Sentences with phrase «election years like»

«In an election year like this, where the battleground is in southern Ontario and in southern Quebec, I think manufacturing becomes even more important, politically,» he said.

Not exact matches

I've polled every statewide election in Michigan going back 30 years... I don't like to get it wrong, but I'm not alone.»

Nothing like focusing on the big issues during an election year, huh Arnie?

Depardieu, a former heartthrob who has puffed up like a profiterole in recent years, plays an aging mayor in the election battle of his life in the eight - episode series.

Barangay elections, which law mandates should be held every three years, are central to Philippine democracy because they are responsible for services like health clinics.

He emphasized that it's the firm's strong technical capabilities that allow clients trade through turbulent times like Brexit and the US presidential election last year.

That year hedge fund performance suffered as managers were surprised by events like a plunge in oil prices, Brexit and the U.S. election.

Looking years out at the election calendar, Trudeau's strategists pushed early for federal - provincial initiatives like Canada Pension Plan reform, a health accord and the framework for fighting climate change.

Whereas now, Mulcair is getting out a year in advance of the election saying where he clearly stands on big - ticket items like the minimum wage.»

In some markets, like bonds, the increase was the largest since the 2016 U.S. election, and in others, like stocks, volatility leapt by the most in 2-1/2 years.

So we are dealing with the irreconcilable fact that the Obama position threatens to lower living standards from 10 % to 20 % over the coming few years — making the United States look more like Greece, Ireland and Latvia than what was promised in the last presidential election.

Nothing like having a token black to make sure that Mormons are presented as non-racists in an election year.

Such an event would have been unthinkable just a few decades ago» but so would the election of someone like Frank Page during the long years of the Controversy that roiled the Southern Baptist Convention.

As Nigeria begins its transition from a military to a civilian government» the process working its way up from local levels, where civilians are already in charge, to the national level, where elections are scheduled for next year» it faces the possibility of a crisis like the one that almost destroyed the country twenty - four years ago.

Within a few years of his election, Peter Hebblethwaite was writing, de haut en bas, that he «would like to think that John Paul continues to learn from his stay in the West... and that he might spend as much time trying to understand the rest of us as we have spent trying to understand him».

In an election year, in a national recession, and in a global economy whose rules seem to shift like tectonic plates, maybe we need to know more.

There we go again, shut up this hypocritical rightwingers.Only at election time do rear their ugly heads up to be seen and heard.It's time to unleash the CRACKKIN, the monster that the IRS people use on unruly religious groups, exemption is like a death sentence to these groups.Most of these religious leaders are wolves in sheeps clothing, selling their political poison to anyone in their flocks.They push the envelope on the seperation of church and state issue, seeing how far they can go.Pastors and ministers would never speak politics like this years ago, that was taaboo.Now people like Robertson, Graham, and the rest, flaunt their ideaology both religious and political at every event.They don't care about the legal consequences, they have LAWYERS, perishioners pay for that.

Will there be a demand in the year of the General Elections that the State be democratic enough to respond to the peoples» movements and discipline the market and the market - mechanism so that they may be de-ideologised so as to make room for objectives like social welfare and justice as well as national self - reliance and eco-justice.

It isn't the first time the segment, which has featured anchors like Tina Fey and Jimmy Fallon over the years, has received a coveted primetime slot, but this is the first time it's happened outside of an election year.

I'm choosing to avoid the whole idea that the Family Circle Magazine in election year 2000 held a cookie bake - off between the presidential candidates» wives, Tipper Gore and Laura Bush suggested a certain wifely stereotype, like that's all that they're good for.

However, it looks like Sammy Sosa and Mark McGwire are both in danger of falling off this year by failing to secure five percent of the vote, and neither Roger Clemens nor Barry Bonds looks as if they've made any progress towards election.

British politics has shifted in the last few years and as noted above, this election, like the last one, is projected to end without either party gaining an outright majority.

As a consequence, just like the general election in the summer, the Tories will maintain power for another 4 years and Arsenal Wenger and the board will be there on the first game of next season.

One bloke said we should have elections every 4 years like Barc and i agree, maybe that's an option, BUT the BOARD and wenger are not going to get a dimme of my hard earned money

I would like to think that if it were not an election year, both sides would be conceding at least some points and acknowledging movement in the right direction.

This is an election year, in case you haven't noticed, and looks like it will be an especially unattractive one, unfortunately.

Democrats this year, as they do virtually every election cycle, hope to make in - roads in suburban districts like the Nassau County seat.

This discussion will look at how candidates and interest groups in in the U.S. are using Facebook advertising, Twitter, Google Ads, mobile phones, location - based services and older technologies like email and blogs to raise money, mobilize support and get voters to the polls in an important election year, with an emphasis on practical results and the implications for future political campaigns around the world.

``...» So, the class of 2010 is interesting across the board for this year's election, but 2010 may go down in political history as the year in which a guy like this isn't the perennial kook candidate who runs in at least one election every election cycle.

It would not be out of the realm of possibility for Senate Republicans to back a deal for a less - generous increase in order to get the issue off the table in an election year, like they did for same - sex marriage.

This year's mid-term elections, though, are starting to look more like 2008's presidential race, where Democrats had the money AND the grassroots organizing.

Turned out to be fascinating timing for a political junkie like myself, as 2011 is a major election year in Argentina, culminating this Sunday with the national presidential election.

Anyway, it looks like both sides are calling in the big guns in advance of tonight's Wednesday's dueling chairmanship votes — one that will see Ragusa re-elected to another two - year term, the other resulting in the election of former NYC Council Minority Leader / 2005 NYC mayoral contender and 2010 LG candidate Tom Ognibene.

Republicans, particularly Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos, have worked hard to woo Latino voters in recent years, and some worry that a single negative ad run against Long featuring comments like these would tank her — and fellow GOP candidates — in the general election.

Skelos said passing a pension overhaul needed to happen whether it was an election year or not, though my question was more along the lines of asking whether it was difficult to get something like that done in an election year.

The claim by the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP), Nana Akufo - Addo, to annihilate the governing National Democratic Congress (NDC) in its stronghold of the Volta Region in this year's election, looks like a wet dream that has ended unpleasantly.

We're going to see a lot of tactics like this in an already - drawn - out election year, no doubt from both sides (homework assignment: how many right - wing crazy quotes will it take to equal one Reverend Wright video clip?).

Despite the technology having been superceded years ago Theresa May refused to give hers up, even being pictured after last year's election sporting it in an odd utility belt like carrier.

«But this looks like election - year Earth Day politics.»

Instead, it's spent its years in opposition generally opposing the coalition's cuts as a matter of course, making its commitment to fiscal rectitude just as the election approaches feel like a late conversion indeed.

The following graph shows results for those local elections, like this year's, that were held just a year after a general election.

There had been speculation that Woodcock would stand down from parliament, like Jamie Reed, who quit as Labour MP for the nearby seat of Copeland earlier this year, triggering a by - election that the Tories won.

If we refuse to jail him, Ghanaians will vote against us in the [elections] next four years and so we need to get corrupt officials like him away from the country,» Mr Agyapong added.

Palladian Health, like most of the firms named in the subpoena that arrived at Buffalo City Hall in July, made political contributions to Brown over the years, according to financial reports filed with the state Board of Elections.

Election cycles like this one only come around every 20 years for Republicans.

This development has seemed like a foregone conclusion since President Obama announced in advance of last year's presidential election his own personal support for gay marriage and even went so far as to highlight the issue in his inauguration speech in January.

Since the morning after the first independence referendum three years ago, the thin - skinned tyrant of English nationalism has treated Scotland with nothing but contempt - English Votes for English Laws, hysterical Tory election posters demonising Scotland's largest party, voting for Brexit, ditching the single market against the express wishes of First Minister Nicola Sturgeon, and generally behaving like an abusive husband who's hidden the new PIN for the joint bank account.

Like World Cups, we got used to general elections coming round every four years, apart from 1992 - 97 and now, 2010 - 2015, under the Fixed Term Parliaments Act.

It's a promising sign, as the district's largely Hispanic electorate was projected to stay home in an off - year election like this one.

The last year was filled with significant news stories in New York like Occupy Wall Street, the election of Governor Andrew Cuomo, the passage of the gay marriage law, and the Zadroga 9/11 Healthcare Act.