Sentences with phrase «campaigned against returning»

CM Mark - Viverito campaigned against returning the building to use as a school, supporting the City's insistence that East Harlem's schools are underutilized, a claim that has been countered and refuted by many advocacy groups.

Not exact matches

He has now returned to the financial data firm he founded but is hardly giving up his high - wattage policy activism — leading campaigns for gun control and against smoking and obesity.

Democratic politicians who have received campaign contributions from Harvey Weinstein are being called upon to return the money after the New York Times published an exhaustive story Thursday detailing decades of sexual harassment allegations against the Hollywood super-producer.

He said he hoped the matter could be resolved quickly «so the committee can return to its charge — fully investigating the Russian interference in our election and the role of the Trump campaign, and what steps need to be taken to protect against foreign interference in the next election.»

After fleeing to the United States for several years, she returned to Liberia to run for the office of president against Charles Taylor, a man who has since been convicted of war crimes.She lost that election, but through the campaigning process became known as Liberia's Iron Lady.

We are now set to enter into new negotiations with stand - out star Aaron Ramsey, who has been amongst our most consistent performers throughout the campaign, and topped his return from injury off with an emphatic hat - trick this weekend against Everton, his first senior hat - trick of his career.

When the Gunners return, they face Stoke City before tough fixtures against Chelsea and Tottenham as well as the beginning of their Champions League campaign.

Ahead of the all - important FA Cup semi-final against Manchester City on Sunday, Arsenal have received a massive injury boost as striker Danny Welbeck has returned to training just in time for the showdown at Wembley, with the FA Cup now the only trophy that the Gunners can chase this campaign.

Four previous visits to Ewood Park has seen them return home empty handed on every occasion, with a 1 - 1 draw back in the 2005/2006 campaign leaving the Latics with a dire away record against Blackburn of four defeats and one draw.

Seager returned from injury during the 2016/17 campaign, making an instant impact with a goal against Reading under - 23s in his first game back, and he is delighted to have extended his stay at the club.

Nagourney does try to reach an Edwards pollster who was against the idea of using the haircut video at the YouTube debate, but the guy didn't return his call — and apparently there was no one else in the entire world available to offer some perspective and perhaps a critique of the campaign's strategy.

Biviano, who says he is campaigning «against developers, lobbyists and political bosses» to return power to the voters, has accused his opponents of being part of a political machine coordinated through political PR firm Berlin Rosen, and of being influenced by Brooklyn «boss» Frank Seddio.

I'd like to think this was partly because of the Tory campaign against him on helping ruin the pension funds (I say helped, not all his fault because poor stock returns and longer life expectancy has reduced the payouts aswell).

Toback has been running against Albany to some degree in his campaign, hitting Weisenberg early on for «retiring» and then returning to the public payroll in order to game the pension system (a not - unusual, though optically problematic pratice).

What the man did is an indication of his failure of the loyalty test we put to him when the party granted him amnesty to return to us after he contested as an independent parliamentary candidate in 2008 and campaigned against late President Atta Mills and contested for the NPP's Nana Akufo - Addo in the then Mfantsiman East constituency, now Ekumfi constituency.»

After performing badly in the first head - to - head debate in the referendum campaign he returned to what many see as a solid win against Alistair Darling, leader of the Better Together campaign.

The Republicans used de Blasio as a foil throughout the campaign, warning voters against returning the Democrats and their «radical» New York City agenda to power.

Britain needs a return to idealism, David Miliband declares, as he launches his official campaign against his brother Ed to become the next leader of the Labour party.

Sanders returned the favor, declared her contest against ex-Assembly GOP Minority Leader John Faso «the most important congressional race in the country,» campaigned for her and urged his supporters to flood her coffers.

Clinton made a return trip to central New York to campaign for Rep. Dan Maffei, a Democrat who is locked in a competitive race for re-election against Republican challenger John Katko.

Gillibrand called for GOP lawmakers to return or donate campaign contributions from Wynn, pointing to Republicans who were quick to demand the same from Democrats after allegations against disgraced movie producer Harvey Weinstein, a major Democratic donor, were published.

The chief executive of Better Together, the campaign against Scottish independence, has told the BBC that SNP leader Alex Salmond's conference speech is a return to «old tunes.»

The best method to ensure great return is to create various ads within a campaign, and split test them against each other.

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