Sentences with phrase «same voting power»
In 1970, that board was abolished in favor of a Legislature following a lawsuit challenging the notion of a large town like Brookhaven and a small one like Shelter Island having the same voting power.
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The SEC filing specified that «if Mr. Spiegel's or Mr. Murphy's employment with us is terminated, they will continue to have the ability to exercise the same significant voting power and potentially control the outcome of all matters submitted to our stockholders for approval.»
Your proxy authorizes Michael J. Loughlin, James M. Strother, and Julie M. White, and each of them, with full power of substitution, as proxies, to vote your shares in the same manner as if you had voted your shares in person at the Annual Meeting.
The people who are furious about the closure of the Edmonton City Centre Airport or annoyed about the funding of the Art Gallery of Alberta are unlikely to vote for the same candidate as the people angry over the Capital Power - Epcor decision.
Then, writers who do think all of those players belong have the same voting rights and power as those who vote for one player each winter.
Congress has used the italicized power to define the national presidential voting day as the same one for the general election of Senators & Representatives.
It is really surprising how Delaware with just 3 electoral votes, has almost the same power than Virgina which has 10.
On the appointment of Hon. Alexander Ackon who also graduated with him after the same course as Deputy Ashanti regional minister, Hon. Yammin said the two have been friends from the days of opposition and expressed his readiness to help him champion the NDC's targeted 1 million votes in the Ashanti region to help secure the government in power and make things easier for the President.
Using the same data a logit regression model improves the predictive power of local elections to tell us who will win the most votes at the next general election, making correct predictions 86.21 % of the time.
He's therefore advised President Nana Akufo Addo to ensure that he works hard to improve the living conditions of Ghanaians lest he's also voted out of power under the same circumstance that confronted his predessesor.
An Orthodox Jewish leader in the Senate, Simcha Felder (D - Brooklyn), a hypocritical Democrat who keeps the Republicans in power by voting with them, demanded that Orthodox parochial schools not have the same educational mandates as everyone else.
«A strong WFP vote also builds the kind of independent, progressive political power we need to hold those same politicians to their promises after Election Day.»
Every member of the Executive Committee may attend any meeting and vote thereat in person or by written proxy given to another member of the Executive Committee, and any member of the Executive Committee holding a written proxy from not more than one other member shall have full power to act for and in stead of said member (including the power to designate in writing another holder of the proxy, unless the proxy provides otherwise), with the same effect as if said member were personally present.
«You voted for John Heyer because some other power brokers and power seekers fooled you and your distinguished rabbis, Moshe Wolfson and Yaakov Perlow into thinking Heyer opposed all forms of same gender marriage,» Paladino said, as soon on a YouTube video of the event.
If the Congress, within twenty - one days after receipt of the latter written declaration, or, if Congress is not in session, within twenty - one days after Congress is required to assemble, determines by two - thirds vote of both Houses that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, the Vice President shall continue to discharge the same as Acting President; otherwise, the President shall resume the powers and duties of his office.
And don't say the Democrats did the same thing, because Espada became the majority leader with them not through voting and nearly all powers of the majority leader title were stripped of him when the Dems took him back.
If Scotland votes to remain part of the United Kingdom, should the Scottish Parliament have more powers than it does at present, fewer powers, or should the Parliament's powers stay about the same as they are now.
In recent years I have voted to expand the rights of same sex couples by voting for: The follow up legislation that amended the estates, powers and trusts law to reflect the provisions of the marriage equality act.
At the same time, the Conservatives could have held Kensington if just 12 voters had changed their minds — that's 100 % of local power hinging on a dozen votes.
ALBANY, N.Y. — One result of the power struggle in New York's Senate may be a vote on a bill to legalize same - sex marriage.
If the Congress, within twenty - one days after receipt of the latter written declaration, or, if Congress is not in session, within twenty - one days after Congress is required to assemble, determines by two - thirds vote of both Houses that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, the Vice President shall continue to discharge the same as Acting President; otherwise, the President shall resume the powers and duties of his office.
Same - sex marriage, an institution not accepted by the Catholic powers that be, was recently passed by 62 percent of the vote.
But as things stand now, Nana could have voted a union into power in the 1970s (or before) and if you ply the same trade as she, you would be forced to be represented by the same union.
The manufacturer was the seventh best in our Driver Power 2014 satisfaction survey, while its dealers were voted a respectable 10th in our rundown in the same year.
And if you happen to have a network of author friends and colleagues who write in the same genre, start your own list and give it a catchy name and put a compilation of your books in at and then harness the power of multiple networks when it comes to petitioning fans for votes and exposure!
The resulting power distribution is now exactly the same as under a standard voting scheme (red bars).
Among these requirements are the following: (i) at least 90 % of the fund's gross income each taxable year must be derived from dividends, interest, payments with respect to securities loans, and gains from the sale or other disposition of stock, securities or foreign currencies, or other income derived with respect to its business of investing in such stock or securities or currencies and net income derived from an interest in a qualified publicly traded partnership; (ii) at the close of each quarter of the fund's taxable year, at least 50 % of the value of its total assets must be represented by cash and cash items, U.S. Government securities, securities of other RICs and other securities, with such other securities limited, in respect of any one issuer, to an amount that does not exceed 5 % of the value of a Fund's assets and that does not represent more than 10 % of the outstanding voting securities of such issuer; and (iii) at the close of each quarter of the fund's taxable year, not more than 25 % of the value of its assets may be invested in securities (other than U.S. Government securities or the securities of other RICs) of any one issuer or of two or more issuers and which are engaged in the same, similar, or related trades or businesses if the fund owns at least 20 % of the voting power of such issuers, or the securities of one or more qualified publicly traded partnerships.
issuers and which are engaged in the same, similar, or related trades or businesses if the fund owns at least 20 % of the voting power of such issuers, or the securities of one or more qualified publicly traded partnerships.
The right wing increases the scope and power of the federal government just as willy - nilly as the left does, mostly in the same areas with some differences in order to give people an excuse to keep voting.
[xii] The path to a liberalised power market is long — another round of voting is held in 2018 before a legal framework for a deregulated electricity market is implemented by 1 July 2023 — but this vote is hugely significant in demonstrating the desire of consumers in this region for a fair marketplace that enables the same access to renewables as well as incumbent fossil fuels.
Politicians / political parties are very good at appealing to our common desire to be saved from impending doom, so they create / expose an impending crisis, and then offer to save us from same if voted into power, especially if said political party is out of power at the time.