Sentences with phrase «political office at»

[2] He served as a political advisor to Foreign Secretary, James Callaghan during the conflict in Cyprus in the 1970s, before becoming head of the Prime Minister's political office at Downing Street in 1976 when Callaghan succeeded Harold Wilson.

Some might believe that Nigel Loncke is too young for a run for state political office at 33 years of age, but he believes that he is a seasoned political operative, having worked in the background both for Gregory Meeks and Barack Obama's campaign and also in the recent mid-term election in Colorado.

Before the Revolution, Jefferson was a vestryman in his local church, a lay position that was informally tied to political office at the time.

His ambition, if pushed further, will make him join the list of artistes who have run for political offices at one time or the other.

Not exact matches

Are you a woman interested in making a subtle political statement at your office Halloween get together without anyone complaining to HR?

Clinton's apparent popularity likely stems from her developing connections in the tech sector over a longer period of time than other Oval Office contenders, according to Mark Schmitt, director of the political reform program at independent think tank New America Foundation.

Abe had put a lot of personal political capital at stake in beating on the agricultural lobby, and not just the farmers... but the [agricultural] banks, pension schemes, all the rest, to get support for a US - led TPP deal, and then Trump pulls out,» Bremmer said, referring to the Trans - Pacific Partnership, a sweeping trade deal, spearheaded by Barack Obama, that Trump exited days after taking office in January 2017.

«Given the size of its economy, population, and given its political clout, Nigeria's stance towards the African Continental Free Trade Area is key,» Imad Mesdoua, senior consultant for Africa at Control Risks, a global risk consultancy with offices in Lagos, told CNBC via email.

«It might be in some ways that access to political office has been a little bit easier than navigating that corporate pipeline,» says Kim Parker, director of social trends research at Pew.

«The US intelligence community is confident that the Russian Government directed the recent compromises of emails from US persons and institutions, including from US political organizations,» the Department of Homeland Security and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence said in a statement at the time.

Ever since President Donald Trump kicked off his unlikely candidacy for the nation's top political office in June 2015 at the foot of the golden Trump Tower escalators in Manhattan, he has become an unabashed hero to millions of Americans — and a pariah to millions more.

Greece's political leaders, more accustomed to screaming abuse at each other in parliament, issued an unprecedented joint statement after a day of talks at the president's office backing efforts to reach a deal with creditors.

The UK's data watchdog, the Information Commission's Office (ICO), has still not obtained a warrant to enter and search the servers of the London - based political consultancy, Cambridge Analytica — the company at the center of the data misuse scandal engulfing Facebook — three days on from beginning the process.

Former caretaker prime minister Panagiotis Pikramenos, his voice at times breaking as he addressed the lawmakers, noted he had only been in office for 35 days at a time of political and economic turmoil in Greece.

Clark was a former Liberal, having worked as a staffer at the Legislature during Laurence Decore «s time as party leader (Clark's father, Gilbert Clark, was 823 votes away from ending Ralph Klein «s political career when the former mayor first ran for provincial office in Calgary - Elbow in 1989).

He does not even touch on what the political scientists Valerie Hudson and Patricia Leidl have called the «Hillary Doctrine,» promulgated through the Office of Global Women's Issues established by Mrs. Clinton at the State Department, and according to which any denial of gender equality anywhere in the world is a threat to American order.

Alexander Nix, CEO of Cambridge Analytica, arrives at the political - data firm's offices, in central London, on March 20.

Accepting at face value the assertion that Rick Perry has a Divine calling to run for the Republican nomination, we are lead to the question of whether it was a call to Mr. Perry to become the nominee or whether it was, instead, a call to Mr. Perry to teach a lesson about how people should not take the Name in vain in order to obtain political office.

Santorum wasn't even in public office at the time according to the article so he wasn't under political obligations to refrain from his religious beliefs.

Within that tradition, both in its political and ecclesial expression, authority is a way of ordering power within a community in such a way that, at one and the same time, it supports and augments common beliefs and ways of life and is regularly and harmoniously conjoined with a structure of offices that gives order to the exercise of authority and power within the particular society in question.

Answer is quite easy (at least for THIS Conservative Christan Catholic Republican woman): vote for Mitt and beat the political daylights out of that lying Marxist sitting in the Oval Office right now.

With stunning consistency, virtually every indicator of civic engagement currently available shows the same pattern of increase followed by stagnation and decline — newspaper reading; TV news watching; attending political meetings; petition signing; running for public office; attending public meetings; serving as an officer or committee member in any local clubs or organizations; writing letters to the editor; participating in local meetings of national organizations; attending religious services; socializing informally with friends, relatives or neighbors; attending club meetings; joining unions; entertaining friends at home; participating in picnics; eating the evening meal with the whole family; going out to bars, nightclubs, discos or taverns; playing cards; sending greeting cards; attending parties; playing sports; donating money as a percentage of income; working on community projects; giving blood.

Working out of his small, cluttered office at Adrian University, where he teaches political science, the seemingly indefatigable Khan stepped into the role of public intellectual for the U.S. Muslim community after 9/11 with incisive articles such as «Memo to Mr. Bin Laden: Go to Hell,» which was picked up by more than a dozen news agencies around the world.

«12 At the same time, the Office of the United States Trade Representative in Washington was putting economic and political pressure on the governments of Japan, Taiwan, and South Korea to withdraw their trade barriers and allow U.S. cigarette sales and advertising into their nations.

This was a political barbecue, at which several distinguished speakers, candidates for various offices, were to address the people.

Maddon, for all his talk about this not being political and him going out of respect for the office and an old building, is also speaking to young Republicans at a luncheon while he's in town.

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Robert E. Kelly, professor or political science at Pusan National University in South Korea, was interviewed live on the BBC World News this morning to talk about the president of South Korea having been forced out of office last night after a months - long corruption scandal.

However, at the meeting Tuesday some noted that while they supported term limits for political office, they did not support them for non-partisan offices such as the park district board.

The Young Dads are becoming increasingly political, holding informational protests at courthouses, county board meetings and state child - support offices.

In the political arena, at least, I have always been of the opinion that worshiping our political office holders is dangerous because there is no way of holding the people we worship accountable.

Shah, we found out, used to think Israelis should be relocated en masse to America, compared Israelis to Hitler, issued a public warning that «the Jews are rallying» (to take part in an opinion poll) and tweeted a link to an article which compared Zionism to al - Qaeda, and fretted that the Zionists are «grooming» Jews to «exert political influence at the highest levels of public office.»

Meanwhile, there are reports of uneasy calm at the Ridge and Adjiriganor residences of the former first family whose shifty political stands are said to have sharply divided their household, resulting in the dismissal of some workers including security details at their residence and offices.

«Any time (former Senate Majority Leader) Joe Bruno was criticized, our members postage or printing allotment would be shut off; they denied us access to government websites (serviced by the same firm handling the Republicans» political websites); Senate Republicans even went so far as to force several of our members to operate without district office space for months at a time.»

Nowadays, political staffers at the national level take constituent - relations - management software for granted — no House or Senate office could possibly keep up with the volume of communications they receive without logging it electronically.

At least 62 percent of voters from every region of the state and every party agree that Spitzer should leave his political aspirations on the shelf next year and refrain from seeking statewide office, although he does continue to have a reservoir of support (more than 40 percent) among black and Latino voters.

Spitzer (AKA the steamroller) was hardly a shrinking violet during his brief stint as governor, and according to a report by Cuomo — who was AG at the time, having followed Spitzer into that office — he misused his executive power over the State Police in a botched attempt to smear his top political rival, then Senate Majority Leader Joe Bruno.

At the same time, Gabryszak in essence ran his political and campaign activities out of his Assembly district office, as opposed to a separate campaign or Democratic committee headquarters.

At least, we all now know that concern for the - people is no more the primary motivation for the political actions and utterances of former President Rawlings, otherwise, he and his wife would NOT have taken nearly USD$ 5 Million from we - the - people fraudulently under the cover of judgment debt after failing to account to the same people after leaving office with indemnity clauses!

Joshua Lafazan, who in 2012 became the youngest public office holder in state history when he was elected at 18 to the Syosset school board, kicked off his campaign for the Nassau Legislature, vowing to bring young energy to fight political corruption and restore the county's fiscal integrity.

For instance, the grassroots / field team had staff working at desks in the new media section at the same time that the new media team had staff working at desks in grassroots / field offices — reflecting a drive throughout the campaign to break down the barriers that usually exist between competing elements of a political campaign.

They were great allies when she was at the Home Office and James was political editor of the Daily Mail.

Manhattan District Attorney Cy Vance's office is hitting back at an explosive New York Magazine report claiming that it failed to prosecute Harvey Weinstein in 2015 for alleged sexual harassment because of the indie mogul's political connections.

Umberto Marengo is a strategy consultant at The Boston Consulting Group in the Rome / Milan office and also Associate Fellow in international political economy at the Institute for International Affairs in Rome.

As you'll see in our highlight reel, the speeches displayed much of what Team Cuomo has going for it; four years in office with some significant legislative accomplishments, nearly universal support from elected Democrats and their political organizations, enormous amounts of state money spent over the past four years which, whether well spent or not produces support from recipients, and a powerful speaker at the top of the ticket.

And Percoco, who has managed Cuomo's political campaigns for more than a decade and shared an office with Howe during Cuomo's 2014 re-election effort, received at least $ 50,000 in consulting fees from COR that year — something Cuomo has said he did not know.

Buffalo News Political Reporter Bob McCarthy says some politicians also used the event to position themselves for runs at key statewide offices.

Speaking at a press conference outside the office of the CFB Malliotakis referenced the recent testimony of Jona Rechnitz in the federal corruption trial of Norman Seabrook on his political contributions to de Blasio and, according to Rechnitz, the mayor's responsiveness to his requests in exchange for those contributions.

State law defines an established political party as any party whose candidate for a statewide office received at least 2 percent of the total votes cast that office in either of the two most recent general elections.

Even if the Ohio Republican was a bit unaware of the New York political scene at least when it comes to the Senate, he sounded quite aware of who was running for office in his own chamber.