Sentences with phrase «running this campaign gave»

Running this campaign gave me a chance to actually sit down and test out their offering and see how worthwhile it really is.

Not exact matches

The online showcase Before the Label gives independent designers a platform for both sales and beta testing — designers get approval to run their designs on the site, and then list them in campaigns ranging from a couple weeks to a couple months.

However, it's also unique in that Google gives learners a $ 250 AdWords budget to use over a three - week period, to run an online advertising campaign for a business or not - for - profit.

Like most big corporations, Novo Nordisk runs a political action committee, or PAC, which solicits employee donations and gives the proceeds to political candidates» campaigns.

This campaign, running from nine to 20 weeks in any given year, reached a large segment of the smoking population.

For example, if you are running AdWords campaigns, you can track purchases as conversions and then see how much money a given campaign, ad group, ad or keyword has produced.

Given the large amount of money that was made with well - run campaigns, the temptation to move over to the «dark side» brought a proliferation of copycat sites which presented almost no value for the consumer.

Running an ICO of course, could have helped boost this campaign and give Cambridge Analytica an instant source of income which would have accelerated their seemingly illegal, data mining process.

You would be given freedom to explore strategies, manage a team, run campaigns / experiments and provide guidance to the team on project direction.

Donors who want to shape the political environment would do more good running these kinds of advertizing campaigns than giving Karl Rove money to intervene against the ghost of Christine O'Donnell and run ineffective general election ads.

Harvey and Bob Weinstein, who run Miramax, entered Kids in the prestigious Cannes Film Festival and began an extensive campaign to convince critics that Kids is an important work of art that should be given the more profitable R rating, which allows parents to take their youngsters to the film and also opens up the video and cable television markets.

But how Brown is running his campaign might give us some important information about how the political environment has changed since 2010 - and not just in Massachusetts.

Absolute Radio gave some valuable air - time to Meat Free Monday yesterday, with a live mention for the campaign, as well as running a competition to win a copy of The Meat Free Monday Cookbook signed by Paul McCartney.

FamilyFarmed's annual Giving campaign is under way, and to highlight the work we do to build a better food system, we are running a series of profiles of great businesses that have participated in our programs.

there is no doubting that Arsene has helped to provide us with some incredible footballing moments in the formative years of his managerial career at Arsenal, but that certainly doesn't and shouldn't mean that he has earned the right to decide when and how he should leave this club... there have been numerous managers at each of the biggest clubs in Europe throughout the last decade who have waged far more successful campaigns than ours yet somehow and someway each were given their walking papers because they failed to meet the standards laid out by the hierarchy of their respective clubs... of course that doesn't mean that clubs should simply follow the lead of others, especially if clubs of note have become too reactionary when it comes to issues of termination, for whatever reasons, but there should be some logical discourse when it comes to the setting of parameters for a changing of the guard... in the case of Arsenal, this sort of discourse was largely stifled when the higher - ups devised their sinister plan on the eve of our move to the Emirates... by giving Wenger a free pass due to supposed financial constraints he, unwittingly or not, set the bar too low... it reminds me of a landlord who says he will only rent to «professional people» to maintain a certain standard then does a complete about face when the market is lean and vacancies are up... for those who rented under the original mandate they of course feel cheated but there is little they can do, except move on, especially if the landlord clearly cares more about profitability than keeping their word... unfortunately for the lifelong fans of a football club it's not so easy to switch allegiances and frankly why should they, in most cases we have been around far longer than them... so how does one deal with such an untenable situation... do you simply shut - up and hope for the best, do you place the best interests of those with only self - serving agendas above the collective and pray that karma eventually catches up with them, do you run away with your tail between your legs and only return when things have ultimately changed, do you keep trying to find silver linings to justify your very existence, do you lower your expectations by convincing yourself it could be worse or do you stand up for what you believe in by holding people accountable for their actions, especially when every fiber of your being tells you that something is rotten in the state of Denmark

I think Arsene Wenger would probably have preferred it if the Arsenal right back Hector Bellerin had been given a little rest by his national manager, especially after the hard running 21 - year old is yet to miss a minute of football in the Premier League or Champions League campaigns this season.

First and foremost, this blistering form and unbeaten run should give the Gunners a massive boost in to the start of the next campaign.

Ospina started the first game in the FA cup campaign and he'll be the one to finish it, szczesny never really made a case for being 1st choice keeper when he given a run in the FA cup campaign.

Imagine for a minute you're in middle school and running for class president; you have spent time campaigning and giving speeches to classmates.

He may not beat her, but Sanders could give Hillary a run for her money on the campaign trail and during the debates.

At home in this season's campaign, they have beaten Shakhtar 2 - 0 and Napoli 2 - 1 although they were given a run for their money by the Italians.

The campaign gets its name from the asterisk that originally found its way into sports in 1961 - when Major League Baseball commissioner Ford Frick decided that the new single - season home run record set by the Yankee's Roger Maris of 61 homers would be accompanied by an asterisk to denote the fact that it was set over a 162 - game season eight games longer than the 1927 season in which Babe Ruth had hit 60 homers - but which has been given a whole new meaning in the 2000's as denoting records tainted by an athlete's suspected steroid use.

Commercial advertisers have been experimenting with advertising in video games for a couple of years now, but Barack Obama has now given in - game ads the Presidential (campaign) Seal of Approval: he's been running get - out - the - vote ads in the XBox Live racing game Burnout Paradise for days now.

Once the campaign is up and running in a given area, the professional staff will begin to direct more of the local volunteer activity, but even then MyBO usage does not appear to drop off significantly.

«The government is saying to industry if you give us money to run our campaigns we will take away the threat of legislation or regulation which is what is needed in this country,» Tam Fry of the National Obesity Programme told the Today programme.

Hours after insisting he would continue to run for governor, Sen. John DeFrancisco on Wednesday announced he quit actively campaigning for the post — giving Dutchess County Executive Marc Molinaro a clear path to the nomination.

From Facebook, to amateur content from supporters on campaign websites, email and text messaging, US candidates have successfully sought to draw voters into a political conversation, giving them a stake in the campaign, and a voice in how the campaign should be run.

Many Republican members of Congress are dismissing Democrat Conor Lamb's apparent special election victory in a GOP - dominated Pennsylvania district as a one - off, giving a number of reasons for his strong performance — from a poor campaign run by his opponent to the Democrat's notably conservative views.

Thanks both to the lack of truly divisive issues in the UK (such as abortion, gay marriage or gun control) and more importantly a fear of being branded a maverick by the central party, British candidates sadly can't motivate people to give the kind of money it takes to run a state - ofthe - art campaign.

Richard Becker, one of several Democrats vying to take on Republican Rep. Nan Hayworth in the general election, was forced to issue a rather shamefaced explanation after questioned about a campaign contribution he gave to a former Republican congresswoman whose district (well, the re-drawn version of it, anyway) he's now running to represent.

Fundraising: While we raised enough for our deposit, and got over 200 assentors to my nomination, we could not raise enough for this to be more than a digital campaign run from SW1, and to not feature at events all around the country would have made me a hypocrite, given how much I criticise the establishment for ignoring the country.

«Given the ugly tenor of the campaigns across the country that we just witnessed, I am very happy that I chose not to run,» Panepinto wrote.

Jacobs, much of his extended family, and a number of Limited Liability Companies or LLC's have given Cuomo nearly $ 125,000 in campaign contributions since he first ran for Governor in 2010.

But just as the Obama - is - Muslim meme dogged him through most of the presidential campaign, the person - to - person rumors may be the greatest danger to his health care agenda (though the six - healthcare - lobbyists - per - Congressmember will give them a run for their money).

That, and the experienced campaign team he has assembled — say what you want about Steve Casey, he knows how to run a campaign — give the mayor two major advantages.

A spokesman who said he was not authorized by the Cuomo campaign to give his name responded to Nixon's challenge by saying, «It's great that we live in a democracy where anyone can run for office.

In the 2014 State of State handbook which accompanied the speech, the governor detailed these as well as other reform initiatives, emphasizing that matching small donations with public funds would give «voice to small donors» and «help enable a diverse pool of candidates with substantial grassroots support, but little access to large donors, to run competitive campaigns.»

Additionally, until William Jennings Bryan, who ran against William McKinley in 1896, most campaigns were «front porch campaigns», meaning they were rather low key affairs in which it was considered unseemly for the candidate to do anything other than give the occasional speech.

When donors gave a record amount of money to Acea Mosey's campaign, they knew they were giving to an experienced lawyer and Democratic Party stalwart running for Erie County Surrogate Court judge.

Nassau County Comptroller George Maragos, who's running in the GOP primary against Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, has recently given his campaign a big boost in the form of a million dollars, he announced at a Sunday event hosted by the Brooklyn Tea Party.

Republican Harry Wilson, a wealthy investor and friend of Mayor Bloomberg who ran a strong, but losing, campaign for state comptroller last year, said yesterday he's giving «serious consideration» to challenging the once - moderate but now ultra-liberal Gillibrand in the 2012 balloting.

Lavine said she ran the best campaign she could given those circumstances.

It also seems that Senator Maziarz has had some difficulty accurately reporting just how much money people have given him to run campaigns and how much he'd actually spent in that pursuit.

Malpass has been backed by Diana Taylor, the mayor's longtime girlfriend, who is a bigwig at Wolfensohn & Co. and was urged to run for the seat herself by national Republicans, as well as some well - known GOP names who gave money to his campaign.

The latter move meant it was like «running a national election campaign with someone deciding who to give the electoral register to», one campaign team member said.

She ran an unsuccessful campaign for NYC comptroller (lone woman in the field) in 2009 and had to give up her seat.

If he faces off against a credible centrist candidate running a smart campaign, enough members might be persuaded to give up on the Corbyn project - especially if he faces a woman.

In the short term, the endorsement gives de Blasio something to talk about, after a week that saw some strong developments from the Thompson campaign, which picked up the endorsement of the Bronx Democratic County Organization and has begun to attract special attention from the front - running Quinn campaign.

Along with the strong run that nearly saw off Labour in Heywood and Middleton, Clacton will undoubtedly give a boost to the UKIP campaign in Rochester and Strood, where Mark Reckless is bidding to become the party's second elected MP.

«The answer to your question is if we're hired to do campaign compliance, we're certainly not giving you a direction in how you're running your campaign.»