Sentences with phrase «first real election»

It also marked Facebook's first real election security test since the company has fully come to terms with the widespread political misinformation on its platform.

Not exact matches

France's Socialist government announced the first real - terms increase in the minimum wage for six years on Tuesday, but limited the rise to 0.6 percentage points above inflation as it sought to balance election promises with fears of damaging employment.

«I am running to build a real Democratic State Senate majority that finally fully funds our public schools, protects tenants from being thrown out of their homes and strengthens our loophole ridden rent laws, passes badly needed ethics reforms, election reforms and real criminal justice reforms and makes Andrea Stewart - Cousins the first woman Senate Majority Leader, breaking up the so - called «three men in a room.»

Thirteen months after its devolution deal was first announced, not a single candidate from a major party has come forward to stand in the city region's mayoral election next year, while local leaders have continued to question whether they should even have to introduce a metro mayor full - stop — despite the Communities secretary Sajid Javid stating explicitly that this would continue to be a «real red line» for progressing with devolution deals.

«The first Assembly election came when there was a real spasm in Welsh politics,» remembered Alun Michael, the Wales secretary who was chief of the Welsh Assembly for its first nine months.

Democratic gubernatorial frontrunner Andrew Cuomo is up with his first real campaign spot of the general election, now that he knows who his GOP opponent will be, and it focuses on his «experience and independence» as the Clinton administration HUD secretary and in the AG's office.

The 2008 election is the first real Internet campaign, but online strategy and technology remain works in progress.

Osborne's announcement this week that he wants to see the minimum wage rise to # 7 is the first real sign that the Conservative party is beginning to understand the difficulties they face at the next election and the steps they need to take to counter them.

The by - election will be the first real test of how the coalition partners will conduct themselves in elections to Westminster.

For the first time in 20 years, real solutions to end government corruption begin by voting «yes» on Election Day to hold a constitutional convention.

Third, if minor parties are worried about how winner - take - all, single - member - district elections encourage voters to vote for lesser evils rather than their first choice, we want to work with them for a real solution to that problem: a system of proportional representation,» LaVenia said.

ALBANY — In the first year of the 2018 gubernatorial election cycle, the list of Gov. Andrew Cuomo's largest donors is dominated by hedge funders and real estate developers.

«Tonight's the first step in cleaning up the Republican culture of corruption and bringing real reform that saves Nassau tax dollars,» said Schnirman in an election night celebration in Freeport.

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 Home Secretary Alan Johnson may have raised the idea in a bid to appeal to voters ahead of disastrous local and European election results for Labour, but there is very little evidence of an appetite in government for changing the voting system from first past the post to real proportional representation.

Stefanik, first elected in 2014, has avoided discussing the real estate developer, and has generally remained silent on national politics during the tumultuous election cycle.

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.

Glenwood Management President Leonard Litwin, who earlier this year was named the Real Estate Board of New York's first - ever lifetime honorary chairman, has donated more than $ 900,000 to the campaigns of New York State Senate candidates so far this election cycle, the New York World reported.

Real electoral reform at Westminster is long overdue, but we first need a General Election so that we have a House of Commons that commands trust.

February 1, 2016 • The first real votes of the 2016 presidential election are rolling in tonight.

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In the run up to the 2008 presidential election (and before we could get too deep in the education work), Be the Change's first campaign, an effort to expand national and community service called ServiceNation, started getting real traction.

Given the time frame for US elections, unless the new president enacts a carbon tax within the first few months of taking office, we are going to miss the real window of opportunity.

Leading up to the elections, we've seen poll after poll try to estimate the current breakdown of supporters, but the Iowa Caucuses are the first real indicators of that.

Brexit was the first real shock of 2016, followed by the election of Donald Trump!

The delay suggests an irony: even with election of Donald Trump, the first developer as president, commercial real estate investment has slowed to a near standstill — especially in Trump's hometown, the nation's largest market.

With Donald Trump's announcement of his picks for his administration's economic advisors should he win the election this November, the spotlight has been put on the industry that first catapulted Trump to fame: commercial real estate...