Sentences with phrase «urged voters»

It urged voters to vote for law and order candidates in order to keep these people out of Toronto.

, Vancity urged voters press local, provincial and federal governments to enforce current policies that protect the Agricultural Land Reserve.

In an article in the Globe and Mail, Vancity urged voters press local, provincial and federal governments to enforce current policies that protect the Agricultural Land Reserve.

After all, this is the governor who in the middle of cuts three years ago urged voters to reject school budgets if teachers wouldn't take salary freezes.

Salmond urged voters to use the byelection to echo the result in Glasgow East last July, when the SNP candidate John Mason defeated Labour.

Those men asked the country to trust in them — just as Mr. Trump has urged voters to trust him alone to fix what ails the nation.

Manning, South Carolina (CNN)- South Carolina Democratic Senatorial candidate Alvin Greene urged voters Sunday to «get South Carolina and America back to work» in his first major public speech since surprising the political world last month by capturing his party's nomination.

Campaigning with First Lady Michelle Obama in North Carolina on Tuesday, Hillary Clinton urged voters to understand that marriage equality and LGBT rights are at stake in this election.

«This makes life more complicated from the standpoint of this: If we get into a cycle where every time one side loses, they run a third - party candidate, we'll make Pelosi speaker for life and guarantee Obama's re-election,» said Mr. Gingrich, who had endorsed Ms. Scozzafava but on Saturday urged voters to support Mr. Hoffman.

Cameron urged voters to realise that by 2015 election Ukip will be irrelevant.

Calling the move an «absolute disgrace,» King urged voters to hit the GOP where it hurts — in the wallet.

Late this afternoon CCHQ urged the voters of Buckingham to back the Speaker (although party members will be free not to do so).

PENSACOLA, Florida (AP)-- President Donald Trump on Friday urged voters to elect a Republican Senate candidate in Alabama who has been dogged by allegations of sexual misconduct, warning that America «can not afford» to have a Democrat win the hard - fought campaign instead.

After Warren introduced the president at a Boston campaign event, Obama took the stage and urged voters to support Warren in her heated challenge against Republican Sen. Scott Brown.

After the death of Assemblyman Bill Nojay, Republican leadership throughout the 133rd Assembly urged voters to still vote for Nojay in Tuesday's GOP primary.

City Council member Robert Jackson urged voters «to call the governor, to write the governor, to e-mail the governor, to buttonhole the governor.»

Answering an audience question on the economy, the Scottish First Minister urged voters to to support parties which could «hold [Labour] to account and make them bolder».

The candidates themselves and the parties backing them have continued to spend as well, including a robocall in which Mel Brooks urged voters to back his great nephew Kaminsky, but won't need to disclose their last - minute spending until May 16.

Vice President Kwesi Amissah Arthur also urged voters in the Tain Constituency in the region, to vote massively for President Mahama and the NDC Parliamentary candidate, Kwesi Gyan - Tutu in the upcoming election.

Two minutes deep into the five - candidate showdown, Weiner was already acknowledging and apologizing for his sexting scandal, but he urged voters to move beyond his «personal failings» and focus on the more substantive issues in the race.

Weprin, a Democrat, had a borough magician named «Wendy Wizard» endorse Turner outside a Rockaway fund - raiser last week, playing off a New York Times editorial that urged voters to cast their ballot for Weprin.

Joe Nicoletti, who is running on the Working Families Party line, has 6 percent (Nicoletti has suspended his campaign after the Democratic primary and urged voters to back Perez Williams).

In an article in the Telegraph ahead of May's Scottish parliament election, Mr Blair urged voters to turn away from nationalism, claiming the arguments for independence had already been answered.

Mr Farage urged voters to «join the people's army» to «topple the establishment who've led us to this mess.»

In his final live televised interview ahead of polling stations opening, Ireland's prime minister, Enda Kenny, urged voters to vote yes «for love and for equality».

Libertarian Michael McDermott criticized the major party candidates and urged voters to carefully consider their options.

On Friday, Teachout, her voice still hoarse from Tuesday's election, urged voters to now focus on helping Democrats take control of the state Senate, calling it an «essential» step toward addressing income inequality and boosting funding for education and local communities.

But the Mahama Campaign urged voters to «ignore and treat with contempt, claims by some radio and TV stations announcing who is leading the pack or winning the election based on polling station results that do not equate to a total of three constituencies.

President John Mahama has urged voters and the elections management machinery for tomorrow's general elections to work towards the peaceful execution of the polls.

The Times, along with several other editorial boards over the weekend, urged voters to not approve the amendment next week, which would allow for up four casinos in the first round of construction.

Tony Blair has urged voters to focus on their daily life when assessing Labour's ten years in power.

Mr Clegg urged voters not to follow Labour's «trail of broken promises» to the polling station, or be «beguiled by David Cameron's brand of political fakery».

Corbyn also claimed the Conservatives were «drunk on a failed ideology» and urged voters not to fall for their «divide - and - rule tricks».

The Tory grandee's latest remarks come a week after Lord Howard — who employed Cameron as a special adviser at the Home Office in the 1990s and also supported him in the 2005 Tory leadership contest — also urged voters to back Brexit.

Russell Brand has urged voters to back Labour in the general election - days after making it clear that he would not be voting himself.

Rhodri Morgan, leader of Labour in the Welsh assembly, has urged voters not to use May's election as a protest vote against Tony Blair.

Heading into the 2010 election, some Orthodox leaders openly urged voters in the community to support Donovan as a way of currying favor with the mayor to ensure that the voucher program is renewed, sources said.

The Liberal Democrats today launched their campaign for the upcoming local election and urged voters to «reject New Labour and their mimics».

But he urged voters to get angry, to demand change.

He has thus urged voters to vote for more women candidates in this year's general elections.

At the last Westminster and Assembly elections the Labour leadership urged voters in Wales to «come home to Labour».

He urged the voters to ignore the promises of the NPP, saying they are not feasible without the NDC's infrastructural development.

Warning that current Prime Minister Theresa May could be using the vote to attempt to win herself a «mandate for Brexit Means Brexit aka Brexit At Any Cost», he urged voters consider whether their chosen candidates would be «prepared to hold the Government properly to account in the interests of the country».

During the campaign, Spitzer urged voters to look at his overall record.

McDermott criticized the major party candidates and urged voters to carefully consider their options.

This is not idle speculation, given that Plaid's general election co-ordinator, Lord Dafydd Wigley, has recently urged voters in England to support Green candidates in the forthcoming poll.

The unpopular Miliband was a disastrous front man for the No campaign and Lord Farage, Boris Johnson's shadow defence secretary, had urged voters to use the referendum to send the PM a message about Labour's record in office.

Orji reiterated the commitment of the commission to conduct a free, fair, credible and acceptable election to the people of the state and urged the voters to participate effectively in the election.

Mr Cameron urged voters not to use the referendum to «give the effing Tories a kick», but came under fire for not being seen more in Scotland.

Cameron cancelled Prime Minister's Questions to fly to Scotland, where he urged voters not to use the referendum to give «the effing Tories a kicking».