Sentences with phrase «election debate against»

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The debate is shaping as a NSW election issue and the Australian Beverages Council has threatened to run attack advertising against the government if it supports a container deposit policy.

When Sweden was debating nearly a century ago whether women should get the vote, one argument against it was that elections would cost twice as much!

The IEA held a debate on Tuesday 20th October for or against the compilation of a new voters register ahead of the 2016 general election.

[citation needed] In a March 2015 Newsnight election debate, he was challenged by Jeremy Paxman as to whether or not he was «tough enough» to be Prime Minister, famously responding, «Hell yes, I'm tough enough», in reference to his reluctance to support air strikes against extremist targets in Syria.

[1] In these elections, televised debates — which Craig Allen Smith compares to the Super Bowl, referring to both as «innovations of the 1960s that pitted the survivors of elimination contests against each other in spectacles made for national television» [2]-- have become increasingly prominent.

Think about the televising of the 1960 presidential debate, which quite likely shifted the election to Kennedy, or news coverage of the 1968 Tet Offensive in Vietnam, which turned American opinion against the war for the first time.

The forum was the first in a new series called the Campbell Debates, where panelists are asked to argue for or against asking rich people to pay more — a question deeply rooted in this year's presidential election, Occupy Wall Street protests and the tea party's dissatisfaction with traditional political parties.

(CNN)- Sen. Blanche Lincoln, D - Arkansas, faces off against Rep. John Boozman, R - Arkansas, at a 1 p.m. ET debate in one the mostly hotly contested Senate races of the 2010 Election.

Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D - N.Y.) engaged in a nasty, lone radio debate in her Democratic primary against upstart Reshma Saujani on Tuesday morning, in which the two traded barbs — but managed to up the ante after the event, as the incumbent literally fled from reporters and the challenger said she might not vote in the general election if she loses.

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP & WXXI News)-- New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo says he will participate in two debates ahead of the general election, after refusing to square off against his primary opponent.

In the lead up to the election, the mayor publicly — in debates, interviews and press conferences — positioned himself as someone who will stand up against big - bad real estate interests.

Lhota, a deputy mayor under former GOP Mayor Rudy Giuliani and former head of the city transit authority, faced off against his Democratic opponent, New York City Public Advocate Bill de Blasio, in the first of three debates leading up to the November mayoral election.

Cuomo has refused to debate Teachout, his opponent in Tuesday's Democratic primary, and has not yet committed to a general election debate with Astorino, leaving the two challengers to face off against each other.

Going into the general election, Hawkins is calling for a series of debates against the governor and Republican opponent Rob Astorino.

SUNY's quick adoption of the proposal, without debate, enables Cuomo to further claim women's rights as his platform in next month's election against Republican Rob Astorino, who the governor has criticized for opposing abortion.

Astorino, the Westchester County executive, has proposed a series of debates against Cuomo, a Democrat, to be held around the state before the November election.

Even before that, Pataki tweeted he would not support Trump's election, which resulted in an attack tweet from Trump against his fellow Republican on Sept. 13, 2015, three days before a GOP presidential debate.

ALBANY, N.Y. (CBSNewYork / AP)-- New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo says he will participate in two debates ahead of the general election, after refusing to square off against his primary opponent.

He said he would not debate against Nick Griffin in an election leaders» debate - the debates should just be between the three main party leaders;

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.

«The stoppage of the debate by Channels TV is because the programme is meant to give undue advantage to the four candidates against the other 33 candidates who were equally certified for the election by INEC.

During the election campaign Ms Rudd stood up on behalf of the PM against the Labour leader in a live TV debate despite the fact her father had died two days before.

This culminated in our first debate elections, which pitted the head of the conservatives against the head of the liberals, while party members on both sides peppered them with questions.

The at - time unctuous, election - year parent trigger debate is pitting teachers» unions and parent groups against charter schools and for - profit management companies throughout the nation.