Sentences with phrase «of getting them to the polls»

It's just a matter of getting them to the polls.

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A third of respondents to polls by various American and Canadian health organizations report getting a good night's rest at best a few times per month; more than one in 10 — some studies say almost 50 % — suffer from insomnia.

Separatist parties will get 45.8 per cent of the vote, according to the latest poll by newspaper El Periodico, with 43.8 per cent going to unionist parties.

According to the latest polls Esquerra will get the biggest share of the vote in the region, 20.5 per cent, narrowly leading Junts per Catalunya, the new name for the party led by Puigdemont, on 19.3 per cent.

I took a poll of the room asking the very simple question: «On a scale 1 to10, how hard do you feel it is to get a job in your desired industry?»

Under Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act, about 800 counties with histories of racially - discriminatory voting laws — going back to poll taxes and literacy tests — had to get the Justice Department's approval beforehand (a process called pre-clearance) before such laws could take effect.

The team will set out with the explicit goal of encouraging young people to get the polls.

Similarly, an Ipsos Reid poll showed 60 % of respondents didn't think the government was working, a reflection of a «Tory brand» that was starting to get «a little tattered,» according to Mr. Bricker.

According to a new poll from the AP - NORC Center for Public Affairs Research, 56 percent of Americans largely fear the country's relationship with Russia and China will get worse.

The Socialists, weakened after the deeply unpopular presidency of Francois Hollande, have no chance of getting beyond the first round of the election in April, according to the latest polls.

In recent years, polls and studies have put Canada and our cities at or near the top of places to get an education, establish a business, raise a family and live a long, healthy life.

According to a recent Compas poll of corporate executives, the situation is going to get worse during the next few years.

Of course, those realities don't automatically translate to getting people to the polls.

According to the last seven polls — spanning from July 2014 to November 2015 — conduced by the French public - opinion institute Ifop, Le Pen has led each time when voters are asked, «If the next presidential election was next week, which candidate would have the best chance of getting your vote?»

Things like inflation and unemployment really have to get very seriously out of whack for Americans to punish politicians for economic conditions at the polls.

On some of the challenges of getting reliable data in china, Leland explains that he and his team had to ask Chinese firms and consumers on ground what is happening in the country, and set up a number of polling units across sectors in order to get reliable and accurate information.

This is in stark contrast to our last polling where 63 % of executives were operating under the impression that the sector would perform the same as it had or would in fact get worse.

And that the polls would show that they would be getting a minority PC government, with a Wildrose opposition, they thought this would be a good balance, a strong NDP Caucus putting pressure who would hold them to account and a lot of people woke up the next morning going what the heck happened to our Alberta.»

I was surprised to see that notwithstanding the success of the WR at the polls Jean only managed to get 78 % support on his leadership review.

More than half of British women admit to flirting with men to get their own way, with a fifth saying they do so at work (according to a survey investigating gender bias and positive discrimination commissioned by comparison website confused.com, which polled 2,000 people).

Despite the lack of community cohesion, the poll found a majority of Brits, 65 %, believe that their neighbourhoods would be stronger if people were encouraged to get to know each other better.

Yesterday, the NCAA officially got rid of its much - maligned BCS poll and is going to move to a playoff system.

A foul - mouthed Silverman pushes people to do whatever it takes to make it to the polls in spite of voter ID laws, while an uncensored Jackson orders disenchanted Obama supporters to «wake the f *** up» and get to work.

The survey found that 35 per cent of men polled said they hadn't got married because they hadn't met the right person compared to only 29 per cent of women.

Wake up people — these behaviors will never go away, and politicians of both parties have no intention of getting rid of them — if they did, there'd be no issues to divide us at the polls.

This shows nothing more than ignorance of the bible and it's message for mankind maybe the President would do well to get alongside himself men of true faith Godly men who don't aspire for public office, who do nt name universities after themselves, who will tell him what Gods wants of him and not what the opinion polls want.

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Gone are the times when their church bus could chauffeur them right up to the door of the polling station and get them back home right before their soaps started for the day.

Land said he worried that when President Barack Obama's re-election campaign looks at the polling numbers, they will realize that Obama «has got no choice if he wants to get re-elected but to take the focus off of issues and start saying, «Well, my opponent's worse than I would be.»»

Actually, on election day, instead of voting, I am going to invoke the power of prayer and spend the day praying as I know that this will get more people out to the polls to vote for Mitt Romney.

A 2013 Gallup poll shows that only 9 percent of single 18 - to 34 - year - olds don't want to get married; only 3 percent of 35 - to 54 - year - olds.

For he can't seem to win a Coach of the Year award, his team doesn't get first - place status in a single weekly poll and his players aren't named to All - America teams.

If the vets of the Chicago Hoops League were polled on the Teams that would get out to 2 - 0 starts..

I bet if we did a poll when DJ was hired, about how long it would take UMD to get a Top15 recruiting class, the responses would have been 5 - 10 years or never...... most excited for the upcoming season since 2001 - by TerpfanMA on Jun 3, 2016 5:33 PM Isn't it a great feeling that we are able to think (that all of these comments are about) its a big time recruit instead of just people bitching about Edsall though?

To be truly dominant in any sport over a long period of time you have to be a bit of a sociopath, and once the Pats get a lead they will continue to pile on the points like they want to make sure to stay ahead in the computer pollTo be truly dominant in any sport over a long period of time you have to be a bit of a sociopath, and once the Pats get a lead they will continue to pile on the points like they want to make sure to stay ahead in the computer pollto be a bit of a sociopath, and once the Pats get a lead they will continue to pile on the points like they want to make sure to stay ahead in the computer pollto pile on the points like they want to make sure to stay ahead in the computer pollto make sure to stay ahead in the computer pollto stay ahead in the computer polls.

The season was bittersweet because of the way it began; the Utes got to third in the polls with a 6 - 0 start and wins over Michigan and Oregon before losing to USC, then succumbing to injuries and losing to Arizona and UCLA as well.

Well let's NOT Google «Arsenal fan polls» as opinions change over time, so let us have a reflection of what us Gooners think right now, without any games to distract us, and see if we can get a FACTUAL figure on the actual percentage of JustArsenal readers who agree or disagree with Jon.

big gun I think the poll is a bit misleading, you yourself have said give wenger till the end of season I want him gone but realise in January it could hurt the club, so there's no where to vote for some of us, start another poll wenger out or wenger to stay then we will get a good idea as long as it's not fixed

Like Whitney Houston, we believe that the children are the future, so to get a snapshot of tomorrow's golfers — how they play, what they think, whom they admire — SI polled the entire 79 - player field at a recent American Junior Golf Association tournament.

So for a poll that isn't really a poll at all, as much as the definition of a democracy — one man, one vote, one set of furry slippers — Super Dave's Top 25 certainly seems to get to the heads of a lot of people, many of them well beyond their Clearasil years.

Maybe admin should do a poll to see what they made of Xhaka's game — Excellent — Good — Decent — Bad — We can try to get to the bottom of this.

One such article (Untold also covered this article) claimed that 80 % of Arsenal supporters wanted Arsene Wenger to leave, but just clicking on the link reveals that the only people that were polled were the Arsenal Supporter's Trust (AST) a blatantly anti-Wenger group and the only surprise is that they did not get 100 % wanting Wenger out.

But like a lot of polls, the ways questions are phrased, what gets asked and what doesn't, and who gets asked and who doesn't have a lot to do with whether the poll means something or not.

In any event, saying «everybody» cheats seems to be a stretch; while it's hard to get an exact number of people who are cheating because it's all self - reported (and you have to think that those who are lying to their spouse are probably not going to be totally honest when it comes to a poll on infidelity), some studies indicate it's about 20 percent of married couples while others suggest it may be as high as 60 percent to 70 percent.

I think it is important that everybody gets to the polls and gets their chance to vote no matter their party of choice.

Craft fairs are also great places to test new products because you can get direct feedback from your buyers — or if you're scared to ask them face to face, why not set up a mini voting booth or chalkboard poll, like Folksy seller Ruth Robinson did at one of her markets stalls.

In fact, you've got lots of company, according to a new family - travel poll.

I can think of lots of good candidates for a first read and will have a poll up next week to get readers» thoughts, but if you have some good suggestions now, send them my way in a comment below.

The Baby Name polls hooked me in to start, and when I had my first child, I loved getting to know the other members of my birth club.

They have to have enough of SOMETHING — money, polling numbers or on - the - ground organization — to convince outsiders to get involved.