Sentences with phrase «big elections in»

Olive had big elections in 2011, when it seemed for a moment that a revived local Republican Party might take over town government, and with one gain ended up with two of five town board seats, as well as in 2013, when long term clerk Sylvia Rozzelle, a lifelong Democrat, rose to become supervisor after the retirement of Berndt Leifeld, and the GOP took a majority of town board seats for the first time in decades.

Incumbents win on town board with Rozzelle cruising unopposed Olive had big elections in 2011, when it seemed for a

Counting has been underway all day at the Guildhall in Winchester following the biggest election in the city since 2002.

Can't believe this is the biggest election in a long time.

So every Indian election is, by definition, the biggest election in world history.

And we have a responsibility to do this, not only for the 2018 midterms in the US... but there's a big election in India this year, there's a big election in Brazil, there are big elections around the world, and you can bet that we are really committed to doing everything that we need to to make sure that the integrity of those elections on Facebook is secured.

But there's a big election in India this year.

«There's a big election in Brazil.

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President Donald Trump this month imposed sanctions on Rusal, Russia's biggest aluminum producer, and some other companies, in response to Moscow's alleged meddling in the 2016 U.S. election.

With this in mind, the results of today's elections, expected on Friday, could provide big clues as to how the parties will perform at the general election on June 8.

The biggest political concern in Europe is the French presidential election, which has its first round on April 23rd.

The Nikkei closed down 2.5 %, in its biggest fall since the election of U.S. President Donald Trump.

Democrats said Republican leaders, flexing their new political muscle after big wins in the midterm elections that will give them control of both chambers of Congress next year, had gone too far in trying to roll back Dodd - Frank.

Delegate - rich Florida, the third - largest prize on the map and the biggest treasure trove of all the battlegrounds, saw a massive increase in voter turnout for the 2016 election in comparison with 2012.

Federal Elections Commission filings show presidential candidate Democrat Hillary Clinton has succeeded in snagging support from at least three big names in tech.

And even a big GOP setback in the midterm elections won't alter what Trump is able to do with the executive agencies.

«Since the election, we've seen a big uptick in incidents of vandalism, threats, intimidation spurred by the rhetoric surrounding Mr. Trump's election,» Richard Cohen, president of the Southern Poverty Law Center told USA Today.

It offered some suggestions, saying executives and business owners have said they are afraid to expand because electricity in Canada is too expensive, big energy projects are too slow to get off the ground, the future of present and future trade agreements is iffy, and the U.S. election is too frightening.

The two that drew the biggest criticism last year: an unprecedented press conference in which he chastised Clinton for using a private server but ultimately cleared her of criminal wrongdoing; and a letter to Congress announcing that he was effectively reopening the case 11 days before the election.

The wave of demonstrations, that kicked off in second city Mashhad on December 28 and quickly spread, is the biggest in the tightly controlled country since unrest over a disputed election in 2009.

«I am worried that because of the impact that gerrymandering has had on many of the districts that it may be hard to make big changes» in the 2018 elections, Powell said.

From bakers to retailers and construction firms, more than a dozen of Mexico's biggest companies cited concerns over NAFTA and the election and issuing conservative guidance in recent weeks, despite economic data pointing to an uptick in Latin America's second - largest economy.

Opened by International Harvester in 1974 to remanufacture diesel engines and engine components for its truck and agricultural and construction equipment dealers, the plant had lost $ 2 million in the most recent fiscal year, and the big question was whether the employees, previously nonunion, would vote to join the Teamsters or the United Auto Workers in an election scheduled for March.

People in the crowd at Hillary Clinton's 2016 US presidential Election Night event watch results begin to come in on a big screen at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center in New York.

The Facebook founder told senators the company's delay in identifying Russian efforts to interfere in the 2016 election is «one of [his] biggest regrets in running the company.»

These theatrics, which go well beyond the usual angst at a new venture, have contributed to a growing perception that innovation has stalled and management is in turmoil at one of Silicon Valley's most promising startups, which some 20 million active users rely on each month for updates on everything from subway delays to election results — and which a growing number of companies, big and small, seek to use to market themselves and track customers.

From Google + not surviving to Facebook playing a bigger role in the elections, here are some predictions for next year.

As the ballot approaches in late April, the outcome appears more unpredictable after the surprising Brexit vote and the election of Donald Trump, one analyst told CNBC that France is the current big concern.

At the beginning of the year, possible far - right election victories in the Netherlands, France and Germany were perceived as the biggest threat to European politics.

He calls the delay in identifying 2016 election interference one of his biggest regrets in running Facebook.

Between election night and Monday's close, the five biggest U.S. banks, which include Bank of America (bac), Citigroup (c), Goldman Sachs (gs), J.P. Morgan Chase (jpm), Wells Fargo (wfc), have gained $ 127.7 billion in market cap, a 15 % increase from their aggregate market cap at the market's close Nov. 8.

The centre - left Social Democrats (SPD), Merkel's current coalition partners who were the second - biggest party in the election, have ruled out a repeat of an alliance with her conservatives, who won the vote but were left with fewer seats.

This year's elections will reflect some big demographic changes in the American electorate — and we think those changes will shape the GOP presidential ticket more than the Democratic one.

«I would avoid the FANGs in a big way,» Gundlach warned Tuesday during one of his regular investor presentations, a week after the election.

«We hear all of the time that we are a democracy, but the fact of the matter, even excluding the issue of Washington, D.C., not having elected representatives in the congress, is that, all of you know, increasingly, big money is buying elections,» he said.

Skeptics said the United States, the world's biggest economy, might back away from targets set in the Paris climate agreement if the Republican Party wins the presidential election in November.

Or, in a post-2016 presidential election world, would Amazon select a city in the heartland, acknowledging that great talent can be found between the coasts, and perhaps that big tech bears some responsibility in making our innovation economy more dispersed?

Washington imposed sweeping sanctions on some of Russia's biggest companies and businessmen on April 6 to punish Moscow for its alleged meddling in the 2016 U.S. presidential election.

The election ended a long time ago in one of the biggest Electoral College victories in history.

«To be at the biggest name in news for the last month of what has been the craziest election in modern history is just a great opportunity for me and everybody on our team,» the former BuzzFeed staffer said.

Despite the Liberals» big margin in Canning, the government is taking nothing for granted as the by - election nears.

With eliminating the deficit in time for the election the government's single biggest priority, it follows that the Finance Minister who brought Canada through the recession in relatively sound shape should be kept on to ensure the books are balanced on schedule.

The shutdown affected diverse countries from all over the continent: whether they had small populations like Gabon or big ones like Ethiopia and the Democratic Republic of Congo; whether in the south of the continent like Zimbabwe, in the north in Algeria, across the east in Burundi and Uganda, and in the west like the shutdown preceding the elections in The Gambia.

Kogan described it as a «big leap» to connect the piece of research to Kremlin efforts to use online platforms to interfere in foreign elections — before essentially going on to repeat a Kremlin talking point by saying the US and the UK engage in much the same types of behavior.

Coming of Age in the Asian Century: The Need for a National Conversation By Sarah Eaton, Post ‐ Graduate Research Fellow, Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada Political pundits tell us this federal election will be fought not over big ideas but along a narrow set of economic wedge issues.

Keep in mind that we have French parliamentary elections due to take place on June 11 and 18, and we expect the outcome of those votes to play a big role in Macron's ability to deliver on his election promises.

She prescribes compassion as well, and notes her government's «cash back in people's pockets» strategy will help struggling families, most notably the big per - child benefit cheques that arrived on the eve of the election call.

But the biggest problem is a legal one: The U.S. courts are more protective of free speech than European courts, and in recent years have been hostile to election regulations, notably in the Citizens United decision of 2010.

Whereas now, Mulcair is getting out a year in advance of the election saying where he clearly stands on big - ticket items like the minimum wage.»

The biggest share of legal payments in the first quarter of this year — about $ 348,000 — went to Jones Day, a law firm representing the campaign in the investigations by Special Counsel Robert Mueller and several congressional committees into Russian interference in the 2016 election.