Sentences with phrase «elections called at»

There are two looming Senate vacancies in 2018 that would have to be filled by special elections called at Gov. Andrew Cuomo's behest.

There are two looming Senate vacancies in 2018 that would have to be filled by special elections called at Cuomo's behest.

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Speaking at a meeting with CEOs on April 11, he called it «an investment that would not have been made if we didn't win the election.»

«This election hasn't so much appealed to our better angels as it has groped our better angels, mocked their weight, and called them «sixes at best,»» Oliver joked, alluding to a handful of Trump's scandals.

Last Thursday, moreover, both The Washington Post and The New York Times reported that Flynn had spoken with Russia's ambassador to the US, Sergey Kislyak, about the US economic sanctions on Russia before Trump was sworn in — including at least one call on the day President Barack Obama imposed new penalties on Russia for its election - related meddling.

In a quarterly - earnings call on Wednesday, Penegor said that the presidential election is weighing on consumer sentiment and, in turn, people are spending less at restaurants like Wendy's.

The Washington Post reported Thursday that PropOrNot and the nonpartisan Foreign Policy Research Institute both attribute the flood of so - called fake news, or hoax and misleading headlines, during the 2016 election to an elaborate Russian propaganda campaign aimed at sowing distrust in the American political system and undermining public consensus.

On April 18, PM May surprised onlookers by calling a snap election — a decision aimed at strengthening her mandate to see the country through a hard Brexit.

Mark Zuckerberg at first said the percentage of fake news on the platform was tiny, and called the idea that it influenced the election «crazy.»

While Florida remains the only swing state that's still too close to call, Obama bested his Republican challenger Mitt Romney regardless, as he raked in at least 303 electoral votes during yesterday's election.

By the time the final result of the by - election was called, members of Goldsmith's family were in tears and the former Conservative MP could only look down at the floor as the end of his political career was confirmed to the room.

Political stats guru Nate Silver pointed at the fences and called his shot this year, and since the election, his book The Signal and the Noise skyrocketed to the top of the charts.

Separately, there were at least 18 undisclosed calls and emails between Trump associates and Kremlin - linked people in the seven months before the Nov. 8 presidential election, including six calls with Kislyak, sources told Reuters earlier this month..

It is difficult to call the Bangladesh elections at this point but India will be closely watching the emerging...

One night, over dinner with Hsieh and his friends at Carson Kitchen, a new high - end restaurant in what was once the rundown John E. Carson hotel for men, I lost track of the conversation, reached for a pork slider, considered sipping my Fernet shot, and suddenly realized they were fiercely debating how to explain to me a Holacracy concept called «circle elections.»

QUEBEC — The Parti Quebecois government tabled what it calls a «responsible» budget Thursday aimed at erasing doubts over the party's economic record and blunting opponent attacks ahead of an expected spring election.

Marceau presented the economic road map at a critical time for the minority PQ, which is widely expected to call a snap election in the coming weeks as polls suggest Marois is within striking distance of a majority mandate.

Centrify, a proponent of a relatively new approach to enterprise security called Zero Trust, on April 16 at the RSA Security Conference revealed the industry's first IT campaign to Secure the Vote for the 2018 elections.

Since the by - election was called, I suspect more federal Liberal MPs have visited the riding since the party held their leadership convention at the Saddledome in 1990.

Icahn also called for the company's directors to be elected at the same time, as opposed to the current system, in which board elections are staggered, which means that it would take two years for Icahn to obtain a majority of the board.

James Swanson, chief investment strategist at MFS Investment Management in Boston, suggested that Kuroda's fate was tied to that of Abe's, who he says called an early election as a «reaffirmation» of his economic growth platform.

The Facebook exec's tweets followed Mueller's release of indictments against 13 Russian nationals and three Russian businesses for what Mueller called a wide - ranging effort to undermine the 2016 presidential election, including efforts aimed at «supporting the presidential campaign of then - candidate Donald J. Trump.»

Glass Lewis hosted a Proxy Talk conference call with the nominees for a contested election at the annual meeting of Vale S.A., which is to be held on 20 April.

Hardly an election at any level is free of calls for improving our schools, and presidential candidates avoid the topic at their peril.

That is the secret of so - called Christian anti-Semitism: It is not Christian at all but rather expresses pagan resentment against Israel and jealousy of its unique form of election.

Moby was tweeting against Trump (calling him an «actual psychopath») for months before the election, yet the administration still asked him to DJ at the inauguration ball in January.

Bishop Eduardo Horacio Garcia, who was Cardinal Bergoglio's auxiliary bishop in Buenos Aires, recounted shortly after Pope Francis's election that «at the end of the Jubilee Year, for which Cardinal Bergoglio had called a missionary year, we priests of the archdiocese asked Cardinal Bergoglio to call a synod in order to discuss how to harvest the fruits of our mission and draft guidelines.

Obama called the Muslim Brotherhood leader Mohamed Morsi for winning the election in Egypt and then claims the Republicans are at war with women.

Last week, the Iranian government rounded up activists after Karrubi and Moussavi called for supporters to gather at Azadi Square - the site of mass protests by Iran's opposition movement after the disputed 2009 presidential elections.

Ultimately, Cardinal Theodore McCarrick read portions of the letter and the Vatican response to it at a service for Kennedy in Washington, D.C. News reports called the Vatican letter pro forma, and its cited portions avoid mention of the social issues on which Kennedy not only defied his faith, but spearheaded defiance of his faith — a modus operandi that is still deployed (and was just deployed in the recent Lamb - Saccone special election in Pennsylvania) by pro-choice Catholic Democrats.

As a whole, the prophets give passionate testimony to their faith that in the context of Israel's life under election / covenant, her rebellion and judgment call forth at once Yahweh's compassion and redemption.

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.

They use the so - called «stealth» techniques less than they once did, but they still like to come in at the last minute and distribute voter guides, often putting them on cards at churches, or to conduct saturation telephone campaigns on the weekend before the election.

It's like calling a presidential election complete just by looking at the numbers from just one state.

The Real Madrid president moved away from Benitez to deny reports in Spain today that he could call premature elections to reassert his authority at the club after fans called for his head during the defeat to Barcelona.

FI joins call for new deal for dads in election manifestos The Fatherhood Institute has joined a coalition of charities and trade unions, to call on the UK's political parties to include policies aimed at promoting involved fatherhood in their election manifestos.

The news that the Tories will not contest the by - election was confirmed at 1 pm on Friday - some hours after a call on Thursday night by former Tory chairman Grant Shapps.

That number is up for Slaughter, who led Assini by about 600 votes at the end of election night, making the race too close to call at that time.

Former Cabinet minister and adviser to Osborne Lord Forsyth called the decision to freeze the threshold at # 325,000 «unfair» and «very disappointing», especially considering the chancellor pledged to raise it to # 1 million before the election — in a move which scared Gordon Brown off holding a snap election.

Speaking at a colloquium on Peaceful Election in Accra, Dr. Chambas also called on civil society, religious leaders and traditional authorities to assume their role in this national endeavour.

At the height of this fantasy, romantics, Biafra and Oodua, were already swooning about some «South» — after IPOB's Nnamdi Kanu's reported threat of no election in the South East, until IPOB secured its Biafra secession referendum; and former Senator Femi Okurounmu's call for a united southern phalanx against the «Hausa - Fulani» he seems to viscerally hate.

At the same time, Cuomo is being pushed to call elections for Senate seats that could potentially open, including one expected to be vacated in the Bronx next month by Ruben Diaz, Sr., in order to keep the party's numbers in the chamber.

Though governments will not be able to call an election at a moment that happens to be favourable to them, they will be able to pursue policies designed to produce favourable circumstances at the time an election is scheduled to take place.

Diaz, along with Sen. George Latimer, will leave office at the end of the year and have their seats filled in special elections to be called after the state budget is completed, based on a Democratic unity push for the state Senate.

At 12:30 p.m., NYC Public Advocate Letitia James, NYC Comptroller Scott Stringer, Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams and others call for instant runoff voting to be implemented in New York City elections, City Hall steps, Manhattan.

So with the 2011 Parliament Act, the PM can call for an election at any time, but it must be approved by Parliament first?

If the best candidate is someone politically connected to the power brokers in Albany and Washington (as he calls them «people who make and break Democratic elections in the Hudson Valley»), has no ties to the district at all, has never won elected office then he is the guy.

Ruy Teixeira (co-author of «The Emerging Democratic Majority»» laid out a great description of the Democratic strategy in the 2014 elections at an event last month: he called it an «experiment in agendaless mobilization.»

However, in focusing on the advantages of fixed - term elections, Schleiter does not consider whether there are certain advantages to the old system, in which an election could be called at any moment.

Chair of the EC Jenny Watson said: «A UK general election can be called at any time, and there might only be a few days to register to vote in time, once it has been called.