Sentences with phrase «first political run»

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The «poisoned chalice» has been a political trope since the day it was uttered on stage in 1606 during the first run of Shakespeare's Macbeth, and a bitter aftertaste was pretty much the only thing the PC party left behind for Notley.

She is the only first lady to have ever run successfully for political office, becoming the first female senator from New York in 2001.

The biggest contributors to Hensarling are employees and political action committees of banks, securities and investment firms and other financial companies, which have given him about $ 6.9 million since he first ran for Congress in 2002.

Clark was a former Liberal, having worked as a staffer at the Legislature during Laurence Decore «s time as party leader (Clark's father, Gilbert Clark, was 823 votes away from ending Ralph Klein «s political career when the former mayor first ran for provincial office in Calgary - Elbow in 1989).

Biden's first presidential run was derailed by a plagiarism scandal, and the former vice president will face much more scrutiny after the publication of Breitbart News Editor - at - Large and Government Accountability Institute President Peter Schweizer's blockbuster new book, Secret Empires: How the American Political Class Hides Corruption and Enriches Family and Friends.

Such identification is the theme of a famously influential essay by Lynn White, Jr. in the March 1967 issue of Science magazine entitled «The Historical Roots of Our Ecological Crisis,» an essay which prompted a reply by Thomas Derr in the January 1975 issue of Worldview magazine — which Richard Neuhaus, then a political liberal, edited even before he edited This World, the immediate predecessor of First Things — entitled «Religion's Responsibility for the Ecological Crisis: An Argument Run Amok.»

The thing of it is, if you really, really investigate what Yeshua said, and not just what's in the latest translation of the white man's western Bible, You'd be forced to conclude that his followers perverted his teachings, and the whole thing was now being run as a confidence scam of the first order, to bilk billions out of the unsuspecting and influence social and political order at the same time.

This so called Christian is the first to openly accept gay marriage as a political stance, which if you want to not believe what the bible says about it then fine, but this wasn't his stance when running in Chicago against a conservative black candidate.

She was a stay - at - home mother who launched a full - time career as a political activist and public speaker from nearly the day her first child was born, doing a neat end - run around the feminists who claimed to have invented the idea that a married woman could have a professional life.

Assisting a beggar at the door of the Nunciature (even if it was Corporal Hitler) is hardly tantamount to bankrolling a political activist and in any case the post First World War charitable activities of Archbishop Pacelli in Berlin and throughout Germany were the precursor to the establishment of what would eventually become the Institute of Religious Works (aka «Vatican Bank») under the direct supervision of the nun who ran Pacelli's household before and after his election as pope.

When Boris Johnson's name was first mentioned as a possible candidate in July 2007, the prospect of him running, let alone winning, was considered so bizarre that the BBC's political editor, Nick Robinson, who had received the tip - off, didn't press to get it on the main evening news.

Those early efforts were the first to benefit from database modeling of proposed districts down to block level, and even though new plans often took hours or even days to run through the mainframe, the practical political results were impressive at the time.

Trump, who made a fortune in real estate before running for political office, has decided to donate his first - quarter salary of $ 78,333 to the National Park Service, the White House announced.

At 11 a.m., Duchess County Executive Marc Molinaro holds the first of two events at which he'll announce his run for governor, Tivoli, where he launched his political career as the youngest mayor in the US at the time.

As the dust settles on the party's choice, the question remains of how, in practical terms — and how much, in political terms — the WFP endorsement will help Nixon, an actress and educational activist making her first run for political office.

After casting his ballot in Buffalo today (presumably for himself and his running mate, Chautauqua County Executive Greg Edwards), gubernatorial hopeful Carl Paladino said he found his first political campaign «treacherous, very confusing in many respects,» but insisted he had no regrets.

It was his first run for political office and his opponent was Democratic state Comptroller Tom DiNapoli, who had been appointed to the office three years prior.

Even though this is his first run for office, Mr. Bachmann has been participating in the American political process for ten years.

Republican political newcomer Bob Stefanowski is the first candidate in the crowded field running for governor to air TV ads.

On its face, James» declination is shocking: In 2003, she became the first candidate in New York City political history to win election running solely on the third - party ballot line of the WFP, winning an election to replace ex-Brooklyn Councilman James Davis, who months earlier had been assassinated by a political rival.

Zacarese, on the other hand, is a true political outsider making his first run for elected office.

Former U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara weighed in with his first official endorsement in a political campaign since his firing in March, backing a former assistant federal prosecutor who is running for Suffolk County district attorney.

The first, under the Jubilee Alliance, is an alliance between presidential candidate Uhuru Kenyatta and his running - mate William Ruto, two experienced political leaders who are also suspects to the International Criminal Court (ICC) for crimes against humanity conducted in Kenya's previous election period.

Barkan, a political journalist making his first run for public office, said he would fight for the disabled if elected.

This is his first run for public office, but he has vast experience and social network in the political realm.

«I sometimes really think that time is running out for us to get our act together and unless we can get consent from those political parties to work together and actually begin to make a difference then I'm afraid to say the next 10 to 20 years could be dominated not just by the Conservative party, but I feel we could see a breakthrough under the first - past - the - post system of a post-Brexit Ukip party in parts of this country.

The rhetoric, which President Sarkozy also employed when he was first running four years ago, is partly a result of France's two - part electoral system, which forces candidates to appeal to voters on the extremes of their political wing in the first round before making a pitch for the centre in the second round run - off.

In 2011, Grayson launched his first political comeback bid by announcing a run for Florida's newly created 9th Congressional District.

Experts say if Weiner does try to make a political comeback, he might have a better shot if he runs in Brooklyn or Queens because voters there will have first hand knowledge of his record of accomplishments.

Experts have said if Weiner does try to make a political comeback, he might have a better shot if he runs in Brooklyn or Queens because voters there will have first hand knowledge of his record of accomplishments.

The League will be the first outside group to run ads in the campaign (aside from the national political parties) since May, when the U.S. Chamber of Commerce paid for a $ 131,000 two - week ad blitz in support of Buerkle.

Schumer, who enjoys a double - digit lead in the polls and is sitting on more than $ 23 million worth of campaign cash, has little to worry about from Townsend — a GOP political consultant who is running statewide for the first time and is unknown and vastly underfunded.

Smith — who was named the leader for the Democrats after their historic takeover of the state senate for the first time in 43 years in 2008 — stunned his party and the political world last summer when he announced that he was considering a run for mayor as a Republican, according to the New York Post.

Berman first hooked up as a political organizer for Obama during his first presidential run in 2008.

He said he supported Deacon over the other two Democratic candidates because she grew up in Syracuse, attended Syracuse schools, and worked her way up in the political arena, working for former Syracuse Mayor Matt Driscoll and U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand before running for office this year for the first time.

ANDREW CUOMO, WHO will turn 53 in December, ran his first political campaign — his father's original gubernatorial bid against Ed Koch — almost 30 years ago and has been a fixture of the national media almost ever since.

In a bid to become the city's first African - American mayor, Marlon Anderson threw his hat in the ring Wednesday night, announcing at Albany public library's main branch that this will be the last time he runs for political office.

Labour movements often deal with issues like this, for example, an industrial dispute that covers a workplace chapel, of a trade section, of a trade union, which is affiliated to at least one Trades Hall Council, both the union and TUC being (factionalised) affiliates to a political party, which holds government, which runs the chapel section of the workplace in the first place.

The fact that he changed his name 25 years after he first read «The Autobiography of Malcolm X,» while in the middle of his first run for elected office, shouldn't make you think that there were any political implications to his choice.

Anyway, as telling which party the candidate runs for gives a first idea about his / her political views, that information usually comes together.

The website, 233prime, an initiative of Gabby Asare Otchere Darko's Danquah Institute and managed from their Labone office, on August 11 2016, posted images of the car, with the aim to wrongly accuse the brother of the President, who runs several businesses in and outside Ghana to score cheap political points, and accusing the first family of living an opulent lifestyle.

Mr. Rivera, a former political aide who is running for office for the first time, has received significant support from unions, donors and elected officials across the state in his bid for the northwest Bronx seat.

Flanked by Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders — whose «political revolution» had free college education as its cornerstone — Gov. Andrew Cuomo unveiled his first State of the State proposal: making New York State public colleges tuition - free, in his latest apparent effort to burnish his progressive credentials ahead of a possible 2020 presidential run.

First, know this: Contrary to what virtually anybody who has ever run for judge at some point has said, judicial races are intensely political.

As CBS 2 Political Reporter Marcia Kramer reported, when Cuomo first ran for governor, it was with the promise to stop corruption in Albany.

The parade is a political minefield for Gonzalez, who is making his first run for elective office.

Day 4 has arrived — the final day of the 2016 Democratic National Convention, which will culminate this evening with Hillary Clinton formally accepting her party's nomination to run for president, becoming the first woman selected by a major political party to seek the White House.

I also, supported Manny Tavarez, a political unknown, without campaign funds, who ran for the first time and he got 30 % of the vote — not bad for a beginner.

The 2nd Senate District race offers a stark contrast in political experience, with the incumbent boasting 30 years at the legislature and his challenger running for her first elected office.

Trump Jr. has taken an active interest in his family's first political campaign, making himself a crucial adviser along with his adult siblings, and the speech drew immediate suggestions that he should run for office himself.