Sentences with phrase «[former party leader»

Says Michigan party leader Mr. Dillon: «Everyone needs to take a deep breath, especially after presidential elections when we always end up writing one party's obituary and then the next election we write the other party's obituary.»

Sen. John McCain stunned much of the US and his party leaders on Friday, when shortly before 2 a.m. ET he voted against against a «skinny» plan to repeal parts of the Affordable Care Act.

Despite a slew of warning signs about the health of Canada's housing market, none of the party leaders want to rock the boat

AUSTRALIANS finds themselves in the peculiar position that whichever party wins the coming federal election, a former party leader has been promised a senior ministerial post.

Jeremy Corbyn, Britain's Labour Party leader, recently called on companies to end «early evening socialization,» calling it a sexist relic.

New Democratic Party Leader Tom Mulcair sees it.

New Democratic Party Leader Tom Mulcair cleverly noted that Harper's legacy as economic manager could include two recessions.

New Democratic Party leader Tom Mulcair used the club's stage in 2013 to reveal the party's energy platform for the most recent federal election; MGM Resorts CEO Jim Murren pitched a Toronto casino from it that same year; Governor General David Johnston announced his new innovation awards program there last summer.

Austria must rerun the presidential runoff vote between the anti-immigrant Freedom Party's Norbert Hofer and the liberal former Green Party leader Alexander Van der Bellen on Oct. 2.

Elizabeth May, the Green party leader, summarized the mood in Parliament when she recalled, «I never saw Jim Flaherty engage in a single moment that could be described as mean - spirited.

A poll conducted earlier this year by Abacus Data found respondents identified the Conservative as the party leader who was best suited to running a large company.

Party leader Salvini said Monday that a referendum on the euro was not a possibility but said people, rather than bureaucracy, needed to be at the heart of Europe.

Party leaders, black and white, would be served notice that black voters are more than cattle chewing cud, to be herded to the polls every two and four years.

British opposition politicians said Trump was not welcome in the U.K. Former opposition Labour party leader leader Ed Miliband tweeted to Trump that the reason he cancelled was really «because nobody wanted you to come.

It might also be one last attempt to distance herself from the antisemitism and racism associated with her party and her father, Jean - Marie Le Pen — an image she has worked tirelessly to erase since taking over from him as party leader in 2011.

In all categories, the other party leaders — the NDP's Jack Layton, the Bloc's Gilles Duceppe and the Greens» Elizabeth May — scored very low.

By converting «wasted» presidential votes into «none of the above» or support for third - party candidates in Oklahoma, Arizona and other deep red states in the South — the Confederacy, essentially — black voters would exert pressure on party leaders to not take black voters and their issues for granted.

Depending on the Blank - Out campaign's success, it could have consequences for Democratic Party leaders down the line.

On Wednesday, party leaders reached an agreement on their final tax bill, called the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act.

In my research, I was interested in how Nazi symbols and rituals penetrated private, family festivities - away from the gaze of party leaders.

In 1921, in a Munich beer hall, newly appointed Nazi party leader Adolf Hitler gave a Christmas speech to an excited crowd.

At the same time, though, party leaders have declared that Chinese companies must «go global» and compete with Western multinationals.

In 2011, a Senate bill to roll the EPA into the Department of Energy attracted the 17 cosponsors, including party leaders like John McCain and Orrin Hatch.

France's far - right party leader Marine Le Pen on Sunday told thousands of flag - waving supporters chanting «This is our country!»

Between 1975 and 1979, the Khmer Rouge party leader Pol Pot and his followers drove people out of their homes and confiscated property in an attempt to redistribute the country's wealth.

«We believe it was the DNC that did the «hacking» as a way to distract from the many issues facing their deeply flawed candidate and failed party leader,» Trump said, according to Politico.

Redford was named party leader in the fall of 2011 and won government in her own right on a platform of progressivisim.

China and Singapore, meanwhile, established official relations in 1990 — although the elder Lee first visited the East Asian giant in 1976 and met every Chinese Communist Party leader from Mao Zedong to current President Xi Jinping.

The tape, in which Trump boasted about sexually assaulting women, sent the Republican Party into a panic as party leaders and donors pressured the Republican National Committee to force the former reality - TV star off the ticket.

M5S has not entered any coalition, although party leader Luigi Di Maio told CNBC in early February that if the party did not gain a majority to govern alone, it was willing to speak to other parties, although he did not say which ones.

Green Party leader Andrew Weaver labeled it a «Band - aid solution» to the housing affordability crisis.

Italian media news agency ANSA reported that former Prime Minister and PD party leader Matteo Renzi had resigned on Monday morning, although a PD party spokesperson said the party had had no notification yet.

«Party leaders were so keen to win the support of newspapers that we turned a blind eye to the need to sort this issue.

Jeremy Corbyn, the Labour Party leader, who has expressed ambivalent views about the EU in the past, was not seen as a particularly strong voice for the Remain campaign.

Trump got entangled in days of dispute with the parents of a Muslim American soldier who was killed in the Iraq war, and sparred with Republican Party leaders.

Opposition Labour Party leader Ed Miliband on Friday urged Cameron to apologize for «the appalling error of judgment he made in hiring Andy Coulson,» but Cameron refused and said Coulson remained a friend.

He will hold an emergency cabinet meeting and meet other party leaders on Thursday to discuss next steps.

«It is right that Rebekah Brooks has finally taken responsibility for the terrible events that happened on her watch, like the hacking of Milly Dowler's phone,» said opposition Labour Party leader Ed Miliband, who had been demanding that she quit.

Perversely, this perceived insincerity has hurt the anti-Brexit camp more than it has Boris Johnson, the Tory ex-Mayor of London, who has shamelessly changed his tune on the E.U. to make Brexit the instrument by which he can oust Cameron as party leader and take over as Prime Minister.

Ryan has said he and other party leaders will meet with Donald Trump this week.

He lost his bid to replace Harris as party leader in 2002, his seat in the 2003 provincial election, his bid for the leadership of the Conservative party in 2004 and his first attempt to win a federal seat later the same year.

Hoping to emulate her father's huge upset in the 2002 presidential elections, in which he progressed to the second round of voting before losing to Jacques Chirac, Le Pen started campaigning for the 2012 presidential elections almost as soon as she became party leader in 2011.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper and former Bloc leader Gilles Duceppe were the only party leaders above the civility average of all party MPs.

(He's also called the NDP job - killing, so clearly Albertans» jobs are not safe from the murderous wrath of any major party leader.)

Alberta Premier Rachel Notley (left) and United Conservative Party leader Jason Kenney.

No formal announcement, no position papers had been prepared; significant cabinet officers, such as the secretaries of Defense and State, were caught off - guard, as were his party leaders in the Congress.

Meanwhile, the Green party leader urged strategic voting to defeat the Tories, begging the question, what exactly is the strategy behind voting Green?

It would require defying the party leader's trade agenda during a contentious midterm election year and magnifying areas of serious disunity within the majority governing party.

Publication Source: The Daily Courier (Kelowna) Source Link: View the full original article >> Author: Roohi Sahajpal Enbridge's Northern Gateway pipeline has no chance in British Columbia if Green Party Leader Elizabeth May has her way.

As candidates door - knock in Alberta, they don't talk economy in abstract «R - word» terms as often as party leaders in more economically robust (or at least consistent) parts of Canada.