Here, too, thanks to the assembly's complex voting rules, the arithmetic is finely balanced.
The parliament has already passed a motion rejecting anything other than the Nice voting rules.
The toughest battles in Amsterdam were fought over the Union's institutional make-up and voting rules.
While 324 synod members voted for women bishops, Church voting rules mean 122 votes against were enough to block it.
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This, the argument goes on, shows why it is worth changing the voting rules to make co-operation in criminal matters easier.
The new boss wants to speed the process up and introduce new voting rules to boost the power of emerging economies.
Under SPL voting rules, a formal resolution needs to be put to clubs 14 days before meeting and that has not happened.
General synod voting rules meant that while 324 members were in favour of the change, and just 122 against, it was not passed.
By establishing clear voting rules and burden-sharing clauses for international creditors, and by encouraging countries to adopt them, they could streamline debt workouts when countries falter.
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.
The bench could also examine Section 5 of the 1965 Voting Rights Act - a provision that forces nine US states with a history of electoral discrimination to have all changes to voting rules first approved in Washington.
But the voting rules are explicit.
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This time, most Yes voters popping into a polling station in the small town of Swords on their way to work gave me the same reason for their vote: that the treaty was needed to streamline the voting rules of an EU at 27 nations.
Before closing up shop for 2007, the House of Representatives Wednesday abandoned its strict budgetary rules, voting 352-64 to keep the AMT from rippling across America's upper-middle class.
Their hard-won victories placed executive compensation and stock options under greater scrutiny and led to modest changes in proxy rules and voting procedures that empowered shareholders at the expense of officers and directors.
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The BJP and left-wing parties have insisted that a debate on economic reforms must be held under rules that include voting.
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The main opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and left-wing parties have been insistent that a debate on economic reforms must be held under rules that include voting.
Rumours of collusion between a 2018 bidder and a 2022 hopeful surfaced in September, prompting Fifa secretary general Jerome Valcke to warn all countries that mutual voting deals are against Fifa rules.
Vanguard says its own new proxy voting standards, not new SEC rules, are behind the change.
Did it violate a federal law that requires that electors be selected according to rules set before the voting takes place?
They are voting on proposals to ease controversial rules restricting assisted fertility.
Academy officials also stressed that the current rules for best picture voting, which could lead to anywhere between five and 10 nominees in the top category, would remain in place for 2014.
The argument about City regulations was about the danger of a newly united eurozone being able to outvote the UK - using qualified majority voting or QMV - under new rules which are still due to come in 2014.
And Senate rules allow any member to postpone voting for a week -- a privilege Leahy exercised last week.
There is talk of near-automatic sanctions on countries that break the euro's rules, such as cancelling offenders' voting rights, withholding EU funds or even suspending euro membership.
New rules are also needed to make the voting power of each country in the council more proportionate to its size: the present system gives small countries a disproportionately big say.
Congressional rules give Colombia's legislators two more voting opportunities to reintroduce wording to make the law retroactive.
Previous rules required cardinals to wait at least 15 days to begin voting.
Existing rules say the Roman Catholic Church's cardinals should start voting on a replacement from 15 to 20 days after the papal throne becomes vacant.
States have leeway to decide how to implement the rules: ministers could stipulate a tariff above which prisoners forfeit voting rights, or allow judges to remove them as part of their sentences.
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