Sentences with phrase «up to an election instead»

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Instead, the ads seemed designed to sow discord and increase partisanship, perhaps revving up the weary - of - the - system sentiments that may have helped Trump with the election.

Instead, about half of the campaign's $ 18.5 million in spending was vacuumed up by Giles - Parscale, a web design and marketing firm new to national politics, Federal Election Commission filings show.

Labour lost the last election because instead of doing what the Tories do - which is whatever they bloody well want to and stick two fingers up at anyone who doesn't share their opinion.

Mr. Haggerty had promised to use the money to set up an Election Day voting - security operation, but instead used the money to buy a house, prosecutors said.

The party, in turn, hired Haggerty to run an Election Day voter protection operation, but later maintained he had never delivered that service, instead stealing some $ 750,000 worth of the billionaire mayor's money and using it to purchase the Queens home in which he grew up.

As a complement to Samuel Russell's really good answer: by cheating on the election count, instead of just making the numbers up, the dominant power tries to get away from elections as pure «demonstrations of support on previously agreed lines» thus creating the feel of legitimate choice for at least some participants.

«The legislation would prevent campaign contributors from evading the legal contribution limits by setting up shell corporations and instead establish a more level playing field to promote greater fairness and consistency in the Election Law.»

In their submissions, the Conservatives called for a cap on individual donations to political parties, but Labour rejected this and instead called for caps on campaign spending throughout the year, rather than simply in a run - up to an election as now.

With so many things running through his mind in the lead - up to the election, he said, he had been waking in the wee hours of the night and then giving up sleep in the morning to go out fishing instead.

If you want to pick an expert, you judge people by their current knowledge — and have you noticed any peer who is against elections suggesting instead regular expertise exams to check peers are still up to the mark?

Yet by denying her a top, departmental brief, and instead offering more exposure in the build up to a General Election, the Prime Minister could be vulnerable to accusations of tokenism.

At the news conference Wednesday, Cuomo denied Nixon had any influence on his unity efforts, instead pointing to the looming special elections and an opportunity to pick up Democratic seats in November.

When the GOP selected then - DA Daniel Donovan, Malliotakis decried the election law that prevents the county committee membership from voting for a candidate and instead leaves the selection up to party leaders.

And another senior Minister also blamed Sir Patrick for CCHQ being under prepared to fight this summer's snap election, claiming «he should have gone in June but was instead let to balls up conference.»

Clegg is damaged beyond repair - the electorate are never going to forgive him and those of us who voted LibDem tactically at the general election for a centre - left coalition but ended up getting a rightwing doctrinaire government instead that has done the exact opposite of what the LibDem manifesto said, would probably vote for the devil himself before they'd support anything Clegg now advocates.

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.

Asked about the attempt to destabilise his leadership, Clegg said: «I think it's odd, to put it very mildly, that any fellow Liberal Democrat should spend time and good money, while the rest of us were out campaigning for these tough elections, instead surreptitiously trying to come up with specious claims on the basis of polls, which were in any case entirely confounded by the election results.

The system the Hansard Society proposed was eventually adopted but with closed lists instead of the «best runner - up» (popularly known in Britain as «best losers») provision for elections to the Scottish Parliament, Welsh Assembly and London Assembly, but not for that proposed for elections to the House of Commons.

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.

Instead, they are swayed by economic swings in the months leading up to the election, often ignoring the larger trends.

Instead, Facebook put off tightening up API permissions until as late as mid 2015 — thereby giving CA a window of opportunity to pull massive amounts of Facebook user data ahead of the 2016 US presidential election.