Sentences with phrase «major election like»

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Collins pointed out that a big part of UK (and indeed US) election law relates to «declaration of spent», before making the conjoined point that if someone is «hiding that spend» — i.e. by placing dark ads that only the recipient sees, and which can be taken offline immediately after the campaign — it smells like a major risk to the democratic process.

Turned out to be fascinating timing for a political junkie like myself, as 2011 is a major election year in Argentina, culminating this Sunday with the national presidential election.

Since Mr. de Blasio's election, Mr. Ickes has secured major clients like JPMorgan Chase and Microsoft.

As such, in elections where a large portion of electorate isn't terribly inspired by either candidates, and mostly votes for «lesser of two evils» in current FPTP, the two major party candidates just might accrue enough down - votes that a 3rd party candidate who isn't nearly as disliked will, on balance, win over both of them (or at the very least, acquire more than the abysmal 4 % combined popular vote and 0 electoral vote like 2016 US presidential elections, despite 3rd party candidates combined likely being preferred by 40 % of electorate, as a low bound).

But in many other cases, Paladino gave to Democrats, like Poloncarz and Dyster, who are major party figures and compete in elections against candidates backed by the Republican and Conservative parties.

The race to be the city's chief fiscal officer has, like the public advocate contest, been a sleepy one, with the incumbent Democrat holding major financial and other advantages, and heavily favored, as the higher profile mayoral race has sucked up the attention of most of whatever small number of voters is paying attention to the municipal elections.

«Having the ability to participate in elections would create a lot more civic engagement and, on a political level, I don't think communities like the community that I represent, which is 68 percent immigrant, would ever be able to be ignored again by anybody running for major citywide office in New York City.»

While 527s like America Coming Together, the Media Fund, Progress for America and Swift Boat Veterans for Truth were a major factor in the 2004 presidential election, there is little proof that affluent individuals have much interest in spending to influence specific House and Senate elections.

Dramas from elections past - like the way Michael Foot was nearly sacked as Leader half way through the 1983 campaign, like Kinnock and Hattersley endlessly contradicting each other over Labour's tax plans in 1987, like Kinnock «s «take to the hills» defence policy against a potential Soviet invasion, like the tax bombshell, like Maggie Thatcher's «I want the doctor I want, on the day I want» rant in 1987, like John Major unleashing the soap box in 1992, like Neil Hamilton and Martin Bell slugging it out on Knutsford Heath in 1997, like the Prescott punch of 2001 - seem more vivid than the more measured and choreographed procession of 2010.

And it treats the complicated moves and countermoves of a major election as fodder for a broadly comic grudge match, with scenes that wouldn't have felt out of place in The Campaign, like Jane mooning Pat during a ridiculous bus race or Pat arranging to have a beloved llama run over during the filming of a Castillo spot.

School - board elections are often held at odd times, when no other offices — particularly major ones, like president or governor — are being voted on.

Because nonprofits like ERN / ERNA do not have to disclose their major donors to the public, even when ERNA is active in supporting electoral activities the public is left in the dark about which hedge funder is actually helping to fund state and local ads and mailers during the election.

Much like many major and smaller forex brokers, who took precautions against high market volatility around the first round of the presidential elections in France on April, days...

Try not to have your investing seminar when major events are happening, like elections, summer vacations, sports games, big holidays, corporate retreats, etc..

Some major dog meat shops — like the Moran Market in Seongnam — have been shuttered, and President Moon Jae - in even made a campaign promise to adopt a shelter dog if he won last year's presidential election.

Looking ahead to after the 2016 election, even assuming that an experienced Democrat like Hillary Clinton is elected president, there will remain major barriers to passing a carbon tax or a similar climate bill, given that Republicans are likely to control at least one half of Congress.

Since the recent federal election there has been much discussion (and as my colleague Eugene Kung notes, an abundance of open letters) about the Liberal party's election promise to «review Canada's environmental assessment (EA) processes and introduce new, fair processes» for reviewing projects (or re-reviewing them, as in the case of major proposals like the controversial Kinder Morgan and Energy East oil sands pipeline and tankers projects).

The rapidly climbing price has sparked headlines across major news outlets, culminating a year of dramatic market movements that have followed events like the UK vote to exit the European Union and the election of Republican Donald Trump to the US presidency.

Mark Zuckerberg has said Facebook is enhancing its security features to ensure the integrity of upcoming key elections in countries like India on its platform, as the social media giant faced flak over a major data breach scandal by a British firm linked to Donald Trump's presidential campaign.