Some Republicans have suggested that if the proposal fails, they might try to cut off the filibusters through rulings from the presiding officer of the Senate, who would be Republican, given the party's majority, and those could be upheld with simple majorities.
Graham McWilliam, BSkyB's group director of corporate affairs, said: "In long negotiations with BT, we have tried hard to uphold a simple principle of mutual supply so that both of us would offer all our customers all Premier League matches from next season.
The ruling would have been upheld — by a simple majority.
And Robert's Rules are the rules that prevail at the moment of birth of a new Congress — if the chair so rules and is upheld by a simple majority.
Rep. Hansen Clarke, (D-Detroit): "The core principle of President Obama's health care reform, which the Supreme Court upheld today, is simple: the more people with health insurance, the lower the cost of care.
But if BP's position is upheld — that there was simple negligence and only 2.45 million barrels of spillage — total fines would amount to no more than $2.7 billion.
But if BP's position is upheld that there was simple negligence and only 2.45 million barrels were spilled, then the total fines would amount to no more than $2.7 billion.
But a great many French patriots, inspired by the spirit of the coming revolution, were motivated by the simple desire to uphold human liberty.
To hear him tell it, it's a matter of the simple principle of upholding the sanctity of private property from any government encroachment.
Not so back East, where Shelasky's younger sister Rachel had some trouble upholding the credo of her employer, Real Simple magazine, during a recent dinner party on Shelter Island, N.Y.
