Sentences with phrase «face up to the election»

Labour also has to face up to the election result.

Not exact matches

Expect Sanders to employ similar words against GOP candidate Donald Trump if the two end up facing off in general election.

For sure, Mr. Moore would be on surer footing here if the Conservative Party of Canada hadn't pleaded guilty to violating election spending limits in 2008 and if the Harper government wasn't the only government in this country's history to have been found in contempt of Parliament and if the RCMP wasn't said to be presently investigating Mr. Harper's former chief of staff and and if two Conservative MPs weren't presently in court with Elections Canada and if the Prime Minister hadn't left for Peru without facing the House on the first day that Parliament was in session after the deal between Mr. Wright and Mr. Duffy was revealed and if the Prime Minister hadn't fail to show up in the House on the following Monday and if Mr. Duffy hadn't remained a Conservative senator for awhile despite having apparently claimed a housing allowance he shouldn't have.

He's faced a number of significant setbacks and distractions, including federal judges» smackdown of his two travel bans, a failure to repeal and replace Obamacare and an ongoing investigation into his administration's possible collusion with the Russian government in the months leading up to the November election.

The image of a woman who is battered for 20 years by her clergyman husband and who would forgive him, «because the Bible tells her to,» the image of a young mother and father who can not understand why their three - year - old daughter was sexually abused in the day care center to which they had entrusted her each morning; the image of a woman who was sacked from the women's program of her church because she refused to comply to the request of the president of the church that she and the other women vote for him in his election campaign; the image of a 14 - year - old migrant domestic worker who faces the death sentence on trumped up charges, because she would not give in to the sexual demands of her employer; the image of a male priest of a church saying that every time he beats his wife she should thank him, because she is one step closer to salvation; or the priest who would make sexual advances on a woman who out of vulnerability turns to the church for pastoral comfort... these are but a glimpse of the many such images that are gathered during the course of this Decade.

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.

I say we make this election for the children and the college aged students who call the hudson valley their home and not make it about one man who is part of the problem, the easy solution is we boot him out of office and put in a fresh face who will stand up to shelly silver, the Governor and imagine this maybe even to some fellow republicans who can't be trusted with our childrens futures in their hands....

The leaders of the three biggest political parties will face each other live in three TV debates leading up to the general election.

Out - gunned when it comes to fundraising and out - numbered in enrollment by about five to three across the state, Republicans know they face an uphill battle in their quest to oust Cuomo in November, and they're more than willing to accept any and all assistance in softening up their target ahead of the general election.

Ed Miliband has just delivered his post-European and local elections comeback speech in Thurrock, to show that he's not afraid to confront the challenges that Labour still faces in the run - up to 2015.

Since the election of Donald Trump, groups across the state have sprouted up to demand the eradication of the IDC; all eight of its members are facing primary challengers.

A lot of Democrats are up in arms about ABC's upcoming miniseries, «The Path to 9/11» — an email I got from the Democratic Party described it as «a bald - faced attempt to slander Democrats and revise history right before Americans vote in a major election.»

None of these lawmakers are facing what are considered by Democratic operatives in Albany to be top - tier battleground races later this year in general election match ups.

The government faces more problems in the run - up to the election with the news that the economy is set to weaken early next year.

But he says that when Labour proposed its own social care plan for the election, it faced up to the funding problem.

Former state Sen. Malcolm Smith is facing up to 45 years behind bars after a jury Thursday found he conspired to rig the 2013 mayoral election through a $ 200,000 bribery scheme.

Until now, Cuomo has sought to ignore his underdog rival, treating Tuesday's primary as a nuisance as he gears up to face Republican Rob Astorino in the November general election.

We didn't maximise our vote at the last election: I have always been amazed at the Tory leadership's unwillingness to face up to the botched nature of the 2010 general election and the Tory leadership's persistent insistence that they maximised the Tory vote.

He would be taking the initiative like he did when Brown got the election bug after the good labour conference and then Brown would have to put up or shut up and be faced with calling a risky election before he's sure he could win or looking like Chicken little again.

Up to 150 Labour MPs face defeat if the new Tory leader calls a snap general election, according to research seen by PoliticsHome.

Diaz crushed his GOP opponents, but he still has one more hurdle to face before taking up residency in the upper chamber: the general election.

My real concern was that by not having an inclusive leadership election, we would not face up to the harsh realities of why we lost this year and, indeed, why swathes of voters have been deserting us since 1997.

«But I think that there's a deeper lesson, which is that if any of us think that we lost the election because of personalities, we are profoundly wrong — there are big issues for us to face up to, about the fact that people lost a sense of who we were and what we believed.»

This is an extreme example, although it does highlight the real dangers facing parties in the run up to a general election.

For many voters, the new machines can be confusing — which is why Liz Benjamin caught up with Robert Donovan, who is the co-chair of the New York State Democratic Laywers Council, and John Conklin, a spokesman for NYS Board of Elections, to get a tutorial on how they work — and some of the problems you might face using them on election day.

He would have faced months of mockery by David Cameron in the run - up to the next general election.

The first candidate that will be subject to a newly created state Board of Elections hearing process, Norma Gonsalves, the presiding officer of the Nassau County legislature, faces up to $ 28,000 in penalties, according to allegations filed by the body's chief enforcement counsel, Risa Sugarman.

Former state Sen. Malcolm Smith is facing up to 45 years behind bars after a jury Thursday found he conspired to rig the 2013 mayoral election through a $ 200,000 bribery...

Some Democrats don't wind up facing general election opposition, though there are a handful of districts across the city that are either held by Republicans or could reasonably be swung to the GOP.

The corruption conviction of his onetime right - hand man and political fixer Joseph Percoco, who is now facing a possible 50 - year prison sentence, opened Cuomo up in an election year to a barrage of relentless public attacks from Republicans and no rush from many Democrats to support the head of their party in New York State.

Lhota, a deputy mayor under former GOP Mayor Rudy Giuliani and former head of the city transit authority, faced off against his Democratic opponent, New York City Public Advocate Bill de Blasio, in the first of three debates leading up to the November mayoral election.

Election Day next month is shaping up to be a comparatively sleepy affair statewide, as ballot propositions for constitutional amendments, along with whether to hold a constitutional constitutional, the only issues all New Yorkers will face when they head to booth.

This move is unlikely in itself — David Cameron is in no mood to face down his backbenchers, the Telegraph and UKIP on another policy area in the months leading up to an election.

«If Nuhu Ribadu is yet to face the reality that EFCC is a Federal Government agency and not a personal estate of anybody eight years after, I find it compelling to remind him, otherwise one day he would wake up to blame me for his defeat in the 2011 presidential election and even his pathetic outing in the 2015 governorship election in Adamawa state despite the slush funds deployed to ensure his victory at the polls.»

There's a big problem facing the Tory party in the run up to the Euro Elections, and that problem's name is....

Normally we'd hope for a longer stretch between the calling of the by - election and the holding of the vote — particularly given the huge hurdle all contenders have to face with the postal vote essentially stitching up the result barely half way through the campaign.

Mr Blenkinsop secured a majority of 2,268, at the 2015 election, up from 1,677 five years earlier, but faces a fierce battle with the Conservatives to retain the seat again.

Despite facing two well - funded challengers, who picked up more than 20 percent of the vote each, Eugene received 40.15 percent of vote, according to results from the New York Board of Elections.

In a race that is heating up in the weeks leading up to Election Day Nov. 6, City Councilman Dan Halloran (R - Whitestone) is up against state Assemblywoman Grace Meng (D - Flushing) for the central Queens seat, while five - term U.S. Rep. Steve Israel (D - Hauppauge) faces challenges from multiple parties: Stephen Labate on the Republican, Conservative and Tax Revolt party lines; Anthony Tolda on the Constitution Party line; and Michael McDermott on the Libertarian line.

Golden faced a serious challenger each of the past two general elections, though Democrats are not putting up a fight this cycle, all according to Ballotpedia.

A relatively little - known lawmaker before her election as speaker, she faced serious doubts among the city's political elites about her ability to wield power over the Council's unruly body, and to stand up to the mayor.

Furthermore, the forthcoming general election is far more likely than the last two to end up with the third party being squeezed as the country faces a fundamental choice between Labour and the Conservatives as to who should form the Government.

But its very welcome, it will cause worry and concern in the PLP and this will feed into the public narrative of a government in serious trouble and decline If this type of Conservative poll lead continues with the Labour party continuing to drop under the 30 % barrier, I would expect it to have a similar destabilising effect on the Labour party comparable to the run up to the Conference season last year when we were facing an Autumn election with Labour riding high in the polls.

I rather suspect that Margaret Thatcher now regrets campaigning for membership of The Common Market and for agreeing to many of the extensions in the EU in the 1980s, if she had won the 1990 leadership election I would not have been surprised if she had turned volte face and saying that the EU was not what we had signed up for and that the UK was leaving.

It will then be up to the federal government, which faces a 14 September 2013 election, to respond to the report.

In one experiment, they showed 684 university students 57 pairs of faces — election winners and runners - up — and asked them to judge who looked more «competent.»

«Similarly, the country is now facing up to a somewhat unexpected election result and while research indicates that — theoretically at least — politics are not a desirable date topic, in practice we know that eHarmony members often end up exchanging lively views about their political allegiances.»

There's an election coming up, and he's about to star on the National Theatre stage in «Everyman», a fifteenth - century morality play about man's powerlessness in the face of death.

Four player co-op action is the name of the game here, tasking you with robbing banks, cracking safes, rigging elections, defusing bombs and even cooking up crystal meth, all while usually fending off waves of police intent on introducing your face to their bullets.

In a follow up to the gallery's critically acclaimed group show «UPRISE / ANGRY WOMEN,» which opened during the week of the 2017 presidential inauguration, exhibition ONE YEAR OF RESISTANCE features artwork across all mediums addressing the issues our society has faced since the election such as immigration rights, women's rights, transgender rights, health care, climate change, white supremacy, gender equality, gun control, sexual harassment, as well as countless other issues which have given rise to mass protest throughout the United States and abroad over the past year.