Sentences with phrase «election only a year»

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This year's poor performance - only six House seats gained, two Senate seats added, and the White House lost - caused a revolt among House Democrats after the election.

A lifelong Republican, Whitman switched her support to Hillary Clinton three months before last year's election — she was the only Fortune Most Powerful Woman to publicly campaign for a nominee — stoking speculation that the former gubernatorial candidate would reenter the political arena.

While Republicans hold only a slim majority in the U.S. Senate, Democrats occupy most of the seats up for election in two years.

The left - wing organisation was only founded two years ago, but managed to win 21 % of the vote and come third in Spain's 2015 parliamentary elections.

That pushes the real budget showdown into 2012, an election year not only for the executive branch but for a third of the Senate and the entire House of Representatives.

You may treat as ordinary loss any excess of the adjusted basis of the stock over its fair market value at the end of the year, but only to the extent of the net amount previously included in income as a result of the election in prior years.

In Oregon, only 36 percent of voters went to the polls in the 2014 primary, the last non-presidential election year.

Only a couple of years ago, election reform in Canada was a discussion about civics.

In other words, although King obtained only a minority in the general election, he sometimes had a majority of parliamentary seats during the next four years.

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.

«Being an election year, this is only going to make you a hero in the eyes of these kids and this community and these parents,» she said.

Looking further into the year, the September FAD only has a communique (and will be in the middle of the federal election campaign) while the October FAD is arguably too late to respond to weaker economic growth through the middle of the year.

After more than a year of rallies, primaries, debates, controversies and scandals, we're only one day from the Presidential election — meaning investors are closer than ever to that long - awaited clarity on how the election will be felt in the markets.

Britain's Labour Party adopted the song «Things can only get better» as its campaign anthem for the 1997 general election, expressing the party's ambitions for governing after 18 years in Continue Reading

The spending legislation, which was viewed as the last opportunity this year for Congress to enact major new gun restrictions before the midterm elections in November, included only some school safety measures and modest improvements to the background check system.

«The premier said the right things when she promised 500 new addiction treatment spaces in the 2013 election campaign, but now we know that not only has she missed her own deadline, but she has actually reduced addiction treatment spaces for youth over the past three years while the overdose epidemic was growing,» said Horgan.

Three years later, only one major party will be led into the 2015 spring election by a women — the New Democratic Party's Rachel Notley.

Only six election years since 1896 have experienced declines above 5 %, although the last two occurred in 2000 and 2008, the most recent cycles.

Having founded his party, En Marche, only around a year before the presidential election, it currently has no members in the National Assembly.

The year - over-year rate of growth in the US True Money Supply (TMS) was around 11.5 % in October of 2016 (the month before the US Presidential election) and is now only 2.4 %, which is near a 20 - year low.

With only two full days left before the May 5 provincial election, the 43 - year long governing Progressive Conservatives and its supporters are waging a thick fear campaign against its electoral challengers.

This is a massive focus for us to make sure we're dialed in for not only the 2018 elections in the U.S., but the Indian elections, the Brazilian elections, and a number of other elections that are going on this year that are really important.»

With congressional elections every two years, the new president, realistically, only has about an eighteen - month legislative window to get his top priorities enacted before representatives begin focusing on their reelection campaigns, bogging the system down further.

That becomes likely only if Democrats win a majority in the House in this year's midterm elections, Mezey said.

Only a month into the new year and investors already have plenty to think about, from plunging oil prices to a key election in Greece to dramatic...

The presidential endorsement not only cost the journal its tax deductible status for two years, but also led to a more realistic understanding of politics and less willingness to wed Christian goals to the election of particular leaders.

In contrast with previous presidential elections, where evangelical Christians were among the most engaged, this year, only 20 percent said they were following news about the campaign very closely.

Contrary to previous presidential elections, where evangelical Christians seemed to be among the most engaged, this year, only 20 percent said they follow news campaigns very closely.

Among voters who attend services at least monthly, only 16 percent of white evangelicals, 22 percent of Catholics, and 5 percent of white mainline Protestants said that their churches provided information on voting, the election, or specific candidates this year.

I have noticed that the only time CNN mentions religion is in an election year.

The tax increase will cost the owner of a $ 150,000 home $ 116 a year, but officials said before the election they would use the money only to purchase the Hoffman farm.

The campaigns for and against a constitutional convention may be only every 20 years, but spending by supporters and foes this year is on par with expenditures in a hotly contested election.

The people under the most pressure are the Senate Republicans, all of whom signed Koch's three - pronged pledge (it also included budget and ethics reform), only to turn around and pass a constitutional amendment that would overhaul the process in time for the 2022 elections but leave it in all it's partisan and un-independent glory this year.

«However, it is not only for economic reasons that I am delighted to welcome president Hugo Chavez of Venezuela to London next week... since 1998 he has won ten elections in eight years - an unprecedented record of electoral success in any country.»

Skip ahead five years: Howard Dean uses blogs, organizes meet - ups and raises a shit - ton of money online, only to be eclipsed by John Kerry's general election web / email fundraising juggernaut.

The only legislation Cuomo has emphasized this election year has been one proposed in 2013: The 10 - point women's agenda.

He entered parliament only three years ago in the 2005 general election.

I think it gives us lessons of persistence and courage», Mr Nyaunu who left the NDC to contest the 2012 parliamentary elections as an independent candidate and only returned to the party last year observed.

Not only does this contradict the SNP's pledge to restore the 50p rate at last year's general election, but the Scottish government paper published to underpin the new stance is singularly unconvincing.

But I am compelled to put Ghana First and to defend the 1992 Constitution by saying that the only way Ghanaians can have the Woyome / Austro - Invest joint loot refunded is to change the Government that created, looted and shared the loot with them during the Presidential elections this year.»

This is because in most cases, the government always feel that only positives must be highlighted since the negatives go against them, particularly in an election year such as this.

since I became Prime Minister I have said there should be no election until 2020 but now I have concluded that the only way to guarantee certainty and stability for the years ahead is to hold this election and seek your support for the decisions I must take.

[2] According to that article, the estimated population of 20 -24 year olds in 2015 was 3,806,471 while only 492,306 applied to register to vote in the months running up to the election.

[vi] In the 2009 local elections, for instance, only 10 per cent of 18 - 24 year - olds said that they had voted compared to 85 % of people of 65 years old and over.

As shown in the table below, of a total of 650 MPs in the 2010 general elections, only 15 MPs below the age of 30 years old were elected.

Only three years ago, pundits and political scientists saw the 2008 American presidential election as the beginning of a new era in Washington: the rise of President Obama and a strong Democratic majority in both houses of Congress meant that after eight years away from Pennsylvania Avenue, liberals could again implement political programmes and reforms free from Republican meddling.

Only this week the Labour MP, Jamie Reed, announced he was leaving politics at the start of the year, triggering a nerve shredding by election.

The only holiday we're talking about is the day of the actual election, but counting primaries and run - offs there could be more days throughout the year that require voter participation.

In fact, Democrats have only controlled both chambers twice in the last twenty years (103rd and 110th Congresses) and historical data show that there are thirteen states that Democrats have not won in the last seven elections,, and five they have only won once, totaling almost 160 electoral votes.

Friends of Dugdale have since pointed out that Rowley, when seeking election as the Scottish Party's deputy leader last year, promised that if he won he would not accept a protected place at the top of one of the lists from which a 56 of Holyrood's 129 MSPs are elected under a system of proportional representation only to go back on his word as soon as he won that particular race.