How To Use Electioneering In A Sentence

  • This announcement looks more like crude electioneering than a sober assessment of the implications for central government of the fiscal crisis. Times, Sunday Times
  • 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.
  • the hope that his superior campaigning skills would make a difference evaporated in the realization that electioneering had become a form of trench warfare
  • This underlying social and economic reality found direct expression in Howard's electioneering.
  • 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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  • The third chapter is about the basic speculation of carrying out the electioneering system in our country.
  • 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.
  • He rejected claims that the announcement a week before the polls was just another bit of government electioneering.
  • 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
  • That's called electioneering, and you can't do it within 50 yards of a voting booth.
  • This was first of all an electioneering budget which eschewed electioneering.
  • Politicians are electioneering, but there's no election date.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • This smacks of electioneering gone wrong to me, and further erodes the health minister's reputation.
  • He dislikes electioneering, is awkward in explaining his vision and is a poor public communicator.
  • /I hope your electioneering riotry (394) has not, nor will mix in these tumults. The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 4
  • 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.
  • No state or federal laws forbid such electioneering activities, no matter how criminal the corporation.
  • Modern electioneering is sophisticated and highly organised.
  • 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
  • Presidential electioneering" is neither an adequate nor appropriate explanation for these occasional bilateral trade skirmishes. Free Trade: An Opportunity
  • 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.
  • While the public might be willing to tolerate electioneering from a candidate, the incumbent was a different matter.
  • The presence of policemen would be a boon particularly during electioneering by candidates.
  • Writer to the Signet, in Edinburgh, who had procured his son a writership in return for electioneering services done to an East The Newcomes
  • Neither side should be using school computers or any other equipment or facilities for electioneering.
  • 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
  • It's been the law since 1907 that you can ban corporations from electioneering.
  • 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.
  • Electioneering promises that go beyond the life of a Parliament are thus mere wind.
  • 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
  • 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:
  • You can thank -- or blame -- the video revolution for this element in electioneering, and it's been around for a long time. October 2006
  • 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.
  • The time for debating and electioneering is drawing to a close. McCain Takes Off Gloves, Slaps Obama with Them - Swampland - TIME.com
  • This announcement looks more like crude electioneering than a sober assessment of the implications for central government of the fiscal crisis. Times, Sunday Times
  • Fiscal prudence from politicians might sound like an electioneering mantra to some, but its a badge of honour to me.
  • 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’
  • 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
  • Thus, the benefits of mass appeal and electioneering competence are minimized, and so are the penalties of unattractiveness and incompetence.
  • 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.
  • He used to appear before voters during electioneering in formal dress with a necktie, and he did on TV too.
  • On the other hand, parties like the ruling National Conference and Congress are more experienced in electioneering.
  • My neighbors are busy electioneering during the Presidential election campaign
  • However, political parties may be tempted to save money by electioneering from the Scottish parliament.
  • However, US trade officials denied the timing of the complaint had been influenced by electioneering.
  • ‘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.’
  • Critics have dismissed his visit to a shelter for the homeless as an obvious piece of electioneering.
  • But council officials have told him to remove them after receiving a complaint about using stalls for electioneering.
  • But some experts were quick to accuse the chancellor of shameless electioneering.
  • That is, that elections are as much about electioneering as they are about principle.
  • I say thankfully because I'm not looking for electioneering when I tune into Bill Maher.
  • The run-up to this election has been low-key and characterised by a more adult attitude to electioneering.
  • 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.
  • Critics have dismissed his visit to a shelter for the homeless as an obvious piece of electioneering.
  • Beattie and Foster were fully involved with Paisley and Wylie in their protests and in electioneering.
  • 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
  • The pre-budget package was a rather nifty piece of electioneering, and helped steal the thunder of the opposition parties.
  • Emerging from years of exile, the leaders, both young and old, are out on the streets jumping headlong into electioneering.
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • The advocacy of fundamental and significant change, both in governing and in electioneering, is a strategy that contains many risks. The Challenges of Change
  • The challenge now is for all parties to continue electioneering on issues and selling their manifestos.
  • 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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