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As a result of his party's victory Theresa May has an even smaller majority in the Commons to navigate the path towards Brexit.

In 2012, Obama won 26 states, and as such, would have been the winner, albeit by a much smaller majority in the Electoral College.

It's because the cat lovers are concentrated on two districts while the dog lovers are more evenly distributed, giving them a small majority in the others.

While Callum Kerr is widely admired for his stint as MP for Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk (BRS) but he has the smallest majority in Scotland and the Conservatives are so confident that their candidate John Lamont gave up the safety net of a Scottish parliament seat to take on the general election campaign.

Welsh seat Gower has the smallest majority in the country - just 27 votes tipping in favour of Tory Byron Davies.

Cooper will argue that it is unprecedented for a government to abuse its small majority in the Commons to try to cripple an opposition party through partisan measures to cut its funding, while doing nothing to provide transparency over corporate donations to the Tories.

On 10 October, the new government (which commands a small majority in the Tweede Kamer) presented its regeerakkoord in which they state (page 6), Van het willekeurig en massaal verzamelen van gegevens van burgers in Nederland of het buitenland («sleepnet») kan, mag en zal geen sprake zijn., essentially proposing to get rid of the core controversial clause in the Wet op de inlichtingen - en veiligheidsdiensten.

Her Hampstead and Kilburn seat is a tight three - way marginal and in 2010 her predecessor, Glenda Jackson, had the smallest majority in the country, with just 42 votes more than her Conservative rival.

Not exact matches

A majority of small business owners anticipate revenue and profit increases in 2015.

Canada might be a trading nation, but we are mediocre traders: in its report on trade, the growth council said the majority of the country's smaller enterprises don't trade at all.

In 2010, Industry Canada estimated that only 17 % of small businesses were majority - owned by women.

Polls show the race is tight and that the large «Together for Yes» block formed by pro-independence parties from the rest of political spectrum will need support from the smaller CUP to secure a 68 - seat majority in Catalonia's 135 - seat parliament.

«Fundamentally she has a very small majority,» Mylles recalled, adding that Prime Minister May supported the pro-EU campaign in the lead up to the referendum.

Concannon said the majority of rebates go to buyers, not brokers, in order to incentivize them to provide liquidity for small companies and ETFs that don't draw enough interest from the markets.

The majority of the roughly six million small businesses in the U.S. have fewer than 50 employees, and they haven't been shown a lot of love by benefits providers.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R - Ky., flanked by SBA Administrator Linda McMahon (left) and Sen. Jim Risch, R - Idaho, speaks at an event in the Capitol with small - business advocates to highlight the importance of tax reform to America's small businesses on Nov. 28, 2017.

But while the majority of small business owners are basking in the glow of lower fuel and energy costs, today's prices are not a boon for all businesses.

In the section about risks to investors, King said «a small number of games currently generate a substantial majority of our revenue.»

According to the company, there are about 28 million small businesses in the country, and the overwhelming majority are hidden from investors; they're too small for private equity firms to take notice, but not right for a traditional bank loan either.

«For the majority of small businesses, the owners make far less than what would put them in the top tax brackets,» he said.

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Small - business owners offer health benefits for a variety of reasons: they're genuinely concerned about their employees being taken care of, it's mandated in their state or they want to be more competitive to attract top talent (a large majority of employees consider a health plan to be the most important benefit they can be offered, according to a survey by the National Business of Group on Health).

Small and medium companies across the country that have contracts with the prime (think of a parts manufacturer for a car or airplane company) or with the government are eligible in the vast majority of cases.

(At this point, it's also worth noting that Facebook's claims about the effectiveness of Free Basics as a development tool in India are highly debatable — the vast majority of those who took up the offer were existing Internet users who wanted some free data, and it seems a very small number of genuinely new users actually graduated to the world of paid - for Internet access.

But the majority are small businesses in the more traditional sense — small local restaurants, bars, and beauty salons.

The majority of drugs approved in recent years originated at smaller outfits — 64 % of them last year, according to HBM Partners, a health care investing firm.

However, that approach assumes small business groups are concerned only with doing what's in the best personal interest of the majority of small - business owners.

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The bottom line, she says, is that Main Street is hopeful that a Republican majority in the Senate will allow for greater passage of small business - friendly policies that will encourage both expansion and job creation.

Tsipras is trailing in opinion polls, but his governing coalition has a small, but firm majority in the 300 - member parliament.

The vast majority of the members of the cluster, however, are small businesses in the fuel - cell industry, including suppliers that make pieces of a final product.

Given the shift in the economy from asset - based businesses to service - based businesses, the majority of small business transactions now originate from such goodwill financing.

«It's realistic to expect that smaller businesses will be one of the major targets of those audits, since the majority of 401 (k) s are set up in companies with fewer than 100 employees.»

Many businesses initially opposed the first state paid sick days law in Connecticut, yet within a few years a survey showed... that an overwhelming majority of businesses reported only small or no effects on their bottom line, and three - quarters now report being supportive of the new policy.

Tim Christiansen, the owner of Vino Per Tutti, an independent wine shop in Bozeman, Mont., said in a press release from the Seattle - based Main Street Alliance, that he, as well as the vast majority of his small - business owner compatriots, make less than $ 250,000 a year.

We need the consumer being confident and strong, having those extra dollars to go out and have a set of wine glasses or buy some extra dinnerware,» said Walt Rowen, owner of Susquehanna Glass Co. in Columbia, Pa., at the press conference Small Business Majority, an advocacy group based in Washington, D.C.

The SBA also recently announced that, in conjunction with the Small Business Majority — an organization that pushed for Obamacare — it is holding an Affordable Care Act 101 weekly webinar series on Thursdays.

The majority of the garments are made in Europe, with some from Canada and a small selection from the United States.

A few employees work from our small office in Boulder, but the vast majority of the company works from their home offices, RVs, coffee shops or Airbnbs while traveling the world.

While the majority of shared renewables projects are solar projects, there is also a small number of wind projects operating in several states.

In the professional investing world, a very small percentage represents the vast majority of realized gains.

This group actually holds a majority of the power over robo advisors because the majority of global AUM is in the hands of this small share of the population.

«This breach represents a small fraction of Bitstamp's total bitcoin reserves, the overwhelming majority of which are are held in secure offline cold storage systems.

In addition, while the majority of business owners surveyed across all segments said they did not feel a perception of discrimination from a financial institution impacted their chances of obtaining business credit, 22 % of African American and 11 % of LGBT business owners reported that perceived discrimination impacted their chances of obtaining credit for their business, compared to 5 % of the general small business owner population.

«While the vast majority of accounts in the settlement were consumer accounts, to the extent there were small business accounts included, all were previously reported in the total number of potentially impacted accounts,» said Wells spokeswoman Jennifer Langan.

The vast majority of small business credit cards require you to personally guarantee the charges you make — even if the card is issued in your business's name.

Although small charges on a few of your credit accounts are understandable, a significant increase in the majority of your credit balances is not something your lender wants to see.

In fact, the majority of the small businesses surveyed by the ETA look to minimize the total dollar cost of a loan when inventory financing, or facing any short - term ROI opportunity.

«The biggest problem is that revenues of the great majority of small businesses have gone down from between 10 percent and 70 percent,» said George Cloutier, founder of American Management Services, an Orlando, Fla., consulting firm that specializes in financial turnarounds for small and midsize companies.

It's been a wild ride in Congress the past couple of months as the Trump administration and Republican majorities in the House and Senate pushed through a tax reform bill that will be beneficial to most small businesses and even more favorable to larger corporations.