Sentence examples for election to influence from inspiring English sources

In San Francisco last year, outside groups spent $2.6 million — up from $30,000 in the previous election — to influence the mayor's race, with most (both for and against) going to the eventual winner, Mayor Edwin M. Lee.

Conservative justices on the Supreme Court (which is split on abortion) make a political play, strikingly reminiscent of the last presidential election, to influence the Senate to vote against Caroline Masters.

"It is very troubling that $11 million would be poured into California anonymously weeks before an election to influence the outcome of a very important race, and it is troubling that we had to take a case up to the California Supreme Court to get some element of disclosure," Ms. Harris said.

Yet all seventeen U.S. intelligence agencies agreed that Russia had launched cyber-attacks just before the November election to influence Trump's victory.

The charges coincide with mounting tensions between U.S. intelligence agencies and Russian President Vladimir Putin's government, which they accused of hacking the 2016 U.S. presidential election to influence the vote in favor of then-Republican candidate Donald Trump.

What I soon discovered is that there were over 3,300 registered healthcare lobbyists for the 535 members of Congress and that they spent over $1.2 million a day, and in total more than what was spent on the Bush Kerry election to influence legislation.

Researchers say this new breed of bots is being designed not just with greater sophistication but also with grander goals: to sway elections, to influence the stock market, to attack governments, even to flirt with people and one another.

Instead, he loves to see corporate money being spent secretly in elections to influence their outcome.

Pressure groups help people to take part in politics between elections, and to influence a government's policy in areas that they care and know about.

During the campaign, questions were raised about whether Trump improperly made campaign contributions to Bondi's re-election effort to influence whether she investigated allegations against Trump University.

Wylie has suggested the data harvested by Cambridge Analytica was used by President Donald Trump's 2016 presidential election to help influence American voters.