Sentences with phrase «just days before»

That the changes occurred just days before the primary has rankled some candidates, who fear that uptown residents will be confused about where they should vote.

Mayor de Blasio's aides urged political allies to attack the police unions for their tactics just days before the mayor met with five police union leaders to hammer out a truce, sources revealed Tuesday.

INWOOD — Critics of the controversial rezoning plan for Sherman Plaza are crying foul after the NYPD rejected their request for a permit to hold a protest outside City Councilman Ydanis Rodriguez's office Monday night — just days before he announced he was holding his own press conference on the issue the same night.

«Not only did the political lynch mob led by Eric T. Schneiderman, a Democrat, wait just days before the election to bring charges, he planned weeks ago to arrest Sen. Huntley at her home where news outlets could take pictures of her in handcuffs,» Evans wrote.

The story came just days before Iain Duncan Smith's shock resignation triggered a wave of open attacks on the Tory leadership.

Just days before their July 1 city budget deadline, the mayor and the City Council settled on a fiscal year 2011 budget plan that cut overall spending by $ 1 billion.

The current impasse on the women's agenda is the result of a last - minute change in strategy by the governor and the coalition just days before the end of session, when it became apparent that Senate Republican Leader Dean Skelos wasn't going to allow the abortion plank onto the floor — and that there weren't 32 declared votes in the chamber to support that section.

Just days before voters head to the polls, about 200 teachers and their supporters gathered in Niagara Square carrying signs with slogans such as «Reclaim our schools» and «Stop testing.»

But on Friday, just days before Christmas, about 100 superstorm Sandy victims received a helping hand when local organizations came together to distribute free food and supplies to anyone in need.

A key Kenyan electoral commission employee has been found dead just days before the 8 August elections.

Washington (CNN)- Sarah Palin's support for Republican Senate hopeful Joe Miller became a true family act on Friday, just days before the Alaska primary.

MANHATTAN — The police officer recorded putting a man in a chokehold during an arrest in an East Harlem subway station just days before Eric Garner's death remains on active duty, a NYPD spokesman said Thursday.

Mr. Spitzer announced his bid only in July, just days before petitions were due to get on the ballot.

The decision not to pursue charges in the Moreland probe comes just days before Mr. Cuomo is set to deliver his State of the State address in Albany.

Governor Andrew Cuomo and Republicans in the Senate remain at an impasse over gun control legislation — just days before the governor's State of the State address.

Sedlis» argument that unions have a «monopoly» on public schools comes after Governor Andrew Cuomo made a similar claim last week, incensing teachers just days before the election.

The race for the top job will conclude just days before the Labour party conference in Manchester, where the new leader will be unveiled.

Thousands of people plan actions to honor Dr. King's fight for basic freedom for sanitation workers and protest the rigged economy, just days before Supreme Court will hear case meant to attack working people Manhattan, NY — Today, leaders from -LSB-...]

Just days before he is set to retire, police commissioner Bill Bratton unleashed a blistering attack Wednesday on the watchdog agency whose report concluded that Broken Windows, the key tenet of Bratton's policing strategy, was ineffective and led to racial disparity in police action.

Bloomberg.com, the mayor cited the recent storm and the need to combat climate change as the driving force behind his decision to back Obama just days before voters head to the polls.

Tens of thousands of people take to the streets in London on Saturday to protest against Brexit, just days before prime minister Theresa May is due to trigger Article 50

(CNN)- Just days before the special election for a seat in New York's 20th congressional district, the National Republican Congressional Committee launched a web ad Friday targeting Democratic candidate Scott Murphy, invoking 9/11 to hammer him over his position on the death penalty.

Just days before he is set to retire, NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton unleashed a blistering attack on the watchdog agency whose report concluded that Broken Windows — the key tenet of Bratton's policing strategy, was ineffective and led to racial disparity in police action.

The case comes just days before Ireland - the only EU state holding a referendum on the issue - goes to the polls.

ALBANY — Political considerations, a top Senate Republican explained, weighed heavily in the run - up to last week's vote on a budget bill containing a minimum - wage increase some GOP lawmakers had been openly opposing just days before.

That was because they were brand - new, formed just days before a state budget deal was reached.

NEW YORK (AP)-- Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Thursday launched an investigation into a hospital's handling of a man who sought psychiatric care just days before he fatally ambushed a New York Police Department officer sitting in a mobile command post.

Just days before the Hurricane struck, Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli issued a mid-year analysis showing state tax revenues are not on target and collections would have to grow 6.5 percent the remainder of the year to make up for the lower - than - expected revenue.

Just days before the primary, the Times Union reported that Eddie Ayala, the campaign manager for Kindlon, asked County Comptroller Michael Conners for information on payments made to Soares» staff.

The furor comes almost two years after Christie caught GOP heat for appearing with President Obama to survey damage along the Jersey Shore in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy — just days before the Democratic incumbent's re-election bid against Republican Mitt Romney.

His name and clients had been added to the site just days before.

McLaughlin narrowly defeated deputy county executive Chris Meyer in a contentious Republican primary, despite the release just days before the vote of a recording in which the assemblyman uses vulgar language toward a female aide.

Cuomo, just days before he was re-elected to a second term, essentially threw down the gauntlet, saying he intends to take on the status quo of New York's school system in his second term.

The Weiner camp told the New York Post Sunday he proposed to his longtime girlfriend and a top aide to U.S. State Secretary Hillary Clinton, Huma Abedin, just days before penning a New York Times piece in May about his -LSB-...]

deputy county executive Chris Meyer in a contentious Republican primary, despite the release just days before the vote of a recording in which the assemblyman

The Conservative's expected failure to secure a majority plunges Britain into a political crisis just days before Brexit negotiations begin.

Sen. Bernie Sanders suggested today he wouldn't be opposed to seeing FBI Director James Comey resign, due to fallout over his decision to reopen an investigation into Hillary Clinton's private email server just days before the 2016 election.

A three - way feud among the GOP's leading White House contenders escalated with Sen. Ted Cruz daring Donald Trump to sue him and dismissing Sen. Marco Rubio's charges of dishonesty just days before South Carolina's high - stakes primary.

Describing the Canadian singer - songwriter's work as «incredibly moving» he recounted his trip to see Cohen's concert in 2008 just days before the banking system collapsed.

Just days before he is sworn into office, President - elect Donald Trump has again focused his penchant for unpredictable disruption on the rest of the world.

Stung by a fierce backlash from Trump's ardent supporters, four Republican members of Congress who had made headlines for demanding the nominee leave the presidential race retreated quietly this week, conceding that they would still probably vote for the man they had excoriated just days before.

Just days before Mother's Day, a source confirms to ET that Janet Jackson is pregnant with her first child.

Just days before lawmakers are set to vote on seven members of the board that drives state education policy, WNY delegates remain divided along political and ideological lines about who might best represent the area's students.

Cuomo and his New Jersey counterpart Chris Christie dined at the Beacon Restaurant in New York City on July 29, just days before the Port Authority announced a plan to increase toll hikes on bridges and tunnels.

The contribution came Saturday, just days before voters in the Senate district will decide between Panepinto, incumbent Sen. Mark Grisanti who lost his primary to Kevin Stocker, and Conservative Party candidate Timothy Gallagher.

But the tycoon has now taken his feud with the network to a new level by saying he will boycott this Thursday's debate on Fox News, just days before the Iowa caucuses.

Boris Johnson began last week with an article in the Telegraph whose tone was remarkably different from that which had led Leave to victory just days before.

The attack comes just days before two major events in the U.S.: The Republican National Convention begins Monday in Cleveland and then Democrats meet the following week in Philadelphia.

A key change is the introduction of a new presumption that all foreigners given jail sentences should be deported - something announced by Mr Clarke just days before he was sacked.

Just days before Creator won Saturday's Belmont Stakes, his owners sold a minority stake to celebrity chef Bobby Flay.