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"It has not stopped me campaigning but it has made me slower and made campaigning more difficult".
Would a Women's Equality Party – campaigning on a single issue, gender equality – bloom, as they hope, in the way the Greens have from their one issue to all issues?
Shah chairs a mental health charity and is well known locally in Bradford for campaigning on behalf of her mother, who was released from prison in 2000 after serving 14 years for putting poison into the food of Mohammed Azam, a local drug dealer who she feared was planning to sexually abuse her daughters.
Often the first thing new recruits get from party HQ is an email begging for time and money On the campaigning trail I saw a few moments of charismatic evangelism and a lot of robotic data collection.
At 11.30pm Democratic Unionists had 20 seats, Sinn Féin 13, Ulster Unionists 12, SDLP three, Progressive Unionists one, Alliance party one, and Dr Kieran Deeny, an independent campaigning to keep acute hospital services in Omagh, topped the poll in West Tyrone.
As they tried to make their way through a wall of television cameras and journalists, Farage hailed the election of Carswell as "remarkable" and spoke of how they would continue their joint campaigning in Rochester and Strood before the next byelection.
Salmond, almost visibly relieved that his self-imposed campaigning ban for the duration of the Games was drawing to an end, replied with a smile: "Ask me tomorrow".
Lukashenko won a free and fair presidential election in 1994 after campaigning as a political outsider with an anti-corruption agenda, but once in charge he steadily consolidated his authority, changing the constitution to extend his term in power.
Even the Daily Mail was forced to call this campaigning lesbian "Britain's favourite roving sports reporter".
Falling to the third- from second-largest party in the Catalan parliament, the Socialists have voiced frustration that high unemployment and unpopular spending cuts have not been prominent in campaigning , although across Spain they have sparked massive street protests and, on 14 November, the country's second general strike this year.
George Osborne invoked his oath to tell the truth before a committee of MPs as he attempted to dismiss allegations that his decision to veto a currency union with an independent Scotland was a short-term campaigning tactic.
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The primary grammatical function of "campaigning" is as a present participle or gerund , often used to describe an ongoing action. It frequently appears as part of a continuous verb tense (e.g., "is campaigning") or as a noun describing the activity itself, as confirmed by Ludwig.
Expression frequency: Very common
