Sentences with phrase «support of a particular candidate»

A gathering of party members, where a more informal voting system occurs, usually by raising of hands or gathering in small groups in support of a particular candidate (or sometimes by ballot).

Not exact matches

In other words, beyond supporting any particular candidate, Palmer Luckey has contributed, directly and knowingly, to the intentional degradation of American political discourse.

Expenditure is «controlled» if it is spending on election activities which «can reasonably be regarded as intended to influence voters to vote for or against political parties or categories of candidates including those parties and categories of candidates who support or do not support particular policies or issues».

And of course, donate to and volunteer for candidates you support, since local campaigns in particular are likely to need the money and the time and be able to put it to good use.

The new disclosure rules require organizations like 501c (4) groups to reveal the source of their donations regardless of whether they expressly support or oppose a particular candidate.

In a constituency where there is dominant support for one particular party, the candidate of that party is almost certain to be elected.

Both Labour and Tower Hamlets First (Rahman's slate) backed secular Muslim candidates as well as candidates whose base of support is closely associated with particular mosques — though Rahman's supporters appear «guilty» of being far more successful at winning support through those mosques.

The Youth Organizer, Charles Gben, speaking on Neat Fm morning show with host Kwesi Aboagye, revealed that just when the vetting of parliamentary candidates began in Accra, he had a call from Ade Coker — informing him that he has been suspended for supporting a particular candidate ahead of the vetting.

Judging the two candidates in terms of which one would do the best job for, and funnel the most federal support to, the 19th Congressional District in general and Ulster and Kingston in particular, we endorse the re-election of Chris Gibson.

The government of the United States does not support a particular candidate or a particular party.

«They can see if there was advertising or other activities supporting or opposing a particular candidate in close proximity to, surprise, the same amount of money for that original check,» Lerner said.

That was on display this afternoon when the Dump Trump forces made a last - ditch attempt to get a minority report out of the Rules Committee and onto the floor for a vote — an effort to let delegates vote their conscience and be released from any pledged support for any particular candidate.

They have promised to support a particular candidate, and will be awarded proportionally to candidates based on the result of the April primary.

Cameron says the Tories are looking at ways of offering support to disabled candidates with particular needs.

I think in fairness to Steve Hart, Unite's strategy makes union backed candidates from a broader social background part of their political strategy, but certainly not the end of it: At the Unite meeting at Labour Conference, Jon Trickett & Len McCluskey made the case for Unite & Labour developing MP's from down to earth backgrounds, but linked this very much to having policies that adress the needs of working class voters: The Unite strategy is fairly broad, including recruitng union members to Labour, developing MP's (who as McCluskey are backed because they «reflect the values of the union movement» — rather than just being from a particular social class), and supporting the CLASS think tank to develop policy — I did a write up of this meeting for the Morning Star (and a rival Progress one), which may be of interest (I think it will appear if you click on my name)

Labour has indicated that it would like the RMT back in the fold but the union has made it plain that it is not interested and will instead support candidates of any party which supports its objectives, including in particular renationalisation of the rail network.

In the run up to the 2007 Scottish election, the Labour party had considered not fielding list candidates in the Glasgow, West of Scotland, and Central Scotland regions, [citation needed] as their constituency strength in the previous two elections had resulted in no list MSPs; instead they proposed to support a list composed of Co-operative Party candidates; [citation needed] before this the Co-operative party had chosen not to field candidates of its own but merely to endorse particular Labour candidates.

Additionally, all four of the actors portraying the Somali pirates do a great job considering it's their first time in front of a camera, but Barkhad Abdi in particular has such a commanding screen presence that it wouldn't be completely out of the question to see his name bandied about as a potential candidate for Best Supporting Actor.

Additionally, the candidates should convey support for the principle of accountability, while recognizing the faults of the particular accountability system mandated by No Child Left Behind.

The network of teacher / student information and supporting materials creates opportunities for teacher candidates to develop cognitive flexibility by providing complex, contextualized examples of how particular teachers responded to particular students on particular assignments.

While it is fair to say the Republican gubernatorial candidate Tom Foley's position on the issue of collective bargaining is extremely troubling and worthy of opposition, it is vitally important that voters been given the truth, especially by those who support a particular candidate.

While Zabel may have described wearing the hat as an attempt at being funny and not to indicate support for any particular candidate, the emergence of the transcript indicating his support for Trump within hours of his appearance with the hat is cause for concern, said Anthony Moustacalis, president of the Criminal Lawyers» Association.

The legal memo also warned Cambridge Analytica that it needed to carefully hide behind a firewall any work it did in a single state or election for a particular candidate and for any of the so - called super-PACs (political action committees) supporting the campaign.

Employers give preference to candidates who are able to describe their qualities, skills and experience in a written format because it makes them realize that the candidate is well versed with the requirements of a particular support job.