Sentences with phrase «voting block at»

¬ † Actors make up the largest voting block at the AMPAS, and since the SAG...

He should not forget that «those with grey hair» would form the largest voting block at the next election, Lady Winterton said.

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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.

An absolute voting block means those at the top can pursue strategies that other shareholders may question.

It's often hard to pigeonhole a generation of business owners, but as a voting block they do seem to come together — at least on one issue.

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.

Private shareholders were rightfully surprised and incensed at the proposed merger, and along with the three ousted Board members there were enough votes to block the merger from taking place.

In every block, you at random are allowed to choose only five tickets from the pool of live tickets to do voting on the validity of the earlier block.

They emerged as the industry consolidators, using high levels of gearing to pay mind boggling prices for assets (in 2007, APN was the target of a bid by a private equity consortium that was blocked by a shareholder vote at $ 6.20 per share, a decision which cost them a lot.

Secondly, international students don't necessarily vote in a block and even if they did they are still a minority at the university.

It is true that at one point you did have to talk continuously to block a vote, but it hasn't been true for ages.

-- Lynn Krogh, a former Pataki administration aide who worked until the bitter end with Paladino's vanquished GOP primary foe, Rick Lazio, and was widely praised for her vote counting operation that blocked Suffolk County Executive Steve Levy from getting on the ballot at the convention.

The New York State Democratic Party plans on blocking a proposed resolution at its May 23 - 24 convention that would allow independent or «unaffiliated» voters to vote in this year's Democratic primary for governor.

His intervention is likely to be highly controversial at a time when Theresa May has criticised those seeking to deny the «will of the people» as reflected by the EU referendum vote on 23 June 2016, and when Labour's leader, Jeremy Corbyn, has pledged not to block the triggering of Brexit.

His potential primary opponent, Rachel May, disagrees and says Valesky and his renegade colleagues have allowed Senate Republicans to block progressive legislation passed in the Assembly, including a series of bills aimed at early voting and automatic voter registration.

Squadron's efforts to at least bring the bill to the floor for an up - or - down vote were blocked by the Senate Republicans.

Spitzer declined, even after Cuomo successfully blocked all his primary opponents form getting onto the ballot at the convention (recall that this year, all five AG candidates were allowed on the ballot after much mathematical manipulation of the weighted vote).

Add that outrageous betrayal of trust to her 2009 self - appointed pay raise (and the entire city council) that defied a majority opposition to any pay raise voiced at a public hearing, followed by disobeying public referendum laws that recognized term limits that she abrogated (in favor of arranging an unlawful third term for Michael Bloomberg to serve, that automatically guaranteed her own job security), plus a final and detrimental insult to the working poor that blocked our rightful vote on sick pay coverage, and collectively, it would make total sense to impeach and prosecute such unethical, improper and unfair conduct — that is unbecoming to anyone purporting to serve their constituency.

Most recently — after five years of wrangling that spanned two administrations at both REBNY and City Hall — the City Council voted unanimously on Aug. 9 to rezone a 78 - block swath of Midtown East.

When it was time to vote on creating a new Special Assessment District for the businesses on the eastern end of the Connective Corridor, Councilor Lance Denno tabled the resolution, essentially blocking a vote at today's meeting.

After two students drowned in the water near a tunnel, Cornell officials have proposed installing a steel gate at its opening — blocking the only entrance to a section of Fall Creek Gorge stretching from the top of Ithaca Falls to the swimming area below Forest Falls — and the City Council is scheduled to vote on the proposal tomorrow.

We will vote in parliament to block any attempt to invoke Article 50 until Theresa May commits to a second referendum or a general election on whatever EU exit deal emerges at the end of the process.»

This hefty anti-Tory voting block is now the Lib Dem's single best chance of survival at the general election.

Betty Welch of Prospect Heights said she arrived at her local polling station ready to vote, only to find out that her block had been eliminated from the district.

Additionally, the possibility of legislation addressing the water crisis in Hoosick Falls appeared to effectively die after Sen. Kathy Marchione decided to amend her legislation at the last minute, blocking her own chamber from voting on it before its scheduled adjournment.

However, the unions will still retain a 50 % block vote at Labour's party conference and also retain their quota on the party's national executive.

The foreign secretary hit out at Conservative calls for a referendum, saying eight members of the Tory shadow Cabinet had blocked a public vote in the Maastricht treaty.

A full turn - out of Labour MPs would have prevented the government from blocking efforts at helping child refugees, according to an early analysis of last night's Commons vote.

But Downing Street bought off potential Tory rebels with the promise of a white paper on the government's negotiating plans, which will be published on Thursday, and a vote at the end of the process, though Brexit secretary David Davis has stressed that does not mean parliament will be able to block Brexit.

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It has a large contingent of delegates on Labour's National Policy Forum, and wields a block vote at annual conferences that is almost as big as the votes of all the constituency Labour parties.

At precisely the same moment, rival Bill Thompson was campaigning just one block away, underscoring their competition for the city's African - American vote.

At the time of the agreement, Citizen's Union's Dick Dadey expressed some doubts about a structure where three commissioners could potentially block the wishes of the other 11 commissioners if they voted against an investigation.

The Republican legislators all voted to block this wasteful spending at the Budget and Appropriations Committee, as every Democratic legislator on the committee voted for it.

The campaign for members to have more say follows controversy at last year's Labour party conference when Momentum's powerful caucus effectively blocked a vote on making single market membership Labour's policy.

As the nomination was announced, hundreds were protesting at Schumer's Brooklyn home, pressuring him to vote against Cabinet picks and block the Supreme Court nominee.

Sharpton called Skelos» decision to block the vote «unacceptable» and, at one point, led the audience in an impromptu chant of: «We want a vote.»

De Blasio was joined by one of his most prominent supporters in the fight, the Rev. Al Sharpton, and both men aimed their comments at Republican co-leader Dean Skelos, who said yesterday he will block a vote on the tax.

The state Senate is said to be voting Tuesday on a measure to block New York City from instituting a five cents fee on plastic and paper bags The city measure is supposed to go into effect in February, after a delay agreed to at the behest of the state Legislature last year.

(c.) There was no block voting, members of affiliated orgs cast their own ballots for whomever they liked, they didn't vote collectively.And at the same time cuts union factional powerbrokers out of the equation.Kim, I'm not convinced this is entirely true.

On Monday, a Community Board 3 committee may vote on guidelines for the redevelopment of the Seward Park Urban Renewal Area [SPURA]-- the long - derelict blocks on Delancey, Broome, and Grand at the lip of the Williamsburg Bridge.

Updegrove sounded an optimistic note that recent political changes in Albany provided an opportunity for the measures to at least receive a fair up - or - down vote on the floor of the Assembly, where former Speaker Sheldon Silver, D - Manhattan, had previously blocked Medicaid reform votes from ever even coming to a vote.

Some senior figures who worry about the unions» grip on the party fear that a move aimed at diminishing organised - Labour's influence could end up handing them even more power than they had before: although they will lose their block votes, some fear that the unions will use their formidable organisation machines to register large numbers of associate members, and then attempt to influence their votes.

[17] Harriet Harman at the time admitted that as many as 100,000 people may be blocked from voting.

If a minority of countries blocks the SCFCAH vote, the matter will have to go through a lengthier process at a higher political level.

Catching the Democratic leadership by surprise, members voted 292 to 126 to block passage of a 5 - year authorization bill that would have provided healthy increases in the research and education budgets of the National Science Foundation and research programs at the Department of Energy and the Department of Commerce.

Everyone who was in line by 8:30 got to vote, and when we left after the caucus (just after 8:30), the line weaved through the building, out the door and down the street for at least a couple of blocks.

We don't know how the Academy ranking is going to go but there is the possibility that a large number of voters will block vote for women to help women, to show the world that they care about women in the industry, to make up for Hillary's loss; for all of those reasons it's possible we could see wins, like we saw at the DGA in the television categories.

Specifically, members of the National Association of Administrators of State and Federal Education Programs (naasfep) lobbied their Congressional delegations to vote against the consolidation of existing categorical education programs into new block grants to the states, to maintain those programs at their current levels of funding, and to work actively against the passage of President...

The Senate Budget Committee signed off on the bill at a rare Saturday morning meeting after a bipartisan coalition blocked it from being yanked from the committee and sent to the Senate floor, where a vote will likely come sometime before the session ends Friday.