Sentences with phrase «election called after»
Booker, who was elected to his seat last October in a special election called after Sen. Frank Lautenberg died, hopes the meeting is only one of many with Republican senators.
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Comparing the results from lab tests she ran during early and late October with tests she ran the week after the election, she noticed a change she called «extremely stark:» On the whole, negotiating partners were more adversarial in their chat - based communication threads.
Sandberg's call for an apology comes 12 days after Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg apologized for the role his company played in the election.
'' (The ongoing standoff between the euro zone and Greece) also increases the chances of snap elections in Greece as after overplaying his hand and facing increasing difficulties in concluding the review, Tsipras may be tempted to cut his losses by calling early elections before Syriza (the ruling party) loses more support for adopting unpopular measures,» Piccoli said.
The morning after Election Day, she called the offices of her local congressional representatives, urging them to preserve the protections the ACA offers.
The regional elections were called by Spain's Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy hours after the Catalan parliament made a unilateral declaration of independence on 27 October.
After the last election, both Bloomberg News and the National Post reported that Oliver rejected calls from officials to cool the housing market.
Several days after this interview, and three days after Donald Trump's election to the presidency, I called Nottage to hear her thoughts about the results.
What CBP agents call «detaining» cellphones didn't start after Donald Trump's election.
I took office literally five days after the election was called.
Opposition politicians are calling for a snap election after it was revealed that Sigmundur David Gunnlaugsson held shares in a company that allegedly invested in Iceland's troubled banking sector.
In an article for Bloomberg View published shortly after the election, Cass Sunstein, administrator of the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs under President Obama, called the idea «pretty dumb» and said it would be extremely difficult to implement and require so many exemptions as to leave its scope narrow.
The slip - up came after Democrats in both chambers called for extensive investigations into Flynn's relationship with Russia, as well as the country's meddling in the 2016 election.
Users have called for Twitter to take action to combat abuse and harassment repeatedly, and the demands for better management of the platform and the community intensified after the 2016 U.S. presidential election.
After the election, Cook called for unity in an email to all Apple employees.
Finally, Rodriguez calls for a grand fiscal compact in 2013 after the election, and failing that the arduous task of effecting these structural changes through Constitutional amendment.
Governor Greg Abbott has called for a special election to cover the remainder of Blake Farenthold's term after his abrupt resignation last month.
When Facebook was first confronted with the possibility that fake news and propaganda on its platform may have swayed the election for Donald Trump, just days after the candidate's surprise victory, CEO Mark Zuckerberg strongly denied the idea, calling it «crazy.»
Greek Prime Minister reversed course after a rebellion within his own Socialist party over the referendum, but ignored repeated calls to resign and call elections.
Republicans initially focused on the tax cut messaging in the recent special election in Pennsylvania's 18th Congressional District, but by election day, they had pivoted to decrying so - called «sanctuary cities» after determining the tax message wasn't breaking through.
With trust and accountability having become the defining issues of the election campaign, Mr. Prentice has not presented a compelling reason for Albertans to trust that the PC Party will be any different in the next three years (especially after he called the election one year earlier than the PC Government's fixed election date).
Just weeks after Haruhiko Kuroda, governor of the Bank of Japan, surprised the world with a bold plan to inflate Japanese assets and weaken the Japanese yen by buying 80 trillion yen ($ 680 billion) in Japanese bonds, exchange - traded funds and real estate investment trusts, prime minister Shinzō Abe upstaged him by calling a snap election for mid-December, two years ahead of schedule.
Shortly after the 1997 election, former Calgary MLA Danny Dalla - Longa called for his resignation.
Japan's Abe calls snap election With his popularity on the rebound after a series of summer scandals, Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe dissolved parliament this week and called an election for 22 October.
Mr. Anglin also filed a complaint with the Calgary Police reporting he'd received an anonymous death threat after refusing to step aside for Mr. Nixon, and accused what the Red Deer Advocate called «a senior Wildrose Party player» of offering him «in essence a bribe» in return for stepping down — a job with the Alberta Electric System Operator, Alberta Energy Regulator or the Alberta Surface Rights Board, presumably on the assumption the party wins the next election.
Soon after the election's surprise result, Zuckerberg called it a «pretty crazy idea» that Facebook had any impact.
After the last federal election, Premier Gordon Campbell renewed calls to lift the moratorium, saying «We've got to encourage investment; we've got to encourage jobs; we've got to reduce unnecessary regulations.»
Some activists from the new progressive Catholic establishment have been hired into the Obama administration, including Alexia Kelley, who started a group called Catholics in Alliance for the Common Good after the 2004 election, and John Kelly, a Catholic outreach liaison for Obama's 2008 campaign.
In his new novel «The Leftovers» (St. Martin's), the bestselling author of «Little Children» and «Election» follows a group left behind after something called the «Sudden Departure,» a Rapture - like event in which millions of people suddenly vanished like smoke.
Bishop Eduardo Horacio Garcia, who was Cardinal Bergoglio's auxiliary bishop in Buenos Aires, recounted shortly after Pope Francis's election that «at the end of the Jubilee Year, for which Cardinal Bergoglio had called a missionary year, we priests of the archdiocese asked Cardinal Bergoglio to call a synod in order to discuss how to harvest the fruits of our mission and draft guidelines.
«Reacting with unusual swiftness,» The New York Times reported, two days day after the present Holy Father's election, «the Vatican on Friday rejected any suggestion that Pope Francis... was implicated in his country's so - called Dirty War during the 1970s.»
Throughout the campaign, Southerners had boasted that they would not accept a «black Republican» as President, and four days after the election, South Carolina called for a convention to consider withdrawing from the Union.
In a Mass celebrated in the Sistine Chapel with the College of Cardinals on the day after his election, the Holy Father raised cautions about clerical ambition» a yellow warning flag that reflected the concerns he had expressed during the papal interregnum about «spiritual worldliness» corrupting the Church, and an unmistakable call to a more energetically evangelical exercise of the priesthood and the episcopate.
After almost ten years of North American maneuvering, the U.N. Committee on Decolonization declared the island a colonial territory (over the protest of the U.S. and most of the island's population — who argued that in 1953, when Puerto Rico became a so - called «commonwealth» as a result of a popular election, it ceased to be a colony and became instead a «free associated state»).
The full horror of last week's presidential election became evident a few days after the result had been called.
For the Christian, the image of the Pope's embrace calls up memories of the man whose name Archbishop Jorge Mario Bergoglio chose after his election as Pope: St. Francis of Assisi.
Last week, the Iranian government rounded up activists after Karrubi and Moussavi called for supporters to gather at Azadi Square - the site of mass protests by Iran's opposition movement after the disputed 2009 presidential elections.
Others in the progressive faith worlds, meanwhile, say Democrats - including President Barack Obama - have shied away from the faith - based messaging that they honed in the years after the 2004 election, which was seen to be determined by so - called values voters.
«Shortly after his election to the papacy, Pope Francis called for a «church for the poor,»» said the Rev. Thomas Rosica, a Canadian priest who assists the Vatican communications department.
Pressure is mounting on the Prime Minister and Chancellor to relax austerity, with several Tory MPs calling for an end to the pay cap after the party disastrously lost its majority in the General Election to anti-austerity Labour, which has pledged to scrap the 1 per cent ceiling.
In describing and accounting for the lives of the Religious Right, which we define simply as religious conservatives with a considerable involvement in political activity, the book and the series tell the story primarily by focusing on leading episodes in the movement's history, including, but not limited to, the groundwork laid by Billy Graham in his relationships with presidents and other prominent political leaders; the resistance of evangelical and other Protestants to the candidacy of the Roman Catholic John F. Kennedy; the rise of what has been called the New Right out of the ashes of Barry Goldwater's defeat in 1964; a battle over sex education in Anaheim, California, in the mid-1960's; a prolonged cultural war over textbooks in West Virginia in the early 1970's — and that is a battle that has been fought less violently in community after community all over the country; the thrill conservative Christians felt over the election of a «born - again» Christian to the Presidency in 1976 and the subsequent disappointment they experienced when they found out that Jimmy Carter was, of all things, a Democrat; the rise of the Moral Majority and its infatuation with Ronald Reagan; the difficulty the Religious Right has had in dealing with abortion, homosexuality and AIDS; Pat Robertson's bid for the presidency and his subsequent launching of the Christian Coalition; efforts by Dr. James Dobson and Gary Bauer to win a «civil war of values» by changing the culture at a deeper level than is represented by winning elections; and, finally, by addressing crucial questions about the appropriate relationship between religion and politics or, as we usually put it, between church and state.
In the cases of Jesus and Buddha, the election of the disciples followed immediately after the decisive experience of the call.
After Miró - Sans resigned, new elections for the presidency of FC Barcelona were called in June 1961.
And Bartomeu showed his support for Catalonia's institutions after Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy announced on Saturday that Madrid will move to dismiss Catalonia's separatist government and call fresh elections in the semi-autonomous region.
The Real Madrid president moved away from Benitez to deny reports in Spain today that he could call premature elections to reassert his authority at the club after fans called for his head during the defeat to Barcelona.
Trying to decide on the type of vehicle to buy can be a tough call, especially if you're looking into the best routes to exit the country after the election.
In the aftermath of Rabin's death he tells of his decision to call an election soon after, and the moral judgement behind it.
The news that the Tories will not contest the by - election was confirmed at 1 pm on Friday - some hours after a call on Thursday night by former Tory chairman Grant Shapps.
The Government's statement issued today states that: The Finance Bill introduced in March 2017 provided for a number of changes to tax legislation that were withdrawn from the Bill after the calling of the general election.
After many postponements for other reasons, the National Executive Committee (NEC) of the NPP, called for a re-run of all elections in the Manhyia North Constituency from the polling station level to the Constituency executive level before the election of a parliamentary aspirant could take place.