Sentences with phrase «elections out of pressure»
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...
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Akin, who won a tough primary battle this month, has apologized for his comments but also defied pressure to get out of the election.
National Democrats are now pressuring Cantor's GOP colleagues to declare whether they support his call, which is actually reminiscent of how the Rep. Paul Ryan Medicare reform plan fight played out during the NY - 26 special election.
A group of Tea Party activists has launched a Website in hopes of pressuring Rick Lazio to drop out of the general election and cede the state Conservative Party line and request that Row D and Row B be «unified under a single candidate.»
«One has to wonder why, now that there is enormous grassroots pressure to eliminate the IDC, the Democratic establishment wants to welcome them back rather than joining the movement to vote them out in primary elections,» says Andrew Jacobs of Lead Blue.
Paterson has come under pressure to bow out of next year's election from labor groups and others who worry his historically low popularity could jeopardize the party's fortunes statewide.
Tony Blair, under pressure from Gordon Brown, conceded that he would allow «ample» time for a «stable and orderly» transition, faced demands from MPs for a «timetable», carried out a defensive reshuffle after disastrous local elections in 2006, and finally, after his failure to condemn the Israeli invasion of Lebanon provoked the September coup, was forced to hand in his 12 months notice.
The move to pressure the IDC comes after the Senate Elections Committee held a hearing that was critical of public financing, but also knocked for shutting out some advocates of the proposal.
Attorney General Jeff Sessions has long been pressuring the FBI Director to make a «fresh start» and clear out the bureau's top staff — including deputy director Andrew McCabe — amid the backdrop of an intensifying investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 election and possible collusion with the Trump campaign.
«The pressure to get something out at election time was a much more dominant theme than the idea of letting it go through review,» said Henry M. Levin, a professor at Teachers College at Columbia University.