Sentences with phrase «more free elections»

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More broadly, concerns about trade and its impact on workers figured large in the 2016 U.S. presidential election and in Britain's referendum vote to leave the European Union, a free - trade bloc.

However, he said, more clarity was needed on how Washington will force the implementation of the political process and how it «will force the Assad regime into accepting a political settlement that leads to establishing a safe and neutral environment that leads to a transition through free and fair elections.»

The Supreme Court recently freed corporations to spend more money on aggressive election ads.

But the biggest problem is a legal one: The U.S. courts are more protective of free speech than European courts, and in recent years have been hostile to election regulations, notably in the Citizens United decision of 2010.

Learning of the recent meddling in a free U.S. election further demonstrates another concern we have of how they handle users» data — more than 25 million of which are Playboy fans — making it clear to us that we must leave the platform.»

Alberta's next provincial election is more than two years away, but for Jason Kenney — and the thousands packing his town halls to hear him speak about uniting the province's two free enterprise parties — the «project» to dismantle Rachel Notley's NDP reign is well under way.

Regular elections and increasingly free markets make India appear to be a more convincing exemplar of economic globalization than China, which has adopted capitalism without embracing liberal democracy.

More than the need for freedom, democracy and free elections, dignity is fundamental to human existence.

In the next place, as each representative will be chosen by a greater number of citizens in the large than in the small republic, it will be more difficult for unworthy candidates to practice with success the vicious arts by which elections are too often carried; and the suffrages of the people being more free, will be more likely to centre in men who possess the most attractive merit and the most diffusive and established characters.

The existing law is good at stopping Banksy from offering free prints to those voting against the Conservatives in the election but anything more subtle remains a challenge.

It is not a single line that brought her down, it is everything she does coming together, for example she doesn't stand for anything, while she was running to become the democratic candidate she run as a center democrat, with promoting things as healthcare, doing more for public education and regulation of markets (Wallstreet in public speaking), but in the election she run a «strong America» line, with heavy militarism and free marked rhetoric.

Minor parties can qualify for free time based on their level of electoral support at the last election and if they are contesting more than 10 % of seats at the current election.

As representative of a swing district with only one more election ahead of him, he is free of the pressure to do favors for party leadership and the fears of being outflanked on his right in a primary.

«Let me take this opportunity once more to assure the good people of Ghana that the Police Administration is fully prepared to ensure violence - free elections come November 7,» he assured.

More effective regulation of academies and free schools and better local coordination of education must be at the heart of political parties» manifesto commitments ahead of the General Election.

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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.

«No right is more precious in a free country than that of having a voice in the election of those who make the laws under which we live,» Castorina said in a statement.

The interviews given by leading Lib Dem MPs over the weekend suggest that their narrative at the next election will go something like this: «We have protected the poorest and most deserving by raising the personal tax allowance, providing the biggest ever increase in the state pension, and giving schools a «pupil premium» - more money for every child on free school meals.

Arizona elections officials had always believed that registered independents are free to Read more»

In a statement signed by Mr. Reuben Abati, Special advicer on media and publicity to the president, Jonathan also commended the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, its personnel and the nation's security services for ensuring that the elections were free and fair in keeping with his administration's commitment to continually strengthen democracy in Nigeria through the establishment of a more credible electoral system.

He added that it would take more than recruiting and paying Aluko to discredit an election adjudged by both local and international observers, including the United States government as free, fair and credible

In spite of occasional backward lurches, like Trump's election, humanity should keep getting healthier, wealthier, more peaceful and more free.

The Conservatives also promised during the election campaign to remove the cap on faith - based free schools, which stops them allocating more than 50 % of their places on grounds of religion - which would have brought them in line with other faith schools in the state sector.

Before the election David Cameron pledged to open 500 more over the next Parliament but high - profile failures, such as Durham Free School and Discovery New School, were both closed within an academic year.

The Conservatives are preparing to unveil plans to more than double the number of free schools if they win the general election - to 500.

The Conservatives also promised during the election campaign to remove the cap on faith - based free schools, which stops them allocating more than 50 % of their places on grounds of religion — which would have brought them in line with other faith schools in the state sector.

The Republicans will leave the micro-economy more free than the Democrats, but aside from that, I don't think the election matters much, at least as far as economics goes.

In fairness to the game things do become a tad more challenging when mayoral elections get introduced because in the run - up to voting time you may be unwilling to spend goodwill to pass an edict that a party has proposed, even when it's something like removing punishments for homosexuality or providing free running water to homes.

«Learning of the recent meddling in a free U.S. election further demonstrates another concern we have of how they handle users» data — more than 25 million of which are Playboy fans — making it clear to us that we must leave the platform,» said Hefner.

• the 2006 user uproar over the introduction of the News Feed; • the 2007 outrage over Facebook allowing user profiles to be discoverable by search engines; • the 2008 complaints about Facebook's practice of indefinitely keeping copies of user data from deleted accounts; • the 2008 backlash when the «Beacon» program was introduced; • the 2009 user indignation about expansions to Facebook's user data retention policies; • the 2010 concern over the way Facebook was handling privacy and was divulging identifying information to advertisers; • the 2010 worry that Facebook was «breaking things»; • the 2015 critique that Facebook was acting in an anti-competitive manner in introducing a «Free Basics» program in India; • and more recently, in responses over Facebook's influence on the 2016 U.S. elections and other global elections.

Moreover, a series of U.S. - friendly regimes fell in elections throughout the continent, ushering in a wave of more left - leaning presidencies less open to free - trade agendas.