Sentences with phrase «of local cast»

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While some observers are casting doubt on Harbour's commitment to the domestic gas market, Cook's message is somewhat different, emphasising the benefits also to local gas users of increased investment in drilling across the Cooper Basin and eastern Australia.

It had cast down the local high places, had centralized worship in Jerusalem, had eliminated the worst abominations of the heathen cults, and in the ethical realm had put in force the admirable law code of Deuteronomy.

Only after the Old Testament canon was complete and in 70 A.D. the temple was destroyed by the Romans, was Jewish thought, as a whole, finally cast out of its local matrix, and even then the legal system, with its particularistic minutiæ, was the more insisted on because the sacrificial cult was gone.

Whereas Elijah, therefore, had been in despair because the local altars of Yahweh were being cast down, the prophetic party some two centuries later were in despair because they were not cast down.

The result was a rotating cast of my favorite people in the world, running, biking, and swimming all over the tiny island, and, of course, eating amazing local seafood.

The Notebaert Goes to the Birds with New Birds of Paradise Exhibit - Third Coast Review - February 2, 2018 Just as Museum Week was kicking off in Chicago, the Notebaert was celebrating its 161st birthday and the opening of their newest special exhibit, Birds of Paradise — Amazing Avian Evolution, which includes an amazing live animal exhibit called The Bird House that features a rotating cast of local and exotic birds for visitors to meet, learn about and interact with.

The Lindenhurst Park District has a supporting cast of local individuals, organizations, governmental, and business oriented bodies, which allow our Park District to move forward in a progressive manner and accomplish improvements beneficial to you.

When Wilmette voters cast ballots in the November election, they may be determining the fate of two revered local institutions - New Trier High School and the village's lakefront.

With 650 ballots cast, the top vote - getters for three open village trustee seats were Bonnie Cathleen Blackledge, chairwoman of the Village Cable Commission and a local merchant; Patrick O'Brien, a member of the Glen Ellyn Elementary District 41 Facilities Planning Committee and a Santa Fe Railway Co. retiree; and James Perlstein, chairman of the Capital Improvements Commission and a financial adviser.

The best were to be printed and a plaster cast of the winner's boobs was to be made «to hang in your local.»

He heads to his local further education college, and soon joins a colourful cast of scooter - riding outsiders who are looking for a brighter future.

According to them, by nullifying elections in 18 out of 31 local government areas, Section 179 (2)(b) of the Nigerian Constitution, which required that a candidate vying for the office of the Governor would be declared winner if he has not less than one quarter of the votes cast at the election in each of at least two - thirds of the local government areas, has been breached.

As the tin pot dictators of the world eagerly await the opportunity to introduce their own «statutory underpinning» to shackle the media holding them to account, we can but only hope that the Lords will take the opportunity to ensure that small organisations, local micro-newspapers and embryonic blogger sites are not cast into the same chaos as the large newspapers will imminently face.

Internet voting was first introduced in the local elections of 2005, when more than 9 thousand voters cast their ballot via the Internet (this corresponded to about 2 per cent of all participating voters).

At some polling sites, local elected officials reported that all of the old - school levered voting machines — which were revived this year because of concerns with new electronic scanning machines — were down, forcing voters to cast affidavit ballots instead.

Hundreds of those who did vote in Malliotakis» race, but not for her, cast write - ins, including several for local Democrat Justin Brannan, who is now running for City Council, certain write - ins for presidential candidates such as Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton, and even gag votes for deceased individuals, such as Elvis Presley, or fictional characters from popular culture, such as Tywin Lannister from Game of Thrones.

The bishop spoke after casting his votes at Nodu village hall, ward nine, Okpuno, Awka South Local Government Area of the state.

During his local races, he was the top vote - getter in the town of Yorktown and received the highest ever number of votes cast for a town council member in 2013.

I am not condemning all of our leaders, but enough have condemned themselves recently to cast our local government in a very dim light.

At the local authority level, the People Before Profit Alliance won nearly ten per cent of all the votes cast in Dun Laoghaire - Rathdown (9.8 %), with the next best result coming in Dublin City (6.9 %).

Apart from these counties / cities, Labour failed to win more than one vote in every eight cast in all of the other local authority areas, although the party did succeed in winning more than ten percent of all the votes cast in some other local authority areas, namely Fingal (11.3 %), Kilkenny (11.2 %), Galway City (10.8 %) and South Dublin County (10.2 %).

The images coming from Ferguson, Missouri, of police in riot gear facing protesters has some in Congress calling for changes to the way local police agencies are able to use cast off military equipment from the Department of Defense.

This effort is being cast as a show of respect for the late assemblyman, but if he wins, it would also be a boon for local GOP leaders.

Ultimately, council elections will cast judgement on whether modest council tax hikes in the name of local autonomy and better services are preferred over ever - diminishing central government hand outs, but the gloves are now off as local democracy fights back.

The voting trend was the same in the various councils with only about 40 per cent of the registered voters coming out to cast their votes in the seven local councils so far declared.

He cast Russo, who has the support of local and Albany Republicans and has out - fundraised his opponent, as «the anointed candidate of the back - room bosses» who run the SRCC and accepted two turncoat Democrats — ex-Sen.

For example, the recount in Michigan did not indicate any signs of invalid votes cast nor significant differences between the local vote counts and the announced vote counts.

But a series of recent moves by the Battery Park City Authority, a state agency that oversees operations of Battery Park City, have cast doubts on Fortenbaugh's future with the marina and irked some local and state leaders.

While Fayemi wanted the results of the election so far cast by delegates from five local governments upheld, the state APC Chairman, Chief Jide Awe, called for the immediate cancellation of the exercise.

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.

Voters can still go to their local board of elections and cast an absentee ballot in person by Monday.

Delegates from all the local governmnt areas in Ekiti South have already cast their votes as the time of filing this report.

After casting his vote in Mt. Kisco yesterday, Cuomo called Astorino «a fully financed subsidiary of Donald Trump,» and insisted the local race would have much broader implications.

While Fayemi wanted the results of the election so far cast by delegates from five local governments upheld, the state APC Chairman, Chief Jide Awe, called for the cancellation of the exercise.

«We wouldn't have joined issues with the former governor but because of the aspersions cast on the community blessed with the highest number of electorate in Itesiwaju Local Government area of the state.

With the campaign season fast receding, Woodstock voters are preparing to cast their ballots next Tuesday, November 8 — Election Day — in seven local races, although incumbents are running unopposed in three of the contests and thus guaranteed reelection.

The party called on all electorate in the state to cast their votes for Audu so that they could witness and enjoy rapid socio - economic development in all local government areas of the state.

«These developments, and others, have cast a pall of uncertainty and fear over the Hoosick Falls community, with wide ranging impacts from health and emotional well - being to the local economy,» he wrote in the letter.

There are numerous tiers of government in the UK for which voters are regularly asked to cast their ballots, including local councils, directly elected mayors, police and crime commissioners, national assemblies and parliaments.The first past the post system for local councils in England and Wales as well as Westminster also means that the nuances of local politics can vary significantly from place to place.

At Monday's meeting, which was hosted by Councilman Ydanis Rodriguez and Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer, resident said the developers needed to do a better job of looking into the impact the building will have on the community, in terms of displacement of local tenants, as well as its environmental impact on increasing traffic and casting shadows on neighboring Fort Tryon Park.

The Electoral Commission found that out of nearly 45 million votes cast in the local and General Election in 2017, there were only 28 cases of alleged voter fraud.

He made emus run across a smooth, soft field at his local zoo, and took measurements and casts of the prints they left behind, examining everything from the length of the print to individual toe components and angles.

The poll results cast doubt on the prospect of finding lasting love online, and instead relying on friends (or your local pub) to help you find The One.

Wind River follows a cast of individuals who are attempting to track down answers in the mysterious death of a young local woman.

It lets you cast a broader net and find people from all sorts of backgrounds that might not necessarily be hanging out at your local bar.

The narration spelling out the story seems designed to let the cast members completely contain their visible emotions; in an environment this repressed, Babette's subtle flicker of distaste over a local glop called «bread - and - ale soup» is the equivalent of a weeping fit.

Performed a rendition of Little Eva's 1962hit «The Loco - Motion» at a charity event featuringNeighbours cast members; executives at a local label recorded and released a single of her version, which stayed at the top of the Australian pop charts for seven weeks.

The cast, collectively a successful example of the lovable - loser protagonist, shows deft comic timing, particularly Chandrasekhar, who wrings laughs just by his reaction to the locals» racist remarks.

«Prey at Night» continues the first film's tradition of casting secluded rural enclaves as key locations, moving the action from the first film's oddly empty middle class neighborhood to a cleared - out trailer park that caters to families on holiday at the local lake.

Most of the comedic moments revolve around Robert Downey Jr.'s character and supporting cast member Dax Shepard as the local inexperienced defense attorney.