Sentences with phrase «national convention last»

The program was unveiled at the company's national convention last spring, and received «positive feedback» from brokers and agents.

She joined DeVos on a panel of speakers at the Republican National Convention last summer — «even though I am not a Republican,» she wrote in the Hill newspaper in December, endorsing DeVos for education secretary.

Clinton began articulating her education policy ideas at union conventions this month and Republican leaders championed school choice at their national convention last week.

During its 2016 National Convention last month, the group's delegates passed a resolution that reaffirmed the association's opposition to spending public money on charter schools but went a step further by calling for a full moratorium on their «rapid proliferation,» NAACP interim education director Victor Goode confirmed for our partner site The74Million.org Tuesday.

At the Republican National Convention last summer, the GOP adopted a platform detailing the Party's support for education savings accounts, vouchers, tax credits, and portability of federal funding.

A shoutout during Bill Clinton's speech at the Democratic National Convention last week is bringing new attention to a program called Home Instruction for Parents of Preschool Youth.

The film, which was released just after the Republican National Convention last year, aims to «expose» Hillary Clinton and the Democratic Party, but was lambasted as «incoherent» by critics and, ultimately, landing a 4 percent rating on Rotten Tomatoes.

During election season, staying relevant is a challenge, especially with the Republican National Convention last week, and the Democratic National Convention this week.

Trump Jr. — who scored high marks for his stand - out appearance at the Republican National Convention last week — said he «had a good time up there» and found it «exciting to be able to have a platform like that to speak my voice.

The Christian Party of American hosted its first national convention last weekend in North Carolina.

One of the most powerful moments at the Democratic National Convention last month was when gun - control proponent Mike Bloomberg unloaded his verbal assault weapon on Donald Trump.

Tallahassee Mayor Andrew Gillum is the only Democratic gubernatorial hopeful to address his party's national convention last year.

this is economic determinism at its worst, going against the very message the Republican Party was trying to sell to the world during its quadrennial national convention last month.

Still, it has been his ongoing battle with Cuomo, which has become increasingly pitched in recent months, that has dominated the headlines, most recently the perceived snub at a breakfast gathering of the New York delegation at the Democratic National Convention last week in Philadelphia.

It was later reported that Manafort offered «private briefings» about the campaign to Oleg Deripaska, a Russian oligarch and ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin, just before the Republican National Convention last year.

The data leak was part of a broader string of attacks on Democrats that hit a crescendo ahead of the party's Democratic National Convention last month.

Not exact matches

I was at the Democratic National Convention (DNC) in Philadelphia last week, and it was very clear from my conversations with former DNC chairs, U.S. politicians, Bernie Sanders supporters, business executives, and even celebrities and athletes: a Clinton presidency will be viewed as positive for Canada-U.S. bilateral relations and a major step in the right direction for trade with Canada.

«I think he has a very strong ability to communicate what I think is the heart of the Democratic message,» Strickland said, pointing to speeches Springer delivered to delegations at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia last summer.

Meyers found the reason for Flynn's resignation «ironic,» because he famously berated Hillary Clinton at the Republican National Convention in July of last year for using a private email server while serving as secretary of state.

Now that both major parties» political conventions are finished, comedian John Oliver has had some time to reflect on what we can take away from the Republican National Convention and last week's Democratic National Convention.

Peter Thiel, the gay tech billionaire, Facebook board member, and desperately thirsty speaker at the Republican National Convention, pulled out of his speech at a nightmarish neo-fascist conference in September after we highlighted his planned appearance there last week.

Congressional investigators have interviewed ex-Donald Trump aides and advisers including J.D. Gordon, the national security policy representative at last year's GOP convention, about the campaign's push to remove proposed language from the 2016 Republican platform that called for giving weapons to Ukraine.

Everything and nothing has changed since the last time President Donald Trump addressed the National Rifle Association convention.

The president, they noted, promised unwavering fealty last year to the National Rifle Association, drawing thunderous applause at its annual convention by declaring, «To the N.R.A., I can proudly say I will never, ever let you down.»

Last month, I spoke at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland because I believe our country is on the wrong track, and we need to solve real problems instead of fighting fake culture wars.

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At its last national convention the largest political - action committee for Israel welcomed 50 U.S. senators and 100 representatives.

Abedini recently cancelled plans to speak at last weekend's Freedom 2015 religious liberty conference in Iowa and at the National Religious Broadcasters convention in Nashville next spring.

So, the second episode of Here Comes Honey Boo Boo beat out the Republican National Convention in the ratings last Tuesday, which raises a lot of important questions.

Last spring the Nashville Convention Center played host to both the National Pastors Convention and the Emergent Convention.

Last time I watch the National Republican Convention... I saw a black man and maybe a Mexican woman.

Shurden, in an article last year in the Fellowship newsletter, put the Baptist conflict into three periods the struggle for national control (1979 - 1990), the fight over state conventions (1990 - 2000) and bitter battles in local churches (2000 - 2010).

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The elective National Convention of the All Progressives Congress (APC) is to hold on Monday, May 15, 2018, barring any last - minute change.

With the Democratic National Convention wrapping up last night and Women's Equality Day, marking the 88th anniversary of women gaining the right to vote, celebrated on Aug. 26, women's issues have been a hot topic lately.

«Everybody is trying to improve it for the kids,» said Pope, who last year gave a keynote speech at the convention of the National Association for College Admission Counseling, a gathering of college admissions officers and high school counselors.

Cleveland has been commanding attention in recent years thanks to the success of the Cavaliers basketball and Indians baseball teams and for playing host to high - profile events like the last Republican National Convention.

In the last few weeks Cuomo has signed the sex assault legislation, securing his support among women's group; established a special prosecutor for cases of civilians who die at the hands of police; and spoke at the NAACP National Convention in Philadelphia.

The last time New York City hosted a national convention was with the Republicans in 2004, held at Madison Square Garden.

Last week I posted about how during the Democratic National Convention's Lesbian and Gay Caucus Rep. Barney Frank (D - MA) laid it all out on the table and stated quite frankly in my opinion and may others the Log Cabin Republicans is bunch of «Uncle Tom's» for backing the GOP, a party that despises the LGBT community.

Last week I posted about how during the Democratic National Convention's Lesbian and Gay Caucus Rep. Barney Frank (D - MA) laid it all...

Last week at the Democratic National Convention, de Blasio left a breakfast held for the New York delegation before he was due to speak after Cuomo spoke for nearly a half hour.

The wing of the PDP that has defected into the SDP is the same camp that had fought spirited for the soul of the party but lost out at the last National Convention of the party where the current National Chairman, Uche Secondus emerged.

Log Cabin Republicans and other LGBT conservative groups were dismayed last week after the strong anti-gay stance against same sex marriage during the republican national convention this week.

The Presidential candidate of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), has surprisingly congratulated Donald Trump for his historic win, in the just ended elections in the United States of America (USA), after snubbing an invitation from the same man to attend his endorsement at the Republicans National Convention (RNC) in Cleveland — Ohio, last July.

We here at CapTon are engaged in last - minute preparations for our trip to Tampa, FL to cover the GOP national convention (assuming it is not rained out by Isaac).

He said: «The issue of the National Convention was raised actually, as it was part of the decisions we took at the last meeting.

As I watched the opening days of the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia, I was struck by the stark contrast in tone between it and last week's Republican National Convention in Cleveland.

«I asked him to resign as a member of the Assembly,» Silver said last night at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte.

After 1976, party bosses took great care in choreographing national conventions while squeezing every last drop of spontaneity out of these dreadful events.