Sentences with phrase «election period there»

From the entire political spectrum in the post Presidential election period there has been considerable discussion about the role of «Fake News» and the role of new information sources.

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«After an election there's always a burst of enthusiasm and popularity,» Goodale says, «and we enjoyed a long period of that.»

The Lobbying Act amended legislation to restrict spending by «non-party campaigners» during election periods (there are different thresholds for registered (# 20,000) and non-registered (# 320,000) campaigners; the threshold for registered campaigners is higher but also attracts onerous reporting requirements on spending and donations.

While operatives say there is still plenty of time for candidates to jump into the race, the next Federal Election Commission reporting period runs from July 1 through Sept. 30, and Democratic candidates may want to declare soon to raise as much money as possible before the quarter ends as a measure of their viability and popularity heading into the electiElection Commission reporting period runs from July 1 through Sept. 30, and Democratic candidates may want to declare soon to raise as much money as possible before the quarter ends as a measure of their viability and popularity heading into the electionelection year.

There has been more constitutional reform over this period than really ever in history, both in the Lords and in the introduction of different forms of voting than First Past the Post in the European elections and local elections in some places and so on.

Asantehene wondered why periods proceeding, during and after general elections since 1992 has been characterized by violence or fear of a possible break - out of violence though there the police service is mandated to maintain law and order.

He told the Observer newspaper: «I spoke to Jeremy and Adam Smith in the period immediately after the election and in particular over the run - up to the extraordinary accelerated licence - fee negotiations and there is no doubt in my mind that Adam Smith did nothing without Jeremy knowing about it and condoning it.

I noticed a huge swell of activism throughout the party over the campaign period, with teams of activists from places like London, where there were no elections, going to help parties where seats were being contested.

The 2011 act brought an end to that discretion and now elections are only held at the end of the five year period (unless two - thirds of parliament support early dissolution or there is a vote of no confidence).

Reacting to the plans, Prime Minister David Cameron said: «There are some questions... why are all the debates inside the election campaign rather than spread out over a longer period?

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork)-- The lead investigator for the Board of Elections looking into the 2014 fundraising efforts of the Bill de Blasio administration believes there was a `'» willful and flagrant» violation of campaign finance laws during that period of time.

There was a brief period before the 1997 election when it looked like the idea of «stakeholder capitalism», which explicitly recognises the tension at the heart of profit - driven business enterprise and seeks to mitigate it by empowering employees and the community at large in the decisions of otherwise independent businesses, might form part of Labour Party policy.

There will be a period of frank debate about the determination of Clegg's leadership team to stay uncritically loyal to the coalition, to stay in it to its death, and to enthuse during the election about new coalitions that were not even really on offer.

If there is an early House election outside the 12 - month period in which Senate elections can occur, the synchronisation of the election will be disrupted, and there can be half - Senate elections without a concurrent House election.

Typically, after the writ of election is returned (i.e - the election has been held, and all votes counted) there is a 30 - 60 day transition period where the former Prime Minister continues to sit, and the incoming Prime Minister gets his / her cabinet together.

Over the holiday period there was a lively and intelligent debate on the internet about whether the Tories have any chance of winning the next election.

But June next year is likely to coincide with the fasting period and Salah, and since the law says that we should conduct the election at least 30 days to the end of the tenure (of the incumbent), we shifted it to July when there is no festival or examination.

The lead investigator for the Board of Elections looking into the 2014 fundraising efforts of the Bill de Blasio administration believes there was a `'» willful and flagrant» violation of campaign finance laws during that period of time.

For the 2015 general election, there were two regulated periods for candidates known as the «short campaign» and «long campaign».

Sure, there have been outriders floating radical ideas about policy and party reform, yet despite the fears among MPs that there would be a period of blood - letting following Owen Smith's emphatic defeat in the second leadership election last summer, there has been no abuse of the party's internal processes by Corbyn, evidenced by the failure of his supporters to secure berths in the pre-election carve - up of safe seats.

Mr McDonnell was asked if he felt he should call an immediate election if he won - given that it would signal a sharp change of direction: «My view is like this,» he said, «I think there needs to be a period of time in which you can demonstrate what you're doing and what you want to do, and then go to the electorate yourself.»

Back in the spring, he crunched numbers from the New York State Board of Elections and found that there were more than 100,000 potential campaign finance law violations by candidates over a two - year period.

(b) Insert immediately following the period at the end of the first sentence of subsection (c) the following new sentence: «If in any such proceeding literacy is a relevant fact there shall be a rebuttable presumption that any person who has not been adjudged an incompetent and who has completed the sixth grade in a public school in, or a private school accredited by, any State or territory, the District of Columbia, or the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico where instruction is carried on predominantly in the English language, possesses sufficient literacy, comprehension, and intelligence to vote in any Federal election.»

In 1995, as the BBC reports, the Thai government briefly collapsed; political parties were banned, then reconstituted; Martial Law was declared in 2004 (the year of the devastating tsunami); and among the number of elections, overthrown elections, and Court - ordered changes in the Prime Minister's office, there was a brief period of political vacuum in 2006 when the PM's office was vacant.

The parties have been unable to agree upon any of the matters of substance, in particular on the form of and territorial extent of any injunctive relief, upon the extent of any Island Records v Tring disclosure (relevant to the election of an inquiry as to damages or an account of profits), upon whether and if so in what form there should be an order for publicity of the judgment as an enforcement measure, upon the appropriate basis and order as to costs, upon whether the Claimants» costs should be reduced by reason of the fact that for a period an exclusive licence was not registered, upon the extent of any CPR 31.22 order in relation to alleged confidential information, upon whether there should be permission to appeal and upon whether there should be a stay pending any appeal.»

Rix LJ agreed and considered that «where the time for decision had already come and the meeting only fell within the purdah period for exceptional reasons, and where either proceeding or delaying the meeting date in relation to the forthcoming election might be criticised either way... I do not consider that the fair - minded and informed observer would infer that there was a real possibility that, because the decision was taken at one time rather than another, therefore it was taken by councillors with closed minds».

For Auld LJ, there were two «knock - out» arguments against a narrowing of the prohibition: - the impossibility of identifying a boundary between party political matters and other matters of public importance and controversy; and - he contended, it would not have been «a principled or logical distinction to limit the prohibition to... election periods,» if airtime could be bought outside them (para 80).