Sentences with phrase «against a candidate for»

The Waldorf School of Atlanta does not discriminate against candidates for admission or employment on the basis of age, race, religion, sex, national origin, marital status, sexual orientation, genetic information, or disability status as well as other classifications protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws.

Voters can vote for or against a candidate for any reason they choose.

They should participate in civic activities, including working for or against candidates for election and discussing public issues at all levels of government.

Not exact matches

July 5, 2016: He holds news conference to announce that «no reasonable prosecutor» would bring criminal charges against Hillary Clinton, the Democratic presidential candidate, over her email practices as secretary of state, but criticizes Clinton and her staff for being «extremely careless» in their handling of classified material.

At the same time, on a day when divisions within the party were very obvious, Melania Trump made an overture toward the other candidates who ran for the Republican nomination against Trump.

Hires for a high - level role often do not participate in a discussion, partially so that candidates vying for a prominent role are not aware of who they're up against.

We realized that the candidates who didn't grow up in the U.S. spent up to 20 minutes just to understand how to play the game, which introduced new challenges as they competed for positions against candidates who grew up playing the game.

Once suspicion had been aroused, Thiel seemed like one of a number of logical candidates for a vendetta against Gawker.

Bloomberg considered running for president as a third - party candidate earlier this year, but ultimately decided against it.

Keurig's decision to pull advertising, which its CEO apologized Monday for announcing on Twitter, came after Hannity sparked controversy for defending Republican Senate candidate Roy Moore against allegations of sexual misconduct with minors.

Matthew Whitaker, a former US attorney and 2014 Republican primary candidate in Iowa's Senate race who is now the executive director of the conservative Foundation for Accountability and Civic Trust, told Business Insider in an email that Comey's testimony made it «clear» that «there is absolutely no criminal case to be made against President Trump for obstruction of justice.»

Sacca, who is known for his early investments in tech companies such as Twitter and Uber, launched into an impassioned speech criticizing the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, firing off a barrage of charges against Trump that were as fast, furious, and hard to fact check as those coming from the candidates themselves.

«This has to be the first time that a major presidential candidate has actively encouraged a foreign power to conduct espionage against his political opponent,» Hillary for American senior policy advisor Jake Sullivan said in a statement.

Companies may also encourage registration for a particular party, distribute voter registration information advocating for or against specific candidates, prepare and distribute voter guides that advocate for a particular candidate, and finance voter mobilization, such as voter identification activities, some legal experts say.

Silicon Valley elites came out strongly against candidate Trump, including 140 who signed an open letter claiming he would be bad for innovation.

For example, in September 2016, Steele admitted to Ohr his feelings against then - candidate Trump when Steele said he «was desperate that Donald Trump not get elected and was passionate about him not being president.»

At the time that Democrats began paying for the research, Mr. Trump was in the process of clinching the Republican presidential nomination, and Ms. Clinton's allies were scrambling to figure out how to run against a candidate who had already weathered attacks from Republican rivals about his shifting policy positions, his character and his business record.

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If those 100 people held a rally — a form of social organization designed to amplify individual voices — and at that rally chanted slogans for or against a particular candidate, that would be perfectly legal.

It does not seem that the corporation / union should have the right to lobby, speak for, etc. for / against candidates or issues that I do not think are in my best interest.

It is apparently for that reason that Prime Minister Stephen Harper's allies in the party leadership, including party president John Walsh and Harper's chief of staff, Ray Novak, are not inviting defeated candidates for the first post-election caucus meeting, apparently in mid-November: They want to contain a rising tide of anger against Harper and his campaign.

An army of Wildrose twitterati launched online attacks yesterday against Calgary - North West PC MLA Sandra Jansen for her support of former television news anchor Nirmala Naidoo, who is running as the federal Liberal candidate in Calgary - Rocky Ridge, which overlaps with the Calgary - Foothills constituency.

Alphabet's lawsuit against Uber goes to trial in October and has become a point of concern for some of the candidates to replace Kalanick as CEO, as Recode reported.

Moderate Tories have tried for 17 years to grab the nomination from Mr. Anders, sending high - profile candidates like Alison Redford, Jocelyn Burgener and Donna Kennedy - Glans to run against him, to no avail.

In other words, shareholders would follow a common procedure to vote «for» or «against» a candidate, and only those candidates who receive majority support would serve as directors.

The Facebook exec's tweets followed Mueller's release of indictments against 13 Russian nationals and three Russian businesses for what Mueller called a wide - ranging effort to undermine the 2016 presidential election, including efforts aimed at «supporting the presidential campaign of then - candidate Donald J. Trump.»

Though the odds are stacked against her, support for this candidate is growing fast on social media.

With a proxy contest looming, activist investor Voce Capital has released yet another broadside against target company FBR & Co., this time in the form of a comprehensive presentation detailing the rationale behind Voce's campaign and advocating for the election of the hedge fund's three board candidates.

These nondisclosing organizations can engage in a number of activities, including buying ads that advocate for or against a candidate, running phone banks and making contributions to super PACs.

But Podesta and his candidate want to force a religious order of Catholic women to cooperate in the provision of contraceptives and abortifacients; they want to compel small businesses to cater to same - sex marriage ceremonies; and they want physicians to refer troubled patients for «transgender» treatment — all against the Catholic understanding of the right to act on one's conscience (in these cases, one's rightly formed conscience).

I would neither vote for nor against a candidate JUST because they are Mormon.

If I fought against the right of atheists to campaign for atheist candidates, then why should I expect anything less than a counterattack against my own voting rights as a Christian?

(Isa 2:4) These then are not involved in protest rallies, nor prays for or against any political candidate, but rather it prays for God's kingdom (Matt 6:9, 10), a heavenly government, to bring total peace to the earth, removing all national boundaries, sin, sickness and death and raising «meek» ones to perfection to enjoy living on a paradise earth forever.

The pastor proceeded to warn his audience against voting for a candidate in the upcoming midterm elections who supports gay marriage and abortion, even if that candidate, Carl DeMaio, is a Republican.

(CNN)- Bias against a Mormon presidential candidate hasn't budged in 45 years, with 18 % of Americans saying they would not vote for a well - qualified candidate who happened to be Mormon, according to a Gallup Poll released Thursday.

I base my vote for or against a candidate on how they have run or promise to run the country.

A brief history lesson - whenever 2 candidates go against each other in our country, about half vote for one candidate and about half for the other.

As a result, we should allow for a range of opinions, affirming our areas of agreement (e.g., that a vote is a gift to be stewarded) and recognizing Christian liberty in areas of disagreement (How should we weigh the personal conduct of one candidate against that of another?

So with Occupy Wall Street, and Penn State football child molestation allegations, and the dearth of credible Republican candidates to run against a President who seems to have no care other than winning the next election, and Kim Kardashian apparently marrying whomever for millions of....

Obama also prayed for a weak unappealing candidate to run against, preferably something weird like a Mormon, and ta - da!!!

For some bizarre reason Republicans in the New York 23rd decided to nominate a candidate who is happily pro-choice and against traditional marriage.

He also was among the first major historians to repudiate the groundless attacks against Pius XII, and was so impressed with the growing evidence in Pius's favor, that Gilbert concluded, «far from deserving obloquy,» the Pope «should be a candidate for Yad Vashem's order of «Righteous Gentiles.

I'm a Mormon myself and it's really encouraging to hear more people take the same stance you are taking — vote for or against a candidate based on their platform, their record, etc..

As surveys indicate, many voters will go to the polls, not to vote for a candidate, but to vote against a candidate.

I did not vote for their religious «leaders,» and I will vote against any of the weak - willed political candidates who allow these self - appointed ayatollahs to dictate policy in the United States.

Think about the fact that your candidates have spent millions of dollars for the right to run against President Barack Obama.

In 1935 the leaders of the Confessing Church who took a firm stand against the Nazi influenced Reich church asked him to return to Germany for establishing a seminary for their ministerial candidates.

Their political uniformity is so reliable that I take an LGBT voter's guide with me into the polling booth, knowing that in voting against their endorsements I can never, for example, inadvertently harm a pro-life candidate.

Religion may shape the character of a candidate but if that is either a platform plank or a reason to vote for or against a particular candidate you are only proclaiming your ignorance.

It's simple as this, Rick Santorum appeals to the less educated, extremely conservative and more bigot minded segment of rural America, which is largely dominated by Born again evangelicals, who as the article points out have a misguided view that that Mormons aren't Christian, and in their misguided bigotry seem to be voting against Romney based upon their religion rather than for a good candidate who can win the general election.