Sentences with phrase «introduced to voters by»

Since he's now a senior Minister in two departments, and has a worldview untainted by fashion and a way of expressing it unconstrained by inhibition, I am surprised that Hayes has not been better introduced to voters by lobby journalists and others.

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The 2010 coalition agreement promised to: «Bring forward early legislation to introduce a power of recall, allowing voters to force a by - election where an MP is found to have engaged in serious wrongdoing and having had a petition calling for a by - election signed by 10 % of his or her constituents.»

The Conservatives are set to woo countryside voters by pledging to introduce «shire deals» for local authorities in their general election manifesto.

Some Republican state lawmakers, upset by a federal judge's ruling against the state's voter identification law, are vowing to introduce new legislation.

The parties will bring forward early legislation to introduce a power of recall, allowing voters to force a by - election where an MP was found to have engaged in serious wrongdoing and having had a petition calling for a by - election signed by 10 % of his or her constituents.

Alternative Vote (known as preferential vote in Australia) was deliberately introduced in order to thwart progressive voters: first tried in the Corangamite by - election of 1918, as it allowed competition between the two conservative parties without putting seats at risk to the Labour Party.

Councilman Jumaane Williams plans to introduce the legislation by the end of the year to allow Council members to serve three four - year terms instead of the current two, if voters approve the idea in a referendum.

Over the past three months, she has introduced herself to voters outside of Yonkers, and they have embraced her candidacy, as evidenced by the large number of volunteers who have stepped forward to help her campaign — numbers unseen in any State Senate race before.

Surprising, then, that the Bill in question was introduced by a backbench Labour MP and its main objective is not to reduce the deficit or «make work pay», but to tackle the problem of unregistered voters.

The push for voter registration reform, namely making it easier to register to vote, was first proposed by Gov. Andrew Cuomo in his State of the State address as part of his broader ethics reform package introduced at the time.

But by the time he reemerged in early - summer to introduce himself and his policies to voters, the GOP had already begun to weave a narrative that dogged him throughout the campaign — that of the urbane millionaire.

The changes on Tuesday, as part of a mini-reshuffle after Jenny Willott resigned as a whip, came after Baker intensified his attack on the home secretary by saying he had struggled to introduce policies in the face of a Tory «lurch to the right» in pursuit of Ukip voters.

Mr. Sharpton, in introducing Mr. Cuomo, also seemed to hint at the scramble between Mr. Cuomo and Ms. Nixon to win over black voters — and seemed to take a swipe at Ms. Nixon for merely «talking about» being progressive, although he did not mention her by name.

Meantime, legislation introduced to the U.S. House of Representatives last year by Rep. Rush Holt [D — N.J.] that would require voter - verified permanent paper ballots (amending the tech - friendly but misguided Help America Vote Act of 2002) is languishing in committee and will not impact this year's elections.

As a result of the legal wrangling of the past few months, the question actually put to the voters was whether they wanted to abrogate a law passed on 26 May — and introduced by Berlusconi — which postponed the new nuclear strategy by a year.

That way, he can try to break through without having to be introduced as Jennifer Lawrence's boyfriend, and Harvey doesn't have to complain about his star actress being weighed down by a young English dude that nobody knows; he'd rather present her to those old ass Academy voters as the plucky, unspoiled American girl not unlike their college - aged granddaughters who sass them when they come home for family holidays.

Meanwhile, Rep. Leach introduced legislation, which was signed by Governor Ducey last month, that will limit financial penalties for utilities who fail to meet renewable energy standards if voters decide to increase them in November.

More Nature Introducing Discovery Green for Earth Day Rasmussen Survey: Nobody Listens to Scientists, Only 34 % of US Voters Believe Global Warming is Caused by Human Activity Breathtaking!

- If an initiative petition, signed by the required number of qualified voters, has been filed as aforesaid, the secretary of the commonwealth shall, upon the assembling of the general court, transmit it to the clerk of the house of representatives, and the proposed measure shall then be deemed to be introduced and pending.