Sentences with phrase «of a primary challenge»

One of the primary challenges in getting engaged in the classroom can be making the time for it.

There's also always the threat of a primary challenge from Sen. Toby Stavisky, whose home was redrawn into Avella's district during the last round of redistricting.

The IDC will return to the GOP as soon as the threat of primary challenges has passed, and they'll keep blocking progressive legislation.

The verdict comes as Cuomo faces the possibility of a primary challenge from actress Cynthia Nixon, a potential scenario which appears to have blindsided the governor and his top aides last week, sending them scrambling into campaign mode.

According to several sources, the unhappiness with Avella on the party of some local Democrats was so high that there had been talk of a primary challenge.

The committee was fresh off a series of primary challenges from a group of renegade Democrats that contributed to the party losing control of the county legislature to the GOP in 2013.

The measure would likely be supported by Cuomo, who is tacking left in the face of a primary challenge from Cynthia Nixon, the actress and activist.

Trump's decision Saturday to intervene in the Alabama special election followed weeks of pleas from senior Republicans who fear that a loss will invite a wave of primary challenges against GOP incumbents and damage the party in the 2018 midterms.

In Ohio: There's not much of a primary challenge for John Boehner.

In the end, nearly a third of the Republicans who sat on the committee in 2006 — seven of 24, including Boehlert — were defeated or retired over the next six years in the wake of primary challenges from the right.

It was an end to unusual and increasingly untenable arrangement for Cuomo and perhaps even some IDC lawmakers who face the political headwinds of primary challenges this year.

Asked if he thought Cuomo was issuing the order because of the primary challenge from Cynthia Nixon the Democratic primary for governor, Flanagan said, «Yes, and I still think it's bad public policy regardless.

Gubernatorial hopeful Zephyr Teachout made Albany corruption a primary campaign issue and garnered 34 percent of the vote, the highest of any primary challenge to a sitting governor since primaries were instituted in 1970.

Actor and liberal activist Cynthia Nixon has made Cuomo's ties to the IDC a major part of her primary challenge to the two - term governor.

Nevertheless, the end of the primary challenges from Liu and Koppell never seemed to be part of the agreement to form a new coalition, according to Sen. Mike Gianaris in a Capital Tonight interview last week.

Fortunately for Matheson, he has the bankroll to get past this kind of primary challenge and still be fine in a general election.

Alix Anfang, who rassled with reporters for Maloney's successful weathering of a primary challenge from newcomer Reshma Saujani, has departed the congresswoman's office to sign on with Schneiderman as a deputy press secretary.

But in recent weeks, when he might have hoped to begin striding toward the White House, the governor has instead had to endure the indignity of a primary challenge, and that from a woman who had the audacity to seek the Democratic nomination without any political experience.

Without a serious figure on the ideological left weighing the idea of a primary challenge to Obama in 2012 — former Sen. Russ Feingold (Wisc.) and former Gov. Howard Dean (Vt.) are both out of the running — the White House almost certainly believes that there is little danger in making a move like this one.

Republicans have put together a full slate for the November election with no sign of a primary challenge.

Still other Republicans are worried that passage of the measure could provoke a spate of primary challenges — or low turnout among conservatives — next year, when Republicans will be battling to retain their one - vote Senate majority in newly redrawn legislative districts.

President Donald Trump's closest allies are planning a slate of primary challenges against Republican senators, potentially undermining the party's prospects in 2018 and further inflaming tensions between GOP leaders and the White House.

When asked of Ms. Miner's consideration of a primary challenge to Mr. Cuomo, Mr. Berman deflected, saying the governor's progressive agenda «sets a solid foundation for a third term.»

If convicted, he would lose his seat; if acquitted, he would be up for re-election next year, and face the prospect of a primary challenge.

Soares is in the midst of a primary challenge from attorney Lee Kindlon.

Odd objects often have considerable bulk and gripping and controlling them is one of the primary challenges of lifting them.

He faces the possibility of a primary challenge from a regular Democrat, and is attempting, by virtue of his budget maneuvering, to head it off.

One of the primary challenges in assessing quality of classroom teaching practice is that it likely varies a great deal according to the level and heterogeneity of the academic competence of the students.

«Bring it on,» said Cox, who added that even the fact that there's talk of a primary challenge to Cuomo shows that the governor is «vulnerable.»

That unflattering vote, plus a perceived chilly relationship with President Obama, helped fuel a series of primary challenges to Rangel in recent years.

But elucidating this art is one of the primary challenges for close - playings.

Jones» first - quarter fundraising report, due April 15 to the Federal Election Commission, will shed light on whether he has picked up the pace in the wake of the primary challenge.

But his 63 percent approval rating among Democrats — 77 percent among African - Americans — for now appears to insulate him against the threat of a primary challenge

«One of the primary challenges that we have is that Mother Nature here in California hasn't been very nice,» Brown says.

«One of the primary challenges that we've addressed over the last three years has been our older facilities,» Abt says.

She won the party's designation in February, but is facing the possibility of a primary challenge.

One of the primary challenges she faces in starting her new lab will be working with limited funds.

One of the primary challenges facing researchers in southern China, he says, is government pressure to make internationally recognized advances in their field at hyper - speed.

The recruitment and retention of educators is one of the primary challenges that school districts face.

Another of the primary challenges that this particular breed faces is the ability to reproduce without some amount of external help.

Thomas Campbell, the new director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, says that engaging visitors who don't feel comfortable is one of his primary challenges.

One of the primary challenges in creating IT Manager Resumes that can take you to the next level is to highlight the strategic value that you have delivered, while placing your more hands - on duties in context.