Sentences with phrase «by a block party»

The first week of lobster seasons is accompanied by a block party.

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While approval is not a given since the ruling coalition government led by Abe's LDP does not have a majority in the upper house of parliament, most analysts do not foresee any problems given signs this week that main opposition parties will not block the nominations.

Polls show the race is tight and that the large «Together for Yes» block formed by pro-independence parties from the rest of political spectrum will need support from the smaller CUP to secure a 68 - seat majority in Catalonia's 135 - seat parliament.

Poland's biggest political standoff in years began on Friday when opposition lawmakers objected to plans by the ruling Law and Justice (PiS) party to curb media access to parliament, and blocked the plenary hall podium ahead of a budget vote.

But since the allegations were reported on Thursday by the Washington Post, the national Republican Party has been working to block his path to the Senate.

Rodrigues, a member of the opposition Rede party (led by former presidential candidate and environment minister Marina Silva), has proposed blocking the president's decree, and plans to file lawsuits in Amapá and Pará to carry out the preventative measure.

With the president's party controlling the Senate by just one seat and the Senate holding not only the power to pass or block legislation, but also to confirm nominees to federal positions, including the Supreme Court, the race in Arizona to replace the departing Sen. Jeff Flake is one of several to watch this fall.

In my work in e-commerce, I see marketing channels being increasing choked by things like ad - blocking, email unsubscribe trends, and third parties that want to own and monetize the customer like Facebook and Pinterest Buy buttons.

Peer - to - peer cryptocurrency sell can't be blocked or topsy - turvy by third parties.

«As noted by S&P Global Ratings there is an expectation that in order to maintain our current credit rating the government will seek other revenue measures after the proposed gold royalty was blocked by the Liberal and National parties.»

And, although the AA site said, «a Police Officer who was at the scene also testified on Mr. Perce's behalf, to which the Judge also dismissed by saying the officer didn't give an accurate account or doesn't give it any weight,» a newscast, also on youtube, interviewed a Sgt. Brian Curtis, as the officer that spoke to both parties «a few blocks later».

This post by Sam Riviera gives some practical steps and suggestions for hosting an end of summer block party.

She even fought her own political party last year by publishing a paper that condemned ultra-conservative Islah members for blocking a bill that would make it illegal to marry girls under the age of 17.

They will choose from 250,000 loose green bricks to construct a model for a creative landscape designed and built by Ultimate Block Party attendees.

Short Path Distillery is launching two new spirits, a triple sec and rosemary - forward gin, at a block party tonight co-hosted by neighbors Night Shift Brewery and Boston's Bit Fest Bit Lab.

The government wanted to introduce tougher restrictions on terror suspects but was blocked by opposition parties and the courts, Tony Blair said today.

Otumfuo made a statement when the opposition leader visited Manhyia few days ago and unfortunately for the opposition block, effort by their leaders to misinterpret his statement was cleverly crashed by one of the ruling party's smart communicators Sam Dzata George.Otumfuo's delivery was clear and equivocal and I quote

The voting evidence suggests it is the logical one although I guess electoral reform will be the stumbling block - http://www.publicwhip.org.uk/mpsee.php Still, it would give Labour the chance to demonstrate that the Lib Dems are essentially a party of the centre - right in a way that we are not, to renew our policies, and to reach out to those genuinely progressive MPs who have, by some mischance, ended up in the Lib Dems.

A once - quiet effort by governors to block the full repeal of the Affordable Care Act reached its climax in Washington yesterday, as state executives from both parties — who have conspired privately for months — mounted an all - out attack on the Senate's embattled health care legislation hours before Republicans postponed a vote.

By CapCon's tally, that puts Lazio at 53.33 — enough to block Suffolk County Executive Steve Levy from getting the 50 - percent - plus - one that he needs to get a Wilson Pakula and run on the Republican line as a yet - unofficial member of the party.

We were willing - despite our fundamental objections to elected mayors - to deliver a City Region deal and saw this effectively blocked by Tory MPs in narrow party political grounds.

That year, Howard Dean and (later) John Kerry demonstrated the power of the first element: online fundraising, driven by email and using lists built through every conceivable channel, from block parties to banner ads.

So you are probably referring to the societies that existed in the former Sovjet Union or the Eastern block states, which were governed by their Communist Parties - which doesn't make them Communist states.

Individual members of parliament can push amendments and in some limited cases a small party (or a small group within one party) can threaten to vote against their block on an issue that's very important to them but there is none of the «getting the votes» one - by - one that seems to be going on in the US.

For a start it must be stressed that these parties — loosely termed by Open Europe as the «Malcontents Block» — will be unable to seriously impede the functioning of the parliament.

A report by Quilliam, the anti-extremist group, interviewed 70 political figures and found that although the major parties had made progress in encouraging more minority MPs, prejudice in party structures remained a huge stumbling block.

«By resorting to corrupt party politics to try to block debate in this election, he is sending a clear message to the scores of volunteers — not paid people — who collected more than five times the number of signatures I needed to qualify for the ballot: that your passion for change and healthy politics does not count or matter.»

Ironically, the biggest impact the «Malcontents Block» could have is on the established parties in the European Parliament that broadly favour the status quo or further European integration by pushing them to close ranks.

They responded by developing a strategy of re-establishing their authority over the Labour party as a result, they said, leading to the «reinventing» of the block vote.

Key figures who have previously been seen as potential obstacles to reform by the leadership, such as the party's deputy leader, Tom Watson, and Corbyn - sceptic unions, did not block the changes.

The deputy party leader's comments echo those of Richard Reeves, who stood down last week as Clegg's director of strategy and suggested that Lib Dems would retaliate by blocking other constitutional measures if the prime minister failed to persuade Tory MPs to support Lords reform.

Cantor has compiled a solidly conservative voting record in his tenure, but he was sometimes viewed with suspicion by tea party activists who said he had been in Congress too long and was insufficiently committed to blocking immigration legislation.

At last night's Jefferson - Jackson dinner sponsored by the Iowa Democratic Party, at which Bernie Sanders, Hillary Clinton, and Martin O'Malley appeared, Sanders took a huge shot at a narrative pushed by Bill and Hillary Clinton (as recently as Friday, on Rachel Maddow), that DOMA was a «defensive act» meant to block a federal marriage amendment.

Ms Harman was blocked from offering a full statement to the House by speaker Michael Martin, who rebuked both Ms Harman and shadow Theresa May for lapsing into party politics.

The next Prime Minister will come from within the Conservative MP block and they are nominated by MPs from within the Tory Party, ratified by the Tory executive, and in the case of more than one nominated candidate, elected by the Tory Membership.

A private members» bill by the former Tory chief whip David Maclean which would have exempted MPs from freedom of information enquiries has been blocked by a collection of MPs from all parties.

According to Ultimate FM's Isaac Bediako Justice, all major roads in the town have been blocked by the feuding party members.

Labour remain on course to win up to 30 seats in England and Wales, but could see their route to power blocked by the Scottish National Party juggernaut north of the border.

From around 2013, the party started blocking attempts by the Conservatives to impose further cuts to welfare, having grown disillusioned by the lack of progress on proportional representation and House of Lords reform.

In 2011, some Epsom voters voting for the left - wing Labour and Green parties tried to block the tactic by giving their local vote to the National candidate; while it was unsuccessful, it did reduce ACT's majority over National from 12,900 to 2,300.

(b) There has been no significant patronage and appointments to executive positions in various government agencies such as Chief Executives and Executive Directors of government agencies and parastatals as members of our block of the party continue to helplessly watch as these positions are shared by the erstwhile CPC, ACN, ANPP and even APGA blocks of the party and those who have no party at all.

These efforts, contributions and sacrifice were made in spite of the fact that the presidential ticket was taken by the erstwhile Congress for Progressive Change, (CPC) and the Action Congress of Nigeria, (ACN) blocks of the party.

At 6 p.m., activists protest political campaign contributions by the billionaire owners of conglomerate Koch Industries Inc. during a «block party» demonstration near the Manhattan apartment of David Koch; 740 Park Ave., Manhattan.

It has been revealed that the Labour party blocked proposals by ITV Wales and BBC Wales to film behind the scenes documentaries at the Assembly.

In May 2009, Marsden applied to rejoin the Labour Party but was provisionally blocked by the National Executive and is not presently a member of any political pParty but was provisionally blocked by the National Executive and is not presently a member of any political partyparty.

Ed Balls is to launch a bid to bolster Labour's credibility with business by promising to keep a low rate of corporation tax and attract long - term investors to Britain, as he brushed off criticism from the policy chief Jon Cruddas that a «profound dead hand» within the party is blocking bold reforms.

Hawkins, who received 184,000 votes in his gubernatorial run, was taken into custody by Schuyler County Sheriff's Department deputies while blocking the entrance to the proposed liquified petroleum gas storage facility owned by Crestwood Mainstream, according to Green Party officials....

A source familiar with the deliberations by Republican leaders in NY - 9 says Queens Chairman Phil Ragusa has lost his struggle to block Bob Turner from getting the party nod to run in the Sept. 13 special election for ex-Rep.

According to his testimony, at least one meeting in August was attended by Anthony Senft, the Islip Town Board's sole Conservative Party member and the liaison to the parks department at the time of the dumping, where he tried to block a permit being issued for the project to rehabilitate the soccer fields.

- Slideshow by Adi Talwar Here's some scenes from the Unity Day festival at Tracey Towers on Saturday afternoon, just one of several block parties and street festivals in the Bronx that day.