Sentences with phrase «voting majority of»

Charter schools are exempted from Illinois state laws that require a voting majority of Local School Councils to be parents, and in Chicago, less than 5 % of charter - school board members are parents.

Presbyterian general assemblies are not universal councils of the church, and setting agendas and shaping deliberations in concert with other churches and their councils would help to avoid the conceit that authority in the church belongs to a voting majority of seven hundred commissioners.

Shareholders controlling a fund could have the ability to vote a majority of the shares of the fund on any matter requiring the approval of shareholders of the fund.

This was also the main takeaway from the Davos meeting this year: «Blockchain, not Bitcoin» voted the majority of world leaders.

Not exact matches

McCain joined two other Republican senators, Susan Collins of Maine and Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, who voted against the bill and quashed Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's plan to upend the US healthcare system after 20 hours of debate.

At last year's general election the party fell short of gaining the sort of Leave - voting Labour seats they needed for a majority.

Downing Street has ruled out such membership, preferring to be able to negotiate free trade deals with the rest of the world, but the majority of members in the upper house of the U.K.'s parliament, the House of Lords, have voted against that, forcing a debate on the issue.

While a majority of Goldman Sachs (gs) shareholders voted in favor of executive pay plans on Friday at the bank's annual meeting in its Jersey City offices, around 34 % did not.

The Senate speaker of the house is elected through a voting process that requires a simple majority in a run - off ballot.

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

The voting process in that parliamentary chamber is less straightforward, requiring a two - thirds majority in the early stages of the vote before an absolute majority in the final stages of the vote.

The ongoing dispute between so - called Remainers and Brexiteers about this relationship took another turn last week when a majority of the U.K.'s House of Lords — the upper house of parliament — voted that the U.K. should stay in a customs union with the EU, something the government under Prime Minister Theresa May has said would not happen.

The motion, a broadly worded declaration of support for foreign policy, received 158 votes in favor, below the necessary majority of 160 votes and was followed by a chorus of opposition calls for the government to «quit, quit, quit».

The House of Commons is set to approve the measures with a big majority after the pacifist leader of the Labour Party, Jeremy Corbyn, said he would allow his lawmakers a free vote, rather than impose a party whip.

Although Unifor again claims it has surpassed the 40 % threshold needed to call a vote, organizers are still trying to drum up enough support to comfortably meet the majority of the 7,000 workers required for victory.

The chair of the county's GOP said he first realized there could be a big flip in the vote after the state's April primary, in which Trump attracted the vast majority of Luzerne County voters.

A majority of cantons (states) voted against the plan.

Clinton never had a majority of the electorate voting for him, and Bush's election needed a Supreme Court ruling to certify it.

«You're so ridiculously proud of your self - declared majority, but you don't have enough votes to approve the Afghanistan decree,» Berlusconi said in parliament.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and Republican leaders say they want to bring the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) to the Senate floor for a vote by the end of the week.

Indeed, the 2016 election may be the last one in U.S. history before the self - employed comprise a majority of the voting electorate.

«For sure, the priorities are immigration, the control of borders, of Europe, (the issue of) cultural identities and the understanding of how the Italian society should move ahead in a globalized world,» Terzi di Sant «Agata said, following the Italian election result which pointed to a hung parliament where no one party or coalition gained a majority of the vote that would allow it to govern alone.

A number of GOP Senators are saying that the Senate's health care bill probably won't get a vote until the later part of July — a pretty clear departure from Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's hope to get the legislation out of the way before last week's 4th of July recess.

«This gives us a mid-point prediction of an 8.5 % lead for remain, or a majority of around 2.5 million of votes cast.

The strategy is intended to produce a bipartisan majority vote for Mr. Brennan in the Senate Intelligence Committee without giving its members seven additional legal opinions on targeted killing sought by senators and while protecting what the White House views as the confidentiality of the Justice Department's legal advice to the president.

Musk has recused himself from voting on the deal, but that doesn't stop him from doing media interviews, where he claims he expects a two - thirds majority in favor of the merger.

Already, sticking points in the plan have emerged, threatening the loss of votes for a party that holds only a narrow majority in the Senate.

Porsche is the chairman of Porsche SE, the holding firm through which the Porsche and Piech families control the majority of VW's voting shares.

It's politically risky for the federal government to ride roughshod over state laws voted in by a majority of the people, says William McGrath, a partner at the Washington, D.C. - based Potomac Law Group.

Nabors shareholders also sent a strong rebuke against the company's governance practices with a majority vote against one of its two director nominees, Myron M. Sheinfeld.

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.

With just over four weeks until Londoners cast their votes, an exclusive Opinium survey for the Evening Standard says Labour candidate Khan still enjoys a sizable lead and is more trusted than Conservative Goldsmith on the majority of key issues.

«The merger can not be completed without approval by holders of a majority of the outstanding shares of EMC and an abstention or failure to vote will have the same effect as a vote against the merger.»

Opposition leader Julius Maada Bio of the Sierra Leone People's Party led with 43.3 percent of the vote in the first round of elections but failed to secure a majority vote needed to win, according to the electoral commission.

Since Pai, a Republican, has a majority of votes on the Commission, he is likely to go ahead with his plan to rip up the rules later this summer.

But his «safe hands on the economy» message cut through in the end, with the coalition winning a majority of seats in 1998 despite Labor winning 51 per cent of the two - party vote.

Ackman brought a proxy contest, winning an overwhelming majority of the vote and garnering a majority of the board seats.

Obama won a majority of the vote in Philadelphia and Pittsburgh in both elections.

As The Information notes, Kalanick and two people close to him control a majority of shareholder votes, an approach that has become frequently used in tech startups.

Even if they don't have a majority vote on the company's board of directors, investors are still part owners and have legal rights.

It might seem odd to have a family dynasty at the helm of one of the world's most powerful media organizations, but such an arrangement — in which the Sulzbergers control the majority of the voting shares — used to be the rule in media rather than the exception.

The conservatives, liberals and socialists, who command a large majority of the parliamentary seats, will work out a joint motion on Tuesday and expect to debate the issue in parliament on Wednesday and vote on it on Thursday, Tremosa's aide said on Monday.

Second, the electoral college got stuck in to provide a last line of defense against public stupidity — in case you didn't know it, the electors aren't legally bound to vote as their state's majority has.

The rebels won the British parliamentary vote by 307 to 294 votes, a majority of 13, after they received support from the Labour Party, a generally pro-European group accused by Cameron of «rank opportunism».

They are asking for policies that most well run companies have adopted; things like majority vote standards, so directors are only elected to the board if a majority of shareholders want them there.

Because the founders currently hold majority - voting rights, the plan does not require that shareholders give their consent to the dilution of their future voting power.

Elliott wants to keep Genish, appointed by Vivendi, but he told Britain's Sunday Telegraph that his position would be untenable if Elliott and its allies secured a majority of board seats at a shareholder vote on Friday.

Skinny, of course, was the last and most cynical of the various Trumpcare resolutions that the Senate Majority Leader put forth this week — and which the full Senate voted on, and ultimately rejected, in the dead of night.

So slim that the president can easily veto any significant piece of legislation they send to his desk (i.e. repeal of the Affordable Care Act) and there's nowhere near the two - thirds majority vote in both Houses needed to override.

The Brown family owns a majority of the voting power and has indicated historically that they do not want to sell their company