Sentences with phrase «voting rules do»

It's an important change, because many boards now following the TSX's voting rules do take advantage of this loophole: in 2015, 21 directors got majority withholds, and in 16 of the cases, boards used the exemption rule to keep the director.

Last year, NBR was 6/10 on the eventual Oscar nominees, so these will likely be the movies to be paying attention to (though the 5 % first place vote rule does throw a spanner in the works).

Not exact matches

The lawsuit says Wisconsin is violating the U.S. Supreme Court's 2000 Bush v. Gore ruling because it doesn't have uniform standards to determine which votes should be counted in a recount.

Now local legislatures can make such changes without explanation, and it's up to voters to try to challenge them in lawsuits, and to do so often on an tight timetable, since courts won't want to change voting rules close to an election.

As a rule, Milner has said he doesn't take board seats in his later - stage investments, and rarely requires founders to hand over voting shares when issuing company stock.

Tencent Music, however, has decided to go for a U.S. listing as Spotify is listed there and Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing's (HKEX) newly introduced rules do not allow corporate entities to benefit from weighted voting rights for now, according to IFR.

If you are a beneficial owner of shares held in street name and do not provide the organization that holds your shares with specific voting instructions then, under applicable rules, the organization that holds your shares may generally vote your shares in their discretion on «routine» matters but can not vote on «non-routine» matters.

If you are a beneficial holder and do not provide specific voting instructions to your broker, under a recent rule change the organization that holds your shares will not be authorized to vote on the election of directors.

Because of a change in New York Stock Exchange rules, unlike previous annual meetings, your broker will NOT be able to vote your shares with respect to the election of directors if you have not given your broker specific instructions to do so.

The separation, which does not require a shareholder vote, remains subject to market conditions, customary regulatory approvals, an affirmative ruling from the US Internal Revenue Service, the execution of separation and intercompany agreements, and final board approval.

If you do not provide such instructions by that time, your Shares will be voted by the Retirement Plans Committee of the respective plan in accordance with the rules of the applicable plan.

«The election rules did not prohibit proxy voting.

Vice Chancellor Strine went on to explain, however, that a corporation may in fact opt out of the default voting — and nominating — rules of state law, provided it does so clearly and unambiguously:

As a result of changes adopted by the NYSE to its broker voting rules, including changes mandated by the Dodd - Frank Act in connection with stockholder votes on executive compensation matters, the NYSE does not consider the election of directors (Item 1), the advisory resolution regarding named executives» compensation (Item 2), and the advisory proposal on the frequency of future advisory votes regarding named executives» compensation (Item 3) to be routine.

Senate Finance Committee aides said they planned to make adjustments to the legislation because it probably does not comply with the rules for a special Senate procedure they hope to use to pass the bill with 50 votes, rather than the 60 votes typically needed to beat a filibuster.

The reconciliation bill also initially delayed but did not repeal the so - called «Cadillac tax» on high - cost insurance plans to avoid revenue loss outside the budget window, but an amendment repealing it was adopted by an overwhelming bipartisan vote and no Byrd rule challenge was raised despite its deficit impact.

Once again, all the conservative votes in the country «ain't» going to help a «pro-life» presidential candidate, i.e Rick Perry, Mitt Romney, Jon Huntsman, Michele Bachmann, Herman Cain, Ron Paul or Rick Santorum, in 2012 as the «Immoral Majority» rules the country and will be doing so for awhile.

A university rule that permits anyone to run for any office does NOT exempt the person from needing to convince the majority of the membership to vote for that person to serve as its leader.

Once again, all the conservative votes in the country «ain't» going to help a «pro-life» presidential candidate, i.e Mitt Romney, in 2012 as the «Immoral Majority» rules the country and will be doing so for awhile.

To all this, I say too bad; churches have to play by the rules — all of them — whether they like them or not, and as long as they're being subsidized, they don't get a vote about it.

Once again, all the conservative votes in the country «ain't» going to help a «pro-life» presidential candidate, i.e Rick Perry, Mitt Romney, Jon Huntsman, Michele Bachmann, Newton Leroy Gingrich, Ron Paul or Rick Santorum, in 2012 as the «Immoral Majority» rules the country and will be doing so for awhile.

U.S. opposition to the ICC is of a piece with its vote a year earlier against the treaty to ban antipersonnel land - mines, its refusal to pay UN dues, its economic sanctions on allies that do business in Cuba, and its implicit foreign policy of demanding a «superpower exemption» from international rules.

Even more sad republicans did not win the election putting them in govt such election win gained came via massive voting fraud / coupled with the corrupt ruling of an supreme court decision / awarding them victory.

Once again, all the conservative votes in the country «ain't» going to help a «pro-life» presidential candidate, i.e Mitt Romney, Newton Leroy Gingrich, Ron Paul or Rick Santorum (exit right), in 2012 as the «Immoral Majority» rules the country and will be doing so for awhile.

While we all should and do tolerate and accept each others right to worship, the majority should rule, just as in voting, as in democracy and in life.

The founding fathers did intend that the state would not establish a church — they never came up with rules disqualifying people from voting based on their religion.

Just now, by a vote of five to four the Supreme Court of the United States ruled that same - sex couples may now marry in all 50 states, striking down the bans of states who have attempted do so.

Nowhere in the Bible do God, Jesus, or the Prophets advocate: 1) Democracy 2) consent of the governed 3) government by the people and for the people 4) the right to vote and choose our representatives, etc. etc.THESE human rights were won by BRAVE SECULAR FORCES that tore down and broke up the POWER OF THE CHURCH to rule our lives and oppress us.

Once again, all the conservative votes in the country «ain't» going to help a «pro-life» presidential candidate, i.e Mitt Romney, Newton Leroy Gingrich, Ron Paul or Rick Santorum, in 2012 as the «Immoral Majority» rules the country and will be doing so for awhile.

In the cutthroat world of F1 teams will do pretty much anything to gain even the tiniest advantage over each other, whether it's by pestering stewards for a rival to get a penalty, or voting for rule changes which benefit themselves over the greater good.

This sort of thing is always going to happen when teams are allowed to have a say in the rules because obviously, they'll vote against anything which doesn't benefit them.

More fun still is identifying those players who apparently didn't grasp that the rules prohibit voting for one's fellow countrymen.

But such approval doesn't prohibit the judges from voting their own opinions, and Bordogna cited ISU figure skating rule No. 3.42, which provides that ice dancing must be adaptable to a dance floor as well as a skating rink.

Don't forget this,» said Rummenigge, as Bayern were one of four parties that voted for the abolishment of the 50 +1 rule in order to open up the league to outside investors and with the hope that fresh money would raise the level of competition in the Bundesliga for Bayern.

I think our members of Congress, who will be voting on any proposed changes to school meal rules this year, should take note of the fact that the overwhelming majority of people surveyed don't want school meal regulations weakened.

Mr Nkansah added: «If he doesn't know, he should check the constitution and he'll realize that minority rules the country but they are voted into power by the majority of Ghanaians.

The reason a «Nay» vote is required to change the rules this way, is because the Senator casting it is saying «No, I don't like the existing rule».

Then, there is normally a moment of «fear»: «oh yeah, I was going to vote for that people but now they are leading the polls, so let's take it more seriously: do I really want them to rule the country?

So the rules provide for senators whose opinion has changed to motion for another vote, whereas those whose opinion stays the same don't get to keep filing to reconsider.

Madam Faustina Nelson, a leading member of the the ruling National Democratic Congress» (NDC) has asked Ghanaians to vote massively for John Dramani Mahama for him to continue with the good works he's doing for Ghana.

«I did not drop out of this process even as many reported various vote totals and withdrawn candidacies because I think, in this crisis, it is essential that all members of the state Legislature examine our rules and look closely at proposals for reform and openness,» Nolan said.

A high vote share doesn't mean much under First Past the Post electoral rules.

In the U.S. Senate, the filibuster allows a single senator to effectively block a vote by way of the senate rules that allow for unlimited debate, but now, the senate rules have somehow been modified so that to invoke filibuster you don't even need to actually have «debate» where you do silly things like read names from the telephone book to keep the debate going.

Following the sentence, some sympathizers of the ruling National Democratic decided to rain curses on President John Mahama and other leading members of the party for not intervening in the saga and have vowed vote out the party if it didn't engineer the release of the Montie trio.

But the DRC has rules and procedures, and one of them is that candidates who don't pre-interview don't get voted on at the straw poll — no matter who they are or how popular they might be.

Wikipedia says that the filibuster in the United States Senate is a Senate rule that allows a senator to talk as long as he does not give up the floor, unless a special vote is taken to stop debate.

If Russia denies the Crimeans to vote, then the EU / USA will vilify Russia because it suppresses the opinion of the Crimeans and it shows that Russia is afraid of a vote which will show that the Crimeans do not want to be ruled by Russia.

According to the ’09 change, a hearing must be held within two weeks unless the majority of Rules members (read: Republicans) vote not to do so.

In the U.S. Senate, the Senate rules apparently do not apply to the first day of a new Senate session until the rules are voted in by a simple majority.

assuming Democrats are elected to those two vacancies, it would give elected Democrats 32 votes, presumably enough to form a majority or at least try to do so by changing the Senate rules.