Most of them come down to a rejection of majority voting in particular policy areas.
There is also pressure for reform of the ECB's cumbersome voting structure and policy framework.
The Lib Dems insist that they would not be voting against government policy because they claim there is no government policy.
The Dutch suggest some majority voting in foreign policy, for example.
The Italian government, as president of the European Union, published its latest draft of a new EU constitution , including a proposal for some majority voting on foreign policy.
Lib Dems, for example, had to consider whether voting against a policy on student finance which reneged on their explicit promise to the voters would bring down the coalition, which they would regard as promoting the greater good.
The social network plans to end user voting on its privacy policy, and allow the sharing of information across its services.
Conservative Peter Bone said Lib Dem ministers should resign and "cross the floor of the House" for voting against agreed government policy.
In a country where local issues usually dominate voting patterns, foreign policy has surprisingly emerged as the defining issue of the current political debate.
The Bank of England was almost evenly divided over whether to cut interest rates in January, with only five of the nine members of the Monetary Policy Committee voting to hold rates at 6%.
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" It's also proposing changes to its site governance process, including a shift away from its current voting method for feedback on policy changes, which it says "incentivized the quantity of comments over their quality.
Is ignoring the dangers of our current energy policy truly the change they were voting for?
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It would expand the policy areas subject to qualified majority voting (QMV), rather than unanimity.
For the upcoming proxy season, however, ISS has changed its policy to a general recommendation of voting in favor of these proposals.
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The EU Treaty would also expand the policy areas subject to "qualified majority voting" - rather than allowing all 27 member states a veto - and establish an EU high representative for foreign affairs.
Numbers like that make policy wonks go crazy, but in the voting booth, most Americans will pull the lever based on a different measure: how much they trust a candidate's integrity, and empathy.
Alongside the unnecessary and intrusive charter of fundamental rights and the mad idea of giving the undeserving European Parliament more powers, Lisbon improves the EU's voting system, partly sorts out a muddled foreign-policy structure and creates a permanent presidency of the European Council in place of the present six-month, rotating one.
Lowering the voting age for all elections is a long-standing SNP policy, and the party says it has been backed by organisations including Scotland's biggest teaching union, the EIS, as well as the Scottish TUC, National Union of Students and the Electoral Reform Society.
Mr. Fisher isn't a voting member of the Federal Open Market Committee, which sets monetary policy.
Mr. Fisher isn't currently a voting member of the Federal Open Market Committee, which sets monetary policy.
Many people apparently believe jurists are to act as super-legislators, voting for or against a law based on whether it is good policy.
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As always, however, the 109th Congress had its share of representatives in both chambers whose voting record demonstrate a disconcerting lack of judgment on defense and foreign policy issues.
Voting figures for the EU Council - the grouping of ministers, according to policy area - show that the UK government voted against or abstained 38 times out of 373.
Senators pose policy, ideology and, sometimes, personal questions to the nominee before voting whether he or she is fit for the post.
Policy positions, not rhetoric, will ultimately win the day with this critical voting bloc.
They would be voting on the instruction of the Deputy Prime Minister, Nick Clegg, against David Cameron's official policy.
The resolution that will be voted on at the daily voting session on 21 September calls on biodiversity conservation to be "mainstreamed" into all areas of EU policy.
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