Sentences with phrase «voting exercise for»

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The SEC filing specified that «if Mr. Spiegel's or Mr. Murphy's employment with us is terminated, they will continue to have the ability to exercise the same significant voting power and potentially control the outcome of all matters submitted to our stockholders for approval.»

Finally, before hitting the panic button and researching ways to move to Canada, take a deep breath, relax, and try to appreciate the fact that you actually have the freedom to vote, express your views, and exercise the option to rally for a candidate of your choosing.

Friday's opposition vote to defeat the Conservative government for «contempt of Parliament» was an exercise in self - delusion, testosterone and faulty logic that will surely result in Stephen Harper returning after the May 2 election as prime minister — and likely with a majority.

At that time I wrote: «Friday's opposition vote to defeat the Conservative government for «contempt of Parliament» was an exercise in self - delusion, testosterone and faulty logic that will surely result in Stephen Harper returning after the May 2 election as prime minister — and likely with a majority.

For nonstatutory stock options and incentive stock options granted to employees who do not own more than 10 % of the voting power of all classes of our outstanding stock, the exercise price must equal at least 100 % of the fair market value.

The facts which our incipient, embryonic democracy must face are more staggering than the old tyrants were — for example, that at the last presidential election almost twenty - eight million people who were qualified to vote did not exercise that privilege; that an accredited estimate is possibly true that in the United States four million people are living in destitution.

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

Happy or not with the outcome, I feel so proud to live in a country where people are willing to stand in line for 9 hours in order to exercise their right to vote.

as an exercise in «hey we're listening to our shareholders and their concerns», and in a lot of cases, those shareholders can bring things to the floor for a vote, or at least feel like they're being heard and on some level paid some respect.

For the vote - counting exercise a statistically significant (p ≤ 0.05) difference in favour of the intervention was considered a positive outcome, a statistically significant difference in favour of control was considered a negative outcome and no statistically significant difference was considered a neutral outcome.

BTW, voting's also going on in the Superheroes for DC mayoral race today; I ain't officially taking sides [cough] Wonder Woman [/ cough], but go exercise your Democratic rights — it'll sure count more than most votes do in DC.

But it's an important exercise in small - d democracy to ensure that every vote is counted — if for nothing else than to assure an already disaffected electorate that voting is indeed important.

That is what it ought to be — for the electorate, if they were not to embrace self - ruin, must exercise the vote with reason.

It's time for that to change so that more New Yorkers can exercise their right to vote.

Nixon said she voted for Cuomo eight years ago in hopes of his being a «real Democrat» but that «New York's eight years under the Cuomo administration have been an exercise in living with disappointment, dysfunction, and dishonesty.»

@JDoe - «What do you think would happen when I want to exercise my right to vote and refuse to leave until they give me a ballot with candidates for that race?»

«We are sad, to witness, how youths and unarmed people of Bayelsa State, particularly in the Southern Ijaw Local Government, were harassed, abused and assaulted as they went to exercise their fundamental right to vote, as provided for by the constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

The Electoral Commission is preparing to roll out a limited registration exercise in March for those who have turned 18 years, the legal voting age or who do not have their names in the electoral roll.

According to Dadey, «The consequence of this opinion will hopefully increase ease of access to casting a vote and encourage many New Yorkers not only to register, which has been an outdated and cumbersome process for many, but also exercise their civic duty to vote.

Caroline Lucas as the only Green MP would exercise a «heavy» vote of between 5 and 6 for the Green Party (on party political issues) which reflects the total vote share for the Green Party in the country.

Welsh Secretary David Jones will today exercise his right to sit and speak (though not vote) in the Assembly for its debate on the Queen's Speech, including changes to devolution that involve giving income tax raising powers to the Welsh Government, subject to approval in a referendum.

With DPR Voting there is an imperative for every party to win at least one constituency in order to exercise its full Parliamentary Votes.

You will have three opportunities to exercise your vote — on Tuesday, to vote for a convention; next year, to select delegates; and in 2019 or later, to decide whether to approve the proposed amendments.

She added: «This was part of a national exercise of legislators coming together and saying, let's bring this to the floor for a vote.

Today, however, such a system is not commonly practiced and most parliamentary system parties» rules provide for a leadership election in which the general membership of the party is permitted to vote at some point in the process (either directly for the new leader or for delegates who then elect the new leader in a convention), though in many cases the party's legislators are allowed to exercise a disproportionate influence in the final vote.

«For the first time in the history of the Commission, citizens who have attained the voting age of 18 years and those who could not register during the previous CVR exercises, now have the opportunity to do so on a continuous basis as envisaged by the Electoral Act.

In a ballot for the election of Deputy Speaker or Second Deputy Speaker, when there are only two candidates, with each receiving the same number of votes, the Speaker then exercises a casting vote.174 There is no instance of the Speaker exercising a casting vote in these circumstances.

If I have so much money that I can put pressure on the candidates running for election - by funding TV ads or political campaigns or by threatening not to do so - I exercise a power far beyond my own voting power.

But they do not occupy most positions of power, nor when they are in positions of power (say party president or deputy leader) do they exercise power in the way the left of the Lib Dems might expect (by voting against the Welfare Uprating Bill for example).

Not too long ago, the «Let My Vote Count» movement, a surrogate group of the NPP also embarked on a similar exercise where they painted the walls in the Capital with their unreasonable demand for a new voter register.

Besides, Governor Ambode urged Nigerians to keep alive the principles of June 12 by upholding democratic values and culture especially by participating in democratic processes such as voters» registration exercise, voting for candidates of choice during election and avoiding any act that could disrupt peaceful conduct of free, fair and credible election.

AV expresses that much better than the stricter First Past The Post system, which forces many of us to substitute our actual beliefs for a damage limitation exercise, where we vote for a party we don't really like just to stop a party we like even less getting in.

Addressing media personnel after the exercise, the NPP flagbearer expressed his satisfaction with the «simple» process, adding that «I have one vote in the bank for myself» in this year's presidential election.

By failing to vote for these amendments they will be making it harder for those who voted them into power to exercise their constitutional and legal right to hold government to account and challenge public authorities when they get it wrong.»

The voters» registration exercise was for persons who have now turned 18 years and willing to vote in the upcoming elections later in November 2016.

Another motion attacks the Government for deciding its position before the consultation exercise and deplores moves to deny Labour backbenchers a free vote.

For the purposes of votes in the House of Commons each Parliamentary Party shares its parliamentary votes out equally amongst its own MPs (so each MP exercises one share of their party's total vote).

With DPR Voting there is an imperative for every party to win at least one constituency in order to exercise its full party vote value.

Campaigners for democratic reform give a mixed reaction on Mr Brown's proposals, with some, such as Power 2010 saying it did not go far enough: «Without troubling the public for their views, ministers hand - picked the voting system they favour in a cynical exercise aimed at wrong - footing the Tories ahead of a likely election defeat.

The usual caveats I give for notional results apply — this is an accounting exercise, estimating what the ward level vote within each constituency would have been in 2015 (basing the distribution on the distribution at local elections) then reallocating the wards to their new constituencies and adding them back up again.

I live in an area of the country so solidly Conservative that a vote for Labour has become an exercise in futility.

The Brennan Center supports early voting as a crucial way to help more New Yorkers exercise their right to vote, and urges the New York State legislature to include early voting in the state budget,» said Joanna Zdanys, Counsel for the Democracy Program at the Brennan Center for Justice.

Nigeria politics online gathered 2,408 delegates were accredited for the exercise across the 16 LGAs in the state and delegates from four LGAs had voted when chaos broke.

Also speaking on the exercise, ex - Senate President, Chief Ken Nnamani, lauded the party for adopting the open and transparent option A4 for its voting system at the ward congress; adding: «Option A4 and the friendly atmosphere the ward congress election was conducted guarantee its success.

«Instituting weekend voting would make it easier and more convenient for Americans to exercise their right to vote, and would help reduce lines at the polls and increase voter turnout.»

Earlier this week Frances Crook of the Howard League for Penal Reform argued in a comment piece for politics.co.uk that prisoners deserve the right to exercise their citizenship by voting.

«New York women led the fight for our right to vote — and in November, you better believe we're exercising that right.

If you could convince the state legislatures totaling exactly 36 electoral votes to exercise their option to appoint electors for Clinton, regardless of the plurality vote, Clinton and Trump would both have 269 electoral votes, which would force the election to the House of Representatives, with each state receiving one vote.

According to her, the role of Electoral Management Bodies (EMBs) like INEC in a democracy «is to conduct free, fair and credible elections as well as provide an enabling environment for all eligible citizens irrespective of sex, creed or tribe to exercise their constitutional rights and privileges to vote and be voted for during periodic elections.»

«With these new safeguards, New York — in the strongest terms possible — will combat unscrupulous and shadowy threats to our electoral process, as well as break down fundamental barriers that for far too long have prevented New Yorkers from being heard and from exercising their right to vote,» Cuomo said.