Sentences with phrase «primary a year ago»

Long Island Democrat David Calone, who narrowly lost a party primary a year ago, has decided against making a second try next year to take on Republican Rep. Lee Zeldin.

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It's also the first cola under the flagship Pepsi brand since Pepsi Next 2 1/2 years ago, and it will be among the first colas in the U.S. to use stevia, a plant native to Paraguay, as its primary sweetener.

At one moment in the play the actor playing Frankie Valli is talking about his longstanding relationship with Bob Gaudio, the primary songwriter for the band: all this, the fortune, the fame, and the songs, was done on a handshake 40 years ago.

That year, just a decade ago, it was hard to imagine that a President of the United States would ever use a social media channel as a primary form of communication.

When we established AI+R nearly two years ago, our primary goal was to accelerate the adoption of AI innovations from research into product, and the changes we are making today reflect our strong progress.

This debt has been the primary reason for relatively recent growth, and therefore demand, that otherwise should have run aground years ago.

Three years ago, we launched Primary Venture Partners with the goal of building a firm that would set a new standard here in New York City for how early - stage investors engage with and support the operations of their portfolio companies.

Forty years ago, my father participated on the Commission on Emotional and Learning Disorders in Children that issued a report called «One Million Children» providing a blueprint for meeting the needs of one million Canadian children with primary learning disorders.

According to Freddie Mac's latest Primary Mortgage Market Survey for the first week of January 2018, the average mortgage rate dipped in the U.S. Treasury yields fell from a week ago, helping to drive mortgage rates down to start the year.

Beginning with Columbine 19 years ago, more than 150,000 students attending at least 170 primary or secondary schools have experienced a shooting on campus, according to a Washington Post analysis of online archives, state and federal enrollment figures, and news stories.

It will be my only real estate ownership (seriously kicking myself for selling my townhouse in Colorado 4.5 years ago) and our primary residence.

To no one's surprise, Mitt Romney won the New Hampshire Primary, with turnout just a tick above the allegedly dispirited showing four years ago.

Once this congregation was group of German immigrants living in what was then farmland across the river from New York City» that was over a hundred years ago» and the primary goal seemed simply to keep the struggling congregation from folding, at another time the chief task seemed racial integration, at another outreach into the community, at another service to the community and social action, at another learning to worship God in Spanish.

Matters came to crisis point a year ago when the last government's Children, Schools & Family Bill sought to impose a statutory sex and relationship education (SRE) curriculum on all schools from the primary stage (currently SRE is only compulsory in secondary schools and the content can be determined by each school) and to remove the right of parents to withdraw their children from inappropriate SRE lessons from the age of 15.

I did a tour four years ago, with Professor Daniel DiSalvo of CUNY, in the week before the New Hampshire primary.

The primary task, five years ago, was to identify and validate the role of the pastor in a multi-professional therapeutic milieu.

Hanafi followers, for instance, must be guided by what was said by Abu Hanifah who lived twelve hundred years ago; whether he was right or wrong, there is no recourse to studying such primary sources as the Qur» an or Tradition.

Who would have imagined, fifty years ago, that a passion for the democratic transformation of the world would find its primary American political home in (at least some) conservative circles?

We both agreed that Tiger Nuts were one of the world's best kept health food secrets, despite being around as the primary source of food of Cavemen over 4000 years ago, so we decided to bring them to America and try to make a difference in inspiring people to live and eat healthier lives..

If the kids are in college now, and she was the primary parent till five years ago, she did the heavy lifting, bub, even if you don't think she did it well (and if they're in college elsewhere she probably did fine).

All of a sudden I was dealing with depression that I did not know existed in my oldest daughter, my toddler was potty training and getting her attitude, I was dealing with a lot of things with Primary President including my 13th member of my presidency since I was called almost 5 years ago, Stress from my husbands job and things going on there, stress with finances, stress with my blog, stress with home schooling, stress with a new baby on the way... plus my own emotional roller coaster that comes with being... [Read more...]

That's the primary reason why I started the predecessor of this blog nearly 7 years ago, and why I maintain it to this day.

Seven years ago, the lunch service at East Sheen Primary was truly dreadful.

Fifteen years ago, when I was a classroom teacher I spoke frequently to my primary aged students about eating fruits and vegetables.

In the Dutch maternity care system midwives are qualified to provide independent care for women with uncomplicated pregnancies.1 2 They also identify and select the women who, because of existing or anticipated problems, require care from an obstetrician.1 3 Twenty five years ago, women receiving primary care all gave birth at home, but since the 1970s they have been able to choose between home birth and hospital birth under the care of a midwife or general practitioner.

Langworthy helped author Paladino's successful primary bid four years ago but has no interest in a primary this time around.

Former Brooklyn Councilman Sal Albanese, one of Weiner's potential Democratic primary rivals, demanded that the ex-congressman pony up $ 350,000 for the cost of the election required to fill his hastily vacated House seat two years ago.

Kennedy narrowly defeated Grant in a primary for the 63rd State Senate District two years ago.

Malpass finished second to former Rep. Joe DioGuardi in the three - way GOP primary two years ago.

The Republican candidate who wants to challenge the Saratoga County District Attorney in a primary filed for bankruptcy 20 years ago while going through a divorce.

When Zephyr Teachout, then a little - known Fordham Law School professor, challenged Cuomo in a primary four years ago, one of the state's largest public workers unions, PEF, endorsed her, while NYSUT decided to sit out the governor's race entirely, declining to pick a favorite.

Former Republican U.S. Sen. Al D'Amato, who crossed party lines and backed Cuomo for governor four years ago, is endorsing state Senate Deputy Majority Leader John DeFrancisco in the Republican primary (if there is one) for governor.

In our initial analysis of Indiana Senate races, we find just five races that have the potential to flip to the Democrats: The open SD26 being vacated by State Sen. Doug Eckerty in the Muncie / Anderson area; SD 29 in the Indianapolis / Carmel area where State Sen. Mike Delph just won a spirited primary; SD38 in the Terre Haute / Brazil area that went to the GOP four years ago; and the twin SDs 45 and 46 in the Jeffersonville / Clark County area where Sens. Ron Grooms and Jim Smith both won tight races in 2014.

Teachout went on to win about a third of the primary vote four years ago.

Nixon said in addition to running in the Democratic Party primary, she's also competing with Cuomo to actively seek the nomination of the Working Families Party, a progressive group that gave Cuomo the nomination four years ago but has had its differences with the incumbent governor.

To put Tolbert's war chest in perspective, he already has more money in hand than what Mickey Kearns spent four years ago when he ran against Brown in the party primary.

Boehner was especially enthusiastic about Ryan, whom he said worked on Boehner's first congressional campaign 22 years ago — «a primary I couldn't win» — as a 23 - year - old college student whose big responsibility was to put up yard signs.

Paladino, the Republican gubernatorial candidate who surged to a surprise primary victory two years ago against Lazio, endorsed Long on Sunday.

There were 8,767 cases of MSSA reported in the primary care setting 5 years ago, rising by 18 % to 10,584 in 2016.

The tea party - backed candidate who tried to defeat Hanna in a primary two years ago won Tuesday night's three - way Republican contest.

A political unknown just four years ago, Rep. James Lankford has swiftly positioned himself as the front - runner in what could be a crowded GOP primary field to replace retiring Sen. Tom Coburn, R - Okla.

Two years ago, the party helped progressive Democrats win a number of legislative primaries, in some cases against incumbents.

Kent has also drawn fire for orchestrating the Democratic primary endorsement of Zephyr Teachout, who unsuccessfully challenged Gov. Andrew Cuomo, and for awarding a contract worth more than $ 700,000 to a public relations firm that helped Kent with her candidacy more than two years ago.

Three years ago, she defied the party by running a primary against the chosen candidate for county executive, Dale Sweetland, and she scraped by with a victory.

In the last primary in Matheson's district 14 years ago, just 17,500 voters turned out.

Nixon says in addition to running in the Democratic Party primary, she's also competing with Cuomo to actively seek the nomination of the Working Families Party, a progressive group that gave Cuomo the nomination four years ago but has had its differences with the incumbent governor.

And not everyone has forgotten the famous insult he delivered 28 years ago, in a Playboy magazine interview published five months before the Democratic primary for governor that he lost to Mr. Cuomo.

Cabrera lost his primary challenge to Rivera two years ago by 20 points and according to a number of sources he promised members of the Bronx Democratic Committee not to run again and to work with Rivera.

Many of us thought the idea of open primaries for the selection of candidates was dead and buried following widespread rejection by members in a Party consultation process a couple of years ago.

Now, McCall is Chair of the State University of New York Board of Trustees, and he was put there by his former primary rival in the gubernatorial race nine years ago, current Governor Andrew Cuomo.