Sentences with phrase «electoral cycle with»

Conservative and Liberal Democrat ministers» constitutional reforms have been criticised from the start, as the Fixed Term Parliament Act deliberately linked the establishment of a five - year electoral cycle with the mechanics setting up the 2011 electoral reform referendum.

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It's important to remember that as we head into a crazy electoral cycle... our online communities aren't an ATM... engage with them genuinely and they'll show you the love in the all the ways.

It could also be different if it coincides with importunate military pressures or pressures on the currency that preclude slower - paced adjustment (as in 1931 or 1950), or if it takes place in the context of an external bailout that cuts across the normal electoral cycle (as with the US bailout of the Attlee government in 1949, the IMF bailout of 1976 or the more recent Eurozone bailouts), or in a context of no or very low economic growth over a prolonged period.

This shouldn't surprise us, as it is in line with the incentives that electoral campaigns face — as I wrote in my book Ground Wars based on research on previous election cycles:

Local government's four - year electoral cycle means that the baseline with which to compare these elections was 2011, when most of the actual council seats up this year were last won and lost.

Part of the reason for the large number of serving national politicians standing in these EU elections has to do with Finland's national electoral cycle.

At one point in the electoral cycle there was a substantial difference in the two main parties» approach, with the Tories demanding cuts to public spending and Labour veering towards promises of greater investment.

«It's actually more European than I expected,» he reflects, agreeing that the product's undeniably cheap and apparently impartial nature will certainly appeal in countries like the UK that have shorter electoral cycles — you can get a «Nation» up and running in a few hours — and with less money sloshing around in politics than the US has (you can use it for $ 19 a month).

Opinion poll after opinion poll has placed Labour behind or barely breaking even with the Conservatives, less than encouraging when you consider that Miliband was 11 points ahead at this juncture in the electoral cycle.

E-mail lists — which President Obama famously used to powerful effect in the last electoral cycle — could be combined and applied even by people with little to no advocacy experience, said Evan Sutton, a spokesperson for the Washington - based New Organizing Institute.

The YouGov local election poll in the Sun today is based on just repondents in those areas that actually have local elections in May — that is, excluding London, Scotland, Wales and the 13 or so councils who do not have elections this year (primarily Cornwall, Durham, the Isle of Wight, Northumberland, Shropshire and Wiltshire, with a handful of district councils with unusual electoral cycles).

Rather than waiting to combine them with the next round of local council elections, and despite the fact that the government had committed to holding subsequent PCC elections alongside other elections, the 2012 PCC elections were held as stand - alone elections in November, outside the normal electoral cycle.

The non-partisan forum commemorates the 18th anniversary of the American with Disabilities Act (ADA) and addresses the issues most important to the disability community in the current electoral cycle.

«Electoral intervention is not supposed to be a non-profit's main activity, but these dark money groups are abusing their tax - exempt status by existing primarily as vehicles for corporations and wealthy donors to secretly influence elections,» Fischer noted, adding, «Some dark money non-profits might now use lobbying as an accounting trick to balance their books between electoral and non-electoral spending, leading to a spiraling cycle of non-stop campaigning and special interest influence, but with zero transparency or public accountability.»

It will take many electoral cycles and all major countries to address the problems associated with climate change.

They should be elected in thirds, with each member serving three electoral cycles» (this being the commission's recommendation).

In the UK, the Confederation of British Industry (CBI) has called for governments of all political persuasions to take more of a long - term approach to planning such projects, with a 25 -30-year horizon rather than working over five - year electoral cycles or even shorter timeframes.