Sentences with phrase «much by the election»

A second, control group consisted of 20 people who thought they would not be affected much by the election result.

Yet the changes themselves — at least their timing and high - profile release — are motivated at least as much by election - year political considerations as by policy.

Not exact matches

The 2015 Liberal election platform had a proposal to limit the benefits of the 50 % employee stock option deduction by placing a cap of $ 100,000 on annual eligible stock option gains but this was dropped after intense lobbying by startups in the tech and resource industry who rely heavily on non-cash compensation such as stock options to attract much needed, specialized talent to their firms.

Much of the mainstream press did get the election wrong, by misunderstanding the base of Trump's support and by overplaying news that they thought would be damaging — but wasn't.

«Unfriending someone entirely may feel a bit too harsh,» she says, but if people in your social circles are regularly posting negative content (especially during election season), you could get a much - needed mental break by engaging with them less frequently.

The social media company has been surrounded by negative news for much of the last 18 months, since news broke that Russian - linked groups allegedly hijacked its service to spread propaganda to try to influence the 2016 election.

By contrast, Front National leader Marine Le Pen, currently leading the opinion polls in France's Presidential elections due in May, routinely attacks the ECB's policy as too tight and Germanic (albeit she recently diluted her comments on taking France out of the euro into something much less coherent than the brutal «Frexit» she threatened earlier).

But it seems that the Brexit vote — combined with the strong possibility that Corbyn may not even be a Labour leader by the next General Election — proved too much Piketty.

Kogan described it as a «big leap» to connect the piece of research to Kremlin efforts to use online platforms to interfere in foreign elections — before essentially going on to repeat a Kremlin talking point by saying the US and the UK engage in much the same types of behavior.

At this point in the U.S. presidential election, Trump had proven himself a very competitive candidate, trailing the much more politically experienced Hillary Clinton by single digits.

This is a variant of the proposal made by the government in the 2011 election campaign, which has received so much criticism over recent months.

We have all witnessed a fair amount of negativity and skepticism about the economy in the year much of that amplified by the recent election campaigning.

Andrew Coyne and Chantal Hebert were commenting on social media and how much garbage was being reported by the MSM about the election.

The BJP election manifesto, written by party veteran Murli Manohar Joshi, emphasized infrastructure development, which could see as much as $ 1 trillion in investment over next five years.

And I think really what I mean by that, in Europe, again, we have seen three elections this year, which I think on the face of it are very much status - quo outcomes.

And the province can do much more to clean up provincial election laws, something that a new all - party committee will be tasked to do soon (and they should consider adopting some of the amendments made by Wildrose MLAs during recent debates in the Legislature).

The legalization of marijuana across much of the U.S. — spurred by election - night victories on Tuesday — is creating a huge new market for legal weed.

For example, business leaders in the aftermath of the popular protests that challenged U.S. involvement in Vietnam complained about too much democracy in the United States.6 In a similar way, free elections are held up by U.S. leaders as essential for democracy unless political parties opposed to U.S. interests win.

At this point, it's pretty much common knowledge that Russian operatives used Facebook to influence the 2016 presidential election by creating fake news accounts that sold divisive political ads and...

Television certainly offers the potential for social and political impact by religious broadcasters who seek to use it in that way, and yet, the example set by broadcasters in the 1980 election year left much to be desired in the eyes of many Christian leaders and adherents.

Much of the media attention attracted by religious broadcasters in the 1980 elections was caused by the popularly held belief that the broadcasters were being watched by a major portion of the American public.

Did we witness, only weeks away from the General Election, one of the greatest betrayals of the Catholic tradition by the English hierarchy, not merely in this century (of which after all there hasn't been much yet) but in the history of the Church?

Faced with so much violence around me, watching friends die one by one because of either drugs or other bad choices, watching corrupt politicians win local elections, and dealing with the same sort of racism, homophobia, and other things that caused me to flee to Ohio in the first place, it became clear to me that if I stay here any longer, I'll never be able to leave a place I'm so unhappy with.

Assistant Agriculture and Water Resources Minister Luke Hartsuyker — stepping in for Nationals leader Barnaby Joyce who is facing a by - election due to his citizenship disqualification — said National Agriculture Day was all about getting much - deserved recognition for the nation's $ 60 billion agriculture sector.

They will also be inundated with polls showing Sanders as the stronger general election candidate (nearly every national poll shows Sanders beating Trump by much larger margins than Clinton).

With club elections to come this summer and much pressure from the media and fans alike, the man at the top may well decide to cut his losses, if the decision has not already been made by Mourinho himself to jump ship.

As much as I'd love to blame «ketchup is a vegetable, and so am I» Reagan, the fry line preceded his election by two months.

Their method is much more thorough and uses information from local by - elections to estimate the National Equivalent Vote and pays attention to the actual shares of the vote in the different county council divisions last time.

To put this in perspective the cedi performed much better in an election year 2016 under the NDC than it did in 2008, another election year under the NPP when it fell by a catastrophic 25.3 %.

The suit, which appears below, makes reference to the Citizens United case decided by the US Supreme Court earlier this year that enabled corporations and labor unions to spend much more freely to influence elections.

A Tory spokesperson said: «Following the tragic killing of Labour MP Jo Cox, the Conservative party has decided not to contest the forthcoming by - election as a mark of respect to a much - loved and respected politician.»

By elections will acquire considerable significance, as much as they did in the late 1980s and 1980s when leaders» futures were at stake as voters delivered their verdict in a single constituency.

As in 2004, both parties have taken radically different approaches to online - offline organizing, with the Republicans seemingly trying to channel supporters narrowly into certain activities, like walking their precinct and talking to registered Republicans, while the Democrats appear to be encouraging a much - more freewheeling array of user - generated activity on their site, presumably in the hopes of drawing more supporters in and then turning them toward party - building work by Election Day.

The GOP has been affected much more than the Democratic Party by the change in the election finance laws, allowing Super PACs to spend arbitrarily large amounts of advertising money to support their preferred candidates.

«The latest «State of the State» proposals highlighting much needed election reforms are nearly identical to legislation drafted by myself, and Deputy Leader Gianaris.

By donating now we can show that we are much stronger than the special interest driven money that dominates Albany and we will make sure Bill has the money he needs to put together a strong Election Day operation and withstand the negative, unfair attacks.

The Tories may be able to outspend us by as much as three to one, but on the ground in the key seats, we aim to outnumber their diminished and demoralised activists by the same margin as we fight this election conversation by conversation, doorstep by doorstep, community by community.»

He didn't contribute much to the election campaign but did raise eyebrows by suggesting the Lib Dems should have more seats in Cabinet after the election.

Historically, women have struggled to achieve much visibility in electoral coverage, and by drawing upon data from the Loughborough Communication Research Centre's real - time analysis of national broadcasting and press coverage, we can see that the 2015 election was no different.

On election night, Clinton, buoyant in the hopes of a much - predicted win embellished by the major pollsters, political pundits and social media soothsayers, chose to hold her victory celebrations at Manhattan's Jacob Javits Centre where there is a gigantic, transparent ceiling — a dramatic way to consummate her victory.

Thus, although the election of François Mitterrand was welcomed by the intellectual left, it did not lead to its reconciliation with politicians and the state.2 In practice, intellectuals never found much in common with the policies implemented by the socialist government and by the time Mitterrand's economic policy U-turn occurred in 1983, the cleavage became ever so apparent and intellectuals resumed to disapproval.

The Party of European Socialists has attracted some rather unfavourable comment in the FT and The Economist (and much positive coverage elsewhere) on our manifesto for the 2009 European elections — agreed by all member parties including Labour at our meeting on December 1 in Madrid: check it out at http://www.pes.org/content/view/1457/72.

When weighted by the number of seats they have up for election, the average Remain vote in those councils that have elections on Thursday is as much as 52 %, some five points above the overall Remain vote in England in June 2016.

Already at this time there were signs that Labour might win the next election, much aided by the ERM crisis but not yet by Blair's leadership.

Wisconsin Democrats have made a concerted effort to make what's referred to as a «John Doe investigation» — conducted at first in secret by state authorities — a campaign issue in the gubernatorial recall election, though the issue hasn't garnered much attention outside the state.

The limits on contributions to individual candidates range by office but are universally much tighter; it was $ 11,000 in the Kaminsky - McGrath special election.

Dr. Rosa's election is an indication of how much both politicians and the public have turned against the policies promoted by Dr. Tisch, including the evaluation of teachers on the basis of state test scores.

The political range of Labour MPs represented by the vote echoed, but on a much wider basis, that seen around Labour's National Executive elections earlier in the year.

Some doubt that debates would have much effect on the election, given Cuomo's huge campaign funds advantage over Astorino and the fact that Cuomo leads by more than 30 points in the polls.

(The fact that this is often said by people who both regard themselves as working class and voted Conservative at the last election probably says as much about the strength of the Labour brand as it does about the caprice of voters).