Sentences with phrase «win over minority»

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What's more, his polarizing lack of political correctness can also work against him among women and minority businesspeople, leaving the door open to his rival Clinton, whose small business platform and reputation for getting the job done may very well win over undecided voters.

The MP for Richmond Park hasn't been able to win over the black, Asian, and minority ethnic (BAME) vote either, and this is a problem given that this social group is on the rise in the capital.

The Grit seat advantage over the Progressives was 52, and, coincidentally, the King government did not face voters for another 47 months following their minority win.

As soon as the election is over, those who have won the majority undertake to act according to their speech, while the minority, abstaining from action, must satisfy itself with talk in order to prepare for the next election.

In the light of this analysis, then, my own scenario is cautiously hopeful, depending on (1) whether a creative minority of dreamers and doers with visions of a new life - fulfilling social order really emerges in strength, (2) the alliances that can be worked out with blacks, the poor, and other minorities now excluded from major social benefits, (3) the extent to which the populist idealism of the lower middle classes and working people generally favoring the extension of rights and equality to the «little man» everywhere wins out over the reactionary fears and prejudices which establishment elites and opportunist politicians are all too willing to exploit, and (4) what takes place at the center of the political spectrum itself under the pressure of events and in response to challenges to the established system from militant seekers of change.

It had the opposite effect, it told the boss and the board that a minute minority were making allot of noise while the majority can be won over with better game results.

In the face of a string of Tory reversals, all down to his opposition, Labour MPs from across the party — from Blairites to the soft left — have been won over by his leadership skills, despite the minority of plotters and the «mainstream media» who rudely reprinted all the things he's said over the years about the IRA, Hamas, Kosovo, Iran, Israel, etc..

«Despite significant progress over the last few years, the volume of business won by ethnic minority owned businesses in the UK remains small,» said Sara Todd, chair of Minority Supplier Development UK (MSDUK) and executive director at Merck Sharp & Dohmminority owned businesses in the UK remains small,» said Sara Todd, chair of Minority Supplier Development UK (MSDUK) and executive director at Merck Sharp & DohmMinority Supplier Development UK (MSDUK) and executive director at Merck Sharp & Dohme (MSD).

For Labour, concessions to this by constant apologies that the last government got it «wrong» on immigration or saying there are «legitimate concerns» on immigration are seen in the same way and risk repelling significant sections of the electorate, especially among those Labour needs to win over or persuade to turn out — notably 2010 Liberal Democrats and ethnic minority voters.

The Conservatives» failure to win over ethnic minority voters has come under fire from Tory activists.

«It's possible, but I don't want to raise expectations,» said Paterson, who noted that he lowered expectations when he took over the Democratic conference in 2002, ending the idea that the minority needed to win six seats all in one fell swoop.

Conn Republican candidate for governor Tom Foley with supporters at the Villa Rosa Pontelandolfo Club in Waterbury celebrating his win over state Senate Minority Leader John McKinney on primary night Aug. 12th 2014.

Popular commentary in the past year has focused on the Party's difficulty in winning the support of aspirational C2 voters, as well as the difficulty in winning larger numbers of ethnic minority voters over to the Conservatives.

- if there was a hung Parliament (current chances: over 50 %, under 66 %, eg 8/11), it is more likely than not that there would be a minority government than a coalition, and the most likely outcome is a Conservative - led minority govt if the party does win most votes, and esp if it wins most votes and seats.

To be fair, he likely promised as much to win the union's backing to take over the Assembly leadership — and no matter that some Assembly Democrats oppose the UFT's efforts to, for example, kill the charter schools that are working miracles in high - poverty, minority neighborhoods.

The only problem with this is that a) they are a minority of voters, b) the Lib Dems have already claimed some of them and even if we won them over it still would not be a majority.

In the 2013 election his Democratic opponent won a primary election for the minority Working Families Party only to find that Ballard's patronage employee, Frank Sparaco, then employed as Ballards's «Constituent Services Representative, working in conjunction with numerous favored highway employees had rounded up a bunch of absentee ballots over 90 % of which when opened contained votes for Ballard and reversed the result of the vote at the ballot on election day.

McAdams plays it as standard Rachel McAdams, so I am guessing I am in the minority about not being won over so easily with her.

As Jones learned last night, and other Democrats have realized over the past month, boosting support from poor and minority communities is critical to winning the day.

While politicians are fond of manipulating the truth, in order to win over targeted audiences, every minority parent in Connecticut should be insulted that a sitting governor would try to manipulate them and their children on this vital issue, for his own political gain.

Even if minority voters aren't entirely won over, Dowd said, GOP candidates still benefit from talking up school choice: «It gives the message to moderate white suburban voters that they're tolerant, they're expansive — they care.»

Over the course of her 42 - year legal career, Gloria Allred has won countless honors for her pioneering legal work on behalf of women's rights and rights for minorities.

Making the One America principles the cornerstones of what he calls «my inclusive practice,» Zaret has received local plaudits and snagged minority clients he says he might not otherwise have won over.