Sentences with phrase «running for the leadership of»

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.

Some Tories, however, are clearly sounding the alarm at a potential Kenney campaign, with Calgary - North West MLA Sandra Jansen saying that if he does run, «he'll be running for the leadership of a party he wants to destroy.»

He was widely expected to run for the leadership of the Conservative Party of Canada and only just recently began positioning himself as candidate to unite Alberta's conservative partisans under one banner.

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.

OTTAWA — Former Conservative cabinet minister Tony Clement declared Tuesday that he's running for the leadership of his party — but it's not the first time he has pursued the job.

oh yes, because being allowed to run for leadership of a group TOTALLY ensures that you're going to win!

Yvette Cooper and Andy Burnham have both confirmed they will run for the leadership of the Labour party.

Shadow business secretary Chuka Umunna has said it is «too early» to say if he will be running for leadership of the Labour Party after Ed Miliband's resignation.

Friends of Labour MP Owen Smith say he has not yet decided whether he will run for the leadership of the Labour Party

He ran for the leadership of the Labour Party in 2010, following Brown's resignation, but lost out to Ed Miliband.

She was also the first Black woman to be elected to a Canadian legislature and she was the first woman to run for leadership of the federal New Democratic Party.

Not exact matches

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.

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.

OTTAWA — Mark Carney says it wasn't inappropriate for him to vacation at the cottage of the Liberal finance critic while being courted to run for the party's leadership.

The company is being run by an «executive leadership team» that includes some of its most senior employees, such as chief product officer Jeff Holden and regional general manager for the US and Canada Rachel Holt.

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.

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.

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

Calgary lawyer Doug Schweitzer, who pulled the plug on his bid to leadership of the Progressive Conservative Party last September and backed Jason Kenney instead, has announced his plans to run for the currently non-existent United Conservative Party.

As a college student (I wonder how many who posted here currently are) I can totally see other students who think it would a) funny, b) witty, c) «other» to join and run for a leadership position of a group they totally disagree with.

«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).

Bloomberg has shown a lot of leadership on this, he should run for President.

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?

«It's a combination of 2 things which makes FML such a good exhibition for TEA REX 2 years running: Firstly, thought - leadership and a truly inspiring program of events which attracts the type of visitors for us to meet.

I do not understand the economics of the business well enough and there always seems to be contradictory reports about everything (dollars, skills, scheme fit etc.) From my admittedly naive, fan - based vantage point, we needed to strengthen the offensive line and the linebacker corp, add some punch to the running game (while keeping an eye on the draft for a fleet - footed youngster), and bring some leadership to a clubhouse that was akin to Animal House last year (of course, winning makes grown ups out of everyone).

He's versatile, runs for days, shows leadership which a lot of our most talented midfielder's lack and IMO could be a lift for the team of Ozil / Sanchez proportions.

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.

Blair and Brown's famous conversation where they decided who would run for the party leadership after the death of John Smith, took place at Granita, formerly on Upper Street.

«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.

For all Ed Miliband's talk of restructuring the British economy and creating a responsible capitalism, the party's position on the core issue of the deficit was dangerously muddled: after three years of opposing «austerity», the Labour leadership spentthe run - up to the election trying to minimise its differences with the government.

Molinaro, who has been highly critical of Cuomo, said that while he won't run for the state's highest office, he believes New York needs «new leadership, new ideas and renewal of a spirit of community that too many of our elected officials have abandoned,» and he vowed to be an «ardent supporter» of whoever is ultimately tapped by the GOP.

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.

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

The party leadership could have held its hands up and apologised for running pre-election posters warning of a «Tory VAT bombshell» - which the Lib Dems have since helped detonate.

Harman's said she's not running for leader, so: (1) she likes the current job; (2) she reckons she'd have no chance of the leadership; (3) since all the «front runners» are male (so far...), she still thinks it's her job (and hers alone?)

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.

While Boyle says he might still run for Sheriff as a Democrat (the Democratic County leadership would have to give him permission), State Republicans are breathing a momentary sigh of relief since they might not have to fight a special election for his swing Senate seat.

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.

«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.

He added: «The Telegraph ran some barmy story a couple of weeks ago that I was challenging for the leadership.

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.

Her run for office is preceded by a decade of advocacy, national leadership, and service to the people of New York, interning for Congressman Joseph Crowley (D - NY), the Kings County D.A.'s Office, the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York, and working as Assistant General Counsel for Governor Cuomo's Office of Storm Recovery.

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.

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We don't yet know whether it will be Angela Eagle or Owen Smith, or maybe both of them, who ends up running against Jeremy Corbyn for the Labour leadership.

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

Clegg is under increasing pressure because Oakeshott is a well - known outrider of Vince Cable, the left - leaning business secretary, and a real alternative to Clegg for the Lib Dem leadership running into the next general election.