Sentences with phrase «who gave up her seat»

Did you love your pregnancy body, the glow from all that extra blood rushing through your veins, the excuse to wear leggings to any event and the helpful people who gave up their seats or offered you a massage?

Unlike most staffers who made that switch and then returned to City Hall, Botnick then went on to run David Greenfield's successful special election bid to succeed former Councilman Simcha Felder, who gave up his seat to go work for city Comptroller John Liu.

Looming over the race was McLaughlin, who gave up the seat to win election in 2017 as Rensselaer County executive and actively campaigned to make Ashby his successor.

Prior to Polacco, the seat was held by Richard Cahill Jr., who gave up the seat for his own mayoral run in 2007.

Maziarz was named to the board in 2014 by then Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos, a Long Island Republican who gave up his seat in 2015 after being convicted on federal corruption charges.

Not exact matches

United said it would no longer call law enforcement to deny passengers boarding, nor would passengers who are already seated be required to give up their seats on overbooked flights.

DOT rules require airlines to seek out people who are willing to give up their seats for compensation before bumping anyone involuntarily.»

«The future is foreign markets, so the last thing you want to do if you are a coal company is to give up a U.S. seat in the international climate discussions and let the Europeans control the agenda,» said the official, who asked not to be named because he was not authorized to speak publicly on the issue.

It is often the simple fixes (and fixers) that make all the difference in the world: the genius who came up with giving out numbers to deli customers rather than having them mob the counter; assigned seating in movie theaters; E-ZPass.

Florida Democrats have targeted Republican Senator Marco Rubio, who is considering a run for re-election after previously saying he would give up his seat.

When the gate agent asks for people who are willing to give up their seat, volunteer if you can be upgraded on the next flight.

The Sharpie maker's agreement with Starboard comes with an assist from another activist investor, billionaire Carl Icahn, who will give up two of his four seats on the board.

Delta's decision comes after United was lambasted for recently offering only $ 800 (up from an initial $ 400) to passengers who were willing to give up their seat.

Munoz said United would be examining the way it compensates customers who volunteer to give up seats on overbooked planes, adding that it would likely not demand that seated passengers surrender their places.

After no passengers voluntarily gave up their seats in the overbooked flight for $ 1,000, the airline randomly selected customers who would be booted out of the plane.

Delta, meanwhile, has increased its maximum offer to passengers who would be willing to give up their seats on an overbooked flight to $ 10,000.

well, I don't know a lot about Jesus, but what I DO know is that, no matter who I am or what I believe in, he'd give up his seat in heaven for me.

«From William Penn, who would not take off his hat, to Rosa Parks, who would not give up her seat,» we admire people who are disobedient for moral cause.

On Sunday in Chicago, the airline asked passengers who had already boarded to give up their seats on an overbooked flight so that United employees could have them.

We've had this debate before, it's easy for people who don't go to say give up the season ticket but I have a very good seat with five mates literally behind the television camera and if I give it up there is no way I can ever get it back again.

I was in my seat in the old East stand with a mate and he's young son when my mate gave me nudge and said «you seen who's behind us» as I turned round it was Joe and without any hesitation said «seen anything of him» and in he's broad Scottish accent, although Joe was English, born in Liverpool to a Seaman father, he grew up in Scotland, «who's that» he said, I said Ron Yeats, with that we all burst out laughing, I then lifted my mates young son, turned him round and said «see this man, he's the greatest centre forward ever to play for Arsenal» I got a massive smile from Joe and could see that it made he's day, made mine as well

Only gentlemen seem to give up their seats to chicks who set picks, and at least one of them has taken his old - fashioned values overseas: Army Sgt. Reggie Franklin, who is stationed in Vicenza, Italy.

«There are fifteen or sixteen of us, all season ticket holders, who come to the match together and we would all be willing to give up our seats to accommodate this idea,» he said.

Sit me up seats are a good choice for parents who would like to help their baby to sit up and play whilst also giving themselves a well - deserved break.

«My colleague, Michael Caputo, voluntarily sat in this seat a couple of months ago, gave what I believe were candid and truthful answers to those who cared to sit in on the interview; and yet, when he was done, he was accused of perjury by a member who did not even have the pretention to show up for his interview.

If you start them from when the selection is announced, then it gives a massive advantage to insiders (who will have been able to use the previous months or even years before the selection is announced to sign people up, campaign with unlimited resources etc.) As for the current system - you don't need 50 votes to bag a safe seat.

Republican Bob Cohen, who plans to run again for the seat his 2010 Democratic target, Sen. Suzi Oppenheimer, is giving up at the end of the year, has a healthy $ 210,221 on hand, according to his Jan. 15 financial filing.

The sad fact is we knew Cleggie was a bloke that swings both ways in his Political following, he is a Tory Liberal when the chips are down, who can blame him he is the old Whigs after all, I suspect in five years time Cameron will give Clegg a seat in the house of lords, and then he will be able to earn a living telling people about the liberals being back in power, as his party disappears up it's own ass.

The prince's spokesman said Harry - who turns 31 today - had given up his seat after one of the planes was found to have a mechanical fault.

Lopez, who was not present at today's meeting, has already given up his post as Brooklyn Democratic Party chair, and also resigned his Assembly seat on Monday morning.

As for Rangel, Tasini predicted the scandal - scarred congressman, who was forced to give up his Ways & Means Committee chairmanship in the wake of a critical ethics committee report and remains under investigation, will «cost Democrats seats all across the country» if he's the nominee.

(Democrat Aimee Belgard, a county legislator who's already got one of the best opportunities in the country to pick up a seat for the party this year, given the area's voting history, lives in the political heart of the 3rd District.)

Orrall won the seat given up by Stephen Canessa, a New Bedford Democrat who left to take a post at Southcoast Health Systems.

Toddd Kaminsky's former seat in the lower house; Monica Wallace (Buffalo), who won the primary for the seat Republican Assemblywoman Angela Wozniak is giving up due to a sexual harassment scandal; and also Jamaal Bailey.

MP who resigned from government last year in bid to force out Gordon Brown shocks Westminster again by giving up seat

The seat was previously held by Jon Corzine, who gave it up to run for New Jersey governor in 2005.

Speaking on the Geraldo Rivera Show, Mr. Cox acknowledged the possibility that Mr. Grimm — who won a landslide victory over former Brooklyn Councilman Domenic Recchia Jr. last night — might have to give up his seat before completing his third term representing Staten Island and parts of southern Brooklyn.

A November election could put GOP favorite Chris Talbot — who's up for re-election to the Southold Town Board this year — on the sidelines in the Assembly race, lest he risk giving up his town seat.

Now he faces the same tall odds as one of eight candidates running to succeed Rep. Chris Van Hollen, who's giving up his 8 th District seat to run for the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by Barbara Mikulski.

John DeFrancisco, who hails from Syracuse, has spent the past 25 years in the State Senate and is giving up his seat to run, and with it his influential role as Deputy Majority Leader.

Martins» decision to give up his Senate seat to run for Congress increases the risks for State Senate Republicans, who hold a narrow majority in a coalition with a handful of Democrats.

«I think God has really blessed him with his dad's good's looks, his dad's name, and then God gave up on him,» he added, referring to Mr. Powell's father, who held Mr. Rangel's seat before him.

Cuomo is expected to attend, according to past Caucus Chairman Darryl Towns, who last week announced he's giving up his seat to take a job with the Cuomo administration.

Silver, who gave up his speaker position but retained his assembly seat after his January arrest, has been on trial simultaneously with state Sen. Dean Skelos and his son on charges that the Republican badgered companies to give his son more than $ 300,000 in exchange for his political support.

Adams is seeking the open seat that belonged to Wills, who was forced to give up his seat after his conviction on state corruption charges.

Ball, who is giving up the Assembly seat he's held since 2007 to run for state Senate this fall, denied any bad behavior that night.

Linares has to give up a safe Assembly seat, which he hasn't held all that long, in order to run for the Senate in what could turn out to be a knock - down, drag - out battle between two men who have often been at odds over their respective political careers.

Yes, Weiner took the time to help the man who now holds the seat he was forced to give up in disgrace, keeping the meeting on the down - low even though it would have helped improve his image.

In 2005, when she gave up her seat on the City Council to run for Manhattan borough president, the New York Times editorial board praised her as «smart and driven and an expert on education issues,» but ultimately concluded «her style — often described by those who have worked with her as abrasive — would not be well suited to this office.»

They're running to replace Democrat Kirsten Gillibrand, who gave up her House seat after New York Gov. David Paterson appointed her to Hillary Clinton's former Senate seat.