

Until we (you and I and some other people) move enough people to overcome effects of such things such as the minority rule problem here with the U.S. Senate there's no way to move ahead.

Doug Bostrom wrote: «Until we (you and I and some other people) move enough people to overcome effects of such things such as the minority rule problem here with the U.S. Senate there's no way to move ahead.»

The Court also enacted new attorney Rules of Professional Conduct in March 2015, which allows LLLTs to own a minority interest in law firms with lawyers, making Washington the first U.S. state to formally permit alternative business structures (ABSs), which is generally defined as non-lawyer investment and / or ownership in law firms.

While the 14th Amendment has been used to uphold the rights of women and minorities, it has not proven as effective in the disability rights movement, due mainly to a U.S. Supreme Court ruling more than 30 years ago.

The business divorce lawyer is not a business appraiser, but he or she must be able to elevate the client's understanding of basic appraisal approaches and methodology, along with any applicable legal concepts such as the case - law - driven rules surrounding minority and marketability discounts in «fair value» buyout proceedings.