Sentences with phrase «past as»

Surely his past as a BBC producer whilst his old man was there, then that period of chasing the money and lobbying for Pfizer should do for him come the vote.

The city has also referred to itself in the past as the «Empire City.»

«New York City defined hardship in the past as de minimis burden — basically, it's an inconvenience.

Tory sources, ruing Cameron's personal decision to grant Clegg equal status in the three debates, started to point to his past as a full - time European commission bureaucrat, as well as his firm Europhile views.

He, however, said the economic recession currently ravaging the country would be a thing of the past as the President was doing everything humanly possible to salvage the country from its present economic woes.

Then again, Prince Philip is unlikely to talk about his sexual and romantic past as candidly as McCray ---- to the evident delight of her husband ---- did about her life as a young lesbian activist.

Despite various attempts to distance himself from his past as Tony Blair's big thinker David Miliband is still regarded as essentially a Blairite.

«We had to realize there were some bad decisions that were made in the past, irresponsible decisions that were made in the past as far as the city's finances, using casino funds,» Scott said.

Key Corbyn ally Diane Abbott suggested his past as a «lobbyist and PR man» meant he was unsuitable to lead a party of NHS - loving members.

Talk of exiling Progress has prompted Lord Mandelson to warn unions of being stuck in the past as he raised the spectre of Labour's internecine battles of the 1980s.

Awkward, then, for the shadow chancellor to be forced to ask questions about the party's recent past as well and brush it off with a «there's no point dwelling on the past» type attitude.

Finley Tears into Byrne's Past as Primary Approaches Mayor Graham's View: «All this and more has been shopped privately by Democrats who didn't want their prints on it, but Mr. Finley is no shrinking Violet and frankly there should be a vetting of candidate backgrounds.

My fears that the chaos at the Commission would lead the present young crop of the NDC to self - destruct was confirmed when I discovered on 29th and 31st July 2017 respectively that the author of the second petition for the removal of the two Deputy Commissioners was Emmanuel Korsi Senyo, the concerned citizen, who had acted in the past as an NDC surrogate commencing action against the General Legal Council in the Supreme Court in defence of Francis Sosu, who had contested the primaries in my constituency, Madina, for the NDC.

«It's a political equation,» said Eugene O'Donnell, a John Jay College of Criminal Justice lecturer who worked in the past as a cop and a prosecutor.

Rodriguez at the meeting spoke of his support for the LGBTQ community in the past as well as his track record of fighting for civil justice.

Faced with a mini-revival in Tory fortunes sparked by David Cameron's rediscovery of some favourite old tunes, or blasts from the past as they are sometimes known, Brown has avoided direct engagement with the enemy.

Social democracy has tended to prevail in the past as far as the Lib Dems are concerned.

The title which is divided into three volumes with 58 chapters and a total of 1,522 pages; is presented like Obasanjo's responses to all who have criticized him in the past as well as those he believed wronged him politically.

And her name has been mentioned in the past as a contender, however when approached by Indy Politics earlier this year she said she focusing on her re-election bid.

I did a background check on Chuba including his past as a student and made enquiries about him in the National Party of Nigeria (NPN) under (President Shehu) Shagari and no one would recommend him for the post of senate president.

Both unions cited their history of working with Acosta in the past as a major factor in their endorsements.

First Lady Melania Trump can move ahead with a defamation lawsuit against a Maryland blogger who published claims that Trump worked in the past as a «high - end escort» and suffered a «mental breakdown» during the campaign in part because of those allegations, a judge ruled on today.

Ed Davey proudly proclaims his past as minister for competition.

In a presidential election that Republicans have long seen as a chance to put forward new stars with a fresh and broadly appealing conservative vision, the GOP is instead at risk of tearing itself apart over its past as it heads into the thick of the primary season.

This therefore means that, we must reconsider what we give to children in the past as birthday gifts such as toffees, biscuits, toys,coca - cola, fanta, chocolate, fried or boiled eggs, etc and rather buy books for children in marking this special day.

It is important to evaluate the effort of governments in the past as against what the government of the day is doing in the area of water since assuming power to enable citizens measure and ascertain who actually had / has the interest and progress of the people in the area of the provision of potable water.

Therefore, it did not come as a surprise to many when the council relapsed to its infamous past as hot bed of violence as witnessed during the December 5 and 6 governorship polls, which degenerated into bloodletting.

Mr Kaminski has a highly dubious past as a member of the neo-Nazi National Revival of Poland (NOP) party.

The campaign has been careful about such overtures in the past as it fended off criticisms from the left by her primary rival Bernie Sanders, who highlighted her 2002 vote in favor of the Iraq War, ties to controversial Republican figures like Henry Kissinger, and warm relationship with Wall Street.

This has been part of Owen Smith's campaign strategy from the beginning, quietening his past as a Blair sympathiser and corporate lobbyist and overstating his socialist credentials in order to appeal to a supposed «soft left» flank within Corbyn's support.

«The Statesman has sometimes been seen in the past as the house magazine of the Labour Party and we are absolutely not that.

Cuomo blamed the EPA and New York's past as a manufacturing hub for water contamination problems in his state of the state speeches.

Prof Opoku - Agyemang said the country continued to face formidable challenges in the area of energy generation and that the government was hopeful that this would soon be a thing of the past as Ghana was due to sign the second compact of the Millennium Challenge Account within the next few months.

«While I want to recover, and put it all as far in the past as I can, I also know I have an obligation to the people who still remain in those torture chambers.

Other post-USSR countries, on the other hand, were founded on nationalist ideals, and their governments were quite committed to distancing themselves as far from their past as possible, so destroying statues was an important action to them and their electorate, and expenses were more justified in their eyes.

This was as Sheikh Ishola implored the state helmsman to continue to reflect on his past as he clocks 60 years on earth.

Smith can portray himself as the «change» candidate who will move Labour on from the past as he is untainted by the Iraq War and was not in parliament during the Tony Blair and Gordon Brown years.

He sprinkles his speeches with Spanish and talks about his past as an undocumented immigrant.

Both Jacobs and Levy spokesman Josh Hills scoffed at Lazio's criticism and brought up his past as a lobbyist for JP Morgan.

«I just think that in this environment that we're dealing with here — I accept that things that have happened in the past as county chair will be scrutinized,» he said.

The problem is that Zuma's past as an exiled ANC leader is unknown and he refuses to answer questions about it.

With US going on rampage around the world and leaving cesspools and terrorist - breeding grounds (just this week we had suicide bomber in Manchester, self - described in past as «fighter against Gaddafi» and later «against Assad») in place of orderly and even relatively prosperous countries you can't really blame NK for wanting to have a proper deterrent against same fate.

Its not about the past as much as it is about the future, a future that Democrats want to make more expensive.

It isn't just images of the future haunting the coalition, it's images of the past as well - notably that century - long unfulfilled Liberal promise to reform the Lords.

That also has come to past as Sevilla beat Liverpool in the UEFA Lead Final to clinch the trophy.

That intuitive ability came about from our long ancient past as a carrying mammal.

Sometimes we look back on what ppl did in the past as crazy and I'm sure formula will fall into that category one day.

I'm hoping by the end of the year diapers will be a thing of our past as well.

I love Pizza Express, always tastes good and memories of being with friends or husband always makes me smile, I tend to feel sad walking past ours as it always seems empty.

You will find that rugby is similar to sports you've played in the past as it involves ball handling, running, kicking and tackling.