Is there a business that sets corporate policies, strategies and tactics by majority vote?
Whatever rulings Rehnquist may make on questions of procedure and evidence can be overturned by majority vote: the jury is in charge of the judge.
The Dutch presidency's draft treaty had proposed letting the EC make laws by majority vote in new areas such as working conditions and worker consultation.
After years of virtuous pleading for more decisions by majority vote in Euro-councils, the chancellor shocked his partners by what seemed like a sharp change of tack.
EU's powers may be modest compared with the federalists' wish-list, and countries retain a veto in over 40 policy areas, against some 153 provisions to be decided by majority vote.
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They are the heretics, the non-believers, the doubters who point out that over the past decade global temperatures have declined and that scientific facts are not determined by majority vote.
With the committee basing most of its policies on measurable key performance indexes, which look into sales, profits and service quality, Day says management by majority vote and effective delegation at Wowprime makes his life much easier.
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In theory, lots of EU financial regulations could be decided by qualified majority vote.
The proposals, made up of more than 100 individual elements, will need to be approved by a majority vote of the council.
Under the treaty, applicants will be chosen next spring at a summit, by qualified majority vote of all existing members of the Union.
Reid has already committed to spearheading needed reforms to the Senate rules, and appears to have wisely decided against ramming through rules changes by a majority vote.
White House officials say the FEC, by a majority vote of its six-member panel, has the existing authority to ban soft money, and that's what the president will push for.
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Under state law, the legislature may attempt to repeal the same-day air hunting ban by a majority vote after Feb. 28, two years from the date when the initiative was certified.
But three members of the transport select committee - Karen Lumley, Karl McCartney, and Iain Stewart - said that they disagreed with the report, which was passed by a majority vote.
One example might be accepting that it would be wrong in principle to impose new financial regulations by a majority vote against the wishes of the country with the biggest financial-services industry in Europe.
If it passes, it could be approved by a majority vote of EU governments, clearing the way for the Turks to drop their refusal to open Turkish ports and airports to trade with the Greek-Cypriots.
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Oxfam has been advocating to bring the arms trade under control for more than a decade and played a crucial role in the campaign to deliver an Arms Trade Treaty that was passed by overwhelming majority vote at the United Nations in April this year.
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Under this hard budget constraint, the rest of the government would have to live on whatever revenues are left over after debt service and Social Security benefits are paid unless Congress is willing to vote for more new borrowing, by super-majority vote if it wants to increase the debt more than the economy is growing.
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Each senator has a single vote, and the next vice president would be chosen by a simple majority vote.
The House, by a simple majority vote, must approve the articles of impeachment and convey them to the Senate.
Although it takes two-thirds of legislators to pass a tax increase, fees could be increased by a simple majority vote.
But Mr. Obama used a procedural gambit known as reconciliation to gain Senate approval of ObamaCare by a simple majority vote.
Borrowing more money would remain an option, if Congress votes to do so, by super-majority vote providing it wants to borrow an amount that would cause the debt to grow as a share of GDP.
His one-time friend and now political enemy Gianfranco Fini called on him to resign at the weekend, saying "the government must understand that it is not credible, even if it wins in parliament by a vote, because with a majority of one vote you can survive but you can't govern".
But what's been under discussion so far has included guarantees for minority rights, with a suggested requirement for contentious decisions to be taken by a strongly weighted majority vote.
But peers agreed by a 21-vote majority to remove the relevant clause from the bill.
This was in spite of the ITU's earlier pledge that disputed issues would only be resolved by consensus and not a majority vote.
But peers agreed by a 21-vote majority to remove the relevant clause from the Crime and Courts Bill, during report stage of the legislation on 27 November 2012.
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