Sentences with phrase «voting power in»

Obviously Malloy intends on benefiting the inner cities, the major source of his voting power in the state at the detriment of the small towns which didn't elect him.

«At the 1906 state convention, for instance, party delegates were quite willing to trade, sell, or exchange their voting power in return for various forms of remuneration from the party machine.

A fifth district was added last year following a federal court ruling that determined Albany had diluted minority voting power in its 2011 redistricting map.

[T] he redistricting plan illegally diluted black and Hispanic voting power in two congressional districts... The State of Texas has not met its burden in showing that the proposed congressional redistricting plan does not have a discriminatory effect.

After an election, governments have to appoint more peers to increase their voting power in the Lords.

The chance that that tiny sliver of extra voting power in the legislative body itself will be the deciding factor on an issue you care about is incredibly small.

My proposed system would actually retain a local representative but adjust their voting power in parliament to match the support they have from their constituency.

* Correction — average upstate voter will have almost 8 % MORE voting power in the Senate than the average downstate voter.

This means that in LATFOR's proposal the average upstate voter will have almost 8 % less voting power in the Senate than the downstate voter.

Canadian dairy giant Saputo, which has made an unconditional $ 515 million takeover bid for Warrnambool Cheese and Butter, said it now holds 3.73 per cent of voting power in Australia's oldest dairy maker.

The new government should not just amend the timelines for the next commission, it should amend the Act to empower the commission to draw fair electoral boundaries that will ensure more effective representation and equality of the voting power in Alberta.

The first is a familiar one: A shareholder group asked Alphabet to scrap its dual - voting structure, proposed four years ago, that clumps most voting power in Class B shares, which are primarily owned by Google co-founders and Alphabet chiefs Larry Page and Sergey Brin.

Instead, the co-founders of Snap and existing private shareholders will retain all voting power in the newly public company.

Here's the catch: Diller's plan, filed Wednesday, would reduce Liberty's voting power in the new companies from 62 percent to 30 percent.

Ek and fellow Spotify co-founder Martin Lorentzon together control more than 80 percent of the voting power in the company.

Ek will retain 37 percent voting power in Spotify regardless of how many of the newly registered shares he sells.

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Not exact matches

Microcap fund manager Acorn Capital has increased its stake in listed Perth - based financial planning firm Plan B Group Holdings to control almost 10 per cent of the voting power.

In November 2009, Facebook's board of directors voted to establish a dual - class stock structure, moving the existing shareholders stock from Class A to Class B shares, which carry 10 times the voting power.

This followed the news in Germany the chairman of the industrial gas group Linde is ready to use his voting powers to approve a $ 65 billion merger with the U.S. rival Praxair.

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.»

Shareholders will now have one vote per share, ending a class of supervoting shares in a move that substantially decreases the power of Kalanick and some other early investors.

«What has changed is that while there used to be a modicum of congressional bargaining across major policy developments, the party in power now tries to pass legislation on straight party - line votes,» says Mr. Jillson.

But his fragile grip on power will be tested again in the coming weeks when the Senate, where he has only a wafer - thin majority, votes on financing Italy's military presence in Afghanistan, a mission opposed by some leftist senators.

Federal judges found more problems in Texas» voting rights laws, ruling that Republicans racially gerrymandered some congressional districts to weaken the growing electoral power of minorities, who former President Barack Obama set out to protect at the ballot box before leaving office.

The day before shareholders voted 99.8 % in favour of the merger, Canadian Business sat down for an exclusive interview with the power brokers behind Bay Street's most recent high - profile partnership to discuss the deal, investment banking, the economy and life on the Street.

Being seen to be tough on crime was an assured vote winner in the past, but recent setbacks to the government's stop and search powers have shifted the debate.

Moon estimated that in 16 states with a total of 278 votes in the Electoral College, «the Negro, in a close election, may hold the balance of power.»

The power behind Fink's threat to enforce his views hinges, in part, on the standard of one share, one vote — that shareholders» voting power is based on the number of shares they own in a given company rather than the votes of entrenched founders or early investors.

Some Republican state Senators were recalled in Wisconsin for voting to curb union power, but Republican Governor Scott Walker survived a recall effort against him.

That means that Zynga will no longer be a «controlled company» with a dual class stock structure in which Pincus wields 70 % of the voting power.

No growth no votes - no votes no interest from any political party in power.

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.

Jordan also points out that in 1998, New Belgium's workers voted to convert to 100 percent wind power, even though the move meant cutting into raises and bonuses.

According to the New York Times, Khosrowshahi brought a proposal, co-authored by Goldman Sachs, to board members on Thursday that would, among other things, rein in Kalanick's voting power.

«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.

In this one lunch alone, we covered electric cars, climate change, artificial intelligence, the Fermi Paradox, consciousness, reusable rockets, colonizing Mars, creating an atmosphere on Mars, voting on Mars, genetic programming, his kids, population decline, physics vs. engineering, Edison vs. Tesla, solar power, a carbon tax, the definition of a company, warping spacetime and how this isn't actually something you can do, nanobots in your bloodstream and how this isn't actually something you can do, Galileo, Shakespeare, the American forefathers, Henry Ford, Isaac Newton, satellites, and ice ageIn this one lunch alone, we covered electric cars, climate change, artificial intelligence, the Fermi Paradox, consciousness, reusable rockets, colonizing Mars, creating an atmosphere on Mars, voting on Mars, genetic programming, his kids, population decline, physics vs. engineering, Edison vs. Tesla, solar power, a carbon tax, the definition of a company, warping spacetime and how this isn't actually something you can do, nanobots in your bloodstream and how this isn't actually something you can do, Galileo, Shakespeare, the American forefathers, Henry Ford, Isaac Newton, satellites, and ice agein your bloodstream and how this isn't actually something you can do, Galileo, Shakespeare, the American forefathers, Henry Ford, Isaac Newton, satellites, and ice ages.

In tabulating the voting result for any particular proposal, shares that constitute broker non-votes are not considered voting power present with respect to that proposal.

By allowing certain stock to have more voting power than other stock our company takes our public shareholder money but does not let us have an equal voice in our company's management.

If, for example, our existing shareholders retain a significant portion of their holdings of Class B common stock for an extended period of time, they could, in the future, continue to control a majority of the combined voting power of our outstanding capital stock.

Canadians did not vote to see government power used to carry out a mandate written by the oil patch in the interests of a single province.

Such conversions of Class B common stock to Class A common stock upon transfer will have the effect, over time, of increasing the relative voting power of those holders of Class B common stock who retain their shares in the long term.

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.

q Proxy Solicited by the Board of Directors for the Annual Meeting of Stockholders — April 26, 2016 Virginia M. Rometty, Martin J. Schroeter, Michelle M. Browdy and Christina M. Montgomery, or any of them with the power of substitution, are hereby appointed Proxies of the undersigned to vote all common stock of International Business Machines Corporation owned on the record date by the + undersigned at the Annual Meeting of Stockholders to be held in the Savannah International Trade & Convention Center, One International Drive, Hutchinson Island, Savannah, Georgia 31402, at 10 a.m. on Tuesday, April 26, 2016, or any adjournment or postponement thereof.

We have a long way to go, but by organizing people in their home communities, building voting blocs in key ridings, mobilizing around key decisions, slowly reframing big stories and fighting to lock in systemic changes, we are fundamentally re-balancing power in British Columbia.

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 clasIn 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 clasin 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.

European Union and Asian governments are frustrated that the U.S. Congress has held up a reform of voting rights in the International Monetary Fund that would give China and other emerging powers more say in global economic governance.

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.

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.