Sentences with phrase «election fight which»

Hughes is asked to apologise to Peter Thatchell for the by - election fight which got him into parliament (a famously homophobic and dreadful fight).

Not exact matches

Abzug's push for Women's Equality Day was, in fact, far more symbolic than many of the more concrete policies she made a reality in her six years in Congress, not to mention in the two decades prior to her election, which she spent as a lawyer fighting for human rights and civil rights.

U.S. President Donald Trump has a campaign - style rally scheduled March 10 in Pennsylvania, which is the historic heart of the American steel industry and which is now the site of an unexpectedly hard - fought special congressional election.

The NDP is not taking a banana to a knife fight — this coming election will see the Liberals with massiive millions while the NDP — which gets almost 80 % of its funding from individuals like myself — will also face a colourful party that will likely get full page ads from the Liberals supporting said colourful party as it did in the last provincial election!

Topics covered include: - How Booker's parents used a sting operation to desegregate a neighborhood, and why they did it - Why Ezra doesn't eat breakfast - Booker's disagreements with Ta - Nehisi Coates - How a 10 - day fast led to a (temporary) peace with Booker's worst political enemy - How spirituality informs Booker's approach to politics - The lessons Booker took from his early losses in with elections and city council fights - What it's like to be the only vegan in Congress - Why Booker hates penguins - Whether it's cynical or simply realistic to doubt America's political institutions - Which books have influenced Booker mostAnd much, much more.

Luckily any given election is never entirely over for either party to the dispute because in two to four years hence the people will be able to fight it out again — even as new unforeseen and important circumstances which must be dealt with will inevitably present themselves for the consideration of the community.

in which Wright badly mischaracterizes the response of the United States to the September 11th attacks, as well as the views of President Bush and then - Prime Minister Tony Blair, declared that the 2006 mid-term elections was an example of God «calling to account those who abuse powers,» showed a disturbing tendency toward moral equivalence between jihadists and those who are fighting to defeat them, and directed virtually all of his scorn against the United States and Great Britain rather than al Qaeda, the Taliban, and the regime of Saddam Hussein.

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.

National Democrats are now pressuring Cantor's GOP colleagues to declare whether they support his call, which is actually reminiscent of how the Rep. Paul Ryan Medicare reform plan fight played out during the NY - 26 special election.

Perhaps more important was that the conference marked out the ground on which the parties are likely to try and fight the next election — the Conservatives will ask for time to finish the job of fixing the economy, Labour will focus on trying to reduce people's cost of living.

And if our partners refuse to give us that bill that is an excellent platform on which to fight a general election.»

But analysts cite Labour's decision to fight the battle as an opposition against the incumbent SNP government, a tactic which can't be replicated at the general election.

Our politics is already headed in that direction - we already see elections being fought on the basis of who is the most «local» candidate, which candidate does the most casework, etc. etc..

Viloria - Fisher spoke about property tax relief — an issue Cuomo has made part of his campaign platform and one that is crucial to voters in the suburbs, which are expected to be a battleground in the upcoming general election — particularly in the fight for control of the state Senate.

Divided parties fighting themselves rarely do well in the elections which really count - general elections.

[xvi] However, because Kenyatta is due to stand trial in the month following the elections, this presidential race constitutes for him an all - or - nothing fight, which he needs to win if he is to avoid participation in the ICC process.

That is the overwhelming driving force of Alex Salmond's and Nicola Sturgeon's movement: the election of a party which voters believe will fight their corner.

Some are claiming that these are the policies that they want to fight the 2020 election on - which will come as a surprise to many - especially as the party itself has not been involved in developing those policies.

And then there's the economy — the issue on which the Tories fought and ultimately won this election campaign.

Mr Cameron believes he can't have given himself a better platform on which to fight the next general election — UKIP or no UKIP.

Meanwhile, Watson issued a statement in which he appeared to position himself as a caretaker leader who could prepare Labour to fight an imminent general election.

The Ipsos MORI monthly polls go back to 1977 and cover the last 9 UK general elections, which were fought between the following party leaders.

Former Senate Minority Leader Marty Connor, who is part of the team of election attorneys handling the recount fight for the Democrats in the Thompson race, said the whole mess could take weeks — or maybe even months — which means there might be empty seats in the chamber when the Legislature returns to Albany in early January.

ALBANY — A lengthy legal battle to move the general election for the 3rd Congressional District to December could set up a national showdown in which the race would determine which party controls the House of Representatives, warned one of the Republican candidates in the fight.

A spokesman for Buhari, who won elections last year vowing to fight corruption, said he was deeply «shocked and embarrassed» by the comments, which he assumed must refer to problems in Nigeria that pre-dated his presidency.

The case for investment not cuts needs to be championed — breaking from the framework on which Labour fought the election.

At today's launch event, Corbyn praised the Sanders campaign, saying: «The presidential platform which Hillary Clinton is fighting the election will be radically different compared to what it would have been had she not faced the challenge of Bernie Sanders.»

How can it be right that the electoral battleground is fought in 100 key marginal seats which swing at each election and decide the colour of the government?

They are second - order elections with little reason NOT to cast a protest vote; they are fought under proportional representation, which helps non-traditional parties such as UKIP and the Greens; and they concern Britain's relationship with the European Union, the very issue that brought UKIP into being.

But when Mr. Donovan fought for the turf against Democratic Councilman Vincent Gentile in a special election last May, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee and the House Majority PAC — which share a mission of of turning red districts blue — refused to get involved.

It's forward looking, it's progressive, it's modernising and it wants to commit to the best possible platform on which we can fight and win the next election.

The final selection hustings for the seat, which has a 21,000 Labour majority, will take place on Saturday, when party members will vote for their preferred candidate to fight the by - election in June.

Eventually that led to a book, «Spoiling for a Fight: Third - Party Politics in America», which was published in 2002, covering everything from the rise of Ross Perot and the election of Jesse Ventura to the Ralph Nader campaign of 2000 and the birth of NY's Working Families Party.

This was also the week when Venezuelan firebrand Hugo Chavez breathed his last; a by - election was fought and won which we didn't write a single story about until it had happened; and the Crown Prosecution Service got its act together after the Jimmy Savile scandal.

Listen to National Union of Students (NUS) president Wes Streeting explain why he intends to continue the fight against top - up fees, which are due for review before the next election.

Until today, I have avoided writing about the hard - fought election in Tower Hamlets in which Labour's John Biggs, who I backed to be Labour's candidate in this election, hoped to unseat as Mayor the incumbent, Lutfur Rahman, who I supported as Labour's candidate four years ago.

So, when Nana Akufo - Addo embarked on the «Rise and Build» tour and was joined by Kyerematen and others, many were those who believed calm had returned to the front and the party was now geared for the fight for the 2016 elections for which victory has been beckoning it all this while.

The PAC plans to assist eight to 10 candidates in this election cycle, but the Hanna vs. Tenney fight is the only primary battle in which it is taking sides.

With the nation on the verge of a presidential election between the first woman to lead a major party and an opponent accused of misogyny, Trump and Hillary Clinton are digging in for a fight in which he is likely to attack her precisely because she is a woman.

We believe strongly that we can no longer use elections as a tool to fight for developments which we ordinarily deserve.

Faced with the prospect of Republicans turning the midterm elections into a referendum on which party can keep Americans safe, congressional Democrats vowed Wednesday to take the fight to the majority party come November.

According to the Rallings and Thrasher projection, the seat would have returned a Conservative MP at the last general election with a majority of a little over 500, if it had been fought under the new boundaries which are about to come into effect.

Insisting the general election was still «up for grabs», Mandelson added: «We may be the underdogs, but if we show the British people that we have not lost the fighting spirit and appetite for change which has defined this party throughout its history then we can and will win.

Made up of a number of ex-textile towns in east Lancashire including Accrington, Great Harwood and Clayton - le - Moors, it is described by Waller and Criddle in the latest edition of The Almanac of British Politics as a «classic Labour - Conservative marginal» which will see a «truly competitive» fight at the general election.

[8] However, May subsequently announced on 31 August 2017 that she intended to remain on to fight the next general election, which under the Fixed - term Parliaments Act 2011 will be in 2022.

Tory strategists are concerned the Lib Dems, usually a strong fighting force when it comes to by - elections in which they have a competitive chance, may make progress if they are given time to build a strong campaign.

Mr Brown returned to form in September with a fighting conference speech which convinced most - but not all - he was the man to lead his party to the next election.

His move toward launching a campaign comes as Senate Republicans fight to maintain a narrow majority in the chamber ahead of a presidential election year, which typically brings out more Democratic voters in a blue state like New York.

If this election were a straight fight between Labour and the Conservatives — which it absolutely is not — the country would be safer in the hands of Labour than of the Tories.

Senate Democrats plan to hold a test vote on a bill that would give small businesses tax breaks for boosting payrolls, the opening salvo in a long - anticipated election - season fight over which party's tax cut plan is more likely to help spur job creation.