Sentences with phrase «appease voter»

But that is the dumb government's attempt to appease the voter to believing that they are doing something for them.

With the passage of I - 502, a DUI limit of 5 nanograms per milliliter of blood was established, in part to appease voter concerns over the implications of the law.

Reed said Cuomo's decision was a politically motivated action, aimed at appeasing his voter base, instead of land owners and farmers.

Not exact matches

But observers say the health - care spending addressed a common complaint among voters, while a promised tax freeze was meant to appease the business community.

The ambitious plan to create an Australian - owned partner for the Chinese investor Dakang's massive new cattle station business was seen by some as an attempt to help appease demands from the Foreign Investment Review Board, as well as quell some of the political backlash from voters who are against foreign investment.

Wary of the headache this issue caused Senate President Malcolm Smith, who had to do a delicate dance to both appease the LGBT community that had invested more than $ 1 million to help him win the majority and the members like Sen. Ruben Diaz Sr. who held the votes to his leadership post, Sampson is both supporting the six remaining «no» voters and refusing to promise to bring marriage to the floor for another vote.

Was it aimed to swing certain voters, or was it to appease elements of the conservative party?

So men, more accustomed to politics at the time, used prohibition to appease these new / up coming mass of voters, while at the same time address a serious social issue in a way that made the most sense (to them).

But unlike Bloomberg's plan, it also aims to appease outer - borough and suburban voters by reducing tolls within the outer boroughs, and dedicating some of the pricing plan's revenue to bridge and road repairs.

For a start you're not questioning why working class socialist labour voters went Ukip in the first place, it wasn't some guardian reading, snobbery that the working class are think, therefore are bigoted, so they must vote UKIP as they're nasty right wingers who dint like immigration, the decrease in wages among blue collar workers, due to immigration, is by the bosses seeking immigration to pay lower wages to make themselves more profits, Appeasing implies going along with something through fear of something worse, to agree with controlling immigration, because ex labour voters are going UKIP isn't appeasing it, why would us being afraid of losing is our Appeasing implies going along with something through fear of something worse, to agree with controlling immigration, because ex labour voters are going UKIP isn't appeasing it, why would us being afraid of losing is our appeasing it, why would us being afraid of losing is our votes to.

«Hillary Clinton continues shifting leftward to appease the Democrat base, reinforcing the fact that her positions are politically calculated and why voters find her dishonest and untrustworthy,» said Raj Shah, an RNC spokesman.

Senators must now converge with House members to merge the two versions of the bill in a way that appeases the majority of voters.