Sentences with phrase «during the election by»

Corruption for decades, has been the most potent allegations political parties use when in opposition to oust incumbent government and has become the opium used to daze voters during elections by politicians.

Now we are witnessing his contempt for keeping the public informed during an election by agreeing to debate his Democratic Primary opponent Zephyr Teachout.

Palin was famously portrayed on Saturday Night Live during the election by Fey who won an Emmy for best guest actress in a comedy series for the performance.

Not exact matches

Of course, the banks also had a lot to do with the rise of the S&P 500, which is weighted by market - cap, during the same period: Nearly 36 % of the S&P 500's returns since the election came from financial stocks, according to S&P Global.

«Unfriending someone entirely may feel a bit too harsh,» she says, but if people in your social circles are regularly posting negative content (especially during election season), you could get a much - needed mental break by engaging with them less frequently.

«I was also confused by the initial explanation that was offered publicly that I was fired because of the decisions I had made during the election year,» he said.

It has also been investigating how its services were abused by Russia - linked actors to spread propaganda during the 2016 US presidential election.

The New York Times, the Financial Times, The Wall Street Journal, and Gannett are building on the online readership they gained during the 2016 presidential election by marketing unbiased reporting as a sales strategy.

That raises the possibility of court challenges by First Nations, blockades along the pipeline route between Edmonton and Kitimat, B.C., and rallies in major cities during the run - up to a federal election that must be called by October 2015.

Trump, by contrast, appears to have no engagement with science, has implicitly denied the scientific consensus when it comes to global warming, and he wasn't supported by the tech industry during the election (the highly ideological, libertarian Thiel notwithstanding).

In just a few months, we have learned that Flynn lied to Mike Pence, Vice President - elect, about obtaining a security clearance for Flynn's son during the presidential transition; that during the same period, as President Obama was imposing sanctions on Russia for election meddling, Flynn communicated with the Russian ambassador about those sanctions, hinting that President Trump would take a softer line, and then lied to Pence about it (and stood by while Pence publicly repeated that lie); that Flynn was not truthful when questioned by the FBI about the same topic; and that Flynn spoke at a gala for RT, the Kremlin - backed propaganda network and received payments from RT, but dissembled about the source of the payments and seems to have failed to follow U.S. regulations about reporting them.

The charges took specific aim at the Internet Research Agency (IRA), a notorious Russian «troll factory» which focused on sowing political discord during the 2016 election by using internet bots to spread fake news and pro-Donald Trump propaganda on Facebook, Twitter, and other social media platforms.

During the election, Trump scored points with an array of working - class voters by saying he would renegotiate trade deals, such as the North American Free Trade Agreement, or NAFTA, which the president has said favored other countries over the U.S.

During a surreal exchange, anchor David Muir grilled Trump over his continued spreading of the falsehood that millions of illegal ballots were cast in the 2016 election, which Trump had previously said was the reason for Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton beating him in the popular vote by 3 million ballots.

Labour's candidate Christian Wolmar reported that Goldsmith's behaviour during the mayoral election was regularly raised by voters on the doorstep.

The long - suffering public official first drew Democrats» ire when he investigated party nominee Hillary Clinton during the 2016 campaign, then caused Republicans great irritation after the election by investigating the possibility of Trump campaign collusion with Russia.

Moore claimed he took the test shortly after losing the special election and that it «concerned allegations of sexual misconduct made against me during the last month of the campaign by Leigh Corfman, Beverly Nelson, and Tina Johnson for «alleged» conduct approximately 30 - 40 years ago.»

Despite being considered an elitist by some, during the election Trump took on a populist position.

It was during that same period between the election and the inauguration that the first US intelligence officers were struck by what they described as strange noises.

These concerns have been reinforced by the controversy over hacked emails during the current election cycle.

Zimbabwe's ruling party saw some major upsets and raucous bickering during its primaries this week ahead of general elections due by August.

Having donated $ 11m to the main pro-Cruz Super Pac, Keep the Promise I, Mercer is Cruz's top financier — and the largest individual donor to Super Pacs or outside groups during the presidential election cycle thus far, according to data compiled by the political transparency website Open Secrets.

The developments come as Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is set to appear in Washington Tuesday for hearings on the data scandal, in which at least 87 million people had their information harvested during the 2016 election cycle by Cambridge Analytica, a British political consulting firm.

This was Mr. Zuckerberg's first appearance before Congress, prompted by the revelation that Cambridge Analytica, a political consulting firm linked to the Trump campaign, harvested the data of an estimated 87 million Facebook users to psychologically profile voters during the 2016 election.

During the 2006 election campaign the Conservative party had promised to cut the GST by two points.

Here's an excerpt from an open letter signed by 250 or so economics professors — myself included — during the 2008 election:

On Twitter, a Russian - created account that falsely claimed to be controlled by Tennessee's Republican Party attracted more than 100,000 followers during the election season.

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.

Twitter itself was found to be overrun by Russian bots during the 2016 U.S. election cycle.

«You may have heard about a quiz app built by a university researcher that leaked Facebook data of millions of people in 2014,» Zuckerberg said in the signed ads, referring to the data analytics firm accused of misusing the social network's user information during the 2016 US election.

In December, it was asked by Special Counsel Robert Mueller to hand over documents as part of Mueller's ongoing investigation into any collusion between Russia and the Trump campaign during the election.

Daniels alleges she had an extramarital affair with Donald Trump in 2006 and was subsequently paid off by a Trump lawyer to stay silent during the presidential election.

The company has been lambasted by public officials and others for spreading false stories, and for allowing Russian - linked groups to use its platform to potentially sway voters during the 2016 election.

The social network has absorbed criticism in recent months regarding its personal data security liabilities, thanks mainly to the misuse of data from about 87 million people collected on the social network by a research firm, Cambridge Analytica, during the 2016 U.S. presidential election.

«It doesn't change my reading of the current moment,» Ryan said of the elections during a morning event hosted by the Washington Examiner.

The past 24 hours of news in President Donald Trump's various legal imbroglios — the replacement of outgoing lawyer Ty Cobb with Emmet T. Flood, who represented Bill Clinton during his impeachment as president, and the admission of Rudy Giuliani to Sean Hannity (subsequently confirmed by Trump on Twitter) that Trump did in fact reimburse Michael Cohen for a $ 130,000 payment made to porn actress Stormy Daniels on the eve of the 2016 election — are powerful reminders of something that can't be said often enough: Trump and his White House lie all the time, without apparent compunction.

Cambridge Analytica, backed by top Trump donor and hedge - fund billionaire Robert Mercer, was asked in December to turn over documents to special counsel Robert Mueller, as part of his investigation into collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia during the 2016 election.

Wymer: The market's strong rally following the November 2016 general election has continued, as global earnings expectations improved during 2017 — a sharp contrast to the weakness in recent years — and have accelerated recently, spurred by reactions to the long - term impacts of the corporate tax cuts.

Facebook and Zuckerberg are currently embroiled in the fallout from a scandal caused by newsthat data firm Cambridge Analytica used data on 50 million individuals that was harvested from a «personality prediction» app on Facebook for political targeting purposes during the 2016 election campaign.

During the nomination race, Edmonton - McClung PC MLA David Xiao was disqualified from the contest by the Conservative Party National Council (Mr. Xiao was defeated in this month's provincial election).

Mr. Fildebrandt is sour from a recent interview Ms. Tait published in which she quotes him as claiming the NDP duped Alberta voters by actually implementing promises made during the election (and he later referred to Ms. Tait as a b - list reporter and accused her of auditioning for a job in the Premier's Office — a comment he later retracted).

And he did earn endorsements from a number of conservatives during his by - election bid, including Councillor Diane Colley - Urquhart, former PC MLA Gordon Shrake and former mayor Rod Sykes.

With national elections due to take place during the first half of 2018, Five Star's failure to win in a region seen as one of its strongholds was characterized by some commentators as evidence the party's appeal had peaked.

Furthermore, returning officers (who are overseen by Elections Canada) will employ up to 160,000 temporary employees during a general election or referendum (Elections Canada, May 2007).

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As Breitbart News reported, the Washington Post and the Hill obtained a copy of the eight articles of impeachment drawn up by the conservative House Freedom Caucus against Rosenstein because he has not provided the documentation requested as part an investigation into FBI surveillance during the 2016 presidential election.

Despite the NDP and healthcare experts raising the alarm over the state of the Misericordia for over a decade, and the case for a new hospital being clearly and repeatedly made, during the 2014 by - election Mandel said that no action could be taken without further study.

«We believe it is entirely possible that there will be a connection there,» Zuckerberg said when asked if there was overlap between Cambridge Analytica's harvested user data and the political propaganda pushed by the Kremlin - linked Internet Research Agency during the 2016 presidential election, which Facebook has said was seen by some 126 million people.

And the province can do much more to clean up provincial election laws, something that a new all - party committee will be tasked to do soon (and they should consider adopting some of the amendments made by Wildrose MLAs during recent debates in the Legislature).

There is no dearth of strong opinions on the matter, as evidenced by the many vocal protests of trade deals in progress and the continuing protectionist discourse during the U.S. presidential election.