Sentences with phrase «as a bloc for»

Then, after the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the ensuing decades saw this demographic flip, with Southern whites becoming a core constituency of the Republican Party and the African American community voting as a bloc for Democrats.

Voting as a bloc for whoever the Rebbe designates has its advantages politically.

Not exact matches

On Monday, U.K. prime minister Theresa May won approval from Parliament to begin talks for the country's exit from the E.U. May plans to invoke what is known as Article 50 of the Treaty of Lisbon, which outlines how an E.U. member may leave the bloc — provided it gives two years» notice.

Even after the proposed cut, agriculture would remain the largest spending area, with deeper cuts pencilled in for infrastructure investment in the bloc's poorest regions as well as research.

The EU is on alert for Chinese attempts to drive a wedge through the bloc as more states on the periphery line up to join the European fold, diplomatic observers and sources said.

But the wider aim is for the regulation to harmonize as much as possible data protection rules across all Member States to reduce the regulatory burden on digital businesses trading around the bloc.

Apo - The European Union on Thursday launched a plan for thousands of 18 - year - old Europeans to travel in the bloc for free this summer as part of efforts to promote the EU.

Some banks lowered the estimates for jobs they need to move as they consider more carefully how much of their operations they will need in the European Union if Britain loses access to the bloc's single market, the survey found.

Denmark's krone is being snapped up by investors looking for low - debt regions as they seek to escape the fiscal crisis threatening to destabilize the euro bloc.

The political game as played from 1956 on in Poland was looser than elsewhere in the Soviet bloc, and a world away from the USSR itself, but less repression made for more ambiguity.

They may believe it is to their advantage to heighten polarization, thus constituting themselves as a minority bloc that can hold conservative politics hostage for years to come.

«For example, the gap among voting blocs that gave a B or better to the Republicans versus the Democrats was greater among white evangelicals than all other religious groups and all voters, as reported in these data,» he wrote.

Surviving Eastern bloc politicians as well as electronic preachers have a common need for media consultants.

Keller wrote in the New Yorker that pollsters have re-identified the term as they've highlighted a specific voting bloc, with 80 per cent of this group voting for Trump and a similar percentage for Roy Moore last week.

The EU Agriculture and Fisheries Council will discuss the issue of dual quality foods next week as Slovakia and Hungary push for EU legislation to prevent manufacturers selling poorer quality products in Eastern countries of the single market bloc.

The government is charged vociferously with paying too much attention to faith groups (accused by left - liberal secularists of an unprincipled timidity on faith schools, being too open to faith engagement in third sector; and of being generally rather socially conservative; and, alternatively, by the right having a cynical multiculturalist approach to minority faiths as electoral blocs) and also of too little attention to faith (with some «competitive grievance» claims that Muslims are getting too much attention, by some claiming to speak for some other minority faiths and by some Christian voices; and traditionalists who think there is a secret project to do in every institution).

Maragos has been endorsed by the Nassau and Suffolk county GOPs, which account for almost 19 percent of the weighted vote at the convention, assuming all the committee members vote in a bloc, which, as past experience has demonstrated, is not a foregone conclusuion.

Though Rosen's connection is tenuous to the Obama administration, Republicans used the line as a counter punch to the so - called «War on Women» as both parties vie for that voting bloc this year.

Those are the issues at stake for the Independent Democratic Conference in a video released Monday as the lawmakers in the breakaway bloc seek to re-affirm their support for liberal causes they believe has been lost in the pitched battle being waged by progressive advocacy groups to pressure them into forming a coalition with mainline Democrats.

Although Bo is identified with the elitist bloc for his time in Liaoning and as Minister of Commerce, during his tenure in the interior city of Chongqing, he adopted a number of populist policies more typically associated with the left.

«Labour has called on the government to allow registration en bloc for certain institutions — such as schools, care homes and Universities — and to allow councils to use local data more extensively,» Twigg added.

As for Brexit, Woolfe says he is already «nervous» about the Government's approach to triggering Article 50, the legal process for leaving the bloc.

Unlike Gibson, who has gone to great lengths to portray himself as a political pragmatist, both Teachout and Faso are strongly associated with the left of center and right of center, respectively, which could make it difficult for them to appear to a key voting bloc: independents.

Assemblywoman Linda Rosenthal and former Manhattan BP Ruth Messinger are the latest additions to Sen. Eric Schneiderman's growing list of endorsements for his bid to replace Andrew Cuomo as attorney general, targeting a key voting bloc on primary day: Liberal Jewish women (particularly those on the UWS).

Schneiderman has refused to cede the women's vote — a potentially key bloc in the September primary — to Rice just because of her gender and in spite of the fact that she has been highlighted as a potential ticket - balancer for the (so far) all - white and all - male Democratic statewide ticket.

The DisruptJ20 activist network is holding a series of events throughout Washington, D.C. on January 20, including the Queer Resistance on J20, a queer anti-inauguration party at a security checkpoint, at 6:30 a.m. at McPherson Square Park; the Movement for Black Lives #J20 Resistance at the Inauguration — a combined movement of Black Lives Matter DC, Baltimore BLOC and the Movement for Black Lives — at 7 a.m. at MPD Police Headquarters; the «Festival of Resistance: March Against Trump» at 12 p.m. at Columbus Circle to reject forms of hate and oppression such as racism, sexism, transphobia, Islamophobia and ableism; and «Preparing for the Trump Era: What Anarchists Are» on January 21 at 5 p.m. at The Festival Center.

We may never know for sure, but what we do know is that while both are running for Queens Borough President, Peralta's supposed «olive branch» was seen as a crass attempt to hold down his losses in one of the highest turnout voting blocs in Queens (second only to David Weprin).

This past weekend, 20 members of the Progressive Caucus decided they would vote as a unified bloc on a choice for the next Council speaker, according to a New York Times report.

The political bloc and China have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) for the projected that is expected to cost $ 31.6 million, an amount that will be provided by China as...

Counteracting President Trump; bolstering the Affordable Care Act; and publicly funding campaigns are the issues at stake for the Independent Democratic Conference in a video released Monday as the lawmakers in the breakaway bloc seek to re-affirm their support for liberal causes they believe has been lost in the pitched battle being waged by progressive advocacy groups to pressure them into forming a coalition with mainline Democrats.

For the Republican Conference, a conservative bloc hailing mostly from the suburbs and upstate, the IDC is a lifeline: As long as it remains on good terms with the IDC's leader, State Senator Jeff Klein, the GOP will not plunge into the minority in an increasingly blue statAs long as it remains on good terms with the IDC's leader, State Senator Jeff Klein, the GOP will not plunge into the minority in an increasingly blue statas it remains on good terms with the IDC's leader, State Senator Jeff Klein, the GOP will not plunge into the minority in an increasingly blue state.

John Mahama also acknowledged his colleagues Presidents for the friendship and corporation he has enjoyed and the ECOWAS Commission for the opportunity to serve as chair of the regional bloc.

One of the regions slated for casino development includes the Catskills, which has a growing Orthodox community that has voted as a bloc on major issues.

Clarke is significant as well because Schneiderman is trying to lock up support of minority voting blocs since there are no candidates of color in the AG's race — a fact that has spurred NYC Councilman Charles Barron to run as a protest candidate for governor.

Johnson said the CBC and black voters should use their leverage as a voting bloc to work with Trump instead of always toeing the Democratic line and being taken for granted by party leaders.

The two power blocs in the Enugu State Chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, are in palpable anxiety as the party goes for the National...

Brooklyn's Democratic Party pointed to its own set of rules as justification for Seddio's bloc vote.

Another factor was that DeFrancisco and the Republican leadership thought it was crucial for the Republicans to stick together, to vote as a bloc, on this issue.

They were once known as the Long Island Nine — a solid all - Republican bloc of state senators from Nassau and Suffolk that held tremendous clout for decades on issues from school aid to road construction.

As we've already reported, Democrats are saying that turnout has beat their expectations in the Philadelphia area — a key voting bloc for Democrat Joe Sestak in his Senate bid against Republican Pat Toomey.

How do you prove claims of oil bloc as the reason for Oluwo's mere ceremonial Islamic attire at an Islamic occasion?

The House Republican anti-terrorism bill that includes Long Island Rep. Lee Zeldin's gun measure yesterday remained on hold, with no timeline for passage, as House Speaker Paul Ryan worked to overcome opposition from his party's conservative bloc.

(WP)-RRB- ******************* Very likely!If, as expected, the Supremes» right - wing bloc, with possibly Kennedy joining, stike down the mandate, the Obamacare, ACA, will collapse.The mandate was a sop to the private insurance giants, in return for their lukewarm support for the ACA.The mandate would have given the private insurers up to 20 - 30 million new customers, with a large percentage subsidized by the feds.

Of course, the unionist and republican blocs have mutually contradictory aspirations for Northern Ireland's constitutional status, but both the Belfast Agreement and the later St Andrews» version bind both blocs to governing Northern Ireland as it is.

David Cameron's Conservatives are making good progress from a low base, but should remember the lesson of last year's Ealing Southall by - election fiasco where, as Sunny Hundal of the Pickled Politics blog notes: «The Tory modernisers got sucked into the worst of communal politics», securing the bloc defection of five Sikh Labour councillors but not the voters they claimed to speak for.

The senator said that if elected he would want to forge relationships between city and state legislators to bring back resources to the borough, encouraging legislators to vote and work together as a bloc instead of simply for their own district.

The Democrats, as you'll recall, didn't cast any votes for Tier VI — with the exception of the four - member IDC, which voted no in a bloc — because they walked out of the chamber to protest the redistricting bill.

All the productive sectors are referred to as economic sector, and they will be a major bloc as a subcommittee of parliament, and they coordinate the activities of the economic sectors of his cabinet, as it may be, and he wanted me to bring my experience as a [former] minister of finance, as somebody who has done a similar job in Uganda, as somebody who has done a similar job in Liberia, to bear on his government; so I'm playing a coordinated role for the economic sector as it were.»

But the proposed measure could be a useful tool for gay marriage opponents to use on potential fence - sitters in the Senate Republican conference, which so far has voted as a bloc against expanding the state definition of marriage.

«Scientific partnerships, spearheaded by Norway, with Eastern Europe's Communist bloc in the 1970s served as a foundation for international cooperation on environmental pollution despite ongoing Cold War frictions,» says Rothschild, an assistant professor at NYU's Gallatin School of Individualized Study.