Sentences with phrase «election called when»

But in 2012, Respect Party maverick George Galloway was swept into power with a 10,140 - strong majority in a by - election called when Labour MP Marsha Singh stood down for health reasons.

Not exact matches

The proposal died when an election was called last year.

And when a senior DOJ official called McCabe in August 2016 to express his disapproval with the FBI's continued focus on the Clinton Foundation probe amid the heated election season, McCabe reportedly pushed back.

The survey of 925 Americans was conducted as new revelations surfaced that the company connected to the 2016 Trump campaign, Cambridge Analytica, inappropriately harvested personal information on millions of Facebook users The sharp rise in negative feelings is a significant departure from Facebook's standing prior to the 2016 election, when the rise of so - called Fake News and polarizing content led to calls for the company to take greater responsibility for the content on the popular social media site — or face government regulation.

That's because nearly all members of Canada's vast punditocracy have declared that a minority government is, first, inherently unstable, and second, disappointing for Harper insofar as it is not the majority he is said to have wanted when he called the election.

He said they were in talks about publishing her account when Daniels stopped responding to his calls and text messages about a week before the presidential election.

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.»

In the lead up to the Alberta's 2012 election, I have identified fifteen constituencies across the province that could produce interesting contests and results when the election is called.

Mr. Fuller will face Conservative John Barlow when the by - election is called.

BUT ah... why is this called «belief» blog when all of the posts are about politics and elections?

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»).

I will let Paul respond to your question: «And not only so, but also when Rebekah had conceived children by one man, our forefather Isaac, 11 though they were not yet born and had done nothing either good or bad — in order that God's purpose of election might continue, not because of works but because of him who calls — 12 she was told, «The older will serve the younger.»

When she was called on this claim in a general election debate, Ernst's response was a mess that both praised the federal Clean Water Act and seemed to call for state - based environmental regulation.

In summary then, when Jesus says in Matthew 22:14 that «many are called, but few are chosen,» He is not laying out the doctrine of Unconditional Election, but is saying that when God invites all to participate with Him in His rule and reign on earth, He does so without partiality or favoritism.

Catholic international aid charity CAFOD has called for a peaceful election when Kenyans go to the polls next week.

When Peter writes about calling and election, he is referring to our «vocation» or «job» within God's family.

Yes they are Parliamentary systems but when they call an election they spend much less and the election is over within 30 to 60 days of it being called.

Catholic international aid charity CAFOD has called for a peaceful election when Kenyans go to the polls... More

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.

But when the heart of the act was tested (financing)... the government drew up a blank... No way Obama calls it a tax before an election year... but its quite evident that it is... Secondly, you think that adding another tax on people that cant even afford to pay it will help??? Where is the money coming from??? Yea I thought so...

When I was elected bishop he called me from prison to say, «Finally, an American election that turned out right.»

The clerk is taking a roll - call vote for the election of the speaker of the House, and when he calls out, «Bunning,» the distinguished gentleman sitting on the Republican side of the House says, «Michel,» just loud enough to be heard above the din.

I hadn't given a whole lot of thought as to when I would do the calls, I just knew that I feel so strongly about this election that I wanted to do something more than exercise my right and responsibility to vote.

When, before his election into the upper chamber, he joined some so - called anti-corruption campaigns in Abuja and made moves to become thorns in the flesh of some corrupt Nigerians, it was nothing but the height of hypocrisy given the reality that Dino was himself a bundle of contradictions himself.

«We call on INEC to fully investigate the difficulties encountered with completing the Rivers Rerun elections and to take the conclusions into full account when making preparations for concluding remaining polls in the state,» it concluded.

Western countries have already condemned the elections as a sham, following the lead of resistance leader Aung San Suu Kyi who called for a boycott when they were announced.

Their aim has been to prepare the ground for a backbench debate on Thursday in which MPs will hold a symbolic vote on returning to the old days when Prime Ministers had full discretion to call elections as they saw fit.

The defining moment of 2017 came the day after Easter Monday when the PM stunned Westminster by announcing that, despite repeating endlessly that she wouldn't call an election, she did.

When this election was called it seemed like it would be a dull victory procession.

But the State Party pulled the trigger a little early and now the IDC is in the uncompromising position of working with the Senate Republicans for the next several months to help deliver the budget only to publicly undermine them a few weeks later when special elections are called to fill two vacancies.

«I've been clear all along even before the unity agreement,» Klein said when asked if the deal will hold through the spring, when the special elections are expected to be called.

Rather, they call elections at the most advantageous time for them, when they expect to win, for instance, because the opposition is particularly weak, or because economic conditions are favourable.

The union in its endorsement initially said the special election would be held April 17 — a date that some operatives have pointed to as when the governor would called the election.

Krueger, too, plans to ride what she called the «blue wave» in the November midterm elections, when she expects a «Democratic takeover of the New York state Legislature.

What if he had called a snap general election in late 2007 when the Labour party was promoting his PM credentials with a Saatchi & Saatchi advert designed to capture his strength, solidity and conviction: «Not Flash, Just Gordon»?

In Syracuse today residents and leaders in Syracuse came together to call on Senators DeFrancisco and Valesky to fight for a system of publicly financed Fair Elections when they return to Albany on April 17th.

Further, he will have the power to issue decree laws when he deems necessary, dissolve parliament by calling new elections, appoint cabinet members without approval from the legislature, and appoint a greater number of the members to the Supreme Board of Judges and Prosecutors.

These attempts to frame the election matter because research shows that voters take the government's opportunism into account, as well as policy performance and leadership when they respond to strategic election calls.

«Governor Cuomo's call for publicly financed elections, when combined with the ethics legislation, is the best way to rebuild trust in government,» Cantor continued.

This is all pretty ironic when you consider the fact that leaders from the WFP and the Conservative Party, which appears to have done the best of all the minor parties, bumping the Independence Party from its perch on Row C, were so worried about the results of this election that they unsuccessfully sued to challenge the state Board of Elections» so - called «double - vote» decision.

When Prime Minister Theresa May announced her intention to call a snap election on June 8, she took a political gamble.

Dithering did for him when John Smith died, and again when he failed to call the election that never was.

After the 2008 elections, he called a special session to close another deficit but lawmakers didn't get the job done until the next year when Democrats took over the Senate majority from Republicans.

Their defeats in the election call into question their strategies and as is usually the case these days, when that happens, the person at the top pays the price.

While political parties have become increasingly sophisticated organisations with a cadre of professional policy wonks, media managers and spin doctors, when it comes to fighting elections they remain heavily dependent on a large number of volunteers to knock on doors, deliver leaflets and make phone calls.

This includes fixed terms for five years (when average time between elections has been four); the vote to dissolve parliament before calling a general election requiring 55 per cent support in the House of Commons (meaning the Liberal Democrats can not withdraw their support from the Tories and cause a general election as the Lib - Dems, Labour and other parties altogether hold less than 55 per cent of the seats); and stuffing the House of Lords with many more Conservatives and Liberals to weaken opposition there.

However, the governor has discretion as to when to call for a special election, which could prevent it from taking place until the next general election in November.

According to him, the positive responses he gave and developments after the December 7 general election when he called the winner, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo - Addo, to concede defeat to him, even before the Electoral Commission (EC) announced the results of the presidential election, constituted a major reason the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) requested him to participate in two missions to Banjul, The Gambia to get Yahya Jammeh to accept the will of the Gambian people and hand over power to Mr Adama Barrow, but which he refused.

The SoP reader, who forwarded a recording of this call, questioned the intelligence of spending resources to have a Republican congressman call voters in an area where he lost big in the November 2011 election when he was ousted from the Erie County executive's office by Democrat Mark Poloncarz.

«You look at Westchester County, where Astorino was a Trump acolyte and trumpeted it all the time,» Cuomo said Wednesday on a conference call with reporters when asked to analyze the results of the off - year election.