Sentences with phrase «which voting bodies»

But the H.F.P.A.'s decision to shut them out speaks to the ways in which voting bodies still have to reckon with their history of exclusivity.

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«I could read body language and know that Sen. McCain seemed like he was going to vote no and kill the bill, which is what he did,» Gill tells CNBC.

The Nebraska Public Service Commission, a five - member regulatory body, voted 3 - 2 in favor of the project, which would give TransCanada permission to build the pipeline through the state.

Venezuelan crisis intensifies after vote, arrests Following a disputed election for a new legislative body last weekend, in which voting tallies were reportedly manipulated, and the arrest of two high - profile opposition leaders, Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro faces increased pressure both from within Venezuela and without.

One of the most extraordinary aspects of this referendum was the extent to which bodies which had no business recommending a vote one way or the other took sides: the Industrial Development Authority called for a «Yes» vote, as did the Gaelic Athletic Association, as did the representative organisation of the Irish police in the Republic, the Garda Representative Association — a move which drew a sharp rebuke from Baroness Nuala O'Loan, the legal expert who oversaw the changes in Northern Ireland which improved the policing situation there immeasurably.

Earlier this week, the Southern Baptist Convention — which is the largest Protestant denomination in the world — voted to «call [their] brothers and sisters in Christ to discontinue the display of the Confederate battle flag as a sign of solidarity of the whole Body of Christ.»

However, with respect to the first of those issues, I find fascinating the British idea of «virtual representation,» which meant that so long as Parliament was a mixed deliberative body of persons that represented a variety of interests and opinions, then representation was real and valid even though citizens could not vote for members of Parliament.

The inquiry will begin on May 29 just days before the committee will meet to vote for the next president of the World's governing body of which Bin Hammam is the only candidate running against Sepp Blatter.

Minnesota Hockey, the governing body for 40,000 youth hockey players in the state, has voted to continue rule changes enacted last January which stiffened the penalties for checking from behind and boarding and hope for better enforcement.

Instead, I voted to approve the draft standard because, without an established standard in place to regulate the headgear that has come on to the market in recent years (none of which, according to US Lacrosse, has been developed based on scientific testing, and none of which the organization - the governing body for both the men's and women's game - has endorsed), consumers are essentially «buying a pig in a poke»: in other words, without a clue as to whether the product they are buying has any safety value at all.

Convening such a body would provide a space to debate how best to address systematic political inequality, whether through thorough - going electoral reform including PR and compulsory voting, the radical overhaul of the democratic aberration that is the Lords, or in reforming party funding, all of which the report supports.

Immediately after the referendum I argued that «While, given its royal prerogative, it is not altogether clear whether the government would have to take note of a parliamentary vote [on Brexit], it stands to reason that since the unconventional route of a popular referendum did not produce sufficient grounds to act on, the government has at least a moral duty to listen to the opinion of the body to which it is after all accountable.»

The ruling body also said that party members who had joined since 12 January would not have a vote, but had a two - day window in which they could pay # 25 to take part like other non-members.

«In line with the wishes of the majority of the members of the National Democratic Congress, and in the wake of recommendations made by the election review committee chaired by Dr. Kwesi Botchwey, the National Executive Committee, which is the highest decision - making body after Congress, voted unanimously for the scrapping of the register which was used to conduct our internal elections last year,» Kofi Portuphy said.

, or without a vigorous opposition press, or with a slanderous and irresponsible opposition press, or which have signed up to supranational bodies outside democratic control, or which have signed up to international treaties ditto, or which make use of protected seats for women or ethnic minorities, or where the if the prime minister is one ethnic group the president is conventionally always another, or where unlimited campaign donations are allowed, or disallowed, or where significant numbers question the legitimacy of the polity holding the vote, or where voting is compulsory, or where non-citizens can not vote, or where they can, or where there is (or is not) a second chamber or supreme court that can block popular legislation...

Actually, and in spite of what folk etymology might suggest, the word meritocracy is usually used to describe a system in which the «best» get promoted to positions of powers, not a system where a selected number of able people vote as a political body.

«Throughout the campaign I was also very vocal about my support for restrictions on lobbying activity, or bidding on state contracts, reform to restrictions on outside income, and term limits for our bodies» leaders, which is what we had voted on in our rules, that was the first thing that we did - eight years that we wanted for committee chairs and for leadership,» Serino says.

Andrew Lansley MP: «Last Thursday, the local medical committees, which are the statutory bodies required to represent GPs across the country, met in conference and passed a vote of no confidence in the Secretary of State and the policies of the Labour Government.

The bill made it through the body on a 89 to 52 vote, which included the approval of five Republicans.

We will vote as a body on Thursday, Dec. 7, which will be too late to report on in this month's column, but I expect at the end of the process we'll have a budget that lowers the tax rate, funds critical services and invests in our community.

He said, «It is about the party invoking a clause in the constitution in recognition of a decision he had made by ceasing his membership of the party by going public to say he voted for a candidate other than the candidate of the party, and also saying that he was advocating to his constituents to vote against the decision of the congress which is the highest body of the party.»

Jon Cruddas, the Dagenham MP who narrowly missed out on the deputy Labour leadership last year, said the crisis required «radical shock treatment», adding: «The way to do that is to introduce proportional representation and a system of fair votes to replace the current arrangement under which a few thousand swing votes have an armlock around the body politic.»

Yakubu said while it could not be established if children actually voted in the election, he could confirm that the voter register which INEC gave to the Kano electoral body for undertaking the election was not completely used.

That gives the GOP at least 32 votes in the 63 - member body — unless Democrats win recounts of two close elections on Long Island, which observers say is unlikely.

It should be noted that the referendum took place 25 years before the passing of the Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Act 2000 by the then Labour Government of Tony Blair, which introduced into British law a general procedure for the holding of UK - wide referendums and effectively created the Electoral Commission, a body that would oversee such votes and also test and research proposed referendum questions.

When the House of Representatives voted recently to defund Planned Parenthood, central New York Republican Rep. John Katko (R - Camillus) said he voted to stop funding the organization temporarily while the House investigated a series of videos allegedly showing Planned Parenthood executives discussing the sale of fetal body parts for research — which is illegal.

Yesterday, the City Council's General Welfare Committee voted to allow the legislative body to join the lawsuit filed by the Chelsea Flatiron Coalition, which has long argued that the facility is too large and would pose safety issues for residents.

In the interview with the Observer Mr Corbyn also offered his first public comments on the Court of Appeal's judgement to bar around 130,000 members from voting in the leadership contest in a ruling which upheld the initial decision of Labour's ruling body.

In that election, in which a political body called the Federal Assembly votes rather than the public, bots accounted for a small fraction of political tweets, Neudert says.

Most importantly, it is an exciting time in which we have the opportunity to support brands making good and healthy products versus the ones who are using cheaper ingredients that don't support our bodies or the planet, and really vote with our dollars.

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Another Southern - fried spaghetti western, The Hateful Eight sounds a lot like Django Unchained without all that awkward, controversial slavery business — which could see it embraced by a grateful voting body.

His screenplay is exceptionally actor - friendly, which counts for a lot as the voting body is largely made up of actors.

There's an argument to be made that it's silly to ask these voting bodies — especially the H.F.P.A., which is relatively tiny — to act as cultural correctors, to redress systemic wrongs.

Other critically acclaimed films like Creed, Spike Lee's Chi - Raq, and Sean Baker's Tangerine might have faced similar struggles, which makes it all the more important for Isaacs to try and recruit a younger, broader - minded voting body for the future.

This could all be true, and maybe the influx of young blood in the voting body will simply certify everything that's happened so far in the Oscar race simply because that's inescapably what's in the conversation, which bodes well for Call Me by Your Name and I, Tonya, otherwise diametrically opposed political and formal propositions.

Since the Globes aren't a surefire Oscar predictor — and because the HFPA is a very different voting body from the Academy, which began voting on Oscar nominations two days before the Globes took place — The Post's losses at the Globes don't mean much regarding its chances at the Oscars in March.

A great deal of this happens through the distribution of screener discs for major films, which are sent to people who belong to major voting bodies (guilds and critics» circles, plus Academy voters) to aid them in being able to watch everything and fill out their ballots.

While I wouldn't go so far to suggest that connection is top of mind for most Academy voters, I do wonder about its potential effect on a voting body that tends to respond positively to films that ruminate or comment on the movies themselves, which this film does, in a roundabout way.

The same can be said of Steven Spielberg's The Post, which was largely anticipated as a shoo - in before its release, but has failed to gain much interest from voting bodies.

On the one hand, the Academy is working to build itself into the voting body it wants to be, which is to break free from its past,...

The governing body of the LA teachers union last night voted to seek out a state lawmaker to sponsor legislation that rewrites California's parent trigger law, which allows for wholesale changes at a school if a majority of parents want them.

One member of the Charter School Advisory Board, which is the body tasked with making recommendations on charter school policies to the SBE, did vote against the proposed rule, citing the fact that it was rushed.

The sum total of all shares, theoretically, equals the entire value of the company, and so with N shares in existence, one share is equivalent to 1 / Nth the company, and entitles you to 1 / Nth of the profits of the company, and more importantly to some, gives you a vote in company matters which carries a weight of 1 / Nth of the entire shareholder body.

Ruth Tessendorf, president of the Topeka Kennel Club, told governing body members Tuesday's vote was also being watched by a boxer dog group, which was considering holding a show next year at the Kansas Expocentre but wouldn't be willing to do that if the city kept in place its breed - specific rules for pit bulls.

The eyes of the travel world are turning to Durban for the World Travel Awards Africa Ceremony on 10th May.Co - located alongside INDABA and in partnership with the ICC Durban and South African Tourism, the leading industry bodies, government representatives and the world's media will gather to discover which travel and tourism companies have been voted Africa's very best.

If you're Mass MoCA, you shroud Christoph Büchel's incomplete 2007 «Training Ground for Democracy» in yellow tarps and air your dirty laundry by displaying his list of requested materials for the piece, which included 8 voting booths, piles of old computers, 1,000 feet of barbed wire, 12 grenades, 8 body bags, 4 prosthetic legs, and the fuselage of a 737 airliner.

We have still failed to receive a response to a vote of no confidence, which includes over 400 members of the student body of a school that's over — that's about a thousand students total, with 200 faculty, and a vote of no confidence from the full - time faculty of the School of Art.

The Committee confirmed procedures for broad participation of NGOs, recognized the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) as its primary technical support body, and agreed to use consensus decision - making except when impasses arose, in which case important questions would be put to majority vote.

Here, in fact, the Supreme Court of Canada has previously determined that TWU and its graduates have rights in play which can not be casually disregarded by a provincial licensing bodies (much less by votes by the members of those bodies).