Sentences with phrase «of elections calls»

Alderman - elect Patrick O'Reilly, elected on the Democratic line, is what the board of elections calls a «NOP.»

She prescribes compassion as well, and notes her government's «cash back in people's pockets» strategy will help struggling families, most notably the big per - child benefit cheques that arrived on the eve of the election call.

Not exact matches

Hours later, Spain sacked Puigdemont, dissolved the Catalan parliament, removed the head of the regional police force, and called for snap elections on December 21.

In a congratulatory phone call the night of Paul's primary victory, McConnell pledged his support to the newcomer for the general election campaign.

Long before he strolled to an easy victory in mayoral elections last month, Don Iveson, Edmonton's telegenic, lanky new mayor, was being called the Naheed Nenshi of the North.

«This election hasn't so much appealed to our better angels as it has groped our better angels, mocked their weight, and called them «sixes at best,»» Oliver joked, alluding to a handful of Trump's scandals.

'' (The ongoing standoff between the euro zone and Greece) also increases the chances of snap elections in Greece as after overplaying his hand and facing increasing difficulties in concluding the review, Tsipras may be tempted to cut his losses by calling early elections before Syriza (the ruling party) loses more support for adopting unpopular measures,» Piccoli said.

In the event of a hung parliament, the Italian constitution specifies no time limit for parties to reach an agreement or call a fresh election.

If the Catalan government ignores the ruling, we expect Madrid to trigger article 155 of the Constitution to strip out Catalonia's autonomy and to call for regional elections.

Many independence supporters have called the elections illegitimate but a remarkable turnout of 80 per cent is expected on 21 December.

In an interview with the El Pais newspaper published on Sunday, the Spanish leader suggested he could trigger article 155 of the constitution, which would allow him to dismiss the regional government and call fresh local elections.

Wynne, who is struggling in the polls, must call an election by June of next year.

The morning after Election Day, she called the offices of her local congressional representatives, urging them to preserve the protections the ACA offers.

The regional elections were called by Spain's Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy hours after the Catalan parliament made a unilateral declaration of independence on 27 October.

Given recent political developments, including the election of Donald Trump, who has called climate change a hoax created by the Chinese, Patagonia decided to take their donations to a new level.

Since the election, groups on the right have called for boycotts of Kellogg's (for pulling ads from alt - right site Breitbart News), Starbucks (for vowing to hire refugees rather than jobless Americans), and Nordstrom (for dropping Ivanka Trump's clothing line), among others.

The Republican presidential nominee held a campaign rally in Ryan's home state of Wisconsin on Monday in which the crowd chanted «Paul Ryan sucks» and Trump railed against what he called «corrupt» media and a «rigged» election system — a frequent accusation the Manhattan billionaire has brought up without evidence.

«I think there's just great uncertainty as to what's going to happen in the US, in particular, as a result of the outcome of the election,» Creed said in a call with analysts.

The Washington Post reported Thursday that PropOrNot and the nonpartisan Foreign Policy Research Institute both attribute the flood of so - called fake news, or hoax and misleading headlines, during the 2016 election to an elaborate Russian propaganda campaign aimed at sowing distrust in the American political system and undermining public consensus.

That raises the possibility of court challenges by First Nations, blockades along the pipeline route between Edmonton and Kitimat, B.C., and rallies in major cities during the run - up to a federal election that must be called by October 2015.

Trump also called for the indictment to mark the end of «outlandish partisan attacks, wild and false allegations, and far - fetched theories» about the election, asserting they «only serve to further the agendas of bad actors, like Russia, and do nothing to protect the principles of our institutions.»

Trump seized on the indictment to call for an end to «outlandish partisan attacks, wild and false allegations, and far - fetched theories» about the election, asserting they «only serve to further the agendas of bad actors, like Russia, and do nothing to protect the principles of our institutions.»

The Conservative leader called the snap election to strengthen her parliamentary presence ahead of tough negotiations to take the country out of the European Union.

Though the Trump White House has acknowledged that Russia meddled — while maintaining that it was not to help Trump and did not have an effect on the election's outcome — it has so far fallen short of making a specific statement or calling out Russia for its aggression.

So it's hard to call either one of those industries an indicator of the election.

Silver also called each of the 50 states correctly, handily turning the entire presidential election into an ad for his book.

Mark Zuckerberg at first said the percentage of fake news on the platform was tiny, and called the idea that it influenced the election «crazy.»

President Obama and various members of Congress have called for an investigation of Russian hacking and its impact on the 2016 presidential election.

Mmusi Maimane, the leader of the South African opposition Democratic Alliance party — and an ally of the fractious MDC — called for Mugabe to resign immediately, and for «fresh elections to be held in Zimbabwe as soon as practically possible.»

By the time the final result of the by - election was called, members of Goldsmith's family were in tears and the former Conservative MP could only look down at the floor as the end of his political career was confirmed to the room.

He calls the delay in identifying 2016 election interference one of his biggest regrets in running Facebook.

Against that backdrop (the Netherlands also has elections in March, and Italy may yet call them later this year), the likeliest course is that the ECB remains «on autopilot» for the rest of the year, happy just to dodge the flak that will inevitably come its way.

In an article for Bloomberg View published shortly after the election, Cass Sunstein, administrator of the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs under President Obama, called the idea «pretty dumb» and said it would be extremely difficult to implement and require so many exemptions as to leave its scope narrow.

But CEO Mark Zuckerberg said on a conference call that the company is investing «heavily» on safety and security, including workers with language skills for detecting hate speech, and tools for verifying government IDs ahead of elections in the U.S. and abroad by the end of the year.

Political stats guru Nate Silver pointed at the fences and called his shot this year, and since the election, his book The Signal and the Noise skyrocketed to the top of the charts.

The break down of the talks leaves Germany with two unprecedented options in the post-World War Two era: Merkel forms a minority government, or the president calls a new election if no government is formed.

WASHINGTON — A group of Republicans will take the House floor Tuesday evening to call for the recusal of Robert Mueller, the special counsel investigating Russian interference in the 2016 election.

On Tuesday, U.K. Prime Minister Theresa May called for a general election on June 8th, with the aim of shoring up more conservative support in parliament.

This referendum was called by U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron because of a promise made in his election campaign to renegotiate terms with the EU and then hold a referendum, designed to win over voters he feared would defect to UKIP.

On Wednesday he filed a complaint in the Circuit Court of Montgomery, Ala., calling for a delay in certifying the results of the Dec. 12 Senate election which saw Democrat Doug Jones prevail over Moore by more than 20,000 votes.

Users have called for Twitter to take action to combat abuse and harassment repeatedly, and the demands for better management of the platform and the community intensified after the 2016 U.S. presidential election.

Among those who have criticized Putin in the past is 2016 Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton, who questioned whether Russia's 2011 elections were «free, fair, transparent» and called for a «full investigation» of the election's irregularities while she was Secretary of State.

And now that the time for revisionist history has arrived, and strategists no longer have to serve a political agenda and scare investors and traders into voting with their wallets, the research reports calling for precisely the outcome that we expected are coming in fast and furious, starting with none other than Goldman, whose chief strategist David Kostin issued a note overnight in which he says that «the equity market response to the election result will be limited» and adds that «our year - end 2016 price target for the S&P 500 remains 2100, roughly 2 % below the current level of 2140.»

During an August conference call with election officials from every state, Johnson reiterated that «we must ensure the security and resilience of election infrastructure,» and offered his agency's assistance.

The most recent presidential election in the United States proved that predicting — or as my guest today calls it, «probability calculation» — is a dangerous way of reading an audience.

President Trump took to Twitter again Wednesday to call claims that his campaign colluded with the Russians during the 2016 election a «hoax» and laid out a checklist of issues his administration is working on.

CalPERS apparently liked the fact that Apple's proposal called for the majority election of all directors, in addition to the elimination of what CalPERS termed the «blank check» preferred stock.

As more details emerge about Cambridge Analytica's use of Facebook data in the U.S. presidential election, members of Parliament in the UK are joining congressional leadership in the U.S. to call for a deeper investigation and potential regulatory action.

The fact of Canadian electoral politics is that once the election is called, those not directly involved in party electioneering are turned into spectators.

Italian elections are due to take place during the first half of 2018, and have the potential to deliver another political upset, although recently there have been signs that populist parties — most notably the Five Star Movement, which according to polls enjoys similar levels of support among Italian voters as the ruling Democratic Party — are toning down their calls for a referendum on Italy's membership of the eurozone.