| Nevertheless, over the past four decades, it has gained growing support and influence with falling turnouts on polling days. |
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| The road over Wolf Creek Pass was originally a single-lane road with short widened sections for turnouts to allow for passing. |
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| The AFN election marked one of the largest turnouts for an annual general meeting with 576 chiefs and proxies registered to vote. |
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| The organizers of Saturday's antiwar protests in the US could not have been very heartened by the turnouts at the biggest events. |
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| When things are going well, experience teaches us that turnouts are relatively lower. |
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| Councils across Greater Manchester have swapped the ballot box for the pillar box in a bid to stamp out low turnouts. |
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| There are more than 50 turnouts and, I would guess, about eight miles of track in total. |
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| With so many turnouts under RU's control, considerable maintenance could be avoided with this change. |
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| At least the track chart schematically showed the position of the turnouts and the lengths of each track. |
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| The other challenge with this section is a major lack of turnouts for passing, combined with blind turns that hide people coming the other way. |
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| Low turnouts for challenge matches and a number of unpunished no-shows point to the fact that this team was always in for a hiding down in Killarney anyway. |
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| The problem with poor turnouts has nothing to do with the hassle of getting to a polling station, and everything to do with people feeling unrepresented and disenfranchised. |
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| The obvious manifestation of that is in low turnouts at elections. |
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| Dictators have often fabricated high turnouts in showcase elections for this purpose. |
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| Still, low turnouts can lead to unequal representation among various parts of the population. |
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| Weekend and summer elections find more of the population on holiday or uninterested in politics, and have lower turnouts. |
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| Countries such as Angola and Ethiopia have long had high turnouts, but so have the wealthy states of Europe. |
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| This factor may explain the lower turnouts in the newer democracies of Eastern Europe and Latin America. |
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| In the United States, negative campaigning and character attacks are more common than elsewhere, potentially suppressing turnouts. |
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| Countries where multiparty systems have developed also tend to have higher turnouts. |
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| This meant that elections taking place later in the year tended to have lower turnouts than those earlier in the year. |
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| By contrast Malta, with one of the world's highest voter turnouts, has a single legislature that holds a near monopoly on political power. |
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| However, on an international level those states with the most extensive social programs tend to be the ones with the highest turnouts. |
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| In 1926, following the island's rail network passing to the Southern Railway, a signal box and turnouts were installed at Smallbrook. |
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| When towing a trailer, use the turnouts to let faster traffic pass. |
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| In recent seasons they have included smaller turnouts on the often boggy lawn and the loss of some 30 huge trees on festival properties to a freak wall of tornadolike wind. |
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| These declines have been smaller than those in the United States, and in some European countries turnouts have remained stable and even slightly increased. |
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| Individual votes for the federal legislature are thus unlikely to have a significant effect on the nation, which probably explains the low average turnouts in that country. |
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