Sentences with phrase «against running for»

(CNN)- Jenny Sanford, former first lady of South Carolina, said she has decided against running for an open Congressional seat in the Palmetto State, a move that could have positioned her in a bitter Republican primary battle against her ex-husband.

NY Daily News: Rudy Giuliani will very likely seek U.S. Senate seat, and if elected maybe 2012 White House: source Former Mayor Rudy Giuliani has decided against running for governor, but is strongly considering running for U.S. Senate instead, sources told the Daily News.

Ep 13 - 95 — Ben Max of GG, Carol Kellerman of CBC & City Council Member Julissa Ferreras - Copeland discuss why the soon - to - be former Council member decided against running for reelection, despite being the leading contender to become the next City Council Speaker.

But in a pained interview 12 years ago in which he aired out his internal debate, DeFrancisco gave his rationale for deciding not to run - Mayor Matt Driscoll would eventually be elected - and described, basically, the same reasons that caused him to decide against running for mayor now:

Months after Vice President Biden decided against running for president, tensions linger between his camp and Hillary Clinton's campaign and supporters.

Paterson decided against running for a full term in 2010.

But, ultimately, those he met with opted against running for a variety of reasons, he said.

Perez Williams said after her initial decision against running for Congress, she started a new job in February as an advocate for injured workers with the New York State Workers» Compensation Board.

Senor has kept his finger in NY politics even though he decided against running for office, lending his name back in June, along with state Conservative Party Chairman Mike Long and 2006 GOP gubernatorial nominee John Faso, to a joint fundraiser for six New York GOP congressional hopefuls.

Assemblyman Rory Lancman has decided against running for Congress after the special master's maps gave him little choice but to challenge a fellow Democrat, veteran Rep. Gary Ackerman.

She also decided against a run for former Rep. Eric Massa's seat in NY - 29 this year.

Last February, he floated his name as a potential candidate in the 44th NYC Council race to fill the Brooklyn seat vacated by Simcha Felder (now a deputy comptroller in NYC Comptroller John Liu's office), but decided against a run for family reasons.

Not so, Tom Davis who left his northern Virginia seat in 2008 after weighing and ultimately deciding against a run for the seat being vacated by Sen. John Warner (R).

There's speculation that if Giuliani decided against a run for governor, he might consider a Senate run.

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In addition, as Spielberg's shop moves more into the family space, it could run up against part of the deal that forbids DreamWorks from making animated films for any company other than DWA.

Whitman is well - known in state and national politics as well, having worked on presidential campaigns for Mitt Romney and John McCain, and having run against Jerry Brown in 2010 for the governor of California, a race she ended up losing.

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.

Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Tuesday said he had «no reason to doubt» the women who have come forward in recent days with sexual - misconduct accusations against Roy Moore, the Alabama Republican running for Sessions» vacated Senate seat.

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

The campaign, which runs until June, has been in the works for nearly eight months, and was «developed before the killings of Canadian soldiers last fall in Ottawa and St. Jean, Quebec and Canada's decision to take part in the coalition campaign against ISIS,» writes Marketing's Danny Kucharsky.

«So I think that if we just run against her record as it has been, she voted to take away our guns, she voted for an assault weapons ban.

«They're not thrilled that he's already jumping ship to run for higher office because that's exactly what he campaigned against and what he promised he wouldn't do, be a ladder - climbing career politician,» Petersen said, noting a JTD strategies poll that found half of Missouri voters think Hawley could be using his attorney general career as a stepping stone to higher office.

Now a political independent, Bloomberg considered making a third - party run for president this year before opting against a campaign, expressing worry he would siphon away votes from Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton and inadvertently help elect Trump.

LUXEMBOURG (Reuters)- France is entitled to bring criminal proceedings against local managers of ride - hailing app Uber for running an illegal taxi service, the EU top court ruled on Tuesday, dealing the Silicon Valley start - up another legal setback.

During the course of the campaign, Jokowi has drawn closer to some of the entrenched interests that he is, in theory, running against — showing that for now, perhaps, there are limits to just how high Indonesia's self - made, corruption - busting leader from the slums can climb on his own.

PHILADELPHIA — Lawyers for an investigative reporting organization filed a lawsuit Wednesday against the Philadelphia region's main transit agency after it refused to run ads about the group's stories on racial disparities in mortgage lending.

Specifically, Utzke explains he ran a computer analysis against the IRS's repository of hundreds of millions of tax records, and found fewer than a thousand people filed a Form 8949 to account for a «property description likely related to bitcoin.»

Sunshine Hillygus, who advises the federal government on the census, notes that this question is likely to fuel suspicion on the part of the undocumented that the census will become a political tool to be used against them — with negative implications for both data accuracy and for the long - run reputation of the Census Bureau as a nonpartisan agency.

If someone would have put a wager on a reality show about a family - run small business selling products for duck hunters being a blockbuster success, I would have bet against it.

But as he vetted options for his proposal, he kept running up against the same problem: The high - quality, expensive conferencing apps were often too complex for kids to use, and most were not aimed at tablets.

In 2012, Trump tweeted his endorsement of Romney's presidential run against Obama, telling his followers to «go out and vote» for the Republican, whom he called «fantastic.»

At the time, Donald Trump was the Republican nominee for president in the 2016 election and was running against Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton.

For example, if you run a skydiving company, filling a half - full plane with new daily deal customers generates additional revenue against minor incremental costs.

The change is a win for Wintergreen Advisers LLC, a firm run by activist investor David Winters, who despite a tiny stake in Coke, has loudly agitated against the stock - compensation plan, saying it was a «raw deal» for investors.

Sue Mintor, who ran against Scott as a Democrat, was a former transportation secretary for Shumlin and would have likely maintained the relationships Shumlin forged with Canada — with Scott's governorship, those cross-border ties are now up in the air.

After starting the season 9 - 2, the Ravens have dropped three - straight games, which easily could have been four if it wasn't for an improbable 30 - yard catch and run by Ray Rice on a 4th - and - 29 against the San Diego Chargers.

Liboiron uses her position as the head of the Civic Laboratory for Environmental Action Research to advocate for open science hardware and lead «a small but growing movement for people who make technology and instruments open source,» something she describes as «very much against the model that runs many universities around the world.»

Speculation ran high that the former Republican nominee would consider a third run for the White House after he took to the stage on Thursday to speak out against current frontrunner Donald Trump.

Most notably, he considered runs for US Senate from Ohio in 2000 and 2004, ultimately deciding against doing so.

More alarmingly, it has been lobbying against traditional theater - only cinematic runs for new movie releases — leading John Fithian, CEO of the National Association of Theatre Owners trade organization, to call out Netflix at a recent conference as a «grave threat to the movie business.»

Federal investigators are reportedly looking into possible manipulation of Herbalife's stock and have interviewed individuals hired by hedge - fund manager William Ackman, who has been running a campaign against the nutritional - products company for over two years.

But in 2008, in the midst of the financial crisis, we started noticing that young people were doing some awfully significant things, whether in the financial world (Meredith Whitney had just made her bold call against Citigroup), in the tech world (Facebook was beginning to crank into high gear), or in other industries (Kevin Plank's apparel upstart Under Armour was giving Nike a real run for its money).

Conservative pundits steeped in what George H. W. Bush, running against Reagan for the Republican presidential nomination in 1980, famously called «voodoo economics,» have retorted that Buffett and his limousine - liberal ilk should instead voluntarily pay more to the federal treasury, pointing out the existence of such a provision in the tax code.

Asked if he wants to run for president in 2024, Khodorkovsky said, «I am against anyone running to replace Putin.

Jain, who joined Berkshire in 1986, runs Berkshire's reinsurance operations, providing coverage against major catastrophes and generating tens of billions of dollars of premiums for Berkshire to invest.

The Galaxy 5 offers an «ultra power saving mode,» which allows it to run on 10 % battery power for 24 hours by shutting down non-essential functions and can be submerged in water for 30 minutes for protection against accidental spills (or toilet plunges).

There's going to be a backlash, eventually, against companies that want to operate here but don't want any responsibility for how we run our society and how we finance our values.

To protect against those attacks, Mac users running OS X El Capitan should look for version 10.11.6 in the updates section of the App Store app on their computers.

Detroit still has an outside shot at making the playoffs, so there's no reason for them not to run up the score this week against the Bengals.

While no suit has been officially filed, bidding documents from the Attorney General's office indicate that the state is preparing to hire outside counsel for «commencing legal action against Theranos, Inc. and its closely related subsidiaries for violations of the Arizona Consumer Fraud Act arising out of Theranos Inc.'s long - running scheme of deceptive acts and misrepresentations relating to the capabilities and operation of Theranos blood testing equipment.»