Sentences with phrase «election time seems»

Not exact matches

Though after Trump won the election, he seemed to soften on this campaign promise, the Times reported, pledging to keep an open mind.

In honour of Stephen Harper's speechwriting team — and because I was «pressed for time» — I was hoping to crib this month's special election edition column from an Australian satirist, but that just didn't seem fair dinkum, eh.

AfD seems certain to repeat its local success in a general election - in which case Ms Merkel's critics will see her as the German leader who paved the way for a racist and nationalist party to gain a toehold in the national parliament for the first time since 1945.

After denying any war on coal during the election, now the administration is engaged in one — and this time, unlike the President's war in Afghanistan, with what seems a genuine commitment.

Well it is almost election time Obama seems to be doing a lot of things for the first time like acting like he cares about eh middle class, acting like he supports business and acting like he wants to be bipartisan.

As an outcome of the elections, it seems likely that pro-life measures will have a more difficult time, good judicial appointments may be stymied and the Bush doctrine of promoting democracy in the Middle East may be abandoned.

There was a reason why the founding fathers put kept religion out of our government and now it seems we are being asked to» pick the Christian» in this next years election — we are not picking the leader of a church here people, we picking someone to be the most influential, most powerful person on the earth... do we want someone who has our best interests at heart or someone who will time and again try to change the US laws to reflect his own personal beliefs?

It seems that just weeks before the general election that old leftist rag, Time Magazine, has flushed out evidence of militant, right wing, militia types running around my neck of the woods: http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,2022516,00.html As it turns out about fifteen years....

The sermon looked at the time almost like an election manifesto: this, he almost seemed to be saying, ought to be the message of the next Pope.

Even bets on items peripheral to the outcome of the election would likely generate interest, whether it is the duration of an acceptance speech, the time the loser concedes, or the tie color chosen by the winning candidate, presidential election - betting options seem endless.

The introductory comment states «with the election in November 2008 of a new President, the US has embarked on an intense self examination... [they have had]... the capacity to renew and rebuild the nation at times when it seemed overwhelmed by disaster.

Some analysis of the 2017 General Election in the UK has been published in the Financial Times, which seems to indicate that people without a university degree, who were working class, and had poor health.

The spot, which plays news clips of Turner's election - night victory speech, seems aimed at appealing to the concept that the Brooklyn Republican can repeat his surprise win, this time on a statewide level.

Now may not be the best time to propose adoption of a nomination vote at Westminster, when the next election seems far away, and both major parties claim they are confident of winning an overall majority.

Since the Supreme Court has now prevented itself from acknowledging the question of whether Barack H. Obama is or is not an Article II «natural born citizen» based on the Kenyan / British citizenship of Barack Obama's father at the time of his birth (irrespective of whether Barack Obama is deemed a «citizen» born in Hawaii or otherwise) as a prerequisite to qualifying to serve as President of the United States under the Constitution — the Court having done so at least three times and counting, first before the Nov 4 general election and twice before the Dec 15 vote of the College of Electors — it would seem appropriate, if not necessary, for all Executive Branch departments and agencies to secure advance formal advice from the United States Department of Justice Office of Legal Counsel as to how to respond to expected inquiries from federal employees who are pledged to «support and defend the Constitution of the United States» as to whether they are governed by laws, regulations, orders and directives issued under Mr. Obama during such periods that said employees, by the weight of existing legal authority and prior to a decision by the Supreme Court, believe in good faith that Mr. Obama is not an Article II «natural born citizen».

You remember that time de Blasio actively campaigned against their members in the 2014 elections then seemed baffled as to why they gave him and his priorities such a hard time in Albany.

«We've got a presidential election coming up, and it just seemed a better time than in late September (when his current two - year term officially ends)... You always discuss these things when you're state chair, but listen, my political obituary has been written a lot of times already.

Some analysis of the 2017 General Election in the UK has been published in the Financial Times, which seems to indicate that people without a university degree, who were working class, and had poor...

Television ad slots have been scarce in contested states during election seasons before, but the combination of big - money super-PACs and the expectation that both presidential campaigns will spend heavily seems to be driving political actors to reserve time much earlier than usual.

State Senator Adriano Espaillat conceded his race against Congressman Charlie Rangel for a second time yesterday, and it seems he's not planning to issue the apology to the Board of Elections that Commissioner J.C. Polanco called for anytime soon.

You may want to read that bit of random - seeming trivia one more time — and think about how that weighted system can then affect the election of new state senators and Assembly members.

That declaration might seem pretty picayune, but it's his enthusiasm and attention to the often mundane mechanics of elections and civic engagement that seems to be gaining Peterson, a first - time political candidate, traction against Democratic establishment figure Alex Padilla, a 41 - year - old Democratic state senator from Los Angeles, and a MIT - trained mechanical engineer.

The cry bullies line up to say how Corbyn is a bully or incompetent, or, or, or... Seems rather reminiscent of something, oh yes, its just the same as the timed resignations... a drip drip drip to keep the negative press in the news cycle, only this time it has to last until the leadership election votes start to roll in.

At a time when nationalism in Scotland is hitting a high and the Labour Party Campaign Manager for the by - election in Glenrothes has quit saying the effort is a lost cause and the Nationalists will win by a margin of thousands, it seems a strange oversight.

Well, based on the assumption that a vote is cast in anticipation that the recipient of the vote is going to win, it seems to me that a vote cast for David Cameron or whoever is the leader of the Labour Party at the time of the election is far more likely to see a winner than any vote for the Liberal Democrats will do.

When history records what happened today, it will note that what seemed unprecedented at the time was actually the most uneventful outcome which could have emerged from the rubble of the 2010 general election.

With last week's dissolution of Parliament and local elections now behind us, it seems an auspicious time to look at what the initial skirmishes of the general election can tell us about the upcoming campaign.

The problem seems to be that whenever a party loses an election, their first inclination seems to be to move in the opposite direction to the swing of the population, so when the Tories lost to Blair, they retrenched further right for two elections, and Labour assumed that New Labour was to blame for their loss in 2010, so publicly ditched that and moved left — when actually New Labour was the only time in history Labour have completed a second term, let alone a third.

But in the wake of a disastrous general election defeat, and with a huge rebuilding job to be done for Labour to stand any chance in the 2020 election, it seems now is not the time for platitudes.

At the same time, the governor's election - year embrace of Democratic unity does not seem to have quelled opposition to the I.D.C., which has worked with the Republicans for most of Mr. Cuomo's time in office.

His presidential campaign view seemed fine for most gay voters at the time (despite its apparent political expediency), and he received their overwhelming support in the general election.

In any other election, the verdict's fortuitous timing would seem almost partisan by design, but Spitzer hardly needed the help.

This seems to be first time a prominent Republican has acknowledged that the Republican Party has deliberately used coded language to exploit racial biases, all simply for the sake of winning elections.»

The relative quiet of the mayoral race so far would seem to bode well for Mayor Kathy Sheehan's election changes, says columnist Chris Churchill (Will Waldron / Times Union)

Since he is leaving his job after the November election, this would seem an odd time to launch a major initiative.

There will be plenty of time to sit down and make friends with the EU after the election — and if she has another 100 MPs at her back, the frosty reception she gets will seem well worth it.

A general election campaign seems a peculiar time to discuss a non-vacant position, but ambitious Liberal Democrat MPs are clearly just as uncertain about their party's fortunes as the pollsters.

[Updated] Was Grace Meng really endorsed by the New York Times in the general election like her official campaign literature seems to claim?

Olive had big elections in 2011, when it seemed for a moment that a revived local Republican Party might take over town government, and with one gain ended up with two of five town board seats, as well as in 2013, when long term clerk Sylvia Rozzelle, a lifelong Democrat, rose to become supervisor after the retirement of Berndt Leifeld, and the GOP took a majority of town board seats for the first time in decades.

Now, it turns out, a new phase of Occupy seems about to blossom, just in time for the grand push toward the November elections.

Ken Brynien, President of the Public Employees Federation, says he can't tell his members what do to at election time, but he says right now they seem disinclined to do help any lawmaker who voted for the plan, and vows that they will «remember in November».

You know, there was a time when Labour seemed briefly to realise that to win elections it had to accommodate itself to the real world, stop being anti-business, make peace with middle Britain.

High school was a long time ago for me but I seem to remember my history / government teacher saying the news media wasn't allowed to report vote counts in presidential elections since reporting the...

It seems Labour, a party funded by union barons who pick the candidates and the leader, are spending more time trying to invent nonsense about the Conservatives than research and develop policies for the next election.

Goodness knows, a President Clinton would have a hard enough time getting her way with Congress, especially in the House of Representatives, which seems likely to remain controlled by (very) conservative Republicans after the November elections.

Although Democrats will wait until Friday, after press time, to decide who will receive the nomination, Wednesday evening's atmosphere seemed to foreshadow a primary election in September as Latimer seemed to be the odds - on favorite heading into the convention.

Having Bill Clinton could be a powerful ally for some of these states where you have a high Dem ID, but seems to turn red come election time.

I know that the midterm elections seem like a long time away, but now is the time.

At the Marist Poll at Marist College, the election season (which seems to get longer and longer) is a time to engage our students and provide a «laboratory» to understand democracy in action.

It's also worth noting that the small chance of getting in now will be even smaller next time if, as seems likely, the proportion of women is increased further before the next election in two years: although the parliamentary party settled on a quota of 31.5 % women, there was in fact a majority (of 139 to 107) for at least 40 %.