Sentence examples for standard voting from inspiring English sources

This distinguishes voting for non-binding proposals from standard voting for binding proposals, where some information is always conveyed.

(In buildings with standard voting, a shareholder with 500 shares still gets 2,500 votes, but can cast only 500 for each director spot open for election).

They argued that Mr. Page and Mr. Brin, who already hold super-voting Class B stock, would become even more entrenched if Google started issuing nonvoting C shares rather than standard voting A shares.

In a report published Aug. 24 in the journal Physical Review Letters, Dr. David A. Meyer of the University of California at San Diego and Dr. Thad A. Brown of the University of Missouri presented formal proof that collective decisions can be chaotic, even when the views of all participants are known and a standard voting rule is strictly applied.

To classify an unseen object, a standard voting process [ 43] is used to allow all rules to participate in the decision process, arriving at a patient classification by majority vote.

Last week, for example, Microsoft executives were put on the defensive after the company's efforts to gain international adoption for a Microsoft-designed document format known as Office Open XML, led to charges of vote-buying in an international standards vote in Sweden.

The hearings were scheduled after an advisory panel set up by the board to revise the standards voted against including alternatives to evolution.

"Had we based our forecast on the standard voting-intention question, it likely would have had the Liberal Democrats winning 10 seats," he said.

Ben Lauderdale on the FiveThirtyEight site said he believed constituency polls from Lord Ashcroft that asked about specific MPs rather than parties "performed poorly and overstated the extent to which tactical voting would enable the Liberal Democrats to hold onto seats they would lose on the standard voting-intention question.

Applying a standard vote-counting rule to the data, we determine a complete ranking of the action items.

In this article, we describe the results of a carefully designed split sample experiment that allowed for comparison of a standard dichotomous-choice referendum treatment to a treatment that included the option of responding unsure to the contingent valuation question in addition to the standard vote in favor and vote against response categories.