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Companies with a public share worth less than $75 million were exempted, and shareholders who want to propose a slate must hold at least 3% of voting power of the company’s securities and have held it continuously for at least three years.
It is fairly clear that Vladimir Putin will be re-elected to the presidency in March; the votes will be counted properly, even though some may argue that the slate of candidates is unduly restricted.
The group’s first task is simply to win the right to put a candidate on the ballot in all 50 US states to run against the conventional slate of one Democrat and one Republican.
It would be sheer folly to suggest that Ukrainians start with a blank slate.
In practice, an association agreement is merely a blank slate, upon which one can draw up terms of cooperation on trade, foreign policy, internal security, and other matters.
Germany is ready to embark on a common future, its leaders say, but only if Europe starts from a clean slate.
The potential upside to the tremendous uncertainty that many around the world feel is that we essentially are confronted with a clean slate.
In the drive to rebalance Africa’s energy mix, the continent maintains one crucial advantage over developed economies: a clean slate.
Due to the Electoral College, voters cast their ballots not for a candidate but for a slate of electors – party activists, including friends and allies of the contender – who will support their choice.
When it comes to the economy, Putin is a clean slate upon which his entourage – the clans of Berezovsky and Chubais – will write.
Second, even if we wipe the slate clean and forget about who caused the problem, it remains true that the typical US resident is responsible for about six times more greenhouse gas emissions than the typical Chinese, and as much as 18 times more than the average Indian.
I hope that the message it sends is one of support for independence, delivered through a victory for the “Together for Yes” slate of candidates.
A solid majority for the Together for Yes slate should erode Spain’s resistance, may crack Europe’s neutrality, and will open the gates to a road – difficult, yet traversable – toward dignity.
It would be folly to suggest that Ukrainians start with a blank slate.
In Tehran, for example, the reformist slate won every seat, ensuring that the current mayor – himself a conservative presidential candidate – will soon be out of a job.
These results left party leaders so discouraged that they didn’t even bother to run a full slate of candidates in this month’s general election.
Despite the circumvention of the Spitzenkandidaten process, this effort, like the slate of promising candidates selected by the Council, suggests that the EU is slowly and steadily maturing.
Each nail-maker with a slate stood near his cages to mark, watching his neighbours and watched by them.
He had seized a sheet of slate in the wall and he shook it and tore it out, a very large, heavy piece.
He violently set himself to hollow out the slate with the hook of the lamp, while she helped him with her nails.
He held a block of coal between his thighs, and freed it with a hammer from the fragments of slate.
In the middle was a slate sundial on a brick pedestal; four flower beds with eglantines surrounded symmetrically the more useful kitchen garden bed.
It was mid-day, the shutters of the houses were closed and the slate roofs that glittered beneath the fierce light of the blue sky seemed to strike sparks from the crest of the gables.
Tom scrawled on his slate, "Please take it--I got more."
Now the boy began to draw something on the slate, hiding his work with his left hand.
Now Tom began to scrawl something on the slate, hiding the words from the girl.
So he put Joe's slate on the desk and drew a line down the middle of it from top to bottom.
While one boy was worrying the tick with absorbing interest, the other would look on with interest as strong, the two heads bowed together over the slate, and the two souls dead to all things else.
Then they sat together, with a slate before them, and Tom gave Becky the pencil and held her hand in his, guiding it, and so created another surprising house.
Do you remember what I wrote on the slate?""Ye--yes."
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