Sentences with phrase «run against the current»

He's running against current state Assemblyman Mickey Kearns for the seat vacated by current state Senator Chris Jacobs.

The home secretary's last - minute amendment to the immigration bill is likely to put her into conflict with the UN and runs against the current of human rights law since the end of World War Two.

Former state Sen. Frank Padavan has decided not to run against current Sen. Tony Avella in this year's elections.

The campaign's message appears to run against the current, its leaders acknowledge, because many school districts are responding to recession - driven budget pressures by postponing the very types of capital - improvement projects the coalition is calling for.

The BlackBerry KeyOne runs against the current trend of wafer - thin phones with oversized screens.

Aaron Marquez, a veteran and Army reserve member, is running against current House Rep. Catherine Miranda, whose record on reproductive rights is abysmal.

Not exact matches

Speculation ran high that the former Republican nominee would consider a third run for the White House after he took to the stage on Thursday to speak out against current frontrunner Donald Trump.

In 2017 the US ran a current account surplus (goods, services and corporate profits) of 14 billion US dollars against the EU.

Chelsea, as per the Express, would claim breach of contract against Costa, who is the club's second highest earner with his current deal, which still has two years left to run, earning him # 185,000 - a-week.

For giroud to score a goal like that he must be high on confidence hence base in current form I will start him against bayern with Sanchez and a fit welbeck running the flanks ragged defensively and offensively, we all know ozil plays well when carzola is playing along side coquelin with the back 4 of kostafi and Bellreal and cech to win the game for us with superb saves..

The No. 11 Loyola - Chicago Ramblers are 6 - 1 straight up and 7 - 0 against the spread in their last seven games as a betting underdog including a current 3 - 0 SU and ATS run as one through the NCAA tournament.

But a lot like the first game back from the winter break against Genoa on Monday, Juventus just didn't seem to find that same kind of spark that they had in a good portion of their December games when this current unbeaten run got started.

Jose Mourinho's side are on the longest current unbeaten home run in the Premier League (24 games — W14 D10 L0), with their last such defeat at Old Trafford coming against Manchester City in September 2016 (1 - 2).

Last week's game against Fleetwood ended in a 3 - 0 win for the Clarets and took our current run of wins to five and a seven game unbeaten run.

There is nothing formidable about the current Arsenal side even though our display against them in the league fixture, where we showed them an unnecessary level of respect, was the least impressive in our recent run.

Their current three match unbeaten streak at home against United comes after a run of five without a win against the Red Devils.

It can be argued that the crowds were so good because we were winning regularly, but that argument is easily countered by our current home form, six wins on the bounce the best run since the early days of SImon Grayson's time at the helm, and against a higher standard of opposition.

But the current field pits a state delegate against Corey Stewart — Trump's former state chair who failed in his 2017 gubernatorial run as a defender of Confederate «heritage» — and E.W. Jackson.

De Blasio and McCray will spend the rest of the day campaigning, both together and separately, with various current elected officials and / or candidates (including Assemblyman Francisco Moya, who is running against ex-Senator — and former felon — Hiram Monserrate for a NYC Council seat in Queens).

Gianaris said he will not run in a primary against a current incumbent.

This fall Cuomo and Hochul will face off against Republican gubernatorial candidate Rob Astorino — Westchester County's current executive — and his running mate, Chemung County Sheriff Chris Moss.

This isn't the first time the anti-gambling lobby has employed this argument against the current governor's push to expans non-Indian run casinos in New York.

Mr. Thompson recently told Mr. Jeffries that he viewed the congressman as the strongest black candidate who could run against the mayor in 2017 — and one of only two Democrats, along with Scott M. Stringer, the current comptroller, able to mount a real challenge to Mr. de Blasio.

On the eve of that campaign kickoff, the man he's running against, current Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley, offered to debate Ehrlich this Saturday morning on a popular Baltimore radio station.

Rumors are Republican and current county highway commissioner, Skip Vezetti, will be running against Democrat Andy Stewart in Orangetown, while Democrat Geoff Finn has yet to have an announced competitor in Stony Point, and Democrat Alex Gromack also has yet to have an announced challenger in Clarkstown.

«This autumn both David Cameron and Nick Clegg should ask their parties to approve a binding agreement to fight the 2015 general election as coalition partners... If the voters choose to keep our current system of electing MPs, as I fervently hope they will, the pact would give parliamentary candidates in constituencies in seats held by a coalition party a free run against other parties.

According to the source, de Blasio's aides are working with 1199 SEIU and other unions, as well as staff to Gov. Andrew Cuomo, to craft a list of people who could run primaries against I.D.C. members if they do not promise to drop their current power - sharing arrangement with Republicans and return to the traditional Democratic caucus.

But if Stavisky did not want to run against Avella, who once worked as her chief of staff before rising through the political ranks to his current seat, she could always move somewhere else within District 11.

But now that he's decided to run for comptroller against Councilman Dan Garodnick instead, he's suddenly a much more competitive candidate, with a host of high - profile endorsements (including Ed Koch, Gloria Steinem, and current Comptroller John Liu) and $ 4 million already raised, which is eligible for matching.

The councilman, who is running for his third term and speaker of the city council, filled out a questionnaire prior to receiving his endorsement from the club in June 2017, where he replied «no» to whether he had or will «in the future endorse or financially support any candidate for public office or current elected official with a track record of working against LGBT equality.»

Cuomo, county sources say, has personally spoken to former Suffolk County legislator Wayne Horsley about running against Boyle and current Suffolk County Legislature Deputy Presiding Officer Robert Calarco about running for Croci's seat.

The Republican's campaign has been critical of local Democratic committees for endorsing current Grand Island Town Supervisor Nate McMurray, who does not live in NY - 27, to run against him.

Stocker is a regular candidate for the 60th state Senate district, most recently running in a 2016 primary against current Republican state Senator Chris Jacobs.

Bunny, an Iraq War veteran and current Erie County prosecutor, acknowledged that running against an incumbent Republican in one of the state's most GOP - donimnated districts will be an uphill battle.

Rice, who is running against Republican Bruce Blakeman for New York's 4th Congressional District, was joined by the seat's current holder Rep. Carolyn McCarthy (D - Mineola) at a news conference in Garden City where she touted the endorsements and called on Blakeman to state his position on gun - control measures.

Lawmakers and Suffolk County District Attorney Thomas Spota have urged the Assembly to pass harsher rules against hit - and - run perpetrators, saying that the current rules encourage those who are breaking the law — more specifically, those drinking or on drugs, to flee the scene after a crash.

Rice also spent some time explaining why she is a Democrat, which sounded to me like protection against criticism that she used to be a Republican and then an independent before she switched to her current enrollment just before first running for DA in 2005.

The current study also revealed what Grauwin calls an «index of frustration» among some social - media users: namely, during major events, a small minority of users run up against the 140 - limit on Twitter.

That shot, along with fleeting flashes of amorous smiles, caresses and fingers being run through hair against leafy, light - filled backdrops, calls to mind Terrence Malick in his current post-Tree of Life period.

Individual levels will rarely take you more than ten or fifteen minutes to complete, but if you run up against a challenging boss at the end of the Zone and die repeatedly, you'll find yourself facing the prospect of restarting all the way back at the beginning of your current Zone if you decide to close the game and take a break.

The teacher unions are running Tustin Councilmember Rebecca Gomez and Irvine School Board member Michael Parham against Hammond and Williams to replace the current majority with a board majority that will bring the OC Board back to the days when charter school application appeals are routinely denied no matter the quality and demand by parents for a viable alternative to sometimes failing public schools their children are enrolled in.

But targeting a specific platform runs against the grain of current trends in web development, where we try to make one design fit many contexts.

The FACT is, an unoptimaized Playbook running on single core matches up pretty well against the current iPad.

McQuivey said the Department of Justice action against Apple and five publishers charged with eBook price - fixing put an end to «Apple's hope for ever becoming an alternative refuge for publishers to run to» and «certainly made it clear that Apple is not going to be a contender in the publishing world — at least not given current circumstances, devices and customer relationships.»

Despite advances reflected in the current bull run, 14 - year annualized returns (plotted against the secondary axis on the chart above) are among the lowest they been for the S&P 500 since September 1944, when returns reflected impacts of The Great Depression and World War II.

The core hurdle is that the current bull market has (through end of February) already delivered 105 % of gains, against the median 124 % bull market run through history (using monthly data).

For example, it prevents USB drives running software automatically when inserted into your computer — as well as vaccinates your own USB sticks against infection from other PCs — and a monitoring function to highlight security information about current running applications.

A narrow boat needles its way for two hours against the current from Kuala Tembeling to Kuala Tahan, where a small group of family - run hotels and hostels are nestled on the southern tip of this giant jungle.

I tied the structures on land, dived underwater, collected broken corals from the seabed and transplanted them to the structure underwater, fighting against sea currents and running low on air very quickly.

- tie in with the current Team Rainbow Rocket takeover of the Pokémon Center stores - runs from February 26th to March 11th - Raid against Giovanni's Nidoking - this Nidoking is stronger than previous Nidoking Raid bosses - if players succeed in defeating Giovanni's Nidoking, they will receive a special sticker from the staff - raids run every 90 minutes from 4 pm on Weekdays and 11 am on Weekends