Sentences with phrase «toward election of»

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The election reminded many Americans that the US is a country committed to and capable of progress - of moving forward toward an ideal vision.

A Monmouth University survey released on Wednesday — conducted by telephone, and with a plus - or - minus 3.5 % margin of error — found that 51 % of registered voters said they would vote for or lean toward a Democratic candidate if the 2018 elections were held today, compared to just 36 % who said they would vote or lean Republican.

-- Toward the end of the Federal election campaign, gas prices proved a final sticking point.

CNBC's Susan Li reports on whether the election of Donald Trump will change America's policy toward the island nation.

Warren is expected to try tugging her party toward more progressive policies, while some more moderate Democrats are emphasizing the need to appeal to the type of working - class white voters who helped Trump win Midwestern states carried in recent elections by Democrats.

He lost a presidential election in 2005 to hardline Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the little - known mayor of Tehran at the time, a defeat that indicated resentment toward Rafsanjani as part of the elite and the perception he served few interests other than his own.

The 2017 election of Emmanuel Macron as president of France adds to the prospect of further progress toward reforms.

OTTAWA — Toward the end of the 2015 election campaign, Justin Trudeau was chatting with reporters on the tarmac near his chartered Liberal aircraft when someone asked if he really thought his party could win big on...

Concerns that the French presidential election would see a surge of support for populism among French voters were allayed by the results from the first round of voting toward the end of April.

The poll report, by the Public Religion Research Institute, identified Obama's religion «dilemma,» as the institute called it, as one of three significant emerging religious issues to watch toward the 2012 election cycle.

For Wyschogrod, theologically significant conversation between Jews and Christians is possible because both Christianity and Judaism acknowledge «a movement of God toward humankind as witnessed in scripture,» a movement that engages humankind in God's election of Israel.

Nobody should want the politicizing of church leadership that comes with popular elections, as is the case in many Protestant denominations, and the Board assumes the right of the pope to appoint bishops, but they are convinced that the present pattern of the promotion of the like - minded by the like - minded within a clericalist club designed to perpetuate the habits that created the present crisis is not a promising way toward reform.

The topics covered range over some of the terrain most frequently trod by Weberian scholars: the doctrine of the calling, questions of divine election, evidences of salvation, attitudes toward money, sexual and family values, standards of morality.

The conflicing aims go a long way toward explaining the confusion of fundamentalists «politics in the l980 election.»

Would I, for the sake of elections, send young Jewish men toward certain death, or into captivity, which is worse than death?»

in which Wright badly mischaracterizes the response of the United States to the September 11th attacks, as well as the views of President Bush and then - Prime Minister Tony Blair, declared that the 2006 mid-term elections was an example of God «calling to account those who abuse powers,» showed a disturbing tendency toward moral equivalence between jihadists and those who are fighting to defeat them, and directed virtually all of his scorn against the United States and Great Britain rather than al Qaeda, the Taliban, and the regime of Saddam Hussein.

It is an election year... of course his faith is changing along with any of his leftist beliefs more toward a centralist... He will let you hear what he wants and then go back to the far left.

Not only does it pick up our actual memories of public testimony, election, and governance by law, but it draws us toward the perfection of our governance, helping us judge our present efforts.

The emir, selected from within that family, rules in accordance with Shari'a law and in consultation with members of his and other leading families, though some moves have been made toward having elections and a more parliamentary form of government.

Egypt's ongoing transition toward multiparty elections and the establishment of a democratic order is again being threatened by sectarian tension and violence.

I believe her election represents a real turn at SNA toward its historic role as a primary supporter of healthier, better, and more sustainable food for our school children.

Republican Councilman Eric Ulrich, a fiscally conservative, socially liberal lawmaker from Queens, is taking the first step toward running against de Blasio in 2017, filing paperwork with the Board of Elections to form an exploratory committee.

Former state Sen. Terry Gipson has taken another step toward running for governor, forming a campaign committee to explore a statewide run next year, according to a filing posted Friday at the state Board of Elections.

As in 2004, both parties have taken radically different approaches to online - offline organizing, with the Republicans seemingly trying to channel supporters narrowly into certain activities, like walking their precinct and talking to registered Republicans, while the Democrats appear to be encouraging a much - more freewheeling array of user - generated activity on their site, presumably in the hopes of drawing more supporters in and then turning them toward party - building work by Election Day.

The challenge UKIP face now is to maintain party discipline and develop a strong campaign organisation to take maximum advantage of the referendum campaign and build toward the next general election.

Hi folks, my latest Campaigns & Elections article is up, and it looks at some critiques of the new trend toward using online ad networks to target individual voters through online «cookies.»

Democratic Assemblyman James Skoufis has created a campaign committee geared toward running for the state Senate seat being vacated by Republican Bill Larkin, a filing at the Board of Elections shows.

With the Roberts Supreme Court already apparently reconsidering past precedents with an eye toward treating corporate and union donations as free speech, a federal appeals court has now ruled on behalf of Emily's List that nonprofits can use functionally unbounded «soft money» to finance their election - year activities.

I covered the story in my most recent piece for Campaigns & Elections, with a particular eye toward the kinds of collaboration investigators may look for.

Second, the Obama campaign could get away with sending a ridiculously high volume of messages in both 2008 and 2012, in part because people knew that they were all building toward election day.

A special election to fill an open Senate seat in Westchester County is the «first battle» toward a Democratic Party takeover of the state Senate in Albany and the House of Representatives in Washington, Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Sunday said.

A party that continually loses elections because it's too far removed from the political center or because it appeals to too narrow a range of voters should seek to remedy that by expanding its coalition or moving toward the median voter — perhaps by compromising some of its ideological goals.

But the embattled Alabama Senate candidate, who is facing allegations that he sexually assaulted, harassed or made sexual advances toward teenagers, still appears to have the support of a big chunk of his base ahead of the special election being held on Dec. 12: Alabama's white evangelical Protestants.

Perhaps it's a demanding and idealistic solution, but it would be a step toward preserving the integrity of elections and ensuring a deeper democracy in the United States.

They are the three dark horsemen in the race for the United States Senate from New York, kicking up cloudlets of dust as they canter toward the Republican primary election on Tuesday and a dubious distinction that Rudolph W. Giuliani, George E. Pataki, Theodore Roosevelt IV, Mortimer B. Zuckerman and Dan Senor considered pursuing but rejected: the strong likelihood of losing big in November to the Democratic incumbent, Kirsten E. Gillibrand.

What the chart shows is that, while previous election polls do converge toward the result over the final three weeks of the campaign, they still tend to overestimate the Labour vote — even on the very eve of the election.

Heading into the final weekend of barnstorming before Election Day, there was a noticeable shift toward the GOP in many key House races while Democrats seem to be getting more good news than bad about the Senate map.

The move toward a governing majority in the Senate was reignited in May when Democrats gained a numerical majority in the chamber with the special election victory of Brian Benjamin to an upper Manhattan district.

Former Mayor Ed Koch bucked his own party in endorsing Republican Bob Turner Monday and not state Assemblyman David Weprin (D - Little Neck) to replace former U.S. Rep. Anthony Weiner in September's special election, saying he wanted to «send a message» to President Barack Obama that voters in the district disapprove of his policy toward Israel.

In contrast to his last election, contributions to his campaign from people and businesses shrank toward the end, and he instead relied on a late boost of $ 125,950 — almost entirely from Republican campaigns, committees and clubs, campaign finance filings indicate.

When Albany created the post of Chief Enforcement Counsel to the New York State Board of Elections, it was supposed to be a breakthrough toward dealing with corruption in the state's often opaque Election Law.

Jeffries said de Blasio has benefited from the election of President Donald Trump, and the palpable anger and fear in New York City toward the president.

Rep. Hakeem Jeffries said Mayor Bill de Blasio has benefited from the election of President Donald Trump, and the palpable anger and fear in New York City toward the president.

James, who has also moved toward a run for mayor, joined a list of potential candidates to replace Schneiderman, a Democrat, who have said they'll stay out of the imminent political horserace without closing the door to seeking the job in the September primary and November general election.

The only person who ever did that was Mike Caputo his former campaign manager who was fired toward the end of the election for gross negligence and embezzling money from Paladino and padding the pay role with people who didn't even work on the campaign and then keeping their money....

COLUMBUS, Ohio — No state issue is more hotly debated as Ohio heads toward gubernatorial election season than JobsOhio, the brainchild of Gov. John Kasich, and its private - sector approach to developing the state economy.

This, of course, was the internal battle British feminists faced upon her election, as a woman behaved in a far more masculine manner than her male compatriots, whose tendency toward compromise and negotiation saw them labelled «wets».

But they did collectively benefit from well over $ 1 million from REBNY during the 2014 elections, which spent big to help the Republicans re-take the majority with an eye toward getting a clean extension — in other words, no pro-tenant changes — of the rent laws this year.

But that seems like an extreme, playing - with - fire sort of approach that would not benefit the newly - minted majority leader — especially not as he looks toward what will be a difficult election year in 2016.

The chairman said that the workshop was part of the commission's strategic plan toward successful general elections in 2019 and beyond.