The proposals, made up of more than 100 individual elements, will need to be approved by a majority vote of the council.
The job of conservatives is precisely to conserve worthwhile traditions, and a majority vote of 50% plus one is one of those.
Professor TIEFER: It would be a majority vote of the Senate to either totally refuse him or to start a process for deciding it.
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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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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Parliament could be dissolved early only if no government could be formed within 14 days of a simple majority vote of no confidence, or if two-thirds of MPs voted to trigger a general election.
The bill also sets out that Parliament could be dissolved early only if no government could be formed within 14 days of a simple majority vote of no confidence, or if two-thirds of MPs voted to trigger a general election.
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".
Is this the reason that it is being offered as an executive agreement, which requires a simple majority vote of both houses of Congress?
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Eric Garcetti, 42, and Wendy Greuel, 51 - both veterans of city hall - have been cited as mayoral candidates who might face each other in a run-off vote in May if no candidate wins a majority of the vote in Tuesday's election.
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Her vote of 21, 498 was just under a 50% share of the vote, giving her a majority of 10, 651 over the Liberal Democrat challenger in second place.
But speeches from other members of the MPC such as deputy governor Charlie Bean suggest that it would take a "significant deterioration" in the economy, perhaps as a result of the eurozone, for a majority to vote in favour of more QE.
The two major parties are seen as unlikely to receive a majority of the vote even between the two of them.
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Additionally, Congress should provide that when it next comes time to raise the debt limit, a super-majority vote of both Houses of Congress will be required to raise the debt ceiling by a percentage greater than the rate the economy is growing.
Winning the presidency requires a majority of the electoral vote, regardless of who wins the popular vote.
He is the first Democrat since Jimmy Carter to win a majority of the popular vote, a vindication of his "50-state strategy" that even some in his own party once viewed as quixotic.
By contrast, he said, the CWU had secured a majority vote in favour of industrial action.
Mr. Obama, like previous Democratic presidential candidates, still won a majority of the Jewish vote, which made up 2% of the total turnout this year.
The uniform clause meant that a majority of states could not vote to heap 100% of the tax burden onto a minority of the states.
Senate Democrats are ginning up their own procedural workaround that would allow them to approve health care with a simple 51-vote majority instead of the 60 votes normally needed to forestall a Republican filibuster.
On that basis, and taking account of the number of closely fought seats, the opposition would probably have to win at least 58% of the popular vote to get a majority of seats.
The last time Mr Robb won a majority of the vote was more than a decade ago.
If he battles Obama for the heart and soul of Latinos, he still won't win a majority of the vote.
If no presidential candidate wins a majority of the vote in the first round, a runoff will be held later this month.
If no candidate gets a majority of the vote in the first round, the top two will progress to a runoff to be held June 16-17.
She is set to take over as mayor of Cape Town, the country's biggest city, where for the first time the DA won a majority of the 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.
But the 1996 reform that empowered the Trife as the final arbiter of any election is far superior to what came before, where a simple majority of the lower house of Congress sufficed to declare a vote valid.
To avoid a runoff, Correa needed a simple majority or 40 percent of the vote plus a 10-point margin over the No. 2 vote-getter.
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