Sentences with phrase «says political parties»

«I will not sit here and blame only the NDC... He has a point if he says all political parties register minors,»

She said political parties have no influence over the operations of Monroe County government.

Sixty - seven per cent of people said political parties were affected by corruption, while 55 % believed parliament itself had a corruption problem.

Earlier, in her remarks, Programme Coordinator, Democracy and Accountability, OSIWA, Catherine Angai, said political parties were registered for different reasons, including mobilisation of electorate and holding government accountable.

However, the former boss of the National Commission on Civic Education said political parties can be involved in decision making of the EC as it pertains «in other jurisdictions» but they should never «take decisions above the EMB.»

Fape said no political party in the current dispensation had matched Awolowo's legacies of free education, free health, gainful employment and integrated rural development.

Leaders of the New York Public Interest Research Group filed a five - page complaint with the Joint Commission on Public Ethics, saying political parties that spend money on anything from ads to memoranda pushing legislators to vote a certain way must file bi-monthly disclosure reports with JCOPE.

She said the political party primaries were treated as a private commercial project by Amadu Sulley, noting that funds were paid directly into the personal accounts of key staff for functions to be performed at the primaries.

Politicians / political parties are very good at appealing to our common desire to be saved from impending doom, so they create / expose an impending crisis, and then offer to save us from same if voted into power, especially if said political party is out of power at the time.

Not exact matches

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP)-- A New Zealand judge said Eminem's lyrics «You own it, you better never let it go» turned out to be prophetic after ruling a political party breached copyright by using a song similar to Eminem's «Lose Yourself» in its campaign ads.

Backed by Star Trek actor Sir Patrick Stewart and former Labour spin - doctor Alastair Campbell, the group said it is also planning marches in Europe, to political party conferences and organising for stalls to be set up in busy town centres.

Kenny, who has faced pressure from party colleagues to resign over a stumbling response to a police scandal, has said he will address his political future when he returns from America.

«We do think that in the first quarter of next year, this could potentially be a stumbling block, because there's very high unemployment, the Five Star Movement is neck - and - neck with the democratic party so there's nothing to suggest that the political risk in Italy has abated,» Nossek said.

To be fair, political hands say it is not unusual for candidates to do their own tracking, in addition to what the parties are doing.

By holding our primary earlier, we will ensure that issues important to Californians are prioritized by presidential candidates from all political parties,» California Secretary of State Alex Padilla said in a Tuesday release.

Holger Schmieding, chief economist at Berenberg Bank in London, said that «whether or not (the Portuguese slowdown) was related to the rising political risk... it does provide a stark warning: if leftist parties form a new government in Lisbon, as they are trying to do, they would have very little room for maneuver.»

Mirko Drotschmann, or MrWissen2go, a science blogger with about 500,000 subscribers who has recently posted videos on Germany's political parties, Islamic State and climate change, said he would have liked to grill her more on the refugee crisis.

In a speech on Wednesday to the Toronto Board of Trade, his first address as CBA honcho, Campbell said he looks «forward to working with Mr. Layton, working with his caucus and working with all political parties to ensure Canada's banks stay the strongest in the world.»

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban told leaders of his centre - right EU political group on Saturday that he would comply with demands from Brussels to change measures branded an attack on academic freedom, the party said.

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.

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.

While the American people clash on issues ranging from guns to taxes, what Comey sees as Trump's lapses in character and integrity are an affront members of all political parties, he said.

Stonewall said it will lobby the UK Government, devolved administrations, and political parties for recognition and protection of non-binary people in law, as well as appropriate ways to record gender in all official documents.

The indictment says Manafort and Gates received the money by acting as unregistered agents of the pro-Russia government of Ukraine and its political parties and leaders.

«We don't ask what political party our employees or guests belong to,» Mickael Damelincourt, managing director of the Trump International Washington location, said in the Globe article.

«The issue of me running for political office frequently comes up because I am constantly touring around, giving speeches and raising money for the party,» he said in a statement.

Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff has said he doesn't view himself as belonging to a particular political party.

In testimony before a parliamentary committee, Jeff Silvester of B.C. - based AggregateIQ also insisted his company's services, which he said include digital ads, website creation and software development, are already widely used by Canada's major political parties.

Cyber security is «very high on the agenda» for the right - leaning government, but also for the broad selection of Danish political parties negotiating a new defence strategy for the coming six years, he said.

«Institutions that support and sustain peaceful and prosperous societies — governments, political parties, courts, the media, and financial institutions — continue to lose the public credibility on which their legitimacy depends,» Bremmer and Kupchan said.

«A majority of Texans in both political parties and in every ethnic and demographic group believe that women and girls should have privacy and safety in their restrooms, showers and locker rooms,» Patrick said.

«For more than four years, the government of Ecuador has offered to cooperate in facilitating the questioning of Julian Assange in the Ecuadorian embassy in London, as well as proposing other political and legal measures, in order to reach a satisfactory solution for all parties involved in the legal case against Julian Assange, to end the unnecessary delays in the process and to ensure full and effective legal protection, Ecuador said in a statement, Press Association reported.

With a strong pro-business message, Johnson could eventually could emerge as the third — party candidate who grabs votes from either former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton or real — estate magnate Donald Trump, the respective presumptive Democratic and Republican candidates, political analysts say.

«I used to tell presidents, you have to be very, very cautious about drawing red lines or issuing ultimatums,» said Gates, the only defense secretary to hold the job under two presidents for two different political parties.

Bill Stepien, the White House's political director, said relations between the party and the president are as good now as they were in the mid-2000s, when he worked at the RNC while George W. Bush was president.

«The current political situation in Austria is a culture of mistrust against traditional parties,» says Peter Filzmaier, a political science professor at Danube University in Krems, Austria.

If the financial connection to China, a country whose government typically opposes transparency and political dissent, seems problematic, Hwang isn't concerned: «If anything, we are informing the public about upcoming changes in laws as well as the decision makers behind it, emboldening affected parties to act up and speak up if necessary,» he said.

In fact, an INSA poll cited by German news site The Local say the AfD is currently Germany's third-most popular political party.

Political consultants from both parties say the value of any gift from the weekend may be short - lived.

Update: A spokesperson for the ICO said is investigating 30 organizations, including Facebook, as part of its probe into the use of personal data and analytics by political campaigns, parties, social media companies and other commercial actors.

You start to build up those data points and you can very accurately say «Well, I don't know this person's party political affiliation, but I do know they have a Barber and a Land Rover and a dog and they like shooting and work in merchant banking, therefore, they're likely to be a Tory.

«To raise money successfully,» said the senator, «a political party must appeal to Canadians of ordinary means... The Conservative party's fundraising success is built not on the depth of our donors» pockets but on the breadth of our donor base and that is what the other parties do not understand and why they are lagging behind.»

«All political parties,» said the senator, who has been fundraising since the days of Diefenbaker, «require money to operate.»

Signs of a tentative deal to end Armenia's political crisis emerged on Thursday after the ruling party said the country would get a new prime minister...

Needless to say it is hard to imagine either political party, or anyone associated with either the supply - side or the demand - side ideology, signing up to the whole program.

Patrick Colford concludes by saying: «The New Brunswick Federation of Labour will be looking for political party's platforms to include commitments for improving labour laws so that all workers are entitled to paid sick leave, investing in public services to protect society's most vulnerable citizens and adopting pay equity legislation that covers the private sector.»

As Carlos says this has turned into a political football about which party «won», the NDP for getting the Bill through the Legislature or the WR for stopping it or slowing it down.

Political pundits say that people vote for the party, the party leader and the local candidate in that order of priority.

Frank Luntz, famed political consultant to the Republican Party, said when it comes to political hot buttons «those who define the debate will determine the outcome.

Carlos, in support of your point, Barry Cooper, a man described in Wikipedia as «a member of an influential group of conservative political scientists, the Calgary School», said the PC party lost its way in the second half of Ralph Klein's tenure.