electoral pressure

He said that the susceptibility of democratic governments to electoral pressure was being exploited as never before.

The Assembly Speaker and Senate President also have different electoral pressures to contend with.

Electoral pressures may lead even Communist leaders (like those in Hungary) to fan public demands for an early withdrawal of Soviet forces.

An alternative viewpoint on the Commission states that the policy areas in which it has power to initiate legislation are ill suited to an institution subject to electoral pressures.

Even without electoral pressures, he and other German political and business leaders say it would be foolish to lend more money in Russia until the country carries out reforms.

Assemblyman Louis D. Greenwald, Democratic chairman the Budget Committee, denied that the position was dictated by electoral pressures.

Adding to the perception that fiscal discipline has succumbed to electoral pressure, Mr. Netanyahu is now simultaneously a candidate for re-election and his own Finance Minister.

Thomas persuaded Flint, who was not interested in a Parliamentary career, to stand in Ilkeston in order to relieve the electoral pressure in Derby.

In the summer of 1842 representatives from the northeastern manufacturing states began feeling electoral pressures for a tariff hike before the elections that fall and abandoned Clay's land disbursement program.

The Supreme Court is probably the least understood of the three branches of government - insulated from electoral pressures, from the probing eye of television and to a considerable degree from reporters' questions.

Electoral pressure exerted by the recent resuts, SCAF pressure on the street, women's rights being neglected, and now, given today's news on the raids carried out on NGO's, financial pressure.

When interest group activity is added to electoral pressure, the 'shame' attached to being held responsible for social dissensus, lead to changes which may have been a voluntary response or have been supervised by a state responding to legitimate protest.

The Mayor added that "with pressures from unions and electoral pressures there could be a tendency to try to undo a lot of the good that was done" in the city budget, which cut spending for the first time in 16 years.

The historian Garry Wills argued, "Their nullification effort, if others had picked it up, would have been a greater threat to freedom than the misguided [alien and sedition] laws, which were soon rendered feckless by ridicule and electoral pressure."

The Senate's absolute veto over constitutional amendments, however, reflects the view of the framers of the Constitution that safeguards were necessary to protect it from being lightly tampered with by putting a veto in the hands of a body less susceptible to electoral pressure.

Truxillo believes that the Republica del Norte will be brought into existence by "any means necessary" but that it was unlikely to be formed by civil war but rather by the electoral pressure of the future majority Hispanic population in the region.

Whether the electoral pressure will lead to any policy changes is largely up to President Boris N. Yeltsin and Prime Minister Viktor S. Chernomyrdin, who to date have given a relatively free hand to their Government's proponents of fiscal discipline and market-oriented change.

I do not want to be too critical, we know only too well as parliamentarians about electoral pressures, but it is worth saying that the pressures in the United States are not so much from the citizens, from the voters, but from the big business backers of both parties and both campaigns and that makes an enormous difference.