Sentences with phrase «voted rule by»

Some delegates voted rule by rule for inclusion or exclusion.

In 1989, the Supreme Court declared the Board of Estimate unconstitutional, because it violated the one - person one - vote rule by giving New York's least - populous borough, Staten Island, as much power as its most populous borough, Brooklyn.

Not exact matches

The FCC is slated to vote Oct. 27 on new broadband privacy rules that according to Ars Technica, «will put broadband providers under a stricter privacy regime than the one imposed on websites like Google and Facebook, which are regulated separately by the Federal Trade Commission.

MILAN, April 23 - A judge ruled in favor of an appeal by Telecom Italia and its leading investor Vivendi to block a vote on some board director replacements proposed by activist fund Elliott at an April 24 shareholders meeting, a court document showed.

The U.S. Senate voted today to repeal a set of rules approved under the Obama administration that were meant to safeguard consumer data from being collected by internet service providers without a user's knowledge or consent.

The lack of a vote comes on the heels of the federal repeal of Obama - era privacy rules by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) earlier this year.

Poland's biggest political standoff in years began on Friday when opposition lawmakers objected to plans by the ruling Law and Justice (PiS) party to curb media access to parliament, and blocked the plenary hall podium ahead of a budget vote.

Political analyst Boban Stojanovic believes the publicity given to convicted war criminals is a ploy by the ruling party to «gain some political points» ahead of the vote.

On March 28, Congress voted along party lines to kill a set of rules adopted by the Federal Communications Commission in October that would've forced your internet service provider, or ISP, to ask you before it collected certain personal information.

In April, they voted in favor of a shareholder proposal requiring annual majority rule votes for all directors, which Nabors has said they will abide by.

They seem to have gotten turbocharged by a ruling in 2007 that permitted people — in practice, mainly hedge funds — to buy shares after a merger has been announced and for the express purpose of voting against it and then seeking an appraisal.

Nearly 2.6 million comments were filed in the lead - up to the FCC's vote to consider the proposal — many of those seem to have been spurred by John Oliver's call to keep the rules, but hundreds of thousands of others, many in favor of repeal, have likely come from bots.

Thursday's vote by the Federal Communications Commission to revoke its 2015 net neutrality rules generated heated commentary from both supporters and opponents of the move.

«Shareholders can vote, but boards can just ignore them under the «business judgment rule» backed by state laws and courts.

Even though results showed his Democratic opponent Doug Jones defeated him by 1.5 percentage points, Moore said he was awaiting certification of the final votes, declining to rule out the possibility he would request a recount.

FCC chief Ajit Pai, a Republican appointed by President Donald Trump in January, said the commission will vote at a Dec. 14 meeting on rescinding the so - called net neutrality rules championed by Democratic former President Barack Obama that treated internet...

FCC Chairman Ajit Pai, a Republican appointed by President Donald Trump in January, said the regulatory agency will vote at a Dec. 14 meeting on his plan to rescind the so - called net neutrality rules championed by Democratic former President Barack...

MILAN, April 23 (Reuters)- A judge ruled in favor of an appeal by Telecom Italia (TIM) and its leading investor Vivendi to block a vote on some board director replacements proposed by activist fund Elliott at an April 24 shareholders meeting, a court document showed.

Georgia Congressman Tom Price has been cleared as the next Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services after an ugly confirmation battle which included Senate Democrats boycotting his vote by a key panel (a tactic that was rendered useless as the majority Republicans changed committee rules to push his nomination forward).

Under applicable TSX rules, the transaction also requires the approval of Loblaw shareholders by majority vote, as the number of Loblaw common shares to be issued in the transaction exceeds 25 % of the total number of outstanding Loblaw common shares.

Nov 18, 2015: On September 22 the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission voted to propose new rules for promoting effective liquidity risk management by open - end and exchange - traded funds.

The Securities and Exchange Commission received more than 287,000 letters commenting on the rule before approving it by a vote of 3 to 2.

If you do not provide such instructions by that time, your Shares will be voted by the Retirement Plans Committee of the respective plan in accordance with the rules of the applicable plan.

The tax reform bill they are pushing through the Senate will live and die by a complicated rule — known as the «Byrd Rule,» a condition of the «budget reconciliation» process that allows Republicans to pass legislation with only 51 votes in the Senrule — known as the «Byrd Rule,» a condition of the «budget reconciliation» process that allows Republicans to pass legislation with only 51 votes in the SenRule,» a condition of the «budget reconciliation» process that allows Republicans to pass legislation with only 51 votes in the Senate.

The Committee is governed by the same rules regarding meetings (including meetings in person or by telephone or other similar communications equipment), action without meetings, notice, waiver of notice, and quorum and voting requirements as are applicable to the Board.

The SEC ruling was not unanimous, and the sole vote against it was Democratic Commissioner Luis Aguilar who said in a statement, «I am disappointed and saddened by the reckless adoption [of the rule].»

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On June 28, 2012, the Supreme Court ruled by a 5 — 4 vote in National Federation of Independent Business v. Sebelius that the mandate was constitutional under the U.S. Congress's taxing authority.

Under these rules, a company of which more than 50 % of the voting power is held by an individual, a group or another company is a «controlled company» and may elect not to comply with certain corporate governance requirements of the, including (1) the requirement that a majority of the board of directors consist of independent directors, (2) the requirement that we have a nominating and corporate governance committee that is composed entirely of independent directors with a written charter addressing the committee's purpose and responsibilities and (3) the requirement that we have a compensation committee that is composed entirely of independent directors with a written charter addressing the committee's purpose and responsibilities.

As a result of changes adopted by the NYSE to its broker voting rules, including changes mandated by the Dodd - Frank Act in connection with stockholder votes on executive compensation matters, the NYSE does not consider the election of directors (Item 1), the advisory resolution regarding named executives» compensation (Item 2), and the advisory proposal on the frequency of future advisory votes regarding named executives» compensation (Item 3) to be routine.

A South Korean court said on June 19 that it would rule by July 1 on a request by U.S. hedge fund Elliott to block a shareholder vote on the $ 9.2 billion takeover of construction firm Samsung C&T.

The SEC hopes to vote to propose it rule by the end of the second quarter of 2018.

Since then the ruling BC Liberal party received a vote of non-confidence and the BC NDP, led by John Horgan as premier, has taken power.

** Dell Inc founder Michael Dell raised his $ 24.4 billion bid by less than 1 percent just hours before it was to be put to a vote, tacking on a controversial demand to change voting rules to make it easier for him to buy and take the No. 3 personal computer maker private.

At Loblaw Companies Ltd.'s annual meeting, shareholders will be asked to vote on a proposed rule which would require that the role company chairman is filled by an independent director.

Under the default rule applicable to virtually every corporation in the United States, however, corporate directors are elected through a standard that guarantees that a director could be elected with even a single affirmative vote, even if that director's candidacy is opposed by the overwhelming majority of shareholders.

Because the SEC's rules for resubmission of a failed proposal by a shareholder in the next year's proxy statement require that the proposal have received up to 10 % of the vote (depending on how many years it has been submitted), the significant voting impact of an ISS recommendation can empower a proponent to resubmit a proposal year after year, imposing costs on the company and creating waste and negative publicity to the detriment of the company and its shareholders.

The reconciliation bill also initially delayed but did not repeal the so - called «Cadillac tax» on high - cost insurance plans to avoid revenue loss outside the budget window, but an amendment repealing it was adopted by an overwhelming bipartisan vote and no Byrd rule challenge was raised despite its deficit impact.

However, the Byrd rule can also be waived by 60 votes.

Finally, provisions in a reconciliation bill that increase the deficit beyond the period covered by the budget resolution are subject to a 60 - vote point of order under the «Byrd rule» unless the costs are offset by savings from other provisions in the bill.

Federal regulators today voted to approve the «Volcker Rule,» aimed at limiting risk - taking by big Wall Street banks.

Last time we all checked, Christianity rules were not decided by popular vote.

To all this, I say too bad; churches have to play by the rules — all of them — whether they like them or not, and as long as they're being subsidized, they don't get a vote about it.

Now we have a country that denies every religion the power to rule our country, and we are represented (extremely badly) in Congress by people we vote for.

Just now, by a vote of five to four the Supreme Court of the United States ruled that same - sex couples may now marry in all 50 states, striking down the bans of states who have attempted do so.

The allegedly benevolent tyrants who rule this British dystopia have gained power not by force but by vote, promising «freedom from fear, freedom from want, freedom from boredom.»

Nowhere in the Bible do God, Jesus, or the Prophets advocate: 1) Democracy 2) consent of the governed 3) government by the people and for the people 4) the right to vote and choose our representatives, etc. etc.THESE human rights were won by BRAVE SECULAR FORCES that tore down and broke up the POWER OF THE CHURCH to rule our lives and oppress us.

Given that troubled history, the idea that a fellow «Celtic nation» that had also spent part of the medieval period fighting English invaders, and been garrisoned by English troops in the eighteenth century, might have the opportunity in the course of a single day's voting to rebuff the rule of Westminster, was welcomed and celebrated in the expectation that the Scots would give «perfidious Albion» a bloody nose and put an end to the Union.

The aftermath of these votes is the absence of reception by the church's ministers and members, and an ecclesial landscape littered with continuing legislative maneuvers, invocation of parliamentary rules, judicial appeals, trials in church courts, and the departures of congregations and ministers.

However, the majority of Indians, who had been left behind by recent economic growth, voted against incumbent governments, unseating, among others, many strongly pro-business ruling politicians in Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka (of which Bangalore is the capital city).