Sentences with phrase «elections earlier this month»

Speaking at the first Prime Minister's Questions since the general election earlier this month, Corbyn said years of Conservative government cuts to local authority budgets had put public safety at jeopardy and had played a part in the fire that destroyed a tower block in Kensington, west London earlier this month, killing at least 79 people.

The party lost a by - election earlier this month to the Conservatives for a Toronto seat that had long been held by the Liberals.

When Republican Governor Mitt Romney lost the presidential election earlier this month to incumbent Barack Obama, Al Mohler, president of Southern Baptist Theological Seminary classified the election as «an evangelical disaster.»

Felder, who had refused to pick sides in the immediate aftermath of the elections earlier this month, said during a telephone interview last night that he had informed both the Senate GOP and Democratic Leader Andrea Stewart - Cousins of his decision yesterday.

At the Scottish Parliament elections earlier this month, the number of Tory MPs soared from 15 to 31.

The state Board of Elections earlier this month had considered a change in the regulation, but the commissioners deadlocked in a vote.

But after its first general election in 20 years, in November 2010, was criticised its leaders decided to embrace change, including by - elections earlier this month.

The recent Franco - German «duopoly» appears to be collapsing following the election earlier this month of French president Francois Hollande, who was attending his first European leaders» meeting.

(Hevesi reported about $ 5.9 million in funds to the New York State Board of Elections earlier this month.)

Ganim stunned incumbent Mayor Bill Finch in the Democratic primary in August and went on to win the general election earlier this month.

The Times and Telegraph newspapers claim Conservative strategists are considering a quick exit for Mr Johnson, who beat incumbent Ken Livingstone in the London mayoral election earlier this month.

Cuomo's hapless state Senate candidate in the Binghamton - area special election earlier this month not only suffered a humiliating defeat but cost one of the state's most respected district attorneys his job as well.

Following the general election earlier this month, it looks as though the UK will get a single party minority government formed by the Conservative party...

Former Hawaii Rep. Ed Case (D) announced Sunday night that he will not be a candidate for the 1st district seat he had run for in a special election earlier this month.

The Lib Dem leader, Sir Vince Cable, has enjoyed a marked surge since the local elections earlier this month, improving his rating from -18 % in April to -8 % now.

Since the election earlier this month ~ political conversation has moved to a new issue: Sequestration ~ part of the across - the - board federal budget...

Ritz, who beat Tony Bennett in the election earlier this month, was certified in the position as of noon today.

Two of the central reform groups, Democrats for Education Reform and Stand for Children, flexed their muscle in a Denver School Board election earlier this month.

The intervention — at the DfE's doors — is likely to further highlight the growing profile of school funding cuts, also a key issue in the general election earlier this month.

Facebook executives appeared in front of the Senate Intelligence Committee that is investigating Russia's interference in the 2016 presidential election earlier this month and today (Sept. 21).

Not exact matches

The election of Donald Trump as president sparked an exodus from the US Treasury market in the final months of 2016 and early 2017 as investors prepared for the possibility that Trump's plans for a protectionist trade policy, tax cuts, deregulation, and massive infrastructure spending would bring inflation back to the US.

Warren's comments came with Democrats in the early stages of decoding their lesson from this month's elections.

But in Rhone's industry, forestry, the election has also stalled negotiations on the softwood lumber agreement between Canada and the U.S. — a deal that expired earlier this month.

And according to a top - secret National Security Agency document leaked to the Intercept and published earlier this month, hackers associated with Russia's military intelligence agency targeted a company with information on US voting software days before the election and used the data to launch «voter - registration - themed» cyberattacks on local government officials.

The CIA, meanwhile, waited until after the election to put forward an independent assessment of Russian meddling, the content of which was leaked to the press earlier this month via high - level officials briefed on the intelligence.

The report was bolstered by a leaked NSA document published by The Intercept earlier this month detailing how hackers connected to Russian military intelligence had attempted to breach US voting systems days before the election.

The election takes place amidst an improving global economy with global earnings revision ratios at 5.5 - year highs, global PMI's at their highest levels since early - 2014, Asian exports at 12 - month highs and US wage growth at 7 - year highs.

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..

One of the more comprehensive proposals for better Canadian election laws came earlier this month from the Public Policy Forum think - tank.

Earlier this month Denham told MPs on the DCMS committee that's investigating fake news that her office would be pushing for increased transparency around data flows and disclosure rules for digital political advertising — suggesting a code of conduct is needed to regulate the use of social media in political campaigns, referendums and elections.

Earlier this month, the Liberals released their middle - income tax package, which they intend to promote as a better alternative to the Conservative's Family Tax Cut package in the upcoming 2015 election.

Mexico's ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party, facing voter scorn over corruption, tepid economic growth and rising violence, loosened its rules earlier this month to allow it to form coalitions and let a non-party member run as its candidate in 2018 presidential elections.

These complaints focused on the Wall Street Journal's report earlier this month that Trump's longtime personal attorney, Michael Cohen, negotiated a secret $ 130,000 payment to Stormy Daniels, the porn star, not long before the presidential election in 2016.

One in six said they would have trouble making mortgage payments if interest rates rise (long - term interest rates jumped following the November election of Donald Trump as U.S. president, while the U.S. Federal Reserve earlier this month raised its trend - setting rate for the second time since the 2008 crisis).

A poll that surveyed nearly 1,000 Albertans earlier this month found the United Conservative Party have a large lead over the NDP and would win if an election...

Meanwhile, with an election expected in early 2012 (regardless of fixed election months), Elections Alberta is warning that at least 300,000 Albertans are still missing from the official voters list.

A poll that surveyed nearly 1,000 Albertans earlier this month found the United Conservative Party have a large lead over the NDP and would win if an election was held...

The two sides hope to iron out a deal early next week to allow the IMF to release $ 7 billion in aid to Greece ahead of European elections, which kick off next month.

Fox News set a record earlier in the month with 24 million people tuning in to the first Republican primary debate of the 2016 election cycle, making it the most - watched cable telecast of all time, excluding sports programming.

A second option would be to formally include the 2011 election commitments in the 2014 budget as part of a longer - term economic and fiscal strategy, and in doing so begin the 2015 election campaign twelve months earlier.

Even worse, separate primary elections are held in each state over six months, meaning states that vote early have far greater influence over the outcome as underperforming candidates drop out

In an article which appeared as early as December in The Los Angeles Times, he began by complaining — a little prematurely, it might be thought — that «for some who were most enthusiastic eight months ago about the choice of Joseph Ratzinger as pope, this Christmas season has continued a period of waiting — some becoming a bit impatient — for Benedict XVI to fulfil more of the promise of his election.»

The IDC announced earlier this month it would dissolve and its members would rejoin the Democratic conference in the state Senate, ahead of a broader push to give Democrats control of the chamber after a pair of seats are filled in an April 24 special election.

A longtime push for early voting in New York took a step forward this month, with Republican Sen. Betty Little backing a bill that would allow voters to cast ballots up to two weeks before Election Day.

As Petra Schleiter reports in her recent post on Politics in Spires, 60 % of the UK's post-war elections were called early (i.e. more than six months before required).

«And a month ago she told her official spokesman to rule out an early general election and that wasn't true either, was it?

But the State Party pulled the trigger a little early and now the IDC is in the uncompromising position of working with the Senate Republicans for the next several months to help deliver the budget only to publicly undermine them a few weeks later when special elections are called to fill two vacancies.

The earliest Cuomo could call for a special election to fill the two vacancies is March, which is already halfway through the 6 - month session with fresh elections looming later that year in November.

Earlier this month, it came to our attention that the New York City Board of Election might have some difficulty holding a special election for the three open Assembly seats in the city on the same day as the Republican and Democratic Presidential primaries, which is AElection might have some difficulty holding a special election for the three open Assembly seats in the city on the same day as the Republican and Democratic Presidential primaries, which is Aelection for the three open Assembly seats in the city on the same day as the Republican and Democratic Presidential primaries, which is April 19.

In Iowa in December, Democrat Jim Lykam won his state Senate race by 48 points — 31 points better than Clinton's performance there the month earlier, according to district - level data compiled by the Daily Kos Elections site.