Sentences with phrase «one's preferred successor»

Harris / FT — 50 % want Brown to call an immediate general election if he becomes PM, Brown leads Reid 21 % to 9 % as preferred successor.

She is also a close adviser to Andrew Cuomo, who has not yet publicly backed a candidate to replace him as AG — though he is believed to prefer a successor who is not a sitting legislator.

If he had done this and the Great British Public voted Remain, the majority of the plaudits would go to Cameron and the political capital would probably flow to Cameron's preferred successor Osborne.

Wenger has not ruled out holding on to Sagna for the final year of his contract, but has earmarked Janmaat as his preferred successor after having him watched playing for Feyenoord in the Dutch Eredivisie.

I think the club already know who they want as his preferred successor, though may not yet have agreed terms to get him.

What I think WILL happen, is that Wenger will limp on til the PREM is over and in the meantime the club will be sounding out his preferred successor, ready to install the week Wenger leaves.

Nigel Adkins is looking like the preferred successor (I think Jose Mourinho maybe just out of our league, although nothing wrong with thinking big!)

The WFP opted not to endorse anyone in the race for the moment, which is something of a blow to Assemblyman Adriano Espaillat, Schneiderman's preferred successor.

It's gonna be fun,» he said, as he campaigned for Assemblyman Keith Wright, his preferred successor in Congress.

There, Mr. Bloomberg, who has refused to reveal his preferred successor, once again praised Ms. Quinn.

Earlier in the day, at a news conference, a sweaty Mr Blair insisted that Gordon Brown was still his preferred successor.

Manhattan / Bronx District 8 (East Harlem, South Bronx): In the other race that still has not been called, Melissa Mark - Viverito's preferred successor, Diana Ayala, has a 122 - vote lead over East Harlem Assemblyman Robert Rodriguez.

- suburban struggle, will now almost certainly be between DeFrancisco, a conservative on social and fiscal issues, and Sen. John Flanagan (Suffolk), a leader of the socially liberal and often - pro-big-spending Long Island delegation and the Nassau County - based Skelos» preferred successor, Senate insiders said.

Bratton had repeatedly said he would not serve past the end of de Blasio's current term, which ends next year, and he recently endorsed O'Neill as his preferred successor.

Rep. Charlie Rangel is «anxious» about the fact that his preferred successor, Assemblyman Keith Wright, is trailing Sen. Adriano Espaillat in the NY - 13 Democratic primary to replace the veteran Harlem congressman.

For 2015 Conservatives who voted to leave the EU, Boris Johnson was the preferred successor to David Cameron for 43 %.

A former US attorney for the Western District of NY during the Clinton administration, O'Donnell briefly ran for AG in 2006 and was widely believed to be one of Eliot Spitzer's preferred successors.

She has been leading in the public opinion polls, and was believed to be Mayor Bloomberg's preferred successor — that is, until the New York Times reported the mayor had asked Hillary Clinton to consider running for his post after she leaves the State Department.

In a recent Sunday Times interview, Nigel Farage named Evans and Ukip deputy leader Paul Nuttal as his preferred successors should he fail to win in South Thanet on May 7.

Several candidates, including Mendez's preferred successor, Carlina Rivera, are competing in the Democratic primary, which will determine who holds the seat next given it is a staunchly Democratic district.

Mark - Viverito is doing a great deal to see her preferred successor, Diana Ayala, defeat Assemblymember Robert Rodriguez in one of the races to replace a female Council member that could go either way.

Greenfield will be replaced by either his preferred successor, Kalman Yeger, or by Yoni Hikind, both men.

Rice is widely seen as Cuomo's preferred successor, but so far, he's refused to even hint at a preference.

For Mendez's seat, which represents parts of the Lower East Side, her preferred successor is Carlina Rivera, who has received a good deal of establishment support and is considered the favorite, though she has tough competition from Mary Silver and Ronnie Cho.

Rice, who recently picked up the endorsement of the Brooklyn Democratic Party, is viewed as the frontrunner in the Democratic AG field at the moment — largely because she is perceived as AG Andrew Cuomo's preferred successor.

In the weeks leading to the state Democratic convention next week, aides and allies of Mr. Cuomo have moved quietly and methodically to bolster Kathleen M. Rice, the Nassau County district attorney and the candidate widely believed to be Mr. Cuomo's preferred successor.

Or wait for the economy to improve and pass on to a preferred successor.

Washington was seen as Duffy's preferred successor, so Fletcher's upset win appears to be a rebuke of his leadership.

Modestly declining the position himself, Tarzan, never the friend of democracy, appoints his preferred successor for the people.

McMurtry took the rather confident step this spring of announcing his preferred successor upon his retirement, his Associate Chief Justice Dennis O'Connor.