He confirmed on Thursday cabinet would consider the terms of reference of the royal commission into the Northern Territory juvenile detention system and whether to nominate Kevin Rudd to be the next UN secretary general.
Likewise, trying to convince GM or Microsoft to abandon stock options or to institute a nominating system that allows shareholders to nominate and elect directors from a slate larger than the number to be elected will prove to be an equally useless effort.
The current system means if voters want to nominate their own preferences, rather than the preferences of their party, they have to number every Senate candidate.
The way is open for ordinary citizens to reject the options that our dysfunctional party system offers and go online to nominate the people who we think are most qualified to be president and vice president.
To assess whether blinding was maintained, after collection of follow-up trial outcomes, the CATI system prompted the data collector to nominate the group to which they thought the participant had been allocated.
For SearchDOGS to be applied to other systems, the user would need to nominate one genome as a reference onto which the OGS groups would be mapped.
While it's not uncommon for a party to nominate an unelectable candidate in a Senate or House election, the Presidential nominating systems used by both Democrats and Republicans only occasionally produce a fringe candidate.
So now the Republican Party begins its quadrennial dance of trying to adjust rules to improve its system and nominate a candidate who at least has a chance to secure 270 electoral votes, a difficult prospect for almost any Republican given U.S. demography and all but impossible for Mr. Trump.
The failure of the nominating system to determine a clear winner, relatively early in the process, will lead many in the party to call for changing this system, particularly if Obama loses to McCain.
Under that system, parties nominate their candidates and then the voters select from among all the contenders, with the top two vote-getters moving on to the general election.
