Sentences with phrase «profile elections coming up»

«Members who have high - profile elections coming up or just are really out front on a particular issue are now feeling like they may be targets,» said Kristin Nicholson, a veteran Democratic chief of staff who last month organized a letter signed by more than 1,500 former aides urging an overhaul of Congress» harassment policies.

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However, in order to be taken as a serious government - in - waiting, politics has to come first and I was somewhat concerned recently to hear the following story about a member of the shadow cabinet: he had apparently already told David Cameron that he didn't want a higher profile post than that which he currently holds in advance of the general election, because he didn't want to give up other interests on account of time commitments or potential conflicts of interest involved in a different post.

Unlike the advisory - opinion matters that have come up before the Supreme Court, with their unlimited scope for interpretation of the terms of the Constitution and for the reconstruction of, and reflection upon legal principle — opportunities that provided scope for charting novel lines of jurisprudence — the Presidential - election case, though so vital in the progress of the new Constitution, and so momentous in political profile, was a matter the scope of which was well defined by elements of procedure, evidence and probability - evaluation.

By Thursday, National Review had come up with the counternarrative to the sudden anti-Facebook sentiment among progressives this week, pointing out that the Obama administration had been widely lauded during the 2012 election for (in part) using the Facebook profiles of a wide swath of people not just to predict how they might vote in the election, but how to turn those electors into someone who might vote for Obama.