Sentences with phrase «political parties make»

Since scientists get the vote too, they, like everyone else, get to influence the decisions that political parties make about policies of the future and the present.

The two leading political parties made promises in the electioneering period in a bid to woo voters of the Zongo communities.

«Public funding of political parties made it morally right for INEC to audit political parties» assets since most of the funds came from the government.

Before the Edo governorship election results were announced, all the political parties made favourable comments about INEC.

On both questions, political party makes a difference.

Not exact matches

In fact, in the autumn of 2008, when the rest of the world was scrambling to deal with the fallout of the bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers, Harper made a priority of curbing public funding for political parties.

Populist parties already made it into government in the early 2000s and coalition - forming has become more complicated due to the rise of populist parties on both the right and the left wing of the political spectrum,» Brzeski told CNBC.

The heavy political calendar in Europe and the significant rise in support for populist parties are making investors nervous.

Now a political independent, Bloomberg considered making a third - party run for president this year before opting against a campaign, expressing worry he would siphon away votes from Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton and inadvertently help elect Trump.

If Clinton scored a brilliant win with Arsenio Hall, Ralph Nader, Green Party candidate in 2000, laid a big egg when he pulled out a rubber chicken to make a political joke.

He says President Dilma Rousseff, a member of Brazil's Workers» Party, has little political will to make changes that could create divisions within her pParty, has little political will to make changes that could create divisions within her partyparty.

Although their political parties varied, those who engaged with RVAwonk's tweet most commonly used hashtags invoking the State of the Union (#SOTU), the most recent government shutdown (#TrumpShutdown), Make America Great Again (#MAGA), and equally political messages.

Much has been made during the current election cycle about which political party is best aligned with the interests of Corporate America, with some arguing that the Republican party is losing its status as the «party of business,» while Fortune «s Chris Matthews argued that Libertarian candidate Gary Johnson may actually be the best candidate for the business community this year.

Schultz was on the President's mind because the business icon had suddenly become a political activist, announcing that because he was disgusted with Washington's dysfunction, he would cease making campaign contributions to incumbents in either party.

«We have changed our view of the difficulties in bridging the gulf between the political parties over fiscal policy, which makes us pessimistic about the capacity of Congress and the Administration to be able to leverage their agreement this week into a broader fiscal consolidation plan that stabilizes the government's debt dynamics any time soon.»

This is because America has one political party interested in raising taxes on people who make more than $ 300,000 and no political parties interested in raising taxes on people who make less than $ 300,000.

What's more, as the current election season shows, there's a sharp political divide (even within the two major parties) that makes the idea difficult to ever come to a vote.

Though she did not make it through to the second round, her score was widely seen as a win for her party and as proof that the National Front had become part of the French political landscape.

This is just one among numerous policy - making decisions that have members of both political parties, as well as independents, scratching their heads.

party despite having served as minister of the economy in the socialist government between 2014 and 2016, made headlines for reasons other than his political acumen.

Meanwhile there has been a lot of talk that President Obama is reviewing plans to retaliate against Russia's supposed attacks, efforts that were made against the heart of the President's own political party.

The increased scrutiny comes at a time of emphasis on political and economic stability ahead of the Communist Party's 19th Party Congress this autumn, when leadership decisions are likely to be made.

• Make sure that third parties are subject to the same donation limits as political parties and candidates, as well as increased transparency around their activities.

Stephen Harper and the Conservative party, but also friends * who find themselves on the opposite side of the political spectrum, still think there's a choice to be made between the economy or the environment.

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 Lebanon, Hezbollah also successfully made the transition from armed insurgent group to legitimate political party.

With Parliament recessed for the summer and an election call imminent, all three major political parties will now spend the coming weeks making new election promises.

All political parties love to make public announcements in support of infrastructure spending, and why not?

Manafort and longtime business partner Rick Gates, meanwhile, were charged in a 12 - count indictment with conspiracy to launder money, making false statements and other charges in connection with their work advising a Russia - friendly political party in Ukraine.

Manafort, 68, and Gates, 45, remain under home confinement on pledges to pay $ 10 million and $ 5 million, respectively, if they fail to return to court after pleading not guilty Oct. 30 to charges of conspiracy, money laundering and making false lobbyist registration statements in connection with their work advising a Russia - friendly political party in Ukraine.

If I were making the decisions, I would invite the leader's from all the political parties to join the televised debate, but because the decision is being made by a private television company I can understand how they came to this conclusion.

Mr. Prentice does pose a serious challenge for the Wildrose Party, which made former Premier Alison Redford into political lightening rod.

There is also the inconvenient fact that Alberta's elections laws make it impossible to actually merge the financial assets of the two political parties.

It makes fiscal sense if you want to plan for the long - term, but in the Alberta context, it symbolizes an awkward culture shift for a political party that defined itself by this rally cry.

«The real issue here is that the island has been beset by a series of ridiculous decisions made by the political administrations of both parties.»

One approach to answering these questions is to look at the political party financial donations and lobbying efforts made by Kinder Morgan Canada in recent years.

I hate the divisions that these political organizations try and create, its simpletons at their worst — grasping at anything they think will make their party look good.

Hmm... shall we make a list of groups, organizations, political parties,....

They eventually found (or made) a political home for themselves in the Socialist party, which has set the agenda of French politics for the past generation.

«That Sudan continues to prosecute these men, and without even allowing them free access to their legal team, makes a mockery of the judicial process and is a clear violation of fair trial principles, as articulated in Article 7 of the African Charter on Human and Peoples Rights (ACHPR) and Article 14 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), to which Sudan is a party.

Like popular movements of the past, Trumpism was made possible by a political climate in which — as Lasch put it over forty years ago — our «parties no longer represent the opinions and interests of ordinary people,» while the «political process is dominated by rival elites committed to irreconcilable ideologies.»

Since Southern Baptists abandoned native son Jimmy Carter and joined the Reagan revolution in 1980, they have become an increasingly important part of those values - voters who have made the Republicans, at least for now, the majority party in American political life.

Agreed, news the media making the news, religion (including absence of religion, political party).

I don't really trust anyone from the Republican party who is overly religious to keep their religious views out of their political decision making process.

But the beautiful thing about it, in terms of the «Party Party,» is because we don't have a specific political agenda, we get to contribute to the political atmosphere in a non-political way by making it partier — by improving our attitudes.

This position makes the gambling interests nervous, because the Religious Right, with its moralistic opposition to gambling, might decide to criticize the Republican Party for yielding to the political influence of gambling money.

Political parties are, in a sense, a ready - made subst - itute for religions where extremists are concerned.

«Political parties are, in a sense, a ready - made subst - itute for religions ------------------ They are both forms of tribalism.

Heck, it happens in political realms too — for instance, the way Americans of vastly different parties still want to make the constitution theirs.

The tragic irony is that it is difficult for our current political elites (of either party) to make these prudential arguments against Trump.