Sentences with phrase «elections contest about»

The death of Thatcher will light a fire under the smouldering local elections contest about to burst into flames across the country.

Not exact matches

September 25, 2015 - CCGG's Executive Director Stephen Erlichman was quoted in The Globe and Mail about the use of universal proxies in contested director elections and CCGG's «Universal Proxy Policy».

The lawsuits would have required Cohen to submit to an evidence discovery process, forcing him to produce documentation and sworn testimony about his activities before the closely contested election.

Even before news reports emerged in recent days about the potential misuse of Facebook data, federal regulators and Congress grappled with social media's growing influence on U.S. elections and the ways in which Russian operatives used the platforms to attempt to sow social unrest ahead of the 2016 presidential contest.

There was a brief lull in Europe's crowded election calendar, but polls in the run - up to the first round of voting in France's presidential contest in late April suggested the centrist - candidate Emmanuel Macron was gaining support, which continued to soothe market concerns about a possible victory for the populist Marine Le Pen.

While what follows is perhaps presumptive to a fault, it may offer some thoughts from a Hispanic point of view about the «contest of negatives» that is Election 2016.

then we violate the very teachings of our lord... If u do not understand... I wont blame u coz lot of people are being mislead by money hungry small Chritian communities who do not come from the apostals of the lord and it is only the Catholic church which does and pls read well about our church before u criticise the Holy father coz he is not self appointed NOR he has contested a currupt election to be in this place today

Sunder, One of the problems with the internet debates, especially those around controversial or hotly contested issues, is that the parties very often do not actually appear to engage with each other at all - they merely stand on their own ground shouting to the world about their particular take on a point and fail to actually listen to what others are saying... the classic examples of this is the «debate» about the promotion of women in the European elections and the «debate» about grammar schools - both on Conservative Home.

«As you are aware, we conducted about 35 primaries for the 35 political parties that are contesting for the November 18 gubernatorial election in the state.

It's about that time of year... you've just about recovered from election madness (even 2015 saw a wave of state - level contests), only to get slammed with year - end fundraising email appeals.

«He provokes public order, as a tool of attracting the media and making unsubstantiated claims about the transparency and fairness of all the elections he contested, such tactics are dangerous and irresponsible.»

The leadership contest was triggered after Tim Farron said he would step down following the party's failure to make as much progress as he had hoped at the general election, and a series of punishing interviews about his personal views on issues including homosexuality.

Many MPs confess to being unenthusiastic about the party's leadership contest and concede that Labour will likely lose the next election.

«I stand by what I said yesterday, and the virus that I'm referring to is the policies and the approach of the likes of Peter Mandelson, who seem to continually push these sweeping statements that what this contest is all about is about Labour winning an election, it's all about being credible, it's all about moving back to what he describes as the centre ground of British politics.

This is amidst uncertainty about whether or not John Mahama will contest again in the next elections.

http://ghanapoliticsonline.com Pollsters are also usually analytical about the chances of candidates elected by their parties to contest the Presidential and Parliamentary elections in the country.

Farage has been hyping the event throughout the week, but his efforts were derailed by a drip feed of stories about comments from MEP Roger Helmer, who will contest the Newark by - election for the party.

Opening the debate, Gordon Brown said: «This may have the feel of a TV popularity contest, but in truth this is an election about Britain's future, and a fight for your future and your jobs.

With the window for taking part in Labour leadership election closing and ballot papers going out there were several polls over the weekend asking about the leadership candidates, though no fresh polling of people voting in the actual contest.

«Frankly speaking, If Nigeria is a country where democracy is democracy, so many won't talk about contesting election.

What is conspicuous about Labour leadership contests in the new era is that, unlike those confined to the PLP only — let alone Tory elections — they have more often than not been foregone conclusions.

First of all, European Elections are as much about personality contests as Presidential Elections are (note how many MEPs / former MEPs have contested Presidential Elections) and party support trends do not always fully equate to likelihood of success in these contests.

The sophomore lawmaker admitted she voted for Ohio Gov. John Kasich during the 2016 New York primary contest, but supported Trump during the general election because she cares about issues like economic growth, revitalizing the manufacturing sector and military investment.

The primaries are over and the general election in November is still weeks away, but already many in the political world are thinking about the next significant contest on the horizon - the 2014 statewide elections.

With the election set to be closest political contest on Britain for a generation, authorities are particularly concerned about any irregularities, given the margin of victory could be very slim.

The race will likely be decided by a state Supreme Court judge who arrived at the Board of Elections in Yaphank about 3 p.m. Wednesday to start making calls on contested absentee ballots sent to the district by mail.

In or about 1952 Zik relinquished his position as the executive head of Eastern Nigeria to contest an election in the west which went contrary to his expectations.

The contest was called after Phil Woolas, who won the seat last year by a margin of 103, was found guilty of lying about his Liberal Democrat opponent in the general election.

The by - election was called after an election court declared last year's contest void after finding that Labour victor Phil Woolas had made false statements about the Lib Dem candidate Elwyn Watkins.

That's about average for off - year local elections, way short of predictions from advocates of single - member districts, who had argued that replacing multi-member districts with one - on - one contests voters would result in better - known candidates and greater voter participation.

Someone who sees this election contest as a way of re-energising our thoughts and views about how we tackle the issues that matter: immigration, housing, welfare reform.

Krasner said the turnout, the highest among the borough's contested races, according to a TimesLedger analysis, was about average for a primary election, with 10 percent or less being a bad turnout and 20 percent being a good turnout.

We were here for the second leg of Labour frontrunner Jeremy Corbyn's four - city tour of Scotland, a place where he has much work to do if he wins the leadership election — and where Scottish Labour is about to announce its own new leader in a contest that has had much less attention than this one.

Sleepy elections occur about once every four years in New York, Unlike the one in 2007, this year's features no ballot measures, fewer contests for the bench and no particularly high profile ones.

In addition, many had speculated about Chris Patten returning to Westminster (he had lost his seat in the 1992 election) and becoming leader; however, the contest took place before Patten's term of office as Governor of Hong Kong ended.

The Club for Growth's first ad in the special election in New York's 23rd district hammers state Assemblywoman Dede Scozzafava (R) and businessman Bill Owens (D) for their alleged similarities to Gov. David Paterson — a move sure to stoke concerns within the Democratic establishment about the drag the Empire State's chief executive could have on downballot contests in 2010.

State Sen. Frank Padavan is contesting the results of Tuesday's election, in which Tony Avella defeated him by about 3,000 votes.

Liberal Democrats have been canvassing hard in the constituency for the seven months since the general election victory there by Labour «sPhil Woolas, which they immediately set about contesting.

While Labour distributed ballot packs to its members, the trade unions were responsible for sending out literature relating to the contest to their members, leading to concerns from each side about the content of the other's election material.

Their first collaboration, Recount, about the contested 2000 presidential election, featured Laura Dern as Katherine Harris, whose gauche gaudiness dropped into the middle of the film's strategic maneuvering came across as the antics of some kind of grotesque buffoon played for dissonant laughs.

We saw that most recently in the election of 2000, where the final votes were contested and there was some question about whether Al Gore would bring a legal case to contest the outcome over the vote tally in the state of Florida.

Several recent movies have looked at Iran, including Argo, which was the Academy Award Winner for Best Picture in 2013 and centered on the Iran Hostage Crisis - precipitated by the Iranian Revolution - and For Neda, an HBO documentary about a young woman killed while she was protesting the contested election in 2009.

September 25, 2015 - CCGG's Executive Director Stephen Erlichman was quoted in The Globe and Mail about the use of universal proxies in contested director elections and CCGG's «Universal Proxy Policy».

This vote came after the public became concerned about abuses that occurred because of the earlier system of contested elections.

Facebook is struggling to stave off a barrage of criticism that it hasn't done enough to address revelations that Cambridge Analytica, which worked with Donald Trump's presidential campaign, siphoned data from about 50 million Facebook users as it built an election - consulting company that boasted it could sway voters in contests all over the world.

In a tweet on Monday evening, Stamos contested «rumors» about his work at Facebook, confirming his role had changed but adding that he was «currently spending more time exploring emerging security risks and working on election security.»

Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg has come under intense pressure from politicians in Europe and the US to explain how political consulting firm Cambridge Analytica, which worked with Donald Trump's presidential campaign, harvested data from about 50 million Facebook users as it built an election - consulting company that boasted it could sway voters in contests all over the world.