Sentences with phrase «given the election year»

The alternative to public financing for all races — a limited measure for the state comptroller election in 2014 — was too little and too late, given the election year.

How much money is placed in the fund, Hein said, would depend on factors like the county's fiscal health and compliance with the state - mandated tax cap, as well as how many offices are in play in a given election year.

Not exact matches

Democrats said Republican leaders, flexing their new political muscle after big wins in the midterm elections that will give them control of both chambers of Congress next year, had gone too far in trying to roll back Dodd - Frank.

The report also gave details about a two - year - old warning from the Presidential Commission on Election Administration, a bipartisan organization, that described the state of America's aging voting system as an «impending crisis.»

Bremmer and Kupchan worry that in India, Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Hindu nationalist rhetoric before elections next year «could give cover to radicalized elements of society that want to target Muslims and lower - caste Hindus.»

Khodorkovsky is playing a long game, looking well past the Russian presidential election on March 18 that is guaranteed to give President Vladimir Putin yet another six - year term.

The debate will continue until Election Day in November and well beyond, and this year's Top States study has given both sides plenty of ammunition.

So they forced an election they couldn't possibly win by defeating the Conservatives on a confidence vote in Parliament — and gave Prime Minister Stephen Harper something he couldn't get without their invaluable help — a majority government with no chance of being defeated for four years.

Given recent economic developments (which suggest there will be no surplus this year) and global uncertainties, together with a commitment by all three major political parties to balanced budgets and no tax increases (other than the NDP), it would be fiscally imprudent for any political party to make new major election «promises» in the coming months without indicating how they would be financed.

David Kotok, Chairman and CIO, Cumberland Advisors joins BNN to give us his thoughts on the U.S. election and also gives us an update on his calls from earlier on in the year.

It notes that authority to spend money on both missions will come through supplementary appropriations before Parliament, but given that an election is expected this fall it will likely be a year, or more, before those figures are tabled.

Although a small surplus was recorded in the first two months of 2017 - 18, monthly deficits are expected for most of the rest of the fiscal year, given the impact of the measures introduced by the Liberal Government since the election of 2015.

The most stunning change from previous election is the significant drop in support for Alison Redford «s Progressive Conservatives in rural central and southern Alberta rural constituencies, which have given the PCs large majority votes in most elections over the past 40 years.

These include holding open Cabinet meetings at least once a month, which will be broadcasted on the Internet; giving Members of the Legislative Assembly (MLAs) a greater role by reforming the Legislative committee system and allowing government MLAs to vote freely (as opposed to voting according to the Party's preferences); restricting the tenure of a premier to two (four - year) terms; holding a Citizen's Assembly on electoral reform to examine alternative models for electing MLAs; instituting a system by which citizens can recall elected officials; and instituting elections for all government boards and commissions.

And while equity markets have been performing well this year, there are numerous potential risk factors that could cause a sharp correction in the equity markets, such as the U.S. election, sluggish global economic growth and the future of Europe given the «Brexit» situation.

Despite indications of deep cuts in the Pentagon's budget, given that this is an election year, there is little doubt that the House Armed Services Committee will approval all, or nearly all, of the money.

An investor selecting a portfolio according to the percentage of contributions given to the winner in a presidential election would have earned significant abnormal returns of up to 6.6 % per year during the first year after an election.

The race for New York's 9th Congressional District has attracted national attention because polls give Republican candidate Robert Turner an edge, a potential sign of trouble for President Barack Obama and for the Democrats ahead of next year's election.

Luckily any given election is never entirely over for either party to the dispute because in two to four years hence the people will be able to fight it out again — even as new unforeseen and important circumstances which must be dealt with will inevitably present themselves for the consideration of the community.

The image of a woman who is battered for 20 years by her clergyman husband and who would forgive him, «because the Bible tells her to,» the image of a young mother and father who can not understand why their three - year - old daughter was sexually abused in the day care center to which they had entrusted her each morning; the image of a woman who was sacked from the women's program of her church because she refused to comply to the request of the president of the church that she and the other women vote for him in his election campaign; the image of a 14 - year - old migrant domestic worker who faces the death sentence on trumped up charges, because she would not give in to the sexual demands of her employer; the image of a male priest of a church saying that every time he beats his wife she should thank him, because she is one step closer to salvation; or the priest who would make sexual advances on a woman who out of vulnerability turns to the church for pastoral comfort... these are but a glimpse of the many such images that are gathered during the course of this Decade.

The Century interpreted the results of the off - year elections of 1934 as giving Roosevelt a clear - cut mandate that said, «Go left, Mr. President, go left»; it asserted that «many features of the 1934 election suggest that a union of forces for a vigorous offensive in support of an avowedly radical program is not impossible» (November 14, 1934).

But throughout his election campaign of 2000 Bush proposed policies that would give permanent tax breaks mostly to the wealthy, leading the nation into a deeper deficit than in the Reagan - Bush years.

One interesting observation to be gained from these figures is that the paid - time religious programs had reached the peak of their influence, numerically at least, almost three years before most public attention was given to them in the election year of 1980.

Veteran Israeli politicians expect the Obama administration to give Israel an ultimatum later this year to make peace with the Palestinian Authority» that is, with a political entity that is kept alive on the West Bank by an American - trained militia and the Israeli Army, and that is headed by a prime minister, Salam Fayyad, whose party won 2 percent of the vote in the last elections and who faces a constituency two - thirds of which tells pollsters that it doesn't want any deal with a Jewish state.

Southern Baptist conservatives won key presidential elections year after year, and after a final conservative presidential victory in 1989 in New Orleans, moderates gave up the battle and began taking steps toward forming their own moderate organizations, such as the Cooperative Fellowship.

Finally, the Government is also fulfilling its election commitment made by the then Leader of the Opposition on the 11th July last year to set up a dedicated website that gives consumers a snapshot of local grocery prices.

«At the next election we shall have a choice between the people who've given us five years of austerity, the people who left us this mess, and the people who signed public pledges that they wouldn't raise student fees, and then did so - the most blatant lie in recent political history.

The campaign to take on Cuomo this year is considered in uphill one, given Democratic advantages at the polls in a midterm election and the governor's $ 30 million campaign war chest.

What surprised me is the revelation by the Angel that Jon has given Yaanom a roadmap for declaring their own results after this year's elections.

I think it gives us lessons of persistence and courage», Mr Nyaunu who left the NDC to contest the 2012 parliamentary elections as an independent candidate and only returned to the party last year observed.

Democrats expect to do well this cycle given the turnout in presidential election years has historically given them more seats in the Senate.

YNN Syracuse's Bill Carey caught up with Sen. Dave Valesky and Sen. John DeFrancisco to discuss a Syracuse Post-Standard report that the Republicans have — for the first time since he was elected in 2004 — decided to give Valesky a pass this year, declining to back anyone against him in the November general election.

This is an interesting data point, particularly since the mayor just decided to drop his latest push for nonpartisan elections — a major pet issue of his and a priority for the large - i Independence Party, which gave Bloomberg its line for the third straight time last year.

In her statement James said: «My decision to retire from the election process and not complete it was very difficult personally and professionally given that Ukip has dominated my life and all my efforts for over five years.

Given that the Democratic Party has been managing these intra-party splits for at least ten years it is unlikely to affect Election 2012.

Basically in 2010, after 4 extremely competent years as opposition the Tories blew the election campaign by not giving the voters a good reason to vote for them.

Despite being nominally given the opportunity to choose, the way the Maduro government has set up the electoral process, committed fraud, repressed the opposition and systematically undermined the process of free and fair elections over the past years, all but guarantees authoritarian durability.

Despite the technology having been superceded years ago Theresa May refused to give hers up, even being pictured after last year's election sporting it in an odd utility belt like carrier.

The fact that we are having contested elections at all and that — while her opponents may argue differently — Cristina and her former - President husband Néstor Kirchner have led the country through 8 years of relatively stable prosperity is not to be taken for granted given this country's history.

The report, released to county chairs this month, is bullish on the chances for the state party in the coming election cycles given Republican success this year.

Labour have only been out of power for two years, having left Britain with the biggest deficit in the OECD, and yet YouGov polling throughout the early half of May 2012 have put Labour between nine and thirteen points ahead of the Conservatives, giving Labour a more than comfortable majority at the next General Election.

It's expected to race will be one of the more costly special elections in recent history, given the stakes and the intense focus on flipping the Senate either this spring or later in the year general election by Democrats and other advocates.

Hard - line sections, associated particularly with Maria Corina and Leopoldo Lopez, were disappointed by Capriles» lukewarm claim in last year's election campaign that he would continue the «missions», the social welfare programmes initiated by Chávez, a startling claim given his negative attitude towards these programmes as governor of Miranda state.

And at the last election, it wasn't the Labour Party that pledged to give the NHS the money it asked for to meet its five - year plan — it was this party, the Conservative Party...

Mr Bercow's vulnerability against a Tory plot to remove him can be traced back to a controversial interview he gave to my Sky News colleague Lewis Goodall during last year's general election campaign.

As Republicans face a potential Democratic wave in this year's midterm elections, outgoing Arizona Republican Sen. Jeff Flake argued that his party «might not deserve to lead» given its support for Trump.

Still, Republicans had a night that was far better than initially expected, given traditional Democratic gains in presidential election years.

Here's an observation from Joe Trippi and Rod Martin's lunchtime POLC conversation yesterday — yes, the long American election seasons have some drawbacks, but they do give campaigns a chance to build support incrementally over months and even years.

Now we know the make - up of the next parliament, and the astonishing outcome of an election that has given David Cameron the chance to lead a Conservative - only Cabinet, we can start to build up a picture of what the next five years has in store for British politics.

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