Sentences with phrase «as by its constituency»

Her views are strenuously opposed by the leadership of that university as well as by its constituency.

Not exact matches

As they continued on their headlong march into transparency, McDonald's Canada conceived of the Listening Tour, based on town halls held by the company's former U.S. president Jan Fields, to build relationships with key, sometimes antagonistic, constituencies.

By working with competent counsel to safely stay within the investor verification guidance set forth by the SEC, the company was able to broadly reach out to its natural constituency of fans as prospective investorBy working with competent counsel to safely stay within the investor verification guidance set forth by the SEC, the company was able to broadly reach out to its natural constituency of fans as prospective investorby the SEC, the company was able to broadly reach out to its natural constituency of fans as prospective investors.

Edmonton - Calder: Ministerial Chief of Staff Tom Bradley has been acclaimed as the PC candidate in this northeast Edmonton constituency current represented by NDP MLA David Eggen.

The power doled out by Mr. Kowalski, and the rewards he lavished on his constituency, led some Opposition politicians to claim that he was actually running the government, with the Premier only as a figurehead.

If, by chance, Mr. Allen did resign as MLA, voters in the northern Alberta constituency would choose a new representative in a by - election.

Calgary - Elbow: Businessman Greg Clark has been nominated as the Alberta Party «s candidate in the constituency represented by Premier Redford.

With $ 1 billion in support promised for the flood ravaged communities, it will be difficult for the opposition Wildrose to criticize the Premier's decision to abandon her promise to balance the provincial budget by 2014, especially as Ms. Smith's constituency includes one of the hardest hit areas.

The constituency is currently represented by Liberal MLA Kent Hehr, who is the nominated federal Liberal candidate in Calgary - Centre and is not expected to seek re-election as MLA.

Highwood: Wayne Anderson has been acclaimed as the Wildrose candidate in this constituency currently represented by former Wildrose leader Danielle Smith.

A number of evangelical leaders with very large constituencies sharply criticized the declaration as a betrayal of the central Reformation belief in «justification by faith alone.»

Why, asks John Leo in U.S. News & World Report, is his own constituency so willing to bring him down with protests, disrupted basketball games, and boycotts, when Pres. Lawrence worked so hard to make Rutgers a campus that «bristles with the enforcement tools of diversity: a speech code, real courses replaced by «multicultural curricular change,» diversity awareness «training» in lectures and freshman orientation sessions, a tolerance for ethnic and racial segregation in dorms («a self - affirming environment,» as Lawrence puts it), and professors who learn not to raise unapproved ideas about race, gender, and the campus power system built around multiculturalism»?

As Marina Warner's classic Alone of All Her Sex (Vintage, 1983) makes clear, there is no one way to present Mary: equally diversified are Mary's «uses» by different constituencies within and without the church.

The Tory candidate Stewart Jackson was ousted by the solicitor after 12 years as MP for the constituency.

A newly released study by Pew Research Center found that 91 percent of the current U.S. Congress identify as Christian — a number that has not changed much in more than 50 years, despite its constituency's Christian identity declining.

«2 The diversity which Henry, as one of modern evangelicalism's founders, laments has been noted more positively by Richard Quebedeaux in his book The Young Evangelicals - Revolution in Orthodoxy.3 In this book Quebedeaux offers a typology for the conservative wing of the Protestant church, differentiating Separatist Fundamentalism (Bob Jones University, Carl McIntire) from Open Fundamentalism (Biola College, Hal Lindsey), Establishment Evangelicalism (Christianity Today, Billy Graham) from the New Evangelicalism (Fuller Theological Seminary, Mark Hatfield), and all of these from the Charismatic Movement which cuts into orthodox, as well as ecumenical liberal and Roman Catholic constituencies.

These groups unwittingly weaken the impact of the Christian message either as they try to alter the distinctive character of entire denominations, attempting to turn liberal churches into conservative churches, or as they undermine the consistency of image projected by liberal churches in areas important to their particular constituency.

This constituency includes persons now repelled by organized religion because they can not accept certain positions (such as opposition to evolutionary theory or to birth - control practice) which they have been exposed to in some churches and which they assume characterize all churches.

Black and Hispanic religious conservatives will expect their white allies to address issues too often seen as «Democratic» by their constituencies — such as racial bias in sentencing.

This is the office that was institutionalized by Presidents Nixon and Ford as a way of maintaining regular contact with core constituencies.

Where we have ventured into politics, we have too often treated religious commitments as one more special interest to be protected, and we have measured our success by how well we have mobilized our constituency for that purpose.

PBATS serves its members by providing for the continued education of the athletic trainer as it relates to the profession, helping to improve their understanding of sports medicine so as to better promote the health of the constituency — professional baseball players.

To use the example of Sarah Wollaston again, she has received praise since being elected in 2010 for standing up to her party on a number of issues - because her mandate was granted not by what used to be known (before the smoking ban) as the smoky back room, but by a much larger pool of voters in her constituency.

The details of the salaries and allowances as provided by Professor Sagay are as follows: basic salary N2, 484,245.50; hardship allowance, 1,242, 122.70; constituency allowance N4, 968, 509.00; furniture allowance N7, 452, 736.50; newspaper allowance N1, 242, 122.70.

I hope that in the sad by - election to follow, Jo Cox's constituency is left uncontested as a tribute to Jo's extraordinary public service

Embattled Member of Parliament for Klottey Korle constituency, Nii Armah Ashietey says he remains unfazed by the vitriolic attacks from party members following effort to remove Dr. Zanetor Rawlings as the National Democratic Congress (NDC) parliamentary candidate for the constituency.

While the Vice President has claimed that the money would be allocated to the constituencies by government for the constituencies themselves to invest it the way they deem fit, Hawa Koomson has revealed the Veep's claim as a charade.

By elections will acquire considerable significance, as much as they did in the late 1980s and 1980s when leaders» futures were at stake as voters delivered their verdict in a single constituency.

A statement issued by the Eastern Regional Secretariat of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) outlined that President Mahama will end his first day with a durbar in the Abuakwa North Constituency, where Victor Smith is standing as NDC's parliamentary candidate.

He was elected to the BMHA Board of Commissioners in 2006, by a constituency that Mascia describes as 90 percent minority.

Half of the 450 seats will be decided by competitions in regional constituencies, technically known as single - mandate districts, using a «first - past - the - post» system like that used in U.S. elections.

Yes, it is ironic that the voting system favoured by John Harris and Neal Lawson - AV + - would allow a greater number of parachuted candidates through the top - up route as well as the constituency route.

Arguably it might be better to have a leader outside Parliament, as they can concentrate on leading the party in a wider sense, without being constantly distracted by the day - to - day compromises of Parliamentary life, or by the heavy workload of a constituency MP, or by having to physically travel between their constituency and Westminster.

While UKIP has few / no MPs it is not unreasonable to say that they have taken votes away from the Conservative party in recent years and potential UKIP voters are seen by many as key in some marginal constituencies especially in «working class» areas where many voters are socially to the right and economically to the left.

Its six points for parliamentary reform (universal male suffrage; no property qualification to become an MP; payment of MPs; equal sized constituencies; voting in secret; and annual parliaments) had first been proposed as a package in the 1770s by John Cartwright.

Speaking at the inauguration of the Constituency Campaign Task Force Team by the Regional Campaign Team in Tamale, Alhaji Mohammed Muniru indicated that he is no failure and his task as the campaign coordinator will not witness any failure.

Today's poll is the first of seven constituency polls to be released by the party, which they claim will show them emerging as serious challengers to Labour in the North of England.

But Klein noted his conference has been under similar pressures before to achieve victories backed by Democratic constituencies, most recently the increase in the minimum wage to be phased in to $ 15 in parts of New York City and the surrounding area, as well as 12 weeks of paid family leave.

During the mid - to late - 1990s, he was politically active for Labour in Islington North, the constituency represented by Jeremy Corbyn, and was selected as Labour candidate to contest St George's Ward for Islington London Borough Council in 1998.

In particular, it is why the Tories continue to struggle in the North of England, where they could be supplanted by UKIP as Labour's principal opposition in many constituencies.

No constituency candidate who seeks election as an independent candidate shall use the name of any political party that contested the last general election or any by - election held since the last general election but shall have the word «INDEPENDENT», without further qualification or addition, shown on the ballot paper immediately below that candidate's name.

a constituency candidate for a component party of that party (being a component party that is not listed on the part of the ballot paper that relates to the party vote but is, in accordance with the details held by the Electoral Commission under any of the provisions of sections 127 (3A) and 128A, a component party of that party) has his or her name endorsed on a writ under section 185 as a person declared to be elected as a member of Parliament.

Local council election results in the wards making up Hallam constituency, while by no means good for the Liberal Democrats, paint a more equivocal picture than the polls, as a comparison of the 2010 local election results with those in the most recent local elections in 2014 shows.

the secretary of the party must lodge with the Electoral Commission, by noon on nomination day, a deposit (in the form of money, a bank draft, or a bank cheque) of the amount payable under section 146F (1) for a constituency candidate nominated in a bulk nomination schedule, unless the Electoral Commission holds the amount of the deposit paid under section 146F (1) in respect of the candidate whose nomination was withdrawn or (as the case may be) who died or became incapacitated.

[2] In 1994, he was selected by the Liberal Democrats as their Prospective Parliamentary Candidate for the Westbury Constituency, but he resigned after 18 months.

Even though they have been given a free vote by their anti-war leader Jeremy Corbyn, many Labour MPs will feel pressure from their constituency parties and local left - wing activists not to vote in the same lobby as the Tories.

Maria Miller's conduct over her expenses has been condemned as «unethical» by a Tory councillor in her constituency.

the number of persons who stood as constituency candidates for a party that is, in accordance with the details held by the Electoral Commission under any of the provisions of sections 127 (3A) and 128A, a component party of that party and whose names were endorsed on a writ pursuant to section 185 as having been elected as members of Parliament.

Subject to the concurrence of the Electoral Commission, the Returning Officer shall not accept the nomination of any constituency candidate if the Returning Officer is not satisfied, by such evidence (if any) as the Returning Officer requires, that the name under which the candidate is nominated is --

The NDC's control over the Ayawaso North constituency is also reported to be under threat as the outgoing MP, Dr. Mustapha Ahmed is said to have turned down a request by the elected parliamentary candidate, Yussif Jaja, to meet him.