Sentences with phrase «win majority support»

Only three failed to win majority support.

Michel Platini's proposal for an all - over Euro 2020 will fail to win majority support among the European federation's 53 members, according to one of the orginal bidding contenders.

SHARE director of law and policy Laura O'Neill said the only other directors she knows of who failed to win majority support this year were on the board of Quebecor Inc., where holders of class B subordinate shares voted just 43 per cent in favour of electing the entire board as a slate.

Just 1.2 percent of S&P 500 companies failed to win majority support for their advisory pay resolutions in 2017, according to ISS Analytics.

Only 93 directors failed to win majority support, out of a total universe of some 50,000, as of recent figures.

Schroeder says that fewer than one percent of churches responded, and that neither proposal won majority support.

Not exact matches

«But he keeps winning these Democratic primaries, and he's getting the support of a majority of Democratic voters despite his views that are clearly not Democratic, which tells me that the things he says transcend politics and if there is not universal acceptance, there's more widespread acceptance for his beliefs and viewpoints than I think people realize.»

Portugal's minority center - right government collapsed this week after the three leftist parties that won the majority of seats in September month's general election refused to support its continuation of bailout - dictated austerity policies.

The rebels won the British parliamentary vote by 307 to 294 votes, a majority of 13, after they received support from the Labour Party, a generally pro-European group accused by Cameron of «rank opportunism».

The program has since been matched by Credential Securities Inc., the second - largest seller of ABCP to the general public and, with support from the Facebook gang, Crawford's CCAA plan won support from a majority of affected creditors on April 25.

All parties receive substantial public funding intended to support democracy, but it also means they are in varying degrees highly dependent on money that will disappear with a Conservative majority, making the Tories even more motivated to win and gain an advantage in the election after this one.

The party is pushing to overcome a surge of support for the Liberals that seems to threatens any chance of the Conservatives winning a majority government and potentially a minority as well.

It's utterly amazing that a party of greedy, selfish, materialistic, warmongering, hate - filled people could have won a majority of support amongst Christians, while ranting about taxes, guns, abortion, and gays... four things that Jesus said nothing about.

I think I sum it up well when I say the majority of the fans on here whining, are those who only started supporting Arsenal in the early naughties, when we were winning stuff and became a true world wide brand.

The majority of fans that go to the Emirates now never went to Highbury (at a guess, I'd say five to eight thousand) and only know reasonable success, ie, FA Cup wins and continuous Champions League qualification and only read about the «Invincibles», you can tell by the fact they never chant «come on you reds» which was a regular, extremely loud chant in the Highbury days and as ThirdMan pointed out are the prawn sandwich brigade mixed with the tourist support and there you have the empty seats.

The plucky hosts have won many admirers on their way to the latter stages of the tournament, thanks largely to their vociferous supports — but it was those same fans that caused the majority of the problems as the game wore on.

When their opponent is receiving a majority of public support, we found that the win rate jumps to 59.5 %.

The stated aim of winning all competions we are involved in is to maintain fan and player support, the majority shareholder has told us that this is not true.

Under this Fourth Republic, we have been lucky to have managed our differences so well that despite the high profiled bitter contest of 1998 in Sunyani, Candidate J.A Kufuor who emerged as our flagbearer courted the support of other opposition parties to win the 2000 first and second round elections to become the second President of the Fourth Republic with an appreciated votes at the presidential level for the party and increased seats in Parliament that we occupied the Majority side of Parliament.

His loss would be a win for Senate Democratic Conference Leader John Sampson, who has pledged to support all incumbents — even Senate Majority Leader Pedro Espada Jr., and tried — albeit unsuccessfully — to convince some big LGBT stakeholders like the Empire State Pride Agenda not to endorse Nunes against Huntley.

Despite the absence of any groundswell in support for independence, the first minister's sheer force of personality and his unparalleled success in winning an overall majority at the 2011 Holyrood election had created the sense that anything was possible.

Wary of the headache this issue caused Senate President Malcolm Smith, who had to do a delicate dance to both appease the LGBT community that had invested more than $ 1 million to help him win the majority and the members like Sen. Ruben Diaz Sr. who held the votes to his leadership post, Sampson is both supporting the six remaining «no» voters and refusing to promise to bring marriage to the floor for another vote.

There have been reports that Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos is tacitly supporting Felder, even though freshman Sen. David Storobin, who complicated things for the GOP by winning a long - fought special election against Democratic NYC Councilman Lew Fidler for ex-Sen.

Since 16 (a)(2) prevents any delegates from offering their support to other candidates prior to voting, 40 (b) prevents names from being added on the fly, and 40 (e) requires repeated votes until someone wins, there are only two possible outcomes: Either the front - runner picks up enough delegates on the second vote (once they're unbound) to push them over the majority, or the convention is deadlocked.

Also, this has to sting for the Senate Democrats, to whom Cuomo has not only refused to commit to supporting in their quest to win back the majority this fall, but arguably has actively screwed by working closely with the Senate Republicans and signing their gerrymandered redistricting plan into law.

Dutchess County Executive Marc Molinaro has secured enough GOP support to win a slot on its ticket, and now has almost double the backing of his nearest rival in the contest for the Republican Party's gubernatorial nomination, Deputy Senate Majority Leader John DeFrancisco.

Instead, we got a new normal,» said Molinaro, who joins Deputy Senate Majority Leader John DeFrancisco in seeking the GOP nod for governor, though already appears to have locked down sufficient support to win the nod.

With the support of 53 percent of voters, the alliance won 67 percent majority in parliament, and soon began to colonise the public sphere in an attempt to embed its Christian, nationalist and conservative values.

Schneiderman hoped to succeed Paterson when he left the Senate to serve as lieutenant governor under Eliot Spitzer, but he lacked support among his fellow members, and by the time Democrats actually won the majority in the Senate in 2008, he was more or less on his way out.

One of the interesting features of this system is that, while the winning candidate would need to have demonstrated broad support among MPs, they would not require majority support from them, only from the party members.

With the support of Governor Cuomo, the IDC, a group of 8 Democratic senators, have joined with another Democratic senator, Simcha Felder, to give the Republicans a majority in the Senate — despite the Republicans winning fewer seats.

And by advertising on national sites, he clearly hopes to capitalize on the same out - of - state support that helped Scott Brown win in Massachusetts — what Republican WOULD N'T want to knock off a Democratic Senate Majority Leader?

Labour hasn't yet been able to make significant inroads into the SNP support base, which remains at the same level that delivered last year's majority, and needs to focus on winning over voters who backed the SNP at last year's election.

Sturgeon requires the continuing support of unionist voters, happy to back the SNP in government if not to endorse their view on the future of the UK, if she is to repeat her party's trick of winning an overall majority in a parliament elected under a system that's part first - past - the - post and part proportional representation.

Cameron could have won a majority if ethnic minority voters had supported the Tories in equal numbers to their white counterparts.

U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell plans to release the revised health care reform measure tomorrow, despite no visible signs that leaders have rounded up enough GOP support to win its passage.

Support for the Conservatives is finally high enough to suggest the party could win an outright majority at the next general election, according to a new poll.

Having not won the support of the vast majority of the public is not so very different from having lost the support of the vast majority of the public.

«Nick Griffin knows that AV will make it harder for extremist parties to win because they can not get the support of a majority of their constituents.

Party insiders concede that the Tories can not win an overall majority in 2015 without winning over significant support from blue collar workers.

He said the only blip could come from Buffalo Assemblyman Mark Schroeder, who has made it clear he will (again) withhold support for the speaker until he shows more love for Western NY — a move that has not won him many friends among his fellow majority members.

Mondello, along with most of the New York Republican establishment supported former Niagara County GOP Chairman Henry Wojtaszek, but Cox out - worked him (his most prominent supporter was Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos) and won the chairmanship.

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I don't put much store in opinion polls, but if true it would only indicate roughly what you would expect to happen at this point in the parliament - 32 % isn't that much lower than Labour got in the 2005 General Election and all it would suggest is that the Liberal Democrats are having a reversal - tactical voting could see them holding onto many of their current seats, indeed it is even possible that if they got 17 % of the vote that if it focused in an area that they could actually end up with more seats, where the switches in support are occuring is crucial - if they are focused then if the Conservative Party were to get 39 % then it might still result in them getting fewer seats than Labour or in extremis winning a 150 seat majority or so?

The Labour Party was defeated heavily in the 1983 general election, winning only 27.6 % of the vote, its lowest share since 1918, and receiving only half a million votes more than the SDP - Liberal Alliance who leader Michael Foot condemned for «siphoning» Labour support and enabling the Conservatives to greatly increase their majority of parliamentary seats.

With full support of the Republican majority, Sessions appears to be on track to win approval in the Judiciary Committee, on which he serves, and in the floor vote.

For the third election in a row, no party won more than 40 %, let alone a majority of the vote, yet the Conservative Party won 50.9 % of the seats for its 36.9 % support.

Lazio, meanwhile, insisted he'll have sufficient support to win the GOP nomination, saying: «The rank and file Republicans are with me, the majority of Republican leadership is with me.

He's already won the support of a majority of the state committee, but still faces state Sen. John DeFrancisco (R - Syracuse) and Joe Holland, a former state housing commissioner.

We are going to win the majority because we have the right candidates and the right message, and whether it's providing record support for schools, delivering a 20 percent middle - class income tax cut, or ensuring every region of the state gets its fair share of infrastructure and economic development funding, New Yorkers know that Senate Republicans have their backs.»