Sentences with phrase «voting practice well»

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Some voters in Jefferson County ended up crossing party lines to cast their ballots for who they thought was the best candidate in each of the races — defying the practice of party line voting in an election that showed a deep red - blue political divide.
It's a good moment to reshape our business and merge our best practices,» Bouchard says in the wake of the MLS vote.
The Board will continue to monitor legislative and regulatory developments regarding advisory vote regulation and legislation, as well as best practices for companies both inside and outside the financial services industry.
«Many institutional investors already view majority voting as good practice and frown upon companies who have yet to implement,» says Monteiro.
With the growth of organizations focused on best practice and spread of stewardship codes, more investors are choosing to disclose proxy voting activity even beyond regulatory mandate.
«These new remuneration profiles will help users to quickly identify whether a company's pay practices are well aligned with company performance, informing our clients» proxy voting and engagement efforts.»
Well, go ahead and vote for the Romney - Ryan ticket and you will find out how «intolerance of other ideas» will be practiced by our government.
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.
Following the practice of some oriental and Hellenistic kingdoms, the Roman Senate, after the time of Julius Caesar, was accustomed to vote the deification (consecratio) of dead emperors who had served well, and it became a regular custom for some witness to swear that when the dead emperor's pyre was ablaze he had seen the emperor's soul wing heavenward.
Members who voted unanimously to approve the Best Practice Guideline, which was ratified in the version that can be found by clicking here.
However, if they had voted for Gore (in spite of him actually being their second preference) then he would have won, and they would have got their second - best candidate, rather than their worst (well, Pat Buchanan ran in that election, so probably their second - worst in practice).
The problem with the second bullet point is that it's a good idea in theory but not usable in practice for two different reasons: (1) various cognitive biases would counteract your education from working when populist politically aligns with someone; (2) and conscious tactical choices would ensure that even those who are able to work around cognitive biases would still vote for that populist if they are aligned.
I would vote for most PR systems in a referendum, though (to complicate things) I think there is a good principled case for the type of compromise package I advocate, beyond the «it could happen in practice» pragmatic argument.
While some of this population surge is due to Hasidim, the traditionally garbed community whose cultural practices often lead to large families of 10 or more children (and whose neighborhoods voted more heavily for John McCain in 2008 than the State of Utah), the larger Orthodox Jewish population is experiencing explosive growth in New York City as well.
Queens Borough President Melinda Katz today praised members of the state Assembly who yesterday voted 132 to 0 in favor of legislation that would reform the governance structure of the Queens Library and require the Library to adopt best practice reforms aimed at increasing the transparency of the Library's operations.
Queens Borough President Melinda Katz today praised members of the state Senate who early this morning voted 59 to 1 in favor of a bill that would reform the governance structure of the Queens Library and require the Library to adopt best practice reforms aimed at increasing the transparency of the Library's operations.
But there are, every day, ways reporters can practice what they preach on getting facts and working transparently at all levels of government to better inform the voting public.
The ABI guidelines are not legally binding but are considered best practice and form the basis of shareholder voting decisions.
What is lacking in our electoral system is a strict adherence to global best practice in terms of voter education, sanctity of the ballot, a seamless collation of votes and a fast judicial process for those seeking redress.
It however urged INEC to improve on the electronic voting system in line with global best practices.
«We've adopted the best practices from other states and rejected the worst,» said Sen. Diane Savino, a member of the Independent Democratic Conference and the bill's sponsor, shortly before the committee vote.
On a uniform swing this level of support would still leave the Conservatives 9 seats short of an overall majority, though in practice it is likely that such a reverse in the positions of the parties would be accompanied by changes in the pattern of tactical voting, meaning that the Conservatives might well get an overall majority.
It's a consideration increasingly shared by European policymakers; new European legislation, to be voted on by parliament next September, would put in place stricter rules regulating animal welfare and better harmonize practices across Europe.
Jordan D. Metzl, MD is a nationally recognized sports medicine physician, best selling author, and fitness instructor who practices at Hospital for Special Surgery in New York City, voted annually as the top orthopedic hospital in the United States by US News and World Reports.
After the extraordinary success and acclaim that The Dark Knight received in 2008, many still believe that its failure to land a Best Picture nomination that year resulted in the Academy overhauling their entire Best Picture voting practices.
Becoming an E4E member costs # 500, and that provides a share of the profits and voting rights, plus access to an online members» portal and the opportunity to share best practice.
The contentious political discourse leading up to the votes largely ignored the research on best practices for educating English language learners, as well as the practical and pedagogical issues facing educators.
The board shall develop procedures and guidelines for revocation and renewal of a school's charter; provided, however, that a charter for a Horace Mann charter school shall not be renewed by the board without a majority vote of the school committee and local collective bargaining unit in the district where said charter school is located; provided, however, that a commonwealth charter shall not be renewed unless the board of trustees of the charter school has documented in a manner approved by the board that said commonwealth charter school has provided models for replication and best practices to the commissioner and to other public schools in the district where the charter school is located.
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Best Lawyers is based on an exhaustive peer - review survey in which more than 39,000 leading attorneys cast almost 3.1 million votes on the legal abilities of lawyers in their practice areas.
Because Best Lawyers is based on an exhaustive peer - review survey in which leading attorneys cast votes on the legal abilities of other lawyers in their practice areas, and because lawyers are not required or allowed to pay a fee to be listed, inclusion in Best Lawyers is considered a singular honor.
Commenting on the uncertainty caused by the UK's vote to leave the EU, Ballheimer said: «The outlook is obviously more uncertain, but our business isn't overly well concentrated by either geography or practice area and because our clients are facing legal uncertainty and will need us to help them through it, I think our business is resilient.
Choose one, and you then go to a topic page that features four standard sections: relevant forms for downloading, related vote language, «LeapLinks» to offsite articles on the topic, and a best practice summary providing an overview of the law.
It does this primarily through a database which it says contains more than 2,000 corporate terms and definitions, more than 800 legal forms, another 800 sample corporate votes, a collection of «best practices» guides, and links to outside sources of information.
Here was Roberts in April, questioning Deputy Solicitor General Neal Katyal's claim that Section 5 was still necessary because it still deters racially discriminatory voting practices: «Well, that's like the old — you know, it's the elephant whistle.
• Adoption of majority voting (already strong in 2011) will continue, becoming a generally accepted best practice in the next few years.
After 40 years building an iconic Canadian firm well known for its labour and employment practice as well as the home of former Prime Minister Jean Chrétien and others, partners of Heenan Blaikie voted Wednesday night to proceed with an «orderly wind - up» of the firm's operations.
Thank you for voting for the Havertown Law Offices of Daniel J. Siegel, LLC in the Delco's Best Lawyers poll in our major practice areas: Appellate; Personal Injury; Workers» Compensation.
The Best Lawyers in America ® 2014 (copyright 2013 by Woodward / White, Inc., of Aiken, SC) is based on a peer - review selection process in which almost 50,000 leading attorneys vote on the legal abilities of other lawyers in their practice areas.
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For the 24th edition of The Best Lawyers in America (2018) more than 58,000 leading attorneys cast more than 7.4 million votes on the legal abilities of other lawyers in their practice areas.
Best Lawyers is based solely on an exhaustive peer review survey, in which over 52,000 leading attorneys cast more than 5.5 million votes on the legal abilities of other lawyers in their practice areas.
Because Best Lawyers is based on an exhaustive peer - review survey in which more than 36,000 leading attorneys cast almost 4.4 million votes on the legal abilities of other lawyers in their practice areas, and because lawyers are not required or allowed to pay a fee to be listed, inclusion in Best Lawyers is considered a singular honor.
Lawyers who have previously been recognized with a «Best Lawyers» title can vote on nominees every year, so winning a «Best Lawyers» designation does indicate a degree of respect among your peers, and name - recognition in your practice area.
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The Best Lawyers in America ® 2015 is based on a peer - review selection process in which almost 50,000 leading attorneys vote on the legal abilities of other lawyers in their practice areas.
The annual Best Lawyers ranking is based on a peer - review survey in which more than 50,000 leading attorneys cast nearly five million votes on the legal abilities of other lawyers in their practice areas.
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