Sentences with phrase «than election year»

This may be an election year, but Albany's challenges demand more than election year rhetoric.

Not exact matches

Former Liberal Party WA president David Honey's convincing by - election victory in the blue ribbon seat of Cottesloe was no accident; the strong Liberal showing was more than a year in the planning.

«With more than a year left [before the election] and with the different programs out there... politicians are going to go on more of these shows than ever before,» said Bianculli.

Warren would be 71 by the time of the next election, but she is three years younger than Trump.

The drugmaker's political action committee spent $ 405,000 on federal campaign donations and other political outlays last year, more than in 2016 — an election year — and nearly double its allocation for 2015, data compiled by Kaiser Health News show.

Facebook, which has consistently reported stronger - than - expected earnings over the past two years, has faced public outcry over its role in Russia's alleged influence over the 2016 U.S. presidential election.

In the United States election last year, we helped more than 2 million people register to vote and then go vote.

Abzug's push for Women's Equality Day was, in fact, far more symbolic than many of the more concrete policies she made a reality in her six years in Congress, not to mention in the two decades prior to her election, which she spent as a lawyer fighting for human rights and civil rights.

WASHINGTON (AP)-- President Barack Obama said Saturday that the country is «a better place today» than when he graduated from college more than 30 years ago, citing his historic election as «one indicator of how attitudes have changed.»

NPR recently reported that Time Warner - owned CNN made roughly $ 100 million more in ad revenues this year than in past election years, as CNN could reportedly approach $ 1 billion in profit this year for the first time in the network's history.

Following the 2015 election, the Liberal government abandoned pledges to run annual deficits of no more than $ 10 billion and to balance the books in four years.

This year's elections will reflect some big demographic changes in the American electorate — and we think those changes will shape the GOP presidential ticket more than the Democratic one.

Considering the massive ratings networks saw during the presidential primary debates and the intense media buzz around this year's wild election, some experts are predicting that Monday's event could pull in more than 100 million total viewers.

In Sweden, the country's far - right party, the Sweden Democrats, received more than 12 % of the vote in last year's election.

President Tayyip Erdogan said Turkey's presidential and parliamentary elections will be brought forward to June 24, more than a year earlier than planned.

And now that the time for revisionist history has arrived, and strategists no longer have to serve a political agenda and scare investors and traders into voting with their wallets, the research reports calling for precisely the outcome that we expected are coming in fast and furious, starting with none other than Goldman, whose chief strategist David Kostin issued a note overnight in which he says that «the equity market response to the election result will be limited» and adds that «our year - end 2016 price target for the S&P 500 remains 2100, roughly 2 % below the current level of 2140.»

This year's German election race may turn out to be much tighter than Angela Merkel might have wanted.

With two deeply unpopular nominees on the presidential ballot this year, the number of voters in Maryland who wrote in their own candidate for president more than tripled, according to state election data.

Stronger manufacturing activity data from the U.S. Thursday, in the form of the Philadelphia Federal Reserve's regional business survey, allowed investors to add long positions in the greenback, which has fallen more than 1.4 % this week in the wake of President Donald Trump's decision to fire his FBI Director, James Comey, and revelations that his campaign team may have had extensive contacts with Russian officials - despite his repeated denials - in the run up to last year's elections.

He's said in the past that the company is in better shape this year than it was in the 2016 U.S. presidential election when Facebook said to be used by Moscow to sow discord among Americans.

Please note: A Do Not Call election is effective for five years (or while you are an active consumer customer, if longer than five years).

But the biggest problem is a legal one: The U.S. courts are more protective of free speech than European courts, and in recent years have been hostile to election regulations, notably in the Citizens United decision of 2010.

Given recent economic developments (which suggest there will be no surplus this year) and global uncertainties, together with a commitment by all three major political parties to balanced budgets and no tax increases (other than the NDP), it would be fiscally imprudent for any political party to make new major election «promises» in the coming months without indicating how they would be financed.

More out - of - town money than previous years is funding Corpus Christi city council elections.

In other words, over the next five years, this government is planning to spend more money on income splitting for a small number of well off families, a promise made during the 2011 election, than on supporting economic growth and job creation through new spending on research and infrastructure and lowering taxes on investment.

But precisely because there are more than two years until the next election, perceptions will be influenced on a hundred issues before then.

So we are dealing with the irreconcilable fact that the Obama position threatens to lower living standards from 10 % to 20 % over the coming few years — making the United States look more like Greece, Ireland and Latvia than what was promised in the last presidential election.

According to Morgan Stanley's Chris Metli, a strengthening dollar — the greenback put in its best monthly rise since President Donald Trump's election in April — and a rising 10 - year Treasury note yield TMUBMUSD10Y, -0.63 % — the 10 - year yield touched its highest level in more than four years above 3 % late last month — are also factors weighing on stocks.

After more than a year of rallies, primaries, debates, controversies and scandals, we're only one day from the Presidential election — meaning investors are closer than ever to that long - awaited clarity on how the election will be felt in the markets.

With the next federal election less than one year away, the Conservative Party of Canada is close to nominating a full slate of candidates in Alberta's 34 newly redrawn ridings.

Although he had been campaigning for longer than a year, on March 26, 2014, Mr. Cardinal was officially nominated as his party's first candidate for the next general election.

She was elected to City Council less than a year after the Liberal Party's rout in the 2001 provincial election, of which she was a surprising casualty.

With trust and accountability having become the defining issues of the election campaign, Mr. Prentice has not presented a compelling reason for Albertans to trust that the PC Party will be any different in the next three years (especially after he called the election one year earlier than the PC Government's fixed election date).

Despite being less than three years from the last election, Premier Jim Prentice expected to trigger an election within weeks.

Alberta's next provincial election is more than two years away, but for Jason Kenney — and the thousands packing his town halls to hear him speak about uniting the province's two free enterprise parties — the «project» to dismantle Rachel Notley's NDP reign is well under way.

The Democrats, however, must do more than licking their wounds and repeating how difficult it was to run in an election year where the Presidential» s approval numbers were in the low 40's.

That's more than 6,000 points higher than it was when markets closed on Election Day 2016, at 18,332, and still 4,000 points higher from when it first hit the 20,000 - point mark in January 2017 just over a year ago.

Libertarian Gary Johnson's plan for capturing the White House hinges on voters following through on polls suggesting they dislike the Republican and Democratic presidential nominees more than in any election year in history.

And if there is no deal early in the new year, some experts predict U.S. President Donald Trump will follow through on his threat to pull the plug on NAFTA rather than go empty - handed into primaries for mid-term congressional elections.

In terms of a global picture, the EU is even further along than the US by 20 or 30 years, where you wont find a single advanced northern European nation that would for ANYONE that goes on about «God» (unlike the US, which seems to require it during elections)... you'd get laughed off the election circuit.

Their efforts take place more than four years since Francis's election, and three years after Evangelii gaudium was issued.

There's been much speculation about whether white evangelicals, who have accounted for more than a third of Republican votes in recent elections, will turn out in force for Mitt Romney, a Mormon who for years supported abortion and gay rights.

More people died at their hands than the aztecs sacrificed over a 50 year period 7) The fall of the soviet union was more an economic fall than anything, and this is the first time I have ever heard the election of a pope had anything to do with it.

The temptation for Christians in an election year is to misplace our hope in a person or a party rather than the person of Christ.

During the Obama election years, as many as a quarter of evangelicals voted Democrat; with Clinton, it was nearly 10 percentage points less than that.

Strider, who helped spearhead Democratic faith outreach in 2006 and 2008 - when he directed that work for Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign - said the party put substantially fewer resources and effort into faith - based strategy work this year than in any election since 2004.

In describing the situation in America, John Carroll, the first bishop of Baltimore, the bicentennial of whose episcopal election and consecration is also observed this year, told Rome that «our Religious system has undergone a revolution... more extraordinary, than our political one.»

Obama blaming the killing of the ambassador on the very county he's supposed to be leading rather than blaming it on Al Qaeda even though that would make him look bad in an election year was completely obvious without the need for FOX news.

But throughout his election campaign of 2000 Bush proposed policies that would give permanent tax breaks mostly to the wealthy, leading the nation into a deeper deficit than in the Reagan - Bush years.

With less than a month until the presidential election, what was said at this year's Pulpit Freedom Sunday could hold more sway than in previous years.