Sentences with phrase «with at least the majority of»

I am convinced that the state of Israel's only hope for long - term survival is to achieve reconciliation with at least the majority of the Palestinian people in the further hope that this will defuse Muslim extremism.

Not exact matches

The visible failure of the war on drugs, combined with a generational tipping point in attitudes, has poll after poll showing a majority of adults favouring the legalization or at least decriminalization of recreational cannabis use.

The majority of Canadians fall into at least one of the groups with slow employment growth (women, people under age 55, those living outside of Alberta and Saskatchewan, etc.), so it has been a rough 12 months for most of us.

Of the dozens of CEOs Inc. contacted for this story, the majority said they were either «all done» with necessary Y2K upgrades or at least on schedulOf the dozens of CEOs Inc. contacted for this story, the majority said they were either «all done» with necessary Y2K upgrades or at least on schedulof CEOs Inc. contacted for this story, the majority said they were either «all done» with necessary Y2K upgrades or at least on schedule.

Also, if a majority of the Board is comprised of persons other than (i) persons for whose election proxies were solicited by the Board; or (ii) persons who were appointed by the Board to fill vacancies caused by death or resignation or to fill newly - created directorships («Board Change»), unless the Committee or Board determines otherwise prior to such Board Change, then participants immediately prior to the Board Change who cease to be employees or non-employee directors within six months after such Board Change for any reason other than death or permanent disability generally have their (i) options and stock appreciation rights become immediately exercisable and to the extent not canceled or cashed out, generally have at least six months to exercise such awards; (ii) restrictions with respect to restricted stock and RSRs lapse and generally shares are delivered; and (iii) performance shares and performance units pay out pro rata based on performance through the end of the last calendar quarter before the time the participant ceased to be an employee.

Borrowers applying for a personal loan with SoFi will need a credit score of 660 or above to be considered, but the majority of approved borrowers have scores of at least 700.

For example, some companies are yet to budge on Trump's requests to bring production back into the U.S. Apple CEO, Tim Cook said that there is a lack of workers with the required skills in the U.S. Not only that, but if the majority of production comes back into the U.S., the cost of its products will rise by at least 100 %.

The SSE Holdings LLC Agreement may be amended with the consent of the holders of a majority in voting power of the outstanding LLC Interests; provided that if the managing member holds greater than 33 % of the LLC Interests, then it may be amended with the consent of the managing member together with holders of at least 50 % of the outstanding LLC Interests, excluding LLC Interests held by the managing member.

Conversion of preferred stock occurs automatically and immediately upon the earlier to occur of the closing of a firm commitment underwritten public offering pursuant to an effective registration statement filed covering the offer and sale of common stock in which (i) the aggregate public offering price equals or exceeds $ 25 million, (ii) with respect to the Series F convertible preferred stock only, the public offer price per share of which is not less than one times the original issue price of the Series F convertible preferred stock, (iii) with respect to the Series E convertible preferred stock only, the public offer price per share of which is not less than one times the original issue price of the Series E convertible preferred stock and (iv) with respect to the Series D convertible preferred stock only, the initial public offering price per share of which is not less than two times the original price of preferred stock, or the date specified by holders of at least 60 % of the then outstanding Series B convertible preferred stock, Series C convertible preferred stock, Series D convertible preferred stock, Series E convertible preferred stock, Series F convertible preferred stock and Series G convertible preferred stock, provided however, that in the event that the holders of at least 65 % of the then outstanding shares of holders Series G convertible preferred stock, at least a majority of the then outstanding shares of Series F convertible preferred stock or at least of 65 % of the then outstanding share of Series E convertible preferred stock do not consent or agree to the conversion, conversion shall not be effective to any shares of the relevant series of Series G convertible preferred stock, Series F convertible preferred stock or Series E convertible preferred stock for which the approval threshold was not achieved.

Tom Angell, of the pro-marijuana legalization group Marijuana Majority, said in an email that «while most of our federal gains to date have been through amendments attached to much broader spending bills, I'm hopeful that with the growing number of states changing their laws these stand - alone bills [like Garrett's] will get enough traction to at least finally start getting hearings.»

Make sure to make at least a few passes with the grain to remove the majority of the hairs, cleaning off your blade frequently.

The majority (133) of the 253 Canadian firms making up the S&P / TSX Index (i.e., the largest listed corporations in Canada) have at least one shareholder with 10 % or more of the votes.

In large parts of the Southwest, but not only in the Southwest, the majority of those with whom priests work are in the country under circumstances that are at least legally doubtful.

For a variety of reasons, some based on fact and some on fantasy, many non-Christian majorities regard Christian presence as a threat, or at least as the sign of a particular geopolitical agenda (linked with the U.S. or the West in general)-- despite the long history of Christian minorities in many such contexts.

It would be safe to say that the majority of Atheists have no issue with you believing whatever you would like to believe, however the majority of religious based folks expect others to obey or at the least acknowledge something that can not be proven without faith.

Although Ireland had never been conquered by the Romans, the majority of the population retained its Roman Catholic allegiance, but partly, at least, because the English, who eventually separated from Rome, ruled the island and the Roman Catholic form of the faith became associated with Irish nationalism and resistance to English rule.

With the majority (81 percent) of American families already choosing organic foods at least sometimes, consumers will welcome the line of organic soups from an iconic company they can trust.

A survey by Surveygoo found that the vast majority of American millennials replace at least one meal a week with a snack.

But when it comes to cooking with whole grains, the majority of us could us a primer (or at least a brush - up).

In all, 11 of the league's 14 teams returned a vast majority of last year's passing yards, nine returned at least half of their rushing yards (10 if you include Missouri with the return from injury of Henry Josey), and eight returned at least half of their offensive line starts.

Benitez on the other hand has a very hard job with an extremely poor side but at least he was on the edge of technical area for the majority of the game trying to help he's team

This is a competition that owes its existence, at least in part, to the fact that by the beginning of the 1960s, the majority of English professional clubs had fitted their grounds with floodlights and wanted to show them off.

The majority of players keep the ball aligned with the same side of their shot throughout their motion, so in Simmons» case you'd expect it to be towards the left, or at least the center.

Loan players are becoming increasingly prominent in the modern game, with the vast majority of squads in the Premier League for the 2014/15 season including at least one player who has been temporarily borrowed from another club.

The majority of Arsenal transfer rumours in recent weeks, or at least those that were dealing with the Borussia Dortmund and Armenia international star Henrikh Mkhitaryan, were speaking in very positive tones about our chances of securing the services of the talented, dynamic and effective (23 goals last season) attacking midfielder.

The first thing out of the talking heads mouths was «Many Americans are worried about their own safety...» Let me tell you, the majority of us, at least the majority of me, are saying, we are with our parisian brothers right now, and are devastated at the loss of lives.

The majority of baby monitor receivers today have at least a belt clip that allows parents to carry the receiver with them around the house.

Though getting a tricycle with all the above features is not easy, but a combination of at least a majority of the aforementioned will make a tricycle to pass for the best tricycles for toddlers.

Emancipation does not, however, necessarily mean «legal majority,» and may be granted earlier in instances where the minor can demonstrate they are at least sixteen years old; are living apart from the parents with their consent or acquiescence; able to manage their own finances and have a legal source of income; actively serve in a branch of the armed forces; or other reason the court may determine it in the best interest of the child to make a judicial declaration of emancipation.

Almost every baby will get diaper rash at least once during the first 3 years of life, with the majority of these babies 9 - 12 months old.

Just think about it: if you were trying to balance a very tight budget in an operation which lives or dies based on how well students accept your food, and if many (sometimes, the vast majority) of those students came from homes in which nutritionally balanced, home cooked meals are far from the norm, and if the food industry was bombarding those kids with almost $ 2 billion a year in advertising promoting junk food and fast food, and if you had no money of your own for nutrition education to even begin to counter those messages, and if some of those kids also had the option of going off campus to a 7 - 11 or grabbing a donut and chips from a PTA fundraising table set up down the hall, wouldn't you, too, be at least a tiny bit tempted to ramp up the white flour pasta, pizza and fries and ditch the tasteless, low - sodium green beans?

Babies stay with their mothers, mothers with their babies, at least in the majority of cases.

They calculate that, with the majority of prisoners sentenced to less than 12 months, at least 4,000 foreign criminals will evade deportation, including those convicted of drug dealing, benefit fraud, theft and burglary.

Nonetheless, foreign students are worth at least # 8 billion a year to the British economy, the fees they pay essential to the funding of the majority of our universities, with the added benefit of future links between foreign business, government and civil society leaders with the UK.

Had the Conservatives had a Parliamentary majority (or had formed a coalition with a certain party whose name shall go unmentioned), they might have found a way back to the status quo ante on at least (some of) the reforms that are practically reversible, viz. the House of Lords, the Human Rights Act, the Lord Chancellor's jurisdiction over the judiciary.

«I think one of the things, at least in my experience in my seven years in the Senate with the majority or the co-majority for two of the years, where we've been successful is that we've always put government first,» Gallican said.

They hoped for public support, but polling showed the vast majority of the public believe it is fair to increase benefits at least in line with growing prices, as has always been the case in both good times and bad in the past.

This would indicate that the vast majority of Labour's half a million members are aligned with the unions and the Parliamentary Labour Party in support of remaining in the EU — or at least in the single market and customs union.

State law requires a minimum of 15,000 valid signatures, with at least 100 signatures from a majority of the state's 27 congressional districts.

The anti-reform medics plan to target at least fifty senior Liberal Democrats and Conservatives with small majorities, running on what Dr Clive Peedell, co-chair of the NHS Consultants» Association, describes as «the non-party, independent ticket of defending the NHS».

Green says that Cuomo will win re-election with, at best, 52 percent of the vote, a bare majority that would represent a humiliation to the governor, who is known to want to win by at least the landslide 64 percent margin won by his father, Mario Cuomo, in his first bid for re-election in 1986.

Their three - stage debate format could easily have been changed so the first debate included all parties with an MP, the second any party contesting all seats, or at least a majority of seats, and a final one with the two men who had a chance of becoming prime minister.

Also, the biggest liberal concerns about Islamist practices and abuses involve matters that can only be implemented with majority control of the government (e.g. excessive use of corporal punishment in the criminal justice system), but which are much less harmful to non-Muslims, at least, when Muslims can only enforce their ideologies on co-religionists and can only do so via institutions of civil society rather than institutions of coercive government control.

The contributions aren't being directed at swing districts, but the checking writing suggests 1199 is at least hedging their bets with majority control of the chamber up in the air.

Cameron's plans will apply if he wins an overall parliamentary majority — with at least 326 seats — or if the Tories are substantially the biggest party in the House of Commons.

The recent concerns with the VRA's thermal component stem from the government's advertisement in the Daily Graphic of August 23, 2017, noting the sale of at least a majority stake in specified thermal plants owned by the Volta River Authority (VRA).

But at least two top Republicans — Assembly Majority Leader Jim Steineke and Rep. John Nygren, co-chairman of the powerful Joint Finance Committee — are instead endorsing Jacque's opponent: Alex Renard, a businessman with little political experience.

In fact with Strong support for The Progressive Liberalism Cartel it was able to elect Three Republicans to the State Senate, giving the GOP a outright majority, & as a bonus at least Three new members of the GOP to Congress, with one more race to close to call.

However, while AV prevents the kind of undemocratic result that often occurs under FPTP, and always ensures that the winning candidate has at least some kind of majority support, it has nothing to do with PR.

Also note that having the majority isn't a guarantee either... at least in theory, party members don't necessarily agree with 100 % of the president's nominees.