Sentences with phrase «political rule number»

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What we have had in British political life under British common law is a procrustean class system, one of the most fixed in the world, confirming aristocratic and plutocratic class rule, rigidly preventing the overwhelming numbers of the lower class from gaining equality, representation in government, decent working conditions, the right to union organization, suffrage, and acceptable living standards until the end of the nineteenth century.

The 2004 election cycle saw a dramatic rise in the number and size of nonprofit organizations that bought TV ads, organized voter turnout drives and conducted political «education» campaigns that were effectively working on behalf of (or against) one candidate or party, and because they used «soft money» in the process, their donors weren't limited in how much they could give and didn't fall under the strict disclosure rules required when trying to influence an election.

As political scientist Terry Moe has shown, as the number of rules in teacher contracts goes up, student performance goes down, especially that of poor and minority students.

The rise of female political donors parallels a similar surge in the number of women running for elective office and has prompted a change in campaign finance rules allowing candidates to use their political money for child care in some cases.

(Cuomo, who has a well - earned reputation as a backroom political bully, showed little compunction in trying to use those rules to knock Teachout off the ballot — despite her collecting 45,000 petitions, three times the number of signatures required to quality.)

As I write, the Tories still have not released the leaked document (rule number 1 of political spin - journalists LOVE leaked documents) but, with luck, we'll get it at the press conference.

Much of the decline in violence in early states involved reduced numbers of murders and blood feuds, fostered by government rule and law enforcement, says political scientist Azar Gat of Tel Aviv University.

Political Film Society rules require the number of nominated films to be reduced to five in each category.

Having said that, the campaign could prove useful as one of a number of tactics being deployed by 350.org, the Sierra Club and others that are aimed at bringing about political change — namely, taxes or caps on global warming pollutants, EPA rules to curb coal - burning, etc..

More broadly, this ruling will be studied closely by constitutional lawyers as it addresses a number of central issues, including the interplay between the Government's executive powers in international law and legislative sovereignty, the powers of the Court to supervise the exercise of prerogative powers particularly where existing law or rights are affected, and the fundamentally political, not legal, nature of the Sewel Convention on consultation of devolved legislatures.

In many ways, it's not unlike what Facebook can do for advertisers and a growing number of political campaigns willing to pay and play by Facebook's rules.