Sentences with phrase «up to the election on»

Much time was spent in energy circles discussion leading up to the election on how the outcome would affect the future of wind power in the U.S..

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Up 5.6 % over the same period, the S&P 500 also set a new record high on Friday, but only for the seventh time since the election, according to S&P Global — half as many times as the Dow.

The firm exploited Facebook's data rules to vacuum up data from some 50 million Facebook users in 2014 as part of an operation to seed attack ads on the internet during the 2016 US election.

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.

«Things happened on our platform that shouldn't have happened,» she said in reference to the events leading up to the election.

In the introduction to a series that will look back at the events leading up to the election, Silver seems on the defensive somewhat, justifying his analysis of the poll results and pointing out that he predicted Clinton would be weak with the Electoral College and that Trump might prevail.

Chess champion (and vocal Putin critic) Garry Kasparov managed to avoid the topic during his talk on artificial intelligence, but Anderson brought Trump's election up onstage with Kasparov afterwards.

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.

«In the weeks leading up to the election, they were doing 25, 30,000 doors on a weekend, getting out in front of these.

Regardless of how you feel about the election, we hope our data analysis encourages more people to pay close attention, and illuminates how technology is opening up new kinds of societal understanding based on mobile usage.

Now local legislatures can make such changes without explanation, and it's up to voters to try to challenge them in lawsuits, and to do so often on an tight timetable, since courts won't want to change voting rules close to an election.

Apple's comment: «With their awesome insights and discussion, NPR's political team kept us up to speed on a truly unpredictable election.»

Revelations about contacts between Donald Trump Jr. and the anti-secrecy website WikiLeaks shed new light on key events leading up to the November 2016 election.

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:

Ireland was on the verge of a snap election on Monday after the opposition party propping up the minority government said the deputy prime minister's refusal to quit would force the country to the polls next month.

In the wake of the 2016 election and reports that Russian - linked actors hijacked Facebook's service to spread fake news and other propaganda, the company has been stepping up efforts to police content on the service.

Meanwhile, lawmakers on Capitol Hill have failed to pass any significant legislation to shore up election security vulnerabilities ahead of the 2018 midterms.

The billionaire investor attended Trump's Tuesday night victory party as the election results rolled in, but left early to load up on more stock as Dow and S&P futures plunged in the middle of the night, according to CNBC.

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 NRCC ran ads against Lamb telling voters he would be identical to Pelosi if he made it to the House, which other Republican groups piled on in the weeks leading up to Election Day.

When an election turns on personalities rather than policies, then when we wake up on Nov. 9, regardless of who wins, we'll be asking ourselves, now what are we going to do?

On the eve of the election, Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump refused to give up on Pennsylvania and its 20 electoral voteOn the eve of the election, Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump refused to give up on Pennsylvania and its 20 electoral voteon Pennsylvania and its 20 electoral votes.

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.

Not only are they almost twice as likely to vote in federal elections as younger people, it is also bad for your image to be viewed as beating up on the Golden Girls.

«In the run - up to the 2016 election, Russia mounted a brazen attack on American Democracy.

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.

Deep Root Analytics, a conservative data firm contracted by the RNC as part of a push to ramp up its voter - analytics operation in the wake of Mitt Romney's defeat in the 2012 presidential election, stored details of about 61 % of the US population on an Amazon cloud server without password protection for those two weeks.

Trump and his allies have seized on Uranium One as Mueller's investigation into the president's possible coordination with Russia to swing the 2016 election in his favor heats up.

Depending on who you ask, UK - based Cambridge Analytica either played a pivotal role in the U.S. presidential election or cooked up an effective marketing myth to spin into future business.

Having tried to dissuade Trump behind the scenes, hoping that he would vacillate on this issue as he had on DACA and guns, the usually supine Republican leaders Mitch McConnell and Paul Ryan finally spoke up after five days of public silence, expressing concern on the part of their followers that the tariffs would set off a trade war and wipe out the economic gains on which they were pinning their November election prospects.

For sure, Mr. Moore would be on surer footing here if the Conservative Party of Canada hadn't pleaded guilty to violating election spending limits in 2008 and if the Harper government wasn't the only government in this country's history to have been found in contempt of Parliament and if the RCMP wasn't said to be presently investigating Mr. Harper's former chief of staff and and if two Conservative MPs weren't presently in court with Elections Canada and if the Prime Minister hadn't left for Peru without facing the House on the first day that Parliament was in session after the deal between Mr. Wright and Mr. Duffy was revealed and if the Prime Minister hadn't fail to show up in the House on the following Monday and if Mr. Duffy hadn't remained a Conservative senator for awhile despite having apparently claimed a housing allowance he shouldn't have.

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

The Conservatives are playing up low - cost initiatives such as action on cross-border price differences because they've restricted spending to balance the books by 2015, expected to be an election year, and don't have the cash right now for major tax cuts or lavish program spending.

With Industry Minister Arthur Sinodinos set to open The Australian Financial Review Innovation Summit in Sydney on Tuesday, the government is hoping equity crowdfunding will help bring start - ups and innovation closer to the average Australian, and boost support for the «ideas boom» agenda blamed for nearly losing it the 2016 election.

Of course, 2016 was shaping up as a fairly humdrum affair itself until Election Day, with year - to - date gains on the leading benchmarks in the mid-single-digit range.

As reported in the Globe and Mail on October 31, federal Finance Minister Flaherty is reviving and polishing - up the Conservative Party's ill - conceived election proposal to end taxation of individual capital gains if the proceeds are re-invested.

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.

In addition to being ahead of Trump in polls in pivotal states, Clinton has maintained a staff of about 700 for months, opened up offices across the country and already spent $ 67 million on general election ads.

Prior to the freeze on July 1, 2009, the Supplemental 401 (k) Plan provided for Company contributions equal to the team member's deferral election in the Wells Fargo 401 (k) Plan as of January 1 for the relevant year up to 6 % of certified compensation, as defined in the plan.

Several brokers, including FXCM, Saxo Bank, IG Group and Interactive Brokers, have started increasing the margin rates on currency pairs and other financial instruments, while other firms are on stand - by to act in the run - up to Election Day.

«We are going to sign up thousands of students and make sure they turn out on Election Day,» CAUS chairperson Navneet Khinda said in a press release.

The federal budget on May 8 will no doubt have further goodies for voters in the run - up to the net election, which will be either this year or relatively early next year.

«In the lead up to the election, the London sales market quieted as many wealthy individuals waited on the outcome.

The wireless carrier's stock price has shot up 27 percent since Election Day on November 8 due to speculation that a Trump administration will be more lenient regarding a potential merger between the company and T - Mobile US Inc (NASDAQ:...

In a true democracy, those representatives present a platform that will act on the wishes of the majority; however it is up to the person seeking election to inform voters of their intent should they be successful in their pursuit.

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.

... 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.

U.S. President Donald Trump took a swing at Facebook on Friday - a day after the social media giant vowed to step up its fight to protect election integrity - dismissing the Facebook ads controversy as a «Russia hoax».

They started moving up immediately after polling for assembly elections in Gujarat concluded on December 14, leading to speculation that government may have asked oil companies to hold on to the prices.