Sentences with phrase «up to the election last»

In the blitz of emails I received leading up to the election last week, one...

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It suggested Labour could pick up 51 % of the vote, a positive swing of 5.35 % compared to the last time elections were fought in 2014.

«PM Modi engaged in social media heavily in the run - up to last year's election,» says Richard Rossow, chair in U.S. India policy studies at Washington's Center for Strategic and International Studies.

Last year hackers infiltrated many state and local election databases in the U.S. during the lead - up to last year's vLast year hackers infiltrated many state and local election databases in the U.S. during the lead - up to last year's vlast year's vote.

Reasons have since been offered for the high - profile provincial misses — in the case of Alberta, a last - minute swing in voting intentions from Wildrose to the PCs; in B.C., the failure of those who said they'd vote NDP to show up on election day.

Romney was a prominent Trump critic in the months leading up to last fall's election, and many of his Republican allies were prominent voices in the «Never Trump» movement.

The Democratic senators, many of whom are up for re-election in 2018, seemed eager to court blue - collar voters who flocked to Republican President - elect Donald Trump in elections last month.

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.

This looks similar to last fall's pattern going into the election season, which turned out to be a positive set - up for a strong finish into year - end.

But then last year, New York Post business columnist John Crudele joined the fray with a startling allegation: Citing a «reliable source,» Crudele said government workers had cooked the numbers in the months leading up to the election.

Weisberg wrote in a story last week that Daniels spoke to him in the weeks and months before the 2016 election because she had worked out an agreement for «a six - figure sum to keep quiet» but feared Trump might not pay up.

«This all started with Christy Clark as education minister ripping up contracts, and it continued with her deliberately trying to provoke a strike for her own political gain in the lead up to the last election.

To date, those companies have been operating as if it is up to them to decide how much to tell us about their role in Russia's interference in the last electionTo date, those companies have been operating as if it is up to them to decide how much to tell us about their role in Russia's interference in the last electionto them to decide how much to tell us about their role in Russia's interference in the last electionto decide how much to tell us about their role in Russia's interference in the last electionto tell us about their role in Russia's interference in the last elections.

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.

He has been backed up by the Republican National Committee, which launched a website «Lyin» Comey» last week that makes the case that Democrats should hate the former FBI director because he cost Hillary Clinton the election by reopening an investigation into her emails days before voters went to the polls.

The lead - up to last fall's presidential election is an example of investors feeling pressure to make decisions based on what might happen — in this case of course, which candidate they thought would win.

The survey was launched last month as part of The Vancouver Board of Trade's efforts to inform and engage local businesses in the lead - up to the Nov. 15 election.

That famous man took him on as a junior partner, a relationship that lasted the 17 years up to Lincoln's election as president.

They could have done this election last summer — It was always going to be Romney vs Obama — the media is just scared that they have nothing to fill up the next 10mos.

Faux News was reporting that McCain was leading in the poll even the day leading up to the last election.

After a tenuous relationship on Twitter during the run - up to last year's presidential election, The Vatican confirmed yesterday that President Donald Trump will meet with Pope Francis on...

Last week, the Iranian government rounded up activists after Karrubi and Moussavi called for supporters to gather at Azadi Square - the site of mass protests by Iran's opposition movement after the disputed 2009 presidential elections.

The honeymoon, that is, between the now enfeebled and increasingly remote souls who for over a quarter of a century had carped and sneered at Pope John Paul II (and by the same token at «PanzerCardinal» Joseph Ratzinger) but who had nevertheless hoped against hope for a Pope who would be somehow reborn if not as a fully paid - up liberal, as a Pope at least who would go easy on all that counter-cultural JPII stuff about being «signs of contradiction» and about continuity with the pre-conciliar Church and who had breathlessly found (so they thought) that, lo, it was even so, in the wonders of Deus Caritas Est. «On his election last spring,» carolled The Tablet, «the former CardinalRatzinger was widely assumed to have as his papal agenda the hammering of heretics and a war on secularist relativism, subjects with which he was associated as head of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.»

this is what its going to take men of GOD like you to wake your people up from the coma that they were in last election.

Perry went up the mountain and talked to Bush who set himself on fire after last election.

People are still so up - in - arms over the religion tossing that stank up this last election, that they are wanting creationist to just stop talking... but at the same time, I don't think anyone REALLY thinks science knows the EXACT age of the Universe or the planet.

Finally, the Government is also fulfilling its election commitment made by the then Leader of the Opposition on the 11th July last year to set up a dedicated website that gives consumers a snapshot of local grocery prices.

Last week I wrote The Time for Change is Now: A Call to Action Part 1 and promised that I would follow up with Part 2 with stories of my family and friends who have inspired me with their volunteer efforts to help Barack Obama win this election.

I can tell you, as an election judge in the last presidential election, most voters came up to the...

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».

The Post noted an interesting point in an article that also has a lot of details about election - eve operations — because of the time required to set up a significant turnout effort, the Republicans haven't had time to roll one out in congressional districts that have suddenly become vulnerable in the last few weeks.

According to him, the party is not unified, not in touch with the grassroots and did not inspire confidence in the electorate during the run - up to the last elections, and called on the party to re-embrace its core values of truth, integrity, probity and accountability.

The Politicker's Colin Campbell notes that the Queens Conservative vs. Republican dynamic in this race is now playing out similarly to what happened in the lead up to the NY - 9 special election last year, in which the GOP pushed for Reyes, a former attorney in the Giuliani administration, to get the nod to run for ex-Rep.

Labour lost the last election because instead of doing what the Tories do - which is whatever they bloody well want to and stick two fingers up at anyone who doesn't share their opinion.

Despite the technology having been superceded years ago Theresa May refused to give hers up, even being pictured after last year's election sporting it in an odd utility belt like carrier.

A hospital reconfiguration near to my home was put on hold for up to a year before the General Election last year and, on occasion, this was justified due to «purdah».

Since the cookies can last 18 months, I may be doomed to see tea party advertisements right up through the 2012 election (or until I clear my cookies.)

Considered a highly capable member of the Ukip team, he has served as the party's migration spokesman since 2014, and shared the economics brief with Patrick O'Flynn in the run up to last year's election.

«Vince Cable stunned colleagues last night by declaring that the Coalition could break up before the election and indicating that he has private «red lines» that would prompt him to walk out of the Cabinet.

The end - of - campaign financial disclosure reports filed last week with the state Board of Elections show half of the spending in the county clerk and county sheriff campaigns occurred in the last two weeks leading up to the election.

it wasn't until the last few weeks leading up to the election that pundits started taking S.J Jung as serious competition for the 15 - year incumbent, still it wasn't any dirt off of Stavisky's shoulder.

This reminds me just before the last general election a Labour spy was in a private meeting held by a Tory MP talking about the party having to put up taxes if the Tories won the election which went against the party line.

Last month, Common Cause / NY joined with other government watchdog groups in calling on the NYS Board of Elections to reverse its 1996 Advisory Opinion in which it adopted an ill - advised interpretation of the campaign finance law and opened up the LLC loophole.

Lord Carlile told BBC Radio 4's The World At One: «Lord Rennard was absolutely very concerned personally not to do any possible damage to the party in the run - up to last week's local and European elections.

Democrats failed to pick up this open seat in an expensive special election last year.

There are important political questions about how the trends for the Westminster parties up to last year's local elections have been disrupted by the rise of UKIP since this time last year.

It's not particularly surprising to see that seniors made up a disproportionate share of the turnout last year, as they historically represent a large share of the vote in low turnout elections, such as primary and special elections.

At the end of last year, he was promoted to the management team for Hanover's UK public affairs operation and in May's local elections he successfully ran as a councillor in Milton Keynes, picking up a seat from Labour with a majority of 204.

They signed up in their droves to vote in the last leadership election, but will they back Corbyn again?

Local government's four - year electoral cycle means that the baseline with which to compare these elections was 2011, when most of the actual council seats up this year were last won and lost.