Sentence examples for electioneering designed to from inspiring English sources

This close to the election, we have to conclude that anything short of a detailed and fully funded plan for our health and social care is simply electioneering, designed to play political games with the health service, rather than genuinely address the enormous challenges facing it.

This was a full retreat from his earlier threats, which now look like electioneering tactics designed to influence last night's vote.

Election laws had prohibited corporations from engaging in "electioneering communication," a term designed to include broadcasts that specifically mentioned political candidates, and which occurred within sixty days of a general election, or within thirty days of a primary.

As he writes, "[w]hen Lessig asserts that the Supreme Court probably will not 'look favorably at a broad ban on government contractors speaking,' he fails to consider the arguments that have led the Court to uphold closely analogous political speech restrictions designed to prevent pay-to-play pressures on government employees who might want to participate actively in campaign electioneering.

In traditional methods of electioneering, people used to get to know of their views only through print or digital media.

Bush, like Romney, was cynical enough about electioneering to think that what you say to win votes — flag-burning!

GRAPHS: INDEPENDENT EXPENDITURES AND "ELECTIONEERING COMMUNICATIONS" Reported to Federal Election Commission, election cycle to Sept. 12.; GROUPS PAYING FOR COMMUNICATIONS: Percentage disclosing names of their donors, by cycle.

After all, the object of all of this electioneering is to win the presidency for the Democrats — or is it?

"Some of the proceeds went to electioneering, some to offshore accounts and some to individual pockets".

Federal electioneering communications are defined as only broadcast ads; but some states define electioneering communications to include both broadcast and non-broadcast.

He conceded that "it may be very good capital in an electioneering campaign to declaim against the Chinese".