Sentences with phrase «campaign comes to a close»

By the time the campaign came to a close, Grayl had raised nearly a quarter - million dollars — more than 14 times what it'd earned through its first crowdfunding attempt.

That's looking more and more possible as the campaign comes to a close.

With ACE's Matching Gift Campaign coming to a close, and the global day dedicated to giving back, #GivingTuesday, taking place on December 2nd, we thought that now was a good time to talk about corporate matching gift programs.

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«As the hottest year in history comes to a close, the success of the global fossil fuel divestment movement is undeniable,» said May Boeve, executive director of 350.org, the grassroots climate organisation that has played a leading role in the campaign.

The statement is the closest Putin has come to acknowledging the view of US intelligence agencies that Russian hackers were behind the hacking campaigns targeting Democrats during last year's election.

(CNN)- If Hillary Clinton, the woman who came closest to becoming a major party presidential nominee, is a feminist icon, could something similar be said of Michele Bachmann, who officially launched her presidential campaign on Monday?

I was told that the president of the Dominican Republic was coming to a nearby town, close to one of the battelas for some political activity for his re-election campaign and I was invited as the local priest to make a prayer invocation.

«If Hillary Clinton, the woman who came closest to becoming a major party presidential nominee, is a feminist icon, could something similar be said of Michele Bachmann, who officially launched her presidential campaign on Monday?»

Considering that last season the German came close to breaking the Premier League record with 19 assists, in this campaign he has only managed SEVEN.

Aston Villa owner Randy Lerner has been linked with moves for a number of possible replacements for Alex McLeish, who essentially met expectations of Villa Park fans by presiding over a disastrous campaign that came perilously close to ending in relegation.

Inevitably, Tony Pulis will attempt to rectify somebody's season come the closing months of the campaign, but it is pleasing from a neutral perspective that Premier League owners seem intent on bucking the trend of sacking their manager after a handful of bad results.

Mourinho has never come close to a fourth campaign at any of his clubs.

I am left to wonder how long will it be before the football world comes to collectively realise that, although Jose Mourinho is a fine coach who organises and drills his teams well, he is about as close to being football's equivalent of the burning bush as his club captain John Terry is to being the «Let's Kick Racism out of Football» campaign's man of the year?

I firmly believe that within a very short time now, when it becomes obvious that we are not going to make top four, nor even come close in points, the Wenger out campaign will increase vastly and regularly.

With 30 of those goals coming in the top flight, Salah is on course to claim the prize for the league's top scorer, with closest rival Harry Kane back on 26 for the campaign.

On the back of a strong campaign, PSG will be looking to invest in quality wingers and even though it is public knowledge that Angel di Maria remains the priority, having missed out on the Argentine player last season, Sterling's name has been thrown around after they came close to signing Memphis Depay.

The defender was linked with a number of European clubs, including Arsenal, following a solid 2013 - 14 campaign with Olympiakos and came close to joining Everton in 2012.

For all the talk of Jurgen's ambitious new shavers coming in to kick start the FA Cup campaign, it took the oldest head in red to beat his man at the near post and thunder in from close range.

That Newcastle came so close to winning the Premier League title is all the more remarkable when you consider that it was only our third campaign at that level, and that promotion to the Premier League was won at a canter just 12 months after being a David Kelly goal away from relegation to the third tier for the first time in the club's history.

If we finish the Serie A campaign with 91 points, it'd be an excellent result, though Roma and Napoli could come close to us.

A squeaker victory against Leicester, followed by two lackluster defeats and a failed close to the transfer window, hit all the sour notes we've come to expect from a Wenger campaign.

No team in Germany's top flight has gone through a league season unbeaten — Bayern in 1986 - 87 and 2012 - 13 came closest with a solitary defeat — but with 14 wins and 3 draws in the first half of the campaign, Pep Guardiola's side are still on course to become the Bundesliga's first Invincibles.

The 2014 - 2015 campaign has been less prolific for the winger, but he appears on pace to come close to matching the numbers from his introductory season.

Not only that, but the shots are coming from closer to goal too, with only 2.6 % of them being from further than twelve yards out in this campaign, when it was 10.8 % last term.

Their dreams and aspirations may now be met by Liverpool's resurgence as a major Premier League contender following a wonderful 2013/2014 campaign where they came so close to lifting -LSB-...]

Dembele is a product of Rennes» famous academy and has 12 goals in Ligue 1 this campaign, along with five assists; no player under - 21 across Europe's top five leagues even comes close to him when it comes to netting.

Everton finished fifth in the table after a brilliant campaign in which they came close to finishing top four for the first time since 2005.

Having come tantalisingly close to bringing a long - awaited Premier League title to Anfield in 2013/14, the loss of Luis Suarez and injuries to Daniel Sturridge saw a disappointing follow - up campaign which would ultimately lead to Rodgers» sacking.

Having come so close in 2017, Juve fans would have been hoping for a serious attack on the Champions League in this campaign but while that Serie A title is far from certain, they may have to wait another year at least with the club's focus falling on their toughest domestic battle in many seasons.

While Assini, who also ran against Slaughter in 2014, coming closer to ousting her than many expected despite his shoestring campaign, is not backing away from his conservative values, he believes Slaughter has violated the Fair Campaign Pledge she signed in Secampaign, is not backing away from his conservative values, he believes Slaughter has violated the Fair Campaign Pledge she signed in SeCampaign Pledge she signed in September.

If they had done, the «Yes» campaign would never have come so close to victory.

Fighting corruption so that taxpayers come first is my top priority and this week I will immediately begin my push to ban outside income, close the llc loophole, and reform our outdated campaign finance system.»

Harry Wilson, the 2010 GOP state comptroller candidate who came close to ousting the Democratic incumbent, Tom DiNapoli, focused much of his campaign on fixing the problems plaguing New York's pension system.

The appeal comes after Norquist and the Long campaign made hay over Rep. Bob Turner's comments to Capital Tonight that he would be open to closing tax loopholes.

The strategy for your campaign or movement comes first, and tools like Twitter (or blogs, or mass media) are used — strategically — to get you closer to your goal.

Personally I can't forget Littleborough and Saddleworth, because I spent the full five weeks of the campaign in that Yorkshire seat as - in the first significant by - election under Blair - Peter Mandelson attempted to personally mastermind a Labour shock win, and came close.

There is nobody in any of the parties who comes close to him in terms of political strategy and campaigning.

No matter what the polls have been saying, most political observers believe mayor's race is going to be a lot closer than expected, and it's likely going to come down to which campaign has the better get - out - the - vote operation.

Senate Coalition Disintegrates As the legislative session came to a close last week, comprehensive campaign finance reform remained stalled.

But he has played his cards very close to the vest when it comes to how much of his own cash he might be willing to spend on his campaign.

Aside from a constitutional amendment to strip felons of their pensions, the only new attempt to regulate elected officials comes from a requirement that they close their campaign committees no later than two years after they die.

The campaign for governor in Connecticut is now in its final week and a number of national political figures are expected to come to Connecticut to help the candidates close the deal.

Will the Saugerties Republican and Conservative parties aim to come closer together after this election, or will the 2015 campaign have driven them further apart, as it did in 2013, to the jubilation of town Democrats?

At a closed session on the first day of the 2012 Conservative conference, the party's campaign director, Stephen Gilbert, laid out a plan that would come to be known as the 40/40 strategy.

De Blasio's trip comes after he traveled to Washington last spring to launch a national campaign called the Progressive Agenda to push for changes in national economic policy, including a $ 15 minimum wage, closing the carried - interest tax loophole and national paid sick leave and paid family leave.

The proposal, along with an effort to close the LLC loophole in the state's campaign finance law, comes a week before lawmakers are due to leave Albany for the rest of the year.

Since last night's release of the Moreland Commission report, Gov. Andrew Cuomo has played his cards relatively close to the vest when it comes to creation of a public campaign finance system.

This is just phase one in what is to be a multi-tiered public awareness campaign, which comes at a time when the Cuomo administration is «right - sizing» the state's prison system, closing seven facilities around New York.

Astorino has not come close to raising the kind of money Cuomo's re-election campaign put up this cycle, but the governor's popularity has sunk in recent weeks.

Many on the Leave side have long calculated that, realistically, the best they could do in this campaign was to come close enough to keep open the prospect of another referendum.