Sentences with phrase «up to elections in»

Leading the charge is none other than Prime Stephen Harper who — in gearing up to the elections in October 2015 — has been stoking Islamophobia by pandering to public unease about Muslims.

There has been a peace agreement between north and south Sudan since 2005, but that could be threatened in the lead - up to elections in April and to a referendum next year, in which the oil - rich south is expected to reject continued union with the north.

Mr Takyi - Boadu sought to find out why the Akufo - Addo led administration was yet to prosecute persons they accused of being corrupt in the Mahama administration in the run - up to the elections in 2016.

Following a sharp rise in UK military deaths in the months leading up to elections in Afghanistan, Gordon Brown was forced to defend the support troops received, insisting they had the necessary equipment to «get the job done».

«The reform of the Roman Curia is something that almost all Cardinals asked for in the congregations preceding the Conclave,» Francis said, referring to the meetings that led up to his election in March.

This time next year we'll be in the run - up to an election in which welfare will undoubtedly be centre - stage.

The creation of new regions was one of President Nana Addo's several campaign promises in the run - up to the election in 2016.

Ferrara published his findings of widespread Twitter bots in the run - up to the election in First Monday, a computer science journal focused on the internet.

Not exact matches

- The story came to the public in part with the help of the National Enquirer, the same paper that played a prominent role in Hart's downfall in the run - up to the 1988 Presidential election..

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It suggested Labour could pick up 51 % of the vote, a positive swing of 5.35 % compared to the last time elections were fought in 2014.

The bottom line is that Slate screwed up by publishing this in the first place, and by adding more kooky misinformation to an already addled election season.

But since his election he has sought to drum up support in Europe for what he calls a «protection agenda».

The firm exploited Facebook's data rules to vacuum up data from some 50 million Facebook users in 2014 as part of an operation to seed attack ads on the internet during the 2016 US election.

What follows are the releases that I believe are worth watching in the run - up to the fall election.

Over one - third of respondents (34.98 %) said they would «give up the right to vote in all elections for life» just to secure an extra 10 % in pay, while 9 % said they would «give up their child's or future child's right to vote» for the rest of their lives.

If it sounds like Edwards still needed to apply FEC rules and limits, consider this: Scott Thomas, a former commissioner of the Federal Election Commission testified that he did not consider that the payments would have come under his agency's auspices — in part because they were not used directly for the campaign and did not free up any of Edwards» own money to be spent on the campaign.

«Things happened on our platform that shouldn't have happened,» she said in reference to the events leading up to the election.

In the introduction to a series that will look back at the events leading up to the election, Silver seems on the defensive somewhat, justifying his analysis of the poll results and pointing out that he predicted Clinton would be weak with the Electoral College and that Trump might prevail.

The Justice Department (DOJ) took Edwards all the way to trial over payments some supporters made to his mistress, Rielle Hunter, in the lead - up to the 2008 election cycle.

But you would have predicted just the opposite if you had been following newspaper endorsements in Virginia leading up to Election Day.

The Times saw its digital subscriptions boosted by 41,000 within one week of election day and added more than 276,000 new sign - ups to its paywall plan in Q4 2016 — that's more additions than in the whole of 2013 and 2014 combined.

Up until now, this issue has mostly been watercooler fodder, but with the Federal Reserve having raised rates in December and Donald Trump's election victory causing the 10 - year treasury yield to spike by 19 % since election day, many investors are now reducing their exposure to these rate - sensitive sectors.

In British Columbia, a childcare advocacy group is pushing for $ 10 - a-day daycare, a plan the B.C. NDP has embraced in the lead - up to the provincial election this sprinIn British Columbia, a childcare advocacy group is pushing for $ 10 - a-day daycare, a plan the B.C. NDP has embraced in the lead - up to the provincial election this sprinin the lead - up to the provincial election this spring.

The decision may be a blow to the Republican Party's fundraising as it gears up for midterm elections in November with an unpopular president as its standard - bearer.

Now it's up to the governing Liberals to decide whether they want to raise taxes and, if the minority government falls, whether they'll campaign on such a politically toxic proposal in an election.

«In the weeks leading up to the election, they were doing 25, 30,000 doors on a weekend, getting out in front of thesIn the weeks leading up to the election, they were doing 25, 30,000 doors on a weekend, getting out in front of thesin front of these.

Some Democrats also demanded the removal of a provision that allows a massive increase in individual contributions to national political parties for federal elections, potentially up to $ 777,600 a year.

«PM Modi engaged in social media heavily in the run - up to last year's election,» says Richard Rossow, chair in U.S. India policy studies at Washington's Center for Strategic and International Studies.

In a race that includes a primary election, that means contributors can give up to $ 2,700 to a candidate for the primary and an additional $ 2,700 to the same candidate for the general election.

The protectionist sentiments unleashed in the lead - up to the U.S. election is making things very uncertain for Canadian companies selling there

Gold and gold - mining stocks, whose prices rise amid political uncertainty, advanced in the run - up to the election, then sank again.

Steve Mitchell, whose Fox 2 / Mitchell poll in Michigan found Clinton with an identical 5 - point lead heading into Election Day, chalked up his miss to a very specific reason: Human error.

This year's F8 comes amid backlash against Facebook over user privacy and election meddling, following the Cambridge Analytica scandal, in which data from up to 87 million users was inappropriately obtained by a third party.

Wang, a top election forecaster and professor at Princeton University, had given Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton a 98 % to 99 % chance of winning in the days leading up to the election.

But he never hid his political ambitions, and returned to Shawinigan, Que., where he grew up (yes, in Jean Chrétien's hometown) to win the Saint - Maurice - Champlain riding in the 2015 election.

Now local legislatures can make such changes without explanation, and it's up to voters to try to challenge them in lawsuits, and to do so often on an tight timetable, since courts won't want to change voting rules close to an election.

«In fact when I decided to just do it, I said to myself, I said you know, this Russia thing with Trump and Russia is a made - up story, it's an excuse by the Democrats for having lost an election that they should have won,» he said.

Some voters in Jefferson County ended up crossing party lines to cast their ballots for who they thought was the best candidate in each of the races — defying the practice of party line voting in an election that showed a deep red - blue political divide.

In the run - up to his election to the firm's top spot, Germany's Manager magazine compared Barton to Barack Obama — the agent of change.

That raises the possibility of court challenges by First Nations, blockades along the pipeline route between Edmonton and Kitimat, B.C., and rallies in major cities during the run - up to a federal election that must be called by October 2015.

Last year hackers infiltrated many state and local election databases in the U.S. during the lead - up to last year's vote.

In the wake of the 2016 election and reports that Russian - linked actors hijacked Facebook's service to spread fake news and other propaganda, the company has been stepping up efforts to police content on the service.

Clapper, the former Director of National Intelligence, described in his opening remarks the process by which the intelligence community concluded in January that «the Russian government pursued a multi-faceted influence campaign in the run - up to the election, including aggressive use of cyber capabilities.»

Post-election, I sent out an email to all of our subscribers and talked about my deep disappointments in the election turnout and what our plans are: to go to the red states and set up pop - ups there, talk to the other side and extend an olive branch.

Lopez Obrador's party, Morena, has dismissed the suggestion it has ideological or political sympathies for Venezuela's socialist government, but this year, opponents in Mexico have played up purported links between the two, as they did to him before the 2006 election.

The billionaire investor attended Trump's Tuesday night victory party as the election results rolled in, but left early to load up on more stock as Dow and S&P futures plunged in the middle of the night, according to CNBC.

A notorious Russian «troll factory» had a $ 1.25 million budget in the run - up to the 2016 presidential election to interfere in the US political system, according to charges filed by the Department of Justice.

It's another busy week in the run up to the first presidential caucus for the 2016 election, as two more candidates joined the race.

Trump and his aides have cited a 2012 Pew study and a debunked report published in The Washington Post in 2014 to back up the false claims that voter fraud affected the election.