Sentences with phrase «own political efforts»

Cohen never worked for Trump's campaign but aided his political efforts: He set up 2012 and 2016 «Draft Trump» endeavors, helped put together Trump's diversity coalition and, despite his long - standing registration as a Democrat, threw himself into Republican fundraising.

The cliff ties political efforts to immediate results in a pressing and unavoidable way.

And after working on various low - profile GOP political efforts in 2014, Cambridge landed a major job with a Mercer - funded Super PAC supporting Ted Cruz's presidential candidacy.

Paying someone to be quiet so they do not damage a political effort is an in - kind contribution to that campaign, covering a cost meant to aid efforts to win the election.

this makes it a «political effort».

the fact that the respondant lies about this being a political effort, proves that the platform of atheism is built on a foundation of lies.

While this certainly does not mean we should stop legal or political efforts completely, it does mean that we should begin thinking about what it looks like to be the church in a «post-culture war» era.

The inevitable tensions among the various constituencies — between blacks and Hispanics, for example — create conflicts that not only complicate political activism, but threaten to make the overall political effort look like a collection of interest groups seeking advantages, rather than victims insisting on justice.

-LSB-...] protesting any political efforts to turn childhood obesity into a «Red state / Blue state» issue, perhaps by reminding those in Red states that it's their own children who tend to be at -LSB-...]

Both would have to disarm their political efforts at winning primaries against IDC or non-IDC candidates.

Author's Note: In Part One of this series, I discussed the importance of using technology in political efforts not just to build a better persuasion tool, but to scale meaningful...

Author's Note: In Part One of this series, I discussed the importance of using technology in political efforts not just to build a better persuasion tool, but to scale meaningful relationships with an infinite number of people.

Independent Democratic Conference Leader Jeff Klein in an interview on Wednesday took a shot at the political efforts of the mainline conference in the state Senate, suggesting he should be put in charge of electing new members.

Now it seems, in a political effort to save face and spin the story, Senator Tkaczyk has introduced legislation to upgrade this charge from a violation to a misdemeanor, but all animal advocates know that a misdemeanor is simply not enough to stop these widespread abuses!

Asked about the middle - man in an alleged bribery scandal — Jona Rechnitz — who also made six - figure donations to the mayor's political efforts, Hizzoner said his campaign team had vetted him as much as possible.

Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who had been a financial backer of the Senate Republicans» political efforts, received multiple mayoral control extensions during his time in office.

The aim of our political efforts he believes, should therefore be to work towards enduring structural reform that effectively symbolizes the idea that all human lives are of equal value.

Institutional navel - gazing after the rejection of the European constitution was followed by a momentous political effort at reform in the Lisbon treaty.

Candidate Matt Kirby won just 112 votes and the restaurant later closed despite the party's political efforts.

The governor has used father's name and image in recent speeches and political efforts, and some have speculated he hopes to deliver the much - feted oration this year.

Similarly, state Republicans were less - than - enthused by the teacher's union's political efforts aimed at Grisanti.

Samuels recently called on Cuomo to transfer $ 10 million from his overflowing campaign coffers to the Senate Democrats» to help fund their political efforts this fall.

Mr. Percoco had taken a sabbatical from his job at the state to handle the political effort, and later reported having received income during that time from two entities with business before the state: COR Development, a construction firm based in Syracuse, and CHA Consulting, an engineering firm from Albany.

The funds will go from Thune's own re-election committee to the NRSC's coffers, where it will be turned directly into campaign ads and other political efforts toward hanging onto the Senate majority — which observers think may be threatened by the performance of GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump.

: Dead politicians» zombie political efforts.

«Considering the fact that the population down here is exploding, it makes obvious sense that there needs to be some organized political effort,» said Patrick Kennell, who is also a member of Community Board 1.

She hired Sherman Jewett, a veteran Albany - based political effort, to advise her through 2016 and increase her visibility outside of Onondaga County.

Highlighting the political giving of 61 billionaires who have contributed more than $ 200 million to political efforts in recent years, the group is worried that money could impact the convention.

I'd like to keep my focus on the economic and social strategy of Cameron and Osborne... and Labour's alternative - I think that's really where the political effort should come.»

In addition, I'm told the Democratic Senate Campaign Committee is close to inking a deal with adman Jimmy Siegel, who got his start on Spitzer's 2006 campaign for governor, as the Dems continue to ramp up their political efforts in preparation for the fall fight to retain the majority.

But more political efforts, like doing away with fusion voting and creating a publicly funded campaign finance system, could still be a tough sell.

He has consistently, conspicuously refused to endorse the Senate Democrats» political efforts.

I took conscious political efforts in my university days at Nsukka and Ife contesting and winning elections serving the students and the university communities and cutting my teeth in leadership training.

Pulling our troops out and allowing the country to adjust (thru their own political efforts and their own security efforts, with international guidance) is now the ONLY Winning Strategy.

Knowing where that ivory came from should focus both legal and political efforts to prevent further poaching in the area of origin.

While the Chinese economy is not yet as dynamic as the movement of its citizens, China is making substantial financial and political efforts to rectify the situation.

Michael Stephens, an aide who recently left the committee after working for Obey for 3 decades, praises his former boss for defending peer review and opposing political efforts to steer funding to specific diseases.

But others feared a listing would cause massive economic harm in the 11 western states where the bird lives, and fuel political efforts to gut the law.

This has created a growing pessimism within the scientific community, with the Guardian reporting that almost nine out of 10 climate scientists don't believe political efforts to restrict global warming to 2º Celsius will succeed.

Media reports and political efforts have continued to focus on the so - called «water service lines» that connect each house to the distribution system in the street.

Conventional political efforts to mitigate global warming, this trio argued, have fallen short.

If I recall correctly, his paper had been published in Science, and it had been fast - tracked in what seemed transparently to be part of a political effort to sell the public on human cloning to produce patient - specific embryonic stem cells.

His 2015 memoir A Common Struggle: A Personal Journey Through the Past and Future of Mental Illness and Addiction chronicles his personal struggles and political efforts as well as his deep commitment to reducing the stigma of psychiatric illness and furthering the public's awareness of this crucial issue.

With the help of maverick CIA agent Gustav Avrakotos, Wilson dedicates his canny political efforts to supply the Afghan mujahideen with the weapons and support to defeat the Soviet Union.

But she's almost as well - known for her political efforts: A breast - cancer survivor, she has become an ambassador for Susan G. Komen For The Cure.

The strong showing of the South may be related to energetic political efforts to enhance school quality in that region.

Children should not be the ones to pay the price for any political effort to gain control of public finances.

The barriers that have to be overcome are deeply unfair, and political efforts must be made to reduce educational and socioeconomic inequities.

But if we want to let it play out, we have to beat back the political efforts underway to push states to un-adopt the standards.

To give you a taste of what is coming in Part 2, the arguments can be summarized as: 1) Education does not lend itself to a single «best» approach, so the Gates effort to use science to discover best practices is unable to yield much productive fruit; 2) As a result, the Gates folks have mostly been falsely invoking science to advance practices and policies they prefer for which they have no scientific support; 3) Attempting to impose particular practices on the nation's education system is generating more political resistance than even the Gates Foundation can overcome, despite their focus on political influence and their devotion of significant resources to that effort; 4) The scale of the political effort required by the Gates strategy of imposing «best» practices is forcing Gates to expand its staffing to levels where it is being paralyzed by its own administrative bloat; and 5) The false invocation of science as a political tool to advance policies and practices not actually supported by scientific evidence is producing intellectual corruption among the staff and researchers associated with Gates, which will undermine their long - term credibility and influence.