Sentences with phrase «electoral purposes»

But for electoral purposes, this is a rural country.

It recognises the possibility of a law of a State disqualifying all persons of a particular race from voting at elections and gives any such disqualification relevance for Commonwealth electoral purposes.

President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday admitted, albeit jokingly, that he decided to be in company of some state governors in Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire for electoral purposes.

We must also rise to the challenge of binding this new movement to the one thing that distinguishes Labour from the left ecosystem of protest and pressure groups — our electoral purpose.

The grim conclusion must be that Osborne hid this tax rise from the voters for electoral purposes.

Accusing his opponents of «the most blatant hypocrisy in pretending they have changed to a modern, enlightened party», Lord Lester said: «What they have done is seek to destroy the central purpose of the bill under the guise of giving rights to others and it's complete humbug done for electoral purposes.»

Trillium claims «Ontario unlawfully deprived it of a lucrative offshore wind - powered electric generation project, for an improper political purpose, specifically an electoral purpose,» according to the appeal court's Nov. 12 ruling in Trillium Power Wind Corp. v. Ontario (Natural Resources).