Sentences with phrase «place in the runoff»

The above procedure, then, is an odd sort of runoff system in which one of the alternatives (status quo) is guaranteed a place in the runoff.

Not exact matches

Thompson placed second in the Democratic primary for mayor this year, his second run for mayor since 2009, but did not qualify for the runoff against the eventual winner, Bill de Blasio.

If he does, his first contribution could be to the New York City budget — saving the expense of a runoff election,» Maurice Carroll, director of the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute, said in a statement, referring to the runoff election that will take place in October if no candidate gets 40 percent of the primary vote on Sept. 10.

If de Blasio or any other candidate fails to secure 40 percent of the Democratic vote, then they'll face the second - place finisher in an Oct. 1 runoff election.

Public Advocate Bill de Blasio, whose unofficial vote tally at 40 percent could free him from facing second - place finisher Bill Thompson, the former city comptroller, in a runoff, earned 47 percent of the lesbian, gay, and bisexual vote.

The instant - runoff voting for the House upsets the apple cart if and only if one of the major parties fails to be broad - based enough to siphon off third party policies in a given electorate (i.e. a majority party swaps places with a minority party).

Former President of Ghana, John Dramani Mahama, has arrived in Monrovia to observe the Liberian election runoff, which is set to take place on Boxing Day, December 26.

New York City Council Speaker Christine Quinn has the backing of 37 % of registered Democrats in the race for her party's mayoral nomination, placing her tantalizingly close to the 40 % she needs to avoid a runoff, a poll released Wednesday showed.

The winning candidate would have to top 40 % in order to avoid a runoff with the second place finisher.

Improved access for the disabled was also provided, and hardy new plantings were put in place, which will help reduce rainwater runoff into the city's sewer system.

That's why it's important to prevent contaminants from getting into the source water in the first place, for instance by installing wood chip bioreactors on farms to reduce nitrates in runoff water, says Michelle Soupir, a water quality engineer at Iowa State University in Ames.

Meanwhile, Stamets began installing experimental mycelial wastewater filtration systems for other farmers (eventually with funding from the county and the state), improving on his initial design by encasing Stropharia spawn and wood chips in burlap sacks and packing them into ditches placed to catch maximum runoff.

But second place may be good enough: If nobody receives a majority of the voters cast in the primary, the two top finishers will compete in a 22 May runoff.

On the plus side, Mary Wilson, a former Austin Community College mathematics professor turned minister, has advanced to a Democratic runoff in the 21st congressional district after a surprising first - place finish over Joseph Kopser, a scientifically trained entrepreneur.

Right now, places like California assume water will be stored as snow in the winter and then will come as runoff in the spring, which the state apportions for various uses during the dry season.

Rainfall runoff in most places is gravity - fed, requiring a slope to drain.

An unusual runoff election with what is expected to be an extremely low voter turnout is taking place today, with potentially far - reaching implications for education in the state's largest school district, Los Angeles Unified.

The latest generation of carbon - ceramic brakes do a great job, even if the pedal travel is a little long, but the simple fact remains that you enter these braking zones — places with no runoff and minimal margin for error — 20 mph faster than in the latest Porsche 911 GT3 RS.

OLIVER GAVIN, NO. 4 COMPUWARE CORVETTE C6.R «The track itself will be similar but the landmarks and cues you'd use to guide your way around the track — the stuff you pick up in your peripheral vision that all drivers learn — has changed because the runoff and places that were grass have gone to tarmac.

In past years, we still pushed the limits and it wasn't a place where we needed the extra runoff to go quicker.

«The track itself will be similar but the landmarks and cues you'd use to guide your way around the track — the stuff you pick up in your peripheral vision that all drivers learn — has changed because the runoff and places that were grass have gone to tarmac.

With programs that reward entertainment and practicing car control in a high - performance setting without the higher risks of starting out on a higher - speed track, and a course layout with lots of grass runoff area and few things to run into in case you make a mistake, the autocross is the perfect place for the beginner to experience the excitement of track driving.

MERITO integrates Multicultural elements to existing CINMS programs and materials for education, resource protection and research such as the Spanish - language signage at the Santa Barbara Zoo, the informative brochure «Protecting Our Channel Islands» in Spanish and the bilingual bus signs on how to prevent urban runoff placed in summer 2006 in Santa Barbara city buses utilizing the students» art.

erm... swampland, and feature a huge amount of tress which reportedly allow you to do some epic wall runs, «Runoff,» which features a number of different «pipes and water,» and «War Games,» which takes place in a Pilot training area.

The silt beds in the Gulf had been reduced because of channeled runoff in the Mississippi delta and people thought that if they had been in place a lot of what happened to the Gulf Coast areas would have been diminished.

Availability of resources such as usable water will also depend on changing rates of precipitation, with decreased availability in many places but possible increases in runoff and groundwater recharge in some regions like the high latitudes and wet tropics.

Because a large share of the runoff in the glacial water systems comes from melting, most of this runoff, up to 80 %, takes place in the summer.

This additional runoff can be considered as «in - place» or «in - situ» as we did not attempt to model runoff accumulation, routing, groundwater outflows or inflows, or channel losses in downstream watersheds.

Numerous protective measures are in place at well sites, including liners under well pads, rubber composite mats under rigs, storage tanks with secondary containment measures, and barriers to control any potential runoff.

They measured «in - place» runoff at sub-watershed outlets and did not measure other aspects of the water budget, such as evapotranspiration, soil moisture, surface routing, and groundwater recharge.

While dead zones are not uncommon near inhabited coastlines, where industrial runoff can trigger algae blooms that suck all of the oxygen out of the water, they're now popping up in places scientists didn't expect — in the open Atlantic Ocean.

Part IV: «Climate Change and Water: Rights and Runoff» presents Donald Bren Distinguished Professor of Corporate Environmental Management Gary Libecap and Assistant Professor of Hydrology Christina Tague in a discussion about the complexities of managing the ever - increasing demands placed on scarce water resources.

KNOWLTONWell, certainly in some places agricultural runoff can hugely detrimental effects.

Unlike living in an earthquake zone, wherein «quakes occur sporadically, in a non-cyclical fashion, flood plain inhabitants experience spring runoffs every single year... same time, same place, same station.