Sentences with phrase «people stand for election»

Not making people stand for election allows the charter sector to tap a deeper pool of talent for board membership.

Not exact matches

While our Board does not anticipate that any of the director nominees will be unable to stand for election as a director nominee at our Annual Meeting, if that occurs, proxies will be voted in favor of such other person or persons as may be recommended by our Corporate Governance and Nominating Committee and designated by our Board.

Already, people are showing up by joining political parties, meeting with their MPs and councillors, and even standing for election themselves!

Islam online 7 April 2007 • A Muslim man stood as a candidate for the Christian Peoples Alliance in the Scottish parliamentary elections in April.

When they're not doping their athletes systematically for the olympics or paying off FIFA for the right to host the WC or taking over (and, in the case of Hearts, ruining) British football clubs, they are busy rigging elections at home and abroad, fomenting civil war in the Middle East, annexing parts of other countries, sponsoring terrorism, and shooting people who try to stand up to them.

There are many people of huge talent who will never stand for election because it isn't in their DNA.

... Even at the parliamentary level when he stood for elections and won against Owuraku Amofa in 1996, what he did to our party people there is still there, it's evident.

Certainly, the urge to get women involved some 60 years ago can not be downplayed with the involvement of Dr. Nkrumah himself in affirmative action policies and appointment of women propaganda secretaries and organisers right from inception of his government, It is remarkable that parliament under the CPP in 1960 passed Representation of the People (Women Members) Bill into law which amongst others made it possible for women to stand for parliamentary elections unopposed and subsequently saw the election of first ten female parliamentarians into the first session of the first parliament.

«But I was elected to parliament to exercise my judgment on behalf of the people I represent... So whenever the election comes I will tell my constituents, with a clear conscience, that I stood up for my convictions, and what I believe to be their best interests.»

One of the most painful experiences in the 2015 election campaign was talking to people on the doorstep who didn't really know what we stood for.

The first person to stand for the English Democrats was Gary Cowd, who stood in Rushmoor - West Heath Ward in North Hampshire in a Council by - election in May 2003.

The first person to stand as a candidate for the English Democrats was Gary Cowd, who stood in Rushmoor — West Heath Ward in North Hampshire [21] in a council by - election in May 2003.

It was self - effacing in places but clear in terms of saying, here's the choice at the next election: Cameron, who stands up for the wrong people, for tobacco over the cancer charities, [or] Ed Miliband the man on the side of ordinary families worried about their energy bills.

Independent candidates fear they will be unfairly disadvantaged by the government's decision not to pay for a mailout for each person standing in November 15th's elections.

Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose has congratulated the Bayelsa State Governor who also doubles as the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidate in the state gubernatorial election, Seriake Dickson for been able won the the support of the people of Bayelsa who stood behind him during the exercise, which was on Monday, declared inconclusive by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC.

According to public opinion polls conducted by daily newspaper Delo on April 7 and 8, the party standings for the European elections were: the Slovenian Democratic Party would win with 20.8 %, followed by the Slovenian National Party with 12.1 %, and the joint list of New Slovenia and Slovenian People's Party with 11.5 %.

Every Voice, a 501 (c) 4 group based in Washington, said it is endorsing Teachout «because New Yorkers and our country deserve more politicians in Washington who'll stand up to big money special interests to level the playing field and make our elections truly of, by, and for the people,» according to a statement from its president, David Donnelly.

If you want to stand for election to Parliament in Britain, you don't even have to be British: People wishing to stand as an MP must be over 18 years of age, be a British citizen or citizen of a Commonwealth country or the Republic of Ireland.

This is why we have launched a consultation to gather views from all those involved in the system: from candidates who stand for election, to the agents and parties that support them, the people who vote for them and those who are responsible for running and managing elections.

«The cabal in the Presidency, their target is this: to indicted you and to kill your political ambition so that you can no longer stand for any future elections; and to show to the international community and Nigerian people that you, Senator lke Ekweremadu, is a corrupt politician.

«We have an unelectable leader, and if we lose elections then the price of our failure is paid by the working people of this country and their families who do not have a government to stand up for them.

However, there is an obvious gap in the White Paper as it stands - the very reason why a majority of people think their views are not represented, and one of the barriers to greater diversity of candidates for local elections: our First - Past - the - Post electoral system.

Whether I win this lawsuit or the election on Tuesday I will not stop standing up for what I believe and fighting for the middle and working class people of my community.

First it asked people their voting intention using the standard question, THEN it asked them their voting intention again saying «thinking about your own constituency and the parties and the candidates who are likely to stand there, which party's candidate do you think you will vote for in your own constituency at the next general election?»

As the system stands at the moment, the people have no real possibility of (at a national level) commenting at on the Coalition that very few people really voted for until the next general election.

«If the Legislature won't stand up for the people of New York because they're worried about the next election, then I will do so on my own.»

There are arguments for him waiting until the General Election to stand down anyway as MP, because increasingly the General Election isn't so far off so why inflict an unneccessary ballot on people, he might be best to leave it until there are other elections in the area and as he hasn't gone for the Bob Dole strategy of I'm heading for the White House or I'm going home then that probably wouldn't be until next year.

In a make or break speech ahead of a possible November election, David Cameron dispensed with his autocue to tell the Conservative conference that he stood for hope and optimism - contrasting Gordon Brown's old, failed politics with his new kind of politics that people could believe in.

How many times do they have to take their ball and go home, just to keep you away???? They are constantly telling you they don't want you to have equality, fair treatment, or any rights whatever!!!! Congressional staffers are sending out e-mails telling people to kill you «Kill all Fa * s» Instead of just saying «they didn't mean it» when are you going to stand up to these bigoted, racist, homophobic, bible thumping, clowns?????????? You can suger coat it all you want, but they don't like you, except when its election time and you vote for them!!!!! Which for the life of me, I will never understand why!!!

Governor Paterson is very much like President Obama, in that he is DETERMINED to do the people's business, even if it costs him the election... By THAT I mean that he has stood up to NY Congress and called them out for playing politics instead of resolving the budget issues.

If we are to win the election, we have to stop producing people who simply recycle old grandee policies and show that, like Boris, we stand up for communities we represent.

If the Labour party — a major controlling proportion of it — doesn't rapidly accept that the only chance to make amends is to stand in the centre ground, shoulder to shoulder with, listening to, working for the British people, and fight and win elections from there, then it will cease to exist and it will deserve to die.

Addressing his supporters, the AD candidate, Oke, insisted that there would be no room for rigging in Saturday's election, saying all the people of the state would stand by their votes.

The question of what sort of person might stand for election to the second Chamber has been mooted by many hon. Members tonight.

Weingarten closed out the speech with a call for members to be deeply engaged in politics, saying that elections matter — determining who nominates Supreme Court justices, and whether working people have elected officials who stand with them or attack their jobs and livelihoods.

The Board of Directors shall be comprised of twenty - one (21) persons all of whom shall have been members in good standing for at least three (3) years prior to their election.

Sunrise is a grassroots movement of young people working to make climate change a decisive issue in the 2018 elections & challenging our representatives to stand for people over profits.

Trouble is brewing as Hong Kong gears up for the first elections since the protests, and these young people are moving away from frontline street battles to stand in mainstream politics.