Sentences with phrase «treat elections like»

Not exact matches

This election has had multiple moments of comedy, like Hillary whining about the boys treating her unfairly and how unhinged any speaker seems to become when they set foot into Trinity United Church.

«By treating LLCs as individuals rather than artificial business entities like corporations or partnerships, the Board of Elections created a gaping hole at the heart of our state's legislatively enacted campaign finance system,» said Lawrence Norden, deputy director of the Brennan Center's Democracy Program.

Since the morning after the first independence referendum three years ago, the thin - skinned tyrant of English nationalism has treated Scotland with nothing but contempt - English Votes for English Laws, hysterical Tory election posters demonising Scotland's largest party, voting for Brexit, ditching the single market against the express wishes of First Minister Nicola Sturgeon, and generally behaving like an abusive husband who's hidden the new PIN for the joint bank account.

A good set of local results like this does not prove the Conservatives will win the next election, and it is a mistake to treat them as a glorified opinion poll.

We are treated to an unopposed election of two State Supreme Court Justices in the Third Judicial District, where such judgeships are brokered like poker chips, and thus, like it or not (or even if you have no idea who they are) you will elect Andrew G. Ceresia and Michael Mackey to 14 year terms.

And it treats the complicated moves and countermoves of a major election as fodder for a broadly comic grudge match, with scenes that wouldn't have felt out of place in The Campaign, like Jane mooning Pat during a ridiculous bus race or Pat arranging to have a beloved llama run over during the filming of a Castillo spot.

In history, a secondary source like a newspaper account of an election result can become a primary source, if the question is «what sort of coverage was given to elections back in...» The differences between legal and historical criteria for evidence and related issues is treated in excellent detail in a work I'm constantly recommending to Slawyers: Duranti's Diplomatics: New Uses for an Old Science, and in addition Heather MacNeil's Trusting Records: Legal Historical and Diplomatic Perspectives is fundamental.

Whatever works that gives effect to the intention The intention is to have staggered terms so however the community can agree to do this is fine: draw straws, by agreement, declare all positions vacant and treat the next election like the first.