Sentences with phrase «first open election»

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For example, in response to anti-Trump protests across the country over the past week, Trump first tweeted: «Just had a very open and successful presidential election.

The protests in Hong Kong were sparked when Beijing rejected a proposal for open nominations of candidates for Hong Kong's first - ever leadership election in 2017, meaning all candidates will continue to be picked by a panel that is mostly aligned with Beijing.

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.

Polls opened at 8 a.m. Friday in Iran as Iranians cast ballots in the first parliamentary elections since the 2009 vote that sparked riots and accusations of rigging.

I sat on the NPF for a few years when it was first open to election.

First, as the list would be published before the election, it would be open to the electorate to vote for it directly.

Throughout the election campaign, the First Minister has painted a scenario where the result of June's EU referendum might open the door to a second independence referendum.

A special election to fill an open Senate seat in Westchester County is the «first battle» toward a Democratic Party takeover of the state Senate in Albany and the House of Representatives in Washington, Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Sunday said.

In the first essay in our series, Anthony Barnett, co-founder of Charter 88 and a bold advocate of the open society, argues trenchantly that the best outcome of the forthcoming election would be a hung parliament.

Greenfield opened the account in 2013 when he was considering running for a state seat, his office said — one year before getting named chairman of the Land Use Committee, and the same year he was re-elected to his first full term after winning a special election in 2010.

ATHENS (Reuters)- Greece opened its first purpose - built detention centre for illegal migrants on Sunday in Athens, a week before a national election where illegal immigration has emerged as a key issue.

«Standing for election at any level with Mr Bolton as leader after all this would be rather like sending your opening batsmen to the crease only for them to find, the moment the first balls are bowled, that their bats have been broken before the game by the team captain.»

In his speech on Monday to open the two - day Commons debate on Lords reform, the deputy prime minister said he was willing to allow MPs to debate at the committee stage of the bill whether to pause the legislation after the first elections in 2015.

The encomium from Sunder Katwala, of the Fabian Society for the Alternative Vote in the place of first - past - the post (FPTP) elections for the House of Commons is yet another example, first, of a major party's search to consolidate its electoral position, and secondly, of the weakness of campaigning bodies to oblige the parties to open up an honest debate about the alternatives to FPTP.

High - April 7th: Open race - The 2010 general election will the most «open» in Northern Ireland «in a generation», first minister Peter Robinson sOpen race - The 2010 general election will the most «open» in Northern Ireland «in a generation», first minister Peter Robinson sopen» in Northern Ireland «in a generation», first minister Peter Robinson said.

The open seat, depending on when it is filled, could be the first real test of either Senate conference ahead of the 2018 elections.

NEW YORK CITY — Slow - moving lines continued to cause extensive delays hours after polls opened to voters Tuesday morning in a historic election that could see the first woman elected president.

They've frequently been criticized for stepping into grey areas — for example, statewide parties have used these funds to open up new offices in small villages for the first time in the run - up to competitive elections for districts that include those villages.

The election was a run - off after an October 19 open primary with more than a dozen candidates, where Riser and McAllister finished in first and second place, at 32 % and 18 %, respectively.

The first bill, co-sponsored by Staten Island Assemblyman Mike Cusick, a Democrat who chairs the Election Law Committee, would require each county to have at least five sites for early voting and open them each of the 14 days leading up to the November eElection Law Committee, would require each county to have at least five sites for early voting and open them each of the 14 days leading up to the November electionelection.

Scarborough recalled that when he first joined the club, he wanted to run for several open elections, but she forbade him to do so due to his inexperience.

The general election race was thrown wide open today as polls showed that Nick Clegg's mould - breaking performance in the first of the televised leaders» debates had dramatically boosted his party's support, prompting the two major parties to vow to train their guns on its «eccentric, surprising» policies.

Not to mention the fact that the Senate seat was open in the first place because of some raw politics on the part of the governor: He enticed Mike Balboni, a Republican, to take a job in the Spitzer administration, betting that he could reduce the GOP margin by replacing Balboni with a Democrat in a special election.

The speech outlined Mr. Stringer's first year in office — touting audits that uncovered waste in the New York City Housing Authority and city schools, his efforts to bring more transparency and open elections to the boards of major corporations, and his ClaimStat program to track suits against the city.

The Scottish elections are designed to make it all but impossible for any one party to have overall control - but the SNP defeated the odds at the last election in 2011, securing the first majority since the opening of Holyrood.

He was first elected to an open seat in 2012 when he faced challengers in both the primary and general election.

Cathy Newman checks it out If truth is the first casualty of war, then you'd expect plenty of spin, evasiveness and downright lies in tonight's chancellors» debate - the opening salvo in the election battle ahead.

So what will I do when I finally vote in the referendum on May 5th where on the one hand we have the incumbent First Past the Post System which we know at a national level to be unrepresentative and unfair as it returns governments with overwhelming majorities in the House of Commons even though they only have forty per cent of the vote or less, or AV which is not a representative system but more complicated with it's opaque results making it more open to election fraud or the suspicion of.

State Openings used to be held in November or December, or, in a General Election year, when the new Parliament first assembled.

WASHINGTON (CNN)- After months of sometimes acrimonious intra-party feuding, polls opened at 6 a.m. in Virginia on Tuesday amidst stormy weather for the commonwealth's first contested Democratic primary election for governor in decades.

Lincoln, Steven Spielberg's commanding biopic about the 16th president, has been scheduled to open three days after the election — probably so that Spielberg, a deep - pocketed Obama backer, can't be accused of trying to swing the election for the first African - American president.

At first blush, it might have seemed that the series was just going to full - throttle go after Trump and his supporters, but these opening moments are a more damning indictment of obtuse liberals — I believe «snowflakes» is one word to describe them — who wallowed in self - pity and indignation after the election.

Although 15 seats were filled by incumbents from one chamber running for election in the other, the vast majority of open seats were filled by first - time legislators.

The first five charter schools were set to open here on Oct 10, but these plans have been shelved pending the outcome of the election.

2015: A Great Year For Children In Mississippi December 21, 2015 by Brett Kittredge As we prepare to close the book on 2015, we can look back on a great year for children in Mississippi that included passage of the Equal Opportunity for Students with Special Needs Act, the opening of the first two charter schools in the state, and the election of stronger education reform majorities in the state legislature.

After the election, she was recruited by a pair of hedge fund managers who were interested in setting up a charter school, and she opened the network's first, the Harlem Success Academy, in 2006.

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Nippon Ichi Software has released the first details, screenshots and the opening movie for its recently announced adventure game Exile Election

The first presentation, which opened in October 2008 at the Van Abbemuseum in the Netherlands, sought to uncover new ways of thinking about the American interior during the U.S. presidential election and gave European audiences access to a broad survey of the Heartland's culture, art, and music.

The lead up to the latest edition, opening March 17, was the first in two decades to coincide with the U.S. presidential election, so expect a tumultuous ride.

So she cleaned out the truck in time to present her first group show, which opened in September and looks at the concept of hope in the Trump era, featuring work that was almost all produced since the election.

2004 Election, American Fine Arts, New York, USA Shifting Alliances, The Whitney Museum of American Art Independent Study Program (ISP), New York, USA The Ten Commandments, German Hygiene Museum, Dresden, Germany Open House O.K. - Centrum, Linz, Austria South First, Brooklyn, USA

By the early years of this decade, the criticism had become so broad that Prime Minister Paul Martin in his first election pledged to develop a more open and transparent approach.

On June 21, 2017, nearly eight months after election day, in an open hearing before the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, NPPD's Acting Deputy Under Secretary for Cybersecurity and Communications Jeanette Manfra confirmed for the first time that «election - related systems in 21 states were targeted» by Russian cyber actors during the 2016 election cycle.

Weekly Axis Of Easy # 33 In this issue: NSA has deleted data it was supposed to preserve for a lawsuit Twitter notifies 677,775 users that they've interacted with Russian bots during election Concerns mounting over social media addictiveness and censorship Amazon opens first fully automated, unmanned grocery store City of Toronto counsellor advocates accepting Bitcoin... [Read more]

Last week more than twenty - five health and community leaders, including Ita Buttrose AO OBE, Dr Rosemary Stanton OAM, Professor Ian Webster AO, and June Oscar AO, signed an open letter urging all political leaders and parties to put preventive health policy first this election.