Sentences with phrase «elected woman president»

Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, former President of Liberia and Africa's first elected woman president, on the impact of private sector investment, the urgency of action on climate change...

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... Does that sound to you like the temperament of a man we should elect as president, and how will you answer the charge from Hillary Clinton, who was likely to be the Democratic nominee, that you are part of the war on women?»

You can love Hillary or hate her, but no woman has ever come even this close to being elected President.

Maybe that's exactly what's needed for America to finally elect its first woman president.

Leroux's list of accomplishments is impressive — she's the first woman elected chair and the first one to hold the title of president and CEO at her company.

A women's march was being organized in Washington, the teenager wrote, to protest the incoming administration of President - elect Donald J. Trump and to speak up for gender equality.

The Obama administration's move last year to integrate women into front - line combat roles may get reversed by the next Pentagon head selected by President - elect Donald Trump.

Emanuel, 51, the former chief of staff to President Barack Obama, is competing against rivals who include two Hispanics — Gery Chico, a former Daley chief of staff, and City Clerk Miguel del Valle — and Carol Moseley Braun, who was the first black woman elected to the Senate.

On January 12, the president - elect announced that Powell would get a White House job as senior counselor for economic initiatives, saying she would focus on «entrepreneurship, small business growth, and the global economic empowerment of women.»

McDougal's comments, and Farrow's story, may or may not have any effect on a president who was elected after bragging about his ability to grab women «by the pussy,» and after being publicly accused of sexual misconduct by numerous women.

The separation between church and state is slowly being dissolved, an atheist will NEVER be elected president, Christians believe that a woman should not be able to make decisions about her own body, religion is responsible for untold amounts of hate, violence, and bigotry.

So, what do you think will happen first — the U.S. elects a woman for president, or the U.S. elects an atheist for president?

Finally, after her country endured a decade of civil war that claimed the lives of over 200,000 people, and with the help of Leymah Gbowee and the Women of Liberia Mass Action for Peace, Johnson - Sirleaf was elected president in 2005.

Since at the 1977 General Synod a woman elder did well in the race for the vice-presidency (in the RCA the vice-president of General Synod is heir presumptive for the presidency the next year), it seems well within the realm of possibility that during the coming decade a woman (elder or minister) will be elected president of the General Synod, the highest office the church can bestow.

That's how women can be controlled (which is why the assault on women's rights that is sure to happen under President - elect Donald Trump is very real and something to be vigilant about).

It is about time a woman be elected president as well.

i've had some folks complain to me that i shouldn't be requesting our president elect to focus on «frivolous breastfeeding» when the government should focus on the economy and not my right as a woman to breastfeed or not breastfeed.

It is my hope that President - elect Obama will take the petition seriously and, with the help of Tom Daschle, make the positive changes needed to create an environment where not only can we achieve our national breastfeeding targets, but women and their families can be successful in reaching their personal breastfeeding goals too.

She is also one of only a handful of women to have been president of the Cambridge Union and many Tory insiders spoke of Frazer as a future star before she had even got elected.

Hillary Clinton addressed the ongoing #MeToo women's rights movement last night, saying that she believed it still would have happened if she were elected president in 2016.

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«Electing pro-choice candidates like Shelley Mayer is vital for advancing policies that help women and families,» said Ilyse Hogue, President of NARAL Pro-Choice America.

«Once President Trump was elected, I think something changed, and I think it changed for women,» Gillibrand said.

Considering that Roy Moore, who's leading the polls for the election in Alabama, has been accused of being a sexual predator targeting underage women, and considering that the elected president of the USA, Donald Trump, is himself someone who has admitted to groping and spying on naked, underage models, and even said that he would like to have sex with his own daughter, my question is, to what extent is pedophilia an accepted sexual orientation in the United States?

Schneiderman, elected in 2010 out of the state senator, had increasingly been handed a national profile in part of his push against the policies of President Donald Trump's administration as well as his public advocacy for women's issues.

Former Vice President Joe Biden and EMILY's List, a group that works to elect Democratic women, endorsed her campaign.

As invited guests dined inside a downtown Buffalo hotel, listening to remarks by the woman who led Donald Trump's successful presidential run, protesters stood outside, speaking against the President - Elect's policies.

If a woman gets elected president of the USA, she might have one or several husbands, wives or any other gender - identification partners or spouses.

Incumbent Mayor Tom Richards has done an about - face on his politicl future, saying in a radio interview that he would serve if elected tomorrow, despite the fact that he has technically endorsed the woman who defeated him in the Democratic primary, Council President Lovely Warren, and is not actively campaigning.

The President - elect was accompanied by Alhaji Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, the Vice-President - elect, Madam Afisa Otiko Djaba, the New Patriotic Party (NPP) National Women's Organiser, sitting and newly - elected Members of Parliament (MPs) and some regional executives of the Party

A New York judge dismissed a Republican political strategist's $ 4 million defamation suit against Trump and his former campaign manager, ruling the president - elect's «intemperate» tweets saying the woman «begged» for a job were statements of opinion protected by the First Amendment.

Following Hillary Clinton's bruising defeat by now President - elect Donald Trump last month, Blake sees an opportunity to draw from the election's «learning lessons»: continuously mobilizing and organizing among communities of color, millennials and women and a consistent economic message for all communities «regardless of your zip code.»

«All three think they can mistreat women and that women voters are going to dash to the polls to bring them back, to elect them to represent them,» NOW - NYC President Sonia Ossorio told the New York Observer.

Ms. James, the first black woman elected to citywide office, is a natural candidate for City Hall someday — though her historically close relationship with de Blasio makes her less likely to challenge him directly in a primary than some of the other candidates bandied about, like Comptroller Scott Stringer or Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr..

Earlier this month, when I became the first woman elected president of New York State United Teachers, I knew that she would be proud.

Gillibrand was a hardworking lawyer (partner in David Boies» law firm); elected TWICE in a heavily Republican district; serves on the Armed Services Committee; ranks among the top ten fundraisers in the House; was hired by President Clinton to work at HUD; fought for the rights of abused women; is a genuine working Mom who gave birth to her second child just last March, making her only the sixth woman in the House to do so while serving in office; she has voted in every single election (unlike Kennedy who has missed even GENERAL elections); magna cum laude graduate of Dartmouth... Need I say more?

NEW YORK, N.Y. — Democrat Marjorie Velázquez, candidate in the race for the Bronx 13th Council District, has earned the overwhelming support of city government's women elected officials with the endorsement Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer and nine members of the City Council, including Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito, and Council Women's Caucus co-chairs Elizabeth Crowley (D — Maspeth) and Helen Rosenthal (D — Upper West Swomen elected officials with the endorsement Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer and nine members of the City Council, including Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito, and Council Women's Caucus co-chairs Elizabeth Crowley (D — Maspeth) and Helen Rosenthal (D — Upper West SWomen's Caucus co-chairs Elizabeth Crowley (D — Maspeth) and Helen Rosenthal (D — Upper West Side).

NEW YORK CITY — Slow - moving lines continued to cause extensive delays hours after polls opened to voters Tuesday morning in a historic election that could see the first woman elected president.

We talked to 30 women politicians in New York at all levels of government about what the political climate looks like in 2016, the year the United States might elect its first - ever woman president.

«Let's face it, a lot of the women want to meet her just because she was the first female campaign manager that ever has elected a president.

Michael D. Rodriguez, a Latino progressive from Commissioner Jesus «Chuy» Garcia's neighborhood and committeeman of the 22nd ward, was elected as executive vice chair of the Cook County Democratic Party; a post previously held by Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle, who just rose as the first African - American and woman elected to lead the Democratic party in the county.

Since Trump was elected a year ago, de Blasio has made no secret of his opposition to the president and his policies, announcing his support for women in the face of a proposal to defund Planned Parenthood, defiance of the president's order to cut federal funding to so - called sanctuary cities and a steadfast commitment to immigrants.

She said with President - elect Donald Trump in power in Washington in January, Democrats in the New York Legislature and governor's office could be an important firewall and be national leaders against policies that could harm women and immigrants.

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WFP leaders and their allies have denounced the WEP as a «fake party» and a «sham,» and female elected officials like Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer and Upper East Side State Senator Liz Krueger have assailed it for doing little to advance women's issues.

Jenny is a Director of the Board and Vice President of the Eleanor Roosevelt Legacy Committee, a political action committee that trains and supports pro-choice Democratic women running for elected offices across New York State.

President - Elect Donald Trump's pro-life platform against abortion, along with his support for traditional family values, marriage as stated in the Bible as one man and one woman instead of same - sex marriage, in favor of prayer and the reading of sacred scripture in our public schools, and his promise to appoint conservative judges to the United States Supreme Court made Evangelicals and even Democrats who espouse those positions to support Donald Trump.

The City Council Women's Caucus rolled out its first - ever «legislative equality package» — which members touted as a counterblast to President - elect Donald Trump's agenda.

Nearly 20 percent say the opportunity to elect the first woman president makes them more inclined to vote for Clinton in November, and about 10 percent say it makes them less likely to vote for her.

At a plenary session at WLSTE +10, AAAS Chief Operating Officer Celeste Rohlfing cited the names of women in three top leadership positions at AAAS — Chair of the AAAS Board Barbara Schaal, President Susan Hockfield and President - Elect Margaret Hamburg.