Sentences with phrase «also ran as an independent»

Randall Terry, well - known activist against legal abortion, ran for president this year as an independent candidate, and he also ran as an independent candidate for U.S. House in Florida's 20th district.

Lynn Kahn, a institutional psychologist, is also running as an independent and on the Green Party line.

She also ran as an independent write - in candidate and as a Working Families Party candidate.

Galbraith also ran as an independent for Governor of Kentucky in November 2011.

Not exact matches

McAvoy also noted that as an independent media company, The Onion has been «forced to run a tight financial ship,» which has made it difficult for the company to experiment with or invest in new things.

Beyond the actual gas project and LNG sales, China's state - run shipping conglomerate COSCO has also secured a 50 percent stake in the four LNG shipping carriers serving Yamal.90 Chinese engineers and workers have been deployed to the Yamal Peninsula to help construct surrounding infrastructure, which includes a Chinese - produced polar drilling rig.91 Moreover, a Chinese oil and gas rig producer now provides Russia with about 60 percent of its imported oil rig supplies, indicating that China is becoming a dominant player in this sphere.92 Chinese media recently hailed Yamal as an example of China's construction and engineering prowess and a symbol of its transformation into an Arctic player.93 In return for China stepping into support the project, senior officials from Novatek, the main shareholder of the project, announced that the first LNG shipment would symbolically go to China.94 But a British subsidiary of Malaysia's Petronas purchased the first shipment of Yamal LNG and sold it to France's Engie, which then shipped the cargo to its Boston import facility for American use.95 Western sanctions on Novatek, Russia's largest independent national gas producer and a company with close ties to the Kremlin, made Yamal's pivot to China possible, as sanctions forced Russia to find an alternative source of investment and technology.

Drifting through the Southland conference, three years in the Big West (despite being west of very little), two stays as an independent, and more than a decade as a Sun Belt also - ran, the Ragin» Cajuns had never been to a bowl game and never threatened to get noticed by the college football world.

It's also worth noting that, despite running as a Democrat, Bernie Sanders is actually registered as an Independent.

«Everyone understands we want to increase foundation aid but we also run into a 2 percent spending cap as well as a 4 percent spending cap on education,» said Sen. Jeff Klein, the leader of the Independent Democratic Conference.

He also alluded to running as an independent in a tweet linking to a USA Today poll which found 68 % of his supporters would vote for him if he left the Republican party.

The 2014 European elections are also the first such occasion when Turkish Cypriots are running for office either as independents or as part of a (bi-communal or Turkish / Cypriot) platform.

Other possible strong candidates for attorney general include former U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara (who reportedly may run as an independent), Queens state Sen. Mike Gianaris, and Congressman Sean Patrick Maloney, who reportedly believes he could run in the Democratic primary, despite legal questions about whether he could also be on the ballot for Congress.

When Mayor Mike Bloomberg ran for re-election as an independent, Republicans not only gave him their ballot line but also endorsed him (though he did not have any Republican opponents).

The registered independent running as a Democrat also graduated from Cornell University, received a masters in education from Harvard University and self - published a book about getting involved in politics.

► Borough President Eric Adams also only trails the mayor by 35 to 34 percent if he were to run as an independent.

The NYLCV plans to contribute to its chosen six and also run independent expenditure campaigns on behalf of at least two lucky contenders, perhaps spending as much as $ 200,000.

Independent Kristen Dye is also running for the seat as well.

Labour also remains open to an entirely different funding mechanism in the future, such as a graduate tax, but that would be a long - term prospect and be subject to a further independent review, similar to that run by Lord Browne in 2010.

Also Wednesday the conservative FreedomWorks Political Action Committee announced a campaign to expose «Jack Davis» real record as a big government liberal,» even though he is running as an independent candidate.

He will face Steve Greenfield — who secured the Working Families line and is also running on an independent line called Honest Service — as well as Republican Les Kalmus of Esopus for District 17, which encompasses a large portion of the Town of New Paltz as well as a portion of Esopus.

He also discusses the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, the state budget, and whether he would run as a Libertarian or Independent.

* Although Matt Simpson has decided to run as in independent, some LP members nearby have been supportive of him, so he is listed here also.

Two other de Blasio rivals also were also a mystery to most voters — 66 percent said they had no view of Bo Dietl, who is running as an independent and 64 percent hadn't heard of Reform Party candidate Sal Albanese, a perennial candidate.

Neal, 41, who had a long - running stint on NBC's «Law & Order: Special Victims Unit» and also a recurring role on CBS» «NCIS,» is a registered Democrat, according to the Ulster County Board of Elections, and will need 3,500 signatures on petitions to secure a spot on the November ballot as an independent.

Sean Gavin appeared for Senator Kirsten Gillibrand and we also heard from Scott Noren, M.D., who is running for NY State Senator as an Independent Democrat, but who is not a candidate in the primary.

«It's also good for remote communities that are so far off the grid that it doesn't make sense to try to run transmission wires to them,» she added, «as well as military bases, so they can be independent of the grid... and not be susceptible to a terrorist [attack] or something going on in the big grid.

We also meet the pigeon - loving Bowery King (Laurence Fishburne), who runs an operation independent of the assassins, and who owes a debt, of sorts, to Wick; the intense mute assassin (Ruby Rose) playing bodyguard to D'Antonio with a ferocious relish; and D'Antonio's sparkly sister Gianna (Claudia Gerini) whose sense of destiny is as operatic as her eye makeup.

It will also enforce quality of service with compensation for customers if their broadband doesn't match what they're promised and ring - fence Openreach with a directive that it should be run as an independent company even though, for the time being, it is still part of BT.

In addition to those PACs, CCSAA also runs a super PAC, known as the California Charter Schools Association Advocates Independent Expenditure Committee, which has raised nearly $ 16.9 million since it began in the summer of 2011.

But who knew that Boston was also the home of «Muse and the Marketplace,» which the Globe describes as a two - day conference run by the independent writing center Grub Street Inc.» I didn't, I'm ashamed to say, even though this was its seventh year in operation.

This year Great Rail Journeys is in the running for the Best Escorted Tours Holiday Company as well as the Best Rail Holidays Company and GRJ Independent has also been honoured, having been nominated within the Best Special Interest Holiday Company group.

This also means that some news for aforementioned platforms will be getting posted, although do keep in mind that this is still just an independent site that runs on a volunteer basis, so not every bit of news will be getting posted up, because every now and then sleep is required as is food and other such things.

Also noted on the GDC schedule at a glance are the subconferences running on the Monday and Tuesday of GDC week, including GDC Mobile (featuring a keynote from Digital Chocolate's Trip Hawkins), the Serious Games Summit GDC (with a keynote from Square Enix's Ichiro Otobe), as well as the Casual Games Summit and the new Independent Games Summit (sporting a keynote featuring Llamasoft's Jeff Minter).