Sentences with phrase «elections year after»

Southern Baptist conservatives won key presidential elections year after year, and after a final conservative presidential victory in 1989 in New Orleans, moderates gave up the battle and began taking steps toward forming their own moderate organizations, such as the Cooperative Fellowship.

Two veteran Assembly members and an official from the governor's office said they expect a deal will be struck on the popular ethics measure this legislative election year after an unprecedented string of corruption convictions within the last 12 months.

Not exact matches

Pelosi expressed confidence that Democrats are in for a monumental wave election after solid Republican control of government for the past two years.

This year's poor performance - only six House seats gained, two Senate seats added, and the White House lost - caused a revolt among House Democrats after the election.

In November 2008, an election year that swept a barrier - breaking dynamo of the opposite party into the White House and pumped Democratic numbers in the chamber to 59 (and soon after, a filibuster - proof 60), McConnell barely eked out a win.

Budget cuts not possible - Buswell The state government's economic policy was in tatters last night after Treasurer Troy Buswell conceded he would not achieve the controversial 3 per cent cuts expected to pay for election promises in this year's budget.

Prime Minister Beata Szydlo said the protest was just whining by parties that lost an election in 2015 after eight years in government.

After returning to Serbia in late 2015 after 12 years in detention, Seselj led his party back into parliament last year as the strongest opposition force, and he now hopes for success in a presidential election due in AAfter returning to Serbia in late 2015 after 12 years in detention, Seselj led his party back into parliament last year as the strongest opposition force, and he now hopes for success in a presidential election due in Aafter 12 years in detention, Seselj led his party back into parliament last year as the strongest opposition force, and he now hopes for success in a presidential election due in April.

In 2014 — seven years after the suspected Russian hack — engineers at the University of Michigan studied Estonia's online - voting system and concluded that determined hackers — such as Russian operatives — could feasibly penetrate it, creating fake votes or altering the totals in order to rig elections «quite possibly without a trace,» they wrote in their report.

Democrats said Republican leaders, flexing their new political muscle after big wins in the midterm elections that will give them control of both chambers of Congress next year, had gone too far in trying to roll back Dodd - Frank.

FORTUNE — In a year with a highly contentious presidential election, the Olympics, and tragedy, after tragedy, after tragedy, you'd think 2012 would have been a banner year for American media.

ABUJA, April 9 - Nigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari confirmed on Monday he will seek another term in elections next year, ending months of speculation about his future after bouts of ill health.

In election years, people make promises that they will be delivering on year or two after.

About 10 million people in the U.S. reportedly saw at least one Facebook ad promoted by agents linked to Moscow over the course two years before and after the 2016 presidential election.

But after seven years in power and with the next election years away, Stephen Harper's government is tired and listless.

Secretary of State Rex Tillerson was offered $ 60 million by Congress from Defense Department funds last year to fight Russian election interference efforts — but after Tillerson waited for seven months trying to decide whether he wanted to spend it or not, the offer was withdrawn, and none of the money was used, according to The New York Times.

Polling conducted after last year's federal elections showed that over 62 % of Australians support legalizing same - sex marriage.

We're going to continue to look for more of that in the upcoming year, especially after the recent U.S. election and Britain's vote to leave the E.U.»

After the sweeping Republican election victory on Nov. 9, 2016, transgender people «are concerned for their safety, survival and legal rights in the coming years,» said Chase Strangio, an attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union who often works on transgender issues.

Seven years later, he upset a long - standing Massachusetts incumbent after trailing by 32 points the summer before the election.

Moore claimed he took the test shortly after losing the special election and that it «concerned allegations of sexual misconduct made against me during the last month of the campaign by Leigh Corfman, Beverly Nelson, and Tina Johnson for «alleged» conduct approximately 30 - 40 years ago.»

Billionaire Tom Steyer, one of the leading Democratic donors in the 2018 election cycle, has plenty of praise for House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D - Calif., but he stopped short of publicly supporting her to lead the party in Congress after this year's midterm elections.

It was, after all, an election year, marked by a steady stream of «gaffes» by various candidates.

After failing to predict the Conservative Party's victory in last year's general election, the U.K.'s pollsters were under pressure.

After serving almost 20 years with the WA Police service, Brad Waghorn is contending for the City of Perth council election «determined to secure our city».

The GOP holds just a one - seat majority in the chamber after the surprise victory of Democrat Doug Jones in last year's Alabama special election; that means they can lose just one Republican vote, even under reconciliation (Vice President Mike Pence would cast a tie - breaker in the case of a 50 - 50 split).

The stock remounted broken support after the presidential election, beginning an uptrend that has reached a 6 - year high at $ 5.18.

However, after the German elections in September of this year, it's unclear to us if Chancellor Angela Merkel will join Macron in leading this push towards greater EU integration.

Deals in the aerospace and defense industry have slowed this year after the election of President Donald Trump sent asset prices soaring, making many buyers hold off on deals.

In other words Democrats and Republicans will need to get together after a fiercely fought presidential election and do what they have failed to do for years - that is to work in a bi-partisan way to make sensible policy.

Many credit that statement with his party's loss that year, and after the elections Campbell publicly announced that he'd learned his lesson.

«Facebook is at a crossroads because of its inability — nearly a year - and - a-half after the election — to get a handle on its divisive effects on society,» said Tom Galvin, Executive Director of Digital Citizens.

Last week we crossed the one year mark after president's election.

Including Mr. Harper's vow in 2008 that a government led by him would «never» go into deficit, this is the second time in three years that the Conservatives have made a balanced - budget promise during an election campaign only to abandon it after being reelected.

As you can see, we are in a neutral zone after reaching a more exuberant range at the end of last year following the US election.

The final budget outcome for 2015 - 16 will not be known until the fall of 2016, a year after any election.

My 16 years of living abroad and writing for International Living began a month after the 9/11 terror attacks and has stretched through four subsequent presidential election cycles.

UK Prime Minister Theresa May then unexpectedly announced elections to be held in June, meaning the scheduled two years of negotiations to determine the terms of the United Kingdom's departure seemed unlikely to make much headway until after the results of the UK vote — and probably the German elections as well — were known.

This trend started right after the presidential election and continued through the end of the year.

A review of Alberta's natural resource royalty rates was a key plank in the New Democratic Party «s election platform and a panel was appointed shortly after Rachel Notley was sworn - in as Premier earlier this year.

After more than a year of rallies, primaries, debates, controversies and scandals, we're only one day from the Presidential election — meaning investors are closer than ever to that long - awaited clarity on how the election will be felt in the markets.

Japan Growth in Japan slumped in 2015 Q4, falling by 0.3 %, leaving overall growth for the calendar year at just 0.5 % — a disappointing outcome after three years of Abenomics since the election of December 2012.

In the immediate few days after Donald Trump won the Election, what we actually saw was the highest rise in the value of the dollar for nearly a year.

Britain's Labour Party adopted the song «Things can only get better» as its campaign anthem for the 1997 general election, expressing the party's ambitions for governing after 18 years in Continue Reading

GRANDE PRAIRIE — Moments after the CUPE Alberta convention voted (unanimously) to support the Alberta NDP in next year's provincial election, Premier Rachel Notley was received with cheers, chants, hugs and multiple standing ovations by delegates.

After 17 - years and many attempts, Calgary's political establishment finally managed to achieve their goal of denying Mr. Anders the party nomination he needs to win in the next election.

The most recent notable exception was Ken Kowalski, who retired before the last election after 33 years as a PC MLA (and his three decade long political career in provincial politics is very uncommon).

The one thing that still stands out for me nearly three years after Rachel Notley visited the Edmonton Sun editorial board during the 2015 provincial election was...

She was elected to City Council less than a year after the Liberal Party's rout in the 2001 provincial election, of which she was a surprising casualty.

With trust and accountability having become the defining issues of the election campaign, Mr. Prentice has not presented a compelling reason for Albertans to trust that the PC Party will be any different in the next three years (especially after he called the election one year earlier than the PC Government's fixed election date).