Sentence examples for against polls from inspiring English sources

For that she would have to dare to do something, to go against polls and the Zeitgeist," concludes Mr Kurbjuweit.

SHE has nothing against polls, says Carroll Seron, a professor of legal sociology at the School of Public Affairs at Baruch College, except that they often tell a tale scrubbed bare of nuance.

(The free I.D.s are required by law to avoid the constitutional prohibition against poll taxes).

The Taliban have threatened to launch major attacks against polling places and roads leading to them.

Government spokesmen re ported, meanwhile, that there were no additional attacks against polling stations, apart from the four reported yester day.

But the results also showed that Labour had underperformed against poll predictions, a result that will add to existing nervousness in the Labour party about the quality of Ed Miliband's leadership.

Two large-scale insurgent campaigns contributed to high civilian casualty rates: a suicide ambulance attack in Kabul in January, and insurgent attacks against polling sites during the parliamentary election in October.

American and other Western officials in Afghanistan said they would push for a legal decision to make Mr. Karzai president rather than holding a one-candidate election under direct threat of violence against polling places.

Last week's increase of 0.8% in the Conservatives' vote can be seen as any kind of triumph only when set against poll-fuelled expectations and their success in turning the coalition's unpopularity into the destruction of the Liberal Democrats.

On 11 June, voters' cards were burnt during a protest against poll preparations in Kenieba, western Kayes region.

Threats of violence against polling stations were common.