Sentences with phrase «voting as an obligation»

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Last week, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) voted to update standards on operating lease accounting that would force companies to record as much as $ 2 trillion worth of lease obligations on their balance sheets.

In a Glass Lewis Proxy Talk held April 17, 2014, Anne Simpson of CalPERS and Michael Garland of the New York City Comptroller's Office discussed why they think shareholders should vote against the re-election of four Duke Energy Corporation directors for what they believe to be a failure of the directors to fulfill their obligations of risk oversight as members of a committee overseeing health, safety, and environmental compliance at the company.

For years, I have urged Christians to take seriously their obligations as citizens, starting with exercising the right to vote.

The Supreme Court has taken the position that society has the obligation to make a judgment as to what speech is appropriate for children, just as persons under a certain age are not allowed to drink, drive, or vote.

Specifically, the Vote Better NY advocates call on lawmakers to adopt the following common - sense reforms: Early voting: (A8582 / S3813B) New Yorkers should have a two - week period including Saturdays and Sundays to ease long lines on Election Day and give voters flexibility as they juggle work and family obligations.

With 6,500 signatures, the group's petition called for three bills that would not only introduce a two - week voting period «to ease long lines on Election Day and give voters flexibility as they juggle work and family obligations,» but modify ballots to make them more comprehensible and streamline the voter registration process.

The party has a moral obligation to combat this inherent racism wherever it occurs and NOT use it as a mechanism to secure votes in a Labour leadership contest.

As a transgendered Asian - American woman, did I have an obligation to vote for Chris Quinn as the only female candidate in the racAs a transgendered Asian - American woman, did I have an obligation to vote for Chris Quinn as the only female candidate in the racas the only female candidate in the race?

«The purpose of the bill is to empower people to hold themselves accountable as voters,» Torres said in a statement, «and to get them to think of voting not as a right but as a civic obligation.»

As Stephen Knack, now a senior economist at the World Bank, explained in a 1992 essay, «Civic Norms, Social Sanctions, and Voter Turnout,» even people with a weak personal sense of obligation have a greater likelihood of voting in a place that is populated with duty - bound compatriots.

He does not dispute the research that says that more formal civics education wouldn't help much, but he does argue that schools can do more for the civic development of students: «The challenge... is to build the sense of «we» within our schools in order to nurture civic norms, including the encouragement of voting as a civic obligation.»

They do this, as Knack points out, because «someone with a low sense of civic obligation may nonetheless vote to avoid displeasing a friend or relative with a stronger sense of duty.»

As a brief overview, the Management and Board have embarked upon a failed merger that garnered virtually no support from its shareholders, and was opposed by ISS, and continued on that path until the date of the special shareholders meeting and scheduled vote, spending lavishly in a failed effort to close it; attempted to implement substantial new options to itself, a plan opposed by ISS and the shareholders, which was withdrawn; continually paid itself outrageous sums of the shareholders money over the past three years; rejected highly qualified outside board members with deep, broad healthcare company experience supported by its shareholders; held many Board and Committee meetings with nothing to show for it; formed a new Strategic Transactions Committee that is highly paid but that has produced no deals for the shareholders to consider or for any outside valuation experts to formally review; spent lavishly on accountants, auditors and counsel; failed to successfully hire any outside professional negotiators and finally extinguish or remove the outstanding lease obligations; distributed no cash to the shareholders despite holding excess amounts; formed no special purpose entity to hold any royalty and milestone rights and payments for the benefit of its shareholders; and thus generally failed in its fiduciary duties to shareholders.

Rather than seeing the SEA process as a decision - making tool the Supreme Court dismissed the appeal on the basis that the government's plans for HS2 had no influence over how or what Parliament would ultimately vote for and therefore did not trigger the obligation to conduct an SEA.

In a January 2010 post, ABlawg's Top Cases and Legal Developments from the 2000s, and a Vote for Dunmore, I nominated Dunmore as the top constitutional decision of the 2000s for its recognition that the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms may impose positive obligations on government.

A voting member of the 501 (c)(3) could sue the 501 (c)(3) in state court to insist that the 501 (c)(3) conduct its business in accordance with the Johnson Act because it is legally obligated to do so and other officers or directors have ignored that obligation which they have as a matter of state corporate law.

As public positions like these, which are viewed by various groups in society as discriminatory or hateful, are potentially not only contrary to the Statement of Principles that lawyers will be required to adopt, but also a breach of their existing obligations under the Rules of Professional Conduct, the Law Society should immediately take steps to investigate and, if necessary, publicly censure the lawyers cited above for their failure to advance the administration of justice by joining other MPs of good will in voting to condemn the hateful acts of certain members of the publiAs public positions like these, which are viewed by various groups in society as discriminatory or hateful, are potentially not only contrary to the Statement of Principles that lawyers will be required to adopt, but also a breach of their existing obligations under the Rules of Professional Conduct, the Law Society should immediately take steps to investigate and, if necessary, publicly censure the lawyers cited above for their failure to advance the administration of justice by joining other MPs of good will in voting to condemn the hateful acts of certain members of the publias discriminatory or hateful, are potentially not only contrary to the Statement of Principles that lawyers will be required to adopt, but also a breach of their existing obligations under the Rules of Professional Conduct, the Law Society should immediately take steps to investigate and, if necessary, publicly censure the lawyers cited above for their failure to advance the administration of justice by joining other MPs of good will in voting to condemn the hateful acts of certain members of the public.