Sentences with phrase «alternative candidate»

Private emails circulated by several party officials have asked Republican leaders to hold off on endorsing DeFrancisco, and to search for alternative candidates to challenge Gov. Andrew Cuomo in November.

Not least, the fact that Corbyn's sweeping first - round victory in the leadership contest was enabled, to a great extent, by three alternative candidates who utterly failed to inspire the selectorate.

Each party's committee to fill vacancies — three - member panels usually consisting of top party leaders — have until Friday to find alternative candidates for the November races.

Whatever Kerry's inadequacies (and what alternative candidate, one wonders, would have performed better?)

Yet this piece of traditionalism is not echoed in the views of other parties, including those opposed to EVEL, given the lack of an obvious alternative candidate for this role.

But Nick Clegg's record of inconsistency might make him a decent alternative candidate.

Though younger, alternative candidates received funding in an effort to modernise the centre - right and money and media manoeuvred against Fraga, voters preferred him to other candidates.

Alan Johnson and David Miliband, the likeliest alternative candidates, have taken jobs in the new cabinet.

«That's pretty scary and people got ta think about those things and know that there's an alternative and hopefully, a good alternative candidate,» DeFrancisco said.

Brown will go if the Cabinet moves against him but the lack of an agreed alternative candidate is holding them back.

His roles in Europe mean that he is likely to play a role in influencing the domestic debate over the EU referendum and the lack of a viable alternative candidate at this crucial time leaves the party with little other choice.

He is keenly aware that in order to win and to unite the party he must win over many of the centre - left members who at present favour alternative candidates, not least his brother.

Dr Alexander Merle, co-author from the Max Planck Institute in Munich, Germany, adds: «At the moment, experiments on Dark Matter do not point into a clear direction and, given that also the Large Hadron Collider at CERN has not found any signs of new physics yet, it may be time that we shift our paradigm towards alternative candidates for Dark Matter.

Traditionally trained teachers tend to be young, white females who want to teach in the suburbs, but alternative candidates tend to be more diverse and more open to teaching in urban and rural districts.

In casting about for a credible alternative candidate, some eyes are gazing, quite longingly, at... Al Gore.

The media should set aside their preconception of alternative candidates and provide the voting public with all their choices.

Shane Claiborne, a founding pastor of The Simple Way, a church in inner city Philadelphia, believes that our hope should be found in an alternative candidate, one that's not on the ballot for 2008.

He just lost to an alternative candidate yet feels he can not be honest and simply say that.

Juncker has hit out at what he called Cameron's «blackmail» — but many are now asking whether any alternative candidates could be put forward.

Blunkett doesn't name an alternative candidate - «I don't know at this stage, but it has to be for a new generation, it can't be for those of us who have been through this before...» - but it's clear he hopes that the stand - off can be resolved before the growing clamour for a Labour split leads to some sort of repeat of the formation of the SDP in the early 1980s.

As for the second question about membership, the result shows there were insufficient new anti-Corbyn members to give an alternative candidate a chance.

It refers to the electorate's frustration with the dominance of traditional tribal politics — therefore voting for an alternative candidate.

But after rolling mass resignations from the shadow cabinet, which have continued into Tuesday with Pat Glass resigning as shadow education secretary just two days after being appointed, Milband said it was time for Labour to unite around an alternative candidate.

Through the winter he looked for an alternative candidate to Brown, most probably David Miliband, and pursued a policy review to embed his reforms.

Teachout was first promoted by the left - leaning Working Families Party as an alternative candidate to Cuomo, but in the end the minor party dropped her in favor of the governor.

It's interesting to note, however, that the situation now is different, with no alternative candidate popular with the public.

There was a time politics would have taken over, and the opposition party would have worked on finding an alternative candidate.

However, the mechanism for removing him requires them to get behind an alternative candidate who would then be put to party members.

It is unfair to alternative candidates for sitting MPs to be cocooned from challenge by a «trigger ballot», and unfair to rank and file members not to be able to hear alternative candidates unless and until they pass one.

So, while voters in the Speaker's seat do usually have the opportunity to opt for an alternative candidate, this is curtailed by the lack of choice on offer: since 1987 Labour, the Tories and the Lib Dems have all neglected to oppose a sitting Speaker.

Since that didn't work well enough for the Tories to win when Gordon Brown was the alternative candidate, there is little reason to think the voters would find it more plausible now.

The endorsement follows the backing Boyle received from the local Conservative Party, which had sought out an alternative candidate after the incumbent sheriff testified in a case that saw the conviction of a local party official.

Under the present rules it takes 51 MPs and MEPs to trigger a leadership election before the party conference by nominating an alternative candidate.

Americans Elect was trying to get an alternative candidate on the ballot in the 2012 presidential election.

One stark finding in the survey is that there is no evidence of support for an alternative candidate — with barely a mention of either Owen Smith, relatively unknown until he launched his challenge to Corbyn, or Angela Eagle, who dropped out shortly after the survey was completed.

The governor is not assured as easy a time with the Working Families Party, which is meeting on May 31 and is still deciding whether to endorse Cuomo again or choose an alternative candidate.

MPAC and its president, the Rev. Dr. Johnnie Green of Mt. Neboh Baptist Church have made many statements critical of Mayor de Blasio and for a time actively sought an alternative candidate to replace de Blasio.

According to Huffington Post's Paul Waugh, Jeremy Corbyn wants Labour's national executive committee to agree that Labour MPs who want to stand again at the election have to go through a «trigger ballot» so that local activists can vote against them if they want an alternative candidate.

However, there is no question of returning to any alternative candidates.

Tensions are so high that the Working Families Party, a coalition of labor unions and government reformers, is considering running an alternative candidate when it meets at the end of the month.

According to her, everyone should promote their alternative candidate and stop condemning Buhari's supporters.

Freese gives short shrift to the alternative candidate to explain the missing matter, modified Newtonian dynamics.

An alternative candidate introduction event — another football tournament, the 2013 Confederations Cup — occurred before the Zika epidemic really got started in Polynesia.

The alternative candidates should not be used to discourage preventative action on the rapidly - fatal scenario.

All of the partners interviewed by The Am Law Daily expect Davies to ultimately triumph, if only for a lack of alternative candidates.