Sentences with phrase «given to a candidate by»

Not exact matches

Its mission is to «help voters take back control of their democracy» by giving them a place to debate issues, research candidates» platforms, recruit vote pledges from others and more.

In the quest for a great work - life balance, it is important to many A-list candidates to be employed by a company that gives to charity for these very reasons.

One solution is to get more entrepreneurs involved in politics and policy - making by creating a small - donor matching system that would give candidates more independence from large partisan donors.

References provided by candidates are unlikely to be negative, so ask for a background check waiver that allows you to talk to secondary references, such as mutual connections on LinkedIn, who may give you honest insight on how the candidate really performs.

Second, shareholders voting by proxy will be given the relatively unusual opportunity to vote on director candidates individually thanks to an early request for cumulative voting submitted well before the deadline of 48 hours prior to the meeting.

By working with a boutique mining recruitment agency like MRG, we give you the access to the best mining Candidates that larger firms are contractually obligated not to.

Here it is: You have a digital clock visible to the participants and the audience that gives a running total of the minutes used by each candidate.

The need for democracy is satisfied by giving citizens a choice between two or more candidates thoroughly vetted by their respective party organizations and presented to the people as the best persons for the job.

By nature, the present President of America has that element in him — I should not be saying this but I am being inherently made to convey this as comment of exception for America and for Obama whose whole (Obama and his better half) stand as an extension through the ex Presidential candidate's Charisma Of the Secretary Hillary Clinton that President Obama's Charisma has selflessly absorbed for function in the cabinet gracefully for America and the world.That shows the humbleness of President Obama and maturity of Hillary Clinton of acceptance without a feeling of high and low of ego regarded as exceptional in Divinity.I was not supposed to make this comment and I have done so to urge the Republicans to accept their Light within of consensus through individual projections under control as Obama's gesture of bipartisanship that will come to address.In short, this comment is all about health and health care where economics alone does not come into the picture with a rigorous analysis on it but should also extend as leverage to the person in play (Obama) who is also selflessly poised with corrections on it over the infra structure of it that he has proposed for approval as ego of his working element as the executive public ally chosen as the President that had appealed to the public at large voting even putting behind able dleaers like McCain?George W Bush was the last to steer America into the Light over the past of America and that stands as the subtle truth even today as on date with Bill Clinton the ex President of America giving support through his excellent independent caliber for Obama ultimately to head the show of America that was time bound of its reality that sees no barriers and to which he accepted well in his individual capacity as the free lance ex President of America.

Some prominent figures — French politician Jean - Marie Le Pen and columnist / presidential candidate Patrick Buchanan, for instance — have given Holocaust revisionism a major boost simply by making reference, albeit in a slyly noncommittal fashion, to some of its claims.

By 1992, Evangelicals were George Bush's best supporters, giving him 56 percent of their votes in the three - way race (and 67 percent of the two - party vote); and to a greater extent than ever before they backed Republican candidates all the way down the ticket.

There is something about a religious candidate that gives voters the impression that he has been through life's trials and has been humbled by them, that it was only his faith that saved him and allowed him to go on with his greater mission.

It's not that anyone was surprised that the presumed Republican presidential candidate would be given an evangelical platform or the support of Liberty University's president; they were surprised by the tweet that Falwell used to mark the event.

Matthew Harrison Brady, populist icon, three - time Democratic presidential candidate, and leader of the crusade against evolution, arrives in Hillsboro to prosecute the case, where he is greeted by the mayor and a large, enthusiastic crowd singing «Give me that old - time religion.»

A barbecue is usually given by the inhabitants of some rural district desirous of giving candidates an opportunity to state, that, if elected, all their energies will be devoted to the interests of their constituents and the public weal, and that they pledge themselves, that, when their tenure of office shall expire, they will restore the high trust committed to their hands unsullied, etc..

Given the 4 -1-4-1, and assuming Alexis is nailed on to start wide left (with Oxlade and Welbeck capable of filling in), we have 3 positions in the 4 behind the striker (Giroud) that are essentially up for grabs by Ozil, Santi, Ramsey, Wilshere, Ox, Welbeck and Rosicky (Arteta might be a candidate too if needed).

All of that was on display in this single play against Texas in 2016, via which the All - Big 12 first - teamer became one of three finalists out of dozens of candidates for SB Nation's Piesman Trophy, given annually to the best non-lineman play by a lineman.

Other candidates being considered by the West Ham board allegedly include Huddersfield Town's David Wagner, Fulham's Slavisa Jokanovic and even Napoli's Maurizio Sarri (although few would expect him to move given the Partenopei's stunning start to the season)

Long - time readers know that I have been seriously disappointed by the response Target gave when it was discovered that the company had contributed vast amounts of money to anti-gay political candidates.

It's a flash game (to be played in browser) that tasks you with redistricting given populations to achieve specific goals, for example depriving a surefire opposition candidate of votes, consolidating opposition in one area leaving one opposition candidate with almost all their voters and all the rest with less than enough to win, or just assuring status quo between the two parties by marginalizing uncertainty coming from undecided voters.

While the exact rules vary from state to state, essentially a voter is voting for a set of electors chosen by the party, and the most votes for a given party / candidate selects that set of electors, so where there is winner takes all, the set of electors is equal to the total number of electors for that state

Known security detail belonging to the NPP's presidential and vice presidential candidates were being given routine training by these security experts specialised and licensed to offer VIP Protection.

Lazio on the Conservative ballot creates the awful choice for Conservatives of voting for Paladino to defeat Cuomo versus voting the Conservative line to give the party its needed 50,000 votes thereby helping Cuomo by taking away a vote from Paladino, the only candidate who can beat Cuomo.

Given the primary for Congressional races is now due to be held on June 26 and candidates would have to start gathering petitions by the end of next month.

Second, the electoral college was set up to weed out «unacceptable» candidates not by dividing fringe voters in different states per se but by giving the electors the power to elect the candidate who lost the popular vote in the event that the more popular candidate turned out to be unacceptable for whatever reason.

By showing us which candidates people wanted to know about and when, they give us a sense of momentum — positive or negative.

Impediment of candidature to capable and interested people because they don't fit some requirements implanted by the majority parties as millions of signatures, of high sums of money, and if they fit the requirements the media lobbies won't support most of the candidates because many of them are happy with the benefits given by big parties.

Thanks both to the lack of truly divisive issues in the UK (such as abortion, gay marriage or gun control) and more importantly a fear of being branded a maverick by the central party, British candidates sadly can't motivate people to give the kind of money it takes to run a state - ofthe - art campaign.

As a reminder of Unite's importance though; Unite are still the biggest funder of the party (in the first week of the election campaign they gave # 2.4 m of the total # 2.7 m received by Labour), they have upwards of one million members they can encourage to register as supporters in a leadership election (and indeed activate in Parliamentary candidate selections), Unite has three seats on the NEC and of course Len's chief of staff, Andrew Murray, was seconded to Jeremy's team for the general election campaign.

Asking candidate countries, as it has been done with Turkey by the current French and German administrations, to develop a looser coordination rather than giving them EU membership, is simply the «outsourcing» of a primarily EU domestic problem.

[1] Jaguar is Berlusconi's nickname, given to him by the centre - left candidate to premiership in 2013 Pierluigi Bersani.

Goldsmith is running as an independent, though the Conservative party has given him a free pass by declining to stand its own candidate against him.

The move, first reported by Zack Fink of NY1, will give the IDC at least seven members come January 2017 with the expected addition of Marisol Alcantara, a Democrat who won a crowded primary to replace congressional candidate Adriano Espaillat.

(Senate Democratic insiders have insisted this is actually a positive turn of events for them, noting Oppenheimer came close to being ousted by Republican Bob Cohen last year, so her departure gives them an opportunity to seek a stronger candidate, most likely Assemblyman George Latimer.

Given the ugly tone set earlier in this race by former candidate Thomas Lopez - Pierre who criticized a black supporter of Mark Levine for «sucking Jewish cock,» one might imagine that the remaining candidates would make an effort to avoid certain linguistic clusters.

And by the time they arrived in Las Vegas for that third debate, Clinton's top aides were boasting about how they were about to expand the lead and pull marginal Senate candidates over the line to give her a governing majority.

Corporations are limited to giving $ 5,000 in aggregate direct contributions to all candidate, party, and political action committees in a calendar year; individuals were restricted only by the maximum amount they could give committees.

More than half the money given to the candidates in last month's special election to replace former state Sen. Dean Skelos was transferred by political party committees, a long - standing practice that is under new scrutiny following criminal investigations into New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio's fundraising operation.

Each candidate gave a four minute presentation followed by up to six minutes of questions from the audience.

Given there are likely to be more candidates, a shortlisting system will be developed along with a timetable by the Constitution Committee.

Where the name or names given by a candidate as the name or names to be used on the ballot paper are too long to fit on the ballot paper, the Electoral Commission may abbreviate the name or names to be shown in such manner as will enable them to fit on the ballot paper.

Indications that proportional representation and centralised ranking of candidates for the European Parliament elections are going to be used to purge Euro - MPs and abolish the right of party members to choose candidates give a flavour of what is posed by the Electoral Reform Commission's remit to look at the introduction of PR for Westminster.

To Nigerians with discerning minds, electoral exercise as practiced the world over is both programme and strategy based and a keen contest where the candidates with the best programme and realistic strategies for achieving that programme is given priority / favored by the electorates.

McCall not only gave Cuomo cover back when it looked like he might again mount a primary challenge against a black gubernatorial candidate (in this case, a sitting governor — the first African American to hold the post, David Paterson), but also stood by him when other black leaders were complaining about the lack of diversity on the statewide Democratic ticket.

Of course, once a donor has given the maximum, he or she can still support a candidate by volunteering time, by speaking out in public or private and by encouraging / organizing others to give.

Mohammed refers to the recent by - election in Oldham East — but the result there is a perfect illustration of the way that AV gives the supporters of fringe parties extra chances to have their vote counted, whilst the supporters of mainstream candidates only get their vote counted once.

The Ghana National Education Campaign Coalition (GNECC) has described as unreasonable a 48 - hour ultimatum given by the Ghana Education Service (GES), to some Basic Certificate Examination School (BECE) candidates for the selection of schools.

The new organization — which would be empowered by the US Supreme Court's controversial 5 - 4 «Citizens United» ruling in June, which gave corporations the green light to run «issues advertising» targeting specific candidates on TV and radio — would initially focus on state Senate races in hopes of seeing the Legislature's upper house return to Republican control, said a source familiar with the planning for the group.

The debate, moderated by Judy Samuelson of the League of Women Voters and David E. Rattray, the editor of The Star, gave candidates a chance to answer questions submitted by audience members.

I also thank your Excellencies for the big vote of confidence you gave to my country Ghana, not just by the massive endorsement of Ghana's candidate for Deputy Chair of our Commission, but also for the selection of my compatriot, Prof. Dakoure, as one of the two awardees of this year's Kwame Nkrumah Scientific Award.