Sentences with phrase «selected by a majority vote»

While the Senate will have 63 seats come January, Senate rules and the state Constitution are being read by Republicans and Democrats alike to say that a majority leader is selected by a majority vote of the elected members — meaning if two Senate seats haven't yet been decided, there are only 61 members eligible to participate.

Winners from these finalists were selected by a majority vote of the ETF.com Awards Selection Committee, a group of independent ETF experts.

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that director nominees be selected, or recommended to the board of directors for selection, by majority vote of the independent directors or by a nomination committee comprised solely of independent directors.

A great deal of fun has been poked at the method of deciding historical matters by majority vote of a select conclave, although that is how the church has usually decided matters of dogma.

Labour's Angela Eagle described the plan as a cynical attempt by a government with an overall majority of just 12 to use procedural trickery to manufacture a very much larger one by knocking the SNP out of select votes.

The average majority is 5,741 votes, though it is worth noting that a) that is dragged up by majorities of more than 10,000 in three of the seats and b) as discussed previously, target seats are being selected on more complex analysis than simple majority size.

Last week Tower Hamlets Labour group, myopic in their perpetual factionalism, joined forces with local Tories to vote down the annual budget proposed by the former Labour council leader and now independent mayor Lutfur Rahman, who of course was removed as Labour candidate by the National Executive Committee in the run up to the 2010 mayoral election, despite having been selected by a majority of local party members.

The Foreign Affairs Select Committee has decided by a majority vote that they do not support the Prime Minister on proposed airstrikes against the so - called Islamic State in Syria, ITV News understands.

Receiving the highest majority public vote, Banner's Break Point will now be shown alongside other favourites chosen by the public as well as work selected by chief curator Darsie Alexander, sparking a range of questions about the dynamics between expert and audience, or between curatorial practise and mass taste.

Specifically, on Thursday, January 18, 2018, the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI) Majority voted to allow Members of the U.S. House of Representatives to review a misleading talking points «memo» authored by Republican staff that selectively references and distorts highly classified information.