Sentences with phrase «voting member status»

All current IFOAM - Organics International affiliates from English - speaking countries of North America who have voting member status were eligible to vote in this election.

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LONDON — The arrival of the Bank of England's new governor has prompted an immediate change in the voting behaviour of the central bank's policymaking panel, with all nine members deciding to maintain the status quo, minutes to their meeting earlier this month showed Wednesday.

In 1993, after the Liberals won their largest vote share with 39.7 % and 32 seats, a group of MLAs and party members were not satisfied with official opposition status called for his resignation.

How do pastors preach to congregations whose members voted overwhelmingly for Ronald Reagan and the status quo?

Any church that preaches what the government should do or tell their members how to vote, should lose their tax exempt status immediately.

The NIH Human Embryo Research Panel's chief ethicist, Professor Ronald Green, proposed that the intelligent and articulate members of a society should vote on whether other members of the species deserve the status of «personhood.»

Half of the 54 bills he voted against would have expanded peace officer status to officials ranging from members of the Islip Bureau of Fire Prevention to Salamanca's dog control officer.

Some of the more conspiracy theory - minded members of New York's political class wondered what the governor was up to, and if he was hoping to confuse voters and dilute the WFP vote — potentially bumping the labor - backed party from its hard - fought position on Row D, or even perhaps robbing it of ballot status altogether.

There is no other party like ours; we refuse to accept the status quo, which is exactly why we were the only party to have voted against the outrageous rise in Assembly Members» pay.

The Senate rules allow each member — regardless of their majority or minority status — the ability to «compel» a committee vote on three bills a year.

Following a lengthy public session where the Ulster Town Board heard from members of the public concerned about oversight on the proposed Niagara Bottling plant, the town board voted to deny both the Kingston Common Council and Woodstock Town Board involved agency status in the plant's coming environmental review.

Rochester City Council members voted unanimously Tuesday night to maintain sanctuary status, which has been in place since 1986.

Since some leading trade union members of the NEC are known to favour circulating ballot papers to all levy papers — as was the previous practice — with votes being counted provided that levy - payers tick the box to opt into affiliated supporter status, the union influence may in fact not change so much from the process that selected Ken Livingstone.

Additionally, the term «whip» may mean the voting instructions issued to members by the whip [1], or the status of a certain legislator in their party's parliamentary grouping.

And yet, in 1996, as a member of the state assembly, Scott Stringer was one of only nineteen lawmakers who voted against stripping NAMBLA of its tax - exempt status, which it had received two years earlier using an innocuously named front group.

His colleagues voted him up from vice chairman of the Democratic Caucus to chairman, making him the fourth - ranked Democrat in the House, bolstering his status as the top New York member — and potentially positioning him to one day replace Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi.

No part of this Constitution shall be changed without the concurrence of two - thirds of the members and fellows present in a general session of the Southwestern Division, after written notice given at a general session of a preceding general meeting of the Southwestern Division, and all changes to become effective shall require ratification by the Executive Committee of the American Association; changes affecting the status of the Affiliated Socieites shall require an affirmative vote of the Affiliation Committee.

Beginning later this year, each new member's voting status will last 10 years, and will be renewed if that new member has been active in motion pictures during that decade.

Nonchargeable activities: lobbying and ballot initiatives; external public relations; litigation, «unless specifically related to collective bargaining, contract administration or organizational maintenance»; get - out - the - vote activities; contributing to charitable, religious, or ideological causes; supporting political organizations or candidates for public office; organizing or recruiting new members and «defending against challenges to exclusive bargaining representative status»; and «monitoring and opposing activities of groups and individuals whose purpose is to undermine public education.»

School Board member Ed Hughes said that if the school opens privately in 2012, he would vote to approve charter status in 2013, when union contracts for teachers and staff members expire.

Those holding Regular membership status before the date of approval of this Section shall retain their Regular Member status with all rights and privileges, including voting.

Despite PrintMatters» launching during the worst recession since the Great Depression, what started with a small exhibition of work by the five founding artists has grown so much that in 2014, members voted to seek 501 (c)(3) nonprofit status so they could pursue grants and expand programming.

The Holy See has Permanent Observer Status at the United Nations, a non-member status that provides access but not full voting privileges granted to full meStatus at the United Nations, a non-member status that provides access but not full voting privileges granted to full mestatus that provides access but not full voting privileges granted to full members.

PBGS members voted to reject four subpopulation estimates used in the 2015 Red List polar bear status review — even though the inclusion of those numbers was required in order for the Red List status of «vulnerable» to be upheld.

ALEC's own leaked documents confirm it has lost at least 60 corporate members and 400 legislative members, thanks to ALEC's role in pushing Stand Your Ground laws and Voter ID legislation that keeps people with social minority status away from the voting booth.

This status would enable those «who feel and wish to be part of the European project but are nationals of a former Member State... the rights of freedom of movement and to reside on its territory as well as being represented in the Parliament through a vote in the European elections».

The decision was made by the GMREB Board of Directors on Friday, after a vote by members «overwhelmingly» rejected the status quo, says board president Patrick Juanéda.

The 72 % of the GMREB member Realtors who voted against the status quo with CREA reflects positively on the 63 % who voted nation - wide in a REM poll earlier wherein that 63 % voted to leave CREA.