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All of them stressed that on sales floors, at consumers' doorsteps, in purchasing agents' offices, acting was just as necessary as on the stage.
Constituency activists mailed party literature to local voters; distributed leaflets and posters from door to door; and canvassed voters on their doorsteps.
Let me now turn to my second major group of priorities for the 1970s: those which lie on our own doorstep.
As evidenced by the negative and significant coefficient on the political information variable, response instability in ideological self-placement reflects uncertain doorstep opinions about ideology.
To some extent, this may reflect the relative visibility of doorstep as opposed to telephone canvassing.
Earlier they were up there at the cowshed there, but now he feeds them on the doorstep down here.
Studies also bear out that people are the most effective disseminators of know-how, and that hardware just dropped on the doorstep is the least effective.
We do not know which occurred first: the telephone or the doorstep canvass.
One major difference between the doorstep and telephone canvass equations, however, is in the relationships with campaign spending.
A wild midnight gallop lands her on the very doorstep of her ancestral home, and the fun and games commence.
Secondly, doorstep canvassing in particular is probably an underestimate of exposure to the local campaign.
Local campaigns have traditionally relied on local volunteers engaged on doorstep activity, therefore.
However, exposure to the telephone canvass did not have as much impact on chances of being canvassed on the doorstep.
I readily concede that it was not the first issue that was raised on the doorsteps of my new constituency.
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Can we afford to go on ignoring this natural resource which is right on our very doorsteps?
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Their worst fears about the threat of quarrying on their doorsteps will be confirmed.
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Their telephones were ringing from morning to night with inquiries from harassed housewives who had collectors on their doorsteps.
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Will there be any indication of the salary on or around the election date, because we shall all be asked that question on the doorsteps?
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Not only do people in the provinces want justice dispensed on their doorsteps; if there are to be reforms, they want them to be improvements.
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We have it delivered in glass bottles to our doorsteps.
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In this case, this explains why the fear that will be expressed on people's doorsteps is ever present.
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One must recognise that going around the doorsteps is the nature of their business.
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What other nation has its milk delivered in little bottles on the people's doorsteps seven times a week?
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I seek to institute a delaying period so that this practice of soliciting on doorsteps may be stopped.
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Does not that underline the extraordinary good value of the milk that is put on doorsteps every day?
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The people look after these homes extremely well, but the moment they leave their doorsteps they emerge on to eroded stairs and beside festering walls.
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After all, there are glib salesmen in shops as well as on doorsteps.
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On the contrary, the danger has been brought closer than ever to those two countries, till to-day it stands upon their doorsteps.
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We have to convince the electorate and the wider world about an issue that is not immediately on our doorsteps but which requires immediate action.
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I like to see fish sold on doorsteps if we can get the facilities to do it.
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What are we to say to families who turn up on local authorities' doorsteps?
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The point, however, is that my constituents do not want 500,000 tonnes of rubbish on their doorsteps, however well managed the dumping may be.
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I believe that local government is about your own doorsteps and what you do about them.
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How would we approach people on their doorsteps?
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We must stand by the daily "pinta" that appears on most doorsteps up and down the country.
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They cannot prevent people from seeing what is happening in their areas, on their own streets, sometimes on their own doorsteps, in many large cities.
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They are enormously valuable to the people on their doorsteps.
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They are on our doorsteps every weekend when we go back there.
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I suggest that to have too many local employers on these boards may make them too insular, looking only to their own doorsteps.
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They will have to be near the basic industries, but that does not mean that they must be on their doorsteps creating labour problems.
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We sat with plenty of cheap carbon fuel on our doorsteps and revelled in it.
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Also, we have our milk delivered daily to our doorsteps, which many of us appreciate.
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They are the people who must live with the problem on their doorsteps night and day, and naturally they are running out of patience.
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Local councillors see their responsibility on their doorsteps.
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In the south-west they go from other people's doorsteps into my constituency.
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I hope, in particular, that we will think carefully about the remarks that all of us heard on the doorsteps during the election campaign.
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Let that be a warning, because people care about their sub-post offices and want a local service on their doorsteps.
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They will almost be going through people's back doorsteps, so one can appreciate the great and serious problem facing the town.
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All of us who are involved in elections meet all too often on the doorsteps people who cannot be bothered to vote.
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The pilot scheme was a qualified failure, but, conveniently, it was expanded in time for the general election, with vouchers appearing on the electorate's doorsteps.
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Not only were those concerns raised on the doorsteps, but they were also voiced in the opinion polls published throughout the campaign.
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During the general election campaign, there was dissonance between the debates in the media and the comments that we heard on the doorsteps.
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Who will go out on to the doorsteps?
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I was on the doorsteps, and did not see his programme.
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Once again the evidence of our persistent folly is brought home to us—literally deposited on our doorsteps and forced down our throats.
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Our parents fought in the second world war, which brought the same violence and destruction to our very doorsteps.
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What will their candidates say on the doorsteps?
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If we have a market at our doorsteps—and more than a market—why should we go to seek export markets elsewhere?
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The salesmen are selling them for cash as well as cheques on the doorsteps.
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People regularly said on their doorsteps that they were deeply concerned about what was happening to youngsters in our society.
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We should legislate on cash sales on doorsteps to protect the consumer.
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They are touts who are out to get something to sell, and they will sit on doorsteps until they do.
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One finds little groups of people on the doorsteps of shops learning to read and write.
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However, we learnt some interesting things on the doorsteps.
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There are picket lines on doorsteps as soon as anyone is in the news and an army of freelances invades people's houses.
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There is no question but that that was the predominant subject discussed on the doorsteps and when meeting people.
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We would have milk on our doorsteps or in supermarkets costing perhaps 2p a pint less than the present price of milk.
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We are talking not about some faraway country, but about life and death for us, on our own doorsteps.
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The law requires that our household rubbish is collected at or near our doorsteps.
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Here at their doorsteps is work which they know to be absolutely necessary for good health.
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I ask those who come from industrial constituencies to think of the huge markets for industrial products which they would have on their doorsteps.
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However, they do not seek advice unless it is brought to their doorsteps.
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How many people on the doorsteps were shouting for water privatisation during the election campaign?
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His reason was not the need to cross doorsteps in his constituency to visit people with problems.
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I doubt whether he has crossed many doorsteps, except at election time when looking for votes.
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What reaction do they expect on the doorsteps in two years' time?
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We should not underestimate the anxiety that is felt when various parts of the country have an oil spillage tragedy on their doorsteps.
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They have to take on the burdens that others leave on their doorsteps.
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When something happens on our doorsteps it grabs our attention—the fuel crisis, for example.
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We have tried to provide too much expert treatment at people's front doorsteps.
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They have to satisfy individuals who are waiting upon their doorsteps.
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There was never any suggestion of that, although that was the lie told by opposing canvassers on the doorsteps at the last election.
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Day by day, they hear abort it on the doorsteps and see it in schools and hospitals.
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Many people travelled that day who had never left their doorsteps before.
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However, that is meaningless in this case because welfare milk is delivered in pints very expensively and slowly on individual doorsteps.
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They are forced to travel in search of the work that used to be on their doorsteps.
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Many individuals may be adversely affected by the placing of an atomic reactor station on what may well be their doorsteps.
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Retailers and other groups are finding more and more paraphernalia landing on their doorsteps.
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On the doorsteps, people have made it perfectly clear that they are worried about the level of the community charge.
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There should be a provision in law to give people compensation when they are injuriously affected by building works that take place on their doorsteps.
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We have simply to educate ourselves out of it on our own doorsteps.
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Alternatively, there is a bus at the top of the road which drops passengers practically on their own doorsteps.
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Shortly after the autumn statement, however, a letter arrived on the doorsteps of leaders of local authorities.
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During the election campaign many people suggested on their doorsteps that we should send the children back or leave them there.
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I receive the same responses on doorsteps in my constituency.
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They have to put up with a great deal if they find a site for itinerants on their doorsteps.
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I have also been on doorsteps for the council elections.
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We met with opposition both from this party and on the doorsteps.
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Surely they were never so parochial as to defend their own doorsteps only.
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