Sentences with phrase «with lesser voting»

So, Buffett outcompeted them by creating a second class with lesser voting rights than the «A» shares, and 1 / 30th of the economic value of an «A» share.

In 1996, Buffett created Class B shares worth 1 / 30th of Class A shares, but with lesser voting rights, to stop fee - hungry managers from creating «unit trusts» that sliced up Class A shares for smaller investors seeking «Berkshire look - alikes.»

Not exact matches

In 2015, less than a year after retiring as CEO of convenience store giant Alimentation Couche - Tard, the executive chairman, along with his three co-founders, put forward a resolution to extend their time - limited voting control — the group holds 22 % of the company's equity — to ward off any future takeover attempts.

Known for being a retirement - friendly area, residents here are more likely to choose a Caribbean vacation over Europe or Asia, they ski less than any of their peers in the top 5 richest neighbourhoods in B.C., and are staunch Conservative voters, with 60 % voting Tory.

In the meantime, the political math has become far more demanding for Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, with key GOP Senators saying they won't even vote yes on the motion to proceed on the bill, much less the legislation itself.

And it shows Harris and two other directors — Louis Lataif and Donald Resnick — were named to the board with the approval of less than 40 % of the eligible voting shareholders.

That's not a popular idea with Netflix's board because two of its directors, Leslie Kilgore and Richard Barton, have been re-elected in the past with less than 50 % of the vote.

A less far - reaching proposal in the District of Columbia to allow marijuana possession but not retail sales won nearly 65 percent of the vote with all precincts reporting, unofficial results showed.

While a Trump presidency is looking less and less likely, many Canadian companies with stakes in the U.S. are, like Bedard, feeling skittish about their business prospects in the lead - up to the November 8th vote.

Boehner then came out with a proposal, dubbed «Plan B,» to raise that threshold to all earners that make $ 1 million or less, which the House will vote on today.

Then there's the disorganization of the Republicans, that allowed all those idiots to run until the very end, giving Trump the nomination with less than half the Republican votes... And Hillary's wooden affect...

True, shares with inferior voting rights may cost less (the market's way of compensating owners for their lack of control).

With a slim majority in the Senate, the party chose to use «budget reconciliation» — a process that allows a bill to pass with only 50 votes (plus Vice President Mike Pence) but comes with restrictions that make it less than ideal for complex policymaking — to pass their pWith a slim majority in the Senate, the party chose to use «budget reconciliation» — a process that allows a bill to pass with only 50 votes (plus Vice President Mike Pence) but comes with restrictions that make it less than ideal for complex policymaking — to pass their pwith only 50 votes (plus Vice President Mike Pence) but comes with restrictions that make it less than ideal for complex policymaking — to pass their pwith restrictions that make it less than ideal for complex policymaking — to pass their plan.

A proposal from an individual investor with 60 shares to «reform executive compensation policy with social responsibility» garnered less than 7 percent of the vote.

Baghdad has much less influence, so if Turkey declines to follow through on its threats, the independence vote could give the Kurdish government some leverage with Baghdad in negotiations over revenue sharing, a longstanding grievance that has not been addressed.

Diller, who is chairman of IAC, has along with his family 44 percent of the vote with less than 8 percent of the stock.

Inspired after a string of awful - to - middling governors won with less than 50 per cent support, a Maine ballot measure will ask voters to endorse ranked - ballot voting and instant run - offs — one of the electoral alternatives the Trudeau government is considering.

Olsen ends up agreeing with the RCP no - tie number (and more or less Nate Silver's number) for Obama — 303 electoral votes.

Less than half of David Cameron's party voted in favour of same - sex marriage, with the Prime Minister needing support from other parties to get the legislation through.

(Hint: I have a Ph.D., have lived in 8 states and spent 5 years abroad, voted Obama, make less than 60K, was born in Utah but left it 21 years ago, have never divorced, and raise three awesome children who you'd want your children to be friends with.)

One might argue with their angle of vision, as a number of my conservative Jewish friends do, but no one would label it, as Frank describes the Republican votes of the less well - off, a «species of derangement.»

Devotion to «diversity» doesn't mean having a faculty or student body with the ideological diversity of our country, a place where more or less half the population unjustly votes Republican.

During the Obama election years, as many as a quarter of evangelicals voted Democrat; with Clinton, it was nearly 10 percentage points less than that.

Pew found that 51 percent of Americans are less likely to vote for an atheist, while 42 percent are less likely to vote for a Muslim, 41 percent are less likely to vote for a candidate with personal financial troubles, and 37 percent are less likely to vote for a candidate having an extramarital affair.

Back on less insane ground, the Republicans faced a problem with the Stupak Amendment: Support it, and thereby give cover for pro-life Democrats to vote for the final bill?

The youngster Hector Bellerin may have only been in the Arsenal starting line - up for less than two seasons, but he has already become a firm favourite with the Emirates faithful so much so that he was voted in Third Place in the Arsenal Player - of - the - Season behind veteran superstars Mesut Ozil and Petr Cech.

As far as being American is concerned, I was referring less to Kroenke — though I loathe him and all he stands for - but rather with your President and to those non evolved folk who voted him in.

In fact, it was such an easy decision that the 25 - year old got a massive 90 percent of the votes, with the player in second place, Danny Welbeck, getting less than five percent and Kieran Gibbs in third getting less than two percent.

Although the Zoning Board will not vote on a recommendation for the project until June or July, board members appeared less than impressed with the proposed parking accommodations, questioning whether the new facility's 113 parking spaces will be adequate.

It's a flash game (to be played in browser) that tasks you with redistricting given populations to achieve specific goals, for example depriving a surefire opposition candidate of votes, consolidating opposition in one area leaving one opposition candidate with almost all their voters and all the rest with less than enough to win, or just assuring status quo between the two parties by marginalizing uncertainty coming from undecided voters.

My own opininon regarding allowing prisoners with sentences of less than four years the right to vote is that it is actually a fudge.

That parties in the US get less seats than percentage of voters may also just be because the voting system is a majority voting system not a proportional one, similar to the UK but additionally with partisan district partitioning which allows gerrymandering.

How is ensuring the winning candidate is the one with a majority of votes less democratic than a system where the winner is the candidate with the largest minority of votes?

With less than half an hour left before the vote, MPs knew no - one inside the chamber was being convinced of anything - despite the almost unprecedented passion and rhetorical strength of the speeches being made.

With no option to specify preferences, voting for the actual Libertarian party would split the vote making it even less likely that someone who represents their position would be elected.

While some of the other answers and comments have some good points about people supporting meritocracy and similar ideas, I believe that the most important answer has less to do with individual voter's ideologies, and more to do with the voting system.

With perhaps just over two months until the general election, voters may have less than a fortnight to register to vote once the polling date has been announced by the prime minister.

Bear in mind that I AM watching you with an All - Seeing Eye, as always, and those of you who fail to vote (or who do vote but, shall we say, less wisely than you should) will feel the vengeful sting of my lash in ways that the sensible fear to contemplate.

I don't think plural voting would be considered a less democratic system, if we were able to come up with a balanced (or at least apparently balanced) and (mostly) frictionless way of determining who gets the extra votes, similarly to how forms of weighted voting are not generally considered undemocratic and are practised and widely accepted in several democratic countries and institutions.

As an example, the last mayor of a nearby town foresaw the problems that «enforcing» changes to the town's main street (1 less car way, and more parking space), would cause to his reputation, so he made public, electronic poll (with voting stations on public spaces) on that district (and lost).

It remains an open question as to whether these «abstention votes» should be weighted equally with «positive votes», or whether they should count for less.

No president has ever won with less than 40 percent of the vote (Lincoln received the lowest percentage at 39.8, but was not on the ballot in ten states).

But MPs will vote on the proposals on 15 July, less than two weeks after they were published, and this timetable leaves the government open to the charge that it is seeking to move with undue haste, and without allowing sufficient time for proper scrutiny.

When I explained that 12.6 % of the vote translated into just one parliamentary seat, my Chinese students seemed less than impressed with democracy

But with the midterm elections less than two months away, leaders have not yet decided whether they will schedule a vote on the legislation before voters go to the polls.

Union bosses say MPs backing strike law reform, with less than half the vote themselves (as most are), are hypocrites.

It launched the website called www.PrimaryMyCongressman.com to highlight those Republicans with what it saw as less conservative voting records.

FPTP allows people to elected with less than a majority AV shatters the principle of equal voting rights.

Of the September / October 2014 British Election Study (BES) respondents who voted Liberal Democrat in 2010 and still intend to vote Lib Dem, just 14 % strongly agree that, «government should redistribute income from the better off to those who are less well off», compared with 31 % for those that have switched to Labour.

«This generation relates to candidates more than political parties, and as a result, despite voting for Obama 2 - 1, they are less concerned with which party will win in 2010 and instead gravitate toward the candidate who speaks most clearly and directly to their interests and concerns,» said Rock the Vote President Heather Smith.