Sentences with phrase «standard bearers last»

While they didn't speak, there were even leaders of the Working Families Party — who reluctantly made Cuomo their standard bearer last year only to claim he went back on a deal to help Democrats reclaim the State Senate — standing on the stage with the governor.

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Meanwhile, last year was a bumpy one for online lenders: Lending Club, the onetime standard - bearer of the online startups, fired its founder; rising interest rates made it more expensive for these startups to do business; and funding for the fintech sector has dropped off.

The party's standard - bearer, Andrew Cuomo, hosted a meeting last weekend with representatives from all the statewide candidates — including state Comptroller Tom DiNapoli, whom the AG still has not endorsed — as well as DACC and DSCC.

Great Britain, long a standard - bearer of the laws of war, has spent the last few years attempting to derail the ban - treaty initiative.

Some powerful state Democrats are ecstatic over nutty Rent Is Too Damn High Party standard - bearer Jimmy McMillan's show - stealing performance at last week's gubernatorial «debate,» but not for the reasons many may think.

People who obviously changed their voting habits to elect a Democratic majority (male voters split 50/50 last night, a third of Evangelicals voted for Democrats) were taking a chance on a party in which Hillary is now the standard bearer.

Former NYC Mayor Mike Bloomberg was intrigued enough by the prospect of GOP presidential frontrunner Donald Trump's becoming the party's standard - bearer that he commissioned a poll last month testing how he would fare against both The Donald and Clinton.

But many W.F.P. delegates, who will convene Saturday in Albany to formally choose their standard bearer, told Capital they are reluctant to back Cuomo and that action on a public financing system was essentially the governor's last chance to win them over.

And if Flint is the national standard - bearer for water woes, Hoosick Falls seems to be a local surrogate: Last week, officials in Bethlehem, N.Y., a suburb of Albany, tried to tamp down fears about high levels of trihalomethanes, a common byproduct of chlorination in their water.

UK mag Autocar has reported remarks from Hyundai's World Rally Championship chief, Michel Nandan, who last week anointed the i30 as the standard bearer for the «N» brand.

Microgames are usually a collection of very small games bundled together to make one whole game — the WarioWare series having been the standard bearer for the last decade or so.

But even with less mass and bulk than last generation's standard - bearer Huawei Watch, it doesn't feel like a substantial piece of jewelry.

The liberal grass - roots movement gave birth to two huge stars over the last decade, one who rode a wave of anti-war support into the White House and the other who became the ideological standard - bearer in the fight against big banks and corporate...