Sentences with phrase «past election year»

Politics seems to play a bigger role than ever in attraction and decision - making, especially in light of this past election year.

Gaffey offered no hint of impending trouble as he sought voters» support during the past election year and defeated Republican opponent Len Suzio by a comfortable margin of 58 percent to 42 percent.

This past election year, Cuomo said he wanted to go further with reducing the burden of local property taxes.

NPR recently reported that Time Warner - owned CNN made roughly $ 100 million more in ad revenues this year than in past election years, as CNN could reportedly approach $ 1 billion in profit this year for the first time in the network's history.

Interestingly, compared to past election years, most of the billboards mounted this time round also bear images of the various presidential candidates and their respective Member of Parliament nominees.

Not exact matches

Pelosi expressed confidence that Democrats are in for a monumental wave election after solid Republican control of government for the past two years.

Conservative donors and operatives who gathered on a mountain shrouded resort this past weekend for the Koch brothers» annual winter retreat know that they're up against a historical tide in this year's midterm elections.

But last year, The Post reported that Felix Sater, a real estate developer with a checkered past, sent an email to then - Executive Vice President of the Trump Organization Michael Cohen in November 2015 in which he indicated that a plan to construct a Moscow Trump Tower was moving forward, and bragged that they would soon be celebrating not just the completion of the tower, but also Trump's victory in the presidential election.

Thirteen of the deals in the past year were over $ 10 billion, also the most of a modern president's first year since election.

The honeymoon between Silicon Valley and Washington D.C. has been fading quickly over the past year and a half, with lawmakers questioning to what extent Facebook had influenced the outcome of the presidential election by allowing fake news and Russian - backed political ads onto its platform.

Facebook, which has consistently reported stronger - than - expected earnings over the past two years, has faced public outcry over its role in Russia's alleged influence over the 2016 U.S. presidential election.

Zuckerberg initially rejected the idea that misinformation on Facebook had contributed to the 2016 presidential election outcome, but he later admitted that fake news is a problem on the social network and that ads linked to Russia's attempts at disrupting U.S. politics, including the 2016 election, reached roughly 126 million U.S. Facebook users over the past few years.

But even without outside money, U.S. presidential election spending has dwarfed Canadian spending by increasing margins over the past 12 years.

Over the past year of election rhetoric, Islam has been a topic of tension and generalization.

Over the past year, Trump and his backers have characterized reports that detailed communications between Trump campaign associates and Russians before the election as evidence of illegal wiretapping.

Khodorkovsky is playing a long game, looking well past the Russian presidential election on March 18 that is guaranteed to give President Vladimir Putin yet another six - year term.

But because this year's election breaks the mold in a number of important ways, it raises the question of how closely it will hew to past elections, at least where market reaction is concerned.

He's said in the past that the company is in better shape this year than it was in the 2016 U.S. presidential election when Facebook said to be used by Moscow to sow discord among Americans.

Before the election, Cohen paid $ 130,000 in hush money to Stormy Daniels to keep her from speaking out about her alleged affair with Trump, and he helped orchestrate countless business deals and legal maneuvers for Trump over the past several years.

Over the past year, Twitter added just 14 million new monthly active users, and just two million in Q4, despite a chaotic election cycle that played out significantly on its service and an ad campaign from Twitter to remind us it was happening.

Since 1962, the average peak - to - trough S&P 500 Index decline during these years was 19 %, although the past three midterm election years averaged closer to a 10 % drop (the correction in February 2018 was approximately 10 %).

«The premier said the right things when she promised 500 new addiction treatment spaces in the 2013 election campaign, but now we know that not only has she missed her own deadline, but she has actually reduced addiction treatment spaces for youth over the past three years while the overdose epidemic was growing,» said Horgan.

Congressional turnover is common in a U.S. president's second year in office — with the party in control losing ground in five of the past six midterm elections.

Midterm election years have had higher volatility in the past, but also have offered some compelling buying opportunities.

5) Edmonton - Glenora Represented by both PC and Liberal MLAs over the past twenty years, this constituency could be a key battleground for five opposition parties in the next election.

The most stunning change from previous election is the significant drop in support for Alison Redford «s Progressive Conservatives in rural central and southern Alberta rural constituencies, which have given the PCs large majority votes in most elections over the past 40 years.

The November 26 by - election in Calgary - Centre will be the fourth federal by - election held in Alberta in the past twenty - six years.

Rates jumped dramatically following the presidential election and remained higher for much of the past year, until now.

After dominating investment news headlines on a regular basis over the past 15 years, the Federal Reserve has found its way into the middle of the presidential election.

It's a private matter, except 9 days before the election you try to shove down my throat that he actually is what he has done everything possible to avoid being or being seen as for the past 3.5 years.

For each writer, the past is very much present in American Catholicism in the form of three decisive years: the 1965 conclusion of Vatican II; the 1968 release of Humanae Vitae («Of Human Life»), Pope Paul VI's encyclical which banned artificial contraception; and the 1978 election of Pope John Paul II.

But your leaders over the past 30 years has focused on stacking local, state and federal elections with candidates sporting that Fresh Bible Smell.

While the election of the denomination's first African American president in its 167 - year history will dominate the meeting's headlines, water - cooler talk is sure to be fixated on a theological dirty word that, for the past two weeks, has spiked the blood pressure of theologians as much as it has Baptist visits to Wikipedia.

During the past year Louisville's news has been dominated by several seemingly disparate issues — the troubled relationship between the police department and the African - American community; efforts to build more mixed - income housing in the city; adoption of a regional plan intended to moderate suburban sprawl; disagreement about the number and location of proposed new Ohio River bridges linking Louisville and southern Indiana; a campaign to attract high - tech business to the downtown area; and a lively election campaign around the issue of a city - county merger.

In my mind, this past year really started in November 2016, which seems impossibly far away, though I remember Election Night with a clarity that haunts me.

One farmer shareholder urged others to vote against the election of Mr Spark as a special director, saying he did not have a good understanding of the dire straights many farmers were in over the past year, while others said the board has done a good job in tough circumstances.

As in past years, the top vote - getters from the town meeting will be expected to win the local election in April.

His appeal was still within majority of his core group he appeals to in the past 4 years,» the Progressive Alliance Media stated in its analysis of the numbers post elections.

Just in the space of the past year we've seen credible elections in Africa's most populous nation, Nigeria; the adoption of a new and improved constitution in Kenya and the birth of a new nation, as voted for in a broadly peaceful referendum in South Sudan.

Over the past few years almost all of the commentary has assumed that there will be a significant «swing back» to the Tories as the general election approaches.

In spite of having been formed just over the past year and a half, they will all fight the May 2015 general election, fielding candidates across the North of England.

The card reader is to complement and confirm the integrity of the voter register and that is why the unusual moonlight figures of the past years are disappearing and, if those against the use of the card reader succeed through the court, that would be a major setback and total reversal of the reformative mileage we have covered as a country on election matters, a significant progress that has resulted in other African countries calling on Nigeria's INEC for assistance.

Despite being nominally given the opportunity to choose, the way the Maduro government has set up the electoral process, committed fraud, repressed the opposition and systematically undermined the process of free and fair elections over the past years, all but guarantees authoritarian durability.

I love these Pataki - era losers who are still living in the past, haven't won an election in years, and are taking shots at everyone trying to put the GOP back together after the Pataki / Bruno era debacles.

Instead of mucking in with the multifarious resistance movement - which, as you rightly state here, does not require universal agreement in order to progress, that sort of Leninist thinking is weedkiller to the grassroots - Labour is already positioning itself for the next election, terrified of doing anything at all which might upset the few swing voters in key marginal seats that the party has repositioned itself towards over the past twenty years.

Ethics reform was a major topic at the end of last year's session and during this past election, but as leadership turned their attention to the budget at the beginning of this year, some legislators were worried the momentum had stalled.

With the Roberts Supreme Court already apparently reconsidering past precedents with an eye toward treating corporate and union donations as free speech, a federal appeals court has now ruled on behalf of Emily's List that nonprofits can use functionally unbounded «soft money» to finance their election - year activities.

Hey kids, let's celebrate the election year by digging into the sordid past of Epolitics.com, resurrecting posts from 2008 and 2012 for a semi-regular Throwback Thursday feature.

He has won elections, but over the past 15 years, these have been reportedly marred by violence against political opponents.

Notwithstanding last May's SNP election victory, most polls over the past two years have indicated that more people would vote against independence than would vote in favour of it.