Sentence examples for electoral costs from inspiring English sources

Not only do they worry about the social (and electoral) costs.

Besides, Indonesia's constitutional court ruled that from 2019, local and national elections would be held simultaneously, which would reduce electoral costs.

General strikes deliver significant electoral costs to governments (our research suggests that, on average, strikes are associated with a 2.2percentt loss of the popular vote for incumbent governments).

Muslim anger and alienation have been fuelled by British foreign policy: better, from the government's perspective, to concentrate on the lunatic fringe than to wrestle with the wider disenchantment its policy has contributed to.And sometimes the calculation behind the euphemism involves bald electoral costs rather than the cost to the country.

The controls "will be impossible to enforce", and the commission warns the bill greatly widens the range of activities that count as electoral costs – to include rallies, events, media work, polling research, transport and staff costs for groups never previously regulated.

Will he keep his promise if such votes could impose an electoral cost on Republicans seeking to hold their Senate majority in 2016?

At a time when a series of scandals has touched the left as well as the right, not only Mr Sarkozy but all mainstream politics might bear the electoral cost.

While Merkel will face a renewed debate inside her party over the electoral cost of her refugee policy, she is also now able to show that questioning her course comes at a political cost.

The governing majority have two options: either intensify the repression... which has a high electoral cost for them, or make concessions, which would be [unpopular] with the international donors," Lamloum said.

Mr. Pastor said Mr. Rajoy's challenge now was to keep his party unified, "which is far from easy when this avalanche of accusations is likely to make other party heavyweights increasingly scared about the electoral cost of such a scandal".

But playing human shield for Cameron's Conservatives – the Lib Dem deputy leader, Simon Hughes, is the latest to put his shoulder to the wheel in his new role as official tuition-fees salesman – is going to seem ever less appealing as the existing electoral cost mounts.