Sentences with phrase «electorate has»

If «ABUSE of Dominant Position» is perceived by the public, the electorate has the choice of voting said party out of office, or at least curbing its power via reducing the offending party to minority governance status.

The American electorate has surely figured out by now that's how he rolls.

It's divisive, the electorate has more pressing concerns, and very little can be accomplished anyway.

The US electorate has spoken.

As Deasy begins to prepare next year's budget, he's faced with a school board that favors hiring more teachers and support staff at a time the electorate has voted to raise taxes to fund public education.

These victories demonstrate the strong bipartisan support for school choice and the focus the electorate has on education.

Given the choice between violent and dogmatic or simpering and equivocal, the American electorate has erred badly on the side of a unified message, no matter how dangerous — and who can blame them?

Since 2005 another million people have arrived in Britain and the BNP has exploited voter anxieties at the scale of change - a scale of change to which the electorate has never consented.

He said: «Refusing to listen to the electorate has never been a winning formula, any more than Jeremy Corbyn thinking the volume of the cheering from your core supporters is a reliable guide to wider public opinion.

«We've been too much about sloganeering and being on message, and I think a more passionate conversation with the electorate has done Ukip well,» he told Sky News's Murnaghan programme.

The changes are a result of redistributions — a process the Australian Electoral Commission (AEC) uses to ensure that each electorate has a relatively even number of voters.

Unfortunately, she has not been able to wrap up this Nannygate story with a clear explanation, and we're very lucky that the electorate hasn't so far held this (and other stories) against the party as a whole more.

«The electorate has given a hung Parliament as [its] verdict.

Their guiding belief is «hold what we have», which really means that the party believes it is right, regardless of what the electorate has decided.

While Diaz does well in the district, it is also one of the lowest turnout districts in the city, and an energetic progressive who can expand the electorate has a chance.

And, unfortunately for Paterson, the electorate has not been insulated from the headlines.

You sound like a man bitter because the electorate has already rejected you twice and your chances of securing a safe seat have all but vanished.

His remarks go further than before in suggesting that if he feels the electorate has given him a choice, his instinct will be to form an alliance of some form with Labour.

The electorate has got wise to tactical voting and the third party has mastered its targeting strategy.

In a dreadfully volatile way, the current brinkmanship is a symptom of this re-evaluation - and a fundamental cultural consensus that the electorate has to reach.

So far, in every state where the issue has been put up to voter referendum, the electorate has refused to alter the sacred definition of marriage.

Across BBC Question Time, radio phone - ins and newspaper polls, the electorate has begun to demand political unity, fearing a political breakdown or a weak, internally - divided government being outmuscled by Brussels in negotiations over Brexit.

She said the electorate has «become more volatile» and «you have the potential for a big shock election».

The entire product range has already been fatally compromised and the electorate has demonstrably switched loyalties to brand Cameron and to a lesser extent brand Conservative.

The two hotly contested elections display the degree to which the Rockland electorate has coalesced into «Ramapo bloc vote» vs. «Anti-Ramapo bloc vote» camps.

The electorate has never really understood the Lib Dems.

Critics will say, with some reason, that the electorate has heard it all before — in the Alternative Economic Strategy (AES), which the Labour left devised to restore growth after the worldwide slump of the early 1970s.

At the next general election the electorate has to be convinced on three fronts: that we understand the issues, that we will act on them if they vote for us, but also that we can prove our worth through our record of achievement in office.

Effectively since 2010 a bloc of approximately 10 per cent of the electorate has defected from the Tories further right.

That failure is probably the principal reason why the electorate has remained as reluctant, as it was in May 2010, to vote for the Conservative Party in sufficient numbers for it to secure an overall majority at Westminster.

But the fact is that in the early hours of Friday 8 May 2015, the politicians are going to have to deal with whatever situation the electorate has seen fit to present them with.

«Mayor de Blasio, Public Advocate Tish James, Comptroller Scott Stringer and now myself as the City Council speaker all are affirming and are an example of what the electorate has said they want, which is a new direction in the way that the City of New York in lead,» she told the crowd.

Compare this model with that of the current government, whereby we have an unelected body of wealthy individuals, laden with conflicts of interest running the country and forcing through policies made up in a closed room that not one member of the electorate has had an opportunity to vote on.

The 2015 election could well - produce situations where, for example, the SNP has a pivotal vote or one of English Votes for English Laws [EVEL] in which Labour supporters are disenfranchised in the way the Scottish electorate has been in the past.

Going back to the major political contests of 2009, beginning with the Governors» races in Virginia and New Jersey and to the Senate race in Massachusetts, the electorate has been asked the same question about Obama's agenda and has given the same response.

Russell Baker, writing in the New York Times (September 30, 1987), said, «Since 1952, the electorate has been treated by politicians less and less as an electorate and more and more as an audience.»

(In some cases, polls have shown the electorate has more confidence in New Democratic Party leader, Jack Layton, than Dion.)

So why have the candidates moved left on trade, even if the electorate has not?

The U.S. electorate has had its say, and it defaulted to the status quo, gender-wise.

Amazingly, some extraordinarily courageous individuals (initially Arnold himself, journalists David Quinn and Breda O'Brien, the Iona Institute; later on, John Waters, retired Regius Professor of Laws at Trinity College Dublin, William Binchy and the distinguished historian Prof. John A. Murphy; the gay campaigners for a «No» vote, Paddy Manning and Keith Mills, deserve special mention) did succeed in making a difference to the eventual numbers, although not the outcome: in the early Spring, polls indicated that 17 percent of the electorate would vote against the amendment, but by the time the actual referendum came around, 38 percent were indicating a «No» vote, and that was the eventual outcome.

More determined efforts at collaboration between the UK and the Scottish government seem necessary to strengthen the bonds within a unified state, which is the option the Scottish electorate have chosen, albeit that democracy can never deliver the answer that everyone likes.

How much influence does the electorate have with the function of the Canadian government?

Ten thousand workers in my electorate have had their penalty rates cut, and the government is more than happy to push ahead with its budget for millionaires and multinationals, including a $ 65 billion tax cut for banks and multinationals.

Two types of recall election are needed: (i) local people forcing a by - election on their sitting MP; and (ii) public petitions calling for a general election: once more than 50 % of the electorate had signed a properly conducted petition, then the sovereign would dissolve parliament for a general election.

Only ten per cent of the electorate would vote Liberal Democrat if there was an election tomorrow, according to the latest figures.

Should the EC emulate the banking system, Chairman «Wontumi» is optimistic some electorates would find it extremely difficult to vote twice.

They played down immigration because polling showed a quarter of the electorate would be turned off by that approach.

«Whether successful or not, all MPs would need to declare their hand — and the electorate would take note,» he pressed.

Concerning proximate causes, before this election, the electorate had no credible alternative to the incumbents.

The Central Regional Director of the NCCE, Nicolas Ofori Boateng who made the observation, said the situation had influenced voter turnout at district level elections over the past years, as the electorates had lost confidence or felt betrayed by the assembly members.