Sentences with phrase «party of a handful»

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Senate Democrats and a handful of Republicans blocked a bill to fund the government after the two parties failed to break their deadlock over immigration.

But without the votes, Democratic opponents and a handful of Republicans who crossed party lines to oppose the measure, were left only to deliver emotional pleas to block it.

The platform tracks emails and presentations to see how recipients interact with them, and pulls a person's calendar into email so he or she can offer a client a handful of meeting times instead of going back and forth trying to nail down a slot that works for both parties.

Amazon already collects state sales taxes on products it sells directly, but the company does not collect state sales taxes for its third - party platform outside of a handful of states.

Unlike the old days, where information was created, controlled, and distributed by only a handful of parties, failing to reach the masses and disguised in hidden agenda, cryptocurrency and blockchain places information and power back in the hands of the user — allowing or non-traditional (and modern) methods of dissemination.

As a matter of fact, most people that runs party planning business choose to run the business alone or at most with a handful of full — time employees just for the sole aim of reducing overhead, and maximizing profits.

There is a handful of small opposition parties and a coalition of the disaffected called the United Democratic Front in this overwhelmingly one - party country.

In spite of attempts to paint a vast plot on the part of world Communism to take over and dominate the American Protestant Churches, the best evidence that could be produced pointed to a handful of well - intentioned but sometimes naïve clergy who had at times been used by Communist - front organizations or by the party itself.

True conservatives, of which there are only a handful left in the repub party, know this

In fact, I was at a party on Saturday night that had a table full of fresh cherries and spiced pistachios, and I finally had to pull myself away after downing a good dozen cherries and a large handful of pistachios.

Yes, I nabbed a handful of extra-soft, very late season peaches at the market last week, and after I ate a couple I decided to sink the rest into an easy cake for a dinner party.

Now you have a handful of healthy but decadent recipes to make for your Gilmore Girls viewing party!

«Labour MP Damien O'Connor questioned National Party links to Chinese - owned company, which is one of a handful of New Zealand - based companies to get approval from China to export infant formula since China put tighter import rules in place in 2014.

That said, I have a handful of recipes that I do fall back on when family parties come up or we have people coming in to visit OR on the rare occasion when I just need a quick dinner and there's nothing already made in the fridge.

Alison, the wife of my lead at work, someone that I have met only a handful of times at company parties, took it upon herself to give us a large set of cloth diaper goodies that expanded our initial set and gave us the opportunity to explore a larger portion of the cloth diaper world than we would have been able to otherwise.

In a small political party that is unlikely to elect anyone to office, or is likely to elect only a handful of officials, the drafting of the party platform is often seen as the primary mission of the party since it articulates the ideas that are associated with the party and provides a marketing document for the party and for its ideas.

In an apparent distraught against this considered loud mouth vituperations, the party took arbitrary steps particularly at the regional levels to suspend a handful of supposed deviants upon receipts of petitions which rather flowed copiously like the river Jordan from all manner of party persons who particularly were enthusiastic about the cutting to size, those who were perceived to have overgrown their wings against the very much revered flagbearer.

Small campaigns and state parties rely on a handful of under - funded initiatives and start - ups for their tech needs.

It comes as a handful of lobbyists have also been selected as Conservative candidates in seats that the party hopes to steal off Labour.

Hall of Fame running - back Thurman Thomas is set to deliver swag and tickets to the football team's official draft party to a handful of people who use the app today.

Mangano, (who, as you may recall, was one of a handful of Republican county executives to cross party lines and endorse Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo's re-election bid in 2014), pleaded not guilty to federal charges last fall, but he has refused to heed calls to step down and hasn't said whether he'll seek a third term.

A handful of Conservative MP, mainly from the 2015 intake, could provide the intellectual fuel for the party's future.

Not that I'm looking ahead to Democratic gains in the Fall, since we're defending far too many marginal seats picked up in the wave of 2008, but I do see a more typical incumbent - party loss in the range of 20 - 30 seats in the House and a handful in the Senate.

The Tories secured the votes of most former Ukip supporters, which prevented the party from losing even more seats, and helped it secure a handful of gains well away from the capital.

A net result of no gains and no losses or just picking up a handful of new seats will represent failure for a party that needs something spectacular to catapult it back into the national conversation.

I think activists can work to get Greens and Respect elected in a handful of FPTP seats and we must all hope for an embarrassingly massive Tory landslide (300 seats or so) on < 50 % of the vote that will make everyone see what an absurd situation we are in, make Cameron's parliamentary party more unruly and nekedly nasty and — crucially — smash the Labour Party so hard that both its right and its left give up all hope of ever winning a FPTP election again, and destroy the hubris that decrees that they never collaborate with other progressive / left foparty more unruly and nekedly nasty and — crucially — smash the Labour Party so hard that both its right and its left give up all hope of ever winning a FPTP election again, and destroy the hubris that decrees that they never collaborate with other progressive / left foParty so hard that both its right and its left give up all hope of ever winning a FPTP election again, and destroy the hubris that decrees that they never collaborate with other progressive / left forces.

This does indeed mean that literally a handful of new MPs could determine who leads the Labour Party after the election — either by lending the left sufficient numbers to nominate one of their own under the existing 15 % threshold or, in refusing to do so, by making it essential that Corbyn cling on and the left achieve a reduction in that threshold.

The party scraped 5 % in my second poll of the by - election campaign a month ago; on the day itself they failed to reach that threshold by a handful of votes.

The lawsuit, which was filed by the Montana Democratic Party on April 2nd, calls into question the validity of a handful of the 7386 validated signatures turned in by MTGP supporters.

In the past year, the party has had to deal with a handful of accusations of anti-Semitism within its ranks.

Those Eurosceptics are the handful of people who now run the country, the rebels on Europe who harassed successive Tory party leaders and who now bully those who question «the will of the people».

Instead, the perennial candidate from Syracuse, who on Thursday quietly announced his candidacy in Albany to handful of reporters, is hoping his campaign will help build the party's infrastructure and continue to move the state forward on progressive issues.

National Republicans have begun to intervene in a handful of key Senate and House battlegrounds where state parties are in disarray, seeking to head off the possibility that local mismanagement could cost the party control of Congress.

Sharpe, who lives in Astoria with his wife and two daughters, sought the Libertarian Party nomination for vice president of the United States in 2016, but lost to William Weld by a handful of votes.

She's among a handful of Democrats considering a run for their party's nomination.

The vote showed that, with full Conservative and DUP support, coupled with that of a few MPs from other parties, a future majority for an EU referendum could depend on just a handful of Labour MPs - many fewer than are known to support an EU referendum.

A handful of public affairs operators have been selected as Conservative candidates in seats that the party hopes to steal off Labour.

Despite the party compositions here, Republicans effectively control both states» upper chambers, thanks to a handful of Democratic defectors.

Banner General - Election Matchups A handful of these races have featured all - but - official party nominees for more than a year.

Others, though, will question the very notion of the party relying on a handful of vendors like this one for essential technology infrastructure.

Watertown Mayor Jeff Graham is one of only a handful of elected officials who are members of the Independence Party.

The «Ukip tendency» in the Tory parliamentary party took root then, led by Enoch Powell and a handful of backbenchers like Neil Marten.

As both parties battle for control of the State Senate, the most forceful attack advertisements have been concentrated in a handful of races that will determine who controls the chamber — and, increasingly, they are being drawn up by outside groups, including some not even in New York State.

Allies of Mr Corbyn rallied around him and insisted losing just a handful of council seats in England was a far better result than had been expected given the anti-Semitism row engulfing the party.

Hillary Rodham Clinton and then - Mayor Michael Bloomberg, cozied up to the onetime Brooklyn Democratic Party boss when they needed his endorsement or political favors, but only a handful of lower - level pols were seen among the 300 mourners at Our Lady of the Rosary Pompeii in Williamsburg.

Despite all but a handful of MPs, the active support of the trade unions, the pleas of every former leader of the party and Alan Johnson's battlebus, more than a third of the party's electoral base jumped at the chance to quit the EU.

Launching their manifesto this morning, UKIP leader Lord Pearson of Rannoch has announced that not only is his party making a conscious decision not to stand in a handful of seats held by what he defined as «committed eurosceptics» in the last Parliament, but that UKIP will «actively campaign» for them.

As the three Republicans are distinct minorities on City Council and the Board of Education, New Rochelle is 100 % under the control of Democrats and the Democratic Party is controlled by a handful of individuals.

Nationally - organized minor parties, which are traditionally under - funded, nevertheless sometimes have enough funding to provide a significant boost to a single nominee, or a handful of nominees, for important office.

Albany County Republican Chairman John A. Graziano said Carey, who made his announcement unaccompanied, is among a handful or so of people who have asked the party for its support.