Sentences with phrase «to give someone a majority»

This was not an exceptional result given the majority of this test consisted of long - distance highway driving.

And he introduced a bill just 24 hours before the legislative session ended to give him majority control of the MTA board.

I can't believe people voted for him again and gave him a majority government.

Unfortunately, most potential adopters walk into shelters seeking out puppies and kittens, rather than the animals who have already given the majority of their life to someone else.

The parents of his best friend died in a car accident and all the money he inherited he invested in some quiet beach restaurant — giving the majority of shares to his Thai girlfriend.

Looking ahead: Let's see how much cooperation the Democrats give the majority in crafting the infrastructure legislation said to be in the works.

uniBank has confirmed to Citi News that it has gone into a transaction with four major shareholders of Agricultural Development Bank (adb) that has effectively given majority control of the state bank.

You just gave the majority on here, a reason to make fun of Arteta.

«Although the combination of the votes of the other parties (Democratic Unionists, SNP, Plaid Cymru, the Social Democratic and the single Alliance Party, Green and Independent MPs) would provide a total which gave a majority if they all voted with all Labour and Liberal Democrat MPs, more and more Labour MPs were going public in the media saying that they would not vote for a referendum on the new voting system and calling on Labour to go into opposition.

Comcast NBCUniversal's acquisition gave it a majority stake in Awesomeness, but investors Verizon and Hearst have minority stakes.

That included three elections which it lost and Harold Wilson's 44.1 per cent in 1964 which gave him a majority of just four seats.

However, with party control of Congress currently divided, given a majority Republican House of Representatives and majority Democratic Senate — along with a Democratic president — it is not clear whether those frustrated with Congress would take disproportionately greater aim at one party's members or another.

This is not surprising given the majority of the products marketed to kids are for unhealthy products; something Canadians understand.

What gives the majority the right to presume others» need to be protected?

It comes as the SNP secured an historic third term in charge at yesterday's elections, with 63 seats - but fell just short of the 65 which would have given them a majority for the second time.

there will be extremists giving the majority a bad name.

These are often made lower and cruder yet through the contempt involved, with disastrous cultural results given the majority of fans who do not get the irony.

Though Theo has shown a glimpse of what he's capable of as our main striker, he can still give the majority of that playing as an inside forward on the right.

The solution would be to give the majority shareholding to Usmanov.

Conversely, the winner - take - all system in America gives the majority a big advantage.

The downstate district was the scene of a decisive race between Martins and Democratic Sen. Craig Johnson, who narrowly lost in 2010, ultimately giving majority control of the Senate to the GOP.

That would easily give them majority.

I guess giving the majority back to the GOP wasn't such a good idea.

SNP MSP James Dornan added: «Labour have learned nothing because rather than holding the Tories to account, they are still campaigning in Scotland against the SNP, which is odd given the majority of Corbyn's policies are already being delivered by a progressive SNP Scottish government.

The Legislature, under Dem control, could have reinstituted the Stock Transfer Tax and brought in $ 10 billion or more a year, raised income tax rates on the wealthy back to where they were in the 70s and reaped another $ 8 billion (while giving the majority of NYers a tax break) but didn't, and has never delivered on any promise of universal health care (which would have saved us even more money).

ALBANY — There might kind of, sort of, be a possible deal to unite Democrats, and conceivably give them a majority, in the State Senate, pending just a few caveats: a pair of special elections, the party's 2018 fortunes at the ballot box, and an ambivalent, politically polymorphous senator from Brooklyn and his obsession with school security.

The GOP / Teatrolls, however, and this is the distinction, have threatened to get rid of the filibuster FOR EVERYTHING... and that is precisely what they will do if ever given a majority in the Senate ever again.

An obscure panel called the Public Authorities Control Board gives majority legislators the ability to veto their selections, otherwise the money is then spent or reimbursed.

Part one of our ongoing video interview series with three leading pollsters gave majority support for this view.

There comes a point when the coach, who gives the majority of those talks, basically becomes mute.

But in a break from its parent game, in which you have to unlock skills and weapons over time, Blood Dragon gives you the majority from the very beginning.

A panel of leading economists has given its majority verdict on Alan Finkel's proposed Clean Energy Target: it may not be the best possible emissions policy, but we should get on with it anyway.

Google gives majority credit (i.e. most of the links give his name) for the parody that Nick posted to Andrew Marlatt in Satirewire, Jan 2002.

The companies entered a Syndication Agreement which contained a sale mechanism giving a majority of the investors the right to sell the building subject to a right of first refusal of any dissenting investor to purchase it at a professionally appraised value.

Quebec appears to have a stronger claim to «distinctness» than Arizona, given its majority French - speaking population and Canada's recognition of French as an official language.

I think you're probably giving the majority of folks a bit too much credit there, in my experience, deeply held stereotypes about people associated with various forms of income is a much larger predictor of such criteria.

«There is still a bias, even in this day and age of anti-discrimination, to give a majority share of the business to the eldest son,» says William J. Rothwell, professor of human resource development at Pennsylvania State University.

Considering how much fun I had playing the Midnight Club games and the other illegal street racing clones on the PS2, I was more than a little disappointed to find that Juiced 2 does not give the majority of these games a run for their money.

The sale, however, of a facility Bombardier has owned for more than a quarter century, raises questions about the future of its commercial aircraft programs, especially its Q400 turboprop planes, after the company agreed to give a majority stake in its flagship CSeries jet to European planemaker Airbus.

When asked about tax policy, the most broadly - supported tax reform is one that would reduce taxes and deductions for both corporations and individuals — no surprise given the majority of small businesses (83 percent) are pass - through entities and therefore file business taxes at the individual tax level.

As Clio Chang wrote at Splinter, Cuomo «has also worked to prop up the Independent Democratic Conference, a group of eight breakaway state Senate Democrats who caucus with Republicans, effectively giving them the majority.

Canada has a political system that gives a majority government of the day the ability to do the right things for the country, even if they are politically unpopular at the time.

Give him a majority on the board.

If the two George W. Bush replacements in the minority vote as their predecessors did, Clarence Thomas votes the same, and the two Trump - appointed replacements vote in line with the federalist view, that would give a majority in the other direction.

With the NYC subways and commuter trains in crisis, Gov. Andrew Cuomo introduced a bill to give himself majority control of the MTA board to tackle the problems.

His words: «The sad angle to the bloodbaths in the country is that the Nigerian President, Muhammadu Buhari, is not giving majority of Nigerians an impression of being deeply touched by the turn of events.