Sentences with phrase «electoral success by»

Like Gibson, Faso found electoral success by running as a moderate pragmatist with a firm grip on bread - and - butter issues — like the cost of home heating oil and price supports for dairy farmers — that matter to Hudson Valley residents, regardless of their ideology.

Street vendors sell bread from a stall in the main shopping area following the electoral success by Syriza in the Greek general election on January 26, 2015 in Athens, Greece.

Not exact matches

Facebook should also notify the 50 million Americans whose profiles were reportedly «harvested» by Cambridge Analytica — the consulting firm now suspended by Facebook that claims to have provided the «secret sauce» that drove Trump's electoral success.

But success in politics should not be measured purely by electoral victories.

... Delight in smooth - sounding platitudes, refusal to face unpleasant facts, desire for popularity and electoral success irrespective of the vital interests of the State, genuine love of peace and pathetic belief that love can be its sole foundation, obvious lack of intellectual vigour in both leaders of the British Coalition Government, marked ignorance of Europe and aversion from its problems in Mr. Baldwin, the strong and violent pacifism which at this time dominated the Labour - Socialist Party, the utter devotion of the Liberals to sentiment apart from reality, the failure and worse than failure of Mr. Lloyd George, the erstwhile great war - time leader, to address himself to the continuity of his work, the whole supported by overwhelming majorities in both Houses of Parliament: all these constituted a picture of British fatuity and fecklessness which, though devoid of guile, was not devoid of guilt, and, though free from wickedness or evil design, played a definite part in the unleashing upon the world of horrors and miseries which, even so far as they have unfolded, are already beyond comparison in human experience.

My own research, which I've discussed on this blog previously, shows that strategic considerations by governments, designed to maximise electoral success, are a better predictor of when referendums will be held.

So let's celebrate electoral success, but also recognise that we need to work on new policies and a narrative that captures the imagination of a majority of Scots by 2016.

The Scottish National party (SNP) hopes Peter Grant will be the man to continue his party's recent electoral successes at the Glenrothes by - election.

Mr. Bamba's group had said it would not work with Mr. Adjei who was recently appointed by President Nana Akufo - Addo, because he did not contribute to the party's electoral success.

That strategy — mainly presentational, but also calling for an end to demands for higher taxes, for instance — was largely adopted and implemented by Tony Blair and helped bring about Labour's tremendous electoral success.

Attention will inevitably focus on electoral reform, but success in the «yes» campaign launched by Clegg as the conference began is far from guaranteed.

He ends the article by attacking what he calls the «Reassurance Labour tendency», not just for minimising the chances of electoral success, but because «its vision is too narrow, its mechanisms too one - dimensional, and its effectiveness too limited.»

Boris was Boris — the paltry link between his electoral success and that of his nominal party underlined by the voting figures at the last mayoral election.

Owen Smith now has a real chance to make a principled appeal to those Corbynistas who, reasonably enough, want Labour politics to mean something again, after enduring two decades of New Labour's ideological crash diet, but who may, by now, harbour doubts about Jeremy's ability to deliver electoral success.

The research also found that, although the candidate preferences of both groups were influenced by how competent, trustworthy, and attractive the candidates look, only the attractiveness ratings provided by older adults predicted actual electoral success.

By contrast, especially in recent years, the tendency in majoritarian countries has been for governments to prefer to work with their own politically appointed advisers and to ignore the unpalatable advice of technically neutral civil servants where this is judged to interfere with the chances of electoral success or political expediency.

With the NAR Candidate Training Academy, participating state and local associations of REALTORS ® can help make the road to electoral success a little easier for their members who are interested in running for office by sponsoring an NAR - developed training curriculum, either alone or in partnership with other nearby associations.