Sentences with phrase «ruled over the majority»

The Manchus established by force the Ch» ing imperialism which ruled over the majority of Han, Muslim, Mongolian, and Tibetan people.

Not exact matches

She said: «On the day when the Belfast Court of Appeal ruled that it is up to the Stormont Assembly to decide on abortion law in Northern Ireland, the Government at Westminster has now decided to ride roughshod over the views of the vast majority of people in Northern Ireland.»

In fact, substantial majorities of white Protestants (76 %), black Protestants (65 %) and white Catholics (63 %) say the ruling should not be over turned, the survey found.

That does not mean Christianity would dominate over all others, but last time i checked we were a democratic sociaty and it used to be that majority rules.

You should ask yourself, to help cure you of your horrid delusions, why it is that even the majority of believers in the world believe in a different god than you do, with wildly different rules to follow, and why your supposedly omnipotent creature can't do a better job of marketing himself over those other beliefs.

People all over the world have bvery similar rules and laws and a solid majority do not believe in your god.

Christianity has been confused in the past, in situations more or less similar to the present, with the rule of the Roman Empire, with feudalism, with the divine right of kings, with the rule of majorities, with the dominance of the Northern States over the Southern, with the extension of Anglo - Saxon influence in the Orient.

One day when they are no longer in the majority and some other sky god cult takes over then they will be the first ones to try and overturn the ruling.

No Naija, the board or the majority of them, wanted Wenger «relieved» of his position last season but Kroenke being majority shareholder over ruled them and gave Wenger the 2 year extension.

Conservative and Liberal Democrat backbenchers cut the coalition's majority to 27 but never seriously threatened a defeat in the clash over rules controlling home extensions.

For Cuomo, a united Democratic Senate majority is a nightmare scenario: a centrist at heart, he belittled raising the minimum wage before it came back into vogue, ridiculed the idea of hiking taxes on wealthy people, and still won't comply with a ten - year - old court ruling to fork over state cash to underfunded city public schools.

Percoco's trial is among several scheduled this year over alleged Albany corruption, including the re-trials of former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver (D - Manhattan) and former Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos (R - Long Island), who had their unrelated convictions tossed due to a US Supreme Court ruling that acquitted former Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell.

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

A month after former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver's conviction on corruption charges, Assembly Republicans on Tuesday tried a parliamentary maneuver to weaken Albany's rules that assure absolute control by the Democratic majority party over legislation.

Although the outcome of this election could cause one party to take over the majority of the Senate seats, the rules of the Senate will keep control of the Senate's hands.

A state Supreme Court judge ruled that none of the groups have a claim over the party's leadership as a majority of the statewide candidates who ran on the line last year have not signed off on a package of rules for the party.

Control of the party has been challenged by two additional groups seeking to wrest power from a group led by Cuomo, leading a state Supreme Court judge to declare no one could claim leadership over the line until a majority of the candidates who ran last as WEP candidates sign off on the rules.

In the House of Representatives the party's choice was also over ruled by the majority of members but that doesn't mean that Dogara isn't a loyal member of APC or Saraki isn't a loyal member of APC.

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.

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

As a historical example, in 1854 it took 9 weeks and over 130 votes before a new Speaker was elected - prompting a change in rules to make winning easier (The winner only has to receive the most votes regardless of the number of ballots cast rather than an absolute majority of > 50 % of the congressional seats).

ALBANY — Democrats in the State Assembly are considering a rules change that would allow majority leader Joe Morelle to continue to act as speaker as negotiations over the state budget intensify in the next few months, according to several members.

Senator Dan Squadron, a Democrat who represents lower Manhattan and parts of Brooklyn, says Republicans also pulled over 300 bills sponsored by Democrats from committees and sealed them up in the Rules committee, which is under the control of the Senate Majority Leader.

Days after upstate lawmakers expressed concerns over the Port Authority's study of a 1,500 - mile perimeter rule that restricts the distance of flights out of LaGuardia Airport, a top Delta Air Lines executive sought to soothe them in a letter to Assembly Majority Leader Joe Morelle.

The Majority Caucus took over the plan and told Erie County to offer free training seminars which meet state rules.

The Court of Appeal's ruling is a blow to Jeremy Corbyn's battle to remain the Labour leader as the majority of those joining the party are expected to support him over rival Owen Smith.

The Com Res / ITV News poll found that a slim majority (51 %) would prefer to see a Labour majority in the House of Commons, while almost three - quarters (72 %) would rather one - party rule over another coalition.

Election law says disputes over a party's rules shall be settled by a majority of the statewide candidates who ran on that party's line in the last election.

Remember that with auto enrollment rules being phased in over the coming few years, the vast majority of employers will need to match some part of your pension contribution.

Chris: My view of this issue of rules is that individual games may embed the specific game rules of a particular era or tradition (like the game over of an arcade game, or pressing start to pause a console game, or ASWD for movement on PC) or they may contain wholly unique rules, but the majority of the rules are socially embedded and simply instantiated in the games, in the same way the words and grammar of a language are socially embedded and simply instantiated in any given text.

All political parties during the 2014 Provincial election promised to re-examine the issue one way or another yet, with over a year having passed on the majority government of the ruling Liberals, no Bill is on the horizon.

By the time the deadline passed, over 90 % of the legislative acts listed in the 1985 White Paper had been adopted, largely under the qualified majority rule.

Although the Supreme Court of Canada held in Christie that a «general access to legal services in relation to court and tribunal proceedings dealing with rights and obligations» is not a fundamental aspect of the rule of law (see paras. 23 - 27), it does not follow that the legal profession can preserve its monopoly over legal services free from government regulation or control of any kind, even when, as now, it has made legal services unavailable at reasonable cost to a large majority of the population.

The suggestion that the desire to avoid civil law majorities expressed the ad hoc rules should be carried over into an interpretation that it is only current membership at the time of appointment (or in the case of lawyers, even uninterrupted ten years membership) that ensures that the representatives will be seen as legitimate is laughable.

Thus, to the majority, Grutter takes place within the «unique context of higher education,» and within the tradition of academic freedom found in many First Amendment rulings over the past 50 years — a First Amendment tradition that substantially underwrote the Court's decision in Grutter, and that is not relevant with respect to K - 12 schools.

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Currently, over 4 billion people, the majority of the world's population, live outside of the rule of law and access to justice.

Both solutions will occur because the power of the news media and of the internet, interacting, will quickly make widely known these types of information, the cumulative effect of which will force governments and the courts to act: (1) the situations of the thousands of people whose lives have been ruined because they could not obtain the help of a lawyer; (2) the statistics as to the increasing percentages of litigants who are unrepresented and clogging the courts, causing judges to provide more public warnings; (3) the large fees that some lawyers charge; (4) increasing numbers of people being denied Legal Aid and court - appointed lawyers; (5) the many years that law societies have been unsuccessful in coping with this problem which continues to grow worse; (6) people prosecuted for «the unauthorized practice of law» because they tried to help others desperately in need of a lawyer whom they couldn't afford to hire; (7) that there is no truly effective advertising creating competition among law firms that could cause them to lower their fees; (8) that law societies are too comfortably protected by their monopoly over the provision of legal services, which is why they might block the expansion of the paralegal profession, and haven't effectively innovated with electronic technology and new infrastructure so as to be able to solve this problem; (9) that when members of the public access the law society website they don't see any reference to the problem that can assure them that something effective is being done and, (10) in order for the rule of law, the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, and the whole of Canada's constitution be able to operate effectively and command sufficient respect, the majority of the population must be able to obtain a lawyer at reasonable cost.

the majority's opinion raises the concerning possibility that the Court's new reading of section 96 in conjunction with the rule of law principle may be used to undermine existing provincial authority over access to alternative dispute resolution, and private international law more generally.

In R (on the application of Al - Skeini) v Secretary of State for Defence — which arose from complaints against the UK about the deaths of six Iraqi civilians — the Law Lords ruled by a four to one majority that HRA 1998 applied overseas, including detention centres over which British troops had «effective control».

But, there would still be good reasons not to contest paternity if he wants to be a father to the child, and I am not convinced that Colorado follows the predominant, majority or plurality rule on this point, although there are certainly many other states that follow the same rule (Colorado's rule originates with the Uniform Marriage and Divorce Act that a number of states adopted when they switched to no fault divorce, and other states copied its substantive provisions over the years.)

Blockchains, running over several nodes, reject changes to data once written, except by consensus of a majority or all of the nodes or by abusing the «longest chain rule» whose purpose is to resolve near - simultaneous block creation.

However, a majority of survey respondents do think that the new risk retention rules will have a negative impact on CMBS loan availability over the next six months.

There remains so much confusion over the legal application of contract law and because current mls associations represent sellers and seller agents via their bylaws, rules and regulations, this confusion remains ingrained in the vast majority of agents.

You seem to imagine that the majority of the legal profession is in abject opposition to that which it was collectively / religiously trained to avoid... degradation of the rule of law at the hands / minds of rogues who would not go through the rigourous requirements to become lawyers or judges in the first place if they could screw people in a much easier, less up - front expensive and mentally taxing manner over a fairly long period of time (when budding lawyers are young and could be having more fun making money making than studying and articling for peanuts into their late twenties).