Sentences with phrase «voting power as»

Only when Labour candidates are confident they can appeal to a representative mix of voters, and only when Labour MPs don't try to defend the idea of people in the Wirral having nearly twice as much voting power as those in Bristol, only then will the party have truly turned a corner.
Holmes owns a class of stock that has 100 times the voting power as other shares.

Not exact matches

When I ask Estonian President Kersti Kaljulaid where she voted in last November's elections, which brought her to power, she responds as if my question is dumb: «From my computer at home.»
The reason for Snap owners» hyper - strong control As Snap prepares for an IPO, investors wonder why founders Evan Spiegel and Bobby Murphy will hold virtually total voting power.
Given Cameron's role as a relentless champion for «remain,» even a close vote could force him from power or turn him into a lame duck.
King wrote that when acting as a federal prosecutor, Sessions used his power to «chill the free exercise of the vote by black citizens.»
And, he says, Hunter and his army of retail investors did nothing that hasn't been repeatedly done by investment bankers, bondholders and hedge funds during other CCAAs, such as the restructuring of Hamilton steelmaker Stelco, where self - serving parties threatened the future of thousands of workers in order to turn a profit after buying voting power from scared creditors.
Mr Leever's resignation as managing director means that he relinquishes voting power but is still accountable to the board.
«10 - Percent Stockholder» means an individual who owns more than 10 % of the total combined voting power of all classes of outstanding stock of the Company or of its parent corporation or subsidiary corporation (as defined in Code Sections 424 (e) and (f)-RRB-.
In such filing, The Vanguard Group lists its address as 100 Vanguard Blvd., Malvern, PA 19355, and indicates that it has sole voting power with respect to 10,208,579 shares of Apple's common stock, sole dispositive power with respect to 322,573,028 shares of Apple's common stock, and shared dispositive power with respect to 332,239,563 shares of Apple's common stock.
Following completion of this offering, the Principal Stockholders will control more than 50 % of the combined voting power of our common stock, so under current listing standards, we would qualify as a «controlled company» and accordingly, will be exempt from requirements to have a majority of independent directors, a fully independent nominating and corporate governance committee and a fully independent compensation committee.
Your proxy authorizes Michael J. Loughlin, James M. Strother, and Julie M. White, and each of them, with full power of substitution, as proxies, to vote your shares in the same manner as if you had voted your shares in person at the Annual Meeting.
The reforms would double the fund's resources and hand more IMF voting power to countries such as the BRICS - Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa.
In addition, each share of our Class B common stock will convert automatically into one share of our Class A common stock upon any transfer, whether or not for value, except for transfers to existing holders of Class B common stock and certain other transfers described in our amended and restated certificate of incorporation, or upon the affirmative vote of a majority of the voting power of the outstanding shares of our Class B common stock, voting separately as a class.
Furthermore, investors purchasing shares of our Class A common stock in this offering will only own approximately % of our outstanding shares of Class A and Class B common stock (and have % of the combined voting power of the outstanding shares of our Class A and Class B common stock), after the offering even though their aggregate investment will represent % of the total consideration received by us in connection with all initial sales of shares of our capital stock outstanding as of September 30, 2010, after giving effect to the issuance of shares of our Class A common stock in this offering and shares of our Class A common stock to be sold by certain selling stockholders.
If you vote by Internet, telephone, or mail, you authorize, as applicable, the 401 (k) Plan trustee or the Stock Purchase Plan custodian to designate Michael J. Loughlin, James M. Strother, and Julie M. White, and each of them, with full power of substitution, as proxies, to vote your shares as you instruct at the Annual Meeting.
If you vote by Internet, telephone, or mail, you authorize, as applicable, the 401 (k) Plan trustee or the Stock Purchase Plan custodian to designate Patricia R. Callahan, Michael J. Loughlin, and James M. Strother, and each of them, with full power of substitution, as proxies, to vote the shares as you instruct at the Annual Meeting.
The minutes, published almost two weeks after the decision, have as a result lost some of their previous power to drive sentiment though the voting pattern will always be of interest.
Accordingly, the voting power afforded to the Continuing LLC Owners through their shares of Class B common stock is automatically and correspondingly reduced as they exchange LLC Units for shares of Class A common stock pursuant to the Exchange Agreement described below.
Accordingly, the voting power afforded to the Continuing LLC Owners by their shares of Class B common stock is automatically and correspondingly reduced as they exchange LLC Units and Class B common stock for shares of the our Class A common stock pursuant to the Exchange Agreement.
Alice L. Walton, Jim C. Walton and S. Robson Walton share voting and dispositive power with respect to all Shares held by Walton Enterprises, LLC, individually as managing members of Walton Enterprises, LLC, and in their capacities as co-trustees of the John T. Walton Estate Trust, which is also a managing member of Walton Enterprises, LLC.
Dogwood's Strategy Director Will Horter reflects on this historic day It looks like British Columbians may finally get a government ready to fight for what's right in B.C. Today, Christy Clark announced her intention to bring back the B.C. legislature as soon as possible in June, face a confidence vote and hand over power to -LSB-...]
I guess the lesson of Travis Kalanick's resignation as chief executive officer of Uber Technologies Inc. is that you can be the visionary founder of a massive company, stay private to avoid the pressures of the public market, keep control of a majority of the voting power of the shares, and still be forced out in a boardroom coup led by activist shareholders:
As we watch the videos of families crying in Florida we can not comprehend how those voted into power — who hold positions where they are able to create change — continually choose unrestricted gun rights over children's lives.
As such, SL Group may be deemed to have beneficial ownership of the securities over which any of the Silver Lake Entities has voting or dispositive power.
Additionally, there are concerns about the governance of the tokens, as detailed in the ICO white paper, and the voting power of the TON Foundation set up to manage the reserve tokens kept by Telegram.MIT professor Christian Catalini previously told CoinDesk that the company should clarify details of its plans, adding that: «Investors should evaluate the capacity of any team to execute on their plan and vision, as well as the protections they have if things go wrong.»
Additionally, there are concerns about the governance of the tokens, as detailed in the ICO white paper, and the voting power of the TON Foundation set up to manage the reserve tokens kept by Telegram.
As a U.S. company, its pay vote is advisory, not binding; moreover the company's share class structure means that approval is effectively assured, with founders» Class B shares carrying ten times the voting power of ordinary Class A. Nonetheless, opposition has been bubbling up, with an amendment to the company's stock plan generating a 28 % against vote at the 2016 AGM.
Since then the ruling BC Liberal party received a vote of non-confidence and the BC NDP, led by John Horgan as premier, has taken power.
The people who are furious about the closure of the Edmonton City Centre Airport or annoyed about the funding of the Art Gallery of Alberta are unlikely to vote for the same candidate as the people angry over the Capital Power - Epcor decision.
Even the UN Security Council, which offers to its members the «best way to protect their own sovereign rights and national interests» by exercising the veto power, counts the votes of an absent member as an abstention.
The destruction of the voting assemblies of the eastern cities, which came about as a consequence of their inclusion in the empire, effectively left competition in the practice of benefactions as the only means by which the civic elites could compete for power in their localities; and success in this was dependent upon attaining the patronage of the man who sat at the top of the social pyramid.
But, he adds, «woe to us if we forget the homeless ones who have no vote, no power, nobody to lobby for them, who might as well have no faces.
He then goes on to praise E. D. Hirsch's Cultural Literacy as a more useful critique of current educational practices because it works in «the framework of a Deweyan understanding of democracy» in which students are to be made better citizens by preparing them to «recognize more allusions, and thereby be able to take part in more conversations, read more, have more sense of what those in power are up to, cast better - informed votes.
It is all about hiding, disguising the truth until it becomes of the past just as that as did that unlawful country was recognized by the USA with out the UN majority vote and UN members were to face the Reality that the USA is taking advantage of her majority states and voting power rather than the majority of the UN member countries no matter how small or poor they are although at that time the majority of member countries were under occoupation or protection of USA and Allies and after the WW1 & 2!
A clear example of this dependence of justice upon social power is the achievement of voting rights for such minority groups as Negroes.
The «power of words» jumped up a few places on the chart and peaked as the fourth most - popular topic (behind voting, marriage, and forgiveness) following the release of the Access Hollywood clip portraying Trump's crude remarks on women last month.
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.
I would like to vote Republican but my fear of closed minded bible thumpers who want to set back our education system, social reforms, free thought and our culture as a whole, outweighs my fear of skyrocketing national debt, slow economic growth and higher taxes (incidentally higher taxes are coming no matter who is in power.
Actually, we do have a say as we have the power of the vote and the power of our representatives in Congress.
Actually, on election day, instead of voting, I am going to invoke the power of prayer and spend the day praying as I know that this will get more people out to the polls to vote for Mitt Romney.
Thus the Vestries in America soon gained effective control of the spirituals as well as the temporals of the churches, largely through assuming power to hire and set the salary of the clergyman, plus a studied neglect of presenting him to the Governor for permanent induction into the «living» until forced to do so.14 «In 1697 the Arch - bishop of Canterbury expressed surprise that the clergymen might «be removed like domestic servants by a vote of the Vestry,»»15 but obviously neither he nor anyone could do anything about it.
Then, writers who do think all of those players belong have the same voting rights and power as those who vote for one player each winter.
As Las Vegas does not allow odds on any election or award that is voted upon, ironically it is Irish sportsbook Paddy Power widely considered to the premier source for election odds, not just in the -LSB-...]
As Las Vegas does not allow odds on any election or award that is voted upon, ironically it is Irish sportsbook Paddy Power widely considered to the premier source for election odds, not just in the US, but around the world.
From short term voting gigs with national brands to attending local events to working as a founding member of a new blogging network, I wouldn't be where I am today if it hadn't been for the support and networking power of my local blogging friends.
Now we do not see personal power or wealth as being a criterion for who should get to vote --- it is a right.
As managers of the household, women assert a crucial degree of power within the family and local community structures, including over voting decisions.
But DUP MPs have notoriously poor attendance records and at least one senior Lib Dem MP believes the party could hold the «balance of power» for votes on areas of mutual interest, such as housebuilding.
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