Sentences with phrase «for ran for the seat»

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Running for the Progressive Conservatives, he won a seat in 1986 and was appointed employment minister just as the price of crude plunged and the unemployment rate spiked to 10.4 %.

The contacts and experience she gained while moonlighting ensured that within minutes of Jim Prentice's resignation in 2010, Rempel received a call encouraging her to run for the Conservative nomination for his seat.

Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Tuesday said he had «no reason to doubt» the women who have come forward in recent days with sexual - misconduct accusations against Roy Moore, the Alabama Republican running for Sessions» vacated Senate seat.

As for China's ever - expanding network of bullet trains, Chinese media report trains on several of the new lines frequently run with more than half their seats empty.

As he leaves his Senate seat, he has pointedly declined to rule out challenging Trump by running for president himself.

While Cole was already aggressively interviewing for her next opportunity to run a company, she made the decision to stay at Hooters because she knew that having a front - row seat at the table when a private company was sold would be incredibly educational.

If the night was a test run for a future 100,000 - seat endeavour, possibly at Cowboys Stadium in Dallas, it would seem all systems are a go.

Peter Schiff, a prominent investment strategist (who is also running as a Republican for a Senate seat in Connecticut this fall), believes the U.S. economy must remain on life support indefinitely.

U.S. Army whistleblower Chelsea Manning has filed paperwork to run for a U.S. Senate seat in Maryland, where she may challenge Democratic incumbent Ben Cardin in a primary.

Democrats have not said whether they will take any seats on the Republican - majority special committee, saying the new probe - following several other congressional investigations on Benghazi - is also aimed at damaging former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's chances if she runs for president in 2016.

By the end of 2017, more than 1,200 people filed to run as Democrats for seats in either the House or Senate, according to The Post.

Kansas Democrats hoping to turn voter discontent into an upset picked civil rights attorney Jim Thompson to run for the U.S. House seat that Mike Pompeo vacated to become CIA director under President Donald Trump.

Florida Democrats have targeted Republican Senator Marco Rubio, who is considering a run for re-election after previously saying he would give up his seat.

Pompeo won the state's 4th District seat in 2010, when Tiahrt gave it up to run unsuccessfully for the U.S. Senate.

McCabe's wife, Dr. Jill McCabe, mounted an unsuccessful run for a Virginia state Senate seat in 2015.

Jónsdóttir was first elected to Iceland's 63 - seat Parliament in 2009 as a member of the Citizens» Movement Party, but when she ran for — and won — her seat again in 2012, she did so under the Pirates» black flag.

Robert Tillman, who has run for the seat twice, didn't get any delegate votes.

Former governor Kathleen Kennedy, who won a seat in the Producers Branch, defeated longtime governor Mark Johnson, who was running for re-election.

Of the governors who lost seats, the Academy does not announce which had run for re-election and which opted not to run or had reached their limit.

In 2010, she also ran unsuccessfully as the Republican challenger for Barbara Boxer's Senate seat in California.

The mother of one of the students killed in the Parkland school shooting has confirmed that she will be running for a seat on the Broward County School Board.

He is widely expected to run for a United States Senate seat this year, and knows he will have to appeal to voters beyond his own party in a race against the incumbent Democrat, Bill Nelson.

UNITED NATIONS, United States — Germany on Wednesday rejected claims that it violated a supposed decades - old agreement to let Israel run unopposed for a seat on the United Nations Security Council.

The 2012 G.O.P. presidential nominee, running for an open Senate seat, faced conservatives who disliked his ideological swerving, and a fear among hard - right activists that they were losing power.

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In fact, after he handed off control of the Eligius mining pool to other parties, he ran for a seat on the Bitcoin Foundation.

The Freedom Report's online archives only go back to 1999, but I was curious to see older editions of Paul's newsletters, in part because of a controversy dating to 1996, when Charles «Lefty» Morris, a Democrat running against Paul for a House seat, released excerpts stating that «opinion polls consistently show only about 5 % of blacks have sensible political opinions,» that «if you have ever been robbed by a black teen - aged male, you know how unbelievably fleet - footed they can be,» and that black representative Barbara Jordan is «the archetypical half - educated victimologist» whose «race and sex protect her from criticism.»

-- Michael Scherer spent hours in early February interviewing Joe Arpaio, the former Maricopa County sheriff who had his conviction pardoned by Trump and is now running for Arizona's Senate seat: «Each of the Republicans running for Senate in Arizona this year claims a special bond with President Trump, but only one describes it as a supernatural connection beyond rational explanation.

In 2009, Daniels considered running for the U.S. Senate seat in Louisiana then held by David Vitter, a family - values Republican linked to a prostitution ring run by the «D.C. Madam,» saying that voters had drafted her.

A Wave of Losses Coming: There's an influx of female candidates running for Democratic seats in 2018 — but many of those women are running in races considered to be easy Republican wins.

Republican Sen. Orrin Hatch of Utah said Tuesday he will not seek re-election after serving more than 40 years in the Senate, opening the door for former GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney to run for his seat.

For example, if you can tell a customer came to your site after searching the term «motorcycle passenger seat» and you sell everything from seats, to helmets, to mechanic supplies, why would you want to show them the deal you have running on tool kits instead of the promotion you have on a specific brand of seats?

Several candidates have indicated they will run, including incumbents Councilman Scott Singer for Seat A and Mayor Susan Haynie.

In 2015, McCabe's wife, Jill McCabe, ran for a state Senate seat in Virginia, backed in part with money provided by the state Democratic Party and a Clinton ally.

Kenney says he will not run for seat in legislature in near future, will focus on working on plan to merge with Wildrose

BTC, which has been clearly showing the way for the market in the past week, took the driving seat today as well, and the coin remains in a bearish long - term setup, following the recent stellar run - up.

Running after someone to hand them back something they dropped was the most common «good deed» cited in the survey, followed by giving up a seat on a train or bus for a less able or pregnant passenger.

Honesty and loyalty take a back seat to greed and force, as traders indulge extreme proclivities for acquisitiveness, and raider destructiveness runs amok.

It sounds most improbable, but Richard ran for a congressional seat in Brooklyn, on a left - of - mainstream Democratic ticket, and I explored doing the same in Johnstown, Pennsylvania» the seat that not long afterward the Vietnam veteran Jack Murtha won.

Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight and sin which clings so closely, and let us run with perseverance the race that is set before us, looking to Jesus the pioneer and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is seated at the right hand of the throne of God.

But five years ago, when he ran for a seat in the United States House of Representatives - a race he would go on to win - word of his religious affiliation began to spread.

John F. Kennedy faced deep - seated anti-Catholic bigotry in his run for the presidency.

O'Donnell also talked about some of the challenges her campaign faced in the 2008 election, when she ran against Joe Biden for his U.S. Senate seat.

Bain's current managing partner is Steven Pagliuca, is a Democrat who once ran for Ted Kennedy's former Senate seat.

She's been nominated to run for a congressional seat, Well I guess as the say at the Oscars, «It's an honour just to be nominated,»

(CNN)-- Rabbi Shmuley Boteach, the bestselling author of «Kosher Sex» and one - time spiritual adviser to Michael Jackson, announced Wednesday he was running for a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Among other deficiencies in the parish church at Elme in 1605, it was noted that «the minister's seat in the church is not a comely and convenient seat, for it is open on both sides or ends so that the dogs run through it and trouble and disturb him in time of prayers and service.»

There's a waitlist - run upstairs with tables and booths that can be good for hungry groups, but it's worth hovering downstairs for a seat at the much more convivial bar.

For FDA approved bearings, seal rings, vanes, rotors, end plates, piston rings, valve seats and other machine parts that must run submerged in beverages or liquefied foods, Metcar carbon - graphite grades that are impregnated with thermal setting resin, copper, tin bronze or nickel chrome are used.

And then I screamed, terrifying the mouse that was attempting to run out of the shed, who instead ran back into the shed, causing Navah to leap up off the seat of the riding mower and join me in my cowering position outside the shed, pondering my question about whether we were cut out for this.