Sentences with phrase «victory over bill»

Before Tuesday, the lowest turnout since 1950 had been in 2009, when 1.137 million ballots were cast in Mayor Bloomberg's widely expected victory over Bill Thompson.

Not exact matches

With polls reporting a tidy lead over Republican candidate Joe Lhota, Democrat Bill de Blasio is probably readying his victory speech.

Since then black voters have provided the margin of victory for Democratic presidential candidates over the years — Jimmy Carter in 1976, Bill Clinton in 1992 and 1996, and Barack Obama in 2008 and 2012.

A day after the bill's prospects wavered somewhat, Republican leaders notched two victories on Friday, when Senator Marco Rubio of Florida said he would vote yes after gaining a more generous child tax credit in the final bill and Senator Bob Corker of Tennessee, who voted against the initial Senate bill over deficit concerns, said he would support the legislation.

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And last Sunday he knocked over so many Broncos in the Bills» 38 - 14 victory that Fullback Jim Braxton got to pick up 102 of Simpson's yards.

stayed well on pace until called upon by Bill Hartack, raced to half - length victory over Nadir in track record 1:22 [1/5] for seven furlongs at Keeneland, brought back hopeful memories of stablemate Iron Liege's triumph in same race year ago.

The Bills» big overtime win over the Colts in a snowstorm got them back in the playoff picture this week because of strength of victory tiebreaker.

BOATING — New Yorker BILL WISHNICK drove his 32 - foot Bertram inboard to victory over such champions as Don Aronow (page 50), Bob Magoon and Pat Duffy in the 184 - mile Hennessy Miami - Key West offshore ocean race.

Manning's streak ended in a 24 - 17 victory over the Buffalo Bills.

However, after making an explosive start in the Red Devils» 2003 Community Shield victory over Arsenal, the much - travelled 33 - year - old ultimately failed to live up to his billing, and was sold to Aston Villa two years later.

The first stage was to win the league which was achieved at the Lane in a 2 - 1 victory over title contenders Sheffield Wednesday where 61,205 fans watched Bill Nicholson's side.

Indeed, today's Politico Morning Agriculture newsletter reports that negotiations over the CNR fell apart precisely because «House Republicans felt entitled to a much more conservative bill after sweeping GOP victories in the election.»

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, armed with a $ 4.9 million campaign war chest and a double - digit polling lead over his nearest Democratic primary rival, is expected to cruise to victory on Tuesday, but not without a fight from four long - shot candidates.

Late Tuesday night, after businessman's Rick Scott's victory over Florida Attorney General Bill McCollum in the Sunshine state's Republican gubernatorial primary, a statement by the Republican Governors Association barely mentioned Scott.

These are major victories for Senate Democratic Leader Charles SchumerCharles (Chuck) Ellis SchumerSchumer: GOP efforts to identify FBI informant «close to crossing a legal line» Patients deserve the «right to try» How the embassy move widens the partisan divide over Israel MORE (N.Y.) and House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi (Calif.), who threatened to block the bill over what they considered «poison pill» riders.

Mayor Bill de Blasio is expected to handily win re-election over Republican Nicole Malliotakis on Tuesday, but his margin of victory could determine his ability to continue pushing broad social...

Joe Ganim declared victory over incumbent Mayor Bill Finch in Bridgeport's Democratic primary Wednesday night.

Joe Ganim celebrates with supporters by taking a selfie at his campaign headquarters after claiming victory over incumbent mayor Bill Finch in the Democratic mayoral primary in Bridgeport on Sept. 16, 2015.

Nevertheless, Senate Republicans got their victories in the state budget process and have little incentive to roll over now on helping their political nemesis, Mayor Bill de Blasio, win a lengthy or permanent extension of mayoral control.

(CNN)- New York City voters Tuesday elected a Democrat to the mayor's office for the first time in two decades, giving progressive city Public Advocate Bill de Blasio a victory over Republican nominee Joe Lhota, Edison Media Research projects.

Former mayor Joe Ganim celebrates at his campaign headquarters after claiming victory over incumbent mayor Bill Finch in the Democratic mayoral primary in Bridgeport on Wednesday.

BRIDGEPORT 09/16/15 Joe Ganim emerges from an office where he was counting votes with his son, Robert, and his mother, Josephine, to greet supporters at his campaign headquarters to celebrate his victory over incumbent mayor Bill Finch in the Democratic mayoral primary in Bridgeport Wednesday.

She and Hoffman split the vote on the right, and provided a narrow path to victory for Democrat Bill Owens — the first Democrat for over a century to represent the North Country region.

When it finally came time to tallying the votes late Tuesday night, New York City mayor Mike Bloomberg's victory over Democratic challenger and city comptroller Bill Thompson turned out to be remarkably narrow — and surprisingly so, in part because of the gap the size of the Hudson between what the candidates spent on this race, some $ 81 million from Bloomberg's pocket to the $ 6.6 million Thompson dropped according to recent filings.

Joe Ganim kisses his mother, Josephine, at a victory celebration at Testo's Restaurant in Bridgeport after claiming victory over incumbent mayor Bill Finch in the Democratic mayoral primary.

But in his reaction to businessman's Rick Scott's victory over Florida Attorney General Bill McCollum in the Sunshine state's Republican gubernatorial primary, Murtaugh barely mentioned Scott in his statement, only saying that «Intraparty struggles are often difficult to watch, and the contest in Florida has been a good example of that.

Some politicians thought Ganim's political career was over, but he staged a major comeback and then won a surprising victory in a primary against two - term incumbent Mayor Bill Finch.

Former Bridgeport state senator Ernie Newton (left) celebrates with Joe Ganim (on table, background) at Ganim's campaign headquarters after Ganim claimed victory over incumbent mayor Bill Finch in the Democratic mayoral primary in Bridgeport Wednesday.

Ex-con Joe Ganim celebrates at his campaign headquarters after claiming victory over incumbent mayor Bill Finch in the Democratic mayoral primary in Bridgeport on Sept. 16.

Joe Ganim emerges from an office where he was counting votes with his son, Robert, and his mother, Josephine, to greet supporters at his campaign headquarters to celebrate his victory over incumbent mayor Bill Finch in the Democratic mayoral primary in Bridgeport Wednesday.

However, Starmer's decision to hail the early vote as a victory could mean shadow cabinet ministers who are conflicted over Brexit, such as Clive Lewis and Diane Abbott, may feel more comfortable with voting in favour of the bill on Wednesday, as they will be able to argue that the party helped shape the process.

Supporters of Mayor de Blasio point to the Hizzoner's big margin of victory over Albanese and others — he won 74 % of the vote, the biggest percentage in decades — but then - city controller Bill Thompsons tallied 71 % in 2009, without the advantage of being an incumbent.

Labrador and Chaffetz yesterday accused the president of preferring a «political» victory — won by blaming congressional Republicans for inaction — over a «policy» victory achieved by negotiating a compromise bill acceptable to both sides.

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Parents Across America hails defeat of Florida's Parent Trigger bill: A victory of parents over forces that would privatize and profit from our public schools

Fresh off Malloy's «victory» of getting the Chief Operating Officer of FUSE / Jumoke Academy on to the State Board of Education, the Malloy Administration, Mayor Bill Finch and «Superintendent of Schools,» Paul Vallas, have apparently concocted a deal to hand Bridgeport's Paul Lawrence Dunbar Elementary School over to Hartford's Family Urban Schools of Excellence (FUSE) / Jumoke Academy to run.

Today the group is claiming a partial victory over Assembly Bill 753 after the Assembly Appropriations Committee voted to hold it in committee, essentially killing it for the current session.

For immediate release: March 10, 2012 Contacts: Rita Solnet, Boca Raton: [phone]; [email protected] Caroline Grannan, San Francisco: [phone]; [email protected] Parents Across America hails defeat of Florida's Parent Trigger bill: A victory of parents over forces that would privatize and profit from our public schools Public education and true parent empowerment were the winners after a «Parent Trigger» law died on the floor of the Florida State Senate on March 9, said Rita Solnet, a Florida parent activist and... →

The victory went to the No. 55 BMW driven by Bill Auberlen and Joerg Mueller by 2.631 seconds over the No. 45 Porsche of Joerg Bergmeister and Patrick Long.

Climate hawks won a major victory over industry groups who fought the bill tooth and nail.

Volokh Conspirator Todd Zywicki writes that he was the only law prof present last week when George W. Bush signed the bankruptcy bill that Zywicki's been testifying and writing and chewing over for years: «After eight years of seeing defeat clutched from the jaws of victory, I half expected that the President would get lost on the way over or that the pen would run out [of] ink while he was signing it.