Sentences with phrase «eve of polling day»

Diane Abbot's mysterious resignation as Shadow Home Secretary on the eve of polling day is revealed — she has been diagnosed with diabetes.

On the eve of polling day the Labour leader appeared to lock and bolt the door to electoral reform for a generation, saying he did not support anything other than AV as an alternative to First Past The Post.

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He decried the high level of violence and thuggery witnessed in the exercise, adding that» on the eve of the election, thugs disrupted the delivery of election materials to Registration Area Centres, a situation that prevented early deployment to the Polling Units on election day.

The End of Anger: A New Generation's Take on Race and Rage by Ellis Cose Ecco Books Hardcover, $ 24.99 320 pages ISBN: 978 -0-06-199855-3 Book Review by Kam Williams «The End of Anger is an exploration of why it is that many blacks are feeling optimistic these days... [This] is a book about success — about a particularly privileged, even indulged, group of African - Americans whose experiences in many respects are far from the norm... In January 2009, on the eve of President Barack Obama's inauguration, a CNN poll found that 69 % of blacks agreed that Martin Luther King's vision had been fulfilled... The election of an African - American president was a Rubicon to be crossed... No longer are there any excuses for denying blacks anything or for blacks denying themselves the opportunity to aim as high as they wish.»