Sentences with phrase «other than election»

This could happen for a variety of reasons: the supporting party might think the resulting government was a better option than something else, the minority government might be the only option to form a government other than another election, or the supporters might get concessions.

New York should catch up by enacting early voting so voters can vote on days other than Election Day, and put the funding in the budget to ensure it is effectively implemented,» said Alex Camarda, Senior Policy Advisor of Reinvent Albany.

Or spend it on something other than elections?

Not exact matches

Since the election, groups on the right have called for boycotts of Kellogg's (for pulling ads from alt - right site Breitbart News), Starbucks (for vowing to hire refugees rather than jobless Americans), and Nordstrom (for dropping Ivanka Trump's clothing line), among others.

Rick Perry spent a ridiculous $ 6,035,705 in Iowa alone this election cycle — far more than any other candidate — only to come in a distant fifth place.

«Prospects for renewed gains, other than a relief rally following the election results, would require somewhat larger wage increases and continued job growth as well as the maintenance of low inflation.»

While NationBuilder and Rally remain bipartisan, Bloomberg reports that federal candidates and other political advocates have spent more than $ 46 million this election cycle on party - specific tech sites, including the Republican - leaning Targeted Victory and the Democratic - leaning Blue State Digital and Bully Pulpit Interactive.

The three defense companies have also donated more money in the 2018 election cycle than any other company in the industry, according to a new analysis from the Center for Responsible Politics, which draws on the Federal Election Commission's latest political - candidate - contributionelection cycle than any other company in the industry, according to a new analysis from the Center for Responsible Politics, which draws on the Federal Election Commission's latest political - candidate - contributionElection Commission's latest political - candidate - contribution report.

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The drugmaker's political action committee spent $ 405,000 on federal campaign donations and other political outlays last year, more than in 2016 — an election year — and nearly double its allocation for 2015, data compiled by Kaiser Health News show.

He lost a presidential election in 2005 to hardline Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the little - known mayor of Tehran at the time, a defeat that indicated resentment toward Rafsanjani as part of the elite and the perception he served few interests other than his own.

It speaks solely to the issue of Russia's attempts to influence the election, he said, adding, «this president takes personally any allegation that he won for any reason other than his decisions on the campaign trail.»

And now that the time for revisionist history has arrived, and strategists no longer have to serve a political agenda and scare investors and traders into voting with their wallets, the research reports calling for precisely the outcome that we expected are coming in fast and furious, starting with none other than Goldman, whose chief strategist David Kostin issued a note overnight in which he says that «the equity market response to the election result will be limited» and adds that «our year - end 2016 price target for the S&P 500 remains 2100, roughly 2 % below the current level of 2140.»

Also, if a majority of the Board is comprised of persons other than (i) persons for whose election proxies were solicited by the Board; or (ii) persons who were appointed by the Board to fill vacancies caused by death or resignation or to fill newly - created directorships («Board Change»), unless the Committee or Board determines otherwise prior to such Board Change, then participants immediately prior to the Board Change who cease to be employees or non-employee directors within six months after such Board Change for any reason other than death or permanent disability generally have their (i) options and stock appreciation rights become immediately exercisable and to the extent not canceled or cashed out, generally have at least six months to exercise such awards; (ii) restrictions with respect to restricted stock and RSRs lapse and generally shares are delivered; and (iii) performance shares and performance units pay out pro rata based on performance through the end of the last calendar quarter before the time the participant ceased to be an employee.

This post is in response to the following excellent comment from Stephen Moore, the man who will trounce Ralph Goodale in the next federal election (or at least do better than I did): April 2007 testimony before the parliamentary committee on International Trade saw Industry Canada, DFAIT reps and others stress the importance of the -LSB-...]

Second, Arthur Meighen's Tories «won» the 1925 general election in the sense that they took more seats than any other party, 116 compared to 99 for King's Liberals.

Given recent economic developments (which suggest there will be no surplus this year) and global uncertainties, together with a commitment by all three major political parties to balanced budgets and no tax increases (other than the NDP), it would be fiscally imprudent for any political party to make new major election «promises» in the coming months without indicating how they would be financed.

In other words, as Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac's stock prices increase — and they have so far more than doubled since the election on the expectation that the incoming Trump administration will be more lenient toward the financial sector than Obama — Trump's portfolio benefits.

Other than perhaps a short - term, knee - jerk reaction, the winner of each presidential election typically has much less to do with the future direction of the stock market than one may wish to believe.

His refusal to even minimally acknowledge that the election was triggered by anything other than a clash over economic priorities carried him into the campaign and, arguably, to victory.

Although the Conservatives have made fewer announcements than the other parties since the election call, their policy platform really began last October.

In other words, over the next five years, this government is planning to spend more money on income splitting for a small number of well off families, a promise made during the 2011 election, than on supporting economic growth and job creation through new spending on research and infrastructure and lowering taxes on investment.

As a result of this election, the information that we provide stockholders may be different than you might get from other public companies in which you hold equity.

Unfortunately, by then, most budget decisions had already been made and the chances that the Committee's recommendations (other than Liberal election promises) would have any impact on the Budget were virtually non-existent.

The vote - counting methodology used by the Company does not inherently favor proposals submitted by the Board over proposals submitted by shareholders, as the vote - counting standard for approving any proposal other than for the election of directors is identical.

There won't be any major election in Europe in 2016 other than in Ireland where the government's strong economic record should ensure it victory.

«I don't want Russia or any foreign entity to meddle in our election any more than any other American,» said Parscale.

Jim Prentice is desperate that Albertans think about anything other than his budget - a budget he called this election...

The center that was disappointed by Allison Redford and the center who in the last election had no one they felt comfortable with other than the NDP.

And if you think that «Calvinist theology is the opposite of Catholic theology», then you are completely ignorant of the numerous Catholic theologians who also taught strict election and predestination (including St. Augustine, whom Calvin quotes more than any other theologian).

You could have voted for something other than the donkey and elephant in the elections.

I agree with him that «Israel's election was not just for a time,» and indeed I do not find much in his letter with which to disagree, other than to insist again on the importance of the Catechism's theology of Christ's saving work.

So with Occupy Wall Street, and Penn State football child molestation allegations, and the dearth of credible Republican candidates to run against a President who seems to have no care other than winning the next election, and Kim Kardashian apparently marrying whomever for millions of....

If Kasich, or if anyone else other than Trump, is the GOP nominee, I'd guess Trump would still make a general - election run as a third - party or independent candidate.

As other state chambers follow suit (and they will), they will speak much more loudly than ambiguous election results to the power brokers who determine the direction of the party.

I know lots of people who don't know anything about Romney other than he was for the rich, tax cuts, and he was trying to take advantage of a lousy economy to win an election.

In describing and accounting for the lives of the Religious Right, which we define simply as religious conservatives with a considerable involvement in political activity, the book and the series tell the story primarily by focusing on leading episodes in the movement's history, including, but not limited to, the groundwork laid by Billy Graham in his relationships with presidents and other prominent political leaders; the resistance of evangelical and other Protestants to the candidacy of the Roman Catholic John F. Kennedy; the rise of what has been called the New Right out of the ashes of Barry Goldwater's defeat in 1964; a battle over sex education in Anaheim, California, in the mid-1960's; a prolonged cultural war over textbooks in West Virginia in the early 1970's — and that is a battle that has been fought less violently in community after community all over the country; the thrill conservative Christians felt over the election of a «born - again» Christian to the Presidency in 1976 and the subsequent disappointment they experienced when they found out that Jimmy Carter was, of all things, a Democrat; the rise of the Moral Majority and its infatuation with Ronald Reagan; the difficulty the Religious Right has had in dealing with abortion, homosexuality and AIDS; Pat Robertson's bid for the presidency and his subsequent launching of the Christian Coalition; efforts by Dr. James Dobson and Gary Bauer to win a «civil war of values» by changing the culture at a deeper level than is represented by winning elections; and, finally, by addressing crucial questions about the appropriate relationship between religion and politics or, as we usually put it, between church and state.

Neither party is all one way or the other but, more now than before this election, each approximately represents the deepest differences that divide our society.

Yet, Gold's generation represents one exception to the pattern; unlike any other age group, millennial evangelical women were more likely than their male counterparts to vote for Trump, according to the Cooperative Congressional Election Study (CCES) provided to CT by Ryan Burge, politics researcher and blogger for the site Religion in Public.

My religion does not persuade me to vote one way or another in an election just because one candidate says god and freedom more than the other.

I'm not disputing that Putin wouldn't win legitimately, or that more people support him than any other candidate, simply that I do not believe turnout figures, and I don't believe legit candidates aren't headed off before the elections.

In real - world elections, there are some systems where is is much harder to vote tactically than others - you never have perfect information on everyone else's vote, so the more information that you need to be able to vote tactically, the less likely people are to do so.

California doesn't have partisan primaries for elections other than president.

There are of course lots of other voting systems than first - past - the - post which promise more democratic election results, like approval voting, alternative vote and their many variants.

«Because one of the things we're keen to do in this election is something novel: we're trying to under - promise and over-deliver, rather than the other way around.

It carries such a strong invocation of the «liberal metropolitan elite» character - type that the phrase was deliberately employed during the last election by none other than David Cameron with his jibe about «the same old condescending, bossy, interfering, we - know - best attitude of the Hampstead socialist down the ages».

The anticipated cumulative effect of these changes is that «[t] he length of time between dissolution and the formation of the next government in 2015, and therefore the length of the caretaker / purdah period, may be considerably greater than for any other election in modern times».

The list breaks down into four basic categories: how the Trump campaign used social media, big - picture stories about Russia's election interference, platforms other than Facebook and Twitter, and finally, the Big Kahuna: Facebook and Twitter.

The fact that there were around three times more male journalists shaping election coverage than female ones demonstrates that the dearth of women is not just an issue for political parties, but that national media outlets also need to consider why it is that national political journalism in the UK continues to be a domain where men write about other men.

There's still a lot of people who aren't following the election cycle at all, but names other than Trump's are bandied about a lot so they'd at least have been heard of.