Sentences with phrase «change this election at»

Not exact matches

For poor nations, providing fuel to their citizens at below - market prices is a crippling trap — any attempt to change them can cost a politician an election or cause riots.

«While this might make Putin look like a tough guy flexing new nuclear muscles ahead of upcoming undemocratic elections in Russia that will coronate him again, the new systems don't change the essential deterrence equation between the US and Russia,» Barry Pavel, a senior vice president and director of the Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security at the Atlantic Council wrote.

She participated in an online campaign to support regime change during the 2015 Israeli election and said she was dismayed at Netanyahu's re-election.

Highlights five trends that are changing payments, looking at how disparate factors, such as surprise elections and fraud surges, are sparking change across the ecosystem.

Changes to superannuation policy played a role in the significantly reduced majority for the Turnbull government at the July 2 election, but if you look a little deeper you find something far more interesting — the government can't afford its retirement policies, and some retired people can't afford to live.

Finally, it highlights five trends that are changing payments, looking at how disparate factors, such as surprise elections and fraud surges, are sparking change across the ecosystem.

At the same time, it positions him nicely for the general election (should he get that far), half - way between Republican proposals that are unlikely to bring any change to the health care economy whatsoever, and the Democrats» sweeping ambition.

We are continuing the changes to CGI that were announced last year, that we said at the time would happen regardless of the outcome of the election.»

Everyone expects elections soon, and nothing at all has relaly changed.

Also, if a majority of the Board is comprised of persons other than (i) persons for whose election proxies were solicited by the Board; or (ii) persons who were appointed by the Board to fill vacancies caused by death or resignation or to fill newly - created directorships («Board Change»), unless the Committee or Board determines otherwise prior to such Board Change, then participants immediately prior to the Board Change who cease to be employees or non-employee directors within six months after such Board Change for any reason other than death or permanent disability generally have their (i) options and stock appreciation rights become immediately exercisable and to the extent not canceled or cashed out, generally have at least six months to exercise such awards; (ii) restrictions with respect to restricted stock and RSRs lapse and generally shares are delivered; and (iii) performance shares and performance units pay out pro rata based on performance through the end of the last calendar quarter before the time the participant ceased to be an employee.

Looking years out at the election calendar, Trudeau's strategists pushed early for federal - provincial initiatives like Canada Pension Plan reform, a health accord and the framework for fighting climate change.

The changes were announced at this time in order to ensure that Canadians would see the full affect prior to the 2015 election.

However, if the ordinary shares or ADSs are treated as traded on an «established securities market» and you are either a cash basis taxpayer or an accrual basis taxpayer that has made a special election (which must be applied consistently from year to year and can not be changed without the consent of the IRS), you will determine the U.S. dollar value of the amount realized in a non U.S. dollar currency by translating the amount received at the spot rate of exchange on the settlement date of the sale.

The game changing election of Donald Trump to President of the United States and the competitiveness implications for Canadian carbon pricing policies should be at the top of the agenda when First Ministers meet in December.

5oo, ooo priests for 1.2 billion Catholics - There is the answer to why the abusing priests were tolerated.The conclave elected exactly who they wanted to be Pope - Someone who would not rock the boat.I believe Pope Benedict was advised to retire in light of the Federal indictment pending so this would not involve a standing Pope and the possiblity of him being found guilty.I further think this new election of Pope will allow the Church to change it's stance on the very controvertial issues the Church is facing ie.female priests being one, the decisions appearing more acceptable coming from a new head as opposed to reversed stance of standing Pope.This decision to retire, in the Churchs» view I believe is damage control and not neccessarily Pope Benedict's desire.If looked at for what it is - A very slick maneuver indeed.

As the world marked the silver anniversary of the Polish elections of June 1989, which eventually brought to power the first non-communist Polish prime minister since the Second World War, a conference met at the Vatican to consider «The Church in the Moment of Change in 1980 - 1989 in East Central Europe.»

Erwin's election symbolizes a noticeable change for a church that once banned clergy who were in same - sex relationships, said Ross Murray, director of news and Faith initiatives at GLAAD.

Pope Benedict XVI, like his predecessor John Paul II, has said that the Election of Israel can not be changed; his October 25 homily at the close of the Synod would have been a good time to reiterate this position.

There was a reason why the founding fathers put kept religion out of our government and now it seems we are being asked to» pick the Christian» in this next years election — we are not picking the leader of a church here people, we picking someone to be the most influential, most powerful person on the earth... do we want someone who has our best interests at heart or someone who will time and again try to change the US laws to reflect his own personal beliefs?

In describing and accounting for the lives of the Religious Right, which we define simply as religious conservatives with a considerable involvement in political activity, the book and the series tell the story primarily by focusing on leading episodes in the movement's history, including, but not limited to, the groundwork laid by Billy Graham in his relationships with presidents and other prominent political leaders; the resistance of evangelical and other Protestants to the candidacy of the Roman Catholic John F. Kennedy; the rise of what has been called the New Right out of the ashes of Barry Goldwater's defeat in 1964; a battle over sex education in Anaheim, California, in the mid-1960's; a prolonged cultural war over textbooks in West Virginia in the early 1970's — and that is a battle that has been fought less violently in community after community all over the country; the thrill conservative Christians felt over the election of a «born - again» Christian to the Presidency in 1976 and the subsequent disappointment they experienced when they found out that Jimmy Carter was, of all things, a Democrat; the rise of the Moral Majority and its infatuation with Ronald Reagan; the difficulty the Religious Right has had in dealing with abortion, homosexuality and AIDS; Pat Robertson's bid for the presidency and his subsequent launching of the Christian Coalition; efforts by Dr. James Dobson and Gary Bauer to win a «civil war of values» by changing the culture at a deeper level than is represented by winning elections; and, finally, by addressing crucial questions about the appropriate relationship between religion and politics or, as we usually put it, between church and state.

A few weeks ago, just before election day 2016, I met two video people from Food & Wine at Sullivan Street (which hasn't changed much) and we taped a reunion, with Jim commenting on and critiquing my technique (which evidently isn't bad).

And it is also about the dramatic changes at the time — the arrival of the car, the corruption in football, the tied general election, the Earth passing through the tail of Haley's comet...

Honestly, I don't believe the next elections at Fifa will change a lot.

For five decades after the war, every time Britain or the US changed governments, the other nation moved in the same political direction at the next election.

With European Parliament elections in June, and a new team of Commissioners in place by the autumn, 2009 will be a year of many personnel changes in Brussels, according to Tim Price, partner at GPlus Europe.

There is legitimacy in elected legislatures and governments because they necessarily have some degree of popular support (and it is possible to change them at the next election).

The former climate change secretary entered the plea alongside his ex-wife Vicky Price at London's Southwark crown court this morning, shortly before resigning as an MP and triggering a by - election in Eastleigh.

Jarvis is clear that unless Labour changes tack, any chance of victory at the next general election will be extinguished.

Local elections are often said to be about local issues but actually most of the changes over time in shares of council seats won the Conservatives, Labour and Liberal Democrats can be accounted for by changes the popularity of these parties at the national level.

The row is the latest controversy to hit the group since the 2015 election led to a change of personnel at the top of the organisation.

Politics is unpredictable and Ed Miliband could easily have a highly embarrassing episode at the election - like Neil Kinnock's «we're alright» - which changes his fortune.

The anger and indignation being felt across the world at terrible, fraudulent outcome of 2012 elections in Ghana came alive when hundreds of Ghanaians including members of the Coalition of Ghanaians against Electoral Fraud (COGEF), the Movement for Genuine Democracy (MGD), The Progressive Youth for Change and Transparency (PYCT) and The Stop tribalism in Ghana group demonstrated outside the Ghana High Commission offices in Highgate, North London.

This amendment would scrap the boundary changes for this parliament, doing away with David Cameron's chance of an extra 20 MPs at the next general election.

The dependent variable for the models is the change in share of seats at a given election.

FPTP doesn't gather sufficient information to be certain when spoilers have changed a result, but in Gaming the Vote Poundstone estimates that at least five U.S. presidential elections have been decided by spoilers

The NDC says it will officially launch its 2016 election campaign on Sunday August 14 at Cape Coast in the Central Region on the theme «Changing Lives, Transforming Ghana.»

In that regard, any ruling party that is powerful of it's own - i.e., has intrinsic power not derived from voters; a power to stick to ruling despite the changing desires of people - is antidemocratic; so a «democracy through strength» is a danger that might (not always, but a possibility) turn into a dictatorship; and a «democracy through weakness» which is unable to do so and needs to re-estabilish it's power (and right to exist) at every single elections is a preferrable system of governance that would pay more attention towards their people, and be better for the people (as opposed to their own nomenclature).

It's time to make a change, if it is this bad the last few months what will the general election campaign strategy be for the GOP with Ed at the helm.

Flanagan is remaining majority leader after an election year in which his conference was expected to at least lose several seats in the chamber, but is returning with no net changes and a preserved alliance with the Independent Democratic Conference.

Though immensely popular, social networking sites still didn't reach everyone online in 2008, and I suspect that they achieved some of their prominence in media coverage of the election because they were visible — you could SEE how many «friends» Barack Obama had at any given moment, and you could SEE it when thousands of people changed their middle names on Facebook to «Hussein» in solidarity against Republican attempts to brand Obama as «other.»

Since his October 5 election, the new chairman of the Federal Assembly's lower chamber has directed a raft of changes aimed, it seems, at improving the Duma's political stature.

Deputy prime minister Nick Clegg announced his party's intention to block boundary changes, thought to be worth around 20 MPs to the Tory party at the next election, as a direct response to the failure of his plans to make the Lords reform a mainly elected second chamber.

Taking a mandate from his small base (compared to the UK population and also the nine million people that voted Labour at the last general election), he and Momentum are sweeping the nation with a message of progressive change.

But all that you have to do is to look at the reason why after every election cycle people cry out for change.

The score could change rapidly when it's unlikely both Unite and Momentum will often lose together but the odds are most serving MPs will still be standing at the next election unless they retire.

Since some factors suggest an increase and some a decline, we will have to wait for the post election surveys to know how tactical voting changes at this election.

However, if we look at the places that had local elections on the same boundaries last year and this year (combining district wards to make county divisions), the UKIP change since 2012 is equally strongly correlated with both the Conservative and Labour change, suggesting that relative to last year both parties suffered equally from UKIP progress.

Now that we are past the midway point in the parliament — and now that it's clear that the constituency boundaries will not be changing before the next election — I decided it was time for a proper look at the marginal territory where it will be decided who enters 10 Downing Street on 8 May 2015 and whether or not they have an overall majority at their command.

To receive backing from such a highly respected campaigner, who has been so prominent in the battle against fracking and broader issues of climate change, is a real boom to the party as we look to translate the «Green surge» into votes at the general election in May.

My forecasting model for seat gains / losses at local elections has previously been a simple model based on change in party support in the polls.