Sentences with phrase «presiding over a party»

Rick Santorum is a fruitcake, and he is presiding over a party of radical, pin - headed, Chicken Littles who have lost their minds!!!

But he presides over a party that came close to outright revolt this year.

Yes, as head of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, Israel presided over his party's drubbing last month, but if the new Republican majority dismantles Obamacare, at least he can remind us that laughter is the best medicine.

Sources close to the governors said they were more concerned presently on who would preside over the party's national convention and those who would be in the committee.

«If the Moreland Commission should look at anything, it should be Ed Cox sitting at the table with Malcolm Smith and presiding over a party that tried to sell its mayoral party line for the largest bribe,» Capel said.

Brown presides over a party that has flipped from triumphalist to defeatist within less than two years.

Not exact matches

The party executive committee, at a nominating convention at Wisdom Lane School in Levittown, backed Blakeman, a former presiding officer of the county legislature, over Frank Scaturro, a New Hyde Park attorney who is making his third run in Nassau's 4th District.

Labour's National Executive Committee (NEC) is a 33 - person body that internally presides over the implementation of the party's rules, including for Leadership elections.

When the leader of the country's largest union tells Labour's leader he's being dragged into a swamp, heading for certain defeat at the next election and presiding over the destruction of his party, then something's up.

More often, the Senate is presided over by the president pro tempore who also serves as head of the majority party.

Jim Murphy has just presided over the worst election defeat in the history of the Scottish Labour Party.

Gov. Abdulaziz Yari of Zamfara made this known at the end of a caucus of the party which was presided over by President Muhammadu Buhari.

The mainstream practitioners who were active in the years of Harold's premiership all indicate support and admiration for the way he held the Labour party together, sought to drag Britain into the modern era and presided over a series of liberalisation acts including abolition of the death penalty and the legalisation of homosexuality, abortion and divorce.

Assuming all interested parties knew the score going in, the judge (Andrew Ceresia, brought in from Rensselaer County to preside over the case) nonetheless injected some suspense when he expressed sympathy for the defendant in his pre-sentencing statement.

But there's no way Klein would vote for Sampson, who has been widely speculated to be on his last legs as leader for months now — a speculation that has continued despite the fact that he just presided over a campaign effort that might have returned his party to power.

However Kevin Lindsay, Aslef's organiser in Scotland, said: «Jim Murphy has just presided over the worst election defeat in the history of the Scottish Labour Party.

Pelosi is also pointing out that if Cuomo indeed has presidential aspirations, presiding over a Democrat - dominated state that loses Democratic House members in a presidential election year because he declined to get engaged in the House redistricting process will not play well with party insiders.

It's been nearly 25 years since a Democrat presided over the Florida Senate, but if the plans of party leaders and operatives come together, the president's gavel could be theirs as soon as November.

He and Mr Jackson called on Mr Miliband to emulate the approach which led to Labour election victories in 1945, 1964 and 1997, all of which, they pointed out, involved attacks on a Tory party which had presided over a period of economic decay.

He is widely criticized for presiding over the dysfunction in his own party and for working at odds with its interests.

Tony Blair was accused of presiding over a «government of the living dead» by a Conservative party leader rejected as a disciple of Groucho Marx.

Accra High Court presided over by Justice Barbara Tetteh Charway has ordered lawyers for the Electoral Commission [EC] and the All People's Party, APC, to file their statements of case simultaneously in the suit seeking to quash the disqualification of Hassan Ayariga as a presidential candidate.

Oshiomhole, who spoke to reporters shortly after presiding over a brief session of the APC campaign council, praised the party for assembling a team of committed party men and women to support the governorship candidate.

Sheriff had insisted that he would preside over the meeting, but Wike and Fayose disagreed, saying Jonathan should preside since it was a reconciliatory and not a party meeting.

If America vetoes the bid it will have lost any right to preside over talks as an impartial third party — a role that was laughable years ago but which will now clearly be impossible.

In a national address broadcast on Sunday, Mugabe said he would «preside» over the party's upcoming extraordinary congress next month.

The UPND (United Party for National Development) has accused President Lungu of presiding over the «collapse» of the economy.

I can see that you intend to preside over the biggest and most overbearing «one party political machine» in history.

It is now clearer than ever that those numbers will be blown out of the water at the general election and that David Cameron will have succeeded in presiding over the most radical overhaul of the gender and ethnic make - up of the Conservative parliamentary party.

Silver presides over the heavy Democrat majority in the Assembly and has come under criticism in recent months by members of both his own party and the Republicans for what Katz called his actions «in covering the sexual improprieties of Assemblyman Vito Lopez with taxpayer dollars by means of the «Miscellaneous Contractual Services» account.»

The court, presided over by Ms. Patience Mills Tetteh, granted the plea for an out of court settlement and adjourned the case to December 16, for the parties to report the outcome to the court.

Espada's move comes after Democratic Gov. David Paterson's shocking decision to appoint a lieutenant governor to preside over the Senate, giving his party the upper hand in a chamber that has been divided 31 - 31.

You mean the party that controls every state - wide office and a supermajority in the body Shelley presides over?

The President pro tempore has the power to appoint any other senator to preside, and in practice junior senators from the majority party are assigned the task of presiding over the Senate at most times.

Formerly, the vice president would preside regularly over Senate proceedings, but in modern times, the vice president rarely presides over day - to - day matters in the Senate; in their place, the Senate chooses a President pro tempore (or «president for a time») to preside in the vice president's absence; the Senate normally selects the longest - serving senator in the majority party.

In explaining the judgment of the seven - member panel of Justices of the Supreme Court, the presiding Justice, Sophia Adinyira, said their decision was to enable the EC give hearing to all parties involved in the legal tussle over the qualification, due to the limited time left for the election to be held.

The Supreme Court's seven member panel presided over by Justice Sophia Adinyira, will deliver its verdict on the suit filed by Ghana's Electoral Commission (EC) challenging a high court judgement, which overturned its disqualification of the Flagbearer of the Progressive People's Party (PPP), Dr. Papa Kwesi Ndoum on November 7, 2016.

«While it's well - intentioned by them,» said Mike Reich, a member of the Queens party who presided over the meeting, «the executive committee has voted to table this because the additional expenses would be astronomical and the restrictions on it would hamper the ability of the political party to operate in an election time where you have to make quick expenditures in response to Republicans — as you know, Republicans can drop a million dollars in a district in a blink of an eye — and we have to be able to respond.»

The Party Chairman must preside over a formidable organisation and hit Labour below the belt when needed.

The Lib Dems could not go into coalition with a party which has presided over this economic mess and so Cameron will have to deal with the Cleggites.

Responding to the Labour leader's statements on migration, the home secretary, Amber Rudd, said: «All this shows is that Jeremy Corbyn wants unlimited immigration — and presides over a Labour party that is too divided, incompetent and distracted to lead our country.»

The appeal panel presided over by Justice Dongban Memsem promised to communicate the judgment date to parties involved.

The Washington Post reports: «Paterson also announced that the chief judge of the Court of Appeals, Jonathan Lippman, had made himself available to preside over the Senate, if both parties approve.

There's actress Olivia Wilde living large in a swanky ballroom, «Insecure's» Issa Rae presiding over a white - male - dominated board meeting, Yara Shahidi studying for Harvard, Rashida Jones partying it up in a limo, model Jourdan Dunn throwing back to Lady Godiva on a horse, Zoe Saldana playing with kids and Tracee Ellis Ross being appropriately glam.

We begin in 1930s Hollywood, where powerful agent Phil Stern (Steve Carell) is seen nervily presiding over a pool party where there are always distractions at hand — names to be dropped (Ginger Rogers, Paul Muni) and phone calls to be made.

Her gyrating and instigating are beautifully fused in Mike Mills's 20th Century Women, in which she plays Abbie, a soul - hungry Woody Woodpecker punkhead in a Lou Reed T - shirt who spazzes out to Talking Heads and the Clash, takes her teenage roomie to the nearest mosh pit, and conducts a blunt tutorial on menstruation at a dinner party presided over by a squinty and supremely unamused Annette Bening (never greater).

Governor Malloy has already presided over the deepest cuts in state history to Connecticut's public institutions of higher education but now he — and both parties in the legislature — are seeking truly unprecedented cuts in state funding levels for the University of Connecticut, Connecticut State Universities and Connecticut's Community Colleges.

Further, the parties agree that the arbitrator may not consolidate proceedings of more than one person's claims, and may not otherwise preside over any form of representative or class proceeding.

«I think if I could get a great house, I could definitely see myself moving here for a few years to work,» Mexican artist José Dávila tells me the following night over glasses of 20 - year - old Santiago rum at a party inside a coquina stone fort off the Malecón presided over by local superstar DJ Wichy de Vedado.

This year, Fiji presided over the 23rd Conference of the Parties (COP) being held in Bonn, Germany.