Sentences with phrase «of election campaigns»

Public funding of election campaigns can also be used as a tool to promote gender equality, whether as an incentive or a penalty in relation to presenting women candidates for election.

The Labour leader is facing severe criticism both on and off the record from his MPs, pollsters and commentators over the style of his election campaigns.

Connecticut's expensive public financing of election campaigns was intended to take the emphasis off money in politics.

replace big money control of election campaigns with full public financing and free and equal access to the airwaves;

The rise of Islamist group Boko Haram in the north - east has put security at the centre of their election campaigns, but the candidates are at odds over how to handle the insurgency in Africa's biggest oil producer.

Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan (R - Suffolk) promised to «engage in whatever discussions are necessary» on ethics but opposed two key measures favored by Democrats and good government groups — public financing of election campaigns and bans on lawmakers» outside income.

Apparently in response to her withdrawal, Cruz Bustamante endorsed her plan for public financing of election campaigns, an intended anti-corruption measure.

And a plurality, 46 percent, said that they approve of public financing of election campaigns for statewide and state legislative races.

To support public financing of election campaigns in the state of New York, modeled after New York City's system, and to join coalitions, including Citizens Action of New York, to support this reform.

Much has changed in the 65 years since Clement Attlee declined the opportunity to talk to an obsequious television reporter, but Cowley is not sure that everybody yet appreciates how the television debates have changed utterly the nature of election campaigns.

If a religious organization wishes to have a tax exemption, it must stay out of election campaigns.

The Afghanistan issue may also receive heightened attention if either the New Democratic Party or the Bloc Québécois choose to make this issues a central part of their election campaigns, as neither party supported the extension of the mission.

It's more reliable, faster and helps them avoid duplicating efforts during the rush of election campaigns.

One of the major problems with Australian politics at both the state and federal level is taxpayer funding of election campaigns.

However, he wouldn't rule out the possibility that a deal could get done soon — possibly in the midst of an election campaign.

This reflected the political significance of the possibility that an official recession would be confirmed by the numbers, right smack in the middle of an election campaign — all the more so -LSB-...]

I hold out hope that at that time the new parliament will be able to address these important issues with more subtlety than is possible during the heat of an election campaign.

Last month, in the middle of the election campaign, the Conservative government put Canada's signature on the controversial 12 - country pact.

When Donald Trump made withdrawal from the Trans - Pacific Partnership (TPP) a key part of his election campaign, many wondered whether the trade deal had any future without the US.

Since the beginning of this election campaign, polls have shown the Wildrose Party in a position to make significant gains across Calgary and Southern Alberta, putting many Tory incumbents and rookie candidates at risk of defeat.

Newly elected Prime Minister Justin Trudeau made a litany of campaign promises to Canadian voters over the course of his election campaign, one of them being to improve relations with Canada's southern neighbor.

With trust and accountability having become the defining issues of the election campaign, Mr. Prentice has not presented a compelling reason for Albertans to trust that the PC Party will be any different in the next three years (especially after he called the election one year earlier than the PC Government's fixed election date).

Councillor Leibovici will be a formidable contender for the mayor's chair, bringing with her 27 years of election campaign experience at the provincial and municipal levels.

The president - elect made withdrawing from the TPP a central part of his election campaign.

Passage of implementing legislation for the Constitution Reform to Mexico's labour justice system has been delayed beyond the February 24 deadline as political parties jockey for advantage in the midst of an election campaign and NAFTA negotiations.

So some CNN reporter finds some crazed, frothing at the mouth ex-mormon who claims that this was done the DAY AFTER ROMNEY GIVES A STELLAR DEBATE PERFORMANCE AT PROBABLY THE MOST CRITICAL TIME OF HIS ELECTION CAMPAIGN???

Having made an apparently copper - bottomed campaign pledge to appeal to the student vote, many LibDem MPs have found out the hard way that headline - grabbing promises in the heat of an election campaign can come back to bite you hard if they are impossible to credibly support in office.

Consisting of 25 images, one for each day of the election campaign plus one taken during the height of the coalition talks, Roberts focused on the relationship between canvassing politicians and the voting public.

I asked him why it was almost the end of the second week of the election campaign before a top Labour figure had showed their face.

As a reminder of Unite's importance though; Unite are still the biggest funder of the party (in the first week of the election campaign they gave # 2.4 m of the total # 2.7 m received by Labour), they have upwards of one million members they can encourage to register as supporters in a leadership election (and indeed activate in Parliamentary candidate selections), Unite has three seats on the NEC and of course Len's chief of staff, Andrew Murray, was seconded to Jeremy's team for the general election campaign.

In fact, this was a case of the NHS deciding not to make a controversial decision which could be the subject of election campaigning.

We see politicians all the time, but we don't often get to see the real winners of an election campaign.

But by the end of this election campaign, don't be surprised if Theresa May chalks up more attacks on Juncker than Jeremy Corbyn.

On the penultimate day of the election campaign, Deputy Prime Minister and Leader of the Liberal Democrats Nick Clegg told voters, «you face the biggest political decision of your life».

But the failure to deal with this perception allowed it to become entrenched — leaving Labour to play catch - up in the final weeks of the election campaign, with big questions of credibility still hovering over it.

Given that his personal ratings have been so low, and behind those of the Labour party in general, the only way was up for Ed Miliband in his first major TV appearance of the election campaign.

-LSB-...] force George Osborne into the centre of the election campaign — as has been discussed over at Liberal Conspiracy he's widely seen to be one of the weakest members of the Shadow Cabinet.

He began as leader by stressing his support for the NHS and places it now at the centre of his election campaign.

This would suggest that voting preference is less swung by the day - to - day cut and thrust of an election campaign, and more with identification with the principles that underlay the party's ethos.

In a passage reminiscent of the election campaign, Mr Brown made a veiled critique of the coalition government's austerity drive.

Party volunteers are the heart of election campaigning in Britain.

We Were Warriors was published in the middle of the election campaign and serialised in the Daily Mail.

Guess the end of the election campaign is not bringing about end to harassment.

He has made few public appearances since his return in August, prompting speculation about whether he is strong enough to endure the rigours of an election campaign.

Over the duration of the election campaign, the Polling Tracker has also recorded how support for the three main parties has narrowed significantly.

He dismissed the row as «part of the small change of election campaigning».

Over the course of the election campaign, the economy, environment, tax, health and Europe were the most discussed issues in the Inverness constituency.

Some might remember the 1987 general election when «Critch», «Mitch» and «Titch» appeared on the Saturday morning Today programme to take the mickey out of the election campaign.

The two prosecutors, which included acting Manhattan U.S. Attorney Joon Kim, also denounced the de Blasio camp's behavior on behalf of his election campaign in 2013 and the state Senate race a year later as inappropriate if not illegal.

Welsh political leaders have clashed over the NHS, immigration, and the economy in the first televised all - Wales debate of the election campaign.