Sentences with phrase «last election against»

I hope you are right and this is thier motivation, there was a strong push last election against Obama by many bishops I hope that they don't think this well motivate Catholics to vote their way due to this issue, the majority of Catholics have used, use or will use contraception its not a church issue if it is used for politics.

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One lobbyist, speaking on condition of anonymity because the proposal is still under discussion, said he believed that U.S. - sourced proposal would have to be at least 35 % to satisfy Trump, who railed against automakers for moving jobs to Mexico throughout his election campaign last year.

A specialist EU team that detects and counters Russian cyberattacks, the East Stratcom Task Force, has reported an increase in campaigns aimed at aggravating the crisis, in what is a clear echo of the charges made against Russia in the U.S. election campaign last year, and the French and German election campaigns this year.

Andrew ran against Jack Layton in the last election and will do so again, meaning Lang can no longer interview the NDP leader.

Condo units in the building have been slow to sell since they came on the market, and last December basketball player LeBron James refused to stay in the hotel as a protest against Trump's election.

Indeed, we have seen a large increase of reported incidents of violence against Muslims, Hispanics, blacks, ethnic minorities, and the LGBT community since the election last week.

Last week, their gap against German bunds widened to the most since January on concerns over the election outcome, but tightened again this week suggesting some confidence among investors.

Moore claimed he took the test shortly after losing the special election and that it «concerned allegations of sexual misconduct made against me during the last month of the campaign by Leigh Corfman, Beverly Nelson, and Tina Johnson for «alleged» conduct approximately 30 - 40 years ago.»

«Part of the reasons active measures have worked in the US election is because the commander - in - chief has used Russian active measures at times against his opponents,» Watts said, pointing to Manafort and Trump's citations of fake - news stories pushed out by Russian - linked entities last year.

Speaking last week, Peskov said western spy agencies were behind an all - out «information attack» against him to destabilise Russia before elections.

It was immediately following Christy Clark's surprise victory in the last provincial election, an election many thought would play a large role in the fight against tanker projects on the West Coast.

At last year's meeting of the Asia Business Leaders Advisory Council (ABLAC), fears about the backlash against globalization and the election of new populist leaders with protectionist tendencies cast a pall over the discussions.

Last week, the media stood by homophobic liar Joy Reid, dismissed allegations of misconduct against Tom Brokaw, gave Jake Tapper an award for fake news, used Michelle Wolf as a hate - avatar, destroyed an admiral with lies, and were caught colluding with the Deep State to overturn Trump's election.

The U.S. just levied fresh sanctions against the Eastern European country for its alleged meddling in the 2016 presidential election, and early last week President Donald Trump warned Russia that the U.S. military could soon strike its ally Syria in response to its use of chemical weapons — a promise he kept Friday evening.

India's information technology minister last week warned against any abuse of social media in elections, following reports that the analytics firm improperly accessed information on millions of Facebook users to target U.S. voters.

In the last week, the upcoming Japanese election has caused the yen to fall against a basket of other currencies.

In the last few days, the Mexican peso has hit all - time lows against the U.S. dollar as Trump appeared to gain momentum in election polls.

Campaigning for the French presidency last year, Nicolas Sarkozy ran hard against what Europeans still refer to as 1968, describing the post-1968 New Left as «immoral» and «cynical» and defining the choice before the French electorate in stark terms: «In this election, the question is whether the heritage of May «68 should be perpetuated, or if it should be liquidated.»

@ Bill Deacon, Sorry Bill, but during the last last Bush election, the catholic church ordered their membership to vote against the democratic candidate in violation of their 501c3 status, not support a candidate but an order.

The honeymoon, that is, between the now enfeebled and increasingly remote souls who for over a quarter of a century had carped and sneered at Pope John Paul II (and by the same token at «PanzerCardinal» Joseph Ratzinger) but who had nevertheless hoped against hope for a Pope who would be somehow reborn if not as a fully paid - up liberal, as a Pope at least who would go easy on all that counter-cultural JPII stuff about being «signs of contradiction» and about continuity with the pre-conciliar Church and who had breathlessly found (so they thought) that, lo, it was even so, in the wonders of Deus Caritas Est. «On his election last spring,» carolled The Tablet, «the former CardinalRatzinger was widely assumed to have as his papal agenda the hammering of heretics and a war on secularist relativism, subjects with which he was associated as head of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.»

Thus heavy viewers of religious programs are more likely than light viewers to describe themselves as conservative, to oppose a nuclear freeze, to favor tougher laws against pornography, and to have voted in the last election.

Coming in with the third - best odds is legendary player Luis Figo, who ran against Blatter in the last election before dropping out, saying that the process was not actually democratic.

has attracted particular interest after the accusations of racism levelled against new Italian football president Carlo Tavecchio ahead of his election last month.

Since we have discovered the dirtiness in the process of the last primary election, it is necessary, as change agents, we speak against the corruption in the process.

Even Conservative supporters have turned against Gove with 40 % of their voters from the last election now saying he is doing badly.

The Democratic Party picked up seats last election without a Presidential candidate who had great coat tails — and against your Trump landslide (where 10.6 million more Americans voted against Trump than for him).

Gillibrand's approval rating has remained stalled at under 50 percent for some time now, despite the fact that she has been in office since early 2009 and won a statewide election — quite easily — against former Rep. Joe DioGuardi last year.

Mr Bercow's vulnerability against a Tory plot to remove him can be traced back to a controversial interview he gave to my Sky News colleague Lewis Goodall during last year's general election campaign.

Notwithstanding last May's SNP election victory, most polls over the past two years have indicated that more people would vote against independence than would vote in favour of it.

Brennan Center Responds to Senator Skelos's False Claims Last week, Senate Republican Conference leader Dean Skelos published an op - ed in the Albany Times - Union arguing against public financing of state elections.

While I can't say much about the West Coast races, I voted for Teachout against Cuomo in the last election.

While the Berks County legislator, a longtime advocate of limited government who billed himself as the true conservative in the primary, has neither encouraged or discouraged the nascent write - in movement, which began to take shape only a few days after the state's bruising primary election — a lopsided contest in which the heavily - favored attorney general and the GOP establishment unleashed a last - minute barrage of negative ads against Rohrer's insurgent candidacy.

«We have spent the last week listening to Senator Espaillat and Councilman Rodriguez launch terrible attacks, malicious, vicious and false allegations against the hardworking men and women at the New York City Board of Elections,» he said.

This reminds me just before the last general election a Labour spy was in a private meeting held by a Tory MP talking about the party having to put up taxes if the Tories won the election which went against the party line.

Andy would have been the best leader we never had last time, he's not right this time, incidentally your choice for Mayor Diane Abbot comes out with her usual nonsense regarding, her 24,000 majority compared to Khans 2,000 majority, When she was first elected in 1987 ′ she had a swing against her, even though, any really after the 1983 election, it would be expected, that a labour politician would have a swing towards them as 1983 was our all time low, and I could be said her swing against her at the time was due to racism, but Paul boeteng stood for the first time, next to her in 1987 ′ he never had a swing against him,

Yes, Ed Balls showed courage in standing out against the crowd on the economy in last year's Labour leadership election.

Former FBI special agent Clint Watts, in Senate testimony last March, stated that «part of the reason active measures worked in this election is that the Commander - in - Chief has used Russian active measures at times, against his opponents.»

The Obama people are apparently thinking in terms of 1980, when the majority had turned against Carter but weren't sure about Reagan — the polls were close only a week before the election, but the public shifted at the last moment as they came to see Reagan as a reasonable alternative.

Following her vigorous campaigning against payday loans companies and an impressive performance in the deputy leadership election last year, Stella Creasy is seen by many Labour moderates as one of their brightest stars.

Republican Christopher McGrath, who lost a special election last month to fill Dean Skelos» State Senate seat, will face off in a November rematch against Sen. Todd Kaminsky (D - Long Beach).

Christine Pellegrino was a last - minute candidate for Democrats in the special election for the 9th District Assembly seat, which she won in an upset victory against Conservative Tom Gargiulo on Tuesday, May 23, 2017.

The last time the party used such disgraceful tactics to prevent local members» choice of Mayoral candidate standing in the election was against Ken Livingstone.

And both are engaged in rematches against opponents who performed well in the last presidential election year.

Heavy on rhetoric but light on specifics, the statement from the party called for «targeted political action» to ensure the 124 MPs who voted against Lords reform last night do not keep their seats in the next election.

As to those politicians, of the four Republicans that blatantly went against their supporters and constituents, one has already quit, two are in serious danger of losing their primaries, and the last is facing a primary challenge and a general election challenge for the first time in decades.

Paterson was forced to abandon his election campaign and is under investigation over charges he interfered in a domestic violence case against Johnson, who's accused of assaulting his girlfriend last October.

The teachers union worked unsuccessfully in the last election to help Democrats running against incumbent Republicans.

That being said... She will lose and I will gladly vote against her like I did in the last state Senate elections.

It is an ineluctable fact: poll after poll has shown that most Britons are strongly against the expansion of the EU's power - and an even greater majority demand the referendum promised by all three main parties in their manifestos at the last General Election.

Speaking in Harlow, where Labour took control of the council in last week's local election, Miliband said: «The reality now for people aspiring to get on is that they feel they are running up against a brick wall in terms of unemployment and getting on the housing ladder.»