Agreement on budgetary priorities should be achieved in the Council through qualified majority voting, so that a single country cannot hijack the process.

To counter this threat, democratic bodies invariably need special rules to protect minorities, such as the requirement of qualified majority voting or unanimous decision making.

Decisions require unanimity among member states in the Council of the European Union, but once agreed, certain aspects can be further decided by qualified majority voting.

We believe, though, that the increased use of qualified majority voting by member governments embodied in the new treaty should also be applied to the ratification process itself.

But, while its work is carried out under the normal qualified majority voting system, the 17 eurozone countries will have a single supervisor, so will have a block vote.

The EU overcame national biases to establish the Single Market by instituting a process of legally binding qualified majority voting, whereby individual member states could be outvoted on specific regulations.

Moreover, the plaintiffs claim that, while the ESM treaty is restrictive in granting resources to individual states, requiring a qualified majority vote, it does not specify the conditions under which losses are acceptable.

(d) Recruitment of qualified spouses

I wouldn't have qualified as transgender.

He also qualified for the Olympics.

(f) Develop, in consultation with the local focal point for women, a roster of qualified candidates, focusing on qualified women

Tom isn't qualified to teach high school.

Municipalities are lacking qualified solid waste managers.

Few qualified Kosovo Serb candidates are presented.

Key powers over the implementation of common policy guidelines have been entrusted to the European Commission, and the European Council has limited its own ability to reject Commission recommendations by requiring a qualified majority to change them.

Effective emergency response requires the quick mobilization of qualified staff members professional support from partner agencies, qualified consultants or private sector agencies.

They're eminently qualified to make flat screen TVs.

Only the German electorate is qualified to decide.

And it still could be a qualified American.

The winner qualified for the 2013 AFC Cup.

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First, the EU has to accept at least a million asylum seekers annually for the foreseeable future. And, to do that, it must share the burden fairly a principle that a qualified majority finally established at last Wednesday s summit.

In this hospital, there is one person qualified to deliver anesthesia, and she's qualified because she has 12, maybe 18 months of training in anesthesia.

Highly qualified work now represents one in three jobs.

There are also qualified and experienced professionals in this field.

The champions, North Korea, qualified for the 2011 Asian Cup.

and also qualified a team in the jumping team competition.

The United Nations must become qualified to achieve those goals.

A number of countries reported a shortage of qualified staff.

Sri Mulyani Indrawati is another highly qualified candidate from Southeast Asia.

Even the experiment with electronic voting machines was a qualified success.

This underscores the urgency of building a qualified reliable civil service.

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.

While we appreciate the Court's quest to recruit highly qualified staff, we urge it to ensure fair geographical distribution of top and mid level managerial positions to highly qualified persons.

Their competitors are all equally qualified to make all of these products.

In addition, India (tournament hosts), Korea DPR, Turkmenistan and Myanmar qualified automatically.

The Court places heavy emphasis on the recruitment of highly qualified staff.

States may assist the Court in identifying qualified candidates from underrepresented States.

According to the report, needy rural women qualified for a State pension.

The winner of this play off qualified for the 2010 FIFA World Cup.

Liberia has twice qualified for the Africa Cup of Nations 1996 and 2002.

Malawi qualified for a full compact in 2007, while Mauritania became threshold eligible.

Individuals were not deemed qualified to determine the need for such a test.

In building a viable roster of qualified candidates, various contingencies must be considered.

But national governments remain reluctant to delegate authority in November 2004, the European Council accepted qualified majority voting on measures concerning illegal migration, but left restrictions on legal migration subject to unanimity rules, as if legal and illegal migration were not merely two sides of the same coin.