Sentences with phrase «ruled by a minority»

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.

For the most part, we're always ruled by a minority.

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.

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.

Opposing views of right and wrong are best addressed and accommodated in a democratic political debate, with the judiciary serving the vital but secondary role of ensuring that basic rights are protected to prevent oppression of minorities by majoritarian rule.

Rakhine is home to the Rohingya, an ethnic Muslim minority who say they have been persecuted by the Myanmar military during its decades of authoritarian rule.

True it is, that no other rule exists, by which any question which may divide a Society, can be ultimately determined, but the will of the majority; but it is also true, that the majority may trespass on the rights of the minority.»

The essence of democracy is not rule by majority but rather government by discussion, including the right of the minority to be heard.

Unlike that of the dominant group, the culture of some of the minority groups did not make decisions using Robert's Rules of Order or by politicking.

For Holmes, the ruling majority based its claim to rule not on any principle affirming the rightness of ruling human beings with their consent and free elections; rather, the majority found its sufficient claim to rule in the brute fact that the majority, by force of numbers, could overpower the minority.

While the First Amendment would seem to provide the answer to these objections by limiting majority rule in the case of fundamental freedoms, minority faiths in America know all too well that even constitutional guarantees are not iron - clad.

Mr Nkansah added: «If he doesn't know, he should check the constitution and he'll realize that minority rules the country but they are voted into power by the majority of Ghanaians.

to complete the answer to the question, I would add: So, no the filibuster can not be stopped by silencing the minority unless every member of the minority spoke in a way to violate Senate Rule XIX

This was a minority issue, but only just: 47 % of British employees are affected by the Home Office's rules, which mean they may not be able to live with their loved one in their own country.

The minority will deliver to the GOP a petition signed by one - third of the Rules Committee members seeking a hearing on these bills.

Nelson Mandela the first Black to be elected South African President, was once in jail with a life sentence for the charge of «treason», imposed by a Nazi - like White minority ruling - National party Regime that ruled South Africa for more than 70 years, and he went on to become the President of a fully integrated South Africa.

And one of the rules is that in all the committees it is only the Public Accounts Committee that is chaired by the Minority side.

«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.

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.

Are bidding rules that give a leg up to companies owned by minorities, women and veterans too lax to prevent abuses?

Moya, a former staffer to Gov. David Paterson when he was Senate minority leader, is a perfect example of how the fortunes of Queens Democrats can change if they play by the rules.

Parliament following a ruling from the speaker subjected the approval of the Gender, Children and Social Protection minister designate to a secret balloting following persistent protest against her by the minority.

• Rules Committee - Co-Chaired by Majority Leader Catherine Borgia (D) Briarcliff Manor, Cortlandt, Croton - on - Hudson, Ossining, Peekskill and Minority Leader John Testa (R) Cortlandt, Peekskill, Yorktown

The ruling marked the third straight time the county has had to redraw its map after a Voting Rights Act challenge by the minority community.

Per the Senate Rules, committees of the Iowa State Senate are assigned by the Majority Leader and Minority Leader after consultation with the President of the Senate.

While a push for rules changes led by Republican Assembly Minority Leader Brian Kolb and their defeat by Assembly Democrats has become an annual Albany

Senate Minority Leader John Sampson is upping the ante considerably this morning in his war of words with Majority Leader Dean Skelos over rules changes, accusing the GOP of creating a «constitutional crisis» by moving to strip LG Bob Duffy of his right to break a tie in a leadership vote.

They made the rules but a small minority seem either incapable of living by them, or in other cases understanding them.

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

«We have this message to the small minority of wealthy people who don't play by the rules: we are coming to get you and you will pay your fair share,» he said.

[8][9][10] The metaphor of a nuclear strike refers to the majority party unilaterally imposing a change to the filibuster rule, which might provoke retaliation by the minority party.

Democratic strategist Jim Manley, a former spokesman Senate Democratic Leader Harry ReidHarry Mason ReidMcConnell not yet ready to change rules for Trump nominees The Hill's Morning Report — Sponsored by CVS Health — Trump's love - hate relationship with the Senate Trump to press GOP on changing Senate rules MORE (Nev.), said he believes Clinton will ultimately eke out a victory in Nevada because the state is «tailor - made for her» with its large population of minority voters.

Foster equity and comity through the fair allocation of resources between the majority and minority conferences by ensuring that funding for central staff is proportionate to a conference's size and tightening rules prohibiting the use of resources for political purposes.

In his first term in Congress, Roemer was denied a seat on the Banking Committee by the Democratic leadership and instead was assigned to the Public Works and Transportation Committee due to Roemer having voted with the Republican minority on extending the debate on House rules proposed by the Democratic majority.

Only «an extreme minority» of SUNY graduates might be affected by the residency rules, said Mujica, the governor's budget director.

But Gianaris and the mainline Democrats have the luxury to put this package out, given they are in the minority in the Senate that is ruled by the Independent Democratic Conference and Senate Republicans in a coalition government.

A portion of the article reads: «On issues of pure politics, and going by which party appointed them; the way they have historically voted on political issues; and their posture and voting pattern during the Election Petition Case of 2012; and in the case of a non-unanimous decision, the majority of the current panel of the Supreme Court will likely rule in favour of the stance preferred by the New Patriotic Party (NPP) in this case and the minority for the stance of the National Democratic Congress (NDC).»

Currently the department uses 60 cameras in five precincts and one public service area that oversees a city housing complex — the first phase of a rollout ordered by a federal judge who ruled in 2013 that the department's use of stop - and - frisk was unconstitutional because it disproportionately targeted minorities.

The dire consequences of voter apathy is that a minority rules since politicians seek out people who are likely to vote and policies are made by the will of this minority number of voters.

Smith noted the measure is one long supported by Senate Minority, most recently during the adoption of Senate Rules.

On issues of pure politics, and going by which party appointed them; the way they have historically voted on political issues; and their posture and voting pattern during the Election Petition Case of 2012; and in the case of a non-unanimous decision, the majority of the current panel of the Supreme Court will likely rule in favour of the stance preferred by the New Patriotic Party (NPP) in this case and the minority for the stance of the National Democratic Congress (NDC).

The rules exclude drilling on private land and apply only to lands or mineral resources directly managed by the U.S. Department of Interior, including tribal lands, which make up a relative minority of all the wells drilled in the United States.

Perullo supported the goal of bringing in more minority teachers, but she bridled at the fact that the process was corrupted by the seniority rule.

Though Tacoma had only about 7,000 blacks — out of a total population of about 160,000 — our minority housing, like that in many cities, was concentrated in one area and served by schools then in violation of our state's de facto segregation rule.

After all, Brown knows full well that any attempt to withhold federal funding will be challenged by Golden State's influential congressional delegation (including House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and Sen. Dianne Feinstein); the former state attorney general is also likely betting that the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling last year on the Affordable Healthcare Act, which effectively makes it impossible for the federal government to withhold subsidies from states for not implementing new regulations, can also be applied to what the administration can do on the education policy front.

To top it off, those charged with protecting the minority by the rule of law are all in cahoots with the lawbreakers.

When asked by plaintiffs» attorney Marcellus McRae whether the dismissal and seniority rules had a disproportionate impact on low income, minority students, Raymond testified that it does.

The plaintiffs in Vergara v. California argued that the state's employment rules leave so many ineffective teachers on the job that some students — many of them low - income and minority — fail to receive the education guaranteed by the state constitution.

According to the ruling, tenure affects minority students adversely and unequally by making it difficult to fire ineffective teachers, who predominantly teach low - income, minority students.

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.