Sentences with phrase «voting rules gave»

But their collective screaming eventually scared the daylights out of the Street, which suddenly realized that CCAA voting rules gave each and every one of the estimated 2,000 average Canadians caught up in this mess as much say in approving any restructuring as any institutional investor with billions of dollars at stake.

Not exact matches

Political analyst Boban Stojanovic believes the publicity given to convicted war criminals is a ploy by the ruling party to «gain some political points» ahead of the vote.

The House three - day rule was part of Republicans» 2010 «Pledge to America,» in which they promised to give «at least three days to read the bill before a vote.»

Election rules give the center - left a solid majority in the lower house, despite its slim advantage in terms of votes, but without the Senate it will not be able to pass legislation.

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 Byrd Rule most immediately threatens the Cruz proposal that is designed to give conservatives a win on Obamacare's insurance regulations — a compromise that might be essential for the bill to get 51 votes.

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Given that troubled history, the idea that a fellow «Celtic nation» that had also spent part of the medieval period fighting English invaders, and been garrisoned by English troops in the eighteenth century, might have the opportunity in the course of a single day's voting to rebuff the rule of Westminster, was welcomed and celebrated in the expectation that the Scots would give «perfidious Albion» a bloody nose and put an end to the Union.

The board also voted to amend the Park District's rules to give full spousal benefits to people who have entered into civil unions.

While the exact rules vary from state to state, essentially a voter is voting for a set of electors chosen by the party, and the most votes for a given party / candidate selects that set of electors, so where there is winner takes all, the set of electors is equal to the total number of electors for that state

That effectively rules the investigation out, given Labour has already made clear it will vote it down wherever possible in its bid to have a judge - led inquiry.

The electoral rules in Australia require that if you vote below the line you are required to give a preference ordering to every candidate on the list.

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.

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.

Symbols of the ruling party and the president — including pagnes (clothing fabric / tissue) decorated with RDPC insignia and the face of the president, campaign T - shirts from every campaign of the last 25 years (given free of charge to Cameroonians as an impetus to vote for Biya), official Biya portraits in every public office, campaign posters in private homes and businesses, billboards of Biya's grinning face at the entrances and exists of most towns — abound.

It is also surprising that the Liberal Democrats, given their interest in constitutional reform and the possibility of federal approaches to «home rule all round» have not sought to have a stronger public voice on English representation since the Scottish vote.

Ministers had thought a ruling by the European Court of Human Rights would force them to give prisoners the vote only in Westminster or European parliamentary elections.

As noted in a previous post, this follows rule changes turning the Labour leadership contest into a fully «one member one vote» process, and giving voting rights to «supporters» who signed up for just # 3.

One of the most troubling aspects of the European Court ruling is that it opens the door to the possibility of serious offenders being given the vote.

Mujuru is believed to be planning to form a new party to contest the next elections, but given ZANU - PF's record of vote rigging analysts say the real battle for power lies within the ruling party itself.

He argues that if Balls is to vote for the fiscal rules set out in Osborne's new code on fiscal stability, the shadow chancellor will have to give details of the big tax increases he will have to impose to get the current account into balance.

Given that M Ps were to be given a free vote on the issue, correctly in my view, there could be no question that this would set party policy on the topic — and it is doubtful whether this could ever be legitimate as this form of exercise is not one that appears in the rules as part of the policy making process as far as I canGiven that M Ps were to be given a free vote on the issue, correctly in my view, there could be no question that this would set party policy on the topic — and it is doubtful whether this could ever be legitimate as this form of exercise is not one that appears in the rules as part of the policy making process as far as I cangiven a free vote on the issue, correctly in my view, there could be no question that this would set party policy on the topic — and it is doubtful whether this could ever be legitimate as this form of exercise is not one that appears in the rules as part of the policy making process as far as I can see.

Their flier, «An Open Letter to Marty Golden: I voted for you, but you let us down,» called Golden on his promises to support education, telling him that «buying stuff» for schools was not enough given his opposition to extending the millionaire's tax and his support for ending seniority layoff rules.

Just hours earlier, the State Assembly had voted to give residents living in the city's 1 million rent regulated apartments a brief reprieve - pushing back the expiration of the rules until Friday while they hammer out a deal.

At the legislature's Rules Committee in Mineola on Monday, Minority Leader Kevan Abrahams (D - Freeport) told legislators it would be «reckless» for the county to continue voting on contracts, given the Skelos case.

It's also unclear whether Democrats could take charge in the middle of the legislative session, given a rule passed that a vote of 38 senators is required to change leadership.

The I.D.C. announced they were forming a ruling coalition with the Senate's Republican conference in December of 2012, an arrangement that gave I.D.C. members more power and financial resources, and gave the G.O.P. the votes needed to retain control of the chamber, which they've held for most of the past 50 years, despite Democrats» overwhelming registration advantage statewide.

I'm pretty sure this isn't allowed by Reddit's policies given it's a form of «vote cheating» (albeit the rules are oddly shaky for a blanket Upvote).

This is much rarer in the House than in the Senate given that the very nature of plurality voting provides House landslides to most ruling governments.

In 1989, the Supreme Court declared the Board of Estimate unconstitutional, because it violated the one - person one - vote rule by giving New York's least - populous borough, Staten Island, as much power as its most populous borough, Brooklyn.

Senate majority leader Dean Skelos cast doubt on whether he would bring the bill to the floor for a vote, given his unwillingness to do de Blasio any political favors, but the bill was finally reported from the rules committee and is now awaiting a vote on the Senate floor.

Under GOP rules, the party's designation for governor is given to the candidate who receives more than 50 percent of the weighted vote.

A majority of elections officials at the winter Elections Commissioners Association conference in January voted to request that the Legislature move the primary date to give them more time to comply with the overseas and military ballot rules.

Hartman ruled the Democrat gave up his New York residency when he registered to vote in Washington, D.C. in 2014.

Colleagues attacked Mr Miliband after his 2014 shake - up of Labour's rules - which included giving people a one - off «registered supporter» vote - prompted an influx of left - wingers.

After the grand council upheld that ruling Dominic Grieve, who was then shadow attorney general, said it would be «ludicrous» to give prisoners the right to vote.

To officially endorse any campaign, we would need to follow the rules we established in our bylaws for fairness to all candidates: we need to invite candidates to meet with our members, then give members a chance to vote on an endorsement.

It is thought to be unlikely to give the public a formal say through a share of the votes or American - style primaries, which would require a change of rules and delay the contest.

The government is set to scale back plans to give the right to vote to thousands of prisoners, in continued defiance of a European court ruling.

The government looks set to ignore a European Court ruling by refusing to give tens of thousands of prisoners, jailed for four years or less, the right to vote.

John Hirst, who was convicted of manslaughter, explains Parliament has no choice but to give the vote to all prisoners to comply with a European ruling.

In March 2017, the US legislature voted to repeal Obama - era rules that would have prevented ISPs from selling personal information to third parties and given users more power over what information they shared with ISPs.

On 13 April, the Texas Medical Board voted to accept rules intended to give doctors «a reasonable and responsible degree of latitude» in using experimental stem cell therapies.

Given how persuasively the case was argued, the shock is that the Supreme Court ruling only won by one vote.

A bi-partisan vote in the legislature reversed the ruling, but WEA union executives haven't given up.

Motorsport Manager gives you full access to the running of a motor racing operation: car development, staff negotiations, driver scouting and contract discussion, sponsorship, team factory development, livery editor, press interviews, voting on rule changes and managing general finances — all of that before what happens at the race weekends themselves.

The court's ruling empowered local communities to have the final say in mining projects on their land, and gave village councils from the Niyamgiri Hills the right to vote on the Vedanta mine.

Given that there is a section that they can have the (718.303 subsection 5) voting right revoked, is there a similar rule that prevents them from holding office?

Should the OSC incorporate majority voting into new rules, she wants to see that discretion removed to give full effect to the shareholder vote.

If his strategy was to seek to divide and rule, it may have backfired given the outcome of the CBA vote.