Sentence examples for voting weights from inspiring English sources

It changes members' voting weights.

For the moment, other differences appear to have been overshadowed by the issue of voting weights.

Big countries differ with small ones over voting weights and the size of the European Commission.

Decades of post-war urban migration have left wide disparities in voting weights across Japan.

It would decide its own powers, and changes to voting weights, subject only to a rubber stamp from parliament.

Hopes suffered a blow on Tuesday when Spain flatly rejected a German-backed compromise on the crucial issue of voting weights in a union of 25 members.

The discrepancy between voting weight and voting power is more dramatic in the voting body (50, 49, 1) where, again, a simple majority wins.

Since voting weight depends on a mosque's surface area, and many new ones have Moroccan links, this helped the FNMF.

At Nice in 2000, France's refusal to accept that Germany's larger population entitled it to greater voting weight led to a late-night argument and an unwieldy and incomprehensible voting system.

"Godard speaks to a generation that's only now getting voting weight in the academy," said Mr. Robinson, who is both a writer and a director, and had an Oscar nomination in 1990 for his "Field of Dreams" script.

And in truth, few EU governments or institutions are genuine enthusiasts for the treaty as such (Germany, which would gain voting weight, and the European Parliament, which would win extra powers, are two exceptions).