Sentences with phrase «first failed bid»

There was a very different reception for Cuomo at the Democratic Rural Conference on Friday evening, where Cuomo spoke behind closed doors to a group upstate Democrats who have historically supported him, including in 2002 during his first failed bid for governor.

Not exact matches

He is also one of the most media - savvy members in the upper chamber — a trait that has been apparent since the start of his career, when his first, failed bid to become mayor of Newark was captured in a sympathetic documentary, «Street Fight.»

I guess you prefer politicians that lie their way into a second war while we're still fighting the first without bothering to figure out how to pay for it, give no - bid million dollar government contracts to their profiteering cronies, then fail to oversee those contracts, leading to BILLIONS of tax dollars wasted.

SPC Ardmona, the Shepparton - based fruit canning unit of Coca - Cola Amatil which received a Victorian government handout last year having failed in a bid for a federal handout, is the first to use the new rules to seek a better outcome.

Our club have actively been on the look - out for a player to challenge the former Montpellier striker for a first - team role at the Emirates for the upcoming season, but having failed in bids to land a number of targets, are now claimed to be willing to offload Giroud in order to strengthen.

Borini may not be the club's first choice, but with Spurs failing in a bid for West Brom front - man Saido Berahino, he may now be the next best realistic option.

I'll say it again mahrez should not be considered as an option b, c, or d if the Lemar bid fails, the same people who are rating him so highly will be the first to turn on him when he will have another average season mark my words.

When we failed with our first bid, their chief executive Matt Williams, who is now general manager at Turf Moor, said: «Burnley made us an offer but we turned it down and told them what we felt we'd get at a tribunal.

This is Koch's first campaign - like upstate swing since his failed 1982 gubernatorial bid during which his anti-upstate statements are now widely viwed as having cost him the primary race against Mario Cuomo.

Specifically, the report referenced wrongdoing by county employees, failing to competitively bid the first two phases of a reconstruction project.

Nicolas Sarkozy was, for the first time since 1945, an unashamed President of the Right in France, campaigning in his successful 2007 presidential bid for a «rupture» from France's «failed» economic and social model.

Harry Wilson has released what I believe is his first official policy statement since his failed bid for state comptroller last fall, or, at the very least his first of this election cycle, in response to the supercommittee's failure to reach a deficit reduction deal.

The former «Sex and the City» star, holding her first capital city news conference since declaring her bid for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination, said Cuomo has failed to clean up corruption as promised.

It will, however, be the first time since the early 1970s that the Assembly chamber will be Weprin-less, since David Weprin replaced his brother, Mark, (the sibilings switched seats, with the later taking the former's NYC Council slot after he gave it up to run a failed bid for NYC comptroller in 2009).

Alex Salmond will return to Holyrood today for the first time since his bid for Scottish independence failed.

Former First Minister Alex Salmond, who stepped down after his failed bid to win independence after the Scottish referendum, won the SNP seat in Gordon.

The developer recounted a failed bid to buy a First Avenue building site from Con Edison.

Reports filed on Tuesday also showed how well a fractured and crowded Democratic field of challengers was doing raising money against Walker, who is running for a third term this year and is on the ballot for the first time since his failed presidential bid.

The BBC received 5,000 emails in the first hour after the news of the failed bid.

Yet so far, the Tioga Downs racino in the town of Nichols, whose proposal failed to win over the board in the first round of bidding, is the only contender.

Marcela De La Fuente failed in her bid to become the city's first council member of Latin American ancestry since the 1990s, in a city that is nearly 30 percent Latino.

Spitzer and Smith first became chummy when she worked as a communications aide for his political comeback bid — a failed campaign for city comptroller in 2013.

In 2002, Mr. Lasher contributed to Tim Bishop's Congressional upset in Suffolk County, and in the past election cycle he worked on several races, among them Working Families Party candidate Letitia James» successful City Council bid, for the seat left vacant when James Davis was murdered in City Hall last summer; Steve Levy's winning bid for Suffolk County Executive (the first Democrat elected for that seat since 1987); and Arlene Bluth's failed bid for Civil Court against Shlomo Hagler in Manhattan.

Nonetheless, Harvey's first two election bids (in 1973 and 1975) fail, though he finally gets to enjoy the sweet taste of victory after the hard - fought 1977 campaign, only to incur the wrath of the homophobic White.

One unnamed SCITT, rated «outstanding» by Ofsted, failed in its first attempt due to inadequate answers to two questions in its bid.

Soon after his first bid for state schools chief failed, the then - Beloit School District superintendent threw his support behind another public - school advocate, the soon - to - be state superintendent.

The first example is a failed attempt at expressing compassion and empathy in a bid for intimate conversation:

The Buyer made the winning bid at the first sheriff's sale, but failed to make the required deposit.