Sentences with phrase «open elections in»

According to the International Herald Tribune, seven Chinese lawyers lost their jobs after they signed a petition calling for open elections in the government - controlled Beijing Lawyers» Association.

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The euro reached a five - and - a-half month high against the dollar when markets opened Sunday evening as exit polls in the French presidential election indicated a victory for centrist Macron.

«It's difficult to ignore that this action comes during a period of heightened tension regarding Facebook's role in our elections, and its perceived bias against conservative voices,» Petersen wrote in an open letter to Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg.

Trump International Hotel opens in Washington, D.C. in September 2016, just before the presidential election follows in November, and the impact of Trump's campaign on its opening success is yet to be seen.

The subcommittee's chairman, Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham, said in his opening statement that «when one party is attacked, all of us should feel attacked... when a foreign power interferes in our election, it doesn't matter who they targeted.

Clapper, the former Director of National Intelligence, described in his opening remarks the process by which the intelligence community concluded in January that «the Russian government pursued a multi-faceted influence campaign in the run - up to the election, including aggressive use of cyber capabilities.»

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.

The opening statement largely reiterates what happened with the Cambridge Analytica scandal and Facebook's plans to stop a similar event from happening, as well what the company has done in light of possible election interference before leading into questions.

For example, in response to anti-Trump protests across the country over the past week, Trump first tweeted: «Just had a very open and successful presidential election.

The protests in Hong Kong were sparked when Beijing rejected a proposal for open nominations of candidates for Hong Kong's first - ever leadership election in 2017, meaning all candidates will continue to be picked by a panel that is mostly aligned with Beijing.

Merkel was weakened after a September election as voters angry with her decision in 2015 to open Germany's borders to more than a million asylum seekers punished her conservatives by voting for the Alternative for Germany (AfD) far - right party.

The 2016 elections are widely seen as a tipping point opening a flood of new investment in the cannabis industry.

As none of the three main factions had enough seats to govern alone, President Sergio Mattarella is expected to open formal coalition talks in April, with early elections possible if no accord is found.

LONDON — The FTSE 100 may have opened higher on Friday in reaction to the general election result but individual sectors are getting seriously burned.

Fears of seeming «political» during a presidential election year, sluggish growth in the Eurozone and a slowdown of the Chinese economic juggernaut will also keep Janet Yellen and the rest of the Federal Open Markets Committee from pulling the trigger more often; their vacillation will be one of the year's longest - running (and least loved) dramas.

Following the Arab Spring, GardaWorld opened Libyan offices in Tripoli and Benghazi; Intelligence Online reported it won contracts with Alstom (a power generation and transmission giant) and a European Union mission that monitored Libya's 2012 election.

The president's decision to reconsider one of his first acts in office — withdrawing from the 12 - nation Trans - Pacific Partnership — opens up another potential line of attack for some Democrats ahead of critical midterm elections in November.

Though the election results were a foregone conclusion, there is arguably still a small opening for civilian participation in a national assembly.

Critics point out that the open system can be gamed, especially when an incumbent's backers flock to the other party's primary to support a weaker candidate, who then ends up as the other party's nominee against the incumbent in the general election.

That goes for fake news, foreign interference in elections, and hate speech, as well as developers and data privacy,» Zuckerberg said in opening remarks before a joint hearing of the Senate Judiciary and Commerce committees.

With Industry Minister Arthur Sinodinos set to open The Australian Financial Review Innovation Summit in Sydney on Tuesday, the government is hoping equity crowdfunding will help bring start - ups and innovation closer to the average Australian, and boost support for the «ideas boom» agenda blamed for nearly losing it the 2016 election.

IT minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said on Thursday that he was open to the idea of launching an inquiry into whether Facebook had unfairly influenced elections in the country.

«I know that this is new, but there is a great opportunity to show that North Carolina is truly open to new emerging markets,» Wilder said in an email to the elections board.

The week - long vote is open to all registered members (anyone with a dot - ca domain registration can become a registered member for free, but must have become a member before the start of the election in order to vote).

No one knows when or if cannabis will be made legal federally, but Rea highlighted two upcoming milestones to rally the Canopy crowd in the meantime: California is expected to vote on legalization on election day 2016 or earlier, potentially opening sales to adults in an economy larger than Russia's.

In addition to being ahead of Trump in polls in pivotal states, Clinton has maintained a staff of about 700 for months, opened up offices across the country and already spent $ 67 million on general election adIn addition to being ahead of Trump in polls in pivotal states, Clinton has maintained a staff of about 700 for months, opened up offices across the country and already spent $ 67 million on general election adin polls in pivotal states, Clinton has maintained a staff of about 700 for months, opened up offices across the country and already spent $ 67 million on general election adin pivotal states, Clinton has maintained a staff of about 700 for months, opened up offices across the country and already spent $ 67 million on general election ads.

The compromises necessary to Canada wants a successful outcome to the TPP negotiations not only for domestic political reasons (a general election is due in 2015), but also for tactical reasons such as protecting its NAFTA access to the US market and ensuring that it is not disadvantaged vis — à — vis the US in any market - opening deals involving Japan.

Although there have been elections at the local level, the ruling communist party has never conducted an open national election in 65 years of rule.

As the votes were being tallied on election night in November, the overnight futures market indicated that an extreme drop would occur when the market opened on Wednesday.

An example of a democracy with a polity score of +10 is Sweden, which elects its parliament in free and open elections.

Japan's Abe secures supermajority Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe won a landslide victory in last weekend's general election, opening the way for a push to amend the country's pacifist constitution.

The White House didn't want to open up Cotton's Arkansas Senate seat after the GOP's shocking loss in the Alabama Senate race and other special elections.

Certainly Mr. Trudeau sent some encouraging signals during the election campaign, in an open letter to federal public sector workers.

France is gearing up for the most wide open presidential election in modern history come April.

In class, we had discussions about election and predestination, open theism, inerrancy and inspiration of Scripture, millennialism, tribulationalism, dispensationalism, infra -, supra -, and sublapsarianism and many other «very important» subjects that you discuss every day over dinner.

The judge's ruling opening the elections back up comes in response to a suit filed by a group of nine 17 - year - olds, who disputed the interpretation.

Polls opened at 8 a.m. Friday in Iran as Iranians cast ballots in the first parliamentary elections since the 2009 vote that sparked riots and accusations of rigging.

The courageous Archbishop who celebrated Mass in the open air was the one who finally blessed the great new church — on a day of great joy and pouring rain with vast crowds attending — and who would later give that courage to the wider Church on his election to the Papacy as John Paul II.

Affairs popped up in the national conversation during the election, and honesty — who doesn't like a good open discussion about the dishonesty of infidelity?

The three newcomers and one incumbent running for the two open seats on the Palatine Park District board talk about issues including a district - owned stable and the future of a municipal golf course as being key in the April 9 election.

Five candidates, including a challenger and four incumbents, are running for the four open Arlington Heights village board trustee seats that will be filled in next month's election.

The Liberal Democrats have celebrated their shock victory in the Richmond Park by - election as a vote for an «open, tolerant and united» Britain.

Killian is running for an open seat in Westchester County, one of two being decided in a special election scheduled for April 24.

The hope among the NLD leadership is that economic and political life can be gradually opened over the next three years and that moderates will be entrenched enough by 2015 to allow the NLD's inevitable victory at the polls in that year's general election to be translated into some real political power.

Bill Hammond says the Cuomo administration's lack of transparency on the «New York is Open for Business» ads is part of a pattern of secrecy, but particularly troubling in an election year.

Our election night guide on p43 with TV, radio and online info should be open in front of you during election night for reference to the latest information and analysis.

@JeffLambert We still use (at least in many jurisdictions) actually people watching the boxes / machines as part of the security procedures for elections, so having the polls open for several days would exacerbate the problem of finding enough people to staff the security measures.

In the referendum and election they have voted for a society that is open, diverse and fair.

Back in 2007, Brown opened himself up to accusations of dithering when he considered holding an early election, refused to dampen down speculation and then finally announced there would not be an early election after all.

Should be a special election to replace Latimer, the party nominees would be selected by committee members rather than in an open primary.