Sentences with phrase «speaker race this time»

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Four years ago there was another speaker race, and Crowley was also aligned with the Bronx, although at that time the Democratic chair in the borough was current Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie.

These are some of the Democrats already moving: Mr. Kaminsky, a former prosecutor who is rumored to be eyeing a run for Mr. Skelos» Senate seat; Mr. Kavanagh, the leader of the reform caucus that emerged during the speaker's race; Mr. Perry, the chairman of the powerful Black, Puerto Rican, Hispanic and Asian Legislative Caucus; Mr. Mosley, who took on his seat from now - Congressman Hakeem Jeffries and almost got the Caucus nod Mr. Perry did; Marcos Crespo, new Bronx Democratic chairman and close friend of Mr. Heastie; Mr. Blake, a former Obama staffer from the resurgent Bronx; and Ms. Rozic, who at the time of her election was the youngest woman ever elected to the Assembly.

He's going up against more seasoned political operators who have already invested time and resources into the speaker's race.

But when it came time to nominate speaker candidates inside City Hall Wednesday, Garodnick bowed out of the race.

At the time, de Blasio was negotiating on behalf of Brooklyn members in a race to pick the next speaker, and was able to secure committee chairmanships — and the $ 15,000 stipends that came with them — for himself and two other members.

A week before Council members vote for the next speaker of the City Council, Brooklyn Councilwoman Inez Barron is entering the race because she thinks it is time for a black speaker.

Linguists race against time to document those languages before the last of their native speakers die.

Danish sports car racing legend, nine - time 24 Hours of Le Mans winner, six - time 24 Hours of Sebring winner, and 2013 FIA World Endurance champion Tom Kristensen will share his experiences as the highlighted guest speaker at the annual Picnic in the Paddock on Saturday, Aug. 19.

Everything the Safari team needed to put on a race — from timing equipment to microphones and speakers — was loaded into a travel trailer and towed from coast to coast by a station wagon.

This way, you can avoid two possible (and frequent) time management problems: the rushed speech at the end, where the speaker is racing through slides and mentioning a few words on each page to make sure they've covered all of the material, or the even more awkward problem: a speaker who stops with twenty minutes left in their hour, staring blankly at the audience, practically pleading for a series of insightful questions to help them fill the remainder of their allotted time.

It's possible to speculate that, with Amazon backing Zigbee, Z - Wave will end up being the Betamax of the smart home race, but for the time being at least smart speakers need to start providing a real alternative to smart home hubs.

However, with Amazon Echo and Google Home in a fierce arms race to one - up each other, and Apple's Siri - powered HomePod arriving on store shelves this December, we hope the smart speaker market isn't too crowded in time for the supposed Vega's launch — for Samsung's sake.