Sentences with phrase «political move last»

Perhaps you missed President Donald Trump's shifty little political move last week on that massive congressional spending bill.

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For Colbert, the move offers an opportunity to return to the political comedy roots he found so much success with on Comedy Central before leaving to take over for David Letterman at CBS last fall.

While the ramifications of this dramatic move lay chiefly in the political realm, the business side of this drama is inspiring; when was the last time you witnessed one of the largest companies in the world going head - to - head with such A large foreign government?

Down With the Statues: North Carolina is dismissing charges against several activists who tore down a Confederate statue in Durham last summer, a move that could set an important political precedent.

A possible political career for Sandberg has been mentioned a lot before, too — especially since she has been a Washington wonk before (she worked as chief of staff to former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers in the last Clinton administration before moving to Silicon Valley to work at Google).

The government revealed earlier in the week, in response to a written question from a Conservative MP, that some four dozen political staffers in various ministers» office received a total of $ 1.1 million to move to Ottawa after Trudeau's Liberals won power last fall.

Baird announced last week he'd decided to end his two decades - plus of political life and move to the private sector, ripping a major hole in a cabinet Harper had put in place in 2013 to see his party through to the next election.

The fourth and last treatise of Convivio that Dante completed moves in more political directions.

The news comes as QPR continue negotiations with Mark Hughes about succeeding Neil Warnock as manager, with the hope that a new boss can reignite the fortunes of Taarabt, who has been on the fringes this term, having fired the R's to promotion from the Championship the season before.A deal with French money bags Paris Saint - Germain looked like going through in the summer, but Taarabt later blamed political differences for the transfer ultimately collapsing, leaving him frustrated at having to stay in England.The mercurial Moroccan has interest from a host of top European clubs, but his conduct in the last few months, including walking out of QPR's 1 - 0 win over Chelsea at half - time and consistently admitting he wants to leave, have left many questioning his attitude and professionalism.However, Qatari side Al - Sadd have not been put off, and made their move for Taarabt last week, only to pull out of a deal after being told it would take a whopping # 15 million to convince them to sell.That sort of figure also rules out Newcastle and Aston Villa as potential destinations, with the thought now that QPR will hang on to Taarabt until at least the summer, where they hope Taarabt could spark a bidding war, after being rejuvenated under a new manager and firing the club to Premier League safety.

Last night, NGP VAN moved Democratic political technology into a new phase — one of solidarity and maturity.

Late last year, he backed a plan that would unify the party in the state Senate in a bid to gain a governing majority for Democrats in the Senate, a move that came after pressure from the political left in New York.

Amid delays that were based, in part, on political point - scoring, the system lasted only five years before the Welsh Assembly Government moved forward with a referendum to get rid of the LCO system and devolve further powers in one go — evidence, perhaps, that a system which requires the agreement of both devolved and central governments on policy changes might prove detrimental to effective governance.

Last week, the non-partisan Cook Political Report moved the 19th district from «Lean Republican» to the toss - up column.

Over the last eight years, Donovan Richards has moved his way up the political ladder under the guidance of City Councilman James Sanders (D - Laurelton) and now he is aiming for City Hall.

Nicoletti's last political move was to challenge Stephanie Miner in a 2009 Democratic primary for the mayor's seat.

Caleb who later moved to the VIP station at Circle reported that most travellers were left frustrated at various bus terminals in the capital, Accra due to the last - minute transportation arrangements by various political groups.

Regular memo readers will recall an item last week on Oneida County Executive Tony Picente, a Republican who crossed party lines in 2014 to endorse Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo's re-election bid, but was wondering whether the political fallout from that move was worth it.

Mercifully, the full mania of the last year has eroded slightly and the political debate is moving on without her.

As the clock moved past midnight last night, the 73 year old could still be seen holding court at the Spectator's conference party, as enthusiastic for the political process as he was back in 1970.

In a political double move, the Republicans suspended in a resolution at the last minute which copied Burke's legislation, removed the enforcement powers, removed Burke's name as sponsor and added the names of each Republican caucus legislator.

Roque «Rocky» De La Fuente, a California businessman and a Democratic presidential aspirant last year, moved to New York last month to run for mayor, but hasn't displayed the political credentials to be able to shake up the race.

Over the last few months, former Army Col. Chris Gibson (R) has moved this race from «likely Democratic» to «toss - up» in the Cook Political Report's rankings.

There is a widespread public view that the party mismanaged the economy when last in government, and the political debate for Labour is whether to continue to defend the Treasury record during the era of Gordon Brown's chancellorship, or instead admit error and move on.

Funding for Gotbaum's office will be cut by about 40 percent after the City Council reached a budget deal last week — a move that the public advocate called «political payback» for not supporting Speaker Christine Quinn (D - Manhattan) during the fight to extend term limits last fall.

«Fayose has been jittery and confused since the PDP lost Ondo State to the ruling APC against all odds and calculations and as a political gambler, who has traversed many parties since 2003 till present, starting from the PDP to APGA, Labour party, romanced briefly with ACN and PPA before moving back to the PDP even as he romanced AD in the last week governorship election, he is at his wits again to save his skin.

Underlying party support in Britain is pretty stable — if you graph opinion polls over the last couple of years it's clear that the only events that have actually shifted political support have been David Cameron's election as Conservative leader, which moved the Labour and Conservative parties pretty much neck and neck, and the week prior to the local elections when Labour was hit by both John Prescott's affair and the foreign prisoner release scandal, since when the Conservatives have had a consistent lead.

That move ends decades of uncertainty and political brinksmanship: Since Congress created the credit in 1981, lawmakers have allowed it to lapse six times — most recently last year — and have temporarily extended it 17 times.

Five years ago, then - Chancellor Michelle A. Rhee accelerated the downsizing of the D.C. school system when she moved quickly to close 23 schools, igniting angry protest and long - lasting political backlash while spurring an exodus of students to the city's charters.

So, last year, we continued moving forward because of two things — an unapologetic perspective that we must protect, improve, and expand public education, and an approach that builds power through the five strategies of member organizing, parent / community organizing, contract bargaining, political action, and communications.

Last night's move was a glimmer of hope for the idea that our elected leaders can act for the good of the American people, and not only in political party lockstep.

Last week we had many more geo - political events moving the mortgage market and mortgage rates around.

In a surprise move last week, Orange County commissioners appointed a political consultant to an advisory board, though they had rejected her for another board just last year.The consultant is Christine Moore.

Bradley often mixes these works with a wider installation, last year displaying them behind a silver, metal fence — at Milan's Brand New Gallery and Kansas City's Bill Brady Gallery — a move described by the artist as being «inherently political».

Along with the more traditional mediums of painting, photography, drawing, sculpture, conceptual, video and performance art we also encourage the submission of sound, text, spoken word, dance, comedy, cooking, large scale painting... As a new century begins and the last still informs every move we make an anxiety of where we are takes many forms from the personal to the political.

When London - based data firm Cambridge Analytica burst onto the U.S. political scene last year by signing on with Ted Cruz's presidential campaign, it was only a matter of time before the firm made an equally splashy move on the corporate stage.