Sentences with phrase «party leaders like»

McAuliffe, who campaigned in Virginia last year as Hillary Clinton's finance chair, had run with the backing of national party leaders like Democratic Governor Association chair Brian Schweitzer, but was overtaken in the race's final weeks by Deeds.

That's because candidates are essentially picked by local Democratic Party leaders like Brooklyn party boss Frank Seddio.

What is your relationship with party leaders like former vice president Atiku Abubakar, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu and the President of the Senate, Bukola Saraki?

Secularism is a religion and the party leaders like the leaders of power groups in Iraq stir up hate.

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.

Pragmatic party leaders liked his communication skills — he stole the show at several cattle calls in» 91 — as well as his centrist background (former chairman of the Democratic Leadership Council) and his appeal in the South, a region the party was desperately trying to win back in the wake of the Mondale and Dukakis debacles.

Not exact matches

Meanwhile, parties like Silvio Berlusconi's Forza Italia and the ruling Democratic Party (PD) fell short of expectations, prompting PD leader and former Prime Minister Matteo Renzi to resign.

Though some Republicans, like Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, were quick to praise Tillerson's international business experience working with foreign governments, Tillerson's nomination was met with deep skepticism from both parties over his embodiment of the most contentious 2016 campaign issues: Trump's closeness with Russia, climate change skepticism, and potential business conflicts of interest.

Like many PACs, Novo Nordisk spreads money to both parties, concentrating on powerful committee members and other leaders.

Part of being the institutional party is refraining from putting excessive strain on institutions — either tangible ones, like investigative agencies that feel compelled to maintain their own public reputation, or intangible ones, like the sense of the public that political leaders have high ethical standards.

Like Murdoch, business leaders in Silicon Valley may not fully appreciate the importance the Chinese Communist Party attaches to the information industry.

«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.

Xi, like every leader since Deng, combines a trinity of roles that embody the three pillars of power in China: party chairman, president, and head of the Central Military Commission.

I think many British Columbians, much like Albertans, have shrunk from voting NDP because they were seen as a party of labour leaders, professors and what my father would call «parlor pinks.»

A host on the left - wing MSNBC mocked Democrats like Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D - NY) and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D - CA) on Monday for the party's lack of diversity that was on display when Democrats unveiled their new «better deal» plan in Virginia.

Like the Wildrose Party, who lost leader Danielle Smith and 10 other MLAs when they crossed the floor to the Progressive Conservatives in the final months of 2014, the Liberals will now need to find someone to lead them into the next election.

John, I like your explanation of Jim Prentice's departure but I think Jerrymacgp is right, resigning as party leader made perfect sense.

Call them the party radicals or the grassroots, depending on your perspective: NDPers who like to wave signs or wear buttons often prefer to brandish a slogan, rather than some leader's name.

A party leader - dominated process like the convention would have spared us some of the freakshow elements of the current Republican presidential race.

However, many of the party leaders, like Hans Schemm, and Otto Wagner, were far from happy about the use of Hitler Youth events to stage Pagan rituals so they complained to Hitler who ridiculed the youthful paganism by saying: «All that rubbish about the Thing places, the solstice festivals, the Midgard snake.»

The «church - system» looks more like the «filling - station system,» and the clergy in their varieties of responsibility and excellence seem most to resemble democratic political leaders — from town selectmen to governors, from demagogues to statesmen, from ward heelers to national party leaders.

She was speaking in a week in which she was named the party leader most like Jesus in a poll conducted with almost 2,000 of the Premier audience.

Theresa May is the political party leader Christians believe is most like Jesus Christ, according to new research conducted by Premier.

But one day hence will a one - party dictatorship or an all - powerful leader strike down these structures of freedom within the movement, like later Lenin crushing the soviets or Robespierre leading the chapter - societies to the guillotine?

i know that we need to keep both players, their importance to the team should be reflected in their wages, i'd like to see them get between 200 000/250 000 a week but they shouldn't hold us to ransom and ask for 300 000 like i read somewhere also they shouldn't take into account the reasons why they've been playing well (very well i should say) the fact that they are at the right club playing under a manager who gives them the freedom to express themselves on the pitch, teammates that respect them and see them as their leaders they must enjoy leading the team and the way our team plays its football, i think right now both the players and the club suit each other and the best outcome for all parties (including fans) would be to agree on contracts that satisfy everyone!!

His God - like status among party leaders is melting away to obscurity.

Green Party leaders split somewhat from their minor party colleagues, saying they would like to see an end to so - called fusion voting (which, by the way, the governor has so far NOT proposed), insisting that third parties should end their habit of cross-endorsing major party candidates in order to maintain their autonomy and remain ideologically Party leaders split somewhat from their minor party colleagues, saying they would like to see an end to so - called fusion voting (which, by the way, the governor has so far NOT proposed), insisting that third parties should end their habit of cross-endorsing major party candidates in order to maintain their autonomy and remain ideologically party colleagues, saying they would like to see an end to so - called fusion voting (which, by the way, the governor has so far NOT proposed), insisting that third parties should end their habit of cross-endorsing major party candidates in order to maintain their autonomy and remain ideologically party candidates in order to maintain their autonomy and remain ideologically pure.

d) Just like people in wealthier states choose to «invest» more into interpersonal relationships, business leaders have accomplished something in the field of business and search for a different kind of satisfaction - and party members elect them simply because they are famous / successful.

Like I said to Birgitta, the leader of the Pirate Party, I will be ready in September, October because we have to do this.

Clegg knows, like any party leader, that the significance of by - elections far outweighs the advantage of one extra MP voting in the division lobbies on your side.

This felt like the deputy prime minister dealing with a pack of very predictable journalists, not a party leader sweet - talking his supporters.

I intend to change the Republican Party as we have known it with the voluntary or forced resignation of previously identified RINO County Chairs like Vinny Reda, in Rockland County, as well as Dean Skelos as Majority Leader of the Senate and Brian Kolb as the Minority Leader of the Assembly.

The reason why there is an assumption that the Republicans won't vote against Trump in unanimous lockstep, like they did as a matter of policy with Obama, is if the Congressional Republicans basically declare war on their own party leader, no one but the Dems can win (given their track record, that's not a given, either), short or long term.

One day we may indeed see a leader «broken» at a party conference, though I can't quite imagine what it would look like.

Party leaders even debated holding the vote to decide on their standard bearer on the very first day they gather at the Sheraton in Manhattan — June 1 — with down - ballot races like AG and state comptroller bumped to the second or even third day.

Meanwhile the takeaway line from the SNP leader's speech, «let's resolve to put Scotland in the driving seat», like the conference slogan «PROGRESS», was vague and eminently forgettable, while there was also a weirdly hubristic section which implied the party might remain in government for «the next ten years and beyond».

Prior to Theresa May's anointment as Conservative leader — when the Tory party was undergoing its own post-referendum civil war and the inept, inexperienced, uber right - wing Andrea Leadsom was looking like a plausible contender — Labour was still polling seven points behind.

House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi indicated that her party would like to roll back the tax reform law passed last year if they gain control of Congress this November.

But as the former leader of the strongest political party representing Bosnian Muslims, SDA (Party of Democratic Action), Bakir Izetbegovic spoke in the name of only one section of the Bosnian population, to which he exclusively referred to as Bosniaks, much like his late fatherparty representing Bosnian Muslims, SDA (Party of Democratic Action), Bakir Izetbegovic spoke in the name of only one section of the Bosnian population, to which he exclusively referred to as Bosniaks, much like his late fatherParty of Democratic Action), Bakir Izetbegovic spoke in the name of only one section of the Bosnian population, to which he exclusively referred to as Bosniaks, much like his late father did.

And I would expect that everyone else would find a way to act like adults and support the person who's going to be the standard - bearer for the party,» said state Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan.

With his encouragement, labor leaders and major unions like the United Federation of Teachers and 1199SEIU left the party.

Pro-fusion forces on the right like Mike Long and the Conservative Party will no doubt push the Republicans to withstand the governor's call, but in the end it will come down to progressive - minded leaders and legislators inside the Democratic Party voting yea or nay.

Looking at BES 0 to 10 like - dislike scales for the party leaders, the Yes and SNP recruits from Labour gave Miliband an average score of just 2.2, a figure not statistically significantly greater than the 1.1 average score they gave Cameron.

James is also well - liked by leaders of the Working Families Party, which would provide a critical buttress in a competitive Democratic primary, and had been floated as a possible replacement for Lt. Gov. Kathy Hochul — a sign that Cuomo would be open to her candidacy.

Like Sanders, Grayson is in an uphill fight against his party's leaders, challenging Democratic Rep. Patrick Murphy for the party's nomination for Senate in the Sunshine State.

«I've gotten to the point, I'm not sure any new revenues we can propose would be that productive,» he said, sounding a lot more like a moderate Republican than a hardcore Democrat who's widely viewed as a leader of the party's progressive wing.

Like last Saturday, when factions loyal to the two party leaders held parallel congresses, the situation repeated itself on Saturday with the two camps producing two different state chairmen.

District leaders are the rock of the Democratic Party, you'd be lucky to have one like Jessica Ramos in your community.

Committee members remain divided on the idea of a 60 % reduction: Some, like longtime party leader Leah Daughtry, support eliminating superdelegates altogether on a first ballot convention vote.

Kristian Dhal, the party leader, sent a message to «other moderate euroskeptic parties like the British Conservatives» to form an alliance to «steer back the EU» to focus on trade and energy and to be less interfering in national legislation.