Sentences with phrase «running against women»

«From an ethics standpoint, she was a good lady and a hard worker, and from a demographics perspective, she was a Latina woman running against another woman.»

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Under Kalanick, Uber had run roughshod over regulators, faced accusations of rampant sexual harassment, and allegedly obtained medical records of a woman in who said an Uber driver in India had raped her (Uber recently settled a U.S. lawsuit that the woman had filed against the company).

Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Tuesday said he had «no reason to doubt» the women who have come forward in recent days with sexual - misconduct accusations against Roy Moore, the Alabama Republican running for Sessions» vacated Senate seat.

It's likely, however, that Buffett would have disagreed with Fox's efforts to reportedly sweep the allegations under the rug, silencing women who leveled accusations against O'Reilly as well as former Fox chairman Roger Ailes with settlement payments that ran in the millions of dollars.

the abundance of purely uneducated Muslim believers, their oppressive existence in their self created repressive regimes, lifestyles, and governments, their radical inturpitations of their fairy tale book, the fact that their culture and people have contributed less to man kind than any other culture and people of all the earth, their self ritious belief system that empowers them to commit atrocious crimes against humanity, the muslim men prance around in flip flops and linen moo moo's while they lock their woman in their household prisons to be abused slave - wife's, are entirely too ignorant to even build sewer systems and even after thousands of years that other cultures have developed running water toilets, toilet paper, and effective sewerage systems, they still whipe their pood - cracks with one hand (no paper) and eat with the other, and yiddle to the sky just before detonation of their suicide bombs that murder innocent men, woman, children, and babies.

Well, the nuns are in open revolt against the neanderthals who run the church, and Catholic women have practiced contraception ever since Hector was a pup.

I think we can have a Mosque or Islamic center at ground zero when we can build a Christian church in Mecca or when Mullahs issue a fatwa against the Taliban for murdering a pregnant women for «adultery» or killing doctors trying to help the Afgan people or for cutting the ears and nose off a young 13 year old girl for trying to run away from an abusive «husband».

When she was running for the Senate, her opponent brought that up: «The feminists in New York City have turned against you because you did not walk away from your husband after he humiliated you as no other woman in America has ever been humiliated.

Those women rebelled against being relegated to secondary roles as coffee - makers or typists while men «ran the revolution.»

Then, after a few months, at best only three years, of a public career in which He was hailed by a crowd which proved fickle and had won the adherence of a coterie of men and women who did not fully understand Him, He ran afoul of the leaders of the organized religion of His people, was accused by them of fomenting rebellion against the civil government, that of Rome, and was crucified by the order of the local representative of that government.

Natalie Collins runs Spark, a consultancy equipping individuals and churches to prevent violence against women.

The annual Varsity Match against Oxford University Amateur Boxing Club (OUABC) is the longest - running inter-club amateur boxing fixture in the world, and the inaugural Women's Varsity Match took place in the Oxford Town Hall in 2016.

Curiously, a pattern we run into about home births discussed here is where the woman is all for it and the husband is against, due to the risks to wife and baby.

Now comes word — confirmed by multiple GOP sources — that the Republicans are interested in finding a woman to run, perhaps thinking that's their best bet to go up against the Democratic frontrunner, NYC Council Speaker Christine Quinn.

It also won't help him at all if he's running against Ms. Off the Sidelines, who has been very outspoken about the so - called Republican «war on women.»

«I think it was intended to be a sexist smear, intended to silence me on something I care very deeply about and the truth is, the president's not going to silence me or the women who have stood up against him or the millions of women who have been marching since inauguration and showing up at town halls and running for office to be heard on the things that they care most deeply about,» she said.

Running a woman against another woman is something political leaders like to do.

The local Green party has announced it will not run against Rupa Huq, the Labour MP for ultra-marginal Ealing Central and Acton, while Women's Equality Party leader Sophie Walker is seeking a united front against controversial Tory Philip Davies in Shipley.

«I read that he is against marriage equality and that he is against a woman's right to choose, and as a progressive Democrat that troubles me tremendously,» said Melissa DeRosa, the secretary to the governor, in response to a question in an interview on WCNY's The Capitol Pressroom, while also noting Williams unsuccessfully ran for City Council president.

The announcement came the same day that actress Cynthia Nixon announced she would challenge the governor with the backing of the last woman who ran against him, Zephyr Teachout.

The Home Office runs a Violence Against Women fund worth # 80m over five years, a paltry sum given the needs of the sector and the wholesale slashing of budgets for women's services such as domestic violence shelWomen fund worth # 80m over five years, a paltry sum given the needs of the sector and the wholesale slashing of budgets for women's services such as domestic violence shelwomen's services such as domestic violence shelters.

In a statement, Zephyr Teachout, who is running against Cuomo in a Democratic primary, faulted the governor for working with Senate Republicans, who have refused to hold a vote on the abortion plank, which none of their members publicly support, but twice passed the nine other women's equality items as separate bills.

If he faces off against a credible centrist candidate running a smart campaign, enough members might be persuaded to give up on the Corbyn project - especially if he faces a woman.

A woman in the 19th Congressional District, who picked up a lot of Upstate New York votes in a 2014 primary run against Andrew Cuomo, is now one step closer to a seat in Congress.

We now have three women and six men competing to run against incumbent Republican John Faso in November.

Cuomo, who is positioning himself for a 2020 presidential run, stumbled in the early days of the #MeToo movement when he initially refused to return donations from Harvey Weinstein, the Hollywood mogul who has been accused of decades of sexual misconduct against actresses and other women.

As invited guests dined inside a downtown Buffalo hotel, listening to remarks by the woman who led Donald Trump's successful presidential run, protesters stood outside, speaking against the President - Elect's policies.

«And whether it is hiring qualified women, supporting those who run for office — and also standing up against sexual harassment once and for all, saying women should not be the subjected to degradation, discrimination or harassment because of the gender in the workplace,» Hochul declared.

In this past Primary, Adriano Espaillat threw his support for a women, Carmen De La Rosa to run for Assembly against Guillermo Linares.

While most MPs would run a mile from such a group, Davies has given a speech at their conference arguing that the British justice system favoured women and discriminated against men.

«This ad is made up entirely of lies because Jack Martins can't run on the truth, which is that his record consists of raising taxes in Mineola and voting against women every chance he gets.

These encompass basic security for all — including the protection of women against sexual violence...... that means a military that is effective and respects human rights...... it means a police force that people run towards not away from...... and it means a justice system that is fair, dependable and accessible to all who need it.

«The Republican who I ran against, this is a man who is against a woman's right to choose, this is a man who wants to lock refugees out of this country — it is not a person who I would stand next to,» said Cuomo, who was appearing with Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, a potential 2017 primary rival to de Blasio.

Wendy Long coasted to the New York State Conservative Party's U.S. Senate nomination today, with the strong backing of the state chairman Mike Long, who's made no secret of the fact that he thinks running a tough woman against Senator Kirsten Gillibrand gives his side the best chance in an uphill battle.

It wasn't lost on Albany politicos that the WFP is running three women against three men amid the #MeToo campaign against sexual harassment.

But before I tell you how you can fight back, it's important to understand John Faso's record against women, children, the elderly, and his default to letting the White House run roughshod over your rights.

Like other Democratic women running for office across the country, Teachout is also using the man at the top of the Republican ticket against her opponent.

It took her ten years, during which she joined the DNC's Women's Leadership Forum, worked on Clinton's 2000 Senate campaign, served as special counsel to then — HUD Secretary Andrew Cuomo, and took another law job, before Gillibrand found the upstate House district in which she wanted to run... against a four - term incumbent for a seat that hadn't been held by a Democrat in 30 years and where Republicans outnumbered Democrats almost two to one.

«The Republican who I ran against, this is a man who is against a woman's right to choose, this is a man who wants to lock refugees out of this county — it is not a person who I would stand next to,» Cuomo said.

Did you know that Andrew «#MoreLAndGate» Cuomo TURN HIS BACK to Zephyr Teachout the women who was running against him at that very same Labor day parade.

I need to look at the others running however it will be hard for me to vote against a woman.

Palumbo: Says his opponent is running television ads «distorting my record» on the Women's Equality Act, which Mr. Palumbo voted against in the Assembly, and which did not have the support of the Republican - controlled state Senate.»

And Christine Quinn — the former council speaker who served as an advisor to Mr. Cuomo, ran against Mr. de Blasio for mayor and now leads for Women In Need, a nonprofit that helps homeless women and families — was quick to praise the governor's Women In Need, a nonprofit that helps homeless women and families — was quick to praise the governor's women and families — was quick to praise the governor's plan.

Akin, the Republican nominee running against incumbent Democrat Claire McCaskill, has faced calls from practically every prominent Republican in the country to step aside after his remarks that women rarely get pregnant from «legitimate rape.»

Cuomo is running on the Democratic and Working Families lines, as well as the Women's Equality Party line, newly created and heavily promoted by the governor in part as a hedge against the W.F.P. And Howie Hawkins, running on the Green Party line, is polling around 9 percent.

Now Krueger is one of three Upper East Side officials with a GOP - backed opponent, Michael Zumbluskas, running against her on the Women's Equality Party.

Lipton and others within the party, sources say, believe running someone who would likely launch a Democratic primary challenge against James, looking to become the first black woman elected to statewide office, could alienate African - American liberals the Working Families Party is trying to cultivate.

When asked about her experience, which has been used against her in previous runs for NYS Assembly and Mayor of Rochester, Barnhart says now is a time when life experience, rather than political experience is coming to the forefront, citing how women across the country with no political background are running for seats to change up the game.

It highlights all of Rice's negatives — from the fact that she used to be a registered Republican (she switched to independent when she went to work in Pennsylvania and then became a Democrat just before first running for DA in 2005) to her failure to vote for 18 years to her firing of women — mostly mothers — who were working part time at the DA's office to her alleged lobbying against «real» Rockefeller Drug Law reform.

Nixon, looking to become New York's first woman and openly gay governor, is running for office for the first time against Governor Andrew Cuomo.