Sentences with phrase «more during an election year»

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At the very least, our editors said, the Fed should do more to reduce the appearance of being political, especially during an election year.

Fears of seeming «political» during a presidential election year, sluggish growth in the Eurozone and a slowdown of the Chinese economic juggernaut will also keep Janet Yellen and the rest of the Federal Open Markets Committee from pulling the trigger more often; their vacillation will be one of the year's longest - running (and least loved) dramas.

Considering the massive ratings networks saw during the presidential primary debates and the intense media buzz around this year's wild election, some experts are predicting that Monday's event could pull in more than 100 million total viewers.

While I understand that the NDP must feel intense pressure to capture votes — including from people who have never taken a course from John Smithin — I often wish that the NDP would show a bit more policy leadership on the issue of the deficit and debt. I was particularly disappointed during the 2008 federal election campaign when Mr. Layton stated, unequivocally, that the NDP would not run a deficit in the following year if elected (even though it was clear that Canada was entering a recession).

In other words, over the next five years, this government is planning to spend more money on income splitting for a small number of well off families, a promise made during the 2011 election, than on supporting economic growth and job creation through new spending on research and infrastructure and lowering taxes on investment.

During the past year Louisville's news has been dominated by several seemingly disparate issues — the troubled relationship between the police department and the African - American community; efforts to build more mixed - income housing in the city; adoption of a regional plan intended to moderate suburban sprawl; disagreement about the number and location of proposed new Ohio River bridges linking Louisville and southern Indiana; a campaign to attract high - tech business to the downtown area; and a lively election campaign around the issue of a city - county merger.

The increase in rioting during a municipal election year suggests that the general election in 2019 could also be more violent than previous elections.

«More importantly, we are celebrating this year's holidays at a time the change we had all been yearning for in the political leadership of the country has been made possible through the support Ghanaians offered the NPP during the December 7 presidential and parliamentary elections.»

Trends during elections are always a point of interest and, this year, Lenihan believes the high turnout at the polls may be thanks in - part to the 2016 election seeing more media attention than in any year before.

A survey of 156 of the city's more than 1,000 poll sites during last year's elections found 90 percent with serious problems — including poorly trained staff who routinely bungled ballots, according to a scathing audit released Friday.

Again I know this is hard but follow me, article written in July 2009 about firing, asked for comment company declines, rumors persist for year then picked up even more during election season.

And Tory MP Mike Freer, who claimed he was outed to religious voters by Labour canvassers during last year's general election, said: «It is not surprising that the commitment to equality is sometimes more show than substance in elements of the Labour Party.

One of the more - interested observers of last Tuesday's election results was Zephyr Teachout, who helped crystallize the voter discontent with Governor Cuomo during her Democratic primary run that contributed to Green Party candidate Howie Hawkins — who got even less exposure to the electorate than she did — capturing 5 percent of the ballots for Governor, tripling his vote total from four years earlier.

Around five million Poles voted for his Law and Justice party, more than during its election victory two years ago.

The amount appears to be more than double the previous record for spending by any lobbying client during these months, a time of year when most political activity is directed toward elections and lobbying campaigns rarely top a few hundred thousand dollars, according to information maintained by the Joint Commission on Public Ethics.

Skoufis says the problem is that some of the issues that resonate with young voters are not campaign issues on the local level, which makes increasing young voter turnout during off - election years even more challenging.

New York City's election system is not aligned with the federal election system, which means voters may face more elections during any given year.

Nick Clegg enjoyed stratospheric ratings during last year's election when voters had some doubts about David Cameron and more about Gordon Brown.

Aides on Hillary ClintonHillary Diane Rodham ClintonTrump Jr. met with Gulf adviser who offered help to win election: report Voters Dems need aren't impressed by anti-waterboarding showboating After year of investigation, Trump can rightly claim some vindication MORE's 2008 presidential campaign kept a detailed list of party colleagues who staffers believed had betrayed her during the long and bitter primary battle with President Obama, a new book reveals.

During that campaign, The Post reported the state Board of Elections had referred his campaign to the Albany DA for investigation and possible prosecution because he had not filed state campaign - finance reports for more than two years.

Security hawks have stepped up their rhetoric during this election year to push for more hybrid cars and biofuels, and for billions in new research to reduce the country's dangerous dependence on foreign petroleum.

While immigration to Canada increased during the years of Bush's elections, the rise was not more than increases in other years, data from...

[However] in four southern states — Aabama, Mississippi, Louisiana and Arkansas — Obama did more poorly than John Kerry did four years ago... During Reconstruction, there were as many as 16 black members of Congress, but by 1901, black Southerners had been virtually expunged from politics, even as voters... Governing is complicated, so merely winning an election does not constitute the end of the battle.»

A petition to decertify was filed more than a year ago, and during an election held by the Public Employee Relations Board, 32 out of 57 teachers, psychologists, and counselors voted to withdraw from the union.

In addition to their lobbying work with ConnCAN, Alexander and Johnson were the individuals who formed A Better Connecticut, Inc. yet another education reform industry front group that spent more than $ 2 million on television ads during the year before the last gubernatorial election to «thank» Governor Malloy for his «leadership» on behalf of the corporate education reform agenda.

Veterans Affairs Minister Seamus O'Regan will unveil the pension scheme on Wednesday, more than two years after it was first promised during the 2015 federal election.

These questions are loaded with political traps for the Obama Administration, who during the 2012 election year, is eager to report more recoveries from the bailout era.

During the month of February of election years, the board shall select a Nominating Committee consisting of three members and two alternates, not more than one of whom may be a member of the board.

The fact that I was living there in 2016, during a turbulent election year, made it all the more interesting.

Governments, except during elections years, tend to be more collection focused (both information and taxes!).

During the last two - year federal election cycle alone, RPAC contributed more than $ 12 million to candidates, making it the No. 1 trade association political action committee in the nation.

«We don't expect to see any sort of broad change of key issues until the election is over a year from now, which just means more uncertainty during the entire election cycle and less confidence,» says Ed Padilla, CEO of Northmarq Capital in Minneapolis.