Sentences with phrase «voting rules if»

Trump, one day after introducing his nominee for the Supreme Court, urged Republicans in the Senate to make a major change to the chamber's voting rules if Judge Neil Gorsuch can't attract the necessary Democratic support to win confirmation.

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A couple days after the legislative vote, taxi drivers protested saying Uber needed to follow the same rules as taxi companies if it was going to offer the same service, local media reported.

They often disagreed, but the rule was that if two voted one way, that was it, and they moved on.

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.

It is not clear if the proposal would be compliant with legislative provisions or any future SEC rules regarding implementation of an advisory vote requirement.

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.

If the Floor Proposal is presented at the meeting, the proxy holders will have discretionary voting authority under Rule 14a - 4 (c) under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 with respect to the Floor Proposal and intend to exercise such discretion to vote AGAINST such proposal.

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If a majority of the Commission votes to move a proposed rule forward, it could appear on the SEC's website as early as April 18.

Unlike previous PC leadership races, according to recently changed party rules, if no candidate earns a majority of votes on the first ballot, only the first and second candidate move to the second ballot vote.

Under the default rule applicable to virtually every corporation in the United States, however, corporate directors are elected through a standard that guarantees that a director could be elected with even a single affirmative vote, even if that director's candidacy is opposed by the overwhelming majority of shareholders.

There would also be a 60 - vote point of order if the bill increased the deficit over the first five or first ten years, per the Senate «Pay as you go» (PAYGO) rule, unless the budget resolution repealed the Senate PAYGO rule or established an exception to it.

So... In theory, a Muslim could be elected president of Hillel, but that would require a majority of the membership to vote for that person AND if the Muslim president tried to impose any anti-Jewish rules, the membership can vote the person out of office.

If the mobs still ruled, we would have slavery still, women couldn't vote, etc. etc..

But simply put, if your leadership structure is such that it requires continual committee meetings that lead to business meetings where many people get to cast votes on the direction and decisions of the church and where Roberts Rules of Order trumps biblical spiritual authority, multi-site will most likely end in a train wreck!

Months before the Florida High School Athletic Association voted in late September to mandate soft headgear for girls lacrosse for the 2015 season, Stenersen told MomsTEAM that he believed it would be «highly irresponsible» for high school associations and youth leagues to focus solely on requiring increased protective equipment if it meant ignoring what Stenersen viewed as «the most critical component to a safer, more enjoyable lacrosse experience: requiring nationally - standardized, sport - specific training for coaches and officials as a fundamental qualification to assure that the boys» and girls» lacrosse is being taught (and the rules are being enforced) correctly.»

If you get bored you can create new mermaid treasure game rules, add to your collection of tiles with new mermaid - inspired actions, or make it a team game and vote on who completed each action the best.

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.

Though, if it were some measure generally opposed by the ruling majority and there were enough defections, then the missing 7 votes would have more of an impact on something not getting passed.

If you can tell them who they must vote for (which we'd agree most likely would be ruled out for direct elections) are they really electors?

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.

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.

If any delegate bound by these rules, state party rule or state law to vote for a presidential candidate at the national convention demonstrates support under Rule 40 for any person other than the candidate to whom he or she is bound, such support shall not be recognirule or state law to vote for a presidential candidate at the national convention demonstrates support under Rule 40 for any person other than the candidate to whom he or she is bound, such support shall not be recogniRule 40 for any person other than the candidate to whom he or she is bound, such support shall not be recognized.

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.

This scheme doesn't work out because there is a rule specifically made to frustrate it (§ 6 BWahlG, subsection 1, second sentence; in German): If a constituency is won by an independent candidate, the party votes (Zweitstimmen) of all voters who supported this candidate are discarded.

If you define it as «the rule of law», the «the law» (constitution & c) defines what can be done; e.g., even if 90 % of Americans vote that certain «John Doe» is to be put to death, killing him will still be illegal without due procesIf you define it as «the rule of law», the «the law» (constitution & c) defines what can be done; e.g., even if 90 % of Americans vote that certain «John Doe» is to be put to death, killing him will still be illegal without due procesif 90 % of Americans vote that certain «John Doe» is to be put to death, killing him will still be illegal without due process.

There is another MPA assessment due this month, and with the information commissioner demanding the details of the amber - red reports are released, the public accounts committee to debate the details of the stinging National Audit Office report, and a ruling on legal appeals all due for July, the answer for government is simple: get the vote on the paving bill through before any of that happens, whilst trying to con MPs in affected constituencies that if they don't vote for it, the compensation pot will run dry.

In the House, 218 votes are needed to pass a bill; if 200 Democrats are the minority and 235 Republicans are the majority, the Hastert Rule would not allow 200 Democrats and 100 Republicans together to pass a bill, because 100 Republican votes is short of a majority of the majority party, so the Speaker would not allow a vote to take place.

Sinn Fein MEP Martina Anderson has said if English votes «drag us out of the EU that would be like Britannia waves the rules», as she raised concerns over a border between Northern and the Republic of Ireland.

He pledged that if the ruling coalition parties receive fewer votes than opposition parties, the government would step aside and hold new elections later in the year.

The rules for the referendum might not be as some of us would have wished but I can't think of anything more likely to increase disdain for MPs than if they vote to reject the people's decision.

Corbyn and his allies are coming under increasing pressure to allow a free vote on bombing ISIS in the country, and shadow foreign secretary Hilary Benn has repeatedly refused to rule out backing the government if it comes before the Commons.

The Hastert Rule says that the Speaker will not schedule a floor vote on any bill that does not have majority support within his or her party — even if the majority of the members of the House would vote to pass it.

In his written judgment, Mr Justice Hickinbottom stated: «At the time each of the claimants joined the party, it was the common understanding as reflected in the rule book that, if they joined the party prior to the election process commencing, as new members they would be entitled to vote in any leadership contest.

Still, having a second round of the top two plus any other candidate with say 90 % of the vote of the runner up, if no one receives a majority and making a third round consist of only the top two candidates in the second round, isn't necessarily a bad rule if it is a close race between ideologically similar runners up.

In Arkansas, the State Supreme Court still hasn't ruled on whether a medical marijuana initiative should be included, but according to the state's Division of Elections, Arkansas has already printed the ballots with the initiative on it and just won't count the votes if the court decides the other way.

Unless there are additional rules I don't know about, you could lose the popular vote by literally 100 % and end up as president if you could somehow convince the electors to vote for you «faithlessly».

Here, I use the phrase eligible candidate to mean that the candidate is actually in the image of the voting system (if three candidates exist but you accept that one of them can not be elected in any situation, then you can consider the simple majority rule on the other two candidates, which is neither dictatorial nor manipulable).

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.

In that case, candidate A (the winner in rule X) is surely elected, hence the voting rule is simply equivalent to the voting rule X. For example, if X is Range Voting, then the composite voting rule is equivalent to Range Voting.

If they do not vote to retain them, the ruling government deploys all resources within its power to force, intimate, coax or cajole people into doing its bidding.

If Liz Kendall convinces me likewise, then I would hold my nose and vote for her... like many Labour people i will always prefer a Labour government, even a centrist or right wing one, to a Tory one... having lived through 18 years of nonstop Tory rule in the 80s and 90s, I don't want them to have another 15 to 20 years in unbroken power.

Maybe The Fix should make a rule that if you voted for Bob Taft twice that you are forbidden from saying anything about Ohio politics altogether.

Indeed, even if Mr. Felder were to side with Democrats, Republicans argue that rules might not allow a change in majority leadership, because rules can not be changed without 38 votes, beyond even unified Democrats.

If Serwotka is not to be seen as hypocritical, I challenge him to introduce a rule change which will enable supporters to vote in the leadership election of the PCS by paying # 3 and stating they support the aims and objectives of the trade union movement.

«If Unite elects a more moderate leader, the hard left would no longer have the votes on the NEC and at conference to push through rule changes,» says Luke Akehurst, secretary of Labour First, the network of Labour moderates.

BY DYLAN SKRILOFF In a case that could have opened a terrible Pandora's box if ruled incorrectly, the United States Supreme Court voted to uphold a church's right to fire clergy with impunity.

«The Cuomo's fifth rule of politics is, «if you don't vote you don't have the right to complain later on.»