Sentences with phrase «over timing an election»

In principle, a fixed term should abolish any discretion over timing an election.

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Up 5.6 % over the same period, the S&P 500 also set a new record high on Friday, but only for the seventh time since the election, according to S&P Global — half as many times as the Dow.

Also, as data was only collected over a few months, it's unclear whether this was a one time «pop» in aggressiveness that resulted from study subjects being worked up about the election, or whether the change in negotiating tactics will hold steady.

In the last election, business leaders chose Stephen Harper over Michael Ignatieff by a margin of three - to - one, according to a Compas poll at the time.

«The electoral advantages of anti-immigrant politics will only shrink over time, suggesting that Republicans should at some point — perhaps before the next presidential election — begin to embrace comprehensive immigration reform,» says Mark Price, a labor economist at the Keystone Research Center, a nonpartisan economic policy think tank in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.

«When you consider this survey went out a few days after the election and an election that to all pundits was a surprise and provided results people didn't expect, I wonder over time whether the exuberance may dissipate,» Wynn said.

That makes the Trump Bump, for now, the largest post-election gain in percentage terms by the Dow index over that time frame — at least going as far back as the Hoover Mover, when stocks rose 3.6 % following Hubert Hoover's election.

After declaring victory over the recession in 2010, Harper set a path to balance the budget in time for the 2015 election.

The New York Times predicted a Hillary Clinton win at over 90 % probability a few days before the election.

Indeed, over the period of time when Italy was in recession, the country's political scene has been nothing short of a mess, having gone from the scandal - hit tenure of billionaire businessman Silvio Berlusconi, to a technocratic government and two general elections in the space of a year.

The lawsuit, first reported by the New York Times, arrives in the same month that porn star Stormy Daniels filed her own suit to void a hush deal she signed before the election, also over an alleged tryst with Trump.

A year of hellish relations with aboriginal groups; a possibly fatal public - relations cloud over the Keystone project, based precisely on the Harper government's poor environmental record; serious opposition in Europe to any extension in Canada - EU relations at the very same time we're trying to negotiate a trade deal; and a set of controversies that still motivate NDP supporters and the NDP caucus today, another year closer to a federal election.

As the chart above illustrates, there is an interesting correlation between the seat - advantage a minority government holds over the official Opposition, and the length of time between general elections when the minority is in power.

At the same time, credit spreads were up over 200 basis points (in other words two percentage points) even before the election.

Hopefully the time is coming where the ride will be over for this group - there is a huge space for public broadcasting and presentation of centered debates and discussions in this country - and it can only be through a public space lens - the next election will hopefully bring people such as yourself back into such space so that we can get on with having some notion of civilization.

Giuliani went into further detail in another interview Thursday morning about the extent to which the President was involved with the transaction, suggesting on Fox Business Network that Cohen did not communicate with Trump about the payment at the time he made it to Daniels and that Trump later reimbursed the money after the presidential election was over.

People who expect the stock market to fall over the next year now outnumber people who predict the opposite, for the first time since the US elections in November 2016, when the stock market extended what became known as the Trump rally.

I mean I voted for Dr. Turner in the last buy - election and so my decision this time around was not a lemming rush over a cliff with all the other previously Tory voters to embrace communism in the shape of the NDP.

«The advisor should help them address Social Security benefit timing optimization, pension election decisions, if applicable, the projection of resources over time [and any] special needs.»

Even the region's politics appeared more cohesive than they have for some time, now that the French and German elections have taken place, with the strength of the German economy to some extent dampening the uncertainty over the formation of the country's next government.

However, the election finally unleashed the stock and it rocketed up 50 % over a short period of time.

The election's over — which means it's time to stop paying lip service to America's «entrepreneurial spirit» and «the importance of small business,» and start taking bipartisan action to support the next generation of job creators.

We here in Yemen our Unity day celebration is on 22 May since 1990 to date but this time because of the troubles in the country related to changes we are threatened by the oppositions that they would make of it a bloody date marching towards the presidency to remove the president against the will of many who prefer having the president finish his legal ruling period rather than those coming to rule by coup rather than legal honest elections... Honestly what a mess we are in by those oppositions who what to take over what the youth have achieved and will be using those youth as their slaughter sheep for them to reach the ruling chair and then again when they both oppositions fight among them over it...

More people died at their hands than the aztecs sacrificed over a 50 year period 7) The fall of the soviet union was more an economic fall than anything, and this is the first time I have ever heard the election of a pope had anything to do with it.

What is said there is out of the movie «Canadian Bacon» where Alan Alda plays the US president, up for an election and wants to be wa war time president, so whips up fury over the Canadians to rally support to him... Hilarious movie, including John Candy, Michael Moore, Rhea Perlman, Kevin Pollack, Rip Torn, Jim Belushi, Steven Wright, and many more...

But a serious analysis of survey data over time provides little evidence that this fall's election cycle substantially shifted public opinion in favor of legal abortion.

Just over half (56 per cent) of those pastors who served parishes in California at the time of the election had ever delivered a sermon or even a part of a sermon on the Proposition 14 issue.

People are still so up - in - arms over the religion tossing that stank up this last election, that they are wanting creationist to just stop talking... but at the same time, I don't think anyone REALLY thinks science knows the EXACT age of the Universe or the planet.

It isn't the first time the segment, which has featured anchors like Tina Fey and Jimmy Fallon over the years, has received a coveted primetime slot, but this is the first time it's happened outside of an election year.

From the very beginning, our goal has been to cut through the noise, eliminate subjectivity and examine the 2016 election from a purely betting standpoint, tracking the odds movement over time to see which candidate is the smartest bet to win the presidency.

Now that the election is over and Obama has been elected our next president, and Motrin has taken down their offensive ad, I need a new cause to occupy my time.

This is reinforced by time series data from the British Election Survey showing the proportion of strong party identifiers, and the contrast over time is striking - «very strong» party identification plummeted from around 50 % in the mid-1960s to the mid-teens by 2001.

Elections are won at the water cooler, at the bar, at the dinner table, over the phone and in bed, and Obama's supporters were primed to know the messages, know the strategy and understand the stakes every time his candidacy came up in conversation.

These are the first significant multiparty elections in Myanmar in over twenty years and the results haven't been simply annulled as they were last time.

Local elections are often said to be about local issues but actually most of the changes over time in shares of council seats won the Conservatives, Labour and Liberal Democrats can be accounted for by changes the popularity of these parties at the national level.

«The deployment of security personnel country wide to secure lives and property would over stretched their capacity to at the same time provide adequate security for the election.

'' There are several hardworking people who sacrificed their jobs, time and resources working for the party over the last eight years we were in opposition and someone joins just a month to elections and he has been rewarded....

They spent a lot of time talking about microtargeting, particularly for direct mail, a skill at which the Republicans have excelled over the past few election cycles.

It was a pledge originally made in his leadership election campaign at a time when his victory over rival David Davis was far from certain.

I like the idea that elections are decided gradually over time.

In fact, the Tea Partiers» online organizing may be more dangerous to Republicans than Democrats, as in the 2009 special election in upstate New York that swung a seat to the Dems for the first time in over a century (as an analogy, Joe Lieberman is still in office despite Ned Lamont, and Dems who want health care reform are now paying the price for his challenge).

Very recently the UK Independence Party won the 2014 European elections, the first time in over 100 years that neither the socialist labour or conservative parties had won a national election.

Republican Fred Akshar has a broad, 52 - percentage point lead over Democratic candidate Barbara Fiala in the special election fill a vacant state Senate seat in the Southern Tier region, according to an exclusive Time Warner Cable News / Siena College poll released this evening.

Republican Fred Akshar holds a 28 percentage point lead over Democratic candidate Barbara Fiala in the special election to fill a state Senate seat in the Southern Tier, according to a Time Warner Cable News / Siena College poll released this evening.

In recent times, the 700 - year - old chamber has been mired in conflict and embarrassment over an expenses scandal that ended the careers of dozens of lawmakers in the prelude to last year's general election.

The graph below shows the latest What Scotland Thinks / ScotCen Poll of Polls of voting intentions in Scotland for the 2015 UK general election and how it has evolved over time.

Over the last four election cycles, New Hampshire's 1st District and Texas» 23rd District have changed hands three times and New York's 24th District has flipped all four.

Ed Miliband clearly couldn't share a platform with Nick Clegg while at the same time pursuing a strategy in local elections of targeting past - libdem voters over their «betrayal».

May's mayoral election will surely be Ken's last electoral hurrah; he'll be over 70 by the time of the next one in 2016.

Running the numbers, one notices a rise in sports metaphors over the course of these five election - years from a mere 9.7 per debate in 2000, to a staggering 17.13 in 2016, with the most popular sports metaphors being «to run» (average 5.1 times per debate), «race» (2.3), «to beat» (1.2) and «round» (1.1).