How To Use Hustings In A Sentence
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He remains a formidable political operator and is usually at his best on the hustings.
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Nine hustings, where the candidates will appear head to head, will be held around England along with one each in Scotland and Wales before polls close on December 5.
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I think we can expect to see them on the hustings soon.
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No wonder the scribblers on the hustings have so much stale garbage blowing around their brains.
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The meeting itself is just a chance for all who wish to hear and cross-question the three finalists: an eve-of-poll hustings.
It is interesting that Sir George Young took the opportunity...
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After taking heat for skipping a major international conference on Libya to stay on the hustings, Foreign Affairs Minister Lawrence Cannon will globetrot this week to two major meetings aimed at finding a way around the impasse in the country.
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Should they be re-elected it will also help lock them into a good position, should they come out against privatization on the hustings this year or next.
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The summer recess is the obvious time for the public hustings and postal ballot of party members.
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The battle for the Tory leadership may be hotting up but it appears as if there is still all to play for following the elections hustings in Yorkshire last night.
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Over the next three weeks this head-to-head debate will be repeated in a series of private party hustings across the country.
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There's no question that we've been in the doldrums for a while, we're all keen and passionate to get into the new year, an election year and to get out there on the hustings fighting for those things that we believe in.
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The next hardest is going on the hustings to promote it.
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They will get another chance before nominations close next week when all six hopefuls address a Labour hustings meeting on Monday.
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If Labour wins the election, the chancellor will be back on the hustings urging us to sign up to the European Union constitution.
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He also supported the concept of the American free trade area in the Senate but now, on the hustings, is campaigning for protectionism to safeguard American jobs.
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We want a full hustings, with all the candidates.
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The senator is usually at his best on the hustings.
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Was it a press conference, he wondered, or a leadership hustings?
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Now, do not let them lure you to the hustings, my dear Mr. Brooke.
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Two things have characterized the ongoing political campaigns for this year's general election since politicians went on the hustings last year.
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Because they are short or perceived as popular, certain archaic words survive in newspaper usage: agog, foe, hustings, scribe, slay.
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Tories pledge to take money from 'nimby' councils election hustings event Grant Shapps defends policy of letting councils set their own housing targets Tory shadow housing minister Grant Shapps this week pledged to take ... protest at the controversial and 'ill thought ...
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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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The point though is that the president is out on the hustings spouting what in common English we call a ‘lie’.
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Though as yet we had never had a personal interview, he, nevertheless, corresponded with me with great frankness and confidence; which _confidence_, I beg him to make himself perfectly satisfied, shall never be basely betrayed by me, even if he should behave to me worse than he already has done; even if he should employ his hopeful paid agent Cleary to read upon the hustings a private letter a day, for the remainder of his life.
Memoirs of Henry Hunt, Esq. — Volume 2
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More than in any other election to date, these new hustings came into their own as spaces for unspun political debate.
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About 100 students, the majority first-time voters, engaged in a hustings at City and Islington College in north London on Wednesday of last week.
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On the Tuesday before the election we held a hustings which all of the prospective candidates attended - with the exception of the Conservatives.
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An election is here again and the political parties are on the hustings.
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And I was among a great chorus out on the hustings speaking out against this consistent and constant deficit spending.
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On the hustings, each party's platform touches on a few economic issues.
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The conference voted to put a list of questions over the war to every candidate in the election, to publicise the results and to hold hustings over the war.
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She was ill during hustings and had to send a proxy to make speeches on her behalf in the run up to polling day.
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The recent London mayoral election saw a dramatic return to the popularity of the old hustings with packed meetings.
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And I was among a great chorus out on the hustings speaking out against this consistent and constant deficit spending.
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With the federal election looming, the political leaders have been out on the hustings and the ads are coming thick and fast.
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They can sit there and smile, point, and carry on, but they know they do not have anything to go out and sell on the hustings, and that their people are just as disappointed.
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When members go around this country on the hustings this year, people will acknowledge that this Government has delivered for rural New Zealand.
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And I was among a great chorus out on the hustings speaking out against this consistent and constant deficit spending.
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But with less than two years remaining to the next election, I doubt an eight committee supergroup could get an agreement to do much before politicians are back on the hustings again.
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Well, I am looking forward to being on the hustings and arguing about that.
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As we move towards the end of this Parliament, with questions finishing today and people doing valedictory speeches, people are looking forward to getting out on the hustings.
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Meanwhile, back on the hustings the law-and-order brigade has apparently got all the answers to our street crime problems.
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A student leader today said the hustings could prove critical in deciding who is voted in as the town's MP on May 5.
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That makes those people precisely what, on the hustings, they have criticised men up and down this country as being: it makes them chauvinists, it makes them sexist, and it makes them discriminatory.
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That is the sort of integrity that will be challenged on the hustings, believe you me.
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I was reminded of this when watching the US presidential debate, a televised hustings.
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As we move towards the end of this Parliament, with questions finishing today and people doing valedictory speeches, people are looking forward to getting out on the hustings.
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If you work, you can organise a hustings at your workplace to introduce your local candidate.
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Democracy in York will be taken back to its grass roots later this month when the city's candidates face the public in an election hustings.
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This is the party that is going out on the hustings now and saying that when it comes to superannuation and social things, it can keep its word.
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When he stood for Parliament numbers of poor people crowded round the hustings demanding the payment of outstanding bills.
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It promised to be ‘tough on crime, tough on the causes of crime’, though on the hustings, and during its first months in office, it was the first part of this populist equation that was emphasized.
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Though barely known to the electorate so far, these are the two men who will face each other at the Scottish hustings at next year's Westminster election.
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Only two of the paid sabbatical positions were contested, adding to concerns raised during the hustings that OUSU was failing to display its relevancy to the student body.
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The election hustings provided a welcome opportunity for important issues to be aired, even if climate change was not high on everyone's list of concerns.
