Sentences with phrase «electorate as»

But other than the hard - core voter whose mind will never be swayed, I'm not sensing the mind of the electorate as being made up.

Whilst it can not be said that this would never be an appropriate course for the case tribunal to take it, in my judgment, where the matter complained of was, by inference, put before the electorate as an issue and they have delivered their verdict through the ballot box it can not be right to override that verdict.»

At five - year intervals, on the basis of the number of Members then enrolled in each Electorate as their primary Electorate, the Council shall reconsider the validity of the formula which determines the number of Council delegates to be elected by the Electorates [see (a) above] and, when necessary to insure equitable representation of the Members, shall change the formula and amend the relevant portion of this Section accordingly.

The number of Council delegates per Electorate is based on the number of Members enrolled in each Electorate as their primary Electorate.

Unlike Brown, who was simply appealing to the Labour Party to keep him there until 2010 I think you will find Cameron will address the electorate as well.

New York City Attorney Wendy Long ran as a staunch conservative to win New York's Republican Senate primary and now faces a broader and more liberal electorate as she takes on Democratic incumbent Kirsten Gillibrand.

He stressed that the party's founders realised that it was only by fair dealing that the party could remain faithful to the progressive ideals that were presented to the Nigerian electorate as governing creed.

Yes, of course taxation and the present economic situation are uppermost in most people's minds, but that does not mean that a very major cause of this Government's present unpopularity, is the cavalier and contemptuous manner in which Brown has dismissed the electorate as total fools who could be taken by his lies and deceit over the Lisbon treaty.

So even if each Conservative seat has the same electorate as each Lab seat, Conservative seats will typically continue to contain more voters.

It's hard to say how the issue will play in the long - term but Cameron might be advised to remember his party's history on Europe; it's a toxic subject for the party, not so much with electorate as with its own self.

While UKIP voters were as likely as the electorate as a whole to admit they didn't know what to expect, two thirds of those expressing a view thought the Conservatives would be back in government; most of these said they thought the Tories would win outright.

He saw the electorate as more of a mosaic of individuals who (hopefully) fit in together but kept their own identifies.

Wendy Long ran as a staunch conservative to win New York's Republican Senate Primary and now faces a broader and more liberal electorate as she takes on Democratic incumbent Kirsten Gillibrand.

In terms of ideology, exit polls reveal that the state is just under a third each of self - described liberals and conservatives, with slightly under 40 percent of the total electorate as self - described moderates.

Politically, «recent» Ukip converts look much more like the electorate as a whole than «early» converts.

«As for President Buhari, I have never seen a government that offers no hope to the electorate as his.

He is viewed by 33 % of the New York electorate as the governor who has been the best for the state in recent decades.

Those who want a positive message to be relayed to the electorate as soon as possible need to consider how to persuade the leadership sticking with ConDem austerity would be «mad».

The Tory party was toxically unpopular: the electorate as a whole preferred a Labour to Tory government by 58 per cent to 32 per cent.

As well as the electorate as a whole becoming less collectivist with a smaller state there is also a more simple mechanism at play.

We're going to treat the electorate as adults and we should be treated as adults.»

A major factor in Jeremy Corbyn's appeal to voters in the recent leadership election — and potentially to the wider electorate as well — was his brave assertion that austerity was the wrong response to recession and was doing absolutely avoidable damage to both economic performance and social cohesion.

Second, the more optimistic one outlined by Peter Wielhouwer in the early 2000s, suggesting that more sophisticated targeting would also allow campaigns to identify more voters it makes sense to talk to and try to motivate, and thus expand the electorate as more people are turned out to vote.

Politicians still seem to think of the electorate as children who need to be controlled and patronised.

At the last General Election, the electorate as a whole rejected an often - angry Ed Miliband because they considered him more interested in helping those on welfare than hard working people.

Earlier, Abetz said Stone was «doing the right thing by her electorate in defending her people and her electorate as much as possible» but the reality was that the company had the wherewithal to fix the problems and ensure it was viable.

Given the long - standing split in the Israeli electorate as to how to act in the peace process, did the Rabin government, in order to act at all, have to act as it did?

Committee members also questioned whether an elected second chamber would be any more accountable than now since their 15 year non-repeatable term meant they were cut off from their electorates as soon as they are elected.

Not exact matches

Meanwhile, Portugal's Communist Party has support of as much as 10 percent of the electorate — and could help deny that country's Socialist Party a shot at taking back power from the governing center - right coalition in an Oct. 4 election.

But the answer is as divided as the British electorate over the decision to leave the European Union.

Canning MHR Don Randall says residential estates and businesses in his electorate are missing out on communications infrastructure and may not receive it for up to eight years as the Gillard government presses ahead with the national broadband network.

Our survey, conducted April 27 through May 2, assessed the existing primary candidates in the Republican and Democratic parties and explored the issues of greatest impact to small - business owners — a significant force in the U.S. economy as well as an extremely engaged segment of the electorate.

Second, the pool of white voters interviewed wasn't quite as Republican as the overall white electorate.

If??? as is looking increasingly likely??? this budget sparks an election, the prime minister, and the electorate, know exactly who to blame.

Given the history and issues the other political candidates have, Macron's lack of experience in politics could possibly be seen as a good thing by the electorate.

So, as the UK woos India, India is playing to its own electorate and interests.

Uncertainty shock = lower US GDP estimates; markets will price in EU fragmentation; Fed likely to pass in Dec; ultimate growth impact of Trump will depend on whether his protectionism or Keynesianism triumphs; either way Trump will boost inflation / stagflation expectations as electorates say end wage deflation via immigration controls, trade protectionism, fiscal spending.

The Democratic gubernatorial primary is so competitive this year, The Sun's Erin Cox reports, that campaigns and strategists think they may need the support of no more than a quarter of the electorate to win — maybe as few as 125,000 votes.

Canada's millennials (born between 1983 and 1999; aged 18 to 34 as of 2017) are the generation that grew up in an era of a rising Asia and who will form the largest block of the electorate in the 2019 Canadian federal election.

It can hardly come as a great surprise that when economic growth falls short year after year and when its beneficiaries are a small subset of the population, electorates turn surly.

Oh, I knew the Harper Government ™ had nothing but contempt for the electorate — they're officially in contempt of Parliament — but as I watched him walking out on the reporters, I felt as if he were flipping me the bird.

In advanced economies across the globe, expanded trade and globalization face an existential crisis: for large swaths of the European and American electorate, the current trade model is non-representative, undemocratic, and perceived — often justly — as contrary to their economic interests.

Carl DeMaio, a leader of the repeal campaign, recently acknowledged in an email to supporters that the initiative is seen as a way to boost the chances for Republican candidates in California, where Democrats dominate the electorate.

As President Donald Trump takes the country closer to an economic nationalism that calls for tearing up agreements like NAFTA and the Trans - Pacific Partnership, potentially enacting higher tariffs on imports and obsessing over trade deficits, it is worth reflecting on a similar debate that inflamed the electorate 130 years ago.

However, such esoteric hipster knowledge (esoteric, if only because it played on inside knowledge that was common knowledge and what everyone knew merely 15 years ago or so) comes across as mere pandering to an electorate of Gen Xers who in their indecisiveness are at best a vote on the margins — at least in terms of their actual numbers.

The result was that the majority of the electorate saw the Republicans as the party whose economic policies would benefit the rich.

If Obama wants to spend the election talking to an economy - minded electorate about abortion from his own exposed position as a supporter of partial birth abortion and sex selective abortions, then Republicans should welcome such a Democrat strategy.

Campaigning for the French presidency last year, Nicolas Sarkozy ran hard against what Europeans still refer to as 1968, describing the post-1968 New Left as «immoral» and «cynical» and defining the choice before the French electorate in stark terms: «In this election, the question is whether the heritage of May «68 should be perpetuated, or if it should be liquidated.»

Jewish voters represent just a couple percent of the national electorate, but their numbers are bigger in swing states such as Florida and Pennsylvania.

Recent efforts in Europe to ban the face veil (the niqab or burqa) are not so much concerned with women's rights and security as they are with obtaining votes from an electorate that is increasingly xenophobic and anxious about national identity.