• So too will the balance between proportionate representation in government (as advocated by the majority Shias) and equal representation for all ethnic groups (as pushed by the Sunnis and Kurds).

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  • But because Conservatives fear that they would not win an outright majority in a proportional representation (PR) system, the Lib Dems could secure only a more modest prize: a referendum on keeping FPTP or adopting the alternative vote (AV).

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  • The election result, in which a majority of eligible editorial employees voted for union representation, was certified by the NLRB on October 22, 2010.

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  • Sri Lanka's system of proportional representation makes the magical two-thirds majority hard to reach.

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  • Steve Shrubb, director of the NHS Confederation's Mental Health Network which represents the majority of mental health trusts, said tackling the over-representation of minority ethnic groups in mental health wards was the biggest challenge facing providers.

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  • By repealing the mandatory good faith bargaining and exclusive representation restrictions, businesses would no longer be required to recognize majority supported unions, bargain on specific topics, and cover a complete bargaining unit with a union contract.

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  • It could work only if the majority in this committee mirrored a majority of the whole House of Commons, ie, that the government of the day held a majority because it had sufficient English seats to overcome Scottish, Welsh and Northern Irish representation.

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  • Because, under Germany's system of proportional representation, the Greens got 47 parliamentary seats, but under France's majority-voting system its Greens, the main environmental party, got a mere half-dozen.

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  • By early morning, after all the votes had been counted and 46 parliamentary seats allocated under the proportional-representation system, the GNP had emerged with 133 seats, just four short of a majority.

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  • "It excludes the majority of housing costs faced by homeowners and differences in calculation mean it may be considered a better representation of the way consumers change their consumption patterns in response to price changes, " the 2010 Budget document explained.

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