Sentences with phrase «by public election»

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The U.S. intelligence community's previous assertions that Russia interfered in the election, based on classified evidence never revealed to the public, were easily dismissed by Trump and his allies.

The 2016 U.S. presidential election heightened public awareness of a concept known as the «filter bubble,» coined by Upworthy co-founder Eli Pariser and explored in his 2011 book The Filter Bubble: How the New Personalized Web Is Changing What We Read and How We Think.

Thursday's sanctions target Russians indicted last month as part of the special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into Russia's election meddling on charges of conspiracy to interfere in the election by waging a social - media influence operation to sow discord and sway public opinion in the US in favor of Trump.

With its ability to influence opinions, social media does remarkable harm by playing a role in the rigging of elections and public debate.

The long - suffering public official first drew Democrats» ire when he investigated party nominee Hillary Clinton during the 2016 campaign, then caused Republicans great irritation after the election by investigating the possibility of Trump campaign collusion with Russia.

And while Xi is riding high after consolidating power at a twice - a-decade Communist Party Congress last month, Trump comes to China saddled with low public approval ratings and dogged by investigations into Russian links to his election campaign.

Attempts by Monti's government to cut spending caused widespread public anger, boosting the support of populist parties in the election.

The Liberals have introduced changes as they try to fulfil their 2015 election promise to improve Parliament's financial processes by bringing more consistency and clarity when it comes to government accounting of how it spends public money.

According to the last seven polls — spanning from July 2014 to November 2015 — conduced by the French public - opinion institute Ifop, Le Pen has led each time when voters are asked, «If the next presidential election was next week, which candidate would have the best chance of getting your vote?»

Election - integrity advocates nationwide are celebrating a decision by a New York state appeals court that classifies electronic ballot images as public records.

Since the 2016 election, Facebook has paid unusual attention to the reputations of Mr. Zuckerberg and Ms. Sandberg, conducting polls to track how they are viewed by the public, said Tavis McGinn, who was recruited to the company last April and headed the executive reputation efforts through September 2017.

Extensive public comments by President Trump's attorney have compounded questions about whether the payment was made to influence the election.

In the U.S., women are already responding to the 2016 presidential election by pursuing their own runs for office: since November, more than 4,500 of them have signed up for She Should Run, a new organization that trains women for public life.

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The lawsuit by Ms. Clifford adds weight to allegations in a separate legal complaint brought by Common Cause, a public interest group that has asked the Federal Election Commission and the Justice Department to investigate the $ 130,000 payment by Mr. Cohen.

If you return your signed proxy card or vote by proxy over the Internet but do not mark the boxes showing how you wish to vote, your shares will be voted FOR the election of the director nominees named in this proxy statement, FOR the ratification of the appointment of our independent registered public accounting firm, FOR the amendment of the 2004 Plan, and in the discretion of the proxy holders for any other matter that may properly come before the Annual Meeting.

Wynne's recent election win spared Ontario from the 100,000 public service job cuts promised by her Conservative opponent Tim Hudak.

The company has been lambasted by public officials and others for spreading false stories, and for allowing Russian - linked groups to use its platform to potentially sway voters during the 2016 election.

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Perhaps most importantly, Congress and the public need to be fully informed about the steps the companies are taking to eliminate election interference on their platforms, including, but not limited to, interference by trolls and bots — and why they expect these steps to work.

As questions about Facebook's role in the 2016 election and its privacy issues mounted, Mr. Zuckerberg initially tried to avoid the limelight, dodging requests for public testimony by lawmakers in the United States and Europe.

Temporary hiring for the election increased public - sector employment by slightly more than private - sector employment declined.

Some argue that Bill C - 25 would cause directors of public companies governed by the CBCA to face «sudden - death elections.»

The House panel released a sampling of the ads purchased by the Russians on the day of the hearing, and promised to release all 3,000 soon afterwardto give the public a more complete picture of the election interference.

Zuckerberg is trying to restore public confidence after recent revelations that information from up to 87 million Facebook users was shared with Cambridge Analytica, a data mining firm used by the Trump campaign in the 2016 election.

The expenditures upon which we seek a report are those that Congress has said to not warrant a deduction as an ordinary and necessary business expense, namely, lobbying, participation in the political system by supporting or opposing candidates for office, and trying to influence the general public or segment thereof as to elections, legislative matters or referenda.

It is against this background of public moral struggle that the people of Israel prepare to vote on July 23 for their next government, in an election that pits the conservative Likud Party of Menachem Begin and current Prime Minister Yitzak Shamir against the Labor Party headed by two - time loser Shimon Peres.

A survey last month by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life found «little evidence to suggest that concerns about the candidates» respective faiths will have a meaningful impact in the fall elections.»

The poll report, by the Public Religion Research Institute, identified Obama's religion «dilemma,» as the institute called it, as one of three significant emerging religious issues to watch toward the 2012 election cycle.

We see clearly in the result of the 2016 presidential election that political outcomes can act as a brake on runaway cultural agendas promoted by activists and elites at the extremes of public opinion.

The public and politic case for upfront amnesty and increased low - skill immigration (under the label «comprehensive immigration reform») was made by the Republican National Committee's «autopsy» of the 2012 election.

«Most corporate leaders, while proudly exercising their constitutionally protected right to influence elections and legislation, deny that they are making public policy merely by doing business.

Yet, Gold's generation represents one exception to the pattern; unlike any other age group, millennial evangelical women were more likely than their male counterparts to vote for Trump, according to the Cooperative Congressional Election Study (CCES) provided to CT by Ryan Burge, politics researcher and blogger for the site Religion in Public.

Much of the media attention attracted by religious broadcasters in the 1980 elections was caused by the popularly held belief that the broadcasters were being watched by a major portion of the American public.

Not only does it pick up our actual memories of public testimony, election, and governance by law, but it draws us toward the perfection of our governance, helping us judge our present efforts.

That's started evolving after I came out, then the ignorance involved with the major sort of initial public transitioning by a celebrity with Caitlin Jenner, and eventually sort of ended with this election / girls claiming milo yiannopoulos and tammy lahren were heroes.

As for the end result of all of that enthusiasm, we already know the story: online fundraising allowed Barack Obama to opt out of the public campaign financing system and outspend John McCain by hundreds of millions of dollars in the general election.

«The theory is that if the by - election results are good enough, surely she will be tempted to have a general election,» he said at last week's event, held by public affairs firm Westminster Policy Institute.

The NYC Campaign Finance Board just released a list of 10 candidates who have filed certification forms to join the public financing program for the upcoming Nov. 2 nonpartisan special election to fill the Queens seat left vacant by the death of the late NYC Councilman Tom White.

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

Two types of recall election are needed: (i) local people forcing a by - election on their sitting MP; and (ii) public petitions calling for a general election: once more than 50 % of the electorate had signed a properly conducted petition, then the sovereign would dissolve parliament for a general election.

The consensus is that Russia influenced the US election in Trump's favor (by eg hacking his political opponents and strategically using that information to influence public opinion; this may or may not have happened in coordination with some people from the Trump campaign).

Labour lost the election, and power passed to the strongly Thatcherite administration led by Sir Horace Cutler who in turn moved to cut public spending and encourage those living in council houses to buy their own homes.

It is important to bring into the public domain that on Friday, September 2nd, 2016, a new copy of compromised delegates list was made available to all the aspirants by the Election Committee of APC around 10:30 pm.

Removing names by due process, using the quasi-judicial methods outlined in the Public Elections (Registration of Voters) Regulations, 2016 (C.I. 91) and by the Supreme Court, is the democratic, constitutional and civilised way to go; unless we are already fed - up with the Rule of Law and Due Process and are longing and yearning for the return of dictatorial rule.

A blog post by Twitter said its vice president for public policy, Colin Crowell, met with staff Thursday from two congressional panels investigating Russian interference in the election process.

So far his strategy has been to avoid taking a firm and coherent position on whether Britain should be In or Out by abdicating responsibility to the public in a future referendum, in what has become the central plank of the Conservative's European election campaign.

The proposal appears to be the latest effort by Gov. Andrew Cuomo to show his public intent at uniting Democrats in the Senate, a fractious chamber that has become an increasingly sore point for liberal activists in New York that was heightened in the wake of President Trump's election.