Sentence examples for electoral initiative from inspiring English sources

While introducing one electoral initiative last week, Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi accused the left of "wanting an invasion of immigrants," only to strengthen the opposition's electoral basis.

To be fair, the agenda, which API president and CEO Jack Gerard laid out in a speech at the Newseum Tuesday afternoon, also listed other key issues for the year, including an electoral initiative and a push to end the ban on crude exports.

From today's L. A. Times: GOP team revives electoral vote initiative The intent is to change California's winner-take-all system, which would give Republicans an edge in the presidential race.

Mr. Steyer's letter, dated Nov. 19, stems from an article in The Los Angeles Downtown News that detailed reporters' observations of signature gatherers asking homeless people on the city's notorious Skid Row for their signatures to help qualify the electoral vote initiative and three others, as well as asking them to fill out voter registration cards.

Democrats filed a complaint with the Federal Election Commission that said it was "reasonable to believe that Mr. Singer was acting as Mr. Giuliani's agent in funding the California electoral college initiative," which they said would have made his contribution over the limit for a federal candidate.

New electoral rights (including initiative and recall) were instituted, and a new National Prosecutor's Office (Fiscalía) was set up to make the Colombian prosecutorial system more like that of the United States.

Given Florida's electoral clout, bold initiatives may be too much to expect in an election year — except that Mr. Castro's health may not wait.

The other would actually call the convention and specify its scope: governance, including the structure of the legislative and executive branches; elections, including the electoral system and the initiative process itself; the budget-making process; and the state's revenue relationship with local government.

California prefers the other extreme of direct democracy -- citizen referendums, ballot initiatives and electoral recall.

Finally, we are reluctant to intercede in ballot timing of the initiatives, an electoral matter that falls within the province of the state to determine.

LONDON — Britain moved to toughen immigration rules on Wednesday as the government tried to regain the initiative after recent electoral gains by a populist party that wants the country to curb immigration and leave the European Union.