Sentences with phrase «only up to the election»

But the Gove sacking, for that is what it is, ensures that Murdoch will support him only up to the election itself.

Not exact matches

Up 5.6 % over the same period, the S&P 500 also set a new record high on Friday, but only for the seventh time since the election, according to S&P Global — half as many times as the Dow.

Not only are they almost twice as likely to vote in federal elections as younger people, it is also bad for your image to be viewed as beating up on the Golden Girls.

Donald Trump's presidential election victory seems to have boosted shares of both Dunkin' Brands and Starbucks — but only one has lived up to its investors» expectations.

Adding even more weight to Sandoval's misstep, Nevada is one of the only seven states Politico Magazine rated as a toss - up in the 2016 elections.

For sure, Mr. Moore would be on surer footing here if the Conservative Party of Canada hadn't pleaded guilty to violating election spending limits in 2008 and if the Harper government wasn't the only government in this country's history to have been found in contempt of Parliament and if the RCMP wasn't said to be presently investigating Mr. Harper's former chief of staff and and if two Conservative MPs weren't presently in court with Elections Canada and if the Prime Minister hadn't left for Peru without facing the House on the first day that Parliament was in session after the deal between Mr. Wright and Mr. Duffy was revealed and if the Prime Minister hadn't fail to show up in the House on the following Monday and if Mr. Duffy hadn't remained a Conservative senator for awhile despite having apparently claimed a housing allowance he shouldn't have.

Not only is it trying to comply with GDPR, but it's also dealing with the negative backlash from users and media following revelations that its data policies allowed the personal information of as many as 87 million unknowing users to end up in the hands of an outside data firm that worked with U.S. President Donald Trump during the 2016 election.

SEAN HANNITY: My question is, are you concerned within the process of this, we did discover that a foreign national, Christopher Steele, was paid through Fusion GPS, used Russian sources that not only weren't verified, but were debunked — are you concerned that was paid for, to manipulate the American people in the lead - up to an election?

He would become the longest - serving leader of a major political party in Canadian history and the only Prime Minister to win four consecutive federal elections by backing up his pledge of real change with real action.

Conservative Glen Motz and Libertarian Sheldon Johnston appear to be the only two candidates to so far step up to run in the upcoming federal by - election in Medicine Hat - Cardston - Warner.

The B.C. Liberals told British Columbians one thing about the cost of the B.C. Place roof throughout the election campaign, only to turn around and jack up the budget by 58 per cent:

I agree with Peter Lawler that the election is shaping up to be very close if one projects from present circumstances (with only modest changes up or down to unemployment and job creation numbers.)

The only surprise yesterday was the GOP strangehold over the House being held — so we'll have to step up the vote at the next election to free the House from the poison too.

The vast majority of electoral races are foregone conclusions: Only 90 of the 435 congressional districts up for election in 2014 were considered «competitive,» and even these were decided by a vote margin up to 5 percent.

I bring this up not only because I've been thinking a lot about talking to kids about diversity and privilege in the context of the current election but also because I have heard a number of friends talk recently about not saving for college because it means their kids will get less financial aid.

Skip ahead five years: Howard Dean uses blogs, organizes meet - ups and raises a shit - ton of money online, only to be eclipsed by John Kerry's general election web / email fundraising juggernaut.

The conference speeches and by - elections indicate that debates over migration will only become more heated in the run up to the General Election and with the implementation of further restrictions on migrants» rights to citizenship and services.

[2] According to that article, the estimated population of 20 -24 year olds in 2015 was 3,806,471 while only 492,306 applied to register to vote in the months running up to the election.

This flood of information — updated constantly as elections approached — not only supplemented the campaign's internal polling, but at times (including during the run - up to the Iowa Caucuses) provided a more accurate view of the electorate:

A general election now would probably see the Tory majority chipped away at, but Labour only able to govern in coalition with other progressive parties, in such an unstable formulation that it couldn't hold for long, if they could even set it up in the first place.

At the same time, Cuomo had called on lawmakers to «make the case» for a pay increase by personally testifying to the commission — a gambit only a handful took up in an election year.

A little march to and rally outside where he was staying, in support of the action being taken to preserve the eight indigenous ethnic groups, the small but very ancient and entrenched Jewish community, the Gulf's only synagogue and Jewish cemetery, the black community that is part of the East African diaspora, the fifth of the population that is non-Muslim, the half of that fifth which is Christian, the strictly optional status of the women's headscarf, the Sunni third of Bahraini Muslims, the requirement that all legislation be approved by both Houses of Parliament, the election of the Lower House by universal suffrage, the regular appointment of women to the Upper House to make up for their dearth in the elected Lower House, the presence in the Upper House of a Jewish man and a Christian woman (the latter the first woman ever to chair a Parliament in the Arab world), the present position of a Jewish woman as Ambassador to the United States, the very close ties to Britain, and the fact that all of this is perfectly acceptable even to Salafi Members of Parliament.

Hillary Clinton has ramped up her efforts to influence the Democratic Party and its voters in upcoming midterm elections, a move that some say only hands ammunition to Republican candidates.

As we enter the crunch time for 2006 primary elections and as the 2006 generals start to heat up, there are probably a lot of campaigns that are really only now getting started with focused email campaigns.

Now we know the make - up of the next parliament, and the astonishing outcome of an election that has given David Cameron the chance to lead a Conservative - only Cabinet, we can start to build up a picture of what the next five years has in store for British politics.

It is important to note that under Speaker Sheldon Silver's bill, (1) receiving public funds depends on the candidate's ability to raise money from numerous small donors, so only donations up to $ 250 are matched with taxpayer dollars and that (2) candidates are limited to a maximum amount of public funds ($ 400,000 for Senate candidates and $ 200,000 for Assembly candidates in the general election race).

The cry bullies line up to say how Corbyn is a bully or incompetent, or, or, or... Seems rather reminiscent of something, oh yes, its just the same as the timed resignations... a drip drip drip to keep the negative press in the news cycle, only this time it has to last until the leadership election votes start to roll in.

The Teamsters, who played only a token role in the 2006 statewide elections, are trying to beef up their political presence this time around by assisting candidates on both sides of the aisle.

Only ten per cent of Labour Party members support Brexit, but up to one - third of people who voted Labour at the last general election want to leave the EU.

Teachout, meanwhile, sent out a fundraising email today that landed in my inbox only minutes after Faso's memo, asking donors to help shore up her finances to prepare for what she expects will be a hard fought = and nasty — general election race.

The UKIP, which for the first time came in first in a nation - wide election, has been traditionally strong in EU elections, only to fizzle out in the run up to national general election.

Mr Maizière was only saved by the upcoming federal elections: in the run - up, Chancellor Merkel could not afford to lose one of her most valuable ministers.

Estonia is the only country in the world that relies on Internet voting in a significant way for legally - binding national elections — up to 25 % of voters cast their ballots online.

Not only that, but plans are already being drawn up for him to play a significant cheer - leading role in the general election campaign.

This is something backbenchers have been pushing for over the past year — and there are more than 100 of them by one count — so not only would a Bill help the party on the doorstep when it comes to the European elections in 2014, but it will also cheer up MPs.

«But if several Democrats end up on the ballot in a general election it can only help the incumbent Republican who will definitely get out his base vote in what still amounts to a Republican town.»

Cuomo says the Democrats had already tentatively agreed to reunite after special elections for two Senate seats to be held April 24th, so he only moved up the plan two weeks.

In the run - up to the 2010 general election, the Conservatives were the only major party with no gay rights policies.

That has been widely speculated, since Cuomo is believed to be very interested in ticket balancing and Rice not only is the only woman in the field (unless Liz Holtzman formally enters the race), but also hails from the suburbs, which is going to be a battleground this fall — particularly if Suffolk County Executive Steve Levy ends up as the GOP candidate in the general election.

Fed Up New Yorkers will make it a point to come out on election day and vote for Carl Paladino, thug or not, and it's only because Paladino is aware of what is going through the minds of the working class New Yorkers desperation and that is something that Andrew Cuomo disregards.

We have often had, I think, these relationships going only one way (only helping the marginal), where perhaps what we could do would be to have the marginal helping the safe seat in less crucial times and safe helping marginal in run - up to elections.

«I'm a little dubious about his commitment because he seems to pay attention to these issues only when there's an election coming up and what he's done is put together a panel that he wants to study the issue and frankly there's no need to study the issue further,» Holland said.

I don't put much store in opinion polls, but if true it would only indicate roughly what you would expect to happen at this point in the parliament - 32 % isn't that much lower than Labour got in the 2005 General Election and all it would suggest is that the Liberal Democrats are having a reversal - tactical voting could see them holding onto many of their current seats, indeed it is even possible that if they got 17 % of the vote that if it focused in an area that they could actually end up with more seats, where the switches in support are occuring is crucial - if they are focused then if the Conservative Party were to get 39 % then it might still result in them getting fewer seats than Labour or in extremis winning a 150 seat majority or so?

Four contenders are already gearing up for the fight, unaffected by the short delay in calling the by - election announced today by the Speaker: the Liberal Democrats, only 103 votes behind Labour in May, are to be challenged by an anti-coalition Liberal, and the Conservatives, 2300 votes behind the Liberals, fancy their chances too.

Labour seat level estimates in most of the poll analyses I have carried out in the years leading up to the recent general election were quite stark, highlighting the fact that our PR - STV electoral system is proportional but only to a limited extent.

Only 11,878 of the 24th District's 140,065 active Democratic voters — about 8.5 percent — showed up at the polls on Tuesday, according to preliminary election returns.

«Top Cat» Owen is the only member of the current OMRLP line up ever to poll over 1,000 votes (he polled 2,859 votes in the 1994 European elections), and his dip in fortunes despite a previously strong local following appears to have killed the last realistic chance the party ever had of seeing a saved deposit.

BUENOS AIRES — Only a few weeks ago, Argentina's midterm election was shaping up to be a duel over economic policy.

Will the 23,000 people who signed a petition to remove Carl Paladino show up to vote in the next school board election or is their interest only momentarily engaged when they're outraged about something?

When political analysts added up turnout figures from the Nov. 3 elections, they could find only one word to describe a year when a mere 24.5 percent of registered voters showed up at the polls in Erie County: Abysmal.