Sentences with phrase «high stakes in the elections»

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Certainly this is a conversation where everyone has more to lose; those scapegoating Facebook probably don't want to think about their own responsibility, such that it may be, for an election result they disagree with, and the stakes are even higher for Facebook: giving people what they want to see is far more important to the company's business model than $ 100,000 in illegal ads, unintended consequences or not.

The stakes are also high for Republicans in Congress, where Republicans on Tuesday night watched their party peers in state and local races get ousted in a string of election defeats.

The stakes in this election are especially high for Alberta.

When the parliamentary stakes are high enough, a determined government with tough whips would know that votes on a particular bill are subsumed in noise at election time.

And in the future too, we should expect to see ever more intense efforts to reach more and more potentially persuadable or potentially «mobilizable» voters in high - stakes, well - resourced, competitive elections, even as the majority of Americans who live in states and districts that are not competitive will hear less and less from campaigns as they, quite reasonably, use all available information to concentrate their resources where they think they matter.

Nevertheless, the relative calm in this country during the last three years should not lead one to believe that the upcoming presidential election is not without high stakes.

Given the closeness of the contest and the high stakes involved for participants, there is a possibility that the practice of ethnic hate speech, the rigging of ballot boxes and the organisation of intimidating practices results in large - scale violence, as witnessed in the previous election.

The stakes are higher for the two parties than for Cuomo: a political party appears automatically on the ballot only if its gubernatorial candidate gains 50,000 or more votes in the previous election.

As a result, according to Carvin, the stakes are very high this election season and the correct thing to do is to put decisions such as health care in front of the consumer.

Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver is staking out some early territory for 2013 in two areas that are particularly high profile at the moment and also popular with good government reformers: Campaign finance and election reform.

We must work to protect and advance the rights of all people, and in this election, the stakes could not be higher.»

Under the leadership of Charles Kennedy, the party had staked out a commitment to higher taxation and investment in public services, a strategy that many thought placed them to the left of Labour at the 2005 general election.

As New Yorkers cast their votes in a high - stakes mayoral primary, Liz Benjamin, host of YNN's «Capital Tonight,» tells us this election is about rejecting outgoing Mayor Michael Bloomberg.

The election stakes are high for the Conservatives, with the party needing 50,000 votes on its line for governor in order to remain on the ballot.

The 19th district has been the site of several high stakes House races in recent election cycles, several of which featured candidates whose ties to the district had been criticized for being relatively new.

The stakes of this coming election are the highest they've been for U.S. Sen. Chuck Schumer, who is in line to become the leader of the Senate Democrats and potentially the majority leader next year.

Yakubu said, «Given the high stakes of conducting elections in developing countries, electoral commissions must understandably be worried about the twin issues of communication and security especially in situations where data reside with and is directly transmitted to the tallying centres through offshore vendors rather than exclusively controlled within national boundaries by election monitoring bodies.

«I am appealing to all those who care about women's equality, fracking, Albany corruption, clean energy, full and equal funding of schools, the end of high stakes testing, and all the other progressive values Ms. Teachout stood for in her campaign to vote for me on election day,» Hawkins said in a statement.

The stakes are high for Working Families, which has notched significant victories recently in state and local elections in New York.

The April 24 special election between Killian and Democrat Shelley Mayer, currently a state assemblywoman, to fill the seat vacated by Democrat George Latimer, who resigned in January to become Westchester County executive, is expected to be high - stakes as it could help determine which party controls the state Senate.

But «nobody disagrees on the goals of high - stakes communications — sell a controversial product, win an election, defuse conflict and so forth,» Dezenhall notes in the «manifesto» on the firm's Web site.

Although the stakes are high in Ritchie's movie — election to the US Senate — the details are low - key and the political seduction of Bill McKay depicted mostly as a series of arbitrary incidents rather than major revelations.

But teachers, who have a direct stake in these elections, vote at high rates.

Whether it's essentially taxing charter schools by charging them rent to use city school buildings, like DeBlasio wants; or otherwise throwing sand in the gears of charter growth by halting new co-locations, like both men want, the stakes are high for charters in this election.

Here's an example of the high stakes: During the last election cycle, controversial initiatives like Common Core, charter schools, alternate route programs, vouchers and teacher tenure have all been on table for elected boards to consider in Louisiana and other states.

MORE candidates, such as Jia Lee, who testified against high - stakes testing in a U.S. senate hearing last year, are running in this year's UFT election.

With three of the seven seats on the Pennsylvania Supreme Court up for election in November, the stakes were high in the May 19 primaries, in which six candidates in each party vied for nominations.

Goldman noted that the «stakes were so high in this particular data leakage» because it could have affected the outcome of the U.S. presidential election.

But in this high - stakes presidential election, some therapists aren't so sure.

The stakes are high in this year's state election, with candidates for governor, secretary of state, attorney general, and other races on the ballot.

We know that the stakes are high for reproductive health in the presidential election, but the stakes also couldn't be higher in down ballot races.