Sentence examples for short-term election from inspiring English sources

For one thing, politicians focus on short-term election cycles and tend to junk their predecessors' policies, good or bad.

Senators John McCain and Barack Obama are mentioned only three times each, since this book aspires to predicting more than short-term election trends.

They have to cope with short-term election cycles and a parliamentary system and all four of them nevertheless act responsibly, not just on alternative energy and environmental issues, but also on social issues that matter.

"Instead of investment in a scheme that, at best, provides a short-term election soundbite, the government would be better placed to invest in schemes with the potential to improve the long-term health of the whole UK population," it says.

The current debate about entitlements reform reminds us that our short-term election cycle discourages long-term systems change.

However, the system of regular, short-term elections through which power was diffused had proved perilously unstable.

In the short term, election officials must ensure that enough trained poll workers are available and that the standards and regulations of our current patchwork system are followed and enforced.

Powerful men and women in DC too are caught in a futile, broken embrace of their own: torn between meeting their narcissistic ambitions, short term election goals and grotesque greed for immediate influence and ascendant power.

However, political decisions tend to be driven by short term election period perspectives, and hence the long term horizons of many prevention policies may not always align with political decision-makers' time horizons.

He accused the NHS of wasting money on "short-term, pre-election targets", when it should be investing properly in GP services.

"It is Facebook's Groups— right here, right now — that I feel represents the greatest short-term threat to election news and information integrity," writes Albright.