The procedural agreement meant that amendments by both parties required 60 votes to advance, rather than a simple majority.
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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Another piece of legislation introduced in the House would amend the state constitution to require future wildlife or natural resource-related initiatives to pass by a two-thirds margin, rather than by a simple majority.
He also asked them to estimate how confident they were about the suspects they identified, rather than insisting on a simple yes-no answer.
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Rather than thinking of intelligence as a simple connect-the-dots picture, think of it as a million unnumbered pictures superimposed on top of each other.
Ensuring that their systems are set to operate as simple users rather than a having the powerful administrative rights of system administrators, can keep the attackers from running malicious software on their computers and stop the attacks.
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He wears simple vestments, spurned a papal car following his election to ride win a bus with his cardinal electors, and has opted for a simple living style rather than taking up residence in the lavish papal apartments.
The referendum was held only because, under pressure from the League, Mr Berlusconi rammed the reform through parliament by a simple majority, rather than strike a deal with the opposition to secure a two-thirds majority in each parliamentary chamber.
The motion would require only a simple majority to pass, rather than the two-thirds vote needed to approve the impeachment articles.
The entire multi-hundred page S. 900 that reregulates rather than deregulates the financial sector could be replaced with a simple one-page bill.
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And that strikes me as a very sensible, simple proposal rather than getting into the business of having the government set people's compensation, which I think is a bad idea in a free market system.
As a lawyer he had favoured using simple language rather than jargon.
"Products girls build are very simple and they may have a series of them rather than one complicated and inter-connected solution, " she added.
This was all based on a simple insight: The behavior of the electron was dictated by the wave function rather than particle physics.
Despite the fact that my Xbox buddy list is constantly filled with friends Netflix-ing rather than gaming, the system lags behind because of the simple fact that Xbox Live continues to be a paid service, while PSN is not.
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Rather than studying the most complex form of memory in a very complicated animal, we had to take the most simple form -- an implicit form of memory -- in a very simple animal.
Rather than continue to fight a losing battle to replace the cable box, the company refocused on making it iPod-simple to watch shows across all of its devices.
The simple answer: gaming apps are typically designed specifically for the mobile devices, rather than shrunk down from a version designed for a larger screen.
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Rather than adopting broad-brush regulations that place ISP practices that may benefit consumers off limits, the FCC could adopt a simple rule prohibiting ISPs from engaging in practices that constitute an abuse of significant and non-transitory market power that harm consumers.
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