Sentences with phrase «become leading candidates»

Genes from this family have become leading candidates for other forms of MODY as well as common late - onset NIDDM.

Unbridled did show promise as a baby, winning a stake at Calder Race Course and becoming a leading candidate for the Kentucky Derby off his four - length triumph under jockey Pat Day in the Florida Derby on March 17.

The ad features the campaign's travels to every corner of the state, the regional campaign office openings and Philip Levine's upward climb in the polls to become the leading candidate.»

Carson is a hot commodity on the right - wing speaking circuit and has fast become a leading candidate, winning straw votes at conservative gatherings and rising in public polls.

Forty years ago he co-founded string theory, which was initially derided but eventually became the leading candidate for a unified theory of nature.

Through some encouraging telephone conversations, he quickly became a leading candidate for the position and was granted a personal interview.

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Bloomberg has also become arguably the nation's leading gun - control advocate, spending millions of his own fortune to finance candidates and groups that call for the restriction of firearms.

San Francisco Fed President Williams is leading candidate to become next President of the New York Fed, sources said.

The media had it a lot easier before Donald Trump become the leading Republican candidate for president because it was easier to treat him solely as a sideshow.

A candidate becomes interesting to him, for example, if he or she has been active in leading a non-profit organization or a sports team where finances are limited and the individual can demonstrate an ability to achieve goals by leveraging creative resources and leadership skills.

Former Rep. Jeff Miller, R - Fla., who chaired the House Committee on Veterans» Affairs before retiring from Congress last year, is considered a leading candidate to become President Donald Trump's next nominee for Veterans Affairs secretary, according to several people familiar with the matter.

Leading Democratic governor candidate J.B. Pritzker was called a «liar» and a «fraud» by two rivals as the billionaire businessman's ties to secret offshore shell companies became the focus of the final forum of the campaign Wednesday night.

Khosrowshahi became one of three leading candidates over a weekend of board meetings, according to The New York Times, citing sources.

Multiple outlets, the Philadelphia Inquirer among them, have reported that Lou Williams, the Sixth Man of the Year candidate who led the Philadelphia 76ers in scoring and was their frequent go - to scorer late in games, has opted out of the final year of his contract and will become an unrestricted free agent.

Health visitors and infant feeding leads are also obvious candidates to become IBCLCs.

ALBANY — A leading New York labor leader, citing the «stunning defeat» of the Democratic senatorial candidate in Massachusetts, yesterday became the first top Democrat to endorse Attorney General Andrew Cuomo over David Paterson for governor.

But fewer than half think the governor is doing a good job in office, and, if the state's Working Families Party follows through on threats to run a progressive leaning candidate on a third party line, Siena's Steve Greenberg says the race becomes much closer, to just a 15 point lead for Cuomo.

In July Rasmussen Reports had Republican - turned - Independent Gubernatorial Candidate Lincoln Chafee slightly leading his putative Republican and Democratic challengers, putting him in good position to become Rhode Island's first independent governor in recent memory.

Incumbent Joseph Saladino, the Republican candidate for supervisor, is not far enough removed from what Oyster Bay has been to lead the town toward what it must become.

In the race to replace Levy, LaValle's failure to recruit a worthy candidate or raise money (the two most essential functions of the Chairman's job) led to the unlikely nomination of Angie Carpenter, who like Altschuler had been privately and publicly derided by the chairman until it became apparent he needed her.

This, alongside his pro-European attitude, led him to participate in the 2004 European elections on the German side, where he became the highest male candidate on the list and was elected again.

Head of the Political Science Department, Dr. Bossman Asare, who made this revelation while presenting the survey findings, said: «We wanted to find out who the voters think should lead the party [NDC] in 2020, and overwhelmingly 58 % of the candidates we interviewed said they believed Mr. Mahama will become the candidate and a number of them generally said they wanted Mr. Mahama to come.

A recent campaign press release from Donald Trump, the leading contender to become the Republican party's nominee for US presidential candidate, recently called to ban Muslims from entering the United...

Her decision left Mrs May — the front runner — as the only candidate to take over leading the party and to therefore become prime minister.

Clinton is making gun violence a central theme of her campaign, becoming the first leading presidential candidate to directly confront the National Rifle Association without the cover of a hunting license.

Rep. Jim Bridenstine, an Oklahoma Republican with a record supporting both commercial space ventures and traditional manned exploration programs, appears to be the leading candidate to become the next NASA administrator.

The contours of that fund - raising strategy have become familiar, as state prosecutors and F.B.I. agents are now investigating an effort led by Mayor Bill de Blasio to channel donations to a group of Democratic candidates around the state in 2014.

According to a piece published in Le Figaro on 22 November 2017, Najat Vallaud - Belkacem, former Minister of National Education, Higher Education and Research and defeated candidate in the 2017 legislative elections, sought to lead the Socialist Party (PS) list in the 2019 European elections as a condition of her becoming a candidate for the party leadership, in addition to asking that the post of general secretary be paid in the event that she obtained the post.

This can become burdensome in elections with many candidates and can lead to «donkey voting», in which some voters simply choose candidates at random or in top - to - bottom order, or a voter may order his or her preferred candidates and then fill in the remainder on a donkey basis.

After it became clear that Silver's proposal to step back from the position and have a team of five senior Assembly members lead the body was not gaining traction, Heastie, head of the Bronx Democratic Party, emerged as one of five potential replacement candidates.

Public Advocate Letitia James today became the latest leading Democrat to endorse Working Families Party candidate Yuh - Line Niou for ex-Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver's seat — spurning Alice Cancel, the candidate running on the Democratic line in the April 19 special election.

The Republican Caucus, led by Minority Leader John J. Mills, has grown continually frustrated by Legislators and opportunists who have attempted to ignore the will of the people and as a result hindered efforts to present a fair map in a timely manner that would allow interested candidates to become involved in the process.

Mr Gove's supporters are now confident he will overturn Ms Leadsom's slim lead in the next MPs» ballot before 135,000 Tory party members decide which of the final two candidates becomes leader.

The second - term governor has made no secret of his interest in becoming a candidate for the Republican nomination, and he has recently made key additions to his political team, including the hiring of Rick Wiley, a former Republican National Committee political director, to lead the organizing effort.

«He is a wonderful constituency MP, a man who has brought politics at its best to his county,» she said, adding: «Norman became a parliamentary candidate for the Liberal Democrats in 1992, a time when personal ambition might have led many politicians to a party that offered a better chance of becoming an MP.»

Both candidates were already familiar faces on national TV before the campaign: Cuccinelli became a tea party favorite by leading the legal challenge to President Obama's health - care initiative, and McAuliffe was prominent as a fundraiser for President Bill Clinton and Democratic party chairman.

Radio Gold's Alhassan Suhuyini beat off competition from five other National Democratic Congress aspirants to become the candidate to lead party in the area for the 2016 general elections.

Melissa Mark - Viverito, one of the leading candidates to become the next City Council speaker, declined to say the Pledge of Allegiance at Council meetings until last month.

Morano yesterday said other candidates should follow Donovan's lead «and reject the endorsement of the Independence Party, which has become far more synonymous with backroom political deals than good government.»

«We wanted to find out who the voters think should lead the party in 2020 and overwhelmingly 58 % of the candidates we interviewed said they believed Mr. Mahama will become the candidate.

Chris McEleny, who leads the SNP group at Inverclyde Council, becomes the fourth candidate to put their name forward.

«It is vital not to let damaging fishing practices become the norm,» said Jennifer Selgrath, the lead author who was a PhD candidate at the University of British Columbia during the research study.

«Our findings suggest that if the Amazonian climate becomes drier, forests will probably collapse first in the seasonally in undated areas,» says the lead author Bernardo M. Flores, and a former PhD candidate at Brazil's Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN) and Wageningen University & Research in the Netherlands.

«These novel luminescent nanoparticles, called upconversion nanoparticles, have become promising candidates for a whole variety of ultra-high tech applications such as biological sensing, biomedical imaging and 3D volumetric displays,» says lead author Dr Tim Zhao, from the University of Adelaide's School of Physical Sciences and Institute for Photonics and Advanced Sensing (IPAS).

By Chris Clarke, KCET With the recent declines in numbers of monarch butterflies leading to the popular insect becoming a candidate for listing as an endangered species, more and more gardeners are thinking about growing milkweed.

The spring also kicked up another unlikely candidate in Maggie Smith, as the comedy / drama The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel struck a chord with the older - skewing Academy members and became a possible dark horse in a couple of categories leading up to the nominations.

The two candidates vying to become the next superintendent come from school districts with limited similarities to Boulder Valley, but both say they have the skills to lead a high - performing district with a wide achievement gap.

A small - town boy from Nebraska, the son of a farmer and a truck driver, might not seem like a likely candidate for becoming one of New York's leading abstract painters in the 1960s.

Back in August, we reported that Chile is on its way to becoming a clean energy powerhouse; now a leading presidential candidate is calling for Chile to use 100 % clean electricity by 2040.

As a successful candidate you will become part of a highly successful national network that is rapidly becoming one of the leading teacher supply agencies in the UK.