Sentences with phrase «of primaries against»

The pressure on the five breakaway Democrats is getting more politically intense, with a primary challenge to IDC leader Jeff Klein and talk of primaries against other members, including Valesky.

UPDATED: One, items like the one I'm writing is clearly what Lazio is going for - he has almost no money for paid media and is trying to tap into the GOP base in advance of his primary against Carl Paladino, and the echo chamber isn't a bad way to do that.

When asked if his pondering of a primary against Ms. Savino was a way to curry favor with Cuomo, Cappelli said, «My record with the MTA speaks for itself.

Ayotte, who was considered the GOP establishment candidate, pulled out a narrow victory in the final hours of the primary against her main opponent, Ovide Lamontagne, who enjoyed the support of many Tea Party activists.

Not exact matches

«Though we will continue to prosecute the campaign against terrorists that we're engaged in today, the great power competition, not terrorism, is now the primary focus of US national security,» Mattis said in his opening statements at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies.

Nixon may not succeed in her primary challenge against Cuomo, but her platform's popularity among progressives may wind up shifting Cuomo on the issue of marijuana legalization.

The Republican civil war that erupted over the Tea Party's disregard of big business's agenda threatens to turn (big) business brother against (small) business brother in the 2014 Republican primaries.

Matthew Whitaker, a former US attorney and 2014 Republican primary candidate in Iowa's Senate race who is now the executive director of the conservative Foundation for Accountability and Civic Trust, told Business Insider in an email that Comey's testimony made it «clear» that «there is absolutely no criminal case to be made against President Trump for obstruction of justice.»

Sure, Donald Trump has led the charge against agreements like NAFTA, but Hillary Clinton has also adopted an anti-free trade stance after contending with the popularity of that position in her primary battle with Bernie Sanders.

The cross-party recruitment drive comes as Clinton wraps up an unexpectedly grueling primary battle against Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders that saw her veer left on a number of domestic policy issues.

On the contrary, the mechanics of primary races, it seems, are pushing the GOP to act not only against the interest of the country, but that of the party itself.

Holmes had been highly critical of both Moore, who was alleged of sexual misconduct with teenage girls when he was in his 30s, and former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon, who had boosted Moore's candidacy since the primary against Republican Sen. Luther Strange, who was McConnell's preferred candidate.

The president has responded harshly toward Republican congresspeople whom he considers insufficiently supportive of his agenda, even going so far as to meet with their primary challengers, while a pro-Trump political action committee at one point purchased, then withdrew, campaign ads against a senator who was wavering on the Senate GOP's health - care bill.

Lisa Fritsch, who ran against Greg Abbott in the Republican Primary for Governor of Texas in 2014, discussed the importance -LSB-...]

This suggests that China is the primary target of the steel tariffs, buttressed by the other punitive measures the U.S. has taken against its biggest trading partner.

Her research and experience lead her to advise aspiring entrepreneurs against falling victim to these common myths about venture capital: (1) It's the primary source of start - up funding.

Tavel is pointing out that the primary means of defending a business against competitors today is network effects.

Thiel said that his political alienation after supporting Donald Trump was not a primary driver of his move, but he did continue to bellow against tech's liberalism.

This adage suggests that traders take advantage of the prevailing primary trend, rather than trading against - or «fighting» - it.

Retirees may view annuitized income from Social Security and employer pensions as their primary source of retirement spending and think of the retirement portfolio only as a reserve to protect against the unexpected.

Romney campaign honcho Stuart Stevens is getting some mockery for his assertion that lots of people thought that Romney was a Catholic against contraception at the end of the primary season.

Most of the 2012 Republican presidential candidates couldn't make a coherent case against Obama / Romney - style health care policy to Republican primary voters ever mind non-Republican young people.

A Wall Street Journal report, which quotes unnamed members of the Obama administration, indicates the threat of genocide against Yazidis was the primary factor in the American decision to intervene.

The Republican Party is most vulnerable because the Religious Right, a substantial voting bloc, is adamantly against gambling, This was evident recently in an Alabama gubernatorial primary race, when the challenger said that he «would not rule out new gambling rules» and lost, while Governor Fob James agreed to almost all of the right's social agenda, and won renomination.

Touting her foreign policy credentials and defense of Israel, Jewish leaders flocked to Clinton as she ran against Barack Obama in the Democratic primaries.

In the pages of the Wall Street Journal, Peggy Noonan wonders if a string of failures for the Obama administration counts as mounting evidence not only against his primary claim to rule, executive competence, but also against the undergirding premises of liberal political philosophy.

It is true also that an environment of disregard for the authority of doctrinal Christianity facilitates the ready and immediate acceptance of any criticism or objection against Christian faith or morals, — especially morals, — and that for the majority of men, particularly for the majority of the young, these latter are the immediate and primary causes of individual apostasy.

Assuming the truth of contingency in human affairs, McCabe marshaled two primary arguments against divine foreknowledge.

But I was uneasy, and when I did venture to suggest that there was, in fact, a troubling aroma of idolatry wafting within our breezy confidences of the man, I was kindly informed that» being composed of Christian believers» the forum was in no danger of falling into sin against that great and primary commandment.

The search for simple answers continues, with both Osama bin Laden and many analysts citing U.S. support of Israel and continuing sanctions against Iraq as primary sources of anger toward the U.S..

Formed toward the end of the 1950s, two of these groups remain active today: the FARC (Colombian Revolutionary Armed Forces), which draws its primary strength from campesinos in the south, and the ELN (Army of National Liberation), whose strength is greater in the north among oil workers, indigenous groups defending their habitat against encroachment by the oil industry, and the Afro - Colombian population.

Sherburne twice (PS 1:102, 103) quotes against me Whitehead's statement that «the subjective unity dominating the process forbids the division of the extensive quantum which originates with the primary phase of the subjective aim» (PR 434).

The other non-Romney Republican presidential candidates either couldn't or wouldn't make a case against Romneycare that could win over the right - of - center voters that populate Republican primaries and caucuses.

Second, one of the primary purposes of the citation of this psalm in the Letter to the Hebrews is to defend Yeshua's priestly role against the charge that he could not function as a priest because he was descended from Judah rather than Levi (Hebrews 7:11 — 17).

Its primary aim is to establish the intellectual ground rules for fruitful discussion among religions, not to defend religion itself against the criticisms of secular philosophy.

It's this act that provides the basis for the primary legal strategy of the litigants against the HHS mandate.

Pelikan doesn't quite agree — he cites the Apostles» Creed, for instance, as having emerged from baptismal confessions without a primary focus on any particular heresy — but he does readily concede that polemics against heresies are an important reason for the emergence of confessional statements.

The sword was the primary concealed carry weapon of the time, and more than adequate against most foes.

They point to her 2 - 1 margin with Latinos over Obama in the 2008 primary and the latest party platform, which calls for a path to citizenship «for law - abiding families who are here,» the end of immigration raids against children and families, due process for «those fleeing violence in Central America,» and to rescind statutory bans on immigrants who modify their status in the country.

Is religion over against art, ethics, and politics, or is religion the primary understanding of our world that expresses itself in art, ethics, or politics?

The government should be more concerned about military equipment than bed nets because providing for defense I emphasize defense) of the people of the US against those who would threaten our lives, liberty or property with force is one of it's primary roles; being a charity is not.

For those who view deterrence as the primary purpose of punishment, the uncertainty of capital punishment as a deterrent provides the fatal argument against it.

The Church can not sanction any act of sex outside of true, ie male / female, marriage, because it directly goes against the Church's primary vocation as the Bride of Christ, i.e. that Body of believers who spend their lives seeking «him whom my soul loves» (Sg 3:3) and making him the first priority of their lives.

This shifting of primary subjectivity from ourselves to the earth and the cosmos may run against the grain of our habit of turning nature into a mere object to be manipulated by our subjective control, but it would be both scientifically responsible and environmentally beneficial.

How has it come to pass that movements of young and politically active Catholics such as the Sens Commun were able to openly mobilize center - right voters to support the forthright Catholic Fillon against the self - described catholique agnostique Juppé during the primary runoff?

Shattered's most lurid revelation is that, after her 2008 loss to Barack Obama, Mrs. Clinton and her husband devised a loyalty scale by which they measured Democratic members of Congress — and then took systematic revenge against those who were either not supportive in the 2008 primary contest with Obama or insufficiently supportive.

In this regard Whitehead deliberately directs his sharpest polemic against the substance - quality model and thereby against the concept of substance found in Aristotle's Categories, according to which a [primary] entity can not be in another as in its subject.

People who are against affirmative action have lifted up procedural justice (usually without realizing it) as the primary meaning of justice.

Members of the Religious Right, including Bill McCartney, were the primary sponsors of «Colorado's Amendment 2,» which struck down the statute outlawing discrimination against gays, which was itself struck down by the Supreme Court last June.

His primary commitments, however, are to Aquinas, whom he defends not only against modern criticism of the sort made by process thinkers but also against the older criticisms of Medieval Jewish, Muslim and even other Christian thinkers (e.g., Duns Scotus).