Sentences with phrase «local contests»

Find out about local contests in your area and ask if you can donate one of your books as a prize.

It is very crowded on the weekend and is the place for local contests.

They ranged from local contests involving hundreds of ballots to primary and general elections in counties where turnout topped several hundred thousand votes.

Choose your location from the list below to access local contests, events, resources and other local parenting and family info.

Not all of the campaigns that used Political Gravity were involved in small - bore local contests.

Local contests rarely received coverage in the bodybuilding magazines.

Get registrations at open houses, get sign ups on your community pages, host local contests / giveaways in exchange for emails, do online marketing to get sign ups.

One of the most significant local contests on the Nov. 5 ballot is in Cleveland, where citizens will decide whether to keep a 4 - year - old system of mayoral control of their district or return to an elected school board.

The showcase local contest in 2018 will be the congressional race, with first - term incumbent Republican John Faso looking like Custer at Little Big Horn in this winter of discontent.

Generating excitement through local contests (recipe contests, Junior Iron Chef contests, and school makeover contests with local business contributions).

New York has split primaries, with congressional races taking place in June and state and local contests held in September.

The NPR Politics team, along with Member station reporters, will be providing live updates in the form of photo, video, commentary and analysis for both national and local contested races.

There are local contests all across the state, including a special election in the Southern Tier's 52nd Senate District to fill the vacant seat that used to belong to ex-Sen.

There aren't any marquee political races next year at the state or national level, but there are a number of local contests heating up around the state — including the fight over the seat being vacated by Rockland County Executive Scott Vanderhoef.

The Tory MP argued that recent episodes of electoral fraud in local contests illustrate a wider problem of corruption whereby votes are cast in other people's names.

But there are lots of local contests taking place across the state, including:

First past the post voting discriminates against minor parties; yet voters lent sufficient support to UKIP to enable them to win or come second in many local contests whilst Greens secured their highest ever vote in London and Scotland.

We asked Harvard Graduate School of Education faculty to share thoughts and reactions to the election, during which Republicans maintained control of the House and Senate and — in an important local contest — a ballot question to expand the cap on charter schools was rejected by voters.

Orofara is the spot for local contests and can often be very crowded.

Besides the marquee matchup of the presidential race there are a number of state and local contests on the ballot.

Records from local contests were rarely saved.

As with Republicans a week prior, the showcase local contest was for county surrogate judge.

Local contests will run from January 1, 2012 through March 9, 2012, and national entries are due March 31, 2012.

That is partly because he made them so, but the local contests also punctuated a period of unpredictable change and added to the unpredictability.

But just as predictions for the national election proved wide of the mark, so did those for the 9,500 local contests.

What normally would have been a local contest with little national interest partially evolved into an early referendum on Obama, his polices to jumpstart the economy, and the reputations of the Democratic and Republican parties, as both national parties and their congressional committees poured money and resources into the race.

Throughout much of the state, the question received more attention than any local contests, due in part to a multimillion - dollar spending campaign in which organized labor urged its members to show up and vote «no.»

But what normally would have been a local contest with little national interest partially evolved into an early referendum on President Barack Obama, his polices to jump - start the economy, and the reputations of the Democratic and Republican parties, as both national parties and their congressional committees poured money and resources into the race.

But what normally would be a local contest with little national interest evolved into an early referendum on President Barack Obama, his polices to jump - start the economy, and the reputations of the Democratic and Republican parties, as both national parties and their congressional committees poured money and resources into the race.

Among the local contests is the 54th State Senate District seat that was held by Republican Mike Nozzolio who served for more than 20 years and decided not to run again.

Whether or not you choose to invite your students to participate in your local contest, the site features videos of poems performed well by young people, teaching resources, and an excellent «Find A Poem» feature that will help you discover new gems to share each day.

When she was five, my sister had drawn a horse of such promise that the picture won a local contest; I promptly got out the tracing paper and copied her masterpiece, an act that suggested the visual pursuits be left to her.

From widely recognized and established contests like the Writer's Digest International Self - Published Book Awards to local contests being held for members of small writing groups, published authors have a daunting list of contests and awards to consider pursuing.

I used to write flash fiction for a local contest, even though I found it really tough.

Of course, a local contest would have even better odds so you can change your search criteria based on where you live, like «contests Vancouver.»

Despite the fact that the new hospital is very nice, modern and wonderfully renovated, local contest that the new Health Sciences Centre is more a centre for research, rather than a hospital to serve the medical needs of the community.

Now I don't want to suggest that our local contest initiated in March helped shape the idea for a national poll on the same social medium but — amazing coincidence — you be the judge.