Sentence examples for direct campaigning from inspiring English sources

Much of the direct campaigning has been organised by the Right to Work campaign which has links to the Socialist Workers party and is backed by six trade unions and chaired by the leftwing Labour MP for Hayes and Harlington, John McDowell.

Erik Stanley, a lawyer for Alliance Defending Freedom, said IRS laws about "indirect" campaigning are too vague and the IRS is not enforcing its rules about direct campaigning.

Rome's borders in the east were indirectly governed through a system of client states for some time, leading to less direct campaigning than in the west in this period.

Citing direct campaigning that created "the appearance of an unfair advantage," the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has revoked an Oscar nomination for "Alone Yet Not Alone," the tune from the faith-based movie of the same name that had been nominated for original song.

These circumvent the fund-raising limits that apply to direct campaigns.

But that money can't be used for direct campaign expenses, rather for generic ads.

The $1.2 million payment that Mr. Bloomberg made to the Independence Party was in addition to his direct campaign spending.

He writes that it is "difficult to see what practical difference there is between super PAC donations and direct campaign donations, from a corruption standpoint.

Such direct campaigns are known in the industry as comparative advertising, but they amount to the Madison Avenue equivalent of the negative advertising that is prevalent in politics.

A decade ago, however, wealthy Democrats and Republicans began circumventing limits on direct campaign contributions by making enormous donations to political groups that were technically separate from campaigns but effectively served as their proxies, often by funding negative ads.

Soon the floodgates on direct campaign contributions may open as well.