Sentences with phrase «primary efforts by»

Nothing better underscores this than how Senator Bernie Sanders was deviously undermined in his presidential primary efforts by the Democratic National Committee.

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Chapter 2 looks at efforts by policymakers to revive weak credit growth, which has been seen by many as a primary reason behind the slow economic recovery.

The primary task of the exegete of the parables, then, is to set the parable in its original context in the ministry of Jesus so that, by an effort of historical imagination, he may grasp the crucial point of the parable itself and then find the parallel or analogy to which it is directed.

Primary marketing efforts for infant formula products are directed toward securing the recommendation of the Enfa family of brands by physicians or other health care professionals.

Democrats plan to push hard in an effort to win a number of seats — the one vacated by former Sen. Chuck Fuschillo, the one that used to be held by Foley and will potentially being vacated by Sen. Lee Zeldin (assuming he wins the NY - 1 GOP primary) and the one currently held by Sen. Jack Martins).

This endorsement is a roundabout effort by Coffey to hit one of his Democratic AG primary opponents, Nassau County DA Kathleen Rice.

It could be viewed as an effort to one - up an ad recently released by Catsimatidis» primary rival, Joe Lhota, that stars Lhota's former boss, ex-NYC Mayor Rudy Giuliani, saying his one - time deputy is a «great leader» being «wrongly attacked» with «false» and «desperate» attacks launched by his (unnamed) opponent.

Primary challenges to lawmakers in the Independent Democratic Conference are moving forward, but those efforts are not being supported by the mainline conference's campaign arm, a spokesman on Tuesday said.

The Democrats are predicting a big victory, assisted by a significant GOTV effort that, ironically, is being run with the assistance of the Working Families Party, putting it temporarily on the same side as Cuomo, whom it snubbed to endorse his Democratic primary opponent, actress Cynthia Nixon.

Rebuffing efforts by Mitt Romney loyalists, the Republican State Committee this week changed its policy of committing all the state's delegates to the winner of the presidential primary.

Off topic questions included city enforcement efforts around Airbnb and Airbnb's hiring of de Blasio's campaign manager, why a proposed ban on carriage horses has taken far longer than initially promised by the mayor, Tim Wu's comments on the mayor's central role on defeating Wu and Zephyr Teachout in Tuesday's primary, revised statistics on NYPD chokehold incidents, charter school co-locations, the mayor's lack of a federal security clearance and resulting inability to receive classified information, school bus drivers movement toward a strike, his relationship with Police Commissioner Bill Bratton and his efforts to help elect a Democratic majority in the state senate.

The 74 - year - old senator's success, including his upset victory in the Michigan primary last week, has been fueled by his appeal to younger voters, who so far have resisted Clinton's efforts to reach out to them through targeted TV ads and an increased focus on issues such as student debt.

Jodi McDade said she saw the allegations as part and parcel with the failed efforts by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and his allies to help Sen. Luther Strange in the primary against Moore.

Scott Olin Smith compares the video to efforts by Democratic California Governor Gray Davis in 2002 to undermine his strongest Republican rival (in part by tying him to Gray Davis), and I can see the point he's making, since we again have an avowed Democrat trying to weaken a leading candidate on the other side during the primary process.

The group New York Unity PAC, an effort fueled in part by Republican activists who back same - sex marriage legalization, reported spending more than $ 210,000 on ads, direct mail and robocalls, in its recent 10 - day post primary filing.

Clarey is referring to Paladino's effort to remake the Senate GOP by supporting conservative primary candidates against more moderate incumbents.

«What we did see was a concerted effort by some folks to apparently, to protest New York's closed primary process by showing up to vote when they weren't registered to vote.

Paladino is recruiting a New Yorkers for Trump support team, increasing his efforts after the real - estate mogul won the GOP New Hampshire primary by a wide margin.

Cuomo's GOTV effort has also taken on a bit more significance now that he's facing a GOP nominee who won his own primary by a wide margin, fueled by upstate economic anger and an organic base stemming in part from his role as an employer in Western New York.

Full disclosure: Among the people backing Fordham law professor and former Howard Dean internet director Zephyr Teachout's effort to challenge sitting NY Governor Andrew Cuomo in the Democratic primary, according to the filings by her and her running mate Tim Wu with the state board of elections: Union Square Ventures» Brad Burnham ($ 20,000), Tumblr founder David Karp ($ 20,000) WordPress founder Matt Mullenweg ($ 5,000), Netflix VP Chris Libertelli ($ 5,000), Kickstarter's Fred Benenson ($ 5,000), campaign finance reform activist Arnold Hiatt ($ 2,500), Lawrence Lessig ($ 2,500), Reddit's Alexis Ohanian ($ 2,500), our own Andrew Rasiej ($ 1,500), Digg's Andrew McLaughlin ($ 1,000), Open Technology Institute's Sascha Meinrath ($ 1,000), Harvard Law School's Jonathan Zittrain ($ 1,000), Duke law prof Jedediah Purdy ($ 1,000), Ben & Jerry's Ben Cohen ($ 1,000), EchoDitto founder and former Dean webmaster Nicco Mele ($ 600), net neutrality campaigner Marvin Ammori ($ 500), Blue State Digital's Joe Rospars ($ 500), Progressive Strategies» Mike Lux ($ 450), former Dean data - wiz Kenn Herman ($ 300), former Dean developer Josh Koenig ($ 250), Fight for the Future's Tiffiniy Cheng ($ 250), MIT's Ethan Zuckerman ($ 250), Brooklyn law prof Jonathan asking ($ 250), Public Campaign's David Donnelly $ 250), former Dean developer Zack Rosen ($ 250), the ACLU «s Christopher Soghoian ($ 100), Sunlight Foundation's Ellen Miller ($ 100), former Dean blogger Mathew Gross ($ 100), and yours truly ($ 100).

Some New York Democrats have accused Cuomo's efforts of being politically motivated rather than sincere, saying his decision was driven by his primary challenge from progressive activist Cynthia Nixon.

The New York Times Thomas Kaplan reports on the efforts of Governor Andrew Cuomo's campaign to knock challenger Zephyr Teachout, law professor and former Howard Dean internet director, off the September 9 primary ballot by challenging her New York state residency.

Mayoral candidate Bo Dietl's effort at running in the Republican mayoral primary appears to be continuing, notwithstanding an adverse ruling last week by the New York Supreme Court's Appellate Division.

Democrat Kevin Kim has raised more than three times the amount of money than Republican Dan Halloran in the race to replace City Councilman Tony Avella (D - Bayside), but Halloran's participation in the city's matching funds program has multiplied his fund - raising efforts by six times since September's Democratic primary, according to city campaign finance records.

A federal judge on Thursday blocked an effort by the state's teachers unions to strip away restrictions on political spending weeks before primary elections.

Thats similar to what they said about John Kerry when he was running 4th in the Iowa Caucuses and 4th in the New Hampshire primaries... he came out front after a concerted effort to portray Howard Dean as way too liberal by people in his own party.

Sen. Neil Breslin is not on the Democrats» endangered members list heading into the Sept. 14 primary, but that's not for lack of effort by his opponent Luke Martland.

It's hard to see how this bodes well for the effort by Cox, the grandson of Richard Nixon and the son of state GOP Chairman Ed Cox, both of whom have come under fire for the son's decision to run in the Suffolk race as a late entrant to an already - crowded primary.

But in his district, where the 81 - year - old, 21 - term congressman heads into a June primary looking increasingly vulnerable, the question of whether his fund - raising efforts have crossed the line is joined by another: Has he simply stayed too long?

One consequence of these factors is a delay, if not ending, of the effort by the five Republican county chairs to avoid a primary and unite behind a single candidate.

Will an effort by New York City's five Republican County chairs to avoid a mayoral primary by uniting behind a single mayoral candidate succeed?

Mayoral candidate Bo Dietl says that his most recent effort at getting on the Republican primary ballot was squashed by New York State Republican Chairman Ed Cox and Manhattan Republican Chairwoman Adele Malpass.

He also said that the number of complaints was part of a «concerted effort» by people protesting New York City's closed primary system that does not allow independents to vote.

The Democratic effort to oust DeWine had been plagued for most of this year by the bitter fallout stemming from Iraq War veteran Paul Hackett's short - lived primary challenge to nominee Sherrod Brown.

But Perez Williams launched a last - minute effort in April to force a primary, backed by Democrats from the national party in Washington.

Femi Makinde in this piece examines the efforts of the National Primary Health Care Development Agency, Lions Club and international agencies at stopping measles in Osun State Measles which is an infectious disease caused by the rubeola virus can be fatal but the good news is that it can be prevented by vaccine.

That ad, and more like it (along with fliers and other attention - grabbers in what will likely be a low - turnout primary) was the product of an independent expenditure effort backed by the California Charter Schools Association, which has been a big force in battles with teachers» unions over charter schools in Los Angeles and at the state level as well.

Most of the money will go not to television and radio advertisements, but for canvassing, social media and other organizing efforts intended to bring pressure on lawmakers from their own constituents, drawing in part on lessons the teachers learned from defeating candidates backed by well - financed charter school advocates in the Democratic primary last fall.

Manhattan Republican County Chairwoman Adele Malpass has spoken enthusiastically of an effort by the five Republican county chairs to unite behind a single candidate, thereby avoiding a potentially damaging and divisive primary.

Mr. Diaz's candidacy had been assured only the night before the Democratic primary, when the New York State Court of Appeals turned down an effort by the Espada campaign to remove Mr. Diaz from the ballot.

Advocates of such primaries say they would prevent a repeat of Falkirk where a relatively small party threatened to be taken over by a union - backed effort to recruit new members.

When I asked about recent efforts by Republican leaders to grant a Wilson - Pakula to Bo Dietl, which would allow Dietl to run in the Republican primary against Massey, Massey sought to brush off any concerns.

In an effort to exclude black candidates, already excluded by the all - white Democrat Primary of that day from the General Election as well, the Georgia General Assembly in 1943 adopted a 5 % petitioning standard.

An e-blast advertising the event told Manhattan GOP subscribers, «We need to unite this year in the mission of making Bill de Blasio a one term Mayor... We plan to endorse a candidate around April 1 and we hope to prevent a primary by working with the other Republican county chairs in that effort.»

Casey seemed to part ways with his party's leadership when asked by CNN's John King whether Democratic Party leaders - including President Obama, Vice President Biden, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, and Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell - should be making public pledges of support to Specter in an apparent effort to dissuade any would - be primary challengers to the former Republican.

Human hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells (HSPCs), derived from bone marrow, have become a primary vehicle for efforts to replace or regenerate cells destroyed by a variety of diseases.

«But these days meta - analyses are often done by people who are not familiar with a field, who don't have the primary data or don't make the effort to get it.»

For cancers in which only a small percentage of mutations are due to random DNA replication errors, by contrast, primary prevention efforts — those aimed at minimizing harmful environmental exposures — will continue to be the most effective way to reduce cancer deaths, the researchers said.

Efforts to promote a selective increase in the number of endothelial cells present in primary cultures by using different media preparations (MCDB - 131, D - Valine, etc.) were largely unsuccessful.

The study is the result of a large collaborative effort with investigators from 44 universities and research institutions in the United States, led by Gerard D. Schellenberg, PhD, at Penn, with primary analysis sites at Miami, led by Margaret A. Pericak - Vance, PhD, and Boston, led by Lindsay A. Farrer, PhD.