Sentences with phrase «games run an election»

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The company treated this election's party conventions as practice for the NFL games, running live streams of each as a way to experiment with the format.

«If we do not hold a general election now their political game - playing will continue, and the negotiations with the European Union will reach their most difficult stage in the run - up to the next scheduled election.

Robert Freier, spokesman for the Oyster Bay Democrats, said Saladino's fee hike proposal, coming after a $ 1.3 million tax cut passed just before the November election, was «a shell game he played when he was running for election claiming a tax cut, and now he's raising fees after the fact to create a surplus.»

Alumni of the Obama administration are heeding their former boss» call to get in the game themselves and run for office in response the election of President Donald Trump and to continue what the former president started.

But they are also wondering if their sitting government isn't perhaps playing a game of «ding dong ditch» around the European elections; as in the childrens» game where players go up to a chosen house, ring the door bell, but then run out of sight.

The truth is that Gov. Cuomo has played a slight of hand game with both parties since becoming Governor and now with the election season drawing nearer his base will show they have a longer memory than he might have counted on when he failed to back Democratic Senate candidates and let if not openly encouraged the IDC Coalition to come into being by acting like Party didn't count at all in his game plain to win re-election and then possibly run for President in 2016.

Labour election campaign vice-chair Lucy Powell said: «The Tories have run out of ideas for the country so are resorting to playing political games with the unions.

Mayor's right about the horrible turnout numbers, but did he forget that he gamed the election system more by getting to run for a third term???

Gillibrand and Schumer offered late - in - the game endorsements for Warren after she defeated incumbent Mayor Tom Richards in the September Democratic primary, but then found herself running against him again in the general election, thanks to a grassroots campaign mounted on his behalf by Independence Party members and others.

In the run - up to the 2015 election, the sitting governor of Ekiti State, Ayodele Fayose, started the guessing game about Buhari's health and death.

According to Momentum, the festival will feature more than 160 hours of workshops, debates, live music, art exhibitions, children's activities, plays, and parties, including a «political games corner», interactive art exhibitions, pop up think tanks run by various groups including «Mums for Corbyn», a four day Hackathon tasked with building the tools needed to win the next election, workshops on how to make a viral video, a play telling the stories of striking miners and live streams of the Labour Party Conference.

«If you go back to 2005, I think it was, I think I spent $ 7 million of my own money trying to convince everybody that we should have nonpartisan elections,» said Bloomberg (who has very much played the partisan game when he's needed to, and contributed millions of dollars to the controversial Independence Party, which provided him a crucial non-major-party line to run on).

[1] The spontaneous formation of the Walker / Mallott «Alaska First Unity Ticket» caused a dramatic shakeup of the general election tickets for both governor and lieutenant governor, since it necessitated the withdrawal of two qualified candidates, Democratic lieutenant gubernatorial nominee Hollis French and Walker's original running mate Craig Fleener, who resigned from his post as state deputy fish and game commissioner to run with Walker.

In fairness to the game things do become a tad more challenging when mayoral elections get introduced because in the run - up to voting time you may be unwilling to spend goodwill to pass an edict that a party has proposed, even when it's something like removing punishments for homosexuality or providing free running water to homes.

But at a cost: By switching sides to game the election, Republican voters may have run afoul of Ohio law, explains Ari Melber of The Nation.

Accepting that these steps by themselves won't stop all people trying to game the system, the Facebook CEO said it will, however, make it a lot harder for anyone to do «what the Russians did during the 2016 election and use fake accounts and pages to run ads».

Mark Zuckerberg wrote that the steps alone «won't stop all people trying to game the system, But they will make it a lot harder for anyone to do what the Russians did during the 2016 election and use fake accounts and pages to run ads».