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current and electoral
The current electoral system based on the Westminster system, was devised by the British and incorporates what is commonly known as " Best losers ", which maintains ethnic representation of MPs in the legislative assembly.
Many of the current electoral concerns have shifted from outright fraud to campaign fairness issues.
One party usually has a majority in Parliament, because of the use of the First Past the Post electoral system, which has been conducive in creating the current two party system.
Winnie secured fifth place on the ANC's electoral list for the 2009 general election, behind party president and current President of South Africa Jacob Zuma, former President of South Africa Kgalema Motlanthe, Deputy President of South Africa Baleka Mbete, and Finance Minister Trevor Manuel.
This election was unique in that electors cast votes for four men who had been or would become President of the United States: current President Martin Van Buren ; President-elect William Henry Harrison ; Vice-President-elect John Tyler, who would succeed Harrison upon his death ; and James K. Polk, who received one electoral vote for Vice President, and who would succeed Tyler come 1845.
Although some political pundits predicted a close race, Roosevelt went on to win the greatest electoral landslide since the beginning of the current two-party system in the 1850s, carrying all but 8 electoral votes.
** Richmond ( British Columbia federal electoral district ) ( current )
The constituency falls within the electoral region of South Wales Central, whose four current AMs are Conservatives Andrew R. T. Davies and David Melding, Plaid Cymru's Leanne Wood and Liberal Democrat Eluned Parrott.
A riding is an administrative jurisdiction or electoral district, particularly in several current or former Commonwealth countries.
In the non-party " Movement " system instituted by the current president Yoweri Museveni, political parties continued to exist but could not campaign in elections or field candidates directly ( although electoral candidates could belong to political parties ).
In 1890, when the ban was lifted and it could again present electoral lists, the party adopted its current name.
The United States is the only current example of an indirectly elected executive president, with an electoral college comprising electors representing the 50 states and the federal district.
* Waterford ( Dáil Éireann constituency ), current electoral division for County Waterford, Ireland
Under the current governmental structure and electoral system, which went into effect with the election of March 3, 2001, a five-person town council governs the town.
A recent attempt to build a new library for the town to replace the current one has resulted in an electoral tie and is currently in appeal, despite already receiving $ 233, 232. 93 in personal pledges and grants to kickstart the effort.
The current administration plans to deal with the problem by rearranging the electoral districts.
* Leona Aglukkaq, member of Parliament for the electoral district of Nunavut and current Minister of Health
His defeat of two years previous still fresh in his mind, his platform this time included a call for a redrawing of the territory's electoral boundaries ; he felt that the current Edmonton riding was gerrymandered in McCauley's favour.
Jean-Jacques De Gucht, the son of former minister and current European Commissioner for Trade Policy Karel De Gucht, was placed at the top of the electoral list for the Flemish Liberals in the 2007 federal elections for the East Flanders region and subsequently appointed to the Senate at age 27.
A new constitution was drawn up which eased back some of the democratic elements of the constitution of 1793 establishing an electoral college for the election of officials, a bicameral legislature and other provisions designed to protect the current holders of power.
In May 2010, Lee instituted electoral reforms to the current electoral system by reducing the number of group representation constituencies ( GRC ), increased the number of Non-constituency Members of Parliament ( NCMPs ) to a maximum of nine ( inclusive of the number of elected opposition members of Parliament ), and the number of Nominated Members of Parliament ( NMPs ) permanent also to nine.
It is the only current electoral district of the territory and is represented in parliament by Dennis Bevington ( New Democratic Party ) in the 41st Canadian Parliament.
In 1985, this was reduced to the current five electoral areas: Crotlieve, Fews, Newry Town, Slieve Gullion and The Mournes.

current and system
For a time following the abandonment of the local plant, electric current for Manchester was brought in from the south with an emergency tie-in with the Vermont Marble Company system to the north.
The ampere was originally defined as one tenth of the CGS system electromagnetic unit of current ( now known as the abampere ), the amount of current that generates a force of two dynes per centimetre of length between two wires one centimetre apart.
The current drawn by typical constant-voltage energy distribution systems is usually dictated by the power ( watts ) consumed by the system and the operating voltage.
The current GMD system has the more limited goal of shielding against a limited attack by a rogue state.
( It may be noted that the current American system places periods and commas outside the quotation marks in these cases anyway.
The Antarctic Circumpolar Current ( ACC ) is the strongest current system in the world oceans, linking the Atlantic, Indian and Pacific basins.
A report by Jean Ziegler, UN Special Rapporteur on the right to food, notes that " millions of farmers are losing their livelihoods in the developing countries, but small farmers in the northern countries are also suffering " and concludes that " the current inequities of the global trading system are being perpetuated rather than resolved under the WTO, given the unequal balance of power between member countries.
The most commonly used grading systems are the Fontainebleau system which ranges from 1 to 8c +, and the John Sherman V-grade system, beginning at V0 and increasing by integers to a current top grade of proposed V16 ( The Wheel of Life by Dai Koyamada in the Grampians, Australia ; The Game, by Daniel Woods, Boulder Canyon, CO ; Lucid Dreaming, by Paul Robinson.
After the Congressional hearings in early 2005, and with the scrutiny of the sports and national media upon this issue, Selig put forth a proposal for a stricter performance-enhancing drug testing regime to replace the current system.
As punishment, during the fall exam period Gooch evicted two residents and relocated the remainder of Gate House to other places in the residence system, banned all current Gate House students from entering the building in 2008.
After decades of neglect and damage from wartime, Cambodia's rail network is currently being reconstructed as part of the Trans-Asian Railway project with modern trains replacing the current open-access system of " bamboo trains ", homemade bamboo mats powered by go-kart or water pump engines.
The current system of chemical notation was invented by Berzelius.
The Chinese New Left, which encompasses these Maoists and other postmodernists is a current within China that seeks to " revert China to the socialist road " – i. e., to return China to the socialist system that existed before Deng Xiaoping's reforms.
2. mobile data intermediate system: specialized intermediate systemthat routes data based on its knowledge of the current location of Mobile end system.
A context menu offers a limited set of choices that are available in the current state, or context, of the operating system or application.
In a lecture on the current system of international communication Piron argued that " Esperanto relies entirely on innate reflexes " and " differs from all other languages in that you can always trust your natural tendency to generalize patterns ...
; Time-variant: For An operational system, the stored data contains the current value.
The parliamentary party system is dominated by the People's Rally for Progress and the current President is Ismail Omar Guelleh.
Note however that working with the current two form itself and the exterior derivative is usually easier than working with the vector field and divergence, because unlike the divergence, the exterior derivative commutes with a change of ( curvilinear ) coordinate system.
The Old English language, current until approximately sometime after the time of the Norman Conquest in 1066, had a dative case ; however, the English case system gradually fell into disuse during the Middle English period, when in pronouns the accusative and dative merged into a single oblique case that was also used for all prepositions.
Distributism favors the dissolution of the current private bank system, or more specifically its profit-making basis in charging interest.
The evolution rule of the dynamical system is a fixed rule that describes what future states follow from the current state.

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