Definitions
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- adjective based on the system of having only one member from each district (as of a legislature)
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Examples
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I think there's one further step to be taken, which is to go nearer to a more pure one-member, one-vote system, perhaps with a particular allocation for members of parliament.
Labour conference live – Sunday 26 September Andrew Sparrow 2010
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All these years, she's felt like a heroine, a survivor, a one-member species fated to keep going.
Post 2009
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All these years, she's felt like a heroine, a survivor, a one-member species fated to keep going.
Post 2009
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Test cases: The Extra Glenns, made up of Franklin Bruno (of Nothing Painted Blue, but probably equally well-known as solo artists) and John Darnielle, who releases solo records as a one-member band (The Mountain Goats) Hindu Love Gods, made of Warren Zevon and everyone in R.E.M. not named Stipe.
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Perhaps Congress can pass special legislation permitting a one-member board to act.
Leo W. Gerard: The Woman Who Has Become the Symbol of Toxic Trade 2008
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This is generally done on a one-member, one-vote basis, although some cooperatives may use proportional voting based on use of the cooperative.
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It happens to be of interest to those who follow the doings of the one-member British People's Alliance, which the Specatator doesn't.
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Leon said this would "reduce the number of one-member parties created through faulty floor-crossing legislation".
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Payment of $100,000 per NASD member regardless of firm size that's up from $35,000 to each member, proposed in the merger; the immediate release to members of the $35,000 promised to each in the merger; an immediate election of the board of directors; opposition to net capital increases for members; and the preservation of one-member, one-vote on the board.
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Ralph Klein was elected leader of the Progressive Conservative Party on December 5, 1992 in the first one-member one-vote leadership race held in Alberta.
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