Sentences with phrase «of early nominations»

The wild week is almost certain to see similar iterations in the coming weeks and months with Trump's impressive number of early nominations to the federal bench.

Not exact matches

The controversy erupted after the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced this year's Oscar nominations earlier this month, revealing a list that included no non-white acting nominees for the second year in a row.

A few of last year's category winners are back, leading in the early nominations, including tax specialist Robert Sceales from Sceales & Co, insolvency practitioner Lee Christensen, who has changed partners during the year and now goes under the banner Christensen Vaughan, and environmental planning lawyer Tony van Merwjk from Freehills.

Those appointments came under fire earlier this year as it became clear that HP's newly appointed chair, Ray Lane, circumvented the board's independent nominations process by involving the CEO in identifying board candidates and deciding to oversee the process himself (although he had a long - standing relationship with the CEO and was not a member of the nominations committee).

Early as it is, does Biden hold out any hope of getting the Democratic nomination in 2016?

Earlier this year, hackers breached the Democratic National Committee's network, leaking emails that led to the resignation of DNC Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz the night before Hillary Clinton accepted the presidential nomination.

While the denial of a blue slip does not legally restrict a judge from being approved, Glenn Sugameli, an attorney who is an expert on judicial nominations, told Business Insider in an email earlier this week that «no circuit court nominees have been confirmed over objection of one (or two) home state senators — including under Obama.»

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A former congressional staffer, Delrahim came to count on early, broad support among Republicans and Democrats in Congress, who advanced his nomination out of committee nearly unanimously.

As the Progressive Conservative Party rushes towards an early election call, party officials are investigating nomination irregularities and allegations of bribery, reports Metro Edmonton.

Newt Gingrich, January 2008 Newt (the irrepressible) hit on something four years ago: closing down the nomination race too early — however much a top contender might prefer that result — is probably not in the best interest of....

Arsenal 20 year old forward Alex Iwobi missed out on a nomination for the CAF Player of the year award, even as five other Nigerians made the list released earlier today.

Recall that one of the earliest walls Gov. Eliot Spitzer ran head - long into was a proposal to allow undocumented workers receive drivers» licenses issued by the state, a move that was vehemently opposed by county clerks and became a campaign issue for Hillary Clinton, then running for the Democratic nomination for president.

There were earlier reports that two have had the approval of their nominations suspended due to some issues the committee deemed necessary for probing.

Barnhart is among a crowded field of Democrats vying for the party's nomination in the 25th congressional district in the Rochester area, left vacant earlier this year by the death of Rep. Louise Slaughter.

In the likely event that Hillary Clinton secures the Democratic nomination by the end of May or early June, the task of uniting the party behind her will be much less onerous than that of whoever emerges from the GOP field.

He added that the exec committee's earlier nomination of Fossella was «an embarassment» and that «the Golden boy has fallen.»

As Nixon tries to harness progressives in her left - flank challenge to Cuomo, an early test of her staying power will come with the Working Families Party, which could give her a general - election ballot line even if the governor wins the Democratic nomination.

ALBANY — As Cynthia Nixon tries to harness progressives in her left - flank challenge to Gov. Andrew Cuomo, an early test of her staying power will come with the Working Families Party, which could give her a general - election ballot line even if Cuomo wins the Democratic nomination.

Since 1988, the early Republican front - runner went on to win the nomination in three of the five open primary campaigns.

Pataki was among the earliest Republican critics of Trump, condemning some of Trump's comments in August 2015 as the two campaigned for the Republican presidential nomination.

Matt Fenlon, executive director of the state Democratic Party, said the Democrats had started their coordinated campaign effort earlier than usual, cognizant that Baker probably would have a relatively unfettered path to the GOP nomination.

But as noted earlier, a sharp fall in Labour MPs lowers the number of nominations the Corbynites need.

Earlier in the day, labor groups that had comprised the WFP raised the possibility of bolting from the party over the potential nomination of Teachout.

The state assemblyman boycotted the debate with other politicians vying for the Democratic nomination to represent Fort Greene in Congress, complaining earlier that the presence of candidates from other parties would confuse voters.

In a CNN / Opinion Research Corporation survey out Friday that serves as an early measure of potential support for the next GOP presidential nomination, Huckabee tops the list.

Boles took charge of Boris Johnson's London Mayoral transition team (having been an early candidate for the Conservative nomination for Mayor himself), a task for which he was paid an eye - watering # 12,000 a month.

«Basically, it would be like a monkey flying out of a unicorn's [posterior],» if Pataki won the 2016 Republican nomination, Florida - based GOP strategist Rick Wilson told the Washington Post earlier this month.

Then - President Barack Obama nominated Court of Appeals Judge Merrick Garland to fill Scalia's seat last year, but McConnell refused to hold hearings on the appointment, and the nomination expired earlier this year.

In the company of her running mate, Mrs Patricia Asante, the presidential nominee arrived at the EC office early morning to get her nomination forms that were fraught with irregularities and errors, to amend for submission by 5:00 pm today.

The president had earlier on Friday, sworn into office 12 out of 13 ministers whose nominations were approved by Parliament.

He blasted Ohio Gov. John Kasich's statements earlier in the day that claimed the nomination of Trump or Ted Cruz would hurt down - ballot candidates.

Admitting he may be regretting a pledge he signed earlier this year, Gov. John Kasich of Ohio said today it was possible he wouldn't support Trump if he won the Republican nomination.

«Earlier this week, I wrote to the county executive and asked him to temporarily withdraw his nomination of the new Commissioner, Marie Cannon.

Ed Balls's and Andy Burnham's early nominations do not just reflect a good many friends in the north, but suggest that they could raise rival White Rose and Red Rose New Labour armies, given their strong centres of gravity in Yorkshire and the north - west, though David Blunkett is leading a Burnhamite incursion in Yorkshire.

Earlier this month, Mayer received the Democratic nomination over a pool of candidates, including Bedford Supervisor Chris Burdick; former Bernie Sanders organizer and White Plains resident Kat Brezler; as well as Mark Jaffe, of West Harrison.

Allentown Mayor Ed Pawlowski, who captured both major - party nominations before surviving a spirited challenge from former city councilman and independent candidate W. Michael Donovan to win a third term as mayor of the state's third - largest city earlier this month, was fifth in the Harper survey with 6 percent, placing him slightly ahead of former state Secretary of Revenue Tom Wolf, a wealthy York businessman.

Upon her nomination earlier this year, Aba Hagan had been facing a very stiff opposition from majority of the assembly members, leading to her getting seventeen out of the forty - three members who voted back in May.

In early 2015, Pataki began exploring a candidacy for the Republican nomination for President of the United States in 2016; [3] he announced his candidacy on May 28, 2015.

Earlier today we wrote about how two of the candidates vying for the GOP nomination to challenge Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand were sniping over the issue, with lawyer Wendy Long accusing GOP chair Ed Cox of using the issue to buck the campaign of Congressman Bob Turner, and Mr. Turner's spokesman Bill O'Reilly — who, it should be noted is related to Mr. Buckley — tweeting that the Long campaign is residing in «Bizzaroland.»

If former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton clinches the nomination early, while multiple Republicans remain in the presidential race, turnout for Democrats could be low, he said.

The flag bearer of the New Patriotic Party's (NPP), Nana Akufo - Addo earlier on Thursday submitted his nomination forms at the EC headquarters in Accra.

«With regard to the non-complaint errors in respect of which our client expressed its inability to accept your client's nomination papers however, we have been instructed by our client that it was impossible to comply with strict time period specified by rules within which your clients are by law permitted to amend or alter their nomination papers to comply with the requirements of the law regulating same, especially that your clients presented their nomination papers a day to the expiry of the nomination period, although your clients and all candidates were urged to submit their nomination papers as early as possible

President Barack Obama nominated Court of Appeals Judge Merrick Garland to fill Scalia's seat last year, but McConnell refused to hold hearings on the appointment, and the nomination expired earlier this year.

That early optimism has, however, been tempered by subsequent nominations of cabinet ministers and their confirmation by the Senate.

The EC opened nominations earlier in September and pegged the filing fees for presidential hopefuls at GHc 50,000 and that of parliamentary nominees at GHc 10,000.

So with this ruling by the court, it is good news because we are going to resume the nomination process and hopefully early next week we will finish up and come up with the list of candidates who will officially stand for this year's election,» he said.

The scenario began to play out last week as the early momentum shifted to Republican investment banker Matt Doheny, of Watertown, as he battles Hoffman for the GOP nomination.

He was one of Tony Benn's most loyal supporters in the early 80s, which presumably got him the nomination here.

In a reversal of fortunes, his main opponent was Alan McFarland, to whom he had lost the by - election nomination ten years earlier.