Sentences with phrase «first midterm»

The timing for this final workshop was no coincidence: the students have faced their first midterm exams a few weeks ago and experienced their own reactions to this stressful moment, they have just received their grades for those exams, and are starting to prepare for the final exams that will take place in less than one month.

They repeated the writing activity just before the first midterm.

I gave my first midterm today, did a lot of grading, completed a lunchtime barre class, went on an afternoon walk and did a short interval workout at the gym while the kid was at Taekwondo.

Students took their first midterm in October.

«If you look at first midterm elections historically, the president's party loses seats,» Rep. Chris Van Hollen, Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee chairman, said at a forum in Washington in remarks reported by Politico.

Conventional wisdom dictates that the incumbent President's party typically loses seats in his first midterm election.

But while every new president can expect his party to lose congressional seats in the first midterm election after he takes office, Dawidziak said he doesn't expect a tsunami for Democrats, or for King or Zeldin to face «top - notch» opponents next year.

There are 32 African - American Republicans running for Congress in the first midterm elections of the Obama administration.

After initial proposals were discussed in the last parliamentary session, the coalition's first midterm Queen's Speech earlier this month included the electoral registration and administration bill, which received its second reading yesterday.

It's a historical fact that the incumbent president's party usually gets slaughtered in their first midterm election.

Not exact matches

WASHINGTON — House Democrats, frustrated by what they see as GOP inaction and with an eye on midterm elections, on Tuesday held the first of what they hope to be several interviews with witnesses who have not been interrogated in the Republican - led Russia investigations.

Republicans experienced a similar surge in candidates after Barack Obama's first election victory and ahead of the 2010 midterms.

«On our first date, he told me that he'd rather go on a date with me than finish his take - home midterm,» she said in a rare TV interview.

The president's decision to reconsider one of his first acts in office — withdrawing from the 12 - nation Trans - Pacific Partnership — opens up another potential line of attack for some Democrats ahead of critical midterm elections in November.

The Republican National Committee has committed $ 250 million to a midterm election strategy that has one goal above all else: Preserve the party's House majority for the rest of President Donald Trump's first term.

In previous midterm election years, the S&P 500 Index has experienced a sell - off early in the year — and on average, ends the first three quarters flat to slightly lower (as of this writing, the S&P 500 Index price is nearly unchanged year to date).

Every midterm since 1994 has been highly nationalized by historic standards, a result not only of huge events — the first health care reform proposal (1994), the looming impeachment (1998), the 9 - 11 attack and the prospect of the Iraq War (2002), the Iraq War (2006), and now Obama's «change» agenda (2010)-- but also of sharpening party conflicts that draw clearer divisions on national issues.

Aubrey Solomon shared the results from his first math midterm as a student - athlete at the University of Michigan.

Rick (my favorite paleoconservative), author / commentator William Cohan and I talked through a slew of topics sparked by Trump's first year in office, touching on everything from economics to the midterms to the erosion of political norms.

The passionate gun control rallies that brought out large crowds around the country sent a vivid signal that the issue is likely to play a major role in the 2018 midterm elections, and that Republicans could find themselves largely on the defensive on gun issues for the first time in decades.

Texas Democrats surged to the polls yesterday in the first primary of 2018, demonstrating a wave of Trump - inspired energy, but also showcasing party divisions that have emerged at the outset of an otherwise promising midterm campaign.

Trump attendance at the private fundraiser for Handel is his first such endeavor for a congressional hopeful since he took office and confirmation that the GOP sees Georgia's 6th Congressional District runoff as a barometer of the 2018 midterm elections.

Republicans set out this cycle to defeat Brownley in her Ventura County district, viewing her first re-election battle in a midterm as an opportune time to take her down.

Republicans were working with a fantastic political baseline in 2014 — low presidential approval, a slew of Democratic Senate incumbents defending their seats in Red states, a midterm election, and high - quality candidates drawn into battle this year, in part precisely because it was so favorable to Republicans in the first place.

Twice, the Republican conference foiled her, the first time through its alliance with the Independent Democratic Conference, then through surprising strength at the midterm polls last year.

The congressman said Mr Trump threatened to run a candidate against him in the midterms if he did not vote «yes» on the first iteration of the bill.

The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee reserved a third wave of television time, one week after announcing the selection of the first two waves that identified 40 of the most vulnerable seats in the midterm elections.

The 2010 midterm election is also the third consecutive midterm election held in a president's first term where Republicans picked up seats across both houses of Congress.

It's the first time Obama has served as the main attraction at a fundraiser for the organization, which is the major outside group assisting Democratic Senate incumbents and candidates running in this year's midterm elections.

President Barack Obama will appear for the first time at a fundraiser on Long Island on Oct. 16 to help raise money for the midterm elections, but two top Democrats running for Congress said they won't be able to make the event.

For the first time in recent memory, the Democratic Party's House and Senate campaign committees currently have more money to spend on races than their Republican counterparts — a milestone reached just five months before the critical midterm elections.

Washington (CNN)-- First lady Michelle Obama is hitting the campaign trail to headline events for at least nine Democratic candidates and two Democratic committees in the closing weeks of the midterm election.

Ms. Tenney, a first - term Republican congresswoman from Central New York, has remained an unabashed supporter of President Trump, even as his unpopularity in his home state is expected to drive Democrats to the polls in November's midterm elections.

[The group] has been pitching donors and aiming to put together its first phase action plan for December, moving first in the Virginia and New Jersey state elections next year and with an eye toward coordination across gubernatorial, state legislative and House races going into the 2018 midterms.»

«It's clear that there's more energy at the grass - roots level than I've seen in my lifetime, any election cycle — midterm or presidential,» said strategist Joe Trippi, who managed the 2004 Howard Dean presidential campaign that's widely seen as the first such bid to begin harnessing online fundraising tools.

In his first campaign, for the 2010 midterm elections, Grimm reportedly raised hundreds of thousands of dollars from supporters of Rabbi Yoshiyahu Yosef Pinto, the Israeli religious leader who counts many of the city's real estate heavyweights among his followers.

One joke inside the White House is that Obama has always been at his worst when he's winning — from the midterm failures of 2010 following a productive legislative session to a dismal first debate performance against Republican challenger Mitt Romney last fall.

Pelosi announced this week that she raised $ 16.1 million for House Democrats in the first quarter of 2018, bringing the total to $ 66.7 million that she has raised for the midterm election.

Organizers say the rallies are the first step toward getting more people to the polls for the midterm elections.

► On Monday, Jeffrey Mervis presented the first in a series of ScienceInsider posts on what could happen in Washington next year, following the upcoming midterm elections.

First there was that whole hurricane thing, then a trip home to meet my new nephew Owen, then an a cappella concert, then a blizzard, then a midterm, and last but not least, a killer cold.

We are days away from the first syllabus class, and just weeks away from the first dreaded rounds of midterms.

For the first time since 1972, districts with growing enrollments did not get even partial payment of what is known as a «midterm adjustment» according to the Oklahoma State School Boards Association.

She more or less goes her own way in teaching the course, but after the first year of «Civics in Action,» the Boston Public Schools introduce standardized, districtwide midterm and final exams for it, and Levinson worries how her students will do.

As the midterm elections loom next week, Republicans are jockeying to keep their majority in the House, while Democrats are racing to capture the handful of seats that could put them on top for the first time since 1994.

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True to a vow he made after the Republican triumph in the midterm elections, new Senate Majority leader Mitch McConnell made sure a bill mandating federal approval of the controversial pipeline was the first order of business.

But, the realization that this man seemed to educate me more in 5 minutes about the First Amendment than anyone ever had made me realize that the First Amendment was not only was that going to be the subject of my midterm review essay, it had become an instant passion.

Speaking of confusing at first, clearly midterms have fried my brain because that was an awful sentence.