Sentences with phrase «political opponents after»

Walker has long been the subject of vitriol from some political opponents after he effectively ended collective bargaining for public workers shortly after taking office in 2011.

would help mend fences between the two political opponents after Democrats» tough losses in the midterm elections.

Not exact matches

For instance, intelligence agencies may go after political opponents to maintain or increase the level of influence they enjoy with the government.

Just over four months to the election, and facing pressure from their Democratic opponents, most Republican Senate incumbents opted for consistency despite the political frenzy days after the worst mass shooting in modern American history.

On Tuesday, the company's board announced that it was suspending its chief executive, Alexander Nix, after British television released secret recordings that appeared to show him talking about entrapping political opponents.

After seeing the absolute weirdest political commercial of this campaign season — Cook County Assessor Joe Berrios» attack on his primary opponent's record on guns — you will have questions.

More seriously, Americans must have moral qualms about the strident anti-Semitism of the NSDAP, and about some of the methods used by it to intimidate its political opponents both before and after its takeover of the German government.

The group was cleared by an internal Labour investigation of breaching party rules on donating to political opponents, after they assured the party the payments had been made in line with advice from the Electoral Commission.

After all, your luck would really, really be in if your political opponents had declared the death of New Labour, vacated the centre - ground of British politics, abandoned Middle England and all the rest of the things you have all been saying over the last 48 hours.

«Anyone can make a mistake about who they appear on a platform with, we are not always responsible for what our political opponents say but if you do it time after time after time it is right to question your judgement.»

One of New York Governor Andrew Cuomo» s political opponents is calling on Governor Cuomo to hold an explanatory press conference, and another is demanding that Cuomo to resign after an in depth account in The New York Times reports that the governor's top staff repeatedly interfered in an ethics commission investigation.

He joked with a youngster about losing his first political campaign in third grade after his opponent gave out lollipops to classmates.

And please don't misunderstand me, I'm not saying we shouldn't check corruption, but if we come to office and to power — I've been preaching for 40 years in this country and I've seen governments come and go, from CPP, my father's government, and NDC and NPP, they are here, I've seen them over the 40 years — and this thing where we come into office with vindictiveness and bitterness because of the way we've been mishandled and mistreated, and we target people to go after them, settle scores, I pray that during the reign of Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo - Addo, because of the fight and the betrayals and the suffering and the pain he went through to become president, he will not allow his presidency to be used by people who have problems with others and their opponents to settle scores, but that during his watch and his reign, that vicious cycle would be broken in the name of Jesus; that every Ghanaian, irrespective of your political party, if you're doing the right thing, you'll prosper», the founder of Action Chapel International (ACI) told his congregation on Sunday, 22 April.

Two decades after the legislation that created limited liability companies in New York state, the business entities have taken on a central role in the funding of political campaigns, according to a new report from state Sen. Daniel Squadron, a Democrat who has been one of the most vehement opponents of the so - called «LLC loophole.»

In the press conference after his one - man show, Grimm blasted his Democratic opponent, who recently made headlines when he apparently had trouble answering a question from NY1 political reporter Courtney Gross on the Trans - Pacific Partnership international trade agreement.

One of Governor Cuomo» s political opponents is calling on Cuomo to hold an explanatory press conference, and another is demanding that Cuomo to resign after an in depth account in the New York Times reports that the governor's top staff repeatedly interfered in an ethics commission investigation.

State Sen. George Latimer says he has come to expect the attacks from his political opponents, but the criticism seems to gnaw at him more and more after all these years.

Faulkner, who says he has known his opponent Scott Stringer for 20 years and who appears on friendly terms with him when they cross paths at political events, said that he called Stringer immediately after the mayoral debate and that they agreed «100 %» that their debate would not be like the mayoral debate.

Two decades after the legislation that created limited liability companies in New York, the business entities have taken on a central role in the funding of political campaigns, according to a new report from state Sen. Daniel Squadron, a Democrat who has been one of the most vehement opponents of the so - called «LLC loophole.»

Transportation activists and political opponents called for City Hall to yank state Sen. Marty Golden's parking placard after a cyclist reported Golden waved his placard and claimed to be a cop in an effort to clear the bike lane, but de Blasio has remained silent.

But she then changed tack after Robinson pressed on, asking why she was «running scared» of debating with her political opponents.

However, few weeks after Mr. Afoko's revelations, the party has had it leaders issuing threats upon threats to people, as well as state institutions, especially the Ghana Police Service, the Electoral Commission (EC) and members of their main political opponents; the National Democratic Congress (NDC), creating fear and panic.

Many individuals and institutions have spoken vociferously against the unwarranted attacks on perceived political opponents hours after Akufo - Addo was declared winner of the December 7 polls.

(CNN)-- After calls from his Democratic opponent to release his personal income tax returns, former New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer — currently making a political comeback bid for New York City comptroller — disclosed his income and taxes paid for the past two years.

His approval ratings have already tanked after the extensive media coverage of the original trial, and though most of the experts still rated him as a favorite for reelection (his race was listed as «Likely Democratic» by the Cook Political Report) in his heavily pro-Democratic state, he attracted a primary opponent just a few days ago.

After years of questions from political opponents, Lord Ashcroft admitted on Monday he does not pay tax on his earning made outside of Britain.

BERLIN — After a campaign in which German Chancellor Angela Merkel's opponents largely failed to portray themselves as a political alternative, her Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and its Bavarian sister party, CSU, won the most votes in Sunday's election, according to first projections.

After keeping her opponent waiting overnight with wishes that he have «a very painful evening,» political newcomer Marie Newman conceded to Democratic U.S. Rep. Dan Lipinski on Wednesday in their widely watched primary race.

News of that cash haul comes after Wilson directly asked in a Web video for campaign cash to fend off attacks from political opponents and said he's standing by his opposition to Democratic efforts at health care reform.

Four incumbent state representatives from DeSoto County were defeated Tuesday night after a political action committee pushing for charter schools and school vouchers threw its support behind the opponents» campaigns.

«While it would be in bad taste to arbitrarily go after a public figure's family, it is fair journalism to criticize the senator for using his own children to attack a political opponent.

After a lengthy political struggle (of which the primary opponent was local organized veterinary medicine), Denver just became the first city outside...

Sacramento, CA — The Energy & Environment Legal Institute (E&E Legal) has filed suit under California's Public Records Act (PRA) against the state's Attorney General Xavier Becerraa for withholding all but one email showing or mentioning its work with partisan and environmentalist activists to use law enforcement in going after opponents of the «climate» political agenda».

It is perhaps not so surprising to hear that facts, logic, and knowledge can be bent to accord with a person's subjective worldview; after all, we accuse our political opponents of this kind of «motivated reasoning» all the time.

Pulitzer Prize - winning historian James MacGregor Burns has written of the U.S. Supreme Court: «Justices throughout the court's history have clung to their seats long after their political patrons have retired and long after their parties have yielded to their opponents or even disappeared.

also restrictive regimes many times punish opponents not for «political crime» but for some (constructed) «regular crime» and after overthrowing such regime it is hard to say, what was «masked political crime» and what was «normal crime» as normal criminals usually states, that they are political too, in hope to get free - so in such case amnesty is «for all» as it is better to leave some «real criminals» free, than leave imprisoned some innoncent political ones