Sentences with phrase «like election returns»

Although strong tonic for the local fans, the flurries of touchdowns, the long runs and the passing averages that read like election returns are usually made against opposition as fierce as paper tigers.

Not exact matches

Last night, like so many of you, I watched the election returns with family and friends.

The sense of the prophetic ethic and morality is always something like this: «You shall refrain from this practice, or you shall do thus - and - so, because I am Yahweh who brought you up out of Egypt [election] and you are a people voluntarily committed in return to the performance of my just and righteous will [covenant].»

If the prophets speak on behalf of social and economic justice, they do not preach a general abstract morality, but pointedly and specifically proclaim an election / covenant ethic, the sense of which is something like this: You shall refrain from this practice, or you shall do thus - and - so, because I am Yahweh who brought you up out of Egypt (election) and you are a people voluntarily committed in return to the performance of my righteous will (covenant).

The Clangers have been resurrected and returned to children's telly (now narrated by Michael Palin, who — like parliamentary elections - surely embodies all that is nice and good about Britain).

As for regulating the «manner» of elections, the Supreme Court has interpreted this to mean «matters like notices, registration, supervision of voting, protection of voters, prevention of fraud and corrupt practices, counting of votes, duties of inspectors and canvassers, and making and publication of election returns.»

«Harriet Harman's attempts to play up to the left - wing gallery look like a return to the class war attacks of the Crewe and Nantwich by - election,» said shadow equality minister Theresa May.

Like the swallows to Capistrano, elected officials, challengers and lawyers returned to the Bx Bd of Elections in the past few weeks.

The surge of new left MPs, like Marsha de Cordova in Battersea, Lloyd Russell - Moyle in Brighton Kemptown, and of course the return of Chris Williamson in Derby North, mean that in future another candidate from Labour's left might be able to make a leadership election ballot without charity nominations.

Almost 800,000 additional ballots have been counted since Election Night, and Initiative 1240 is looking more and more like it will ultimately win a majority of votes cast when the election results are ultimately certified by the Secretary of State... [ReturnElection Night, and Initiative 1240 is looking more and more like it will ultimately win a majority of votes cast when the election results are ultimately certified by the Secretary of State... [Returnelection results are ultimately certified by the Secretary of State... [Return to Top]

But in times like these — after «Brexit» and the election of President Donald J. Trump, with the rise of populism and return of nationalism and with intense political fervor and uncertainty in Europe and beyond — can a Biennale curator turn away from politics and focus on art for art's sake?

As Congress returns to work following the election, big polluters are working to extend and expand a tax credit for carbon capture and sequestration — or CCS — facilities like Kemper as part of a year - end tax deal.

Election campaigns require money, and there is some doubt that even the best - intentioned judges can resist the basic human impulse to respond to a «favor» (like a campaign contribution) by returning the favor.

In return for surrendering certain rights — like local elections and privacy — workers in the town of Hershey got medical coverage, a free junior college, parks and a zoo.