Sentences with phrase «most election years»

However, in most election years, the campaign rhetoric is just that: empty rhetoric.

Most election years, science plays only a small role in presidential politics.

Not exact matches

New Democratic Party leader Tom Mulcair used the club's stage in 2013 to reveal the party's energy platform for the most recent federal election; MGM Resorts CEO Jim Murren pitched a Toronto casino from it that same year; Governor General David Johnston announced his new innovation awards program there last summer.

A lifelong Republican, Whitman switched her support to Hillary Clinton three months before last year's election — she was the only Fortune Most Powerful Woman to publicly campaign for a nominee — stoking speculation that the former gubernatorial candidate would reenter the political arena.

Inc. exclusively revealed last week that the website, the source of many of the most - shared news hoaxes benefiting Donald Trump in the U.S. presidential election, is operated by Ovidiu Drobota, a 24 - year - old based in Romania.

Thirteen of the deals in the past year were over $ 10 billion, also the most of a modern president's first year since election.

While Republicans hold only a slim majority in the U.S. Senate, Democrats occupy most of the seats up for election in two years.

Opened by International Harvester in 1974 to remanufacture diesel engines and engine components for its truck and agricultural and construction equipment dealers, the plant had lost $ 2 million in the most recent fiscal year, and the big question was whether the employees, previously nonunion, would vote to join the Teamsters or the United Auto Workers in an election scheduled for March.

In the tight three - way race of this year's federal election, the focus has shifted from the reliability of any single research firm to the wisdom of the collective pollster mind, with news outlets arguing over who can aggregate the polls in the most reliable fashion.

They can't vote in this year's federal election, and they aren't allowed to contribute funds to federal political campaigns, but most Canadians would probably be surprised how heavily involved Canadian corporations are in the public policy realm.

Most importantly, the pro-democracy forces must win enough seats in the Legco in next year's elections to show that their cause is alive and well.

In some markets, like bonds, the increase was the largest since the 2016 U.S. election, and in others, like stocks, volatility leapt by the most in 2-1/2 years.

Analysts at investment research platform Seeking Alpha found that of all the months of the year, October has historically experienced the most 1 - percent swings in either direction for the S&P 500 index — and during election years, stocks have finished the month lower, on average.

According to a survey of 3,760 U.S. adults by the Pew Research Center, 35 percent of people 18 to 29 years old say social media is the most helpful source of information on the 2016 presidential election.

Although a small surplus was recorded in the first two months of 2017 - 18, monthly deficits are expected for most of the rest of the fiscal year, given the impact of the measures introduced by the Liberal Government since the election of 2015.

The most convincing evidence about presidential election years for Evans is that in 18 of the last 22, the S&P 500 indexhas had a positive return for the year and has posted an average return of 11 percent in those years.

The most recent notable exception was Ken Kowalski, who retired before the last election after 33 years as a PC MLA (and his three decade long political career in provincial politics is very uncommon).

The most stunning change from previous election is the significant drop in support for Alison Redford «s Progressive Conservatives in rural central and southern Alberta rural constituencies, which have given the PCs large majority votes in most elections over the past 40 years.

Only six election years since 1896 have experienced declines above 5 %, although the last two occurred in 2000 and 2008, the most recent cycles.

For global markets, the result is yet another chink in one of 2016's most popular ideas, that of the «populist backlash» that characterized elections last year.

But it has been a tough year for Facebook in the U.S., and most of the company has been grappling with the fact that Facebook's service was used by Russian actors to try and sway the 2016 presidential election.

Last week, many Republicans said their special election victory in a heavily Jewish New York congressional district that had been occupied by a Democrat for nearly 90 years was a sign of trouble between Obama and American Jews, among the most reliably Democratic voters in the nation.

Then, unexpectedly, came the second conclave of that year and the election of the man whose papacy George Weigel rightly describes as one of the most consequential of the two millennia of Christian history.

The year 2006 may for most people mark the tenth anniversary of the 1996 Welfare Act, signed by Bill Clinton, after he had vetoed two previous efforts, and just before crucial midterm elections that November.

In contrast with previous presidential elections, where evangelical Christians were among the most engaged, this year, only 20 percent said they were following news about the campaign very closely.

After almost ten years of North American maneuvering, the U.N. Committee on Decolonization declared the island a colonial territory (over the protest of the U.S. and most of the island's population — who argued that in 1953, when Puerto Rico became a so - called «commonwealth» as a result of a popular election, it ceased to be a colony and became instead a «free associated state»).

Did I intentionally pray for wisdom, clarity, direction and peace as we come upon the end of the election year and say goodbye to one of the most violent and painful years we have ever had?

Contrary to previous presidential elections, where evangelical Christians seemed to be among the most engaged, this year, only 20 percent said they follow news campaigns very closely.

Election - year Pulpit Freedom Sunday contrasts with view of most Protestant pastors, per LifeWay research.

There was a reason why the founding fathers put kept religion out of our government and now it seems we are being asked to» pick the Christian» in this next years election — we are not picking the leader of a church here people, we picking someone to be the most influential, most powerful person on the earth... do we want someone who has our best interests at heart or someone who will time and again try to change the US laws to reflect his own personal beliefs?

While the election campaign that Mr. Gore appeared determined to keep going until the numbers came out right may have exhausted all but the most hard - core political junkies and made the rest of us grateful that there is not another presidential election for four years, we should not too quickly acquiesce in the urgings that we «put it behind us» and «move on.»

One interesting observation to be gained from these figures is that the paid - time religious programs had reached the peak of their influence, numerically at least, almost three years before most public attention was given to them in the election year of 1980.

In the coming election year the demographic most coveted by politician...

«At the next election we shall have a choice between the people who've given us five years of austerity, the people who left us this mess, and the people who signed public pledges that they wouldn't raise student fees, and then did so - the most blatant lie in recent political history.

With a general election less than a year away at most and the Labour government facing a host of local difficulties it is well worth reading Bernard Donoughue's Downing Street Diary Volume Two: With James Callaghan in No 10 (Jonathan Cape # 30.00).

Just in the space of the past year we've seen credible elections in Africa's most populous nation, Nigeria; the adoption of a new and improved constitution in Kenya and the birth of a new nation, as voted for in a broadly peaceful referendum in South Sudan.

The people under the most pressure are the Senate Republicans, all of whom signed Koch's three - pronged pledge (it also included budget and ethics reform), only to turn around and pass a constitutional amendment that would overhaul the process in time for the 2022 elections but leave it in all it's partisan and un-independent glory this year.

This is because in most cases, the government always feel that only positives must be highlighted since the negatives go against them, particularly in an election year such as this.

Those of us in the online advocacy community often talk about using this tool and that tool to help mold opinions or win votes, but what I wrote after last year's mid-term election still stands: the most important effect of the Internet on politics comes from the unfathomable volume of information now available and the speed with which it can spread.

Whoever emerges at the helm of the African National Congress, a 105 - year - old liberation movement that dominates Africa's most industrialized economy, is likely to become the country's next president after elections in 2019.

In a usual New York City election year, most of the political world does not care much for the comptroller's race.

Sure, the elections have gotten most of the attention this year, but if nothing else could, the current crisis in the finance system has cut through the clutter to remind us that the REAL business of politics often comes after the ballots are cast.

President Mahama, it would be recalled, lost the December 7, 2016 Presidential Election to his NPP rival, Nana Akufo - Addo in a keenly contested election, a situation most Ghanaians have bemoaned considering the six years of infrastructural achievements the country experienced while he heElection to his NPP rival, Nana Akufo - Addo in a keenly contested election, a situation most Ghanaians have bemoaned considering the six years of infrastructural achievements the country experienced while he heelection, a situation most Ghanaians have bemoaned considering the six years of infrastructural achievements the country experienced while he held sway.

Positions for and against Ukip harden after the hard - right party releases the most explosive election poster of recent years.

The single most important event to influence Kenya's political landscape over the next five years will be the general election to be held on 4 March 2013.

Notwithstanding last May's SNP election victory, most polls over the past two years have indicated that more people would vote against independence than would vote in favour of it.

Some analysts are describing this as the most important election in the last 50 years — not including presidential contests.

In her first major appearance since Wednesday's vote crowning her the second - most - powerful elected official in the city, the progressive firebrand told Mr. Sharpton's National Action Network in Harlem that this year's election victories signaled a sea change in New York that the mainstream media resisted.

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This election will see significant change in Bed - Stuyvesant, where Al Vann has been in one office or another for over 40 years, most recently as Council Member for the 36th CD.