Sentences with phrase «contest for the seat»

Hedge fund billionaire Bill Ackman threatened ADP with bad publicity if he were forced into a formal proxy contest for seats on the payroll processing giant's board, according to the company.

There are, we know, a number of interesting races going on across the province this election cycle, but one of the more compelling ones is the contest for the seat in Rimbey - Rocky Mountain House - Sundr...

On Saturday, Fayemi put an end to all doubts whether he would contest for the seat he lost almost four years ago or not.

Incidentally, this very Basic School, with a population of about 700 pupils, is the alma mater of the incumbent Member of Parliament and also the two aspirants contesting for the seat on NPP and NDC ticket.

Ms. Harris, a retired city corrections officer and longtime youth group leader, defeated Ms. Regina - Potter by roughly 1,500 votes in a hard - fought contest for the seat covering Bay Ridge, Dyker Heights, Bath Beach, Brighton Beach, Coney Island and Seagate, according to unofficial Board of Elections results.

This last point nearly scuppered the whole deal as the contest for seats on Labour's ruling body is now almost entirely seen in terms of whether the new member will support or oppose Jeremy Corbyn's leadership.

The leaders penciled down the member representing Kabba / Bunu - Ijumu Federal Constituency in the House of Representatives, Honorable Tajudeen Yusuf to contest for the seat of Senate.

Should Sir John retire he will initiate a selection contest for a seat that he held with a majority of 13,352 at the last General Election.

The separate announcements signaled that Tuesday's voting, a flawed process by many accounts, may not conclude the close primary contests for a seat in Congress and the county executive's office.

Murphy reinstated as member of Party, withdraws from contest for seat...

Rounding out the top five recipients of the PAC's largesse were City Council member Margaret Chin, running for re-election to represent Lower Manhattan, including Soho and Chinatown, with $ 121,108; Alan Maisel, running for a seat in South Brooklyn covering Sheepshead Bay and Canarsie, with $ 120,451; and Paul Vallone, an attorney running in a crowded contest for a seat in northeastern Queens, including Bayside and Whitestone, for whom the PAC has spent $ 113,134.

Manhyia North remains the only constituency not to have elected a candidate to contest for the seat currently occupied by Collins Owusu Amankwah, who is in the running for renomination.

Michelle Rhee Group Donates $ 250,000 to Candidates in LAUSD Races A group led by former District of Columbia schools chancellor Michelle Rhee donated $ 250,000 Wednesday to contests for seats on the Los Angeles Board of Education, adding further political fuel to a battle over the direction of reform efforts in the nation's second - largest school system...

Not exact matches

On the morning of November 3, 2010, for example, the day after Election Dight, Facebook announced that 74 percent of House of candidates with the greatest number of Facebook fans on their ballots won their contests, while in the Senate 81 percent of candidates with the most Facebook fans won seats.

ChangeAlberta.ca, which will go live within a week, is tracking the electoral contests in seats winnable for parties other than the Tories and their WR offspring.

He spent his time tearing out magazine advertisements for possible future endorsement references and, when he tired of that, engaged Kuhle in a contest of flipping the plastic «Seat Occupied» signs through makeshift baskets formed by the men's folded arms.

Two points clear of the chasing pack and also boasting a couple of games in hand, no - one would dare contest our next statement that United are well and truly in the driving seat as far as this race for the Premiership crown is concerned, as we are merely stating the blooming obvious.

But what, if any, are the consequences of Wednesday's enthralling contest, a match which had us all riveted to our seats for one reason or another, whether it be for the high - octane football, the quality of the goals or even the countless dubious decisions — there will have been few switching over the channel before the final whistle eventually blew, and even then the drama didn't end there.

I won this infant seat in a Facebook contest for my grandbaby who will be arriving in February.

I bought this stroller for my last child about year ago and I was really disappointed Here my pros and cont Positive: can be used with all car seats bassinet can be converted into a seat, so you need only one piece.

Aptakisic - Tripp School District 102 In the only contested race in Buffalo Grove this April, five candidates have filed for four available seats on the Aptakisic - Tripp School District 102 school board.

An Arlington Heights teenager vying for a seat on the park district board says he will contest objections to his candidate petition, objections filed by two current board members and another candidate.

The National League for Democracy (NLD) has recently won 43 of 45 seats contested in a recent by - election and their leader and pro-democracy icon Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, beat her rival, former military doctor U Soe Min of the Junta - backed Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP), in Kawhmu township just outside Yangon.

He also failed to get elected to Parliament for the seat of Sheffield Brightside in 1968, which I then contested in 1992.

Under this Fourth Republic, we have been lucky to have managed our differences so well that despite the high profiled bitter contest of 1998 in Sunyani, Candidate J.A Kufuor who emerged as our flagbearer courted the support of other opposition parties to win the 2000 first and second round elections to become the second President of the Fourth Republic with an appreciated votes at the presidential level for the party and increased seats in Parliament that we occupied the Majority side of Parliament.

The contest ran for four weeks and drew more than 30,000 entries, the vast majority of which faithfully touted the vehicle's many selling points — its fully retractable seats, its power - lift gates, its relative fuel economy.

But in a quick reaction, Ojudu said as a loyalist of the APC, there was no contemplation on the platform where he hopes to contest for the governorship seat.

The seats being contested today were last up for election in 2009.

A development happening weeks after Zanetor won her bid to contest the Klottey Korle seat of her father's party the ruling NDC, it appears to have been in the works for some time now, as a facebook post by Mr. Mensah in the week in which the suit was filed suggested

After deciding not to contest the Dome / Kwabenya seat in 2012, many saw that decision by the Political Scientist who is also a legal luminary as the right opportunity to prepare himself for the Speaker position if the NPP wins power.

The seat is contested by the Lib Dems with a manic depressive alcoholic, seemingly chosen simply for his heterosexuality.

The draft reform bill proposes electing the 240 elected Lords in thirds, with 80 seats contested in each election, in constituencies of around 5 - 7 seats, with roughly one member for every 570,000 voters.

Cantor predicted a slew of contested races at the local, state and federal levels in the coming year (recall that all the House and state legislative seats will be up for grabs with new district lines, which further boosts the possibility of competitive contests).

The race, one of the more costly contests for a Senate seat, comes as Republicans hang on to their narrow majority in the chamber.

Clarke won a hotly contested four - way Democratic primary for retiring Rep. Major Owens» seat that year, squeezing out a victory with just with just over 31 percent of the vote.

Both Democrats and Republicans had spent millions of dollars on the Westchester contest, airing hostile television ads, in an effort to win the seat, which was vacated in January by George Latimer, who won his bid for county executive.

Several Long Island villages hold elections for mayor and board seats on Tuesday, including contested elections in six villages.

There were other contenders for Squadron's seat, but they bowed out, creating a two - man contest between Newell and Kavanagh.

After unsuccessfully contesting the seat of Shoreditch and Finsbury in both 1950 and 1951, he became MP for Norwich South in 1955.

A proportion of seats in 106 other local authorities were also being contested, not to mention five local mayoralities and the new metro mayor for the Sheffield City Region combined authority.

A swing seat at the presidential level, Wisconsin's 8th District is the kind of seat the party needs to contest if it's going to fight for control of the chamber.

There are also three Democrats running for this hotly - contested seat.

Under first - past - the - post, they have fared less strongly in general elections, typically recording around one per cent of the UK - wide vote (although a slightly higher average in the seats they contest); in 2010, the Greens won 0.96 per cent of the vote (1.81 per cent in the seats where they put up a candidate), and returned an MP to the House of Commons for the first time, as Caroline Lucas wrested Brighton Pavilion from Labour.

Georgia Republicans will pick their nominee for Senate in a runoff Tuesday, ending Democratic nominee Michelle Nunn's nine - week wait for an opponent in the open - seat contest.

While conceding it is an uphill battle, Gregory says he believes he can win this year, stressing that he is not using the contest to prepare for a future run should the seat open up.

With New Hampshire Gov. Maggie Hassan's entrance into the Granite State Senate contest, the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee has secured nearly every top - tier recruit it sought for 2016 — when Democrats will attempt to net the five seats necessary to regain control of the Senate.

However, largely because London accounts for no less than 42 % of all the seats up being contested this year, amongst the councils that do have local elections this week there are more seats being contested where the Remain vote was higher.

All 101 council seats are being contested for Birmingham City Council, making this closely fought race one to watch.

There are allegations in the constituency that the incumbent MP and his supporters would not mind working against Dr. Zanetor to lose the seat in the event the court turns down a request for her to be declared ineligible to contest the November elections.

One of these, the 31st Senate District contest, was particularly interesting since it concerns the seat Eric Schneiderman is vacating to run for AG.