Sentence examples for election measures from inspiring English sources

The spokesman, Philip J. Crowley, said the new election measures, which set strict limits on political participation, undercut American efforts to improve ties with Myanmar, formerly Burma.

At a time when Republican governors and legislatures around the country, citing accusations of voter fraud, were passing election measures that Democrats contend will suppress minority turnout, Mr. Malloy was advocating ways to make voting easier, including Web-based voter registration, Election Day registration and larger penalties on efforts to intimidate or impede voters.

Looking back, an election measuring support for the conservative agenda was too much to hope for.

Demonstrators are demanding general elections, measures to alleviate a brutal economic crisis, freedom for hundreds of jailed opposition activists, and independence for the opposition-controlled National Assembly legislature.

Forgoing it altogether will cost the Treasury £750m, but may be an astute pre-election measure aimed at shoring up Labour's middle England vote.

Although the presidential panel approved the elections measure, it also recommended that Parliament vote separately on an article of the bill dealing with political representation for Christians and other minorities.

The re-election measure would apply to future presidents and Cartes, a soft-drink and tobacco mogul elected to a five-year term in 2013.

The Open Rights Group, which campaigns for individual rights online, criticised moves to rush the bill through parliament before the election, saying "measures to allow disconnection of individuals from the internet, for undefined periods of time" and web blocking laws were pushed through "with no real scrutiny and limited debate".

Cameron said that the Conservatives would go into the next election proposing measures to make it easier for the government to deport figures like Abu Hamza.

Some may say new democracies require more stringent controls than our mature democracy, but after the recent election, such measures seem more than appropriate.

An amendment called on the Labour party to put in its next election manifesto measures to allow schools to be returned to local authority control if a majority of parents and teachers demanded it via the results of a secret ballot.