Sentences with phrase «election against the backdrop»

However, only one was returned at the 1931 election against the backdrop of a massive defeat for Labour.

Adeyeye added that the call for the postponement of the election against the backdrop of the fact that INEC also postponed the Edo State governorship election and recently postponed the Rivers rerun elections.

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Against this backdrop, analysts wonder how well populist parties will do in the elections.

Against that backdrop (the Netherlands also has elections in March, and Italy may yet call them later this year), the likeliest course is that the ECB remains «on autopilot» for the rest of the year, happy just to dodge the flak that will inevitably come its way.

The current federal election is being fought against a backdrop of deepening inequality and the social problems that accompany it.

Conservative Party members will gather in Manchester next week for the party's annual conference, against the backdrop of Mrs May having lost her parliamentary majority in a snap election and continued questions about cabinet unity over Brexit.

The elections will take place against the backdrop of rising economic challenges facing Africa's economy.

Patrick Ruffini, a co-founder Echelon Insights, a Republican - leaning digital analytics and research firm, said the public outrage this week over the disclosures about Cambridge Analytica «feels like a double standard» against the backdrop of how the Obama campaign and other Democratic and Republican political operatives sought to use Facebook data during the 2012 and 2014 election cycles.

Something Akufo - Addo and his Kyebi mafias plan of doing after the 2016 elections, against the backdrop as having been denied of that request by the duly elected Independent minded and fair minded National Chairman of our time, Paul Afoko.

The play's main plotlines move against the backdrop of the 2012 American election — Romney's «binder full of women» gaffe gets a mention — and the decline of print and photojournalism in the age of the internet and cameraphones.

Against the backdrop of claims in some quarters that former President Goodluck Jonathan conceded defeat after the 2015 Presidential elections out of pressure, the former president...

I totally agree that a convention that is established quickly against a backdrop of narrow party political point scoring in the run - up to the election will be a disaster.

Leanne Wood has made a pitch for the votes of former Labour supporters against a backdrop of Ukip by - election victories and the possibility of a hung parliament at Westminster in May.

Six months ago the Guardian conducted a similar survey against a backdrop of euphoria over huge rises in membership after Corbyn's election in September.

But her relative silence and independent travel in recent weeks is set against a salacious backdrop: A Wall Street Journal report that the porn star Stormy Daniels was paid $ 130,000 just before the 2016 election to keep quiet about an affair she had had a decade earlier with Mr. Trump — when the Trumps were newlyweds, and soon after Mrs. Trump gave birth to their son, Barron.

Against the backdrop of reported protest by Police officers over non-payment of allowances after the Ondo State governorship election, the Nigerian Police hierarchy disclosed last Night that allowances of Policemen who took part in last Saturday's governorship election, are being paid noting that those yet to get their allowances presented moribund account numbers.

There are several factors responsible for the inadequate success, ranging from the huge prosecutorial task, dependence on other agencies for arrest and investigation, time and resources against the backdrop of INEC's extensive responsibilities of conducting elections and managing pre and post election litigations.»

«It is against this backdrop that I am presenting myself to the party leadership to intimate them of my resolve to contest the forth coming gubernatorial election on the platform of the party.

Dr Saád agreed with the INEC Chairman on the relevance of the theme of the lecture, especially against the backdrop of the release of Timetable and Schedule of Activities for the 2019 General Elections,

With education policy set to play an important part in the May general election campaign, debates around the future direction of the school system will take place against the backdrop of fast - paced reforms made during the coalition's time in office.

It somehow becomes about the relationships between these characters against the backdrop of 2008 New Orleans, the national economic collapse, the depression and desperation of a city, and the hope the 2008 election of Barack Obama could bring.

The film unfolds against the backdrop of Indonesia's historic 2014 presidential election as the world's third largest democracy is put to the test.

All this against a backdrop of the country gearing up for an election that may deliver America's first black President.

In France, business remained stable (down 0.5 %) at the beginning of the year in a sharply downbeat market and against the backdrop of the French presidential election.

Detective Mollel knows this is more than just a dead prostitute, so set against the backdrop of Kenya's turbulent 2007 presidential elections, he seeks the truth.

Against the backdrop of the US Presidential election, renowned Saudi artist, Ahmed Mater presented his first U.S. solo exhibition at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington D.C..

For the recently completed version of Tension Building, which makes its debut at the Secession, the artist has updated her filmic investigation against the backdrop of the last U.S. election to bring critical pressure to bear on the prominent role of athletics and spectacle in American culture.

For this exhibition, Andrews situates her sculptures against a conceptual and, at times, pictorial backdrop of presidential elections that functions as a rich allegory.

The VIP opening at New York's Armory Show this week came the day after Super Tuesday, and so was against a backdrop of political jitters generated by the presidential election.

The court's decisions this term will be set against the backdrop of the hotly contested presidential election.

It will be interesting to see if this continues through the bonus season against a backdrop of more uncertainty regarding Brexit, European elections and maybe a UK general election.