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.

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.

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

Council decisions that now require unanimity would be taken by majority vote.

The third and final vote requires a 3 5 (180 votes) majority.

The consistent practice of the United Nations has been to interpret the words absolute majority as meaning a majority of all electors whether or not they vote or are allowed to vote.

The consistent practice of the United Nations has been to interpret the words absolute majority as meaning a majority of all electors, whether or not they vote or are allowed to vote.

The consistent practice of the United Nations has been to interpret the words absolute majority as meaning a majority of all electors, whether or not they vote or are allowed to vote.

The consistent practice of the United Nations has been to interpret the words absolute majority as meaning a majority of all electors whether or not they vote or are allowed to vote.

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

Decisions of the Committee shall be made by a majority vote of the members present.

And likewise they asked, not in 2000, but in the same survey in 1996, Would you not vote for a qualified black president?

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.

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.

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.

(b) Decisions of the Subcommittee on Prevention shall be made by a majority vote of the members present

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.

He was not elected by the people in a vote, but became President by virtue of being the sole candidate deemed qualified by the Presidential Elections Committee.

Papadopoulos assumed the Presidency on 28 February 2003 after winning a first round majority with 51.51 of the vote.

In fact, veto power should be given only to the General Assembly, to be exercised by a majority vote.

So the results strongly suggest that if all Americans were given a chance to vote on keeping pregnant pigs and calves in such tight confinement, the majority would vote no.

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.

Together they won a narrow 51 majority of the popular vote, giving them 37 of the 65 seats in parliament.

Uribe won an unprecedented re election two years ago with an absolute majority in the first round of the vote.

PARIS The United Nations General Assembly is the world s only body in which all countries vote, with majority rule prevailing.

Following the vote with a majority of its members supporting this merger, the IET was established on March 31, 2006.

This allows an error in any one of the three samples to be corrected by majority vote or democratic voting .

Instead of gaining an absolute majority, as they had expected, they won 21.9 of the vote, resulting in 88 seats.

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.

It's really a new type of law targeting a particular minority faith based on the prejudices of the majority. And my religious rights should not be dependent on a majority vote, said Hooper.

Before a no confidence vote can be held, agreement must be reached on a new government majority to take its place.

In either case, the high standard of Charter bodies and important matters of a two thirds majority vote should be retained.

(A super majority voting mechanism will ensure that the vote of at least one international judge is needed to reach a judgment.)

2004 parliamentary election SWAPO won Khomas Region by a wide majority, though with a lower percentage of the total vote than nationally.

The Court denied such binding effect since the board's decisions were subject to a majority vote in the meeting of the members.

The Charter itself supports that view in Article 108, which provides for a two thirds majority vote for changes to the Charter.

The Working Group established under rule 106, paragraph 1, may also declare a complaint admissible by majority vote or inadmissible by unanimity.

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

(d) Recruitment of qualified spouses

Farhad Afshar reflects on how the majority of the population in Iowa are white but still preferred to vote for a black candidate.

Similarly, the latest polls in Italy suggest that the overwhelming majority of those who intend to vote are in favor of therapeutic cloning.

Protestants replied that if a vote were held within the geographical area of the entire island, the two thirds Catholic majority would rule.

Consider Ireland, where for many years Catholics objected that if a vote were held within Northern Ireland, the two thirds Protestant majority would rule.

If it cannot be reformed, it should be abolished and its mandate assigned to the General Assembly with decisions taken by a majority vote.

Unlike presidents Hugo Chávez in Venezuela or Evo Morales in Bolivia, who came to power by majority vote, Ortega regained Nicaragua s presidency in 2007 despite securing only 38 of the vote in the first round of polling.