Sentences with phrase «about free elections»

In Walker's later career, he turned his attention to Africa, working in the Anti-Apartheid Movement and helping to bring about free elections in South Africa.

«This is all about a free election and the free election process,» Hynes finally said, after a few minutes of waiting awkwardly for the din to die down.

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More broadly, concerns about trade and its impact on workers figured large in the 2016 U.S. presidential election and in Britain's referendum vote to leave the European Union, a free - trade bloc.

As blame fell to Facebook for Trump's election, word of Facebook prototyping a censorship tool for operating in China escaped, triggering questions about its respect for human rights and free speech.

«I don't think there is any chance in the world this was a free and fair election,» Stewart said about the voting in Russia.

Alberta's next provincial election is more than two years away, but for Jason Kenney — and the thousands packing his town halls to hear him speak about uniting the province's two free enterprise parties — the «project» to dismantle Rachel Notley's NDP reign is well under way.

The report includes facts about lobbying spending that hit $ 2 billion in the last election cycle, and continues unabated, Wall Street executives in the Trump administration and regulatory agencies, tax cut windfalls for the finance industry, and a deregulatory free - for - all.

He could raise the GST, but the Prime Minister has ruled that out; he could fulfill an election commitment by undertaking a serious simplification of the income tax system, which could yield substantial revenues (about $ 3 to $ 5 billion), but he seems reluctant to do that; or, he could take the easy way out and simply cut his fiscal prudence in half and «miraculously» free up $ 3billion annually for his cabinet colleagues.

And free discussion is, for Rorty, «simply [my italics] the sort which goes on when the press, the judiciary, the elections, and the universities are free, social mobility is frequent and rapid, literacy is universal, higher education is common, and peace and wealth have made possible the leisure necessary to listen to lots of different people and think about what they have to say» (CIS 84).

It clearly shows that in these marginal seats, the key battleground seats where the general election will be won and lost, voters are very concerned about threats to religious liberty and free speech.

For example, business leaders in the aftermath of the popular protests that challenged U.S. involvement in Vietnam complained about too much democracy in the United States.6 In a similar way, free elections are held up by U.S. leaders as essential for democracy unless political parties opposed to U.S. interests win.

And though they eventually made up, their disagreement has lived on in American evangelicals» waxing and waning debates about God's sovereignty and the doctrines of election and free will.

As I always say, a petition - free post-election period will be the ideal that election management should aspire to, just as it has been in the U.S except for the year 2000 Florida saga and in the United Kingdom where, for about 99 years, all election results were accepted from the polling units as annouced up to the final point of declaration of a winner.

James, It has to be based on specific judgements about whether there are free and fair elections, and other aspects of democracy, in each country.

In Tunisia, Ennahda won a solid plurality of votes in a free election, while the liberals secured about 25 %.

The incident took place at the Great Thurlow hunt following days of speculation about whether Theresa May will abandon her general election pledge to grant MPs a free vote on whether to overturn the foxhunting ban.

But good government advocates, like NYPIRG's Horner, remain skeptical about whether the enforcement division can free itself of the Board of Election's inefficiency.

Corbynites have until now argued that Labour's Brexit stance, including ending free movement, allowed them to shut down the issue on the election doorstep and - in a phrase once beloved of Blairites - earned them «the right to be heard» on the issues they really wanted to talk about.

Do not engage in any form of violence against our opponent and his supporters so as to take away the beauty of the victory we are about to chalk, because we want to win a peaceful, free and fair elections.

Our democracy should not only be about holding free, fair and transparent elections; it should be about the totality of efforts to broaden access to healthcare, education, provide potable water, reliable power supply and other social amenities to the citizenry to make human habitation in Ghana a sight to behold.

But Democratic sources in the Ohio Board of Elections have confirmed to the Free Press that about 10 percent of the absentee ballots cast so far are being rejected because of a technicality involving obscure driver's license numbers demanded on the ballot.

This training also seeks to support the FOISECON in order to build their capacity to conduct free and credible elections at the local government levels and how well - implemented electoral process can bring about peaceful change of power and improve their leadership skills and take on board means for preventing or mitigating the escalation of electoral violence and conflict throughout the respective electoral cycle.

Members of the Board of Elections, who are political appointees, have complained since Sugarman took charge that they are kept in the dark about enforcement actions and are concerned Sugarman is free to act out of political expediency.

For instance, a journalist observed that even though many doubted the sincerity of the former National Security Adviser, Sambo Dasuki when he sought and obtained approval for postponement of 2015 general election to enable the military to degrade Boko Haram and ensure maximum security of voters, all known terrorists» camps were destroyed before the emergence of new government on May 29; Sambisa Forest was stormed by «Special «M» forces» and about 300 kidnapped women and children were freed; 22 terrorist occupied towns in three states were recovered; and Boko Haram could not disrupt the elections.

Sambisa Forest was stormed by «Special «M» forces» and about 300 kidnapped women and children were freed; 22 terrorist occupied towns in three states were recovered; and Boko Haram could not disrupt the elections.

It is about ensuring a free and fair election as well as promoting peace and stability.

House Democrats are absolutely freaking out about the upcoming midterm elections, a Free Beacon analysis has found.

Tony Blair, who expressed unease in early 2005 about a «hybrid» house with elected and appointed members, pledged in the Labour manifesto for that year's general election to remove the remaining hereditary peers and to «allow a free vote on the composition of the house».

And though her NBC series «Free Agents» didn't take off, she has recently been doing a pretty solid arc on «Parks & Recreation» as the big bucks campaign manager — who couldn't care less about a small town election — brought in to take down Leslie Knope.

Free schools were very much talked about in the run - up to the general election in May 2010.

Free schools were much talked about in the run - up to the general election in May 2010.

On Thursday night at Madison West High School, Cap Times education reporter Amber C. Walker and Simpson Street Free Press editor Taylor Kilgore hosted a forum for the upcoming School Board election, asking questions about budgets, charter schools and recruiting teachers of color.

Additionally, Flux Projects will be hosting Willis Thomas in a free lecture at Jimmy Carter Presidential Library on Wednesday, October 19, at 7 p.m. Willis Thomas will speak about the creation of and inspiration behind For Freedoms as a collaborative and civic - minded artistic project, which involves over 50 artists, and the many activations it has executed across the country in advance of the presidential election.

This idea of the contemporary artist as an empowered free agent, taking part in global conversations about important topics and issues in and through their work is one that I knew would come in handy in the days immediately following the 2016 presidential election when so many of my students» emotions were running high.

Despite the result of the US presidential election and related uncertainties about trade and hemispheric cooperation, a number of economic realities are likely to favor a free trade agenda — at least for energy commodities and related investments, which are likely to be resistant to political winds.

Given Donald Trump's recent election as U.S. president and his protectionist musings about renegotiating NAFTA (although, hopefully, not the Canada-U.S. Free Trade Agreement that precedes it), the signing of CETA comes at no better time for Canada.

As blame fell to Facebook for Trump's election, word of Facebook prototyping a censorship tool for operating in China escaped, triggering questions about its respect for human rights and free speech.

Speaking on the Sunday Politics show, Conservative former International Development Secretary Andrew Mitchell said the claims about SCL were «absolutely appalling» and «run totally counter to the policy of the British government in promoting free and fair elections in the developing world».

• the 2006 user uproar over the introduction of the News Feed; • the 2007 outrage over Facebook allowing user profiles to be discoverable by search engines; • the 2008 complaints about Facebook's practice of indefinitely keeping copies of user data from deleted accounts; • the 2008 backlash when the «Beacon» program was introduced; • the 2009 user indignation about expansions to Facebook's user data retention policies; • the 2010 concern over the way Facebook was handling privacy and was divulging identifying information to advertisers; • the 2010 worry that Facebook was «breaking things»; • the 2015 critique that Facebook was acting in an anti-competitive manner in introducing a «Free Basics» program in India; • and more recently, in responses over Facebook's influence on the 2016 U.S. elections and other global elections.

How do first we make sure everyone is able to speak through free, fair elections before we argue about what they can say?