Sentences with phrase «up to the election campaign»

The film was released in the US during the build - up to the election campaign, with Syllenhaal making some rather hopeful statements about his desire to affect the race.

The Tory leader spearheaded calls for the debates among political leaders in the run - up to the election campaign, but in an interview with the Independent on Sunday he admitted they complicated his run by prompting a swell in support for Nick Clegg.

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If it sounds like Edwards still needed to apply FEC rules and limits, consider this: Scott Thomas, a former commissioner of the Federal Election Commission testified that he did not consider that the payments would have come under his agency's auspices — in part because they were not used directly for the campaign and did not free up any of Edwards» own money to be spent on the campaign.

Now it's up to the governing Liberals to decide whether they want to raise taxes and, if the minority government falls, whether they'll campaign on such a politically toxic proposal in an election.

With Trump's Nov. 8 election victory and his campaign promise to tear up international trade deals threatening to shatter a fragile global recovery, Singapore «s open economy remains among some of the most vulnerable markets to U.S. protectionism.

Here's a timeline of WikiLeaks» correspondence with Trump Jr. leading up to and after the election, and what Trump said about WikiLeaks on the campaign trail:

Clapper, the former Director of National Intelligence, described in his opening remarks the process by which the intelligence community concluded in January that «the Russian government pursued a multi-faceted influence campaign in the run - up to the election, including aggressive use of cyber capabilities.»

Trump's election campaign had offered to pay to have an emoji, or small picture, that would show up on tweets during the second presidential debate anytime Twitter users tweeted the phrase «#Crooked Hillary,» Republican Trump's nickname for his Democratic opponent Hillary Clinton.

Both Trump and Hillary Clinton campaigned in the state on Monday night leading up to the election.

The Daily Telegraph reported on Friday morning that May is lining up Rudd to take over from Hammond after the election as a reward for Rudd's loyalty and the significant role she has played in election campaigning — including standing in for May at a leaders» debate earlier this week despite the death of her father just 48 hours earlier.

The Russian desk, which was primarily made up of bots and trolls, used fake social - media accounts to flood the internet with pro-Trump agitprop and made - up news throughout the US presidential campaign, especially in the days leading up to the November election.

«In the run up to national elections the incumbent client was widely perceived as both kind and honorable, qualities his campaign team thought were potentially election - winning,» the site reportedly said.

The government is considering criminalising abuse of Parliamentary candidates during campaigning and elections, after Labour MP Jo Cox was murdered in the days leading up to the Brexit referendum in 2016.

Both are the first in a series of digital - campaign moves that the group plans to try out in the months leading up to the election.

The use or abuse of that data by Cambridge Analytica in work that it had done with Donald Trump's campaign for President in 2016 and potentially for other businesses in the run up to the election is at the heart of Donal

The personal information of up to 87 million Facebook users ended up in the hands of the voter - profiling firm Cambridge Analytica, which worked with the Trump campaign in the 2016 presidential election.

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.

Republicans across the country campaigned on repealing former president Barack Obama's healthcare law leading up to the 2016 election.

The FBI should not speed up or slow down its probe due to the election, Trump campaign manager Kellyanne Conway says.

Through 2015 Facebook had actually been ramping up its internal focus on elections as a revenue generating opportunity — growing the headcount of staff working directly with politicians to encourage them to use its platform and tools for campaigning.

Instead, about half of the campaign's $ 18.5 million in spending was vacuumed up by Giles - Parscale, a web design and marketing firm new to national politics, Federal Election Commission filings show.

In my last post I noted a recent memo from a higher - up at the Department of Justice, trying to intimidate public service workers who want to get involved in the current election campaign.

The beefed - up mandate gives the Conservatives leeway to slash programs and civil servants, should they choose to do so, without having to worry about justifying the cuts in an election campaign months later.

With an election approaching in 2016, the U.S. administration sees a window of opportunity to finalize and pass TPP before campaign season heats up.

... came up with an idea that led to the foundation of a company called Cambridge Analytica, a data analytics firm that went on to claim a major role in the Leave campaign for Britain's EU membership referendum, and later became a key figure in digital operations during Donald Trump's election campaign.

Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani suggested Thursday that a payment from the president's longtime personal attorney to porn actress Stormy Daniels in the days leading up to the 2016 election was intended to silence allegations of an affair at a sensitive time for the Trump campaign.

Zuckerberg is trying to restore public confidence after recent revelations that information from up to 87 million Facebook users was shared with Cambridge Analytica, a data mining firm used by the Trump campaign in the 2016 election.

The B.C. Liberals told British Columbians one thing about the cost of the B.C. Place roof throughout the election campaign, only to turn around and jack up the budget by 58 per cent:

a favor and just make a massive write - in campaign for «god»... let's actually elect «god» to office, and see who shows up come Inauguration Day if «god» wins the election?

The image of a woman who is battered for 20 years by her clergyman husband and who would forgive him, «because the Bible tells her to,» the image of a young mother and father who can not understand why their three - year - old daughter was sexually abused in the day care center to which they had entrusted her each morning; the image of a woman who was sacked from the women's program of her church because she refused to comply to the request of the president of the church that she and the other women vote for him in his election campaign; the image of a 14 - year - old migrant domestic worker who faces the death sentence on trumped up charges, because she would not give in to the sexual demands of her employer; the image of a male priest of a church saying that every time he beats his wife she should thank him, because she is one step closer to salvation; or the priest who would make sexual advances on a woman who out of vulnerability turns to the church for pastoral comfort... these are but a glimpse of the many such images that are gathered during the course of this Decade.

The legend goes that the Sun won the 1992 election with its devastating campaign in the lead up to polling day, culminating with: «If Kinnock wins today will the last person to leave Britain please turn out the lights».

For example, in the 60 days leading up to Election Day, the Obama campaign sent over 80 email messages to my email inbox.

For instance, he discussed the fact that electoral campaigns spend a huge amount of effort building up volunteer lists, email lists and voter target lists, but that the data tend to go away as soon the election is over (particularly if the campaign loses).

The President in the run up to the 2012 elections as a key campaign pledge, promised to build 200 new community Day senior High schools in his first term as President.

Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has told his MPs to keep campaigning and carry on the momentum the party built up in the general election campaign.

Even though we ended up losing the election we fought a very virile, strong, visible, historic and aggressive campaign and the Nigerian people can attest to this.

Although one of the key players — Martin Schulz, a former president of the parliament — has returned to Germany to head up the SPD's campaign for chancellor, his influence is still felt and may be crucial after the German elections in September.

In the run - up to the Scottish Parliamentary elections, BASC launched a unique campaigning website which allowed all those interested in shooting to lobby candidates and seek their views on shooting and conservation.

Election campaigns are meant to build up to the messy climax of election night, when voters set the country on a decisive course by clearly indicating their will to poliElection campaigns are meant to build up to the messy climax of election night, when voters set the country on a decisive course by clearly indicating their will to polielection night, when voters set the country on a decisive course by clearly indicating their will to politicians.

President Akufo Addo in his address yesterday, continued the propagandist path beaten by his Vice President in the run up to the 2016 elections on matters relating to the economy.As if schooled on the subject by his Vice, the President showed that he was yet to come to terms with his new designation as President and came across more as a politician addressing charged party supporters on the campaign platform.

The bill does this by making three changes to the regulation of campaigning by non-party organisations in the year running up to a general election.

There appears to be no election campaign whatsoever in Greater London and as a result the Tories could lose up to six seats to the Labour Party in our capital city.

Kathy Hochul, and ended up cutting an ad for her shortly before the election and sending LG Bob Duffy, the former Rochester mayor, to campaign on her behalf in NY - 26.

If campaign HQ's a-rockin»... Often, in election campaigns, the candidate or local party will hire out a house to put up some of the volunteers and the staff who've come up from London to pitch in over the campaigns.

The Republic has also picked up information that the Fakhry family generously donated to the campaign of President Akufo - Addo, when he was a Standard Bearer of the ruling NPP in the buildup to the 2016 elections.

Huge resources have been poured into the Tory election campaign, with the party expected to outspend Labour by up to three to one over the coming months.

This flood of information — updated constantly as elections approached — not only supplemented the campaign's internal polling, but at times (including during the run - up to the Iowa Caucuses) provided a more accurate view of the electorate:

Even, improbably, Jeremy Corbyn has used it, telling his delirious fans in his leadership acceptance speech, «I want us to stand up and say «we want to live in a society where we don't pass by on the other side of those people rejected by an unfair welfare system»,» and motivating them again 18 months later at the start of the 2017 Election campaign by claiming, «we know that the people of Britain don't pass by on the other side.»

And despite her apparently inept campaign Coakley may yet pull off a victory, since like most special elections tomorrow is likely to see a relatively low voter turnout, giving the edge to a candidate able to persuade his or her supporters to actually show up and cast a ballot.

According to President Akufo - Addo, in September 2017, two important campaign promises he made in the run - up to the December 2016 elections are going to be met, adding that this is an indication that the pledges he made during the electioneering period were not mere campaign platform talk, but are pledges that will be fulfilled during his tenure of office.