Sentences with phrase «time this country elected»

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Councillor Michael Oshry, elected for the first time in October, founded a currency - exchange company in Edmonton that now operates in five countries.

Wake up America why we are letting Peter King and people like him to waste time and money on non issues they should be working to solve the real problems facing this country JOBS LOSSES, OUT SOURCEING, BUDGET DEFICIET, BANKS, INSURANCE COMPANIES, UN JUST FOREIGN POLICY, SOCIAL SECURITY, LABOUR UNION PROBLEMS, JOB SECURITY for those who have any jobs left, bringing our troops home from UNJUST and ILLEGAL WARS, KILLING OF INNOCENT PEOPLE, OIL COMPANIES making billions of unjust Profit and paying millions to their CEO's, INFRA STRUCTURES ROADS and BRIDGES and so many other Real issues that they have been elected to solve.

2011judgment: so you «know» that god's response to people voting for Liberal Democrats is to kill people an destroy homes in the heart of the Bible Belt (you know, the part of the country where Liberal Democrats typically have a hard time getting elected)?

While the majority of countries of Northern Europe elected governments of the right applying various versions of the neo-liberal program, in the south of the continent - it means in countries which were governed by Franco, Salazar, De Gaulle, the Greek colonels - arrived for the first time to power governments of the left.

This is something of a honeymoon for the new president and the country, a time of optimism and new initiatives where the recently elected leader of the free world moves quickly to take advantage of the momentum of his campaign and high approval ratings to accomplish some of his key campaign promises.

«If elected, I pledge to be a «values voice» in Congress, and focus on issues that have largely been ignored; it is time to expand the values conversation and agenda, and once again make them the center of our country.

too bad we don't have the audacity to elect an atheist, agnostic, buddhist, toaist, etc. this is the first time we've had the «audacity» to elect anything but an old white straight man to the presidency in this country.

Eating Season is what I like to call the 3 - month extravaganza that begins at Halloween when Americans consume even more of their most delicious and comforting candies, bulldozes through Thanksgiving, when we eat all our feelings about being with family (or our country having elected a nationalist orangutan to the White House around this time last year), continues through the December holidays, and ends with the Super Bowl when we can no longer actually chew and consume all our favorite foods in mushy, dip form.

McDonnell said: «I've been talking to Labour party members all over the country, they're saying for those begrudgers — because that's what they are — for goodness sake, get behind the leader of the Labour party that was democratically elected, it's time to put up or shut up.

With local officials from school board on up now hearing from internet - organized constituents, and with cadres of veteran Obama volunteer commandos dug in across the country post-election, we may see an explosion of email, online video, social networking outreach and all of the other tools of electronic advocacy in the coming months — but this time turned on the projects in the stimulus bill, not on electing a candidate.

A referendum was held in 1998 on proposals for the establishment of a new strategic authority headed by a directly - elected Mayor - a concept Labour was at that time keen to promote across the country.

For the third time since he was elected Assembly speaker, Carl Heastie will embark on a statewide tour this month with stops in The Capital Region, Central New York, Hudson Valley, Long Island, North Country, the Southern Tier and Western New York.

In an excellent editorial, the New York Times urged Governor Cuomo to make New York's system of electing legislators the fairest and most transparent in the country.

Although, the statement did not say the purpose of the unexpected trip by Nana Addo, who at the time, had been touring parts of the country, as part of his campaign to be elected president on his third attempt,

The rules were written at a time when EU leaders feared that Jorg Haider, then leader of the far - right Austrian Freedom Party, could be elected to lead the country.

A three - time contender for Ghana's Presidential seat, Nana Akufo - Addo has been named the President - elect of the country after a historic poll in the country.

The founders of our country intended for elected officials to be citizen legislators, serving a short period of time than returning to our homes to work.

It's time for the subject of elected mayors in this country to be properly examined.

We can take out our anger on elected representatives in Westminster but whoever is in Government in London can not remove or reduce VAT, can not support a steel plant through troubled times, can not build the houses we need where they're needed and can not deport all the individuals who shouldn't be in this country.

After lambasting Nana Akufo - Addo for what the big - time entrepreneur terms as the New Patriotic Party Presidential Candidate's woeful lack of «wisdom» to be elected President of Ghana — he has yet to inform us about the level of President Mahama's wisdom, if any at all, that qualifies this grossly incompetent Ghanaian leader to be reckoned as a better presidential material than the man he claims to have intimately befriended for quite a while now — Alhaji Asoma Banda now says that what he actually meant was that the three - time NPP Presidential Candidate lacks the requisite wisdom to unite the membership of the country's main opposition party, and therefore Akufo - Addo logically lacks the wisdom to become President of Ghana (See «Nana Addo Has No Wisdom to Unite People — Alhaji Banda» TV3Network.com 12/24/15).

The «cross-border» Mahama admirers say, even though he was elected president at a time the country and the world was in extreme difficulties, he has managed to surmount most of the pressing challenges facing his native Ghana, resulting in very laudable accomplishments.

This time, he's targeting the man who's about to become the most powerful elected Democrat in the country: U.S. Sen. Chuck Schumer.

What we've got to do is listen to what people round the country said to us and recognise that we didn't get elected again and this wasn't a blip this was the second time we haven't got elected and actually what people don't what us to do, they don't want us to do blanket opposition, they want us actually to be specific about what we are going to be challenging and holding the government to account on.

«It is time for the Labour Party to unite and ensure the millions of people in the country left behind by the Tories» failed economic policies, have the opportunity to elect a Labour government».

He's been described as the moderate conservative that this country needs, many pointing to the fact that the republican has gotten elected multiple times in New York, a predominantly blue state.

Elected for the first time in 2010, the bespectacled former solicitor - once described as looking like a country rector - has gained a reputation as one of Westminster's most rebellious MPs.

The country's most powerful elected Republicans descended on the district to stump for her — including House Speaker John Boehner and Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (Congressman Paul Ryan, one of Stefanik's political mentors, stumped for her in May)-- while the candidate appeared in an increasing number of slots on cable news and in national media profiles, including the Weekly Standard, the New York Times, CBS News and the Business Insider.

The victory allows Rangel, 84, the face of Harlem politics for nearly a half century and at one time the most powerful elected black official in the country, to end his political career on his own terms.

Her nightly call - in advice show on a music station in New York, «Love Phones» was syndicated around the country and the top - rated nighttime program in many markets.Cited as the «best media psychology can offer» when elected a Fellow to the American Psychological Association, she graduated from Smith College, earned a masters degree at Boston University and Ph.. Her work has been featured in much print and electronic media, from the New York Times to Entertainment Tonight and CBS - TV's 48 Hours.Bill Clinton defeats Bob Dole to win a second term as president of the United States.An explosive device goes off in Olympic Park in Atlanta.

The four board members in the majority, who were elected with charter school support, have told LA School Report that it's about time the second - largest school district in the country with the largest number of charter schools revamp its «District Required Language» (or DRL) that is necessary for a charter school to be authorized by LA Unified.

As you watch the video and read Superintendent's Scarice's speech, imagine the state and country we could have if every elected official and policymaker took the time to truly listen to learn from these two examples.

«When the Times takes near - daily pot - shots at President - elect Trump's transition team, they are using up ink that should be spent on the challenges our country faces,» she said.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt was elected President four times, led the country through the Great Depression and World War II, and died after constructing the framework for a postwar world.

In 1984 he wrote that he had let go of that negative view of New York, which reflected his ambivalence towards his own country: «This city of the elect and the privileged, of wielders of power and decision - makers, which implacably raises up and destroys, producing superstars and derelicts, which is so merciless and at the same time so beautiful, charming, dreamlike, paradisal.

In some countries, elected politicians have been jailed for such actions: In France, the mayor of a coastal resort town was sentenced to four years in jail for hiding deadly flood risks, and, a few years earlier, the mayor of Chamonix was convicted of second - degree murder for failing to evacuate chalets on an avalanche - prone mountainside in time to prevent fatalities.

Long - time supporters of the New Democratic Party, Liberals, Conservatives, Bloc Québécois and the Green Party, from every region across the country, have been calling their elected representatives to stand up for the best interest of Canada's children in a divorce by voting in favour of Bill C - 560.