Sentences with phrase «voting block of»

As I have mentioned herein before, on a couple of occasions, CREA needs to be wound up, and a new organization formed to take its place, with head office being located either in Toronto or Ottawa, wherein the largest voting block of organized pissed - off Realtors resides, right next door to the rightfully pised - off Quebecers who are seriously thinking the same thoughts.

There is a giant, untapped voting block of hemp - educated Americans who have the power to elect politicians that will work to create and protect the rights that allow its cultivation.

On current voting intentions the equivalent entire voting block of Scotland & Wales, in UK voting terms are going to vote for someone other than LAB / CON / LIB.

According to this article, they are «a political powerhouse, a voting block of about 92 million people, 57 percent of all Americans over 25.»

Not exact matches

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.

«Pending the outcome of the head tax vote by City Council, Amazon has paused all construction planning on our Block 18 project in downtown...

A snap election is unlikely, however, as PiS has a majority in parliament and could block any vote of no confidence.

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.

A vote on the measure was delayed for hours after Democrats revolted against provisions to roll back part of the Dodd - Frank financial reform law and allow more big money political donations, while conservative Republicans objected because the measure did not block funds for Obama's immigration order.

«I can confirm that pending the outcome of the head - tax vote by City Council, Amazon has paused all construction planning on our Block 18 project in downtown Seattle and is evaluating options to sublease all space in our recently leased Rainier Square building,» Amazon VP Drew Herdener told the Seattle Times.

But without the votes, Democratic opponents and a handful of Republicans who crossed party lines to oppose the measure, were left only to deliver emotional pleas to block it.

In 2013, Kennedy sided with more conservative justices to effectively block a key component of the law, although its provisions prohibiting states from diluting minority voting rights remain in effect.

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.

WASHINGTON, Dec 13 - Internet service providers clashed with Democrats and celebrities like «Star Wars» actor Mark Hamill ahead of a vote on the Trump administration's plan to revoke net neutrality rules barring the blocking or slowing of internet traffic.

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.

Bitcoin Classic eventually introduced the idea of block - size voting, which relies on the principle of a variable block size.

Bitcoin Classic eventually introduced the idea of block - size voting, which relies on the principle of

The probability of solving a block is proportional to computing power, so the Bitcoin network essentially operates on a principle of one computing cycle, one vote.

Republicans hold 23 of the Senate's 40 seats (two are vacant), leaving Democrats with too few votes to block bills on their own.

Experience with cumulative voting suggests that adversarial relations between the majority block and the minority of shareholder nominees commonly dominate such divided boards.

In a show of support for investor protection, the SEC unanimously adopted rules that block felons from pitching specific types of private investment deals and in a 3 - 2 vote adopted a rule that requires firms offering private placements to make additional disclosures to regulators prior to being able to advertise it.

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.

«Pending the outcome of the head tax vote by City Council, Amazon has paused all construction planning on our Block 18 project in downtown Seattle and is evaluating options to sub-lease all space in our recently leased Rainier Square building,» said Amazon vice president Drew Herdener.

The pension fund claims Diller threatened to block «value - enhancing deals» requiring new common - stock issuance that would dilute his voting stake if the board refused to approve the new class of shares.

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.

70 % of the block reward is allocated to fund proposals voted on and adopted by the SmartHive community, and to support Hive Structuring Teams.

One of the reasons he was once considered the presumptive next leader of the federal party was due to his perceived head - and - shoulders lead over other potential candidates among this key voting block.

In September, the House Rules Committee blocked a vote on inclusion of this Amendment, signifying the gap in support for pot's expansion between conservative members of the Republican Party and Democrats.

This means that everything related to the network or the addition of new blocks to the blockchain is done by delegate voting.

There's a HUGE Christian voting block, Latinos, that is not being utilized — mainly b / c of rampant bigotry (and the viewpoint that Catholics aren't true Christians — which is ridiculous).

Wrong... Mormons» didn't have slaves and because they voted as a block and were antislavery they were forced out of their homes.

And millions of Americans would not needlessly suffer and die from diseases tht he and Dubya blocked cures for in exchange for bloc voting.

Mormons voted in blocks in order to take over the political authority of a town.

If they choose to stay out of the debate and vote since it has nothing to do with their freedoms, then fine, but as soon as you take that step to block someone elses rights, now you are an active bigot showing your true colors.

People who self identify under the same category (a religion), who already participate in the same organization weekly or even daily, who already follow the rules of this organization, and who believe that their very lives depend on following the rules of the organization, are THE PERFECT voting block.

The coalition of black churches in urban communities can no longer be counted on for block Democratic votes, and despite the president's pleas, he may find that his most loyal constituency will not be able to bring significant wins to the Democratic column come Tuesday.

«Nearly 3 out of 10 are presently undecided, making them the largest block of undecided votes still up for grabs,» stated George Barna.

Then we will have a 99 % voting block that can actually make reform and scare the crud out of the 1 % of greedy who think they can buy their way into anything.

And yet, despite winning the largest block of votes in the 2013 parliamentary elections, Grillo refused to articulate concrete proposals for how the energies of M5S might be unleashed for the betterment of Italy.

I have visions now of angry Southerners blocking gay couples from entering the courthouses to marry just as they did with blacks who wanted to vote.

As they constituted such a large number and always voted in a block, Smith used this power to wrest from the Illinois legislature unheard - of powers for his town.

In this particular instance it is not very difficult to imagine scenarios in the not - too - distant future in which there might occur resurgences of socialist policies and ideals: the failure of neo-capitalist regimes in developing societies and / or the formerly Communist countries in Europe to achieve economic take - off; the insight granted to sundry dictators and despots that, while socialism invariably immiserates the masses, it is a very good recipe for enriching those who claim to hold power as the vanguard of the masses; the «creeping socialism» (still an aptly descriptive term) brought on by massive government intervention in the economy in the name of some societal good, e.g., there could be an environmentalist road to socialism, or a feminist one, or one constructed (perhaps inadvertently) with some other building blocks of politically managed regulations and entitlements; or, last but not least, the actual restoration of socialism, by coup or by voting, in a number of countries, beginning with Russia.

The problem is that there are so many organized tax exempt evangelical churches who will get 100 % of their vote out while the rest of the rational masses are just individuals trying to get through the day and do not vote as an organized block.

The measures were the subject of intense debate in the state and gained national attention after Sen. Wendy Davis staged a day - long filibuster in an attempt to block the vote.

He would split the Romney vote... he might even take all of the Republican block.

BO's support of abortion however vitiates has Christianity as he is the leader of the Immoral Majority who are now the largest voting block in the country.

Seems to me that constantly voting to block anything that would help the people of this country that are in the most need seems very un-Christian like.

And they vote in a solid block with intent to push their dysfunctional and self loathing beliefs on the majority of us.

For Küng, the pope's declaration that the ban on contraception was still binding, in opposition to the majority vote of his own birth control commission, indicated that infallibility itself was the major block to church reform.