Sentences with phrase «election year activities»

Assign some kind of research project or campaign - related activity that requires kids to create a visual and written journal of election year activities during the summer, when political conventions begin to dominate the news cycle.

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The upcoming State and Federal elections are adding to the lowest levels of IPO activity seen in years, according to business and financial advisors HLB Mann Judd.

According to the Democrats» memo, the DOJ provided the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court with «contemporaneous evidence» of Russia's interference in the 2016 election; information about «concerning Russian links and outreach to Trump campaign officials,»; Page's history with Russia - linked individuals and entities; and Page's «suspicious activities in 2016,» including those during a trip he took to Moscow in July of that year, during which he met with high - ranking Russian officials.

Stronger manufacturing activity data from the U.S. Thursday, in the form of the Philadelphia Federal Reserve's regional business survey, allowed investors to add long positions in the greenback, which has fallen more than 1.4 % this week in the wake of President Donald Trump's decision to fire his FBI Director, James Comey, and revelations that his campaign team may have had extensive contacts with Russian officials - despite his repeated denials - in the run up to last year's elections.

In looking at parliamentary activity since the last election, issues concerning the wave of media acquisitions over the last year and a half were barely mentioned.

Candidate for election to FIFA's ruling council has been banned from all football - related activities for a year.

He insisted that MASSOB under Uwazuruike has held several activities in the last two years without being harassed or invited by security agencies and insisted that the Biafra elections which he claimed, would be held soon, won't be an exception.

With the Roberts Supreme Court already apparently reconsidering past precedents with an eye toward treating corporate and union donations as free speech, a federal appeals court has now ruled on behalf of Emily's List that nonprofits can use functionally unbounded «soft money» to finance their election - year activities.

«By requiring nonprofits to disclose the extent and nature of their electioneering activities, we are protecting prospective donors from misleading solicitations, and giving voters more information about who is behind many of the ads they will see in this year's elections,» Schneiderman stated.

On Saturday 13th September Professor Ed Fieldhouse gave an overview of the activities and achievements of the British Election Study during its first year, addressing the British Election Study report meeting at the recent Elections, Public Opinion and Parties annual conference in Edinburgh (audience pictured...

This summary covers BES activities over the past year as well as activities which fall under a linked study funded under the ESRC Future of UK and Scotland Program «The Scottish Independence Referendum and the British voter: an enhancement to the British Election Study Internet Panel».

The Public Employees Federation's executive board earlier this month voted to bar former President Susan Kent and Secretary - Treasurer Carlos Garcia from engaging in any union activity — including running for office or voting in union elections — for four and five years, respectively.

These groups have grass - roots memberships, but they have also spent millions of dollars on election activity in recent years.

All 39 county legislative seats are up for election this year, but Kahn has temporarily frozen election activity until the map is fixed.

The NC also offers workshops and activities for participants during non-presidential election years at the Annual National Meeting.

It never engaged in any election campaign activity for any candidate and shut down more than a year and a half before next year's election.

Since 2000, the first full year for which campaign finance activity was maintained in an online database by the state Board of Elections, the only year with a lower total was 2003, when the committees reported an aggregate $ 40.6 million.

The activity in Wisconsin mirrors a larger trend across the map in congressional races this year: Though Democrats are expected to do well on Election Day, they have struggled to close out races they were long expected to win.

«Whatever our political affiliation, we need peace to prevail to enable us go about our daily activities as we prepare for the elections in November,» Mr Kyeremanten said as he addressed a watch night service at the St Cyprians Anglican Church in Kumasi to usher in the New Year, when he was invited by the Bishop of the Kumasi Diocese and Province of West Africa of the Anglican Church, Rt..

It aimed to limit spending on campaign activity in the year ahead of a general election and redefined electoral activity as anything which could affect the outcome of an election.

The process began on 23rd February, this year when the Commission officially released the Timetable and Schedule of Activities for the elections.

Furthermore, we have already released the Timetable and Schedule of Activities for the Ekiti and Osun governorship elections, to be held in July and September next year.»

He's endured years of highly intense activity - from being Foreign Secretary, then the election, then the leadership campaign.

The amount appears to be more than double the previous record for spending by any lobbying client during these months, a time of year when most political activity is directed toward elections and lobbying campaigns rarely top a few hundred thousand dollars, according to information maintained by the Joint Commission on Public Ethics.

«On my worst day, I think I know a little bit more about terrorist activities in New York City than Mr. Cruz on his best day — the guy hasn't been in Congress in the last year, he's been running for president,» Mr. Bratton said on WABC's Election Central with Rita Cosby this afternoon.

Jones pays particular attention to Cameron's years working for Norman Lamont and Michael Howard in the 1990s (when he was covering those politicians» activities for the BBC on a daily basis) and later in the book - after dealing with the 2005 Tory leadership election, Brown replacing Blair, the political attitudes of the Murdoch press and Expenses-gate - he devotes whole chapters to both the TV debates and the role of the leaders» wives in a modern British election campaign.

He explained that the Commission had scrupulously implemented all the items listed in the Timetable and Schedule of Activities for the Edo governorship election, which it issued March this year.

The reforms will ensure that the true value of activities such as leaflet - printing is reflected when judging whether parties have breached the # 19m cap on campaign spending in the year before a general election, said No 10.

«Four years ago, after the re-election of President Obama, all areas — blue and red — had an increase in dating activity, showing that the «love deficit» between liberals and conservatives is unique to this election,» Match said.

I will say that the state elections this year will determine just how robust school choice activity will be in 2019.

Make Classroom Connections to This Year's Elections Use these five activities to drive home the importance of voting, teach about the process of creating laws, track election results and voter turnout, and teach students what its like to make the tough decisions that elected officials make every day.

With 2008 being another election year, NEA sent $ 1 million to CQE, though its activities rarely turned up in press coverage.

In any presidential election year, the months before the election afford middle and high school teachers a great opportunity to engage students in the new The College, Career, and Civic Life (C3) Framework for Social Studies State Standards (C3s) These new frameworks center on guiding students in activities so that they can see how citizens apply civic virtues and democratic principles and have the opportunity to see actual civic engagement in the democratic process.

The Office of Campaign and Political Finance settlement with FESA required FESA to forfeit over $ 425,000 — the largest civil forfeiture in the agency's history, and prohibits them from fundraising, soliciting donations, or engaging in any election - related activity in Massachusetts for four years.

The charges were not really relevant to Trump himself or Trump's election campaign since Paul Manafort and Rick Gates were charged with money laundering, tax evasion, fraud, and failure to disclose and register that they are agents of a foreign principal under the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) for activities on behalf of Ukraine (NOT Russia) between the years 2006 until 2014.

In 1980, due to the work of Nadine Eaton Chicoine in the late 1970s, the Supporting Membership was granted permission to draw up its own By - Laws to govern the Specialty show activities and to provide for the election of a Supporting Membership Director to serve on the Board of the NBC for a one - year term.

The new government stood for election with tourism highlighted in its manifesto and since Uhuru Kenyatta's inauguration, commitments have been made to increase the intensity of Kenya's tourism marketing activity, to double the number of tourists to three million a year and to provide incentives to encourage investment in tourist accommodation.

Because it was a pride to participate on behalf of 350.org and somehow, I believed that it was possible to influence the announcement of the suspension of activities of the company Petrel Energy and the moratorium for 4 years for the exploitation of fracking at the level national election unanimously in the Senate of Uruguay.

The magnitude of the public outcry and the amount of media attention given to the ordeal has been significant even in the context of the scope of the incident which is said to have seen Cambridge Analytica harvest data of some 50 million Facebook users while informing less than one - percent of them of that activity several years back, then leveraging that information to fight an information war during the 2016 presidential election in the United States, an accusation made by a whistleblower that the firm repeatedly denied.

In a statement, the US Treasury said it has targeted 19 individuals and five entities for their parts in conducting «destabilizing activities,» including interfering with the US elections in 2016 to their involvement with launching the NotPetya attack last year.

• Cultivated an extraordinary level of company loyalty, achieving a 10 + year tenure amongst 70 % of employees • Introduced a safety system that monitors equipment dynamically to prevent damage to utility lines • Decreased maintenance costs by 55 % by employing preventative maintenance activities on monthly basis • Reined in a colossal project that required complete replacement of landscaping in 7 parks across the city in the limited time of 3 months • Reduced equipment repairing and maintenance cost by 50 % by setting up an in - house maintenance unit • Filled 85 potholes within the city in record time of 2 weeks, following election preparations • Trained 52 newly hired maintenance workers in routine light and heavy labor work, pertinent to construction work and maintenance • Utilized extensive knowledge and skill of maintenance logistics to significantly improve work team's efficiency by 49 %

Summary: Awarding of the 2016 Diversity Award, election of a new chair (s), and summary of the diversity committee activities at APA After three years as the chair of the diversity committee, it is time for me to pass the baton... Read More»

«The election put some leasing activity on hold for much of the year,» Friedrich says, «but I think you'll see large leases getting done as we go into 2009.»