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The election followed a memorable campaign.
This campaign to denigrate Mr. Anwar cost Mahathir's party, the United Malay National Organization (UMNO), much support among ethnic Malays.
In 2014, Sheldon Adelson, the American casino mogul who has long supported Netanyahu and also helped to finance Trump’s campaign, invested an estimated $50 million in Israel Hayom, which has lost more than $250 million since its launch in 2007.
Most important, despite the Russian army massed against us, we are embarking on an election campaign.
The current presidential campaign is no exception: Republicans and Democrats alike have taken aim at both China and the Trans-Pacific Partnership, holding them up as the scourge of beleaguered American workers.
The crudeness of the government’s campaign would almost be comical if it was not condemning so many Dominicans of Haitian descent to the uncertainty of statelessness.
Perhaps the campaign against Dominicans of Haitian descent will stop when the Dominican judiciary acknowledges that the retroactive denial of citizenship violates fundamental human rights law.
But the Western powers’ dismissiveness during the Libyan campaign did bruise them – and those bruises will have to heal before any consensus can be expected on tough responses to such situations in the future.
To be sure, within a couple of years, Cameron was calling for the Brexit referendum in a bid for votes, and Johnson was stepping up as a leader of the “Leave” campaign.
Why he did so is difficult to determine: quite plausibly, some combination of Lula’s realism, his reaction to stock-market declines attributed to his chances of being elected, and campaign donations was at work.
China has undertaken a nationwide campaign to reduce energy consumption per unit of GDP by 20% by 2010, and will hold local officials accountable for achieving the targets.
So, absent any sense of vision — maybe that comes after the election — we’re back to trade that dominates what discussion there is of Latin America in the campaign.
Far from bringing peace to Iraq, the military campaign – carried out on the pretense of eliminating weapons of mass destruction – fueled more violence.
"We must keep this sensitive subject out of the campaign" seemed to be the prevailing attitude, as if the period of heightened political awareness that elections provide should not be used to debate serious controversies.
After the rise of an Albanian insurgency, the Kosovo Liberation Army (UCK), Milosevic launched a violent, all-out campaign to expel Kosovo’s Albanians.
Since 2003, Prince Muhammad has been in charge of a successful campaign against violent Islamism in the Kingdom.
Finally, Prince Muhammad has launched an Internet monitoring and disinformation campaign that keeps close tabs on jihadi Web sites and online forums.
Corporate behavior and governance has emerged as a campaign issue for US presidential candidates.
“Are you thinking what we’re thinking?” a 2005 Conservative poster campaign asked.
During the referendum campaign, nationalism aroused not only racist instincts, but also populist conspiracy theories that derided experts and the institutions that house them.
The cry from the “Leave” campaign was “We want our country back.”
In the run-up to that conference, a global campaign put pressure on governments.
On the campaign trail, he promised to undo some key climate policies, even threatening to back out of the Paris climate agreement.
Among his initiatives was a campaign to redirect public spending to fight cholera, and a payroll audit to identify “ghost workers” – non-existent government employees who drain some $2 million from the budget every month.
As noble as these goals are, they will be overshadowed if he continues his campaign against those who entrusted him with their hopes.
But now, in the name of saving the planet from climate change, environmentalists are proposing an immense global campaign to cut down and burn trees and scrubs in order to reduce fossil-fuel use.
But one hopes that campaign promises won’t tie the new leader’s hands, as so often happens in electoral politics.
Another Fine Italian MessROME – A game of smoke and mirrors: this is how Italy’s current electoral campaign appears – both to Italians and the wider world.
The latter option, once unthinkable, is possible because Berlusconi is not running the type of inflammatory electoral campaign that he has in the past.
The mining and oil industries – important sources of support for his next presidential election campaign – had gotten their money’s worth.
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