Sentences with phrase «as head of the party»

«They love it because it unifies people and it seems less political than when they have to make tough policy choices as head of government or brazenly political choices as head of party.»

(Reuters)-- Battle lines were drawn for South Africa's ANC on Monday as voting began to elect a new leader to succeed President Jacob Zuma as head of a party that has ruled since the end of apartheid but faced scandals and corruption allegations.

«No one wants to run on a ticket when you have Donald Trump as the head of your party.»

(Schumer will succeed Harry Reid as head of the party's caucus in the U.S. Senate next year.

He was one person who spoke his mind independently but was a team player.John was the first person performing his duty as Head of the party's communication to have openly expressed his worries over the party's approach to certain delicate national issues.When BBC interviewed him on the «Positive Defiance» statement by Jerry Rawlings, unlike others, he cleverly explained the statement to cure planted mischiefs but courageously went on further to respectfully state that some of such statements would be managed to avoid misinterpretations etc.That interview was what penciled him down by the BBC network as an intelligent communicator.

The Brooklyn native also is poised to take over as head of the party's caucus in the U.S. Senate Democrats next year following the retirement of Minority Leader Harry Reid after the election.

Not exact matches

Steinbrueck later told a news conference he understood Napolitano's need as head of state to remain neutral and above party political mud - slinging.

It could also allow her to dodge questions attacking her as the head of the National Front and will enable her to present her programme as her ideas rather than her party's.

The idea of abolishing or reducing the power of the EPA isn't entirely new to Republican Party politics — even though it would have been unimaginable under Republican presidents from Richard Nixon, who oversaw the agency's founding, to George W. Bush, whose EPA head has opposed Trump's EPA administrator pick as «disdainful» of the agency's mission.

This autumn, Austria might also become the first European country since WW2 to have a member of a far - right party as its head.

This is just one among numerous policy - making decisions that have members of both political parties, as well as independents, scratching their heads.

For Hu, it was a «legacy» visit, his swansong as the head of the world's most populous and potentially most powerful nation before stepping down as the leader of the Communist Party of China in 2012.

A founding member of the Reform Party, he quit Ottawa to become head of the anti-tax National Citizens Coalition, «on the libertarian side of the conservative movement,» as he described it.

Although he is nominally the party's No. 2 responsible for steering China's economy, Xi has effectively taken away much of Li's role by himself serving as the head of a series of party groups that guide economic and financial affairs.

The Senate voted largely along party lines Wednesday to confirm a former Marylander as President Donald J. Trump's head of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

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India Newsmakers Arun Jaitley, a corporate lawyer by training, has emerged as the rising star of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party and chief troubleshooter in the new government, headed by prime minister Narendra Modi.

The National Bank of Greece study was published Tuesday as Greece heads to new general elections on June 17, amid Europe - wide concern of broader financial turmoil if Greece's place in the single currency is threatened by a victory for an anti-austerity party.

If one more person sends me that super-lame Tea Party video with the fruitbat dressed as Thomas Paine, I'm going to pull my hair out of my head.

Presidents of both U.S. parties rely on Wall Street for major political campaign contributions, as do heads of the key Senate and Congressional banking and finance committees.

... Hitler had no time for Wotan, as one can see from his discussion about one of the few Party leaders who took an active Neo-pagan stance — the appropriately named Baldur von Schirach, head of the Hitler Youth movement.

Der Furher as head of the Nazi's considered himself god and was looked to by the party faithful as a god.

All he has to do is listen to them and know something is wrong with them... All the tea party choices hear voices in their heads and of course blame god as they probably have no health insurance,...

Headed to a «Pumpkin Palooza Potluck Party» soon and tight on time after a full days work, but like the idea of bringing something savory as so many others will bring sweet.

Eustachy is still likely best - known for being fired from his job as the head coach at Iowa State after pictures of him drinking and kissing co-eds at a University of Missouri fraternity party surfaced in 2003.

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The reward for the victorious party will be just three points, but it will feel like the proverbial six as two nailed - on relegation candidates go head - to - head at Molineux − which can be seen live on Sky Sports 1 as part of Super Sunday's double bill.

Agree 100 % Matte you have hit the nail on the head, All the majority will read into his words and come out with the same answer The minority if they have worked it out will be having a party (3 % of the 20 %) The other 17 % will still be walking around wondering what's going on as normal but being led by the idiots on Wetpants.com, Still waiting for a come back WHU and some numbers (is that you prison number) Or you p45 number, or your caravan spot number, as we are all pikey, s, or your wife, s statistics, sorry not very new age maybe boy friends statistics, Sorry off subject again BFS OUT

So if you have a huge stroller with a lot of stuff or a large party then I suggest you grab something to go as you head into the park or to The Metropolitan Museum of Art, which are both nearby.

As the party wound down, the guests made sure to sign the guest book and stamp some burp cloths before they headed home, and after clearing the tables, the other hosts and I took a moment to sit down with Beth and nibble on another piece of cake before we started cleaning up.

He also dismissed any suggestion of lingering bad blood between Mondello and Cox, who essentially forced the Nassau County chairman from his post as head of the state party back in 2009.

Nevertheless, regard for due process, constitutionalism and an overbearing institutional structure without appreciation of the process of devolution as well as respect for sub-unit structures has the tendency to compound the internal troubles; this situation appeared to have occurred and contributed to the palpable fatalities that rear their ugly heads in the party.

I'm not quite sure if this embodies the Long Tail effect, perverts it or turns it on its head, but it's fascinating — as in so many other public spaces online AND off, most people are good actors, but a small number of bad ones can really ruin the party.

The controversial conventions of the Peoples Democratic Party holding in Port Harcourt, Rivers State and Abuja have produced a new caretaker committee headed by former Kaduna Governor Senator Ahmed Makarfi with Senator Ben Obi as his Interim Secretary.

Here's the robocall recorded for Democratic NY - 26 candidate Kathy Hochul by former President Clinton as the party pulls out all the stops headed into the home strech of tomorrow's special election:

The NY Post reports this morning that a group of African - American Democratic leaders, headed by state Party Co-Chair Keith Wright, are mobilizing to try to erode the support among black voters enjoyed by former Gov. Eliot Spitzer as he heads into the final weeks of his NYC comptroller battle with his primary opponent, Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer.

Acting as the de facto head of the state Democratic Party, Andrew Cuomo this weekend personally convened a meeting with representatives of all the statewide campaigns as well as the state Senate and Assembly committees in hopes of presenting a united front in the final weeks of the general election campaign.

When Jeremy Zellner took over as the head of the Erie County Democratic Party, he hoped to unify a group with fractured loyalties.

At this first coming in 1984, Major Gen. Muhammadu Buhari, as military head of state, had to endure the head - splitting headache from the hangover of President Shehu Shagari's National Party of Nigeria (NPN) freeloaders, in Nigeria's Second Republic (1 October 1979 — 31 December 1983).

Party head office has confirmed that 17 of these had been identified by an audit of membership carried out in recent months as not being on the electoral register and would not be allowed to vote unless they have a reasonable explanation.

Edward Walsh, the embattled head of the Conservative Party in Suffolk County, has announced that he will retire from his job as a lieutenant in the county sheriff's department Friday, the day his pension vests.

«As an expert on the history of our founders and the founding documents, Sen. Loudermilk understands that the only path to fundamentally restoring our constitutional republic is over the heads of leadership in both parties,» Madison Project President Drew Ryun said in a release.

A former Labour party head of briefings, O'Donovan was a special adviser in the New Labour years and is now seen as one of the key Blairite lobbyists in the private sector.

Party faithful munched on 5,000 sirloin steaks at the $ 80,000 taxpayer - funded event, which Lopez hatched as founder and head of the embattled Ridgewood Bushwick Senior Citizens Council 39 years ago.

Heading into the primaries, Saland was believed to be the safest of the three GOP senators who had voted «yes» on same - sex marriage and were being challenged by more conservative members of their own party as a result.

Ever since first being elected as the MP for Harwich in 2005, the former head of the Conservative party policy unit has been depressed by what he's seen.

These days, though, as head of the New York State Reform Party, he's pro-states rights when it comes to legalization, along with being staunchly pro-medical marijuana.

Commenting on the recently proposed changes to «stop and search» laws, that would have allowed police officers to racially profile suspects based on third party evidence - such as hearsay or gossip - a very senior police officer shook his head and sighed: «This reminds me of how we used to operate in the not so long ago, bad old days.

More often, the Senate is presided over by the president pro tempore who also serves as head of the majority party.

Were the 2010 general election to yield a hung parliament, Gordon Brown, like Heath, would be constitutionally entitled to seek coalition; or he could meet parliament as the head of a minority government and challenge the other parties to vote him down.