All legislation is passed by a simple majority.

A simple majority of the ballots is required to win a six year term, which is renewable indefinitely by the same process.

The members of the Council could be elected by a simple majority of the General Assembly members on the basis of equitable geographical distribution.

Otherwise, proposed legislation can be killed, even if it has the support of a simple majority.

Also significant, we are told, is the agreement to make decisions by simple majority, with countries votes to be roughly in proportion to their contributions.

The Committee shall, by a simple majority and in accordance with the following rules, decide whether the communication is admissible or inadmissible under the Optional Protocol.

To overcome a filibuster, the proposal s supporters must muster 60 of 100 votes, rather than a simple majority.

A referendum must then be held within three months, which requires a simple majority in favour to pass.

The President, Prime Minister and Ministers of the region are elected by simple majority, in contrast to the Iraqi Council of Representatives which requires two thirds support.

The electoral law can be changed by simple parliamentary majority, but a law so changed only becomes enforced in the election following the upcoming one, unless it is voted by the Greek Parliament with a majority of ⅔ of the total number of the deputies.

If and when all efforts to reach consensus have been exhausted, decisions of the Committee shall be taken by a simple majority of the members present and voting.

The decisions taken by the European Central Bank are a particularly dramatic example of this problem, taken as they are by a simple majority of a body that is not even democratically elected.

Ninety deputies are elected in 35 single and multi member districts (departments) by simple majority (plurality) party block vote (PBV, winning party list takes all seats in the district).

Legislation to amend certain sections in the Constitution under Article 86 requires endorsement by the electorate and a simple majority of voters in a referendum is sufficient (Paterson, 1999).

In the new Parliament, the election for President is repeated immediately with a 3 5 majority required for the initial vote, an absolute majority for the second one (151 votes) and a simple majority for the third and final one.

In accordance with the following rules, the Committee shall decide by simple majority as soon as practicable whether or not a complaint is admissible under article 22 of the Convention.

This has proven impossible on controversial policies such as binding reductions on carbon emissions even when a simple majority supports the legislation.

The majority of the tombs are located on the sides of the pantheon, and are simple marble boxes with spaces of four tombs.

The Secretary General shall transmit the views of the Committee, determined by a simple majority, together with any recommendations, to the author or authors of the communication and to the State party concerned.

9. Simple distributed majority vote means a vote requiring more than half of the votes cast by producer members present and voting and more than half of the votes cast by consumer members present and voting, counted separately

To reach agreement by a simple or qualified majority when it is impossible to obtain a decision by consensus To determine which decisions should be reached by consensus and which by majority vote and To decide whether votes by Parties on such matters should be counted according to the Parties present and voting, or according to the total number of Parties to the Convention.

Because simple demographic implies that Palestinians would gradually come to constitute a majority, a unitary state is a recipe for the end of Israel.

1bis. If consensus cannot be reached, the Council shall take all decisions and make all recommendations by a simple distributed majority vote, as defined in Article 2 unless this Agreement provides for a special vote

Should the LDP win a simple majority, the new administration would still face a hung Diet, owing to the DPJ s control of the Upper House.

This can be illustrated by a simple example.

They seem guided by pure and simple spite.

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The bailout request did not succeed because it could not muster a simple majority of the states (represented by the Senate) and the population (represented by the House of Representatives) under the normal decision making procedure (the Community method, in European Union jargon).

Conversely, should the DPJ gain a simple majority, its inexperienced government will immediately have to cope with the same intractable policy issues that the LDP failed to confront.

Policymaking is often dominated by simple lessons learned from economic history.

This can be accomplished by a simple reordering of the sentences.

That's simple, the goddess of goats, very simple.

Unlike the process for determining full UN membership, a simple majority in the General Assembly is sufficient to grant observer state status, with no recourse to the UN Security Council.

Such studies require a simple mechanism by which to evaluate tumor burden.

The transmission details are specified by the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP).

Under the US Constitution, domestic legislation (as opposed to international treaties) requires a simple majority in both the House of Representatives and the Senate to be sent to the president for signature.

At other times simple rent seeking behavior by officials, aided and abetted by outsiders, is the outcome.

The majority of such firms are financed by local capital.

Simple printer

Simple modem

Simple sharp

However, the metaphor is limited by a simple fact computers do not make computers.

However, the metaphor is limited by a simple fact computers do not make computers.

1. The Tribunal shall take all decisions by a majority vote.

China is often thought to be governed by the Han majority.