King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia's dramatic granting of women's voting rights appeared to be in the same spirit.
The governance structure of the rejuvenated IMF will also change, with "under-represented" (mostly developing) countries getting at least 5% more of the voting rights by 2011.
It seems the world leaders have been talking about increasing the voice and voting rights of developing countries. I would like to ask two questions instead of just one.
The rest either allow prisoners full voting rights or restrict the franchise only partially.
The final goal of the reform of the international financial governance structure is equal sharing of voting rights between developed countries and developing countries.
But blacks in the 1940s were still second-class citizens at best, deprived of the water fountains, bus seats, voting rights and entertainment opportunities taken for granted by whites.
One class can easily have 10 times the voting rights of another class.
But his efforts to impose his will on Repsol have been hampered by a bylaw that limits the voting rights of any single shareholder to 10%.
Blackstone will not hold annual shareholder meetings. Shareholders won't have traditional voting rights.
They knew that a society could never be truly progressive if women do not equal legal and voting rights, and fill rights over their own bodies, including birth control and abortion.
Obama spent about 70% of his time on voting rights, civil rights and employment, generally as a junior associate.
The path to full voting rights for all American citizens was long and often challenging.
These might include threats to freeze EU funds for poorer regions and EU mega-projects, and even the suspension of a country's voting rights in EU ministerial councils.
The following persons shall be allowed to exercise their voting rights.
He delegated his voting right to his secretary.