Apple has agreed to pull one of its proposals from the shareholder meeting Wednesday after a federal judge ruled in favor of a bid by Greenlight Capital that sought to block voting on the same.
Medicare serves everyone, and in particular it provides benefits for the elderly, a powerful voting block.
And neither side wants to be blamed by seniors (read: major voting block) for delaying social security payments.
He will have the biggest voting block in both houses, and all the parties say they will support him.
And then there is the all-important senior voting block, one that tends to favor the Republican candidate in presidential elections.
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One of the most striking, a voting block that's been loyally Republican could be up for grabs - Evangelical Christians.
And I'm told that the key voting block, the swing voters in this upcoming Democratic primary, are African-American women, women just like yourselves.
And Texas Democrats have been less successful than their California counterparts at turning the state's Latino population (nearly 30%) into a solid Democratic voting block.
That may not sound like a large enough voting block to decide an election but, on the state level, young voters can make a big difference.
In the last presidential election, an entire voting block was energized into believing they were electing someone who would literally save the country from pending doom.
Combining his fundamentalist faith, his conservative views and his flair for television, Falwell helped mold Evangelicals into a vital voting block and helped push the Republican Party to the right.
Since a large majority of the MapleStory players are between the age of 18-29, with more than 40 percent being female, this group represents an important sample of this voting-block.
They did so not just to ensure jobs for the boys but chiefly because their numbers were large enough to achieve political control by voting as a block.
Another was to balance the foreign judges with a majority of Cambodian judges in the three courts that make up the tribunal (two are needed for appeals) without allowing them sufficient voting strength to block an indictment at the trial level.
Or to put it another way, if a majority of the eurozone "outs" don't like a new banking rule, they can block it - which limits the voting force of eurozone members acting in unison.
They set up two classes of stock--a large block of nonvoting Class A stock (which was willed to the charitable Ford Foundation) and a much smaller block of Class B stock that had voting rights (and was willed to the family).
In the mid 1930s, Henry Ford and his son, Edsel, set up the two-class structure as part of their estate planning: the charitable Ford Foundation received most of the shares, but they kept a small block of Class B shares that had voting rights, thus assuring family control.
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Would the Blue Dogs consider voting with the Republicans, a Republican block, on a bill?
This sale is likely to boost the voting rights of the anti-Rothschild block.
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The prickly issue of voting reform has proved to be a key stumbling block.
While 324 synod members voted for women bishops, Church voting rules mean 122 votes against were enough to block it.
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On Tuesday 324 members of the synod voted for women bishops - but its voting rules meant the 122 votes against were enough to block it.
When Ireland votes on the compact on May 31st, it will be voting in or out for Ireland alone, not threatening to block everyone else.
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As for the other two proposals, on giving investors the formal power to block pay awards and on forcing the remuneration committee to have a workforce rep as a voting member, goodness only knows whether they will be enacted or squished.
The trade agreement and the banana accompanying measures were approved during the daily voting session on 11 December 2012, despite an attempt by the left-wing GUE group to block the agreement.
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