The proposal is nonbinding, but it could be hard for directors to ignore if it passes.
In the U.S., the Dodd-Frank financial-overhaul law gave shareholders a nonbinding say-on-pay vote starting in 2011.
Under the Dodd-Frank financial-overhaul law, investors began casting nonbinding votes on executive pay in 2011.
Winnipeg has gotten a nonbinding bid from a mysterious third party (which many believe to be Nymex).
More broadly, investors in the U.K. began casting advisory, or nonbinding, votes on corporate pay in 2003.
Because it is nonbinding, it does not have to be forwarded to the president for his signature.
What they have at the moment is a nonbinding term sheet, so it still has to be finalized.
Puerto Ricans voted on their status in 1993 in a nonbinding advisory vote.
"I have more hope in our lawsuit than in nonbinding resolutions, " he said.
Santorum won the nonbinding primary in Missouri in February and is expected to take the state's caucuses on Saturday.
Starting in 2011, the Dodd-Frank financial-overhaul law gave shareholders at all but the smallest U.S. companies a nonbinding say-on-pay vote.
The upstate counties passing the nonbinding resolutions say the law infringes on the right to bear arms and threatens to make criminals of law-abiding residents.
But the amendment was attached to the nonbinding Senate budget resolution.
Many amendments were rejected along strict party lines and were of little consequence because the entire budget is a nonbinding measure and destined not to become law.
Although the budget is nonbinding and isn't likely to become law, it fleshes out Democrats' vision of a plan to reduce the deficit while protecting safety-net programs.
Instead he asked the Security Council to pass a nonbinding resolution stressing the urgency of global disarmament and arms-control treaties among the five permanent Security Council members.
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In the Saturday letter, obtained by CNN affiliate WRTV-TV in Indianapolis, Morris lobbied lawmakers to oppose a nonbinding resolution celebrating the 100th anniversary of the Girl Scouts.
The charter is nonbinding, and does not have enforcement provisions.
So it's notable that during its recent budget debate the Senate voted 51-48 for a nonbinding resolution that would require CBO to produce a dynamic score for tax changes.
But Democrats, who have been unable to bring up more substantive gun measures, tied the Senate up in procedural pretzels until they got the vote on the nonbinding measure.
The bids submitted thus far, which are nonbinding, will be whittled down in coming weeks and the parties will negotiate over content licensing, the person familiar with the matter said.
The new federal requirement that public companies hold nonbinding shareholder votes on proposed executive compensation plans (the votes are known as "say on pay") creates considerable challenges for corporate leaders.
Referring to the measure's nonbinding status, Mr. Bush said it will ultimately matter more what the House does with the funding decisions it must make in the weeks to come.
This is a phenomenon that always fascinates me: somebody took the time to vote in a nonbinding, unscientific Internet poll, and yet could not muster sufficent interest to take a position.
Update: It looks like the SEC has prevented some major GE shareholders with an opportunity to vote on a nonbinding shareholder proposal raising the issues of auditor independence and firm rotation.
Further, since implementation of the code of conduct is left to member-states to interpret, the same thought process that is being applied to the embargo would flourish under a nonbinding code of conduct.
What awaits Wilders in the Netherlands may be a harbinger of what will happen if a nonbinding Dec. 18 U.N. resolution, passed by a strong majority in the General Assembly, becomes international law.
Another rub: unwritten and nonbinding agreements common in the reinsurance industry that have the effect of lowering risk to the reinsurer by allowing it to wriggle out of a deal without a loss, in the event claims skyrocket.
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