How To Use General election In A Sentence
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They are trying to rush through the draft resolution before the general election.
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I was filming a music video in Central Kingston in the middle of general elections, when gunmen shot up a group of people on the corner playing ludo (snakes and ladders) and dominoes.
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The Popular Party led by Prime Minister José Maria Aznar is expected to win Sunday's general election although a poll taken a week ago showed the Socialists closing the gap.
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However, I think that Hillary is more "beatable" in the general election so (1) weighs in her favor there.
Archive 2008-02-01
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The two candidates then contest the general election.
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Supporting families is set to become a key political battleground between Labour and the Conservatives at the general election.
Times, Sunday Times
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The economy is regarded as the decisive/key factor which will determine the outcome of the general election.
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Labour is going to learn whether or not it is possible to resist the public clamour for tax cuts and still win a general election.
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Those are two big gambles and their outcome may be a big determinant of the result of the next general election.
Times, Sunday Times
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The party intends to field / put up a candidate in the next general election.
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It won't help the president carry the state in the general election.
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But he could face a revolt if his party win the next General Election.
The Sun
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: Removed the old system of division into the Odelsting and Lagting (will take effect after the 2009 general election).
Elections - fresh news by plazoo.com
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They are trying to rush through the draft resolution before the general election.
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It will be one of the most tightly fought political contests in North Kerry since the May general election but this time it s not about votes but appetite.
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Questions might well be asked about the sudden eruption of a long simmering dispute immediately after the general election.
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We will ask our people to think again about that through a general election or a new referendum.
Times, Sunday Times
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Politics and the political parties have yet to gel in the period after a decisive general election.
Times, Sunday Times
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He was an unsuccessful candidate in the general election and he came knocking at my door for my vote.
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The Tory member could face a battle to deselect him as the party's candidate at the general election.
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Paul McErlane/European Pressphoto Agency Election posters are seen outside the headquarters in Castlebar as the Irish general election begins in County Mayo, Ireland.
Ireland Heads to the Polls
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At the last general election, the Tories returned only 14 women MPs out of their total of 166.
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With a General Election getting ever closer, it would be neglectful of me not to examine what Yorkshire's farming industry wants from the next Government.
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It is seen as a key part of the gameplan for next year's general election.
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Since there was soon to be a general election, the Prime Minister decided that a change of policy was politically expedient.
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The 40-year-old has come a long way from the political greenhorn that he was when he contested his first general election without a poster campaign.
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Many suggestions have been put forward, but a decision is unlikely until after next year's general election.
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Bolton election staff have started opening postal ballots already cast by voters in the General Election.
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He may be stepping down after 18 years in Westminster at the next general election, which is expected in May, but his passion for socialism remains undimmed.
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The government will reap an economic windfall in time for the next general election, economists have predicted.
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In recent years, it has been used for everything from amateur dramatics to business conferences to the counting of general election votes.
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Political deadlock since the country's general election a week ago has undermined investors' slender hopes that a new government can make credible spending cuts.
Times, Sunday Times
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With the general election just 11 months away, the government is keen to rush through proposals that will chime well with savers.
Times, Sunday Times
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He has done considerable work in spearheading the party's bid to get back into power after the next general election.
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It has superintended two general elections, two municipal elections and numerous by-elections.
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They are poring over the shifting electoral background thrown up by the general election.
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Something is going seriously awry when, in a quarter with a general election, the flagship news programme goes down and not up.
Times, Sunday Times
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The Conservative party needs to get a better foothold in this area to have any hope of winning the general election.
Times, Sunday Times
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The general will rule by decree until a general election.
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But, of course, the real test of that will only come in a little over two years time when we will all be off to the polling stations to exercise the franchise in another general election.
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The General Election gave him no such mandate.
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During the 2001 general election he embarrassed his party by claiming it would cut taxes by 20 billion.
Times, Sunday Times
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At the last General Election, they suffered a crushing/humiliating defeat.
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Because of you, we go into the next General Election as the only party able to unite Britain.
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The parliamentary draftsmen in 1996 widened the classes of people not eligible, so the clause now covers anybody who contested general elections.
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Defeat on a confidence motion would prompt an early general election.
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The moderate Republican Schwarzenegger had criticized Obama in his only appearance of the general election campaign with John McCain - the Friday before the election in Columbus, Ohio, site of Schwarzenegger's annual Arnold Classic sports festival - as "scrawny" and a big taxer.
William Bradley: Obama's California: The Arnold Alliance and More
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This will stoke fears in the City that the government is plotting a new clampdown on bank profits ahead of next year's general election.
Times, Sunday Times
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They didn't even have a clear front-runner in the primaries, let alone someone who would threaten him in the general election.
TIES THAT BIND
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The newspaper's forecast that the Democrats would be totally beaten in the general election came true.
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In the 2001 general election Brian stood as the Socialist Alliance candidate for Brightside.
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Things are already so rancorous between the Tories and the Lib Dems -- despite public protestations that talks are going "swimmingly" -- that it would be little surprise if we had a second general election within months.
The Forever Prime Minister
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Obviously a government can be punished for its blunders at a general election.
Times, Sunday Times
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I've always wondered how she would expect to win in the general election after treating her own supporters that way, insulting as 'insignificant' any state in which she subsequently lost, never bothering to publicly thank those who worked for her in those states (tho she flew to Florida to thank * those* supporters), and - apparently - leaving bad debts in her wake.
Hillary: "Shame On You, Barack Obama"
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The newspapers and the blogosphere are alive with rumours of impending general elections, you can read Iain Dales's rumour-mongering here.
The next election?
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It is almost certain that the general election will be dominated by large political parties with a long tradition.
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That was why the 2001 general election had the lowest turnout since 1918.
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The two-year subsidy is intended to stave off colliery closures until after the general election.
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We will ask our people to think again about that through a general election or a new referendum.
Times, Sunday Times
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there is going to be a general election in France.
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Remember, we fought a general election and two by-elections, and ended up reducing our overdraft.
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The Liberals will hope to do as well as at the general election and the Scottish Nationalists to gain from mid-term Government unpopularity at Westminster.
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He said he would seek to unify the Conservative Party and win the next general election.
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Weeks of political campaigning comes to an end today as voters across the country go to the polls in the general election.
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The Electoral Reform Society has produced a damning analysis of the anti-democratic nature of the 2005 general election.
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They were not in the general election manifesto.
Times, Sunday Times
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Do you think he can meet your test and connect with voters in the South and in the border States in the general election?
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The final result of the general election was declared yesterday as Labour clung on to the marginal seat of Harlow by just 97 votes.
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But despite those substantial gains, bold statements about fighting every seat in the next general election were no longer heard.
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The general election produced a stalemate, with opposition and pro-government parties each ending up with 25 seats in the 50-seat parliament.
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A blizzard of speeches and press conferences marked Day One of the General Election.
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PROPERTY will be a key battleground in the general election and a controversial one for investors in the months ahead.
Times, Sunday Times
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Anyone who votes for this act should not deserve our votes in the general election.
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No bill of rights to assert the supremacy of British courts is expected before the next general election.
Times, Sunday Times
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Everyone says that people vote differently in a general election.
Times, Sunday Times
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In North Carolina's 2002 general election, six touch-screen machines malfunctioned and deleted 436 electronic ballots.
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At the general election of 1950, it put up 100 candidates, lost both its seats, and forfeited 97 deposits.
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Greeks face the prospect of new general elections next month.
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According to political pundits, we can expect a general election in early May.
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The economy emerged yesterday as a key battleground in the British general election with Labour vaunting its financial competence while the opposition Conservatives promised hefty tax cuts.
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After Deputy Power made his promise, the Government decided to shelve its plans for decentralisation until after the general election.
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Some firms attributed slower momentum to concerns about the looming general election.
Times, Sunday Times
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Unlike the run-up to the general election, which has seemed interminable.
Times, Sunday Times
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Your first two years may serve as a blueprint for how David Cameron acts after the Conservatives win the next general election and the true scale of Labour misrule is exposed.
Http://www.london.gov.uk/ and some advice for Boris
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He reasoned that Eisenhower’s refusal to intervene against Goldwater had hardened into yet another of the many laws by which he lived his life: permanent and undeviating neutrality in all prenomination battles involving Republicans in order to preserve the effectiveness of his support in the general election.
Going Home to Glory
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It is a chance for general election candidates to make a practical difference.
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It was your steadfast support over three general elections that secured his place in history.
The Sun
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But his poor performances have led to speculation that he will be replaced by a younger leader before the general election.
Times, Sunday Times
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Exploiting Lebanon's fractiousness, Syria pushed its allies to undermine the pro-Western coalition that won Lebanon's general election in 2005.
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He said the UDM's ostensible affinity to traditional leadership failed to accrue any benefits to the party this time, as it did in the 1999 general election.
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Since there was soon to be a general election, the Prime Minister decided that a change of policy was politically expedient.
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Since last year's general election this has been ratcheted up as the government announced plans to measure university teaching standards.
Times, Sunday Times
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Nate Silver, who examined this issue in exhaustive detail recently, finds that no regular, general election Senate candidate "with a lead of more than 5.5 points in the polling average, with 30 days to go in the race, has lost since 1998: these candidates are 68-0.
Explaining The Pollster-Dashboard Win Probabilities
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A sharp frost crept into relations on June 8, the day the votes were counted in the Nice Treaty referendum and the British general election.
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Labour was dealt a bloody nose in Scotland by the Liberal Democrats and the SNP in a general election that saw its tally of Scottish seats fall to 40.
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Boucher refused to speculate when asked if the action could lead to the imposition of emergency or postponement of general elections in Pakistan.
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In the past the Liberals had made breakthroughs at by-elections and in gaining a large number of votes in general elections.
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Last week Lawlor failed to get elected as a councillor in a Clondalkin ward of the new Dublin mid-west constituency where he hopes to stand at the next general election.
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Gen Musharraf has promised to keep to a supreme court ruling that requires him to hold general elections by October 2002.
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One scenario could see a caretaker leader installed to take the party through the next general election.
Times, Sunday Times
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All three believe it is imperative that a candidate from this region is on the party ticket come the next General Election.
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You don't have what it takes to win the general election. kili kina
Three more supers for Obama
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Economists seem to be split in their views of whether rates will go up or down after the general election.
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However, Liberal Democrat support among this demographic may well prove to be an irrelevance in the coming General Election.
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At the general election it held only Chelmsford, where Labour did not run a candidate.
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However, I think that Hillary is more "beatable" in the general election so 1 weighs in her favor there.
Gridlock and Flip-Flops
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The killings were seen as an attempt by Sikh extremists to disrupt the ongoing general election campaign.
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The 1979 general election cast the party into 18 years of political impotence.
Times, Sunday Times
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He said Likud would make this the center of its upcoming general election campaign.
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However, the legislation would not be applicable in the aftermath of the June 1992 general election.
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This week also saw the thirtieth anniversary of Margaret Thatcher's victory in the 1979 general election.
The week that was
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With luck the Sudanese vote in presidential and general elections—the first for many years in their war-torn nation.
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It's a dangerous game to play, particularly with a general election round the corner and thousands of jobs at distilleries and drinks companies on the line.
In praise of the SNP
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In last year's general election, Tony Benn's granddaughter, Emily, stood as the Labour parliamentary candidate in East Worthing and Shoreham, in West Sussex.
Great dynasties of the world: The Benns
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In any democracy suffering the collapse of its government with no single party commanding the necessary majority to mount a new one, a general election would follow.
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Turnout at general elections is too low.
Times, Sunday Times
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She consoled party officials by declaring that there was still time to prepare for next year's general elections.
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Even while he was in the thick of the campaign, there were pointers to his party's rout in the 1991 General Election.
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I haven't flip-flopped on anything, I just said I wasn't going to rehash the primary and we're now in a general election and between these two candidates, I think the choice is clear.
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The Conservative Party's victory in April's general election persuaded him to run for President again.
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The uncertainty of a general election heightens the risk for investors still further.
Times, Sunday Times
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The government cannot see beyond next year's general election.
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Having polled a commendable 5,468 first preferences votes in the recent general election, Cllr Browne is confident he is in a good position to take a senate seat.
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After his party's heavy defeat in the subsequent general election, Ellis stayed on as chief whip.
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Voter apathy must be banished from next month's General Election, according to a York-based action group.
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Harriet Harman, Labour's deputy leader, claimed that Mr Clegg had "hawked" his way around university campuses seeking student votes ahead of the general election, but had since been
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
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In the 1992 General Election, the tobacco industry donated all its advertising hoardings to the Conservative Party, for campaign messages.
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The Republican nominee, Sarah Palin, then won the general election handily.
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The walkout is also bad news for Prime Minister Gordon Brown's Labour Party, which relies heavily on funding from the country's labor unions, and a gift for the main opposition Conservative Party, which is leading opinion polls ahead of a general election due within weeks.
Impasse as British Airways strike enters third day
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They are trying to rush through the draft resolution before the general election.
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Having a premier who controls the media and puts soldiers on the streets while the police are rounding up immigrants and Gypsies is less embarrassing than having to hold a general election once a fortnight; even if that premier loses the immunity from legal prosecution he gave himself and ends up being dragged through the courts and convicted for perjury snd corruption.
Archive 2009-10-01
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She claimed the Tories could win all five Labour parliamentary seats in Merton and Wandsworth at the next general election.
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At the general election on March 5, Haglelgam failed to secure re-election as the at-large senator for Yap.
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The renunciation of its resolution, then made solemnly and in tears, compels us to regard the actions of its party members as nothing but a deceptive ploy to win public sympathy with the April 15 general elections in mind.
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She stood as Respect's candidate in Tottenham during the general election, winning 6.8 percent of the vote.
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It was your steadfast support over three general elections that secured his place in history.
The Sun
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General election candidates were blasted yesterday for sending thousands of unsolicited vote-getting phone messages to their constituents.
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Back in olden times, say the early 1990's, a time of linear media and a small clutch of manageable news outlets, candidates routinely pivoted right (in GOP primaries) and left (in Democratic primaries) knowing that for the general election they could slide towards the center to build the winning coalition of their own party faithful, plus independents and a sprinkling of disaffected voters from the other party.
Fernando Espuelas: Meg Whitman's Big Fat Latino Problem
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In fact, there was little turnover of seats at general elections and the two main parties concentrated on the fifty or so marginal seats which decided the outcome of a general election.
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They are trying to rush through the draft resolution before the general election.
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The party intends to field / put up a candidate in the next general election.
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BBC Radio Five Live's General Election coverage in the run up to the poll on 5 May will for the first time include key simulcasts with the BBC Asian Network and BBC 1Xtra.
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In the last general election she held the constituency on a 58 % turnout with the Conservatives in second place.
Times, Sunday Times
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The government cannot see beyond next year's general election.
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We lost the general election because too many people thought we weren't on their side.
The Sun
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It is clear that the Government are determined that the Bill will be on the statute book before the general election.
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For supports in high profile positions in either campt to come out with this type of tripe is incredibly counter productive to the outcome of the general election.
Ferraro suggests she may not vote for Obama
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One friend puts a lot of his reinvigoration down to simply knowing that he will never have to fight another general election again.
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New data, now including AV+, shows how the election results would look different under proportional representation• Get the data• Full general election 2010 results
How proportional representation would have changed the general election 2010 result
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I would also like to point out that cost effectiveness cannot be an argument against running these polling stations for a general election as the costs are defrayed by central government.
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I don't know what I expected to hear or learn but I know what I did not expect was that it be turned into a party political broadcast on behalf of the main antagonists in the upcoming general election.
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Greeks face the prospect of new general elections next month.
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He said the party had decided to hold the party congress by the end of the year, so that it could have a greater influence ahead of the 2006 general elections.
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With the general election just 11 months away, the government is keen to rush through proposals that will chime well with savers.
Times, Sunday Times
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The agreement means that the publication of the inquiry's final report is likely to take place well ahead of the next general election.
Times, Sunday Times
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Labour posters dubbed the caped figure of Lamont - now a Conservative peer - "Vatman" as the Tories slumped badly in the opinion polls, a position from which they failed to recover in the run up to the 1997 general election.
Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph
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After 40 years of psephology, swingometers and tactical voting, the electorate has over the past four or five general elections shown that it has at last worked out how to impose its will on the politicians, even, as last year, in a quite sophisticated way, under the current flawed dispensation.
Letters: Playing the game to put an end to tactical voting
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The party intends to field / put up a candidate in the next general election.
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Obviously a government can be punished for its blunders at a general election.
Times, Sunday Times
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The man has an uncanny grasp of the public mood and once again he seized it, reminding us all how right we were to re-elect him as Prime Minister at the last general election.
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Disposals of government stakes in Lloyds Banking Group and Royal Bank of Scotland are planned for 2012-14 in a series of privatisations that ministers hope will create a "feelgood" factor ahead of the next general election.
Bidding war for Northern Rock set to generate £1.5bn price tag
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I recall an incident when I was canvassing for Labour in that general election campaign.
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The best way to judge by-election results is by the changes in the parties' share of the votes since the previous general election.
Times, Sunday Times
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But he contends there is a quote, "brittleness" about her that could doom her in the general election.
CNN Transcript Feb 27, 2006
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Someone else pointed out that these national polls say very little about how a general election will turn out, particularly in the states we term swing states.
Report: Hillary Is Not "Unelectable," And The Polling Data Prove It
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In terms of the sale of the bank: 'We have no fixed timetable and that includes the general election.
Times, Sunday Times
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It looks like the turnout for today's General Election is going to be up on the last one.
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In the general election, "gimmie" states like that don't exist.
Poll: Obama Losing West Virginia Primary By More Than Two To One
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He said he would seek to unify the Conservative Party and win the next general election.
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And now, here we are with the danger that this will be the second successive general election fought over the reasons we went to war.
Times, Sunday Times
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The party intends to field / put up a candidate in the next general election.
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And I can promise you that we'll be creating a lot more earthquakes of our own at the next General Election.
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Other possible allies include the Netherlands, and possibly Germany, if the centre-right Angela Merkel wins the chancellorship in a general election this autumn.
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There are 15 declared candidates in the Mayo constituency for the General Election and I have met every one of them over the years.
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Labour has cooked up this phoney row just to manufacture cheap headlines on the eve of a general election.
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This would be a great idea were it not for the fact that the person behind this pledge is the Green candidate who tried to disrupt a visit from the Leader of the Lib Dems to Norwich at the last general election.
The Tory plan in Norwich North revealed
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In 1964 he began to build his reputation in the exacting role of anchorman for the general election results programme.
Times, Sunday Times
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She will face pressure to call a snap general election.
Times, Sunday Times
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There has been no General Election, the elector is conscious of being unable to influence his M.P.,
As I Please
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We are in a brotherly dialogue, discussing all the issues capable of being discussed, especially the issues around general elections. "
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The party started a consultation with its grass roots last night in a bid to rebuild itself following its decimation in the general election.
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Well, technically it would have been a more sensible question during the 2005 General Election campaign, but yes, the question still stands: Why didn’t Britain impose similar restrictions to those used by just about every other old Member State?
The Volokh Conspiracy » Major Gaffe in Britain
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He resigned his Westminster seat at the last general election.
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The opposing parties failed in the general election for all their pains.
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They have also argued that they are husbanding their energies and resources for the next general election.
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The NLD won the 1990 general election by a landslide but has since been blocked from coming to power.
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That did not stop the Conservatives winning the 1983 general election by a landslide.
Times, Sunday Times
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Mrs Catling, a married mother-of-two, was ‘fast-tracked’ into the Labour-held seat last year after a barnstorming performance in the last General Election, when she cut the majority by half.
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The economy is regarded as the decisive/key factor which will determine the outcome of the general election.
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Since last year's general election this has been ratcheted up as the government announced plans to measure university teaching standards.
Times, Sunday Times
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And now, here we are with the danger that this will be the second successive general election fought over the reasons we went to war.
Times, Sunday Times
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That despite the obduracy of male politicians with regard to the Women's Bill in Parliament, more women are visible in the political spectrum and in the run up to the forthcoming general elections.
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Therefore, in other words, Opik believes that someone who sticks plastic in her boobs and runs as a contender in the 2001 General Election promising women free breast implants and more nudist beaches is someone who would constitute as being the top woman for a top job.
Lembit misses the point… « My Liberal Democrat Political Ramblings…
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Ever since the general election, when Sarah Palin fanned the flames of hatred, the fire has grown and it is surrounding a powder keg of chaos.
GA congressman describes hate mail, Nazi graffiti after protests
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That would have triggered a second general election, one the Conservatives would have been likely to win.
Times, Sunday Times
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The poll shows a general hardening of partisan attitudes as voters begin to think about the general election.
Times, Sunday Times
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He has also hinted that he does not want to fight a general election as party leader.
Times, Sunday Times
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But life rarely takes the easy route – just look at our general election, wot a twisty tangly thing its become.
Chung Kuo Vol 1: Son of Heaven update « INTERSTELLAR TACTICS
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How much people will pay in taxes and how much they pay for their schools and hospitals are not significant issues four years shy of a general election, say his supporters.
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As Australia prepares to go to the polls for a general election on Saturday, Howard continues to defend his government's tough stance on asylum seekers.
