Sentences with phrase «about the leadership candidates»

With the window for taking part in Labour leadership election closing and ballot papers going out there were several polls over the weekend asking about the leadership candidates, though no fresh polling of people voting in the actual contest.

See if there is room to enhance them to outline more specific expectations about the leadership candidates they attract.

Not exact matches

Cisco Canada President Bernadette Wightman talks about her best advice for tackling tough problems, what she always asks job candidates in interviews, and the best leadership advice she's ever gotten.

G Parameshwara said the BJP national leadership has reduced its CM candidate BS Yeddyurappa to a side - player and made the narrative only about PM Modi.

After some research, he concluded that dedication to high - level athletics or civic leadership shouted louder about how a candidate would fit within the organization.

At the end, Adler's team assesses the candidates on whatever areas the company is curious about — decisiveness, leadership, and so forth — and issues a report to the company.

In a typical posting for a CFO position on Indeed.com, four of the 10 qualifications listed for the ideal candidate included language about communication and leadership.

What you didn't know about the potential candidates for the leadership of the Conservative Party of Canada

One of Mr. Jean's first acts as leader was to dismiss Calgary - South East candidate Bill Jarvis, whose comments about «brown people» embarrassed the party on the night of its leadership announcement.

Today, more than a century after Lincoln articulated a moral center on behalf of national reconciliation, secularity has so infiltrated our leadership and our elite institutions that presidential candidates are reluctant to employ moral language and are uncertain about any symbolic code.

Here are some details about that November 2004 ballot proposal: 1) there was already in place a Utah law strictly banning same - sex marriage, which I fully supported; 2) all three candidates for the office of attorney general of Utah (the chief law - enforcement officer in the state) opposed the amendment, including the LDS (Mormon) Republican incumbent, Mark Shurtleff, mostly because they considered it a poorly drafted amendment; 3) I refused to endorse the amendment, but I did not urge people to vote «no»; 4) the leadership of the LDS Church, which has a record for being as strongly opposed to same - sex marriage as the Catholic Church, did not issue a statement urging its members to vote one way or the other; 5) inasmuch as two thirds of Utahans belong to the LDS Church, this means that the leadership of at least 80 percent of Utah churchgoers did not urge a «yes» vote on the amendment.

However, the contemporary church has taken this recommendation about desirable qualities for «leadership candidates», and turned it into a commandment for all Christians (and society) to follow.

Liberal Democrats are worried about the national party's willingness to embrace centrist / moderate congressional candidates, who might, if they're elected, feel inclined to buck the party leadership and stray from its policy agenda.

About 50 of the resumes fit county criteria calling for candidates possessing «a high level of leadership, analytic and communication ability while demonstrating the highest level of integrity, vision and skill.»

Questions must also be asked about the remaining leadership candidates» ability to get Labour out of the doldrums.

All three deputy leadership candidates attended and continue to answer questions about referendum timing at local hustings.

But after a private meeting with McConnell, Trump expressed the skepticism about Bannon's efforts, especially his support for GOP Senate candidates who will challenge McConnell's leadership role.

«Every leadership candidate I have heard appears to disagree with me about our economic approach.

Burke provides other arguments about the need for representatives to have the freedom to exercise personal judgement and suggests they are somehow more able to see the bigger picture but I'd be interested in hearing your opinion on whether there is any knoweldge, information or argument about the Labour leadership contest or candidates that is the preserve of MPs only?

«New York taxpayers have been badly burned by the current leadership in Albany and they need to hear what the two state comptroller candidates plan to do about it,» Wilson said in a press release.

I agree with the above commenter - let's hear more from the Labour leadership candidates about how political the economic decisions are, and how they can be different.

A damaging row over grammar schools policy, unease among the grassroots about the leadership's efforts to introduce more women and ethnic minority parliamentary candidates and Gordon Brown's self - assured performance as Prime Minister in the summer of 2007 imperilled the Tory recovery.

Asked about which possible Labour leadership contenders people felt warmest towards, Greenberg said David Miliband was the favourite, followed by his brother, Ed, the likely candidate from the left of the party Jon Cruddas, and then the former schools secretary Ed Balls.

Candidates won't outwardly talk about bullet voting since it's frowned upon by party leadership.

Oddly, in spite of the overwhelmingly negative sentiments about the Democratic leadership in Washington and the GOP enrollment edge in NY - 23, Democratic gubernatorial candidate Andrew Cuomo is doing well in the district, leading his GOP / Conservative challenger, Carl Paladino, 53 - 32.

The candidates made their cases for their leadership prowess, and discussed extending term limits for Council members, greater transparency around lobbying, key questions about campaign finance reform in the city, and

In the event of an idiotic candidate winning elections, leadership will be about idiocy and idiotic policy decisions which will have idiotic effects on all Ghanaians.

2007 did us no favours, and if I was a potential leadership candidate I'd even think about asking some of my supporters to nominate McDonnell regardless of whether they then voted for him, to make sure I was viewed as having been elected properly in a contest where all sections of the party had been included.

In response to James» question about the Labour leadership candidates — Ed Miliband campaigned for Simon Hughes to speak out & is encouraging his supporters to call on the Lib Dems to stand up for their values, David Miliband has suggested ending the charitable status of fee - paying schools and (one of those non-monetary aspects to reducing inequality) giving representation to ordinary workers on corporate remunertion committees, Ed Balls has strongly opposed the VAT rise and is calling for a graduate tax instead of higher tuition fees, Andy Burnham has reiterated his support for a National Care Service and spoken out on the abolition of the Future Jobs Fund, Diane Abbot has called for fair taxation, cancelling Trident, and setting a timetable for troop withdrawal from Afghanistan.

Defeated leadership candidate David Miliband has told the Labour party to stop worrying about his future - without revealing his intentions.

Pushed on how she felt about being seen as the Blairite candidate for the Labour leadership, she was a bit coy:

I can now support reform minded candidates of all political stripes and have the freedom to work for issues of importance for this state, without worrying about how the state leadership will feel about it.

For the second, I suspect any data is fatally flawed by the public's low awareness of the candidates — right now, polls about the Labour leadership are little more than name recognition contests.

On Wednesday night Paul wrote about Channel Four's Labour leadership hustings and concisely concluded what each of the candidates was about.

Ken Clarke and Malcolm Rifkind filmed in Sky News Westminster studio making remarks about Tory leadership candidates https://t.co/SywJXdMvH6

«I stood for the Labour leadership as the candidate of the Left and trade union movement so that there could be a proper debate about Labour's future in which all the wings of the party were fully represented.

While Labour's leadership contest has been attracting more headlines, the two Lib Dem leadership candidates have attended 25 hustings, more than 100 campaign events and covered about 20,000 miles between them.

He is so genial, and so brutal, about the candidates that one's first wish is that he could take his accustomed place among them — for Clarke, it should be remembered, stood three times for the leadership, and was three times turned down.

Labour leadership candidate Liz Kendall said it is «unbelievable» she was asked a question about her weight in the Mail on Sunday.

For Labour Party people who look to their leaders for a political lead, what then have each of our leadership candidate got to say about yesterday's hugely significant event?

He says: «What is striking about the Labour leadership election is that whatever you thought about Jeremy Corbyn, none of the other candidates came across as having yet got the depth and maturity and the leadership ability to lead their party.

The clear lesson for future leadership candidates may be that you have to be nice about your party before you can get away with being nasty about it.

Of the other leadership candidates, Yvette Cooper was first out of the traps to welcome the news, with a spokesman saying she «has always said she wanted to see the widest possible debate about future of the party in this contest».

Diane Abbott, speaking to Labour conference as a losing leadership candidate, won loud cheers and a standing ovation — enthusiastic amongst delegates but noticeably reluctant amongst MPs, perhaps because she revealed that she was going to add to the competition which so many of them are about to face in the shadow cabinet elections.

In the weekend press, we have Tristan Hunt despairing about the inability of the leadership candidates to offer a big picture alternative — in his view dealing with the trivia.

[4] Among the candidates for the Conservative Party leadership election there were disagreements about when this should be: Theresa May said that the UK needed a clear negotiating position before triggering Article 50, and that she would not do so in 2016, while Andrea Leadsom said that she would trigger it as soon as possible.

Bernard Jenkin, the MP for North Essex, said: «The Conservative candidate did well, considering there was such ambivalence from the leadership about whether they wanted to the Conservative Party to do well.»

In addition to this set of questions, however, the Barometer poll also asked about the two candidates for the Labour leadership.

She has written to Mr Cameron and the five leadership candidates to say EU citizens in Scotland are «understandably anxious and uncertain» about what the referendum result means for them.

«Being a lifelong Republican, Chris is focused on running on the Republican line and bringing his conservative pragmatic leadership to Washington,» a spokesman for Cox - the - candidate said, when I asked how the NY - 1 hopeful feels about the line's prospects and would he run on such a line.