Sentences with phrase «small voting group»

He was able to keep the discussion largely on the topics he likes to focus on, and he made a number of points that will resonate with progressives, not a small voting group in New York.

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While I.S.O. proceedings are generally confidential, new standards must go through many stages, with many rounds of voting — first with smaller working groups and then with full national delegations.

At the same time they force the mainstream parties to adjust their policies to attract votes away from the smaller groups, so the very issues that make nationalist groups popular tend to be absorbed into the mainstream.

«Moreover, we believe that a supermajority vote requirement can enable a small group of shareholders to overrule the will of the majority shareholders.

The small - business community votes, and they are watching health - care policy more closely than any other group.

Risking goverment shut down for three items that don't even affect the budget for a small miniorty radicals in a religion and the insane tea party knowing full well shut down will cause thousands of jobs lost and the end of aid for those who need it is completely ridiculous, why don't they care for the majority that voted them in and not a small insignificant group?

the small group... its oligarchy... they overturned the VOTE of the MAJORITY... such as in California..

Define a coalition as winning if the total number of electoral votes of the state in that coalition is 270 or more (let's ignore at first that two small states make things more complicated by allowing a mixed elector group).

On the contrary, if «your» candidate is losing in the polls you may consider your vote more important to omit and can even flirt with voting for someone despite not supporting him / her completely (let's call it a protest vote, see French presidential election in 2002, with a lot of people voting for small groups on the 1st round).

Adding «the young», another small group which tends not to vote, to this list might actually cause more problems than it solves.

A much smaller and more committed group, if willing to conceal their full preferences before election and to be voted out afterward, could do it.

Those same votes were slammed by business groups, with the NFIB calling the session «the worst for small business in recent memory.»

Individual members of parliament can push amendments and in some limited cases a small party (or a small group within one party) can threaten to vote against their block on an issue that's very important to them but there is none of the «getting the votes» one - by - one that seems to be going on in the US.

Cummings's strategy was to target people in the last days of the campaign and Vote Leave gave the smaller group # 100,000 in the last week.

The more seats a party or grouping has, the more chance it has of forming a government - with 198 seats out of 646 the Conservative Party could only form a government if significant numbers of other MP's decided to back them, as happened in 1924 when there was a situation that the Conservatives didn't want to form a coalition with either other main party and equally the Liberals didn't want a coalition with Labour and the Liberals and Conservatives saw it as an opportunity to allow Labour into government but in a situation in which legislation was still reliant on Liberal and Conservative votes and they could be brought down at the most suitable time, supposing the notional gains were accurate and in the improbable event of the next election going exactly the same way in terms of votes then 214 out of 650 is 32.93 % of seats compared to at 198 out of 646 seats - 30.65 % of seats and the Conservative Party would then be 14 seats closer towards a total neccessary to form a government allowing for the greater number of seats, on the one hand the Conservatives need Labour to fail but equally they need to succeed themselves given that the Liberal Democrats appear likely to oppose anyone forming a government who does not embark on a serious programme to introduce PR, in addition PC & SNP would expect moves towards Independence for Scotland and Wales, the SDLP will be likely to back Labour and equally UKIP would want a committment to withdraw from Europe and anyway will be likely to be in small numbers if any, pretty much that leaves cutting a deal with the DUP which would only add the backing of an extra 10 - 13 MP's.

The Assembly has already voted to approve the Dream Act — a state version of the federal proposal to allow certain illegal aliens to gain access to a variety of government programs — but it is opposed by Senate Republicans, who control that house in coalition with a small group of Democrats.

Because minority groups tend to vote Democratic, critics argue that majority - minority districts ultimately present an unfair advantage to Republicans by consolidating Democratic votes into a smaller number of districts.

Linares and Duane were members of the same NYC Council class, (elected in 1992), and grew close during their years there as participants in a small, yet vocal, group that consistently voted «no» on the budget deals reached by then - NYC Mayor Rudy Giuliani and Council Speaker Peter Vallone Sr..

A successful manipulation of a national election in the United States is much, much more likely to occur via one or more very small, but selectively specific segments of the overall vote (i.e. single district locations possibly involving single or small groups of persons) which, due to the specific circumstances of the election, provide a window of opportunity due to the relative importance of the specific district vote totals; a situation not common to all elections in any case.

Instead of saying, «Well, geez, I'm just going to think about people who give campaign donations because that's going to help me appeal to this very small select group of people that already vote,» we would be widening that, in essence doing what I believe our founding fathers through this process wanted us to do.»

A large group of his party wanted to oppose sanctions, while a slightly smaller, but equally vocal section wanted to support Wilson in the voting lobbies.

A small group of citizens protested outside U.S. Rep. Elise Stefanik's downtown office Thursday to urge her not to vote on the upcoming Farm Bill, which contains $ 20 billion in cuts in the SNAP program.

From the 1984 election, group ticket voting was introduced, in order to reduce a high rate of informal voting that arose from the requirement that each candidate be given a preference, and to allow small parties and independent candidates a reasonable chance of winning a seat.

A legislative committee has scheduledFive groups of unionized state workers that negotiated their pay raises with Gov. Scott Walker's administration are poised to receive the same 1 percent raise that non-union workers got in July.a meeting to vote on proposed contracts for five smaller Wisconsin unions.

Evidence submitted by campaigners highlights the fact that all three groups — Vote Leave, Veterans for Britain and BeLeave — chose to spend their money with the same small data analytics firm, which has a minimal online presence.

Last month, a small group of Democrats broke ranks and voted for a Republican budget proposal rather than a plan negotiated by Democratic legislative leaders and Malloy.

On Monday, a small group of delegates attempted to oust Trump by calling for a vote on rule changes.

A small but exasperated group of protesters gathered on Staten Island tonight to denounce a grand jury's vote not to bring criminal charges in the death of Eric Garner, accusing the Staten Island justice system and the NYPD of once more discriminating against communities of color.

Thursday morning he made one final push in a meeting with Speaker John Boehner to get a House vote on a targeted reform bill he crafted with a small bipartisan group, but he was shut down.

Interesting perspective from a political party head — that Allen giving people a chance to vote their opinion at the polls as opposed to a small group of political hacks making the decision on the nomination, represents a «back door.»

But the vote marks a key political maneuver for the small group of breakaway Democrats - including Sen. David Valesky, D - Oneida - who have faced criticism for joining with Senate Republicans to run the chamber.

Neil Kinnock wanted to be liked tried to appeal to groups that Labour hadn't in the past courted, the police, the city, small businessmen, liberals, Ed has tried to appeal to a group that haven't voted labour in 12 years union activists and guardian readers, while only loosing a few progress types, will the Tories manage to portray him as kinnock no, 2, but those people in the city, those sceptical of unions or the police who stopped voting Tory in97 ′ have never gone back to the Tories to see.

When you take time out of your day to vote, you're paying a small cost to help a larger group.

Also, Perez said, while effects should to be tracked over multiple elections, any effects will be small and potentially masked by increased voting by another group in response.

When faced with similar but more impersonal dilemmaswhether to flip a switch to divert the trolley or vote for a law that would kill a smaller group of people instead of a larger onetheir brains showed greater activity in places associated with working memory.

A gathering of party members, where a more informal voting system occurs, usually by raising of hands or gathering in small groups in support of a particular candidate (or sometimes by ballot).

The move in Boston to change the voting rules began with a small group of union members, and in less than a month more than 1,200 teachers had signed a petition in support of the change.

That's a procedure designed to reinforce the power of the very small group of people with information and control over the bill text, and to blunt the ability of the people out here in the hinterlands to communicate with our representatives about whether we think the good in this bill outweighs the bad and therefore merits a vote for or against.

Throughout the evening, we had additional small - group discussions, caucus - style voting, and ultimately decided that E4E - Chicago would focus on Teacher Evaluation as our main policy topic in 2015 - 2016.

Either break your staff up into small groups, each group will discuss one of the top vote - getting challenges or post top vote - getting challenges on flip chart paper and have staff circle room graffiti style.

At Lusher, teachers voted it down, but a smaller group of employees mostly made up of teachers» aides voted for union representation.

The week prior, Lusher's teachers voted against unionizing, but a smaller group of paraprofessionals voted in favor of union representation.

One of the absolute best Great Barrier Reef small group cruises from Cairns as voted by its passengers!

As an umbrella fundraising organisation any money donated to GamesAid will be divided between a small group of British based youth and children's charities that support young people in a variety ways, nominated by and voted for by members of the British videogames industry.

But to make things even more exciting, they are offering $ 25,000 to a small group of local nonprofits — every paperless billing customer gets to vote for the organization of their choice.

Even if only a smaller group of owners is affected, the supermajority vote is still required.

Facebook said it was ending voting to encourage good feedback from a small group of users rather than perfunctory engagement from a lot of them.

Why don't they allow us all to vote electronically instead of allowing only a representative of our local boards to vote, as a small group, of often uniformed are mislead «proxy - type» vote for 100's and 1000's of local members???