Sentences with phrase «politician on the campaign»

Think of every politician on the campaign trail and you'd be hard pressed to find any who don't use hand gestures to articulate points.

The chain's ubiquity has made it a national symbol, the place politicians on the campaign trail book their photo ops, that spawned a term (doubledouble) in the Canadian Oxford Dictionary.

As my colleague Steve Lohr wrote recently, Mr. Case and Mr. Vance have been barnstorming various cities in a painted bus, holding entrepreneurship competitions as if they were politicians on the campaign trail.

Federal politicians on the campaign trail are scurrying to align themselves with beer drinkers, and to place the blame on

On seeing the outrageous previews for Bulworth one wonders what plot could possibly allow Beatty get away with making those statements (In case you missed it, Warren Beatty plays a politician on the campaign trail.

These debatable prompts ask students to take a look at claims made by politicians on the campaign trail.

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The stand - off also comes amid a growing campaign by politicians, regulators and courts across Europe to rein in Google's power over the Internet search market and the impact it has on deeply ingrained social norms around personal privacy.

The former TD Bank chief economist stayed silent as campaigning politicians endlessly cited his landmark report on the province's public service.

Now the CEO is on a campaign to save the country from its politicians.

Security chiefs, after attacks by Islamist militants, have already announced extra police for patrolling key areas on voting day on Sunday when a centrist politician meets a veteran from the far - right after a turbulent and at times angry campaign.

The efforts of Martin Schulz and other senior SPD politicians to gain an advantage over their political competitors by leading a hardline anti-Trump campaign do not appear to have had any significant effect on the SPD's standing in the polls.

Through 2015 Facebook had actually been ramping up its internal focus on elections as a revenue generating opportunity — growing the headcount of staff working directly with politicians to encourage them to use its platform and tools for campaigning.

And while Facebook has claimed it was unaware that ~ 50M Facebook users» data was passed to Cambridge Analytica for political targeting purposes, Facebook has itself long been actively encouraging politicians and political campaigns to make use of its tools — at a time when there was a complete lack of regulation for political ads on digital platforms.

3) Paul Manafort, Trump's former campaign chair, was indicted in October in Washington, DC on charges of conspiracy, money laundering, false statements, and failure to disclose foreign assets — all related to his work for Ukrainian politicians before he joined the Trump campaign.

Jobs also became one of Silicon Valley's most prominent opponents of the Trump administration's restrictive immigration policies, including speaking out at public events, lobbying politicians on both sides of the aisles and funding multi-platform media campaigns, this year aimed at the at - risk Dreamers.

DId you know that Joseph Smith campaigned briefly for President of the United States in 1844 on a platform to end slavery by 1850, LONG before almost any other politicians were doing so?

Ever since 2002, most of those organizations have insisted that support for campaign - finance restrictions — particularly of the McCain - Feingold sort — is a black mark on a politician's pro-life record (on the grounds that pro-life advertising would be unfairly limited during campaign seasons).

@Sarah: You may choose to focus on what you like as well but it doesn't cancel out the fact that in our political arena today, we have religious right politicians coming out of the woodwork and campaigning on their alleged moral superiority.

If whites reject racial preferences as unfair to them, and if politicians campaign on the issue, the problem is construed as a lack of restraint by unscrupulous candidates who are willing to use divisive tactics to achieve their ends.

The Christian politician also voiced frustration that his views on sexuality drew attention away from the Lib Dem's General Election campaigning last year.

While this meant that the Garrisons and the Sumners were unpopular with swing voters, their more inflammatory form of anti-slavery politics made it easier for somewhat more moderate (in both tone and substance) politicians to campaign on opposition to slavery.

One promise President Donald Trump made often and loudly on the campaign trail was to revoke a 1954 law that says houses of worship can't officially endorse politicians, or they...

Courage to Take a Stand According to the civics textbooks, politicians campaign for office, get elected, and then spend their time on governing until it is time to campaign again.

I pointed out above that the politicians who campaigned on a strident culture - wars theme were not particularly successful in electoral politics.

I am yelled at by street corner evangelists, teenage «elders» knock on my door to tell me about their faith, I find flyers at my door telling me «the good news», there are politicians on a national level basing their entire campaign on their faith, there are people trying to enforce their beliefs through legislation, there are people holding up signs with bible verses at sporting events - the list goes on.

Someone may object that, given the current weakness of our political parties, politicians necessarily have to turn to interest groups for their ready - made mailing lists and rely on «fat cat» contributors for large campaign donations.

As for politicians, they have increasingly depended massively on campaign funds from interest groups to keep them in office.

Politicians in Scotland, for example, have pursued a «hearts and minds» campaign to re-educate society on its understanding of sexuality; will a Scottish state rather than a United Kingdom state make that more or less likely to continue.

The Christian politician also voiced frustration that his views on sexuality distracted attention away from the Lib Dem's General Election campaigning last year.

On Tuesday, a coalition of major Muslim, interfaith and civil rights groups will announce a new campaign and website to push back against politicians and others they say are trafficking in anti-Muslim rhetoric.

The ad was published in the specific context of the presidential campaign, in which a Catholic candidate for vice-president, Geraldine Ferraro, was being characterized by Cardinal John O'Connor of New York as a politician for whom Catholics could not vote because of her mildly prochoice position on abortion.

A Scottish politician has launched the Final Straw campaign, which petitions for a UK - wide ban on plastic straws.

Political campaigns operate on this system as well, and as politician or candidate, your job is to move people from knowing who you are (stage 1) to following you on Twitter (stage 2) to posting a yard sign (stage 3) to donating money (stage 4) to submitting an entry to your Facebook photo contest (stage 5) to organizing the masses on Election Day (stage 6).

This, according to Mr. Iddrisu is factually inaccurate saying «as if schooled on the subject by his Vice, the President showed that he was yet to come to terms with his new designation as President and came across more as a politician addressing charged party supporters on the campaign platform.

Election campaigns are meant to build up to the messy climax of election night, when voters set the country on a decisive course by clearly indicating their will to politicians.

President Akufo Addo in his address yesterday, continued the propagandist path beaten by his Vice President in the run up to the 2016 elections on matters relating to the economy.As if schooled on the subject by his Vice, the President showed that he was yet to come to terms with his new designation as President and came across more as a politician addressing charged party supporters on the campaign platform.

Consisting of 25 images, one for each day of the election campaign plus one taken during the height of the coalition talks, Roberts focused on the relationship between canvassing politicians and the voting public.

But as it becomes normal rather than exceptional for campaigns to have a presence on Facebook and other social media channels, politicians will have to endure many more attempts by activists to take over their pages to get attention for their issues or their demands.

His public image will shape the American political environment, of course, but plenty of politicians and political professionals on all sides will also look to his ground - breaking online campaign as an inspiration, seeking to replicate his success at using the internet to raise money, find supporters and put people to work in the real world.

But most politicians and political campaigns still labor in the shadows of popular indifference (for instance on Twitter and even Facebook), and should not assume that people come to them — if one want them to be involved, one needs to mobilize and organize them, one at a time, on their terms, using their tools.

Why do US politicians so much on campaigns when the salary is not high enough to justify the expenditure?

A campaign about education in the northeastern U.S. targeting a specific elected official may not hold my attention with content that calls out a particular politician by name (they're not MY rep, after all), but if the content also contains stats that I find relevant to education discussions where I live, then suddenly even a regional campaign can be relevant on a national scale.

He wants taxpayer - funded political campaigns, allowing politicians to campaign exclusively on the public dime and forcing you, the taxpayer, to cover the cost of their negative TV ads, mailers and robocalls.

Former Trump campaign chief Paul Manafort was hit with new charges, including an allegation he secretly recruited and funded a group of former European politicians to lobby in the United States on behalf of Ukraine.

Kagan grew up on the Upper West Side and worked on Liz Holtzman's 1980 US Senate campaign; she was upset when Holtzman lost to «ultraconvservative machine politician» Alfonse D'Amato.

He also tried to make good on his campaign promise to «Clean Up Albany,» announcing plans to end pay - to - play, force politicians to disclose outside income, publicly finance campaigns and promote independent redistricting.

He told Syracuse.com he opposes Cuomo's calls for the Legislature to approve public financing of political campaigns, is undecided on closing the LLC loophole that lets wealthy donors contribute almost unlimited amounts to politicians, and is against the governor's call to limit the outside income of lawmakers to 15 percent of their $ 79,500 base salary as legislators.

With help from high - profile Queens politicians, Adams has raised over $ 100,000 during the campaign and has $ 40,921 on hand, compared to Sanders» $ 33,862, according to pre-primary filings with the state Board of Elections.

Combined with inadequate enforcement of even the paltry campaign finance laws already on the books, it is not surprising that so many politicians thought they were above the law last year.

The battle to create progressive change goes well beyond any one candidate or campaign, and it demands the development of institutional and independent power to the left of the Democratic Party — power that can prod politicians like Cuomo to govern on behalf of the people who elect them.