The term first past the post ( abbreviated FPTP or FPP ) was coined as an analogy to horse racing, where the winner of the race is the first to pass a particular point ( the " post ") on the track ( in this case a plurality of votes ), after which all other runners automatically and completely lose ( that is, the payoff is " winner-takes-all ").

FPP works to realise forest peoples ’ right to self-determination, a fundamental right of all peoples that underpins the work of the United Nations.

Synthesis of all higher terpenoids proceeds via formation of geranyl pyrophosphate ( GPP ), farnesyl pyrophosphate ( FPP ), and geranylgeranyl pyrophosphate ( GGPP ).

Fontaine emphasized that the FPP was open to all Manitobans, not simply those of aboriginal background.

A former Liberal Party candidate, Fontaine emphasized that the FPP was open to all Manitobans and not only those of aboriginal background.

The FPP was created following a 1993 resolution of the Assembly of Manitoba chiefs that advocated a political party focused on aboriginal issues.

The FPP was created following a 1993 resolution by the Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs, endorsing a political party to focus on aboriginal issues.

Forest Peoples Programme ( FPP ) advocates an alternative vision of how forests should be managed and controlled, based on respect for the rights of the peoples who know them best.

FPP works with forest peoples in South America, Africa, and Asia, to help them secure their rights, build up their own organisations and negotiate with governments and companies as to how economic development and conservation are best achieved on their lands.

Forest Peoples Programme ( FPP ) was founded in 1990 in response to the forest crisis, specifically to support indigenous forest peoples ’ struggles to defend their lands and livelihoods.

Through advocacy, practical projects and capacity building, FPP supports forest peoples to deal directly with the outside powers, regionally, nationally, and internationally that shape their lives and futures.

FPP work to create political space for forest peoples to secure rights, control their lands and decide their own futures.

FPP aims to create a political space for forest peoples to secure their rights, control their lands and decide their own futures.

FPIC, for years advanced by FPP, is now a key principle in international law and jurisprudence related to indigenous peoples.

He was chosen as interim president of the First Peoples National Party of Canada, a federal party similar to the FPP, in 2005.

The First Peoples Party ( FPP ) was a short-lived political-party in Manitoba, Canada.

A federal First Peoples National Party of Canada was established in 2005, based in part on the FPP.

Goumba, who was President of the Patriotic Front for Progress ( FPP ) political party, served under President François Bozizé as Prime Minister from March 2003 to December 2003 and then as Vice-President from December 2003 to March 2005.

* Patriotic Front for Progress or Front Patriotique pour le Progrès ( FPP ), a political party in the Central African Republic

The FPP was largely unsuccessful as a political party.

Nelson and Carey Contois nevertheless affiliated with the FPP in mid-campaign, and ran with endorsements from both parties.

All New Zealand elections from 1914 to 1996 consistently used the British system of ' first past the post ' ( FPP ) for parliamentary elections ( bloc voting and runoff voting were also used in some elections before 1914 ).

Voters were asked two questions: whether or not to replace FPP with a new voting system ; and which system should be adopted instead.

Votes were to be cast under a simple FPP system, and the secret ballot had not yet been introduced.

Among the latter are First Past the Post ( FPP ) ( relative majority ) and absolute majority.

FPP ’ s focus, in the beginning, came from the expertise and relationships that the small founding team had with specific communities, primarily in the Guyanas and in South and South East Asia.

Below are the cross-cutting core concepts that guide the approach and work of FPP.

Forest Peoples Programme produces a wide range of publications, including reports, briefings, training manuals, papers, submissions to human rights bodies, statements, letters, urgent action requests, as well as news articles and the FPP E-Newsletter.

The House of Representatives would continue to be elected by FPP.

They proposed a proportionally-elected upper house made up 31 seats elected using a proportional list vote by region, with the House of Representatives elected by FPP and consisting of 79 seats.

In 1992, a non-binding referendum was held on whether or not FPP should be replaced by a new, more proportional voting system.

A second, binding, referendum was to be held the following year, in which voters would choose between FPP and the new system chosen to replace it.

The first question asked voters if they wished to retain FPP or change electoral systems.

The result was in 84. 7 per cent favour of replacing FPP, and 15. 3 % against.

* FPP ( Flexible Pixel Positioning ), basically a variation of the FLI mode, allows the placement of any line of a character-based graphic at any one y-position, allowing for effects like x-rotating logos, barrel-like effects or smooth stretching and waving over the whole screen.

Isoprenylation involves the enzyme farnesyltransferase ( FTase ) transferring a farnesyl group from farnesyl pyrophosphate ( FPP ) to the pre-Ras protein.

In order to have daylight for the Floating Potential Probe ( FPP ) jettison, they moved on to the retrieval of a failed remote joint motor controller.

When all else fails, it is argued that open sessions slow down governmental operations.

Lincoln denounced the decision, alleging it was the product of a conspiracy of Democrats to support the Slave Power Lincoln argued, " The authors of the Declaration of Independence never intended ' to say all were equal in color, size, intellect, moral developments, or social capacity ', but they ' did consider all men created equal — equal in certain inalienable rights, among which are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness '.

Early anthropology was divided between proponents of unilinealism, who argued that all societies passed through a single evolutionary process, from the most primitive to the most advanced, and various forms of non-lineal theorists, who tended to subscribe to ideas such as diffusionism.

Anarchist theorist Murray Rothbard argued that all government services, including defense, are inefficient because they lack a market-based pricing mechanism regulated by the voluntary decisions of consumers purchasing services that fulfill their highest-priority needs and by investors seeking the most profitable enterprises to invest in.

The Platonist seemed to outweigh the Aristotelian in Alan, but he felt strongly that the divine is all intelligibility and argued this notion through much Aristotelian logic combined with Pythagorean mathematics.

Moreover they argued that some species have been created for the purpose of being sacrificed and eaten by humans, that it is normal for animals to kill and eat other animals, that agriculture, too, inevitably leads to the death of many animals, that plants are living beings as well and must still be destroyed, that we unintentionally and unknowingly destroy life forms all the time, and that a hunted animal has a fair chance to survive by killing the hunter.

Clinton argued the questions were moot because all transactions with the state had been deducted before determining Hillary's firm pay.

Pointing out that predicables are predicated univocally of substances ; that is, they refer to " the same thing " found in each instance, St. Thomas argued that whatever can be said about being is not univocal, because all beings are unique, each actuated by a unique existence.

Many nations and NGOs argued for a total ban on shipment of all hazardous waste to LDCs.

Baruch Spinoza, though he argued for the existence of a permanent reality, asserts that all phenomenal existence is transitory.

Ironically, Peter Ruckman, a BJU graduate, has argued the most extreme version of the KJV-only position, that all translations of the Bible since the KJV have been of satanic origin.

Bob Jones III has argued that the university is not so much anti-Catholic or anti-Mormon as it is opposed to the idea that all men, regardless of religious beliefs, will eventually get to heaven: " Our shame would be in telling people a lie, and thereby letting them go to hell without Christ because we loved their goodwill more than we loved them and their souls ….

One branch of the ritualistic movement argued that both ' Romanisers ' ( by imitating the Church of Rome ) and their Evangelical opponents ( by imitating Reformed churches ) transgressed the Ornaments Rubric of 1559, ' that such Ornaments of the Church, and of the Ministers thereof, at all Times of their Ministration, shall be retained, and be in use, as were in this Church of England, by the Authority of Parliament, in the Second Year of the Reign of King Edward the Sixth '.

However, a similar resolution was defeated by thirty-three votes in the House of Commons on December 15, 1927 when the MPs William Joynson-Hicks and Rosslyn Mitchell " reached and inflamed all the latent Protestant prejudices in the House " and argued strongly against it on the grounds that the proposed book was " papistical " and was a restoration of the Roman Mass and implied the doctrine of Transubstantiation.

To some scholars, such as Donald McCaffrey, this is an indication that Chaplin never completely understood film as a medium, but Gerald Mast has argued that by deliberately adopting this approach, Chaplin made " all consciousness of the cinematic medium disappear so completely that we concentrate solely on the photographic subject rather than the process ".

Anthropologists have argued that culture is " human nature ", and that all people have a capacity to classify experiences, encode classifications symbolically ( i. e. in language ), and teach such abstractions to others.

This can be argued to be the only pattern found in most of the world's languages, and perhaps the primary pattern in all of them.

There are also some scientists who have expressed grave reservations about the idea that the brain forms representations of the outside world at all: influential members of this group include psychologist J. J. Gibson and roboticist Rodney Brooks, who both argued in favor of " intelligence without representation ".

It has been argued that the approach of Mrs Gaskell transferred the focus of attention away from the ' difficult ' novels, not just Charlotte's, but all the sisters, and began a process of sanctification of their private lives.

Some call the modern development of classical liberalism " neo-classical liberalism ", which argued for government to be as small as possible in order to allow the exercise of individual freedom, while some refer to all liberalism before the 20th century as classical liberalism.

Many observers from both within and outside of China have argued that the CPC has taken gradual steps towards democracy and transparency, hence arguing that it is best to give it time and room to evolve into a better government that is more responsive to its people rather than forcing an abrupt change with all the deleterious effects such a loss of stability might entail.

" We have grown into an organic society ," Ross argued, " in which the welfare of all is at the mercy of each.

In a lecture on the current system of international communication Piron argued that " Esperanto relies entirely on innate reflexes " and " differs from all other languages in that you can always trust your natural tendency to generalize patterns ...

* He argued against special revelation: " God designed all Mankind should at all times know, what he wills them to know, believe, profess, and practice ; and has given them no other Means for this, but the Use of Reason.