Sentences with phrase «big issue in an election»

The biggest issue in the election was the so - called education reform — disinvestment, school closures, exclusive charters — that has wreaked havoc on families in that city.

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From bakers to retailers and construction firms, more than a dozen of Mexico's biggest companies cited concerns over NAFTA and the election and issuing conservative guidance in recent weeks, despite economic data pointing to an uptick in Latin America's second - largest economy.

«We hear all of the time that we are a democracy, but the fact of the matter, even excluding the issue of Washington, D.C., not having elected representatives in the congress, is that, all of you know, increasingly, big money is buying elections,» he said.

Coming of Age in the Asian Century: The Need for a National Conversation By Sarah Eaton, Post ‐ Graduate Research Fellow, Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada Political pundits tell us this federal election will be fought not over big ideas but along a narrow set of economic wedge issues.

While debating this issue in the house, Liberal MLA Laurie Throness made the incredible claim that «there is no big money in B.C. elections.»

The issue figures to feature prominently in the next federal election, with Liberal Leader Stà © phane Dion arguing the benefits of a carbon tax, while NDP Leader Jack Layton makes the case that cap - and - trade would do a better job of putting the costs on big polluters rather than on low - income families.

What happens if that if one of the candidates successfully argues in court that mistakes in the count (or any other irregularity or technical issue) had an effect big enough to change the result of the election, a new one is held.

When David Cameron made his big speech in January 2013, he was hoping to unite his party and put the issue to bed until at least after the next general election.

While Cuomo's praise for Republican initiatives may help the party as it attempts to fend off Democratic efforts to win the Senate, it's not certain how big an issue drug abuse will be in a busy presidential election year.

Local elections are taking place across 124 councils in England and will probably have a big impact on the day - to - day issues that most people care about.

New York state voters want bigger public investments in the MTA, the same poll found, an issue set to play a role in coming elections.

It's the big ticket issue in any election and here Labour lags well behind the Tories again.

In Thursday's local elections, housing is expected to be the second - biggest issue for voters behind health, according to polling by Lord Ashcroft.

In a country where there has never been a great deal of difference between parties or voters on European issues, the big question of this first distinct European election is the fate of Juncker, who has been chosen by the European People's Party as its candidate for the presidency of the European Commission — he is not a candidate for the European Parliament election.

The big issue, in the wake of the drop in support for CSV in the national election last October, is whether or not one of the ruling coalition parties can take a second seat in Brussels from the hitherto dominant CSV.

Nigel Farage has insisted Ukip was right to focus on immigration in the European Parliament election as the issue will only get bigger ahead of the 2015 general election.

The Guardian reports this morning that the former Foreign Secretary is accused of «buying» the leadership election as wealthy Blairite donors push his campaign chest to # 200,000 - causing what the paper describes as a «disparity in financial backing» for the five candidates, which it believes to be «a big issue».

«Spuc and its colleagues in many pro-family, Christian and Muslim groups will ensure same - sex marriage becomes a big general election issue, especially in marginal constituencies,» chief executive John Smeaton said.

And that same poll found that the issue of government corruption is not that big a deal to likely voters, just 1 % listed corruption as a chief concern for them in the upcoming elections.

«I see the energy I see the passion out of these students, they're interested in this election, they know this election will be big for them, and there's a lot of issues that impact students.»

And the longer it takes for Congress to move on an immigration bill, the more likely it will become a big issue in next year's mid-term elections.

Green Party leaders congratulated voters in Kent, Ohio, for passing Issue 43, which called for a constitutional amendment to end corporate personhood and abolish the legal definition of money as free speech, as well as establishment of an annual «Democracy Day» public hearing for residents to testify on the effect of big contributions from corporations and the wealthy on elections.

New York state voters want bigger public investments in the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, a new poll shows, an issue set to play a role in coming elections.

Among them he says are the increasing dip in the credibility of the Electoral Commission, the constituency creation and boundary settings, the determination of who qualifies to vote especially following allegations of some foreign nationals on the voters» register, the bigger issue of financing the activities of the EC and national elections, ensuring sustainable peace and security before, during and after elections and the use of gate speech, inflammatory language and dangerous campaigning tactics.

It was clearly the biggest issue in 2005 election.

Choosing a school is one of the key points at which parents experience national policy through a local lens, and as such, should be an important election issue both in the big debates and on the doorstep.

There may be no general election this year, but Whiteman insists he still wants his members in campaign mode as they prepare to debate and set policy on the biggest issues facing schools across the country.

It's taken a while, but Gov. Chris Christie's aggressive school reform agenda and the Democrats» counter to it could be emerging as a big issue in the 2013 gubernatorial election.

Education (and school choice) generally isn't a big issue in presidential elections.

Moreover, the EdNext pollsters theorize that support for increases in funding rises in election years, when this issue is most hotly debated, and it's therefore unsurprising that it was seen as the biggest problem in public education.

There may be other reasons to vote for one side or the other, but pocketbook issues rank low for me, and in this election, the payoff from the differences will not be big.

(To get your bigger TFSA working for you now, download the September / October issue of MoneySense magazine) He has been generally hostile to the idea of a mandatory enhancement to the CPP, but with an election looming Harper said in May he'd explore the idea of allowing Canadians to voluntarily make additional CPP contributions in return for higher payouts.

In 2006 a pattern emerged at NASA in which political appointees repeatedly acted in ways that the agency administrator concluded were inappropriate, including telling public affairs officers to issue fewer press releases on global warming in 2004 in the runup to the presidential election and trying to crack down on James Hansen, the agency scientist who had become a vocal proponent of prompt cuts in heat - trapping emissions and critic of big coal companieIn 2006 a pattern emerged at NASA in which political appointees repeatedly acted in ways that the agency administrator concluded were inappropriate, including telling public affairs officers to issue fewer press releases on global warming in 2004 in the runup to the presidential election and trying to crack down on James Hansen, the agency scientist who had become a vocal proponent of prompt cuts in heat - trapping emissions and critic of big coal companiein which political appointees repeatedly acted in ways that the agency administrator concluded were inappropriate, including telling public affairs officers to issue fewer press releases on global warming in 2004 in the runup to the presidential election and trying to crack down on James Hansen, the agency scientist who had become a vocal proponent of prompt cuts in heat - trapping emissions and critic of big coal companiein ways that the agency administrator concluded were inappropriate, including telling public affairs officers to issue fewer press releases on global warming in 2004 in the runup to the presidential election and trying to crack down on James Hansen, the agency scientist who had become a vocal proponent of prompt cuts in heat - trapping emissions and critic of big coal companiein 2004 in the runup to the presidential election and trying to crack down on James Hansen, the agency scientist who had become a vocal proponent of prompt cuts in heat - trapping emissions and critic of big coal companiein the runup to the presidential election and trying to crack down on James Hansen, the agency scientist who had become a vocal proponent of prompt cuts in heat - trapping emissions and critic of big coal companiein heat - trapping emissions and critic of big coal companies.

One of the biggest issues in Saturday's Australian election will be the «carbon tax».

The bad news is that we're entering presidential election season, which means activists in the party (and warm activists are party activists) will continue their strategy of demagoguing the issue, while doing nothing about it - expect to take a beating in the partisan press and the big paper editorial pages.

Simkins writes that the «nanny state» issue has grown so big that it has become a hot topic in the coming general election.

Maybe if we all concentrate with Facebook to address this issue of the Russians meddling with our election process, we can conveniently forget the real (and much more alarming) issue of undue influence in our Federal Government by Big Money Interests like the MIC.

That sounds like a big fat non-acknowlegement of the Redfern Statement in which Indigenous organisations, with the backing of many health groups and NGOs, issued a landmark election challenge calling for transformative action to address structural inequalities, and to improve the lives of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.

The legislation — which has scored poorly in public opinion polls so far — will immediately become one of the biggest issues in the 2018 elections that will determine whether the GOP retains its majorities in Congress.