Sentences with phrase «win federal office»
The move sets the stage for an unprecedented three - way race in which Crist will test whether he can win federal office without the formal backing of a political party.
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Henderson - based shipbuilder Austal will open an Adelaide office for shipbuilding design and project management as it seeks to win a $ 3 billion federal government contract to build 12 new offshore patrol vessels.
With federal Labor promising to lift the emissions targets if it wins office at the next federal election, state Labor governments in Victor...
This, the attorney general's office contended, showed that the federal government was evenhanded — and, moreover, because the defendants were black and the plaintiffs white, here was a case it could win in the South.
While the longtime critic of the Office for People with Developmental Disabilities late last year won a federal lawsuit affirming his right to criticize the agency he works for, lawyers for the state are seeking to overturn that jury verdict.
The Vermont town of Moretown, hard hit by Tropical Storm Irene's flooding two years ago, has won a $ 700,000 federal grant toward construction of a new town office building.
The last Republican to hold the office was Mary Moran, who won a surprising victory in 1989 and served one term before losing in 1991 to Democrat Joseph Ganim, who later went to federal prison on corruption charges.
«LEANING IN, POLITICS EDITION» — Daily News Edit Board: «In a unanimous vote of the Federal Election Commission, Liuba Grechen Shirley, running for Congress on Long Island — mom to a 2 - year - old and a 3 - year - old — won the okay to use campaign funds for child - care expenses necessary as she runs for office.
The former federal prosecutor had never held political office before winning the seat in 2014.
Assemblyman Sheldon Silver — one of the most powerful men in Albany for two decades and a constant in shaping state policy under five governors — was found guilty Monday of selling his office for legal fees, capping a trial that cast new light on the capital's lax ethics laws and handing federal prosecutors a big win in a case that had lacked a smoking gun.
Donovan first took office in May 2015 after winning a special election to replace Michael Grimm, who had resigned after pleading guilty in a federal tax evasion case.
There have also been some prosecutorial flairs in what had previously been a regulator's office: Lawsky, working with federal officials, won massive payments for the state by threatening to revoke the charters of several foreign banks, including BNP Paribas and Standard Charter.
It grossed more than two million deutschmarks at the box office, and won numerous awards, including a German Federal Film award and the Prix de la Critique Internationale and the Prix de L'Antenne d'Or at the Paris Film Festival.
Montana, whose governor is very pro-preschool, won a federal Preschool Development Grant in 2014, planning to use the funds to «improve access to high quality preschool education in 16 high needs communities,» according to the Montana Office of Public Instruction.
Although Ted Cruz failed to win the Republican Primary for President, he has had a lengthy career involving both Texan and Federal offices.
In the U.S. these two companies had not yet won anything against each other, but in Germany Apple had enforced three (permanent and provisionally enforceable) injunctions against Motorola — two of them over patents the Federal Patent Court of Germany later declared invalid and one of them over a patent the European Patent Office may still revoke — and Motorola had enforced a synchronization patent against Apple in Germany for 19 months.
(Bloomberg)-- Federal prosecutors won a courtroom victory in their nine - year effort to seize a midtown Manhattan office tower owned by an Iranian charity.