Sentences with phrase «to achieve a majority»

DO allow religious voices to have dominance in the public sphere if they can not achieve majority support through democratic means.

If it is to thrive and achieve a majority among the voters it must do so again.

Given that only four members will be voting, it might be difficult to achieve a majority decision.

Proponents of majority - minority districts maintain that these districts are a necessary hindrance to the practice of cracking, which occurs when a constituency is divided between several districts in order to prevent it from achieving a majority in any one district.

The research took place in the 60 constituencies where Labour achieved a majority of between 6 and 14 per cent in the 2005 general election.

Since the rules of PR generally prevent any single party from achieving a majority government, parties in all PR nations seek out other political parties to form coalition governments.

Ben Jackson, Fellow of University College, Oxford, and Gregg McClymont MP, UK shadow minister for pensions, published a stunningly percipient paper, Cameron's Trap, at the end of 2011 on how Labour need to change the politico - economic narrative in order to achieve a majority at the next General Election.

When the Conservatives finally achieved majority government in 2011, they ensured that more committee meetings would be held in camera — away from the public's prying eyes.

On Monday, it said its offer was unconditional as it raised its bid to $ 9.20 a share, subject to achieving majority control, from the earlier $ 9 - a-share bid.

The SNP went into yesterday's Scottish Parliament elections defending a majority of 9, and with many expecting that they would manage to achieve another majority on the strength of their performance in the constituencies alone.

We sit down with the senator this weekend to talk about her conversation with Cuomo, the conference's goals if they do achieve the majority, and how this group of Democrats is different from the dysfunctional batch that led from 2009 - 2010.

In his first interview since Macron was elected, the outgoing Finance Minister said that Macron could achieve a majority despite stiff competition from right - wing politicians when the country goes to the polls once again for its parliamentary elections on June 11 and 18.

Cuomo did not headline any fundraisers for Senate Dems, and sure enough they were vastly outspent and failed yet again achieve a majority.

He chaired a six - week conference in 1976 in Geneva on what was then Rhodesia, which failed to make progress on achieving majority rule for what is now Zimbabwe.

Although it was a difficult night across the country for the Labour Party, it easily held on to Holborn in central London with new MP Keir Starmer achieving a majority of more than 17,000.

Neither candidate achieved a majority, however, so they will face off in a 22 May runoff.

The branches that we will no longer consider Bitcoin are SegWit1X (currently BTC, and likely SW1 after the SegWit2X split), SegWit2X (planned BTC, but likely SW2 after the fork if it fails to achieve majority miner support), and Segwit Gold (SWG).

Divorced spouses must still be parents, and this means they are still connected to each other and will be the rest of their lives — or at least until the children achieve a majority.

Eaton wrote,» To achieve a majority of one (326), Labour now needs a modest swing of 3.57 per cent.

On Monday, Saputo raised its bid to $ 9.20 a share, subject to achieving majority control, from its earlier $ 9 - a-share bid and declared its offer unconditional.

That is, they observe how far short the Tories fell from achieving a majority, rather than calculating the vast distance between the Conservatives and the official Opposition, the Liberals.

Their appreciation of the prime minister for his part in winning those seats is mingled by resentment that he didn't achieve a majority.

Currently, state senators and members of the Assembly fail to achieve majority support from voters.

«At least four parties will be required to achieve a majority in both the lower and upper house of parliament.

Concessions were primitive in the extreme: rubbery Esskay hotdogs; salty, stale popcorn; Nation Boh for those who had achieved their majority and watery Cokes for us small fry.

Remember he achieved a majority those stats by playing with Suarez and Sturidge in a 4 -3-3 false 9.

This represents only a modest improvement over the party's performance 2015 when they achieved a majority of 12 with a 6.6 point lead.

«Mr William Cash (Stone)(Con): Given that the single market, including the City of London, is governed by qualified majority voting, how does the Prime Minister propose to achieve a majority to protect our interests in the context of the fiscal union that he advocates?

Fifty to sixty Conservative MPs will be women if we achieve a majority at the next election.

The Senate GOP counts the independent democrats as allies, and says Democrats would need to actually turn 8 seats in order to achieve a majority in the chamber.

NationBuilder co-founder Joe Green says that the company is having productive conversations about those features with Democrats in other types of organizations, like the caucus committees that seek to achieve majorities in state legislatures by bringing in support for key candidates.

There are cases also when a parliament is simply not capable of sustaining a government over the long term, such as the House of Commons elected in February 1974, in which neither the Conservatives nor Labour could achieve a majority.

A minority government is formed when a party (or a coalition) secures agreement from one or more other parties or independents to support their nomination for Taoiseach and achieve majority support, but without any formal coalition agreement with the parties who supported the nomination.

Klein points out that the Dream Act already came to the Senate floor but failed to win the 32 votes required to achieve a majority.

I haven't followed this very carefully, but my understanding is that the BJP is unlikely to be able to achieve a majority, but a coalition of the INC and JDS could be formed.

One critical Democratic insider said that «if the Democrats in the minority in the Senate spend as much time and energy making their case against the Republicans as they do other Democrats, they would not need the IDC members to achieve a majority.

That would have been the end of the matter had they achieved a majority in 2010.

Republican Hamilton Fish of Millbrook, after a few close early elections in the late 1960s, routinely expected and achieved majorities in the 80 percent range over a 20 - year career.

The tories will probably be the single biggest party (fancy being unable to convince the electorate that Cameron and Osborne are clueless and \ Miliband and Balls a superior product) What makes it even more of a disaster is Labour had more money in it's campaign chest — so even with more resource, better funding and it still isn't going to achieve a majority.

Earlier this year Cuomo told reporters that he expected a quiet legislative session because he had achieved the majority of his legislative agenda.

With many Liberal Democrats and Tory MPs deeply uneasy about Murdoch gaining an even bigger slice of the UK media market — and still incensed by the behaviour of News Corp executives — Labour is optimistic it can mobilise enough support to achieve a majority.

Looking beyond the 2030 timescale of the SDGs, scenario analysis highlights that continuation of past and current trends in drivers of change will inhibit the contribution of the region to the widespread achievement of the SDGs, while scenarios which focus on achieving a balanced supply of nature's contributions to people and incorporate a diversity of values are more likely to contribute to achieving the majority of the SDGs.

Illinois» statute of limitations for minors sounds like its the same as TX and GA. 2 years from the date of achieving majority.

... The 1863 legislation repealed seventeen clauses from the 1225 version of Magna Carta issued by Henry III when he achieved his majority.»

So the rules can be changed, as long as you achieve majority consensus (another myth is that the limit of 21 million bitcoins can not be changed.