Sentences with phrase «own election purposes»

«It also says that statewide list is only available for election purposes,» he said.

For Westminster election purposes, however, there are no electoral regions, and constituency boundary changes became effective for the 2010 United Kingdom general election.

While there's been some focus this morning on the fact that Andrew Cuomo defied a lingering expectation that he'd pick an African - American or Hispanic as his LG, Democratic strategist Hank Sheinkopf suggested that the geographic and religious balance, over racial and gender balance, are what the likely next governor needed for election purposes.

These changes bring Labour very close to being an individual membership party (as most of its rival parties already are, at least for leadership election purposes) while preserving in a much changed form the historic relationship with organised labour that Mr Miliband rightly cherishes.

Koonin is pretty thin soup for actual skeptics in the broader debate even if he is setting off conniptions for true believers in the mob fired up for the election purpose which is why it has been so orchestrated;

(Le Devoir, October 18, 2016) She is very critical of those who bring up the debate and thinks it is done to bolster their own election purposes.

3 (1) Except where otherwise provided, an oath, affirmation or statutory declaration for the purposes of this Act may be taken by a returning officer, election clerk, revision assistant, justice of the peace, a commissioner for taking affidavits or a notary public and for election purposes, all election officers appointed by the returning officer are empowered to take such oaths, affirmations or declarations at the poll.

Not exact matches

Expanding on its allegations, WSJ said on Tuesday that hundreds of millions worth of unreported political spending flowed from public sources or programs intended for other purposes, including at least $ 140 million that was spent on charity projects to boost the party's election chances.

Every minority - government budget is to some great extent a political document, purpose - built for two contradictory goals: persuading at least one opposition party to support it to keep the government afloat, while also serving as a de facto election platform if no one bites.

When polls closed on Election Day, Florida led the pack, voting to legalize marijuana for medical purposes.

The election of Jónsdóttir and two other Pirate candidates that year was — for the party's purposes — well timed.

Fortune will go on a limb to predict he will cast the deciding vote in a 5 - 4 ruling in Gill v. Whitford that will declare the redrawing of election districts for political purposes to be unconstitutional.

Indeed, the Trump transition team released a statement in December that appeared to cast doubt on the CIA's findings that Russia had meddled in the election with the specific purpose of damaging Clinton's candidacy and swinging voters towards Trump.

According to Trevor Potter, a former chairman of the Federal Election Commission who also appeared on 60 Minutes, the money may very well constitute «a coordinated, illegal, «in - kind» contribution by Cohen for the purpose of influencing the electionElection Commission who also appeared on 60 Minutes, the money may very well constitute «a coordinated, illegal, «in - kind» contribution by Cohen for the purpose of influencing the electionelection.»

Trump and Giuliani maintain the payments didn't violate campaign finance law, but the law prohibits loaning candidates money during a campaign if the purpose is to impact the outcome of the election.

«I would suspect the «know your customer» they're doing on their ad purchasers is probably driven more by what information they need for internal business purposes and to best sell ads rather than to satisfy information requests from any third parties, such as the Federal Election Commission, the Department of Justice, etc..»

«That's a threshold legal issue, establishing that the purpose of the payment was to influence the election,» he said.

Since 2014, Cambridge Analytica legally obtained information on as many as 87 million Facebook users for the purpose of influencing elections.

Even as he insisted the payment was solely for a personal purpose, Giuliani suggested that it served another function: to quash an embarrassing story so close to the presidential election.

So if the payment was indeed made for a campaign purpose, then it is a loan to the campaign, and that is something which must be disclosed and reported to the Federal Election Commission.

This settlement should have been considered a campaign expense «because the funds were paid for the purpose of influencing the 2016 presidential general election,» Paul S. Ryan, a campaign finance expert at the group, said in a letter addressed to Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Deputy Attorney General Rod J. Rosenstein.

Facebook and Zuckerberg are currently embroiled in the fallout from a scandal caused by newsthat data firm Cambridge Analytica used data on 50 million individuals that was harvested from a «personality prediction» app on Facebook for political targeting purposes during the 2016 election campaign.

If any person, including a relative or friend of the candidate, gives or loans the candidate money «for the purpose of influencing any election for federal office,» the funds are not considered personal funds of the candidate even if they are given to the candidate directly.

If someone spends money in order to influence an election, their ability to mask that expenditure behind shell corporations and wink - wink reimbursement arrangements does not necessarily alter its purpose.

While legislation exists governing Senate elections in Alberta, there is a regulation that allows the provincial cabinet to extend the terms of Senators - in - Waiting until cabinet ministers decide to hold another election (which could be indefinite), defeating the purpose of holding Senate elections in the first place.

Federal campaign finance law defines «expenditures» as any funds spent «for the purpose of influencing» federal elections.

In a letter to Facebook, the Indian government wrote: «What security architecture is proposed to be created by Facebook, on an urgent basis, so that the data concerning Indians is not pilfered or manipulated again for extraneous purposes including to influence the elections.»

«The timing of this payment is strong evidence that this was payment for the purpose of influencing an election,» rather than concealing the affair from Trump's family, said Paul Ryan, Common Cause's vice president for policy and litigation.

That may seem like a given, because it happened just before Election Day, but as The Washington Post's Philip Bump has reported, the payment is more legally problematic if it was clearly for this purpose.

Rom 9:11,12 For the children being not yet born, neither having done any good or evil, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of him that calleth; It was said unto her, The elder shall serve the younger.

No one was after birth control as has been portrayed for the purposes of an election time ploy.

Spencer and Roberts had worked for the presidential candidacy of liberal Republican Nelson Rockefeller in the previous election cycle, but that didn't stop Reagan from using their talents for his own purposes.

Election is God choosing some to accomplish His mission and purpose in the world, for the benefit of all.

The purpose of election is service, and when this is withheld, election loses its meaning.

«Having just come through a divisive national election, I am urging pastors across this country to lead their congregations in praying daily for our president, Barack Obama... for wisdom, Divine guidance, and that God would accomplish His will and purposes,» Graham said in a statement.

Finally, by making it necessary that elections be conducted as contests of like against like (female against female, minority against minority, etc.) the system extended vast powers to the nominating process and enabled those in power to recruit just those board members most likely to agree with their purposes and keep them in power.

Since it is about the election and rejection of Israel for God's purposes, many believe that Romans 9 teaches that even after we receive eternal life, if we fail to live according to God's purposes, we either lose our eternal life or we prove we never had it in the first place.

Instead, election is about purpose and privilege within the plan of God (see my book, The Re-Justification of God).

Mostly I have seeing that election is always linked with glorification and the eternal purpose themes in scripture eg Romans 8:16 - 30, Hebrews 2:10 and 2 Thessalonians 2:10 - 14.

Jesus Christ is the «Elect One,» not by some effort of human nature alone, for that would not be real election, but by God's eternal purpose which «from the beginning of the world» — and long before it, too, if we may so speak — has determined that «in the fullness of the times» there shall be just such an actualization of the potential God - Man relationship as Christian faith discerns in Christ our Lord.

• Finally, the most sophisticated weapon in the U.S. diplomatic arsenal was the use of elections for undemocratic purposes.

Sam Brownback uses religion for political purposes only, mostly at election time.

This limit consists in humanity's inability to nullify God's purpose: the election and redemption of Israel and through Israel of humankind as a whole.

Election is hers not because of any intrinsic goodness and nobility of her own, but rather, as it would appear, despite the deviousness of her ways, in the grace and purpose of God.

I will let Paul respond to your question: «And not only so, but also when Rebekah had conceived children by one man, our forefather Isaac, 11 though they were not yet born and had done nothing either good or bad — in order that God's purpose of election might continue, not because of works but because of him who calls — 12 she was told, «The older will serve the younger.»

To summarize then, God election of people or nations is not to receive eternal life, but rather, to play a role or fulfill a purpose in His divine plan.

Just as Israel, as God's elect nation, was elected to serve God in a specific task, but this does not mean that every individual Israelite was regenerate, so also, election elsewhere in Scripture has nothing to do with whether or not someone has eternal life, but has everything to do with what role God wants them to serve in His plans and purposes for the world.

This understanding of election allows God to elect entire nations, not because He plans to get them all into heaven, but because He plans to call that nation to some purpose within world history.

The real purpose of this explanation, however, is to limit the reach of this election's meaning in a way that leaves the President himself and «the change» untouched.

In what ways did U.S. - supported elections in El Salvador and elsewhere in Central America serve undemocratic purposes?