Sentences with phrase «by going to the election»

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I'm asleep by the time the Raptors games start, and when there's an election, I go to bed before the results are announced.

In early January, before Trump was sworn in, a bipartisan group of senators introduced a bill designed to go beyond the punishments already levied against Russia by the Obama administration and to demonstrate to Trump that forcefully responding to Moscow's election interference wasn't a partisan issue.

«I would submit to the Democrats across the country we are going to be compromised in trying to win the election in 2016 if our nominee supported the war in Iraq,» Chafee said, as reported by CNN on Thursday.

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.

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.

But while the Harper government has demonstrated its hostility to the Canadian Wheat Board, it would probably be loathe to go into an election this fall having just traded away the dairy and poultry marketing boards supported by farmers in Quebec and Ontario.

And, heading into an election year, Clark is not going to bite the hand that feeds her by turning down Kinder Morgan.

Including Mr. Harper's vow in 2008 that a government led by him would «never» go into deficit, this is the second time in three years that the Conservatives have made a balanced - budget promise during an election campaign only to abandon it after being reelected.

Driven, it would seem, by the backlash against the 2016 election and the fake news phenomenon, Facebook is trying to go back to the basics.

«At this point, I don't even know if the adults in power who are funded by the NRA, I don't think we need them anymore, because they are going to be gone by the midterm election,» Gonzalez said on «Face the Nation» on CBS.

The payment to Clifford, who goes by the stage name Stormy Daniels, came just weeks before the 2016 general election.

Finally, with respect to the Senate «election»: I'm not going to legitimize this by participating.

The revelations around Cambridge Analytica and its parent company, SCL Elections which boasts of «handling» 100 election campaigns in more than 30 countries across five continents — principally by manipulating Facebook data — are shocking, and we're not going to tolerate such data manipulation any longer.

The admission by Donald Trump's attorney Michael Cohen that he made the $ 130,000 payment of apparent hush money to adult film star Stormy Daniels shortly before the 2016 election does not make the Trump campaign's legal problems go away despite Cohen's assertions.

He has been backed up by the Republican National Committee, which launched a website «Lyin» Comey» last week that makes the case that Democrats should hate the former FBI director because he cost Hillary Clinton the election by reopening an investigation into her emails days before voters went to the polls.

If you went strictly by Stephen Harper's spoken record, he never resigned as Conservative leader after last fall's election defeat, and he's got no plans to do anything but carry out his full four - year term as MP for Calgary Heritage.

, then it may count as an in - kind campaign contribution by Cohen — one that apparently went unreported to the Federal Election Commission and exceeded the legal limit for individual donations under federal law.

If the money was connected to Trump's ongoing presidential campaign, then it may count as an in - kind campaign contribution by Cohen — one that apparently went unreported to the Federal Election Commission and exceeded the legal limit for individual donations under federal law.

In terms of a global picture, the EU is even further along than the US by 20 or 30 years, where you wont find a single advanced northern European nation that would for ANYONE that goes on about «God» (unlike the US, which seems to require it during elections)... you'd get laughed off the election circuit.

this will cost obama the election by catering to the gays he wil loosel a large portion of the black and latino vote who are very conservative on this issue.and this will only make mitt romney stronger, with a weak economy unemployment as high as 8 % and a republican house there seems the last thing obama needs is to loose more votes that he will gain from this.he will loose the entire south including florida and many swing states.although he will win san francisco for sure.way to go barry

While debate moderators and election commentators focus on economic issues, the religious rhetoric of the presidential candidates appears to go mostly unnoticed - except by the key Republican voting bloc being courted.

So, no, demonizing Bush is not going to work in this election, and» as demonstrated in the recent special election in New York's ninth congressional district» the seniors will no longer be swayed by dark warnings that the GOP will end medicare and social security» these older people realize that the programs of the New Deal and the Great Society have become unsustainable and that» somehow» a real and drastic change must happen, soon.

As far as creating opportunities for dialog within your faith communities, I'd recommend starting with a book club, perhaps around a book like Trouble I've Seen by Drew Hart, or The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander, or Assimilate or Go Home by Danielle Mayfield, or Forgive Us by the authors mentioned above — something that's not directly about this election or this presidency, but that addresses issues related to justice.

Sullivan went on to suggest that Chaput is using a double standard in the 2008 election by criticizing Catholic supporters of Barack Obama, while turning a blind eye to John McCain's support for embryonic stem cell research.

The honeymoon, that is, between the now enfeebled and increasingly remote souls who for over a quarter of a century had carped and sneered at Pope John Paul II (and by the same token at «PanzerCardinal» Joseph Ratzinger) but who had nevertheless hoped against hope for a Pope who would be somehow reborn if not as a fully paid - up liberal, as a Pope at least who would go easy on all that counter-cultural JPII stuff about being «signs of contradiction» and about continuity with the pre-conciliar Church and who had breathlessly found (so they thought) that, lo, it was even so, in the wonders of Deus Caritas Est. «On his election last spring,» carolled The Tablet, «the former CardinalRatzinger was widely assumed to have as his papal agenda the hammering of heretics and a war on secularist relativism, subjects with which he was associated as head of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.»

It was the Indulgence, previously referred to, which the young pluralist Archbishop of Mainz had promoted — half of all the money collected was going to his bankers, the Fugger, to whom he owed a very substantial sum on account of the fines paid by them to Rome on his behalf for his election to the Archbishopric, and for his pluralism.

However, the statement also goes on to read that given Barcelona's presidential election is yet to take place, if the new Board of Directors opt to reverse the transfer, an agreement has been reached where they can re-sell the player to Atletico Madrid by July 20th.

As an issue, football isn't going to be crucial to the coming election: most polls suggest that the electorate are more exercised by such trifling matters as the health service and the state of the economy.

as a Canuck living within the U.S., it was intriguing and a bit irritating to watch all of the election stuff going on but not be able to participate by voting!

I can't believe 2 months has gone by already, and we're SO close to the end of our states study and the beginning of election day!

May insisted that current PIP claimants will not lose out - before going on to mock Labour MP Cat Smith for arguing that Labour's performance in the Copeland by - election was «an incredible achievement».

Karen Jagoda has what looks to be another top - notch Digital Politics Show today, broadcast live at 3 PM Eastern: With one month to go until Election Day, the topic today is how online ads and mobile apps are being used in the ground game and how campaign narratives are being shaped by dirty...

It simply means that as a National political party, we decided not to go by the seriousness we have been attaching over the previous years to this election.»

Since Labour went into the general election arguing that the issue of whether or not Britain was leaving the EU was settled by last year's referendum she urged colleagues not to «change tack».

It is a distinct possibility that the outcome of this General Election is going to see very little relationship between votes and seats and produce a new government elected by a very small proportion of the electorate.

According to a statement signed by the General Secretary of the PNC, Bernard Mornah, it is the expectation of NEC that all stakeholders in the process will take keen interest in these decisions and work assiduously to put the party on a sound footing going into Election 2016.

«If the violence, abuse, intimidation and the use of the occults during the parties» primaries are anything to go by, then I think we are moving towards the very edge for Election 2016,» Dr Aning said.

Following her release, Suu Kyi was not only allowed to go on a triumphant international tour — in Oslo she finally collected the Nobel Peace Prize awarded in 1991 — but also to run in parliamentary by - elections.

Removing names by due process, using the quasi-judicial methods outlined in the Public Elections (Registration of Voters) Regulations, 2016 (C.I. 91) and by the Supreme Court, is the democratic, constitutional and civilised way to go; unless we are already fed - up with the Rule of Law and Due Process and are longing and yearning for the return of dictatorial rule.

The by - election will cost the Tories about # 100,000 to fight, but the damage Carswell has done to the party goes well above the financial.

«The PDP holds that the governor and the APC are jittery and unpopular of going into the grass roots elections in the state, thus the decisions to control the councils by nomenclature of executive secretaries and sole administrators, which are alien and offensive to the provisions of our Constitution, which under section 7 guarantees only democratically elected local government council administrations.»

According to Moroney, Maragos is trying to figure out whether he might have any «viability» in a general election against Schumer (amazing that in such a short time the senior senator has gone from having zero potential GOP challengers to two; all efforts by state Republican Party Chairman Ed Cox to entice someone to run have so far gone nowhere).

By contrast this was always going to be a big vote - loser for the Lib Dems, whose strong by - election record in the last decade or so has been grounded in their opposition statuBy contrast this was always going to be a big vote - loser for the Lib Dems, whose strong by - election record in the last decade or so has been grounded in their opposition statuby - election record in the last decade or so has been grounded in their opposition status.

Though the details of their discussion was not made public it was gathered by the Nigeria Politics Online that the two further discussed the reconciliation process in the All Progressive Congress and the recent decision of the party to go for election of new officers.

The Ashanti Region is the traditional stronghold of the New Patriotic Party but political analysts and pollsters have indicated that the infrastructural and developmental projects instituted in the region by President Mahama is most likely a factor that was going to shore up the fortunes of the NDC in the upcoming elections.

If the 2017 election is anything to go by, it would seem not to be Theresa May or Jeremy Corbyn; though, just if we are allowed to combine the outlook of Goodhart's «anywheres» with the discontent felt by his «somewheres,» we can embrace Corbyn's vision of Labour as in the ascendancy.

The e-mail, «signed» by Cuomo himself, insists the election is going to be «tough» (despite the AG's widening double - digit lead over the Buffalo businessman) urges his supporters not to stay «silent» — a clear pitch for the base not to get complacent and sit on its collective hands.

By urging tribunals to strike down the use of the card reader, the implication is a return to our prior election system, going back to the 2003 and 2007 era where Mike Tyson, dead people and ghost names on the voter register produced huge votes recorded on election day to declare people winners of election.

Kenya goes to the polls in closely contested election — in pictures View gallery Odinga supporters interviewed by the Guardian in recent days said their leader had been robbed of victory in the last two elections, but that they would not take to the streets if they believed they had been fairly defeated this time.

«Each day that goes by, I'm coming to the conclusion that, if this was a sure win for Democrats... I'm sure the Democratic leadership and governor himself would have called a special election last week,» Reed continued.