Sentences with phrase «ran for the leadership in»

On domestic policy, all the candidates are tilting leftwards and are at least attempting to be bold, even if at times they seem to be conducting a private conversation, addressing the party rather than the nation - as Tony Blair did so successfully when he ran for the leadership in 1994, or David Cameron did when he became leader of the Conservative Party in 2005.

Not exact matches

It's a cause that Perry, a former L.A. councilwoman who has served in leadership positions with the city for nearly 25 years and ran for mayor in 2013, has long championed.

In interviews, Circle's executives were reluctant to divulge anything at all about the inner workings of Poloniex, including who runs it, and they declined multiple requests for interviews with the exchange's principals, saying that Poloniex's leadership wished to remain out of the spotlight.

We need women in leadership roles for many different reasons, but they shouldn't be held back from running the show in the workplace because they can not afford to have someone run the show at home.

Trump has also expressed admiration for Kim's leadership of North Korea, though human - rights groups have accused the government of numerous violations, including running prison camps that have been likened to Auschwitz in Nazi - controlled Europe.

Publicly - traded companies also contribute to party leadership campaigns (legal in 8 provinces), contribute to think - tanks that advocate for (sometimes controversial) policy positions, and run their own advertising and advocacy campaigns to generate support for policies or projects.

Sibyl is also the cofounder of Black Female Founders and the President of DC Web Women (DCWW), one of the longest - running tech nonprofits for women in D.C, which supports and advocates for women and girls in technology by providing a community in which they can develop and promote their leadership, technical and professional skills.

The animation studio that Jobs sold to Disney for $ 7.5 billion in 2006 runs Pixar University, a professional development program that offers courses in fine arts and filmmaking as well as leadership and management to steep employees in the company's culture, history and values as well as its craft.

Twice denied an opportunity to run for the leadership of the Wildrose Party, controversial Conservative Party Member of Parliament Rob Anders is still lurking in the shadows of the deflated Alberta conservative opposition party.

After failing to secure federal Conservative nominations in Calgary - Signal Hill and Bow River, Mr. Anders unsuccessfully appealed to the Wildrose Party executive to allow him to run for the leadership.

When running for the PC leadership last year, Jim Prentice promised to restore trust in a PC Party badly damaged by former Premier Alison Redford, but the latest nomination controversies undermine his promise and will likely increase cynicism among Alberta voters.

HQ Cowichan Valley - Federal Liberal Leadership Candidate Visits Cowichan One day after Vancouver MP Joyce Murray announced she is running for the federal Liberal leadership, another candidate from Vancouver made a stop in the Cowichan Valley to spread the word he's vying for the top Liberal job.

6) Calgary - Varsity With the retirement of popular two - term Liberal MLA Harry Chase, the Liberals have nominated former carpenters» union official Bruce Payne, who ran for that party's leadership in 2011.

Wildrose Leader Brian Jean said Wednesday he's willing to discuss a conservative merger, hours after MP Jason Kenney announced he'd run for the Alberta PC leadership in a bid to unite the two parties.

Now that Clark has made his announcement, it is unclear if he or the Alberta Together group have a chosen candidate waiting in the wings to run for the party leadership.

Mr. Ceci supported the Liberal Party when it was led by Kevin Taft and endorsed Mr. Swann when he ran for the party's leadership in 2008.

She initially promised to create this type of program when running for the NDP leadership in September 2014.

The only women running for the leadership of the PC Party dropped out of the race last week, citing sexist attacks and a lack of space for centrist ideas in the party.

Voter turnout ranged from a low of 20.4 % in the 2000 Red Deer - North by - election, held to replace PC MLA Stockwell Day who resigned to run for the leadership of the Canadian Alliance, to 45.5 % in the 1996 Redwater by - election, held to replace Liberal MLA Nick Taylor who had been appointed to the Canadian Senate.

The talk in Ottawa says Jason Kenney may run for the federal Tory leadership, try to unite the right, or leave politics entirely

«Our alumni are in leadership positions on all continents: starting schools and even universities (for example Wyoming Catholic College), running pro-life programmes and post-abortion healing programmes (in the US, throughout Europe, and even in China), entering in politics (an Austrian graduate from our MMF program, Gudrun Kugler, is now a member of the Austrian Federal Parliament and she is in charge of women's, family and human rights issues).

I recognize that the Federalist Society's leadership is in a difficult spot — Olson's personal roots with them run deep and his late wife Barbara Olson is the namesake for an annual lecture.

Well, for one thing Romney isn't in any church leadership role currently, so basically he is just like anyone else who is of a certain faith who also happens to be running for office, so how does someone in that situation run for office when it comes to the idea of separation of church and state?

NIC CEO, Steve Whan said his group's member bodies were mostly not for profit and member - owned organisations and the leadership grant would help to build leadership skills «that are so vital to well - run organisations and to engaging in rural community leadership».

Anderson gave them veteran leadership, he was able to blend in and be unselfish, he could run the offense under pressure, and he rebounded well for a point guard.

The Vikings swiped him in free agency in 2014 with head coach Mike Zimmer yearning for Joseph's leadership in the locker room, for his championship flavor to rub off on the rest, and for him to negate the run in the middle.

Since announcing her run for Congress, Maggie Brooks has been saddled with an ongoing corruption investigation that includes questions regarding Brooks» husband and the possible misuse of $ 224 million dollars in taxpayer money, and has been dogged by her unwillingness to address the issues, ineffective leadership, and her record of increasing County taxes, fees and debt.

«A lot of Republicans who might have run for office this year said, «I don't have faith in this leadership,»» I think that every one of those incumbents should be thrown out of office — Republicans and Democrats,» said former Larchmont Mayor Liz Feld, who ran for Senate in 2008.

The growing support he received from the public convinced him to run for his party's leadership primaries in 2012 and then, successfully, in 2013.

Croci, who is running for re-election this fall, was appointed chair of the Senate Ethics Committee in June 2015 during a leadership shake - up following the indictment of then - Majority Leader Dean Skelos.

Both Jeffries and Maloney are considered rising stars in the Democratic Caucus and would be in line to run for prominent leadership positions if Democrats take back the House in November.

Just when we thought we knew who was in the running for the Labour leadership, one of the favourites has dropped out.

This week's welfare bill debacle, where 48 MPs wilfully defied the interim leadership's call for abstention, once again highlighted divisions in the ranks which, according to the BBC's assistant political editor, Norman Smith, run: «right up through the party to the shadow cabinet».

And in the midst of a digital revolution every bit as disruptive as the Industrial Revolution before it, the party's leadership must recognize the necessity of supporting Net neutrality, ending the digital divide and expanding broadband Internet access — issues that Teachout and her running mate for lieutenant governor, Tim Wu, have highlighted.

That is a strong strand of his pitch for the leadership: as the most senior former cabinet minister in the running, he will give Labour the most authoritative voice.

He announced his candidacy for the leadership of Plaid Cymru on 1 December 2011 [2] following the resignation of Ieuan Wyn Jones but withdrew in favour of Elin Jones (running to become her deputy leader instead) on 6 February 2012.

Together with Jim Murphy, Alexander (who before entering parliament had worked for Brown as a speechwriter) ran David Miliband's leadership campaign in 2010.

The party's September conference will vote on a proposed measure to reduce the threshold to 5 % and in theory, make it easier for figures on the left of the party to run for the leadership.

I'm running for the district and for the leadership in America to become more serious.

«You will need political leadership today because governments come to office, and you will need that chief executive of the country to say that I am interested in making sure that that part of my country, which I preside over has a lasting peace and I will allow for independent and proper adjudication of justice by the application of the traditional or customary wheels of justice and current or legal means of justice to run in tandem, to bring whatever impasse that has existed over the period to a halt,» he told host Ekow Mensah - Shalders.

I was for example not going to run in a front seat, as number one in my constituency but we could only find one woman out of six constituencies to take leadership and I felt it was really bad to create a political movement with no women in the front.

Bloomberg has floated his name in a possible independent run for the White House, with GOP leadership melting down over Donald Trump's potential nomination and lackluster support for Democratic front - runner Hillary Clinton.

By and large, there is no dispute that Atiku, the former Vice President possess intimidating democratic credentials and leadership qualities than most of those who have signified interest to run for the presidency in the past and to a large extent even now.

Ed is running in the Labour leadership contest, and is shadow secretary of state for energy and climate change.

The WFP leadership has become just another self - serving political faction more interested in their personal power and patronage, just use the name working families as a advertising slogan to mislead the voters,» added Hawkins, a teamster who is the only union member running for Governor.

The Green party is holding leadership elections for the first time in its history, with Euro MEP Caroline Lucas running against former star of The Bill, Ashley Gunstock.

One Democratic Senate candidate, Terry Gipson (running against GOP Sen. Steve Saland in the 41st SD), and one incumbent Democratic senator, Tony Avella, of Queens, have called for Silver to step down from his leadership post.

Having run David Davis's leadership campaign in 2001 and been a key player in 2005, Herbert has - rather surprisingly for many - bought into the Cameron agenda with relative ease.

Local activist Marlon Anderson, who seeks to run for mayor, said the report is an example of the continued lack of leadership in Albany.

Mr Rowley is a former general secretary of the Labour Party in Scotland and ran Neil Findlay's campaign for the leadership against Mr Murphy last year.