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Reserving 14 Senate seats for nominees of the Great Council of Chiefs gave them the quota ( more than a third ) required to veto amendments to the constitution, while reserving seats for Government and Opposition nominees, the latter reflecting the political composition of the House of Representatives, guaranteed an acceptable, if not numerically equitable, measure of representation to Indo-Fijians and other minorities.
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Reserving the constitutional legitimacy of the Norwegian government also undermined Vidkun Quisling's attempts at claiming the Norwegian government for himself.
* Reserving civil unions strictly for opposite-sex couples ;
Reserving praise for the home-grown youth movement Micii Dorobanţi, he was also an official backer of Romanian Scouting.
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* Reserving the use of a white cane to blind individuals only.
14 and Senate
The Senate approved on it 27 and 29 June, favouring 14 July against 4 August ( honouring the end of the feudal system on 4 August 1789 ).
The following day, 14 September, the Senate confirmed Domitian's powers, granting tribunician power, the office of Pontifex Maximus, and the titles of Augustus, and Pater Patriae.
After the death of Augustus in 14, the Senate appointed Germanicus commander of the forces in Germania.
The House has impeached 14 federal judges and the Senate has convicted six of them.
* 14 – Tiberius is confirmed as Roman Emperor by the Roman Senate following the natural death of Augustus
The Senate is composed of the Chancellor, the President, Vice-President, Academic, Vice-President, Research, Deans of Faculties, Dean of Graduate Studies, Dean of Continuing Studies, Associate Vice-President, Academic, University Librarian, Registrar ( as Senate secretary ), 14 student members, 28 faculty members, and 4 convocation members ( who are not faculty members ).
Nick Xenophon was elected on an independent No Pokies ticket in the South Australian Legislative Council at the 1997 South Australian state election on 2. 9 percent, and re-elected at the 2006 election on 20. 5 percent, before being elected to the Australian Senate at the 2007 federal election on 14. 8 percent.
The final vote in the Senate was 39 to 13, with 14 not voting.
In July 1909, a proposed amendment to allow the federal government to tax incomes was passed unanimously in the Senate and by a vote of 318 to 14 in the House.
* March 14 – The Hay-Herran Treaty, granting the United States the right to build the Panama Canal, is ratified by the United States Senate.
* February 14 – Juan Ponce Enrile, Filipino politician, President of the Senate of the Philippines since 2008.
The amendment that became the CDA was added to the Telecommunications Act in the Senate by an 84 – 16 vote on June 14, 1995.
On June 14, 2001, the amendment was passed as part of the education funding bill by the Senate on a vote of 91-8.
Thurmond holds the record at 14 years as the longest-serving Dean of the United States Senate in U. S. history.
During the financial crisis of 2007 – 2010, a poster of a Hello Kitty pre-paid debit card expanded to roughly 1 meter in length was displayed on the floor of the US Senate by Senator Byron Dorgan as a demonstration of extreme methods used by credit companies to attract " children 10 to 14 years of age ".
Yuan Shikai was elected Provisional President of the Republic of China by the Nanjing Provisional Senate on 14 February 1912, and sworn in on 10 March of that year.
On February 14, 2012, the Senate of Virginia again approved a bill to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment.
The Cabinet is composed of 14 members selected by the Premier from among members of the bicameral parliament consisting of the nominated Senate and the House of Assembly.
After the death of Augustus in 14 AD, the Senate appointed Germanicus commander of the forces in Germania.
Sauvé was on May 14, 1984, sworn in as governor general in a ceremony in the Senate chamber, during which Trudeau said: " It is right and proper that Her Majesty should finally have a woman representative here ," though stressing that the Queen had not appointed Sauvé simply because she was a woman.
He first spoke to the issue in the Senate on December 14, 1822, introducing a bill to end the practice, and pointing to the positive effects its cessation had effected in his home state.
This included many of the newspapers of her day: for example, in the Hallowell ( Maine ) Gazette, 8 February 1815, p. 4, it refers to how the congress had allowed " Madame Dolly Madison " an allowance of $ 14, 000 to purchase new furniture ; and the New Bedford ( MA ) of 3 March 1837, p. 2 referred to a number of important papers from her late husband, and said that " Mrs. Dolly Madison " would be paid by the Senate for these historical manuscripts.
The 1971 merger law approved by the State Senate combined the two higher education systems in Wisconsin under a single Board of Regents, creating a system with 13 universities, 14 ( now 13 ) freshman-sophomore centers ( now colleges ), and a statewide extension with offices in all 72 counties.
In 1959, he was elected Minority Leader of the Senate, defeating Kentucky's more liberal Senator, John Sherman Cooper, by a vote of 20 to 14.
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The PUSC obtained 19 seats, PLN 17 seats, PAC 14 seats, PML 6 seats and PRC one seat.
The three smaller parties thus have more seats in the German Bundestag than ever before, with the liberal party FDP winning 14. 6 % of votes.
The first democratic elections since 1976 were held in December 1984 and were won by the Grenada National Party under Herbert Blaize who won 14 out of 15 seats in elections and served as Prime Minister until his death in December 1989.
The Labour Party has an overall control of the council with 17 seats, whilst the Conservative Party holds 14 seats and the Liberal Democrat party has 1 seat.
It holds 14 of the 128 seats in the Parliament of Lebanon and is a member of the Resistance and Development Bloc.
In the June 2004 parliamentary elections, the CSV won 24 seats, the LSAP 14, the DP 10, the Green Party 7, and the Alternative Democratic Reform Party 5.
Inside, all the cars featured sports seats, had the 360 mm ( 14 in ) steering wheel, with, as a final flourish, the cloth door panels colour-coded to match the detail colours.
All this contributed to Treatt's Coalition being defeated at the 14 February 1953 election, with a total loss of ten seats and a swing against them of 7. 2 %.
New elections were then called and were won resoundingly by Compton's UWP, which took 14 of 17 seats.
In elections of December 3, 2001 the St. Lucia Labour Party won 14 of the 17 available seats.
Nationalist Movement Party ( MHP ) took third place with 14. 33 %, giving the party 71 seats.
* September 14 – National Socialists win 107 seats in the German Parliament ( 18. 3 % of all the votes ), making them the second largest party.
The Social Democratic and Labour Party ( SDLP ) had announced before the election that it would not take any seats and so its 14 elected representatives also abstained from participating in the Assembly and it was a failure.
In New Zealand the Green Party of New Zealand currently holds 14 seats in the New Zealand House of Representatives after the 2011 general election.
In the 2009 European Parliament election, the party was an integral part of the Europe Écologie coalition, led by Daniel Cohn-Bendit, which gained 8 seats for a total of 14 on a 16. 3 % of the vote.
In the 2000 election, however, the party received 200, 000 votes and won 14 seats in the Serbian parliament.
In the 2011 Singapore general election, the PAP won 81 of the 87 constituency elected ( 99 total ) seats in the Parliament of Singapore while receiving 60. 14 % of total votes cast, the lowest share garnered since independence.
After leading Israel during the 1948 Arab – Israeli War, Ben-Gurion was elected Prime Minister of Israel when his Mapai ( Labour ) party won the largest number of Knesset seats in the first national election, held on 14 February 1949.
Six political parties have seats in the Provincial Council: Christian Democratic and Flemish / New-Flemish Alliance ( CD & V / N-VA, 25 seats ), Open Flemish Liberals and Democrats ( Open VLD, 17 seats ), Vlaams Belang ( 15 seats ), Socialist Party – Different-Spirit ( SP. A-Spirit, 14 seats ), Groen!
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