Sentence examples for electoral backing from inspiring English sources

Both banks involved, Banca Antonveneta and Banca Popolare Italiana (formerly Popolare di Lodi), have northern roots.Though short on electoral backing, the League is vociferous, and ready to wreck the coalition if it does not get its way.

But in 2010, Scott Walker, the newly elected governor of Wisconsin, opened a new front in America's partisan war when he passed Act 10, stripping public sector unions of the power to bargain collectively and forcing them to re-certify themselves every year with electoral backing from more than 50% of all workers, not just those voting.

Rep. Walt Minnick (D-Idaho) received the official electoral backing of the Tea Party Express (the largest group affiliated with the broader movement) on Thursday.

These members may have anticipated electoral trouble back home if they voted for the GOP plan.

Syriza believed its electoral victory back in January would take Europe into a whole new anti-austerity direction.

The problem, however, for Hume and his party is that the final character in that trio, Redmond, was swept aside by the Sinn Fein electoral machine back in 1918.

His tiny party could be swept from parliament by the electoral reforms backed by the main centre-left group, the Democratic Party.

A discussion paper proposed that a referendum should be held "to put the fate of the electoral system back in the hands of the people".

After a disastrous term, he left behind his own "poison pill": a law to change Italy's electoral system back to one based largely on proportional representation.

He should use his Governance of Britain consultation to put electoral reform back on the agenda - and to broker a historic compromise: electoral reform without proportional representation.

The committee described the group's plan to press its demands through electoral politics, backed by the threat of civil disobedience.