In the U.S., a merger needs only a simple majority of shareholders to be approved.
Final passage of the bill would then require only a simple majority of 51.
And he stressed that the existing threshold for a no-confidence vote would remain as a simple majority of 50% plus one.
With only a simple majority of 51 senators needed, that sounds achievable.
But on one interpretation of procedure the rules can be changed by a simple majority of senators at the beginning of a new Congress.
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Buy-outs of this kind must get the support of holders of 75% of the shares, as well as from a simple majority of the individual investors.
For the avoidance of doubt, Mr Cable is still actively considering the idea that a simple majority of shareholders in favour of remuneration policy may not be appropriate.
While Mr. Hagel's supporters needed 60 votes to advance the nomination, they will need a simple majority of 51 votes on the separate matter of whether to approve his confirmation.
This past November the Sandridge board changed corporate bylaws requiring a majority of shares outstanding rather than a simple majority of shares voting to enact a change in corporate governance.
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The new Lisbon Treaty raises the threshold for approving a new commission from a simple majority of MEPs present, to an absolute majority, ie, more than half of all MEPs must approve each new college of commissioners.
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.
That way, they hope, a strong contingent of Sunnis will win seats in the chamber and work to amend the constitution. (A simple majority of deputies can put a constitutional amendment to a referendum.) The hope is that the process can create a coherent Sunni nationalist movement with credible leaders, working in the political mainstream.
Among its nine initiatives, California offered a proposition that could reduce government gridlock by lowering the minimum needed for the legislature to approve a state budget, making it a simple majority instead of a two-thirds majority.
What this means is that when a new rule is agreed, there will have to be a majority by voting weight of all EU members, plus a simple unweighted majority of the eurozone "outs" and the "ins".
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.
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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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.
Californians also voted to let their state legislature pass budgets with a simple majority, instead of a two-thirds majority, while keeping a two-thirds requirement for any tax increase.
To be able to claim victory, Mr Hashimoto will have to win at least a simple majority (64) of the 126 seats up for grabs.
It would not be possible to implement fixed-term parliaments if a general election could be called by a simple majority in the House of Commons, he said.
But Mr. Obama used a procedural gambit known as reconciliation to gain Senate approval of ObamaCare by a simple majority vote.
One of the alternatives is a parliamentary tactic known as reconciliation, which requires only a simple majority and can pass with only 51 votes, instead of the 60 needed to break a filibuster.
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The center-left Congress party won 121 seats, more than the 113 required for a simple majority, the Election Commission of India's website showed.
White House press secretary Ari Fleischer acknowledged in his afternoon briefing that Bush was speaking of a simple majority vote in the Senate, should the bill be brought up for a vote.
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.
But the bill requires the votes of only a simple majority in Congress.
In addition to giving the legislature's upper house this direct role in treaty-making, the Framers enshrined in the Constitution a high threshold for such consent: Not just a simple majority but fully two-thirds of the Senate must give their approval for any treaty to be ratified.
As a result, Ornstein argued, Democratic leaders may now try to short-circuit the traditional Senate legislative process by passing a more partisan bill through an obscure tactic known as reconciliation, a type of budget maneuver that requires only a simple majority -- 51 votes -- to pass.
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