Sentences with phrase «weeks before voting»

It also makes them vulnerable to repeated errors about what the sort of people who ignore politics other than for a few weeks before voting time are thinking.

Nixon has shifted her voter registration multiple times in the past few years, recently re-registering in Manhattan, where she lives, a few weeks before voting in the 2017 general election.

22 January 2003: Two weeks before voting on the future of the House of Lords, MPs and peers begin to discuss the seven options for reform.

A one year delay until September 2016 will put the new law front a center just eight weeks before voting.

It also led to excitement and euphoria which swept up many in the swelling numbers that just a week before the vote seemed to be on the verge of winning a Yes vote.

Obama's folks could (and did) model the election over and over in the weeks before the votes were cast, using the results to focus their persuasion and GOTV work.

Facebookers who had identified themselves as Tea Party supporters or Christian rock fans, or who had posted messages in favor of tax cuts or against abortion, found an ad from Bachmann waiting for them on their profile page in the weeks before the vote, asking for their support and directing them to a link where they could arrange a free ride to the polling place.

She faced severe criticism for failing to attend a seven - way leaders» debate the week before the vote, instead sending her home secretary, Amber Rudd, to represent the party.

McCall was leading in the polls when Cuomo dropped out of the Democratic primary race one week before voting day.

A committee of lawmakers from both parties is set to interview candidates next week before the vote.

Casting Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders as a «single - issue: candidate and a Johnny - come - lately to African - American issues, Clinton yesterday told supporters in Harlem: «You can't start building relationships a few weeks before a vote.»

Ms. Mark - Viverito then took the unusual step of announcing her victory weeks before the vote for speaker was to be taken.

Brooklyn Councilwoman Inez Barron, who jumped into the race a week before the vote, voted for herself.

Her name appeared among an informal group of 18 students who signed an anti-union email sent to the graduate student body a week before the vote; 14 of those signatories came from the sciences.

Our relationship changed a few weeks before the vote.

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A proposed ban on the insecticides went before the European Union last week but was postponed because England and Germany, among other nations, abstained from voting.

A number of GOP Senators are saying that the Senate's health care bill probably won't get a vote until the later part of July — a pretty clear departure from Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's hope to get the legislation out of the way before last week's 4th of July recess.

Today, at 2 p.m. Eastern, the President will sign the 21st Century Cures Act — approved by the Senate on Dec. 7 by a vote of 94 - to - 5, overwhelmingly passed by the House the week before, and seemingly supported by every pharma company, medical institution, healthcare advocate and their mothers.

Democratic candidate Roy Cooper has claimed victory in this race, but as of Friday morning Republican Pat McCrory had not conceded and the result had not been officially recognized; with a 5,000 vote margin out of 4.7 million votes cast, the Associated Press reported it could be late next week before the winner is officially known.

LONDON, Nov 5 - The euro fell to a near two - month low against a broadly firmer dollar on Monday on uncertainty over a Greek vote on austerity and before this week's U.S. presidential election.

But they have remained too complacent for too long, and now it's doubtful whether even last week's 3 % drop in sterling can turn the popular mood around in the nine days before the vote.

Indeed, those stocks had been on a tear earlier this year, with Facebook shares up as much as 25 % a couple of weeks before the election — but then the FANG stocks suddenly «rolled over,» Gundlach said, falling 10 % as a group as the vote approached and the presidential race got narrower.

Last week, the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) voted to keep rates on hold, but said another round of tightening was likely before year's end.

The week - long vote is open to all registered members (anyone with a dot - ca domain registration can become a registered member for free, but must have become a member before the start of the election in order to vote).

With two weeks left before PC members vote to choose their next leader, Mr. Prentice's campaign is desperately trying to spark some excitement in the minds of its supporters.

Euroscepticism and populist movements are gathering momentum in EU countries from Italy to France to Sweden, and the week before last, fiercely independent Switzerland, which voted against joining the EU in the 1990s, finally yanked its membership application for good.

In these closing weeks before the election, all American Christians should repent, fast, and pray — no matter how we vote.

The week before the election, John Piper challenged the notion that voting was a binding duty for Christians based on this verse.

Also in Premier's poll this week, it was revealed seven in ten Christians would pray before voting.

Two weeks before the court's ruling on native religions, Parliament voted 314 — 131 to ban organized groups that threaten the government.

This week and for the next three weeks of the new term, meat will be off the mid-week menu, before students hold a vote on whether a Meat Free Wednesday should be integrated into the college's constitution.

If I had asked this question of the Arsenal fans a few weeks ago, before Petr Cech made a late dash up and down the pitch in the final minutes of our defeat to Swansea, then I think that the young Poland international keeper Wojciech Szczesny would have got the lion's share of the vote ahead of his Colombian rival.

A player who was voted as «most overrated» at the start of the week just blitzed the finishing stretch at TPC Sawgrass in a way we've never seen before.

August 15 — At their upcoming meeting on September 7, Premier League clubs look set vote on whether to part company with other European Leagues and have their transfer window close before the start of the 2018 - 19 season rather than on August 31 — three weeks into the season.

Ron Crawford, member and former chairman of the park district's Soccer Advisory Committee, presented to the board, before they voted last week, a petition signed by 1,000 Arlington Heights residents asking the district to continue to allow its fields to be used for soccer.

Many residents, unaware that the district was focusing on Centennial Beach, blasted Park District officials about the timing of the public hearing, one week before the Park Board is scheduled to vote on the location of the skate park.

Before a DuPage County Zoning Board of Appeals meeting began this week, Bob Gans said he hoped the board would vote against the Butterfield Park District's plan for a $ 2.5 million, 18,000 - square - foot field house.

A longtime push for early voting in New York took a step forward this month, with Republican Sen. Betty Little backing a bill that would allow voters to cast ballots up to two weeks before Election Day.

He left the Conservatives in 2011 a week before the EU referendum vote saw David Cameron defeated, and makes a habit of waving his membership card at bewildered voters.

The question remains as to whether Flanagan can sell this latest compromise to his members, and also whether they'll be back in town within the next few days to vote on a final deal before scattering to their respective plans for the two week Easter / Passover break.

Collins drew a round of unfavorable headlines last week after he acknowledged he had not read the full bill before the House of Representatives voted to narrowly pass it.

Example: for the general election, the Obama organization fielded 400 teams in the state of Missouri, supervised by paid campaign staff, with each team covering 8 - 12 voting precincts and starting work weeks or months before November 4th.

With just a few days before an anticipated vote, Senate Republicans released a revised version of their Obamacare repeal legislation that adds a continuous coverage requirement to the draft bill they unveiled last week.

The teachers union had also cut a few checks to the Assembly and Senate Democrats, but NYSUT spokesman Carl Korn said those had gone out several weeks before the Tier VI vote.

With just over three weeks to go before a crucial byelection in the normally safe Tory seat of Rochester and Strood, which Ukip threatens to seize, the poll puts Ukip on 18 % of the national vote, with the Lib Dems on 6 % and the Greens on 4 %.

each of the districts street - by - street — was finalized Sunday just before midnight, the lawmakers were expected to vote this week.

The Vermont Senator was campaigning for votes in the Southern Tier two weeks before the New York primary, which is April 19th.

In 1997, the last time New Yorkers voted on a constitutional convention referendum, opponents poured more than $ 750,000 into an advertising and direct mail campaign in the two weeks before voters went to the polls.

«Ministers fear Lib Dem activists at the party's annual conference, which starts this weekend in Glasgow, are set to rebel against key Government policies and may vote to reinstate the 50p rate introduced by Labour weeks before it lost power in 2010.

State Sen. Toby Stavisky greets potential voters before voting during last week's primary at a polling station in northern Queens.