Sentences with phrase «past year campaigning»

Despite serious challenges facing British Columbia, the Liberal government under Premier Christy Clark has spent a significant portion of the past year campaigning instead of governing, spending valuable public resources on pre-election advertising and staging photo - ops instead of doing the hard work of actually governing.

Not exact matches

Bob Lachky, a marketing executive who spent 25 years working at competitor Anheuser - Busch gave this campaign some high praise: «It was arguably one of the greatest campaigns over the past 30 to 40 years.»

Economic inequality has been a top campaign theme for Democrats for the past several years, including for President Barack Obama.

During the past six years, we've realized a common denominator across all campaigns that generate north of $ 1 million: High - quality marketing assets.

The most visible of the new firms, Cambridge Life Solutions, launched a marketing campaign during the past year on radio, television and the Internet.

In the past few years, Durex has released some creative ad campaigns that focus on real couples and the link between lowered technology use and more intimacy.

That may be why 90 % more campaigns were launched in the past year.

We have spent the past two years experimenting with different ads — sometimes running a dozen campaigns simultaneously — until we refined our approach to where we now have two campaigns that are highly effective at attracting new prospects that we can convert into paying customers.

That's why it's such a surprise to hear that this year's game may not have the traditional single - player campaign that the series always had in the past.

Three of the most successful YouTube marketing campaigns launched in the past few years have been created by BYU alumni.

The restrictions fly in the face of Pentagon assertions over the past year that it was striving to be more transparent about the US war campaigns across Iraq, Syria and Afghanistan.

Over the past few years, though, that gravy train has begun to dry up, a trend that accelerated as President Donald Trump began to make good on campaign promises to restrict immigration.

Trump has said he's donated $ 102 million over the past five years, but a partial list of donations that his campaign provided appeared to correspond to gifts from the foundation — not necessarily from Trump's own pocket.

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.

For the past two years, McDonald's Canada has engaged in a campaign of aggressive honesty and occasionally gruesome transparency.

In the past five years, Elliott has launched activist campaigns at more than 50 companies — 19 this year alone — in at least a dozen countries.

News that Dos Equis was wrapping up its advertising campaign revolving around «The Most Interesting Man in the World» caught a lot of people off guard, but Jonathan Goldsmith, who has portrayed the iconic character for the past nine years, says the writing was on the wall.

More broadly, the past two years have brought significant change in how campaigns are financed in general.

Heavy hitters in the B.C. green world, including the Dogwood Initiative, the Wilderness Committee and Voters Taking Action on Climate Change, have all launched anti-coal campaigns over the past few years.

«The reason the Republican party essentially forgot to celebrate America this year might have been because they were too busy celebrating Donald Trump's claims that he would fix whatever Donald Trump thinks is wrong with America,» Oliver said before launching into a takedown of the «countless awful things» Trump has said over the past year, stirring up any number of controversies throughout his campaign for the White House.

Created by Toronto agency Lowe Roche, this incredibly effective ad is a natural extension of the foundation's successful campaigns in years past.

A report by Anzalone Research Group published by Fast Food Forward, the campaign behind the fast food strikes in New York, found that of the 500 fast food workers it surveyed in New York in April 2013, 84 % said that their employer had committed at least one form of wage theft in the past year.

Six Investigates found all but one council member accepted money this past year from out - of - town campaign donors.

For the past 18 years, Peace Over Violence has run its Denim Day campaign on a Wednesday in April to observe Sexual Violence Awareness Month.

In October, Wang stepped down from the Communist Party's top rank under informal retirement rules, after spearheading Xi's relentless anti-corruption campaign that has punished over 1.5 million officials over the past five years.

The site has worked with «over 40 major brands» on ad campaigns in the past year, Mr. Goldberg told the Observer.

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.

For the past year, it certainly seemed like those policies were merely campaign rhetoric, but now they are closer to reality than ever before.

«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.

Former MLA David Eggen has been campaigning in Calder for the past three years and is expected to launch a well - organized campaign.

-LRB-...) Over the past few years, though, that gravy train has begun to dry up, a trend that accelerated as President Donald Trump began to make good on campaign promises to restrict immigration.

Over the past two years, Juhuasuan launched about 50 promotions under a special program to promote local specialties from various provinces in China and countries worldwide, including three rounds of campaigns selling fruit, rice and latex pillows from Thailand.

The church has been doing a large media campaign around the country over the past few years targeting certain cities.

Wilson is on the forefront of a campaign called «Five Years Too Many» that calls for the release of seven Baha'i volunteer leaders who have been imprisoned in Iran for the past five yYears Too Many» that calls for the release of seven Baha'i volunteer leaders who have been imprisoned in Iran for the past five yearsyears.

But the past 100 years of missionary campaigning has brought to light an almost endless number of problems and difficulties about which these missionary workers — both those at the front and those administering the enterprise at home — have good reasons to hold divergent opinions.

Each year on Giving Tuesday, Dress for Success holds a #GivingShoesDay campaign, which in the past few years has amassed more than 17,000 pairs of shoes donated through the organization's 145 affiliates around the world.

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.

Obama a «pastor» - the guy who ran the most divisive, nasty, hateful campaign (and past four years) in our history?

Michael R. Wear, who has worked in the White House for the past three and half years, will move to Chicago to become the campaign's Faith Vote director next week, White House officials confirmed on Monday.

Mark De Moss has also been working for the Romney campaign for the past 6 years.

My brothers, father and I are truly grateful for this campaign's impact over the past nine years.

Over the past three years, the «Taste Freedom» campaign has cumulatively donated more than $ 422,000 to Operation Homefront.

The victims families have been campaigning for the past 20 years for the papers to be released and the government finally conceded to pressure after 140,000 people signed a e-petition set up by Liverpool fans.

The 27 - year - old has been one of the most consistent scorers in Europe over the last few years and enjoyed his most prolific campaign yet this past season with 40 goals in 46 games in all competitions.

Kane has 38 goals in this calendar year, and would surely be a significant upgrade on Karim Benzema up top at the Bernabeu, with the Frenchman looking past his peak after a slow start to this campaign.

He admitted in the past that even during the difficult years of the Emirates move, Wenger had some very admirable offers from elsewhere, so I'm certain that he'll see the season out for sure, no matter where we are at the end of the campaign.

This year Arsenal's squad depth is far greater than in past campaigns, but it shall still be possibly the most challenging month for Arsenal this season, at least so far.

The 26 year old former Caen man has spent the past four years at the Stade Chaban Delmas but despite Bordeaux's good start to the current Ligue 1 campaign the forward wants to leave.

There is no doubt in my mind that the most disastrous decision we made during the past calendar year, up to and including the most eventful January transfer window in recent memory, was not the Sanchez debacle that saw him off to Old Trafford, which will forever be considered a failure of epic proportions, or the selling off of Ox to Liverpool following a thrashing less than a fortnight earlier, or even the triangular clusterf * ck that saw Giroud head to our crosstown rivals in the 11th hour, but the re-upping of our manager after another tumultuous and cringe - worthy campaign both on and off the pitch.

The 18 - year - old teen sensation, who has bagged 18 goals in all competitions this campaign, fired home past Willy Caballero to give his side hope.