Sentences with phrase «local elections approach»

As local elections approach, the danger of overconfidence becomes a very real one for Labour.

Brian Ahearne is flying the flag for this year's crop of independent candidates, as the 2011 local elections approach.

Not exact matches

Despite Chamber of Commerce - type efforts to discredit the «slow growth» approach as «elitist» and «anti-business,» and despite shamefully blatant local newspaper support for the pro-growth candidate in the recent municipal election, the pro-cap mayor won.

With the local elections in the UK fast approaching, might we see a little innovation?

How the government handles this issue is going to dominate local politics as the general election approaches.

After the excitement of an unexpected leadership contest, a new leader, a surge in membership and fresh approach to PMQs, what can the party expect from its members and supporters when it comes to doing the less glamourous work of fighting a local election?

MyBO was particularly important in areas in which the campaign did not have professional staff, since it gave volunteers the means to create their own local campaign structure — professional field staff could «parachute in» as elections approached and immediately take over a functioning organization.

As Election Day approaches, local Democratic Party officials continue to offer a fractured front, says Buffalo News Political Reporter Bob McCarthy.

Though the presidential election gets the most attention, a fast - approaching primary election is on the minds of local party leaders as they maneuver for control of the state legislature.

There is no evidence that the are preparing to change the approach that brought about humiliation in the European elections, the local council election and, last week, at Newark.

Plus Philip Cowley on local election polls and Gregory Claeys on the relevance of Karl Marx as his 200th birthday approaches

Rebutting the dismissals of some senior Tories, like Michael Ashcroft, that they are nothing more than a protest party, he said the Conservatives were more likely to win votes in Thursday's local elections if they had a «credible and believable» approach to Europe.

The lack of relative profile given to the English local council elections appears to reflect the contradictory approach of a Conservative government.

As the 65th anniversary of the D - Day landings approaches, a leading union is encouraging Brits to fight fascism at the polls in this week's local and European elections.

On local government elections, Dr Ahmed, charged APC local and ward chairmen and stakeholders in the state to be fully prepared in their respective council areas through inclusive approach in the emergence of candidates for elections in all the 16 local government areas of the state.

As the statewide vote approached, opponents warned that new casinos would exacerbate addictive gambling, while good - government groups cried foul after the state Board of Elections approved ballot language that included a warm description of the potential benefits of the change («promoting job growth, increasing aid to schools, and permitting local governments to lower property taxes») but none of the possible drawbacks.

With Election Day on November 6 fast approaching, one of the local races heating up this fall is the race for New York's new 38th State Senate District.

MPs will challenge leader's support for decriminalisation of sex workers and query approach to EU vote and local elections

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As the Nov. 8 elections approach, Kentucky is one of several states mulling the impact of statewide reforms on local board politics.

In drawing the fault lines between white parents and Asian parents in the district, the Times completely overlooks the local elections that were held this past November, where the candidate (a graduating high school student, actually) who was demanding higher standards and higher quality lost to the candidate urging a more holistic approach (exactly what the superintendent is now enacting).