How To Use Electioneer In A Sentence
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Party electioneers know that an election held any later than the British government's selfimposed deadline of November 13 is a non-starter.
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He commenced with being a jockey; then he became an electioneerer; then a Methodist parson; then a builder of houses; and now he has dashed suddenly up to London, rushed into the clubs, mounted a wig, studied an ogle, and walks about the Opera House swinging a cane, and, at the age of fifty-six, punching young minors in the side, and saying tremulously,
Godolphin, Complete
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It has come to be thought of as a stinging insult to tell a party here that it is electioneering and politicking with the peace process.
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the hope that his superior campaigning skills would make a difference evaporated in the realization that electioneering had become a form of trench warfare
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This underlying social and economic reality found direct expression in Howard's electioneering.
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Reading it made clear why she considered the election of 2010 even more outrageous than previous shameful Afghan escapades in electioneering and fraud.
Ann Jones: Big Men, Big Money, Big Voting Scam: The American Midterm Election -- in Afghanistan
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Despite its democratic politics, the Confederacy did not allow ‘lawyers, electioneers, and tradesmen’ to become officers because it possessed an aristocratic temper and social constitution.
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The third chapter is about the basic speculation of carrying out the electioneering system in our country.
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In the blue corner, you have Michael Gove, protector of the "gold standard" of A-levels, electioneering on the accusation that Labour has "dumbed down" the system.
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He rejected claims that the announcement a week before the polls was just another bit of government electioneering.
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Afterwards my father made a lucky hit, in getting my Lord Lansmere's custom after an election, in which he did a great deal for the Blues (for he was a famous electioneerer, my poor father).
My Novel — Volume 04
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Interesting they ARE now going to do an Iraq war investigation, later this year, maybe, if the electioneering is going well.
Home Secretary Porn Shock « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
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That's called electioneering, and you can't do it within 50 yards of a voting booth.
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This announcement looks more like crude electioneering than a sober assessment of the implications for central government of the fiscal crisis.
Times, Sunday Times
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This allows electioneers to bypass the media and appeal directly to voters without journalists putting their spin on the issues.
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This was first of all an electioneering budget which eschewed electioneering.
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Politicians are electioneering, but there's no election date.
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It looks as if our ‘leaders’ are listening to the poor, that they are using the opportunity provided by electioneering to gauge the public mood.
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Having moved out of electioneering mode, the Government could get down to the serious business of putting its rhetoric about fiscal responsibility into practice.
Times, Sunday Times
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It had lain there fifteen years, since the electioneerer had stuck it there as easily as one might place it on a table.
The Lincoln Story Book
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This smacks of electioneering gone wrong to me, and further erodes the health minister's reputation.
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He dislikes electioneering, is awkward in explaining his vision and is a poor public communicator.
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/I hope your electioneering riotry (394) has not, nor will mix in these tumults.
The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 4
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Neither side should be using school computers or any other equipment or facilities for electioneering.
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Organizations, religious or not, that receive tax-deductible charitable contributions may not engage in electioneering using those funds.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Ministers have free speech rights, too:
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‘Can anyone tell me,’ asks Gourley, a veteran mock electioneer, ‘why you don't want the polling place in the cafeteria?’
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A very few hours sufficed to show the sea-captain to be a most capital electioneerer for a popular but not enlightened constituency.
My Novel — Complete
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He was a great electioneerer, as befitted times when the claims of two rival dynasties virtually met upon the hustings, and he took a prominent part in the great Yorkshire contest of the year 1734.
Sterne
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Having moved out of electioneering mode, the Government could get down to the serious business of putting its rhetoric about fiscal responsibility into practice.
Times, Sunday Times
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Electioneering promises that go beyond the life of a Parliament are thus mere wind.
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This ritual of gracious acceptance of defeat with a plea for unity and cooperation is well-established in the United States, with its long tradition of competitive electioneering.
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It's been the law since 1907 that you can ban corporations from electioneering.
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He had faith; he was certain that if Lincoln were alive, he would be electioneering for Mr.W. G. Harding -- unless he came to Zenith and electioneered for Lucas Prout.
Babbitt
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He commenced with being a jockey; then he became an electioneerer; then a Methodist parson; then a builder of houses; and now be has dashed suddenly up to London, rushed into the clubs, mounted a wig, studied an ogle, and walks about the Opera House swinging a cane, and, at the age of fifty-six, punching young minors in the side, and saying tremulously,
Godolphin, Volume 2.
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It has come to be thought of as a stinging insult to tell a party here that it is electioneering and politicking with the peace process.
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Writer to the Signet, in Edinburgh, who had procured his son a writership in return for electioneering services done to an East
The Newcomes
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The presence of policemen would be a boon particularly during electioneering by candidates.
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While the public might be willing to tolerate electioneering from a candidate, the incumbent was a different matter.
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Yet despite his role as a professional politician, or because of it, Bingham's paintings of electioneering are infused with a sense of critical distance.
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Presidential electioneering" is neither an adequate nor appropriate explanation for these occasional bilateral trade skirmishes.
Free Trade: An Opportunity
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Viral videos share gaffes alongside electioneered laughs, and the online debates are coming.
Let the Two-Way Conversation Begin
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He had faith; he was certain that if Lincoln were alive, he would be electioneering for Mr.W. G. Harding — unless he came to Zenith and electioneered for Lucas Prout.
Babbit
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He enlisted all Ohio, and they all electioneered with all their might, and no one knew that the question would come up.
Letters and Journals 02]
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Modern electioneering is sophisticated and highly organised.
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No state or federal laws forbid such electioneering activities, no matter how criminal the corporation.
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An affluent attorney as well as small planter, Moore campaigned as ‘a skillful electioneer [who] courted the lower stratum of society.’
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Fiscal prudence from politicians might sound like an electioneering mantra to some, but its a badge of honour to me.
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Hardingunless he came to Zenith and electioneered for Lucas Prout.
Chapter 14
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The good news is that lawmakers are already considering ways to mitigate the damage caused by Citizens United, and a number of options exist, such as requiring additional disclosures by corporations engaged in electioneering, empowering shareholders to demand that their investment not be spent to advance candidates they disapprove of, or possibly even requiring shareholders to approve a corporation’s decision to influence an election before the company may do so.
Think Progress » Citizens United Decision: ‘A Rejection Of The Common Sense Of The American People’
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In this instance, Richards's doctorship was of the double utility of delivering us from the threatened pint-glasses, and of causing us to be considered as privileged guests -- no small advantage in a backwoods 'tavern, occupied as the headquarters of an electioneering party.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 347, September, 1844
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In the past he has actively "electioneered" for office, said Levy, who teaches sociology at Marlboro College.
RutlandHerald.com
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Thus, the benefits of mass appeal and electioneering competence are minimized, and so are the penalties of unattractiveness and incompetence.
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He should be told it is best not to choose an anthem written by someone who openly opposes you - it doesn't look too good when you're electioneering.
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You can thank -- or blame -- the video revolution for this element in electioneering, and it's been around for a long time.
October 2006
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On the other hand, parties like the ruling National Conference and Congress are more experienced in electioneering.
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My neighbors are busy electioneering during the Presidential election campaign
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However, political parties may be tempted to save money by electioneering from the Scottish parliament.
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This announcement looks more like crude electioneering than a sober assessment of the implications for central government of the fiscal crisis.
Times, Sunday Times
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However, US trade officials denied the timing of the complaint had been influenced by electioneering.
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‘Cocktail,’ the paper stated, ‘is a stimulating liquor, composed of spirits of any kind, sugar, water, and bitters - it is vulgarly called a bittered sling and is supposed to be an excellent electioneering potion, inasmuch as it renders the heart stout and bold, at the same time that if fuddles the head.’
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As only eight fellows could be given places on the regular crew in the shell, and Buck's five cronies were all eager to be ranked as members, they electioneered for him most industriously.
Fred Fenton on the Crew or, The Young Oarsmen of Riverport School
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Along the harbor in Beaufort, North Carolina, this electioneer also paddled ‘a small row boat from vessel to vessel’ to collect the votes, though it was ‘very rough and difficult - if not dangerous - to get about as I have to do.’
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Critics have dismissed his visit to a shelter for the homeless as an obvious piece of electioneering.
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But council officials have told him to remove them after receiving a complaint about using stalls for electioneering.
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The men electioneered and handed cards to thought my name was Jazz.
The Iron Puddler
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Mr.W. G. Harding -- unless he came to Zenith and electioneered for
Babbitt
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But some experts were quick to accuse the chancellor of shameless electioneering.
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As an electioneerer, I can get away with any of 'em.
The Entailed Hat Or, Patty Cannon's Times
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And he fears updating the Copyright Act will blow up because of the Tory's short-term penchant for slogans and electioneering.
The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed
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None of this makes for a thrilling contest; and the nature of the seat, a patchwork of farming areas and dormitory villages, hardly facilitates intense electioneering.
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As we left his suite to allow him to prepare for his next meeting, Blatter engaged in the firm, sincere handshake of the seasoned electioneer.
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The challenge now is for all parties to continue electioneering on issues and selling their manifestos.
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I'm envisioning a big mass wedding of gay and lesbian couples, with announcements sent to every Republican officeholder, every anti-gay propagandist, every church that unlawfully electioneered on behalf of Proposition 2.
Michael Schaub: Project Texile: Bringing Gay Marriage Back to Texas
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The advocacy of fundamental and significant change, both in governing and in electioneering, is a strategy that contains many risks.
The Challenges of Change
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This ‘razor’ technique for electioneering is what the pentagon used to surmise a stolen election in the ukraine.
Think Progress » On Today Show, O’Reilly Compares Murtha With Hitler Sympathizers
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A cocktail "is supposed to be an excellent electioneering potion inasmuch as it renders the heart stout and bold, at the same time that it fuddles the head," Croswell wrote.
Cocktails for Candidates
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The din of electioneering is hard to avoid, and the in-your-face campaigns are steaming ahead toward the finish line.
Lynne Glasner: Take the Loco out of Local New York Politics: Local Issues That Matter
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Emerging from years of exile, the leaders, both young and old, are out on the streets jumping headlong into electioneering.
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The pre-budget package was a rather nifty piece of electioneering, and helped steal the thunder of the opposition parties.
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What began in 1968 as a Beltway junkie's labor of love has turned into an authoritative collection of whistle-stopping campaign slogans and vicious slings and arrows of partisan attacks that stretches all the way back to the Founding Fathers (who came up with terms like "electioneer" and the party "ticket").
How to Sound Presidential
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And the old, accustomed electioneerer led the way out to his work.
Ralph the Heir
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Beattie and Foster were fully involved with Paisley and Wylie in their protests and in electioneering.
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Critics have dismissed his visit to a shelter for the homeless as an obvious piece of electioneering.
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For example, if Henry Tang resigns as Chief Secretary for Administration to devote himself to his campaign, he will not be suspected of using government resources to plan his electioneering.
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The run-up to this election has been low-key and characterised by a more adult attitude to electioneering.
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I say thankfully because I'm not looking for electioneering when I tune into Bill Maher.
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That is, that elections are as much about electioneering as they are about principle.
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He used to appear before voters during electioneering in formal dress with a necktie, and he did on TV too.
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Just another electioneering pack of lies designed to mislead people into enabling yet a further layer of politicians to line their pockets at our expense.
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The time for debating and electioneering is drawing to a close.
McCain Takes Off Gloves, Slaps Obama with Them - Swampland - TIME.com