Sentences with phrase «with more votes»

Farmers established since 1850 with few votes will be sacrificed to golf courses with more votes, and Newport Beach lawns with bought votes.

His former colleagues in the state Legislature always give him the loudest cheers at state events, he is a darling of organized labor and was elected in 2014 with more votes than either Schneiderman or Cuomo.

In the four - way race for Chester Town Clerk, Republican Mindy Conway, who presently serves as the Chester - Horicon Youth Director, won the position with more votes than the other three candidates combined.

This certainly doesn't reflect a policy to reward the rich with more votes.

The first set of seats are won in a traditional first - past - the - post election in local areas, where the candidate with more votes than anybody else wins.

When the Tories got destroyed in 1997 (with more votes than Labour got in 2010) Tory activists didn't plan to force the elected government to back down from pursuing its agenda.

Citizen Corbyn, elected with more votes than the Tories have members as he's fond of warning sceptics, will parade his grassroots legitimacy at Labour's conference in Brighton next week where he's guaranteed a hero's welcome from the army of activists who feel this time they've really got their party back.

Not exact matches

They must either accept his bid to buy out shareholders for $ 13.65 (or about $ 24 billion), or vote it down, forcing Dell and his backers into an even more protracted battle with activist shareholder Carl Icahn.

Late last week, nearing the Friday 10 a.m. shareholder vote that was supposed to determine Dell's future — a vote Michael Dell was widely predicted to lose — the founder swooped in with minutes to go and put a new, more lucrative offer on the table.

Obama lost big with such rural white voters, but won more votes from woman, minorities and others groups clustered in or near cities.

The new media darling launched to the top of this year's readers» choice poll with a total of nearly 750 votes, far outpacing Etsy, its closest rival, with more than 330 votes.

Most recently, she sat down with Oprah Winfrey to discuss how she's turning her activism into action by launching a new initiative called Eighteen x» 18, which will encourage more young people to vote in the upcoming elections.

Encompassing more than 60 % of the vote, his supporters include progressives eager to see Edmonton embrace urbanism now, and conservatives happier with the way the city has always been.

More than 800 people were injured during clashes with the police, which tried to prevent people from voting.

The Caramel Cocoa Cluster was voted the fan favorite with more than 2 million votes.

Tap Oil shareholders have lodged a big protest vote, with more than 35 per cent of votes cast against three resolutions at today's annual meeting, with dissident shareholder Chatchai Yenbamroong accounting for a large share of the opposition.

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.

New York's three - person fast food wage board voted unanimously to raise the minimum wage for fast food workers, which it defines as working in an establishment with 30 or more locations.

While eight US states and the District of Columbia have voted to legalise recreational marijuana, the White House has hinted that the Department of Justice will do more to enforce federal laws prohibiting recreational marijuana, raising concerns over how Canada's approach will coexist with a potential crackdown south of the border.

In response to the vote, the British pound had collapsed to a 31 - year low against the US dollar, falling below $ 1.35, while stock futures were collapsing with US futures off more than 3.5 % while London's FTSE 100 down almost 9 %.

The number of protest votes fell to a little more than a fifth of the total after the advertising company came back last year with a more modest 48 million - pound plan for the executive.

But J. Gerald Hebert, director of the Voting Rights and Redistricting Program at the public - interest Campaign Legal Center in Washington, said the states drew districts with more black voters than necessary to «dilute their voting strength in order to achieve a partisan gain.»

For critics of Trump, the fact that more people are staying away from Trump - branded properties may reflect people «voting with their feet.»

In 2013, Kennedy sided with more conservative justices to effectively block a key component of the law, although its provisions prohibiting states from diluting minority voting rights remain in effect.

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.

With just over four weeks until Londoners cast their votes, an exclusive Opinium survey for the Evening Standard says Labour candidate Khan still enjoys a sizable lead and is more trusted than Conservative Goldsmith on the majority of key issues.

With the Senate voting on a provisional bill to fund the government for three more weeks, Sara Fagen, DDC Advocacy, and CNBC's John Harwood discuss the road ahead for getting a final spending bill and work on immigration.

Also of interest, the groups that were the most negative on the new economic policies were those with college degrees and people living in the Northeast, both demographics that exit polls show voted more for Hillary Clinton.

In a wide - ranging interview with The Associated Press ahead of the vote, Khodorkovsky warned that U.S. and European Union sanctions against Russia are fueling Putin's domestic agenda instead of hurting him, and predicted more ugly Russian - U.S. relations in Putin's next term.

Even if you're a superstar at Sluggish Co., your upside trajectory (more often than not) is fractional to what an average / below average employee achieves at Rocket Ship Co,» says an anonymous poster with the most up - voted answer.

Merkel was weakened after a September election as voters angry with her decision in 2015 to open Germany's borders to more than a million asylum seekers punished her conservatives by voting for the Alternative for Germany (AfD) far - right party.

And we did it all legally together with the industry when we had a political party in Sweden called the Pirate Party — which was a real party, with more than 7 % of all votes.

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With more than 80 percent of eligible voters turning out to vote, two - thirds of them were implacably opposed to the project, which would have lasted at least a decade.

The recent slowdown in job market growth, along with other factors such as the U.K.'s upcoming Brexit vote, have contributed to the central bank's more cautious approach.

Just more than half of StateWest's membership voted on the issue, with 90 per cent of the 30,366 votes cast favouring the end to mutual status.

Still, a management shakeup in June left Lansing the sole head of the studio with promises of a bigger budget and more creative freedom, a strong vote of confidence from Viacom chief Sumner Redstone.

Its score of 25.5 percent in the lower house was just ahead of the 25.4 percent for Bersani's Democratic Party, which ran in a coalition with the leftist SEL party and it won almost 8.7 million votes overall, more than any other single party.

Since it launched the original offer, Gannett's stock price (GCI) has lost more than 50 % of its value, as investors voted with their feet on the chain's proposed merger.

Angell says with up to 10 states voting on marijuana legalization at the ballot box this November, he expects to see more states to implement their own state - sanctioned industries.

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For example, if you are a beneficial owner with shares in more than one brokerage account, you may receive a separate notice or voting instruction card for each brokerage account in which you hold shares.

What began as a small, focused Enbridge campaign with northern First Nations grew into a political juggernaut that arguably contributed to the Harper government's 2015 defeat, after the pro-tanker Conservative party lost more votes in B.C. than in the rest of the country combined.

Every past nominee to get a roll call vote since at least the Carter administration received 85 or more yes votes in the Senate, with the exception of Trump's first secretary of state, Rex Tillerson, who got 56.

Although the Conservatives later replaced the Canadian Building Incentive Program with a similar program, the new one is more limited in scope with a smaller budget — typical of the cuts Harper made to many climate related initiatives that had been proposed and voted through in Parliament under the previous Liberal government.

With more than just a few weeks to organize, vote - swapping could well result in a Conservative rout.

With Greece at boiling point following the adoption of yet more internationally mandated austerity measures in the wake of parliament's vote to slash 25,000 jobs in the public sector, opposition leaders said it was wrong for Schäuble to be visiting at all.

Ensuring that there is a congruence between attested values and behaviour is becoming more important, as employees «vote with their feet» now more than they ever have.

The term of an incentive stock option may not exceed ten years, except that with respect to any participant who owns more than 10 % of the voting power of all classes of our outstanding stock, the term must not exceed five years and the exercise price must equal at least 110 % of the fair market value on the grant date subject to the provisions of our 2015 Plan.

Research indicates, for instance, that companies with majority (rather than plurality) voting for directors are more apt to adopt shareholder proposals that garner majority support, and that many chief financial officers are willing to forgo investments in projects expected to be profitable in the longer term in order to meet analysts» quarterly earnings estimates.