Sentences with phrase «us national elections»

Outraged by the scandal, former leader Mahathir Mohammad came out of political retirement and the opposition has united behind him in the national elections.

Italy is currently stuck in political gridlock as its parties have been unable to form a government more than one month after national elections.

Steinbrueck, a Social Democrat who will take on Chancellor Angela Merkel in Germany's next national election in September, has a reputation for gaffes and his remark created the first diplomatic incident of his accident - prone campaign.

U.K. PMI services data also came in lower than expected as a national election has derailed investment decisions and higher inflation has hit households, Reuters reported.

With a dozen years under her belt in Germany's highest political office and a national election approaching in September, this was supposed to be the year that Merkel's leadership came under threat.

Traditionally, Sunderland is the first place to declare in national elections, but it is facing competition from Newcastle upon Tyne, just 15 miles down the road.

Facebook's unprecedented scale and the sheer amount of data it has on its users have made it a target for propaganda artists seeking to influence national elections.

He noted that attacks related to tax season and national elections were examples of recent popular lures.

Maasai women queue outside a polling station in Ewaso Kendo, Kajiado West County on August 8, 2017, as the nation goes to the polls in national elections.

Ministers will then be sworn in later in the day - almost six months after last September's national election in which both coalition partners lost support to the far - right Alternative for Germany (AfD).

Von der Leyen, whose post includes the role of commander in chief of Germany's armed forces, is a close ally of Chancellor Angela Merkel who is gearing up for a national election in five months» time.

It derailed the campaign for a while and showed how much a citizen journalist could influence a national election.

«In the run up to national elections the incumbent client was widely perceived as both kind and honorable, qualities his campaign team thought were potentially election - winning,» the site reportedly said.

Fun Fact: Says Niño: «While we don't wear white hats, the collective fixer team have lent a helping hand in everything from national elections, Fortune 50 mergers and acquisitions to global humanitarian crises, Oscar - award winning films and even a couple of U.S. Supreme Court cases.

This is the second Greek national election in just over a month.

The Danish People's Party gained 21 percent of the vote in national elections in June on a nationalist, anti-Islamic platform.

Her critics hope this will be repeated in this year's national election, with voters rallying around either Emmanuel Macron or François Fillon simply because they are not Le Pen.

Apr 24, 2018 Quratulain Fatima and PS Editors examine the state of gender equality in Pakistan ahead of key national elections.

On today's episode, I talk to Tom Webster, Vice President of Strategy and Marketing for Edison Research, the organization behind exit polling for national elections in the U.S.. For more than two decades, Tom has conducted political polling for some of the most contentious elections in U.S. history, as well as market research for some of the top companies across the nation.

«As summer 2016 progressed, my concerns about the possibility of a cyberattack around our national election grew.»

India's stock market has been jittery the last few weeks, on news that the BJP would lead a minority government at the end of the three - month long national elections.

«Although recent history shows there is reason to be skeptical of political polls, we do not believe populist parties will score victories significant enough in national elections to cause an existential threat to the European Union (EU).»

With a national election about to be visited upon us, we'll rightly be hearing a lot about what Stephen Harper has said in the past.

This data trove gives Facebook unparalleled commercial power and, as is becoming increasingly clear, the ability to influence significant events, including national elections.

The UK is still working toward Brexit, while Germany, France and the Netherlands all have had to contend with distracting national elections where anti-establishment sentiment and populism posed a threat to real estate and capital markets more broadly.

The currency rose to new peaks just before national elections and states» forthcoming decisions regarding the legality of marijuana and whether it should be regulated in today's markets.

This week's Economist magazine celebrates in advance the widely expected defeat of the Swedish social democrats in imminent national elections.

With a national election months away, political corruption and rampant crime are major concerns for Mexican voters.

In Germany, Chancellor Angela Merkel's center - right Christian Democrat Union party comfortably won a small regional election, doing better than expected against its main rival, the Social Democrats, and providing a welcome boost for the German leader, ahead of national elections due in September.

Is the strong gain in the U.S. stock market following the November 2016 national election rational or irrational?

Although there have been elections at the local level, the ruling communist party has never conducted an open national election in 65 years of rule.

With national elections due to take place during the first half of 2018, Five Star's failure to win in a region seen as one of its strongholds was characterized by some commentators as evidence the party's appeal had peaked.

The British people will vote next week in a national election to decide the country's fate within the European Union.

National elections are taking place in France, Germany, and The Netherlands.

Soon after the Socialist Party won Greece's national elections in autumn 2009, it became apparent that the government's finances were in a shambles.

«The Government and the main opposition party are heading into the national election boasting that each will achieve a fiscal surplus in the coming year.

Especially when we keep losing national elections, we have to confront our fellow citizens with the de facto constitutional decisions they keep making by voting for the Democrats.

And rightly so, for without a great deal of willingness from social conservatives to come out and vote in the national election, the Republican nominee has no chance of winning in November against the Democrats.

«Having just come through a divisive national election, I am urging pastors across this country to lead their congregations in praying daily for our president, Barack Obama... for wisdom, Divine guidance, and that God would accomplish His will and purposes,» Graham said in a statement.

Many people find more meaning in city councils and voting for school boards than they do for national elections, but they all say local politics make them more passionate about politics in general.

«Having just come through a divisive national election, I am urging pastors across this country to lead their congregations in praying daily for our president, Barack Obama,» Graham said.

The only Protestant Christian candidate in the national election is running for the «wrong» party in their eyes, so his faith must be discredited by the Christian right.

That exhortation is worth recalling, now that the very idea of marriage is being contested on four state ballots, and in the national election, on Nov. 6:

Judicial action and appointments can, and sometimes do, become major issues in national elections.

But six months after the Conservatives lost national elections to the Liberal party, the four - person, $ 5 million Office of Religious Freedom (ORF) has been shut down.

His yardstick for measuring democracy, however, is primarily one of national election, Western - style, while China «remains one of the very few countries in the world today that does not even pretend to choose its leaders by popular election» (p. xi).

If the Nazis» perverse reading of national election places them among the millennial movements, why not Cardinal Richelieu, who prolonged the Thirty Years» War to realize the French ambition to be God's proxy on earth?

Delegates to the World Council of Churches» Faith and Order Commission meeting in Kuala Lumpur in August had the novel experience of seeing their sessions covered in the Malaysian media with the intensity that normally attends national elections or the latest developments in the «Malaysian Idol» competition.

Three times in national elections we voted for a simulacrum of the «American Century,» for a candidate who projected a sense of American superiority in the world and ethically untroubled affluence at home, willingly suspending disbelief in the possibility of such a restoration.

They will never win another national election.