Sentences with phrase «in runup»

Media reports reveal that Captain William Carver, a veteran officer of the British Army, served as a spokesman for Veterans for the Britain in the runup to the 2016 referendum; a LinkedIn page under the name William Carver lists both the same military service and work with Veterans for Britain.

The departure of MacKay, 49, is the latest setback for Harper, who is in a tight three - way race with opposition parties in the runup to October's election.

It's creepy, so it's perfect for binge - listening in the runup to Halloween.

He backslid a bit in the runup to yesterday's election in Ontario, Canada, but last night he squeaked out a victory over the

In the runup to the 2010 World Cup in South Africa, a private venture, Seacom, laid fiber optic cable from Johannesburg to Europe to guarantee high - definition broadcasts of the games.

In the runup to the Bali conference, an e-mail soliciting potential signatories of the open letter was circulated by the Natural Resources Stewardship Project.

He said climate targets announced in the runup to the summit were boosting the chances of success — even though they fall short of what scientists say is needed to avoid dangerous levels of warming.

In the runup to Copenhagen, policymakers have been addressing China as the reigning developing - world heavyweight.

In 2006 a pattern emerged at NASA in which political appointees repeatedly acted in ways that the agency administrator concluded were inappropriate, including telling public affairs officers to issue fewer press releases on global warming in 2004 in the runup to the presidential election and trying to crack down on James Hansen, the agency scientist who had become a vocal proponent of prompt cuts in heat - trapping emissions and critic of big coal companies.

The Kent decision has been pending since last year but was delayed in the runup to the election in May, and further delayed by Downing Street's insistence that legal advice had to be robust enough to avoid any embarrassing failure in the courts.

In the runup to the Oscars, Vox's culture staff decided to take a look at each of the nine Best Picture nominees in turn.

Most of this 110 - minute - long trifle takes place in the runup to, and aftermath of, that triumphantly awful Carnegie Hall show.

The issue is expected to be on the agenda of several presidential hopefuls jockeying for advantage in the runup to the 2016 election.

Peralta, who plans on running for Queens borough president this year, previously faced media scrutiny in 2010, in the runup to the special election to replace Monserrate.

The change further exacerbated frustrations in the runup to a controversial meeting about rezoning part of Empire Boulevard between Flatbush and Rogers avenues.

The Labour leader, Ed Miliband, on Tuesday became the only front - rank politician to disclose the meetings he has held with newspaper proprietors in the runup to the Leveson report.

Clegg is embarking on a strategy in which he will take no prisoners as he moves to shore up his party's support in the runup to the 2015 general election.

The prime minister insisted that, as chief whip, Gove would play a central role as in his core political team in the runup to the election.

The formula is named after Joel Barnett, who devised it in 1978 [2] while Chief Secretary to the Treasury, as a short - term solution to minor Cabinet disputes in the runup to planned political devolution in 1979.

Activists are particularly concerned that the party only increased its share of the vote by four percentage points compared with 2005, especially in light of Gordon Brown's unpopularity in the runup to the general election.

In an interview with the BBC in the runup to the London mayoral election, Conservative party candidate Zac Goldsmith failed to name underground stations on the Central line and to correctly identify Queens Park Rangers as the football team that plays at Loftus Road.

The Guardian understands that senior Ukip strategists offered Warren what one insider described as «daft money» to work for the party in the runup to 2015.

The warning, from CBI director general John Cridland, came after David Cameron admitted on Friday that he now faced an uphill struggle to convince the British people to remain inside the EU, in the runup to an in / out referendum which he has promised to hold by the end of 2017.

Welfare spending will be a key issue - possibly the key issue - dividing the parties in the runup to the general election.

Which — according to the Wiki dump of Clinton campaign chief John Podesta's e-mails — left Team Hillary aiming to have her «not be a pain in the ass to Hillary» in the runup to this year's New York primary.

Of the 50 donors who gave the most to the G.O.P. in the runup to the 2006 gubernatorial election — when Democrat Eliot Spitzer became governor after three terms of Republican George Pataki — 28 have given $ 5.5 million to Cuomo and the Democrats for the 2014 campaigns, contributing just $ 435,000 to Astorino and the Republicans during the same time period.

(CNN)- Nearly $ 1.8 million worth of ad spending has flooded the airwaves in New York's 23rd congressional district in the runup to next week's special election to fill that seat.

While acknowledging that the election results create a «headwind» for Republicans in the runup to next November, businessman Harry Wilson told the Daily News Wednesday morning that it's too early to say the tides won't change.

Carlile told BBC Radio 4's The World at One: «Lord Rennard was very concerned personally not to do any possible damage to the party in the runup to last week's local and European elections.

On a more symbolic level, a Murtha loss would raise serious questions about Pelosi's political acumen — questions she had largely put to rest in the runup to the 2006 election.

Actor Giles Watling and Sue Lissimore, who works at an electrical firm, go head to head in runup to byelection

The latest batch of Lord Ashcroft's constituency polling, focussing on Lib Dem must - win seats and released in the runup to the conference, showed just how important it is for the party.

Ed Miliband has announced that Labour has a «new agenda», a new central big idea that will drive its economic message in the runup to the next general election.

Bitcoin prices plummeted following the announcement — reversing much of the gains that had been seen in the runup to the announcement.

Regardless, we believe that the S&P 500 is likely to experience flat returns or losses over the coming decade, and we remain concerned about growing financial distortions driven by yield - seeking malinvestment, as we were in the runup to the global financial crisis.»

«Trump campaigned on the negative impacts of trade and trade deals like NAFTA on working Americans, but here instead he is intervening not to help working people but to help American investors and American multinational companies,» Rob Scott, director of trade and manufacturing at the Economic Policy Institute, a left - leaning think tank, told me in an interview in the runup to the investigation announcement.

Not getting enough sleep in the runup to a negotiation is a sure - fire way to torpedo your chances of success.

In the runup to the gubernatorial election, the editorial board of the Martinsville Bulletin wrote that the newspaper wouldn't be making endorsements in state or local races: «It's not for a lack of interest.

In the runup to the 2015 UK general election, former Prime Minister David Cameron promised to hold a nationwide referendum on Britain's membership of the EU if he was elected for a second time.

Not exact matches

The Crypto Company's runup came amid an explosion in investor interest in cryptocurrencies such as bitcoin, which promise to allow secure digital transfer of assets and value.

This has worked, to a large degree, with a seven - year runup in stocks that lasted until just this summer.

Bitcoin appears to be in bubble territory — not only because of its price runup but also given the speculation, volatility, and new players in the space.

Optimists argue that the runup in Canadian home prices has been based on strong demand from homeowners, while construction in the U.S. ran well ahead of actual demand and was fuelled by speculators.

Rising energy costs are a type of inflation that we saw in the mid-2000s, during the previous runup to oil at over $ 130 per barrel in 2008.

With corporate debt markets priced for another Great Depression, High Yield Bonds are in a unique position to outperform equities given recent runups off the lows while providing a high yield income stream for years to come.

Foreigners provided a large portion of the capital that fueled the runup in asset prices, so they will undoubtedly bear a good portion of the subsequent losses through dollar depreciation and writeoffs in the value of their U.S. financial assets.

Whereas this time last year crypto was largely confined to the grimy underbelly of the Internet, the market's 2017 runup has everybody and their grandmother interested in the digital tokens.

While perhaps more mundane than the megaboulders (found only locally on Eleuthera), the sedimentological structures found within chevron ridge and runup deposits across islands throughout the Bahamas and Bermuda point to frequent and repeated inundation by powerful storm waves, in some locations leaving storm deposits tens of meters above sea level.

The image on the left shows eolian (lower) and runup bedding (upper) exposed in a roadcut on Old Land Road on Great Exuma Island (road elevation +23 meters).

Concurrently, coastlines of the Bahamas and Bermuda were impacted by massive storms generated in the North Atlantic Ocean, resulting in a unique trilogy of wave - transported deposits: megaboulders, chevron - shaped, storm - beach ridges, and runup deposits on high dune ridges.