Sentences with phrase «trying election year»

During this trying election year, it's interesting to watch a documentary about one politician's campaign to educate citizens about one issue: global warming.

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In the U.S. Senate Alabama special election last year, we deployed new AI tools that proactively detected and removed fake accounts from Macedonia trying to spread misinformation.

Democrats said Republican leaders, flexing their new political muscle after big wins in the midterm elections that will give them control of both chambers of Congress next year, had gone too far in trying to roll back Dodd - Frank.

«I think if you weren't skeptical of Trump before the election, you might be a little naive, but if you afterward you still remain «Never Trump,» I think you're trying to ignore what happened last year,» he said.

Secretary of State Rex Tillerson was offered $ 60 million by Congress from Defense Department funds last year to fight Russian election interference efforts — but after Tillerson waited for seven months trying to decide whether he wanted to spend it or not, the offer was withdrawn, and none of the money was used, according to The New York Times.

With so much uncertainty in the market this year, thanks to Brexit, the U.S. election and worries about China, people want to own tried - and - true operations, not risky technology and energy firms.

Facebook is facing its worst privacy scandal in years following allegations that Cambridge Analytica, a Trump - affiliated data mining firm, used ill - gotten data from millions of users through an app to try to influence elections.

In his prepared congressional testimony, Zuckerberg said content from one Russian agency that tries to spread misinformation reached about 126 million people on Facebook during a two - year period around the 2016 election.

We try to stay out of politics in our annual rankings, but in an election year, with 36 states choosing governors, that is next to impossible.

But the extent of Russia's infiltration in election systems across the country last year remains unclear, and congressional investigators apparently are trying to find out more about what the Russians accessed and why.

A year of hellish relations with aboriginal groups; a possibly fatal public - relations cloud over the Keystone project, based precisely on the Harper government's poor environmental record; serious opposition in Europe to any extension in Canada - EU relations at the very same time we're trying to negotiate a trade deal; and a set of controversies that still motivate NDP supporters and the NDP caucus today, another year closer to a federal election.

Essentially, he will be trying to argue that slashing taxes for corporations is in line with the populist «Make America Great Again» message that drove his surprise election victory last year.

With every passing day, the notion that Stephen Harper could pack it in before the next election and let someone else try to keep his fractious party whole enough to hang onto power in two years sound less and less far - fetched.

The Alberta NDP is trying to ensure there's a project worth boasting about during its election next year.

On the pipeline, the B.C. NDP is trying to fulfil an election promise made last year.

However, he does face the very difficult challenge of trying to fit a long list of very expensive election promises and commitments (e.g., eliminate the deficit in four years) into a fiscal framework that he can claim is realistic, prudent, fiscally sustainable, and transparent.

If Mr. Letta loses Wednesday's vote, Mr. Napolitano, who has opposed calling new elections, has signaled he would try to piece together Italy's fourth government in two years, either headed by Mr. Letta or another figure.

WASHINGTON (AP)-- House Republicans and Democrats reached a rare, election - year deal with the White House to try to rescue Puerto Rico from $ 70 billion in debt as millions of Americans in the cash - strapped U.S. territory struggle with the loss of basic...

The Liberal Democratic Party's victory in Japan's parliamentary election Sunday virtually ensures that Shinzo Abe, who resigned as prime minister for health reasons in 2007 after just a year in office, will get a second chance to try to lead Japan out...

As part of that investigation, the House and Senate intelligence committees pressed Facebook, Twitter and Google last year to provide information about how Kremlin - linked individuals and companies used the U.S. platforms to try to influence the election and sow discord among Americans.

But it has been a tough year for Facebook in the U.S., and most of the company has been grappling with the fact that Facebook's service was used by Russian actors to try and sway the 2016 presidential election.

It's a private matter, except 9 days before the election you try to shove down my throat that he actually is what he has done everything possible to avoid being or being seen as for the past 3.5 years.

Within a few years of his election, Peter Hebblethwaite was writing, de haut en bas, that he «would like to think that John Paul continues to learn from his stay in the West... and that he might spend as much time trying to understand the rest of us as we have spent trying to understand him».

There was a reason why the founding fathers put kept religion out of our government and now it seems we are being asked to» pick the Christian» in this next years election — we are not picking the leader of a church here people, we picking someone to be the most influential, most powerful person on the earth... do we want someone who has our best interests at heart or someone who will time and again try to change the US laws to reflect his own personal beliefs?

4 years til another election and CNN is already trying to slash a republican candidates tires over a pretty diplomatic comment

Here's my gut on the next morning of this historic election: Obama will try to govern from the center left for the first two years, not making the mistake that...

I was laying there, trying to soak away the last of the lingering tension left over from what we all have to admit was a pretty stressful election year, and all of a sudden the idea popped into my head.

Cameron's commitment to spending more on health than the rate of inflation every year of the next election will still leave the NHS under significant cost pressure as it tries to deal with the soaring demands of an elderly society.

President Mahama also in a recent response to his main contender in the November elections, Nana Akufo - Addo of the New Patriotic Party; counseled him not to try to minimize the country's achievements and the depth of Ghana's transformation especially, in the last three years.

Over the last 18 months I have been working with Dr Ben Clements of the University of Leicester, going through years of data from the British Election Study, British Social Attitudes and other smaller sources to try to answer that question.

The two parties will try their hardest in the next couple of years to persuade voters that they offer genuinely different choices during the next general election campaign.

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.

Boris was a great Mayor but during last year's general election there was no obvious plan to try and hold or win target seats in the Capital.

I love these Pataki - era losers who are still living in the past, haven't won an election in years, and are taking shots at everyone trying to put the GOP back together after the Pataki / Bruno era debacles.

Democratic Senate lawmakers tried — and failed — to force a vote on gun control via a parliamentary gambit, attaching proposals to an existing bill, a move known as a hostile amendment, trying to make the Republican leadership to formally vote them down in an election year.

But year after year, election after election, Labour try to use it to divide us.

He was accused of trying to keep Corbyn off the ballot when the Labour leader faced a challenge in 2016 and some also held him responsible for Labour failing to make even bigger gains at last year's general election.

«We will concentrate on the election next year, and try to help the Democrats recapture the Senate,» said McKee.

Two years ago I developed a simple statistical model that tries to predict the outcome of general elections from local election results.

For more than 30 years, New York City charged a reasonable, minuscule income tax — 0.45 % — on approximately 800,000 suburban workers who make daily use of our city's roads, subways, police and other services.Over the strenuous objections of then - mayor Rudy Giuliani, Silver strong - armed his own Democratic members and ended up making an alliance with Republican members to kill the tax — not for any rational reason, but simply to boost the political prospects of an obscure suburban Democrat who was trying to win a Senate seat in a special election.

This year, all 63 Senate seats and 150 Assembly seats are up for election, so lawmakers are busy trying to raise money to pay for their re-election campaigns.

But the defeat of Mandelson by Livingstone in last year's NEC election, support for Livingstone for London mayor and black members» use of OMOV to try to select black candidates for inner city parliamentary seats showed that the individual membership can not be totally controlled by the leadership.

(Keep in mind that state lawmakers who have tried to run for Congress in recent years have had no success in doing so, but those runs were in special elections, which are a different animal altogether from your standard primary election.

Intelligence officials have said Russian - backed hackers played a key role in disrupting the presidential election in 2016 by injecting fake news on social media and may be trying a similar effort this year with the congressional elections.

The Labour conference is being held in Brighton this year, with Gordon Brown desperately trying to drum up party unity ahead of a historic general election.

Senate Republicans seem determined to stick de Blasio with a one - year extension of mayoral control, to try to restrain the mayor from going after them in the 2016 elections.

In his introductory remarks, Langworthy took aim at Cuomo's economic development policies, suggesting the governor tried to buy the affection of Western New Yorkers after a poor local showing in the 2010 election, the year he was challenged by Buffalo businessman and developer Carl Paladino.

Coughlan said the retweeted comment was from more than a year ago, was taken out of context and is being dredged up by Republicans trying to sabotage his election.

HARTFORD — Connecticut's largest business advocacy group, galvanized by the last year's battle over higher taxes, is spending money for the first time in election - year legislative races to try to force state government to change course.

The questioning only got more pointed as the hearing went on, with multiple members of the commission questioning the few number of investigations the elections board had undertaken in recent years, and whether it had tried to use the powers it has and the staff it has to fully conduct whatever enforcement work it could.