What's the difference between campaign and hustings?
Campaign
Definition:
(n.) An open field; a large, open plain without considerable hills. SeeChampaign.
(n.) A connected series of military operations forming a distinct stage in a war; the time during which an army keeps the field.
(n.) Political operations preceding an election; a canvass.
(n.) The period during which a blast furnace is continuously in operation.
(v. i.) To serve in a campaign.
Example Sentences:
(1) Anti-corruption campaigners have already trooped past the €18.9m mansion on Rue de La Baume, bought in 2007 in the name of two Bongo children, then 13 and 16, and other relatives, in what some call Paris's "ill-gotten gains" walking tour.
(2) A survey carried out two and three years after the launch of the official campaign also showed a reduction in the prevalence of rickets in children taking low dose supplements equivalent to about 2.5 micrograms (100 IU) vitamin D daily.
(3) Both former presidents Bush have said they will sit out the 2016 campaign, as has former presidential candidate Jeb Bush.
(4) Faisal Abu Shahla, a senior official in Fatah, an organisation responsible for a good deal of repression of its own when it was in power, accuses Hamas of holding 700 political prisoners in Gaza as part of a broad campaign to suppress dissent.
(5) Keep it in the ground campaign Though they draw on completely different archives, leaked documents, and interviews with ex-employees, they reach the same damning conclusion: Exxon knew all that there was to know about climate change decades ago, and instead of alerting the rest of us denied the science and obstructed the politics of global warming.
(6) Fry's letter was also delivered to the Lausanne headquarters of the International Olympic Committee, by Guillaume Bonnet of the campaign group All Out .
(7) We are better off in.” Out campaigners have claimed that the NHS could be badly hit by a decision to stay in the EU.
(8) Concurrent with this change in the level of enforcement of RBT was an extensive publicity campaign, which warned drinking drivers of their increased risk of detection by RBT units.
(9) "It seems that this is just a few experts who are pushing it through parliament … without anyone thinking through the likely consequences for our country," said Duke Tagoe of the Food Sovereignty campaign group.
(10) Photograph: AP Reasons for wavering • State relies on coal-fired electricity • Poor prospects for wind power • Conservative Democrat • Represents conservative district in conservative state and was elected on narrow margins Campaign support from fossil fuel interests in 2008 • $93,743 G K Butterfield (North Carolina) GK Butterfield, North Carolina.
(11) Since then the intensive development of anti-malaria campaigns in urban areas over about ten years led temporarily to a considerable decrease in the level of endemicity, while in rural areas it remained unchanged.
(12) Our campaign has been going for some time and each step in our progress has been hard won, by campaigners paid and volunteer alike.
(13) We didn’t take anyone’s votes for granted and we have run a very strong positive campaign.” Asked if she expected Ukip to run have Labour so close, she said: “To be honest with you I have been through more or less every scenario.
(14) He campaigned for a no vote and won handsomely, backed by more than 61%, before performing a striking U-turn on Thursday night, re-tabling the same austerity terms he had campaigned to defeat and which the voters rejected.
(15) The figures, published in the company’s annual report , triggered immediate anger from fuel poverty campaigners who noted that energy suppliers had just been rapped over the knuckles by the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) for overcharging .
(16) When we trained on it, my heart sunk,” Coleman said after his side began their Euro 2016 campaign with a nervous victory.
(17) But when, less than two weeks out from the election, voters were asked to name the issues most important to them in the campaign, they nominated unemployment, inflation and economic management, rather than immigration and border control.
(18) When the election comes, we won’t be campaigning for a coalition... ...we will be fighting heart and soul for a majority Conservative Government – because that is what our country needs.
(19) While there has been almost no political reform during their terms of office, there have been several ambitious steps forward in terms of environmental policy: anti-desertification campaigns; tree planting; an environmental transparency law; adoption of carbon targets; eco-services compensation; eco accounting; caps on water; lower economic growth targets; the 12th Five-Year Plan; debate and increased monitoring of PM2.5 [fine particulate matter] and huge investments in eco-cities, "clean car" manufacturing, public transport, energy-saving devices and renewable technology.
(20) The alignment of Clinton’s Iowa team, all but guaranteeing a declaration of her official campaign before the end of next month, was coming into view amid reports that she was due to address by the end of the week controversy over her use of a private email account as secretary of state.
Hustings
Definition:
(n. pl.) A court formerly held in several cities of England; specif., a court held in London, before the lord mayor, recorder, and sheriffs, to determine certain classes of suits for the recovery of lands within the city. In the progress of law reform this court has become unimportant.
(n. pl.) Any one of the temporary courts held for the election of members of the British Parliament.
(n. pl.) The platform on which candidates for Parliament formerly stood in addressing the electors.
Example Sentences:
(1) At the hustings last night was the first time I heard in British politics – and in Witney too – the Conservative candidate booed, when he was talking about the NHS,” he said.
(2) Asked after the factory visit why Hutchings had not been at the hustings, David Cameron said: "She was with me at a very important meeting at a business that's the sort of beating heart of Eastleigh.
(3) Hustings will take place in June and July, and voting will not begin until August.
(4) It is hardly suited to the hurly-burly of the hustings.
(5) At hustings, Watson insisted he did not mind who won the top job, though his credentials as a Brownite with strong trade union connections suggested he would have struggled under the Blairite Liz Kendall.
(6) For one last time, the two candidates came on stage together after weeks of facing off at what often felt like interminable hustings.
(7) Helmer, who has represented the East Midlands in the European parliament for 15 years, was "overwhelmingly" endorsed by the Newark constituency association at a hustings meeting on Monday before being backed by Ukip's national executive committee, said a party spokesman.
(8) Labour's John O'Farrell said it did not matter that she was not at the hustings – as she was represented there by her government's coalition partner.
(9) When Davidson was born, in November 1978, homosexuality was yet to be decriminalised in Scotland, a point she made last Thursday at the Scottish parliament LGBTI hustings at Edinburgh’s Royal College of Surgeons.
(10) On the issue of the missed hustings he said: "She wanted to be with me here at this important business that employs hundreds of people, this is a complete red herring."
(11) The two candidates will hold their first hustings on Wednesday evening, and further meetings have been promised before the result of the postal ballot is announced on 23 October.
(12) We’re sitting in Berger’s constituency office in Wavertree, Liverpool but, a few weeks before I’d gone to watch her at the mayoral hustings.
(13) Rowena Mason (@rowenamason) Eleanor Laing says she will stand up for backbenchers against overpowering governments of any political stripe #deputyspeakerhustings October 15, 2013 Rowena Mason (@rowenamason) Simon Burns says he standing for deputy speaker because he is fully qualified and would be "firm with a light touch" #deputyspeakerhustings October 15, 2013 Rowena Mason (@rowenamason) Simon Burns says it is an elephant in the room that he and the speaker are "not the greatest of personal friends" #hustings #dwarfgate October 15, 2013 Rowena Mason (@rowenamason) Simon burns says not behind twitter account in his name +wouldn't know how to "tweet I think it is called".
(14) The claim came after it emerged that the Labour party had agreed for Corbyn and Smith to meet at their first hustings at an event organised for Monday evening by Channel 4 News .
(15) The Labour party website lists upcoming hustings as being in Cardiff on Thursday; Nottinghamshire on Wednesday at an event hosted by the BBC; Birmingham on 18 August; Glasgow on 25 August; and an event organised by the Guardian on 1 September in London.
(16) So far, the culture of the debate has been Scottish Enlightenment-lite: ramped-up editorial in the papers and among broadcasters, rashes of serious hustings in community halls, academics moving their heavy artillery into place.
(17) Last month, the justices effectively ordered Husted to drop his decree and keep the polls open.
(18) There is still much more work needed to make ourselves more like the nation we seek to represent, but this is a really positive time for our party after increasing our number of MPs by 50%.” The party hopes to appoint a deputy leader after a hustings on 27 June, presided over by the Lords chief whip, Ben Stoneham.
(19) Hamilton described the leaking of the letter as a dirty trick to deliberately destabilise the hustings, saying some of the queries it contained had already been answered.
(20) Speaking in an ITV hustings, Reckless suggested that some European migrants, such as a Polish plumber, should only be allowed to stay for a fixed period on a work visa if the UK left the EU as advocated by his party.