Sentences with phrase «ranking member of the party»

A top ranking member of the party, who pleaded anonymity, said if care was not taken, the list would create more problems than it was meant to solve.

A top - ranking member of the party, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorised to speak to the media, explained that the decision to hold fresh congresses had also thrown up other issues.

Often members would delegate their vote to the ranking member of their party in the committee.

Not exact matches

The president, who has repeatedly said he wants to accomplish the difficult feat of winning Democratic votes, joked about the minority party's support to Sen. Ron Wyden, D - Ore., the ranking member of the Senate Finance Committee.

What followed inside the National Front's ranks after Jean - Marie Le Pen's exclusion was described by a member of the party «a genuine purge of all the «lepénistes»» who helped him get onstage that day.

Specifically, Michael said that Ray Dalio, founder of mammoth investment firm Bridgewater Associates, which manages around $ 160 billion, has become something of an economic guru for members of the Chinese ruling party's highest - ranking members, including Premier Li Keqiang.

Wyden, the ranking member of the Senate finance committee, demanded in his letter on Monday that Zuckerberg and Facebook's attorneys hand over information on how the company was reportedly deceived by Cambridge Analytica or other third - party data firms by April 13.

Recently, high - ranking members of the ruling BJP party, including Rajnath Singh, the party's past president and current home minister, called for a nationwide anti-conversion law.

Again the NPPs candidate has been on record for unplugging the transmission power source of 3FM radio during the Ablekuma North Constituency debate organized on Friday August 26, 2016 at Kwashieman taxi rank in the full glare of supporters of both parties, denying NDC members the opportunity of dancing to the presidents campaign song (Mahama paper) thereby crushing an otherwise interesting event to an abrupt end.

The councilman said Ragusa's defense of Queens GOP First Vice Chair Stephen Graves is a «slap in the face» to rank - and - file party members, and he called on fellow elected officials and GOP leaders to boycott the Queens Republican Party dinner, which is scheduled for Apriparty members, and he called on fellow elected officials and GOP leaders to boycott the Queens Republican Party dinner, which is scheduled for ApriParty dinner, which is scheduled for April 18.

A rare poll of Conservative party members has revealed a rank - and - file increasingly at odds with the leadership and considering transferring its allegiance to Ukip.

UPDATE: Doheny released a statement in response to Stefanik's endorsement by the Conservatives, calling it a «shocking» move by party officials that ignores the will of rank - and - file members who signed his nominating petitions and backed him two years ago.

A Ranking Member of Parliament's Finance Committee and New Patriotic Party (NPP) Legislator for Old Tafo, Anthony Osei Akoto, also said the unhealthy fall in spending for infrastructure was bad.

We write to inform Ghanaians especially the rank and file of our party members that the 3rd NDC Unity Walk which will take place tomorrow, Sunday - 5th November, 2017 is coming on as scheduled and advertised.

While he is sometimes described as a member of the «Princeling Party», a group of children of high - ranking cadres, there are few shared interests between the members of this group, and they certainly do not act as a cohesive body.

With the Rochester GOP convention at which rank - and - file party members will select an opponent — or opponents — to face off against Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand looming, opponents of attorney Wendy Long are trying to nip her growing support in the bud.

The ranking member typically oversees minority committee staff and may coordinate involvement of the minority party committee members in committee activities.

Mr Clegg claimed these savings meant the party could keep its promises to phase out tuition fees, raise pensions in line with earnings, and give pay rises to the lowest - ranking members of the armed forces.

In a statement on its website, the party says it welcomes additional members of Merkel's party joining its ranks in the debate.

John Rees - Evans has joined the ranks of Ukip members whose comments are attracting more attention than the party would like

Indications that proportional representation and centralised ranking of candidates for the European Parliament elections are going to be used to purge Euro - MPs and abolish the right of party members to choose candidates give a flavour of what is posed by the Electoral Reform Commission's remit to look at the introduction of PR for Westminster.

Then as the Ranking Member of the Communications Committee of Parliament and the Communications Director of the Party, Bagbin, as the Minority Leader, proposed to his dear friend, brother and idol to accept to be moved to the Ranking Position on the Foreign Affairs Committee.

Since then, Conservative grassroots members» views on Europe appear only to have hardened — and, as a new report from the Project published yesterday by the Mile End Institute shows, they are one of the many things that set the Tory rank and file apart from the members of other political parties.

Vice President Kwesi Amissah - Arthur has directed the rank and file of the NDC to target floating voters during the party's campaign and not concentrate two much on members and supporters.

The Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, said members of Jonathan's cabinet and ranking members of the Peoples Democratic Party, from the party's former chairman, Adamu Mu'azu, deceived the former president and told him outright lies about his chaParty, from the party's former chairman, Adamu Mu'azu, deceived the former president and told him outright lies about his chaparty's former chairman, Adamu Mu'azu, deceived the former president and told him outright lies about his chances.

Further, some of his critics have argued that Corbyn has destabilised relations with the Parliamentary Labour Party by inviting rank - and - file members to apply pressure against MPs who back intervention in Syria.

Most of the members came out of the meeting in a jubilant mood with some of them dancing as a sign of victory for the party on the issue, which has in the last weeks, deepened the cracks within the party's rank and file, our correspondent reported from the party's headquarters

As Capital NY reported this morning, Cuomo has made progress re-establishing his ties with the leaders of several of the unions that are key members of the Working Families Party, but it looks like many of the rank - and - file, with whom the endorsement decision ultimately rests, are less pragmatic and harder to convince.

Wabara, a ranking member of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Board of Trustees, stated this yesterday when a delegation of the board led by its Chairman, Senator Walid Jibril, paid a solidarity visit to the PDP Senate Caucus at the National Assembly Complex.

«Since last November when I launched this campaign to change Albany, we made our case directly to county chairs in each of the four counties, as well as the rank - and - file Independence Party members who should decide this endorsement.»

On his part, former governor of Niger State, Muazu Babangida Aliyu advised PDP members to close ranks and work towards the success of the party in the 2019 elections.

According to the NDC, the committee is expected to conduct hearing among the rank and file of the party, as well as solicit for views from members of the party across the country for review and restructure itself.

Cusick, still mulling a run, said, «We're working together, we're working and discussing everything with the leaders of the party and the rank and file members of the party to make sure that everyone has a say and that we do this right.»

«There is no constitutional provision for this kind of sideshow,» said Lloyd, pointing to the fact that the leader of the party is elected by an electoral college made up of rank - and - file members as well as MPs and unions.

By the way, Abramoff is also an active member of the Republican party and an official Bush fundraiser with the rank of «Pioneer».

A senior member of the party told this paper that whiles «It is not in doubt that the rank and file of the NDC including many party bigwigs are rooting for John's comeback... and even, the flag bearer hopefuls know this, and most of them are even willing to step down if he wants to run, John's problem with many of these people is his leadership style... and he must be ready to change that...

Dr. Al Nafie Al Nafie, is one of the highest ranking members of the ruling National Congress Party (NCP), of Sudan.

«Only someone from his tradition will support the rights of rank and file members in the CLPs (constituency Labour parties).

Reed was ranked as the 32nd most bipartisan member of the U.S. House of Representatives during the 114th United States Congress (and the seventh most bipartisan member of the U.S. House of Representatives from New York) in the Bipartisan Index created by The Lugar Center and the McCourt School of Public Policy that ranks members of the United States Congress by their degree of bipartisanship (by measuring the frequency each member's bills attract co-sponsors from the opposite party and each member's co-sponsorship of bills by members of the opposite party).

He would welcome members of the city's growing activist community into the ranks of party candidates.

Voting closed on Wednesday in the complicated electoral college race, where MPs and MEPs have one - third of the vote, with rank - and - file party members and up to three million trades unionists who pay a political fee to Labour sharing the rest.

Murray voted with the Democratic Party 97.0 percent of the time, which ranked 9th among the 53 Senate Democratic members as of July 2013.

A push to amend the bylaws in order to increase the power of rank - and - file committee members was effectively tabled until October, with Smikle, Brown and party secretary Mike Reich promising to form a committee that would study the issue.

A top ranking member of the APC explained that Asiwaju chose to meet with Nyako and some stakeholders from the North - East states to mitigate the possible damage that could be caused by the defection of former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar to the opposition People Democratic Party.

However my long experience in the Tory Party taught me that vast numbers of party members rank expressions of anti laissez - faire sentiment with the Sin against the Holy GParty taught me that vast numbers of party members rank expressions of anti laissez - faire sentiment with the Sin against the Holy Gparty members rank expressions of anti laissez - faire sentiment with the Sin against the Holy Ghost.

Having raised the issue of Neo-Liberalism and obviously finding growing decent in the ranks of the Labour Party, he thought he would camouflage the new Neo-Liberal agenda under the guise of Blue Labour, unfortunately for him it was again obvious to a lot of people not just Labour members, that this was not Labour and a swing further right to appeal to the Tories.

A high - ranking member of the Consevative Party told the Rockland County Times that party operative Sam Naemit was behind a stealth operation to register hundreds of new voters loyal to himself and SullParty told the Rockland County Times that party operative Sam Naemit was behind a stealth operation to register hundreds of new voters loyal to himself and Sullparty operative Sam Naemit was behind a stealth operation to register hundreds of new voters loyal to himself and Sullivan.

The campaign is designed, at least in part, to quell criticism that the president has not done enough in his tenure to listen to the concerns of rank - and - file members from both parties.

Some rank - and - file members of the Manhattan Democratic Party are so angry over the way Kavanagh was selected, that they're now seeking to exact revenge on their chairman, former Assemblyman Keith Wright.

What happened in those years is that the national Green Party structure was changed from a mass - membership party structure of dues - paying members organized in local chapters into a party structured like the Democrats and Republicans, as a federation of state parties with no direct national membership, dues, or structure of direct accountability to the rank - and - file memParty structure was changed from a mass - membership party structure of dues - paying members organized in local chapters into a party structured like the Democrats and Republicans, as a federation of state parties with no direct national membership, dues, or structure of direct accountability to the rank - and - file memparty structure of dues - paying members organized in local chapters into a party structured like the Democrats and Republicans, as a federation of state parties with no direct national membership, dues, or structure of direct accountability to the rank - and - file memparty structured like the Democrats and Republicans, as a federation of state parties with no direct national membership, dues, or structure of direct accountability to the rank - and - file members.