Sentences with phrase «first general post»

All communications to the archipelago were ferried through the island, as Landrail Point was the location of The Bahamas» first General Post Office.

Not exact matches

After serving in the George W. Bush administration's HHS, first as general counsel and then as a deputy HHS Secretary from 2005 to 2007, Azar moved on to several high - level posts at Eli Lilly — including as the president of Lilly USA, the drug maker's main U.S. arm.

Heather Dietrick, president and general counsel of Gawker Media, said in a statement that soon after Mr. Bollea sued the company in 2012, three state appeals court judges and a federal judge «repeatedly ruled that Gawker's post was newsworthy» under the First Amendment.

Furthermore, she joins from the post of General Partner of Entrepreneur First, officially Europe's hottest accelerator right now.

If you missed my last post about Twitter you can check it out here, or see my first post about general B2B social media best practices here.

I thought first I will move all my recipe posts from my general blog to this one and then start posting new recipes.

This recipe for General Tso's chicken has been the most popular on this site since I first posted it in 2009.

I know this was posted a while ago but I just stumbled upon your blog and wanted to put in my 2 agurot:) When my first child (now 11) there was much less awareness about breastfeeding in general in this country and unfortunately I myself knew little about it and got ZERO support from the hospital.

The first three years of General Acheampong's regime (1972 - 1975) was about one of the most effective governance ever experienced in post Kwame Nkrumah era.

In 2007, GOP leaders endorsed Dale Sweetland for county executive, and she successfully forced a primary, going on to win the general election and become the first woman to hold her post.

Such an outcome is a feature of the first past the post system used in the UK and other countries, combined with a purely constituency - based parliament, whereby a general election is, in effect, 650 separate elections, one for each constituency in the country.

Under first - past - the - post, they have fared less strongly in general elections, typically recording around one per cent of the UK - wide vote (although a slightly higher average in the seats they contest); in 2010, the Greens won 0.96 per cent of the vote (1.81 per cent in the seats where they put up a candidate), and returned an MP to the House of Commons for the first time, as Caroline Lucas wrested Brighton Pavilion from Labour.

That won't be the case at a first past the post general election.

Kelly, the first former general to occupy the gatekeeper's post since Alexander Haig played that role for President Richard Nixon during Watergate, told aides he will impose military discipline on a free - for - all West Wing, and getting rid of Scaramucci was Step One toward accomplishing that goal.

The imprint of first - past - the - post is so strong that voters see general elections as football matches in which a side has either «won» or «lost».

Melissa DeRosa, the first woman to serve as secretary to the governor — the equivalent of the chief of staff post for a president in the executive chamber — recounted that despite her resume as a top official in Attorney General Eric Schneiderman's office and role in the state campaign for President Barack Obama, she has been defined in the media by her relationship to her lobbyist father and husband, a former Cuomo spokesman who now works for Uber.

BROOKLYN HEIGHTS, BROOKLYN — Public Advocate Letitia James launched her Democratic campaign for state attorney general Wednesday, casting herself as «the people's lawyer» as she looks to become the first woman of color to hold the post.

In addition to Mr. Rangel, former Attorney General Eric Holder, the first African - American to hold the post, appeared on stage, joining Mayor Bill de Blasio and Gov. Andrew Cuomo.

If we replaced «First Past The Post» with DPR Voting for UK General Elections, what differences would it make?

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Barbara Underwood will be the first woman as the state's acting attorney general after disgraced Eric Schneiderman leaves his post amide abuse allegations.

Just as in general elections, local councillors in England and Wales are elected via First Past the Post.

Britain's «first past the post» voting system could be scrapped if Labour wins the general election, under plans which have been outlined by Gordon Brown.

General elections to the UK Parliament, like the rest of the UK, use First Past the Post (FPTP), whereby the candidate who receives the most votes wins.

This time — with the important caveat set out below — the more people who vote Liberal Democrat on 6 May, the greater the chance that this will be Britain's last general election under a first - past - the - post electoral system which is wholly unsuited to the political needs of a grown - up 21st - century democracy.

However, in order to be taken as a serious government - in - waiting, politics has to come first and I was somewhat concerned recently to hear the following story about a member of the shadow cabinet: he had apparently already told David Cameron that he didn't want a higher profile post than that which he currently holds in advance of the general election, because he didn't want to give up other interests on account of time commitments or potential conflicts of interest involved in a different post.

General elections, being first - past - the - post, are entirely different, as voters have to vote tactically, often for the lesser of evils between the top two parties, instead of for those who represent their views.

Mr. Kwatra left his post as the attorney general's chief of staff — to near - unanimous cheers from staffers The Observer spoke to — and one of the first things he did after setting up his own political shop was to recruit a big client, his old pal the Hotel Trades Council.

Later on, the 1993 general election saw the New Zealand Labour Party's vote split by The Alliance, which has been attributed to the vagaries of the first past the post electoral system.

There is a general expectation of this sort of squeeze as the election approaches — the nature of First Past the Post is that votes for smaller parties don't stand much chance of being translated into MPs unless they are geographically concentrated and as the election approaches the media coverage almost inevitably focuses ever more upon the main contenders (though more on that later).

Until it was abolished for the 2010 general election, it elected one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election.

He rejected the suggestion that the Conservatives, who fought the general election in favour of first - past - the - post, were betraying voters by allowing a possible move to a new system of voting.

There were also signs that Ukip was doing remarkably well in London and the home counties, confirming Farage's claim that he could inflict unpredictable damage to the main parties across England, so leaving them less than a year to win the electorate back before a first - past - the - post general election.

The First Past The Post electoral system exacerbates divisions between the different parts of Britain, adding to pressures that could break the union, with Thursday's General Election potentially hastening this process.

Britain's first - past - the - post (FPTP) electoral system (in) famously results in marginal and safe seats where many votes are considered «wasted» — but the 2017 General Election has shown just what random results that can throw up.

The commission was set up in December 1997 by the Labour government with the support of the Liberal Democrats, to investigate alternatives to the single member plurality (or «first past the post») electoral system used for British general elections.

[1] The spontaneous formation of the Walker / Mallott «Alaska First Unity Ticket» caused a dramatic shakeup of the general election tickets for both governor and lieutenant governor, since it necessitated the withdrawal of two qualified candidates, Democratic lieutenant gubernatorial nominee Hollis French and Walker's original running mate Craig Fleener, who resigned from his post as state deputy fish and game commissioner to run with Walker.

This is coupled with the fact that de Blasio has greatly out - fundraised Malliotakis and the mayor posted a 47 - point lead according to the first general election poll, taken by Marist / NBC 4.

Even with narrowing polls, it is as well to remember that this general election, like all others, will be decided in the marginals; calculations based on broad swings in the national vote - share have inbuilt inaccuracy in a first - past - the - post system.

Use of First Past the Post for both local and general elections now stands stripped of its main justification: delivering strong government, representative of the wishes of the electorate.

Following a period as shadow minister for transport, following the 1997 general election, she was appointed as parliamentary under secretary of state (a junior minister) in the government of Prime Minister Tony Blair, [27] with responsibility for London Transport, a post from which she resigned in 1999 before an unsuccessful attempt to be nominated as the Labour Party candidate for the election of the first Mayor of London in 2000.

First, this general introduction to the benefits of strength training and a second post to come including lots of wisdom from fitness professionals and...

As you may recall from previous blog posts of mine, I believe that specialised strength development is an important element in sprint training due to the ineffective transfer of general barbell strength training programmes to sprinting speed beyond the first few years of training.

I will be the first to admit that I new very little about worms (a.k.a. parasitic helminths) and other parasites prior to doing research for this post, but the general idea I had in my head was that they were not welcome creatures and if you had them, then there was probably a hygiene issue that needed to be addressed.

This outfit post may have truly been the first time that Sam and I didn't argue our way through shooting it and I felt the most confident and comfortable I ever had while shooting in general.

Today's post marks the first of a series of four (not posted in a consecutive manner though) in praise of the soul - crushing Moorish beauty of Granada's Alhambra: three outfit posts for which I took advantage of its fairy tale backdrops, and one general photo diary.