Sentences with phrase «year after the referendum»

Brissa, formerly the associate director, has been acting director since March, when Joseph Schultz resigned, nearly a year after the referendum failure.

FP: You have elections scheduled for later in the year after the referendum.

Another survey, published on July 8 showed consumer morale suffered its biggest drop in more than five years after the referendum, echoing other signs of a hit to confidence since the vote.

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However, Sarwar was one of the MSPs who sent a letter to Corbyn asking him to consider his position after his reaction to last year's Brexit referendum and is seen as a moderate, which could count against him.

In effect, he ended up double crossing them after the referendum two years ago that said not to surrender.

The day after the referendum, gold jumped nearly 5 percent and since then has held above $ 1,300 an ounce, helping to achieve its best first half of the year since 1974.

Stonecrest, which includes about 53,000 residents in southeast DeKalb, incorporated as a city this year after voters approved it in a November referendum.

Given the volatility that markets experienced after Brexit, therefore, investors were only too willing to seek the relative safety of gold, which resulted in holdings of gold - backed ETFs spiking by USD 4.3 billion in the 24 hours following the result of the referendum and represented the biggest one - day rise in four years.

Sudan — where northern Christians experienced greater vulnerability after southern Sudan seceded in a July referendum, and where Christians were targeted amid isolated military conflicts — jumped 19 places last year from its 2010 ranking of 35th to 16th.

Less than two years after the citizens of Washington voted by referendum to uphold the state's prohibition of physician - assisted suicide, a federal judge invalidated the statute as....

The plan was offered earlier this year after Lake in the Hills voters rejected a referendum to create a park district.

The referendum drive began earlier this year after a series of park district board decisions drew the ire of Citizens for Tax Moderation, a tax reform group composed mainly of longtime Gurnee residents.

Years later, after their 2004 unsuccessful referendum, the Library District felt one of the reasons for their defeat was that they didn't hold title to a driveway (owned by the Park District) which cut the Library District's property into two halves.

CNN referred to the referendum taking place 700 years after «William Wallace died for Scottish independence»; while the Washington Post said the vote «sets up the possibility that Washington's closest strategic ally could be torn asunder».

AFTER more than two years of implying she was on the brink of calling a second independence referendum, Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has backed down.

Ms Flint continued: «Their plans would deny cities a referendum until a year after mayors have already been imposed by a Whitehall diktat, leading to additional costs and red tape at a time when local councils are dealing with spending cuts.

Last year, after de Blasio began the session calling on the Senate to make mayoral control permanent, the Republicans granted just a one - year extension, which was explicitly justified as a referendum on the mayor's education agenda.

Three years and eight months after Scotland's momentous referendum, the appetite for energetic displays of solidarity like this one is undiminished among independence supporters.

The 1975 referendum, only three years after the UK finally joined, did give a mandate for continued membership of the EC, but the organisation of that referendum had a built - in bias towards this outcome.

An astonishing surge in membership after defeat for the Yes campaign in last year's independence referendum was followed by an SNP landslide in May's general election, when the party won 56 of Scotland's 59 constituencies.

Elect the Lords, use some form of PR - some of the «constituencies» might not be geographically based - and, after a few years practice put such constitutional matters, including the Monarchy, to a referendum.

Since the morning after the first independence referendum three years ago, the thin - skinned tyrant of English nationalism has treated Scotland with nothing but contempt - English Votes for English Laws, hysterical Tory election posters demonising Scotland's largest party, voting for Brexit, ditching the single market against the express wishes of First Minister Nicola Sturgeon, and generally behaving like an abusive husband who's hidden the new PIN for the joint bank account.

Cameron's previous U-turn came in November 2009, while in opposition, two years after he wrote an article for the Sun, saying: «Today, I will give this cast - iron guarantee: If I become PM a Conservative government will hold a referendum on any EU treaty that emerges from these negotiations.

Just over a year ago, the Brexit referendum returned a Leave vote after a campaign based on the notion of parliamentary sovereignty.

Nine months after the shock referendum vote to leave the bloc, Britain handed over a momentous letter to the EU president in Brussels, triggering Article 50 of the bloc's Lisbon Treaty and firing the starting gun on a two - year countdown towards Brexit.

When I'm elected I'll eliminate this office by having it absorbed by the town clerk, after voters approve a referendum in this year's election.»

For even if the Tories were able to form a minority government after 7 May next year, they might lack the support to get a referendum.

After all, the county voted down the casino referendum last year.

Speaking a year after the independence referendum, the prime minister also hit out at those who «obsess about separation».

By 2021, after the likely two - year transition, it will be five years since the 2016 referendum.

«After five years of opposing a referendum to watch them all trooping through was the biggest mass conversion since that Chinese general baptised his troops with a hosepipe.»

His predecessor, David Cameron, bowed out in the summer of 2018, two years after he won that famous victory in the EU Referendum, by a much more comfortable margin than anyone had predicted.

The Prime Minister, on the other hand, has made his own position extremely vulnerable later this summer, first by pledging last year to quit after two terms and second by going ahead with a perilous and unpredictable EU referendum.

Soros, in London to publicise a new book — The Tragedy of the European Union — made his remarks after the Labour leader, Ed Miliband, won plaudits from business groups for playing down the chances of an in - out referendum should the opposition win next year's general election.

«I think this referendum is very important because this country had a lot of problems with the current system,» 27 - year - old Ozcan Ayata told CNN in Ankara Sunday after voting at a local school in the Sogutozu district.

Their leader, David Cameron, was forced to resign as Prime Minister a year later after losing an historic referendum.

Instead, county officials said they would bring the referendum proposal to state lawmakers again next year, after providing more details of the plan to them.

Under the referendum, a casino could be sited in New York City or elsewhere downstate after seven years.

What happened: After years of planning and political horse - trading, Gov. Andrew Cuomo and the Legislature in June finalized their blueprint for casino expansion in New York, and sent the matter to voters in a constitutional referendum.

Meanwhile David, 50, looked to have lost a few inches round his waist since leaving office after losing the EU referendum this time last year.

Mr Hands, MP for Chelsea and Fulham, said that his department had a strong core of trade policy officials which had quadrupled in size since June 24 last year — the day after the EU referendum — and was continuing to grow, with policy and country specialists as well as economic analysts and lawyers.

Just a year after being elected, a Government rudderless and to blame for dispatching the country, via an unprepared referendum, into a pit of uncertainty.

«We paid a big price for combining the AV referendum with the first elections to be held after the general election last year.»

The first minister was speaking on the anniversary of the referendum when Scots voted to re-establish a Scottish Parliament after 300 years.

Sturgeon announced that she was instructing Scottish government officials to draft fresh referendum legislation for Holyrood, only two years after her party lost the first independence vote in 2014, to ensure it could be held quickly if enough Scottish voters backed it.

The SNP is expected to press for more devolved powers for the Scottish Parliament, going beyond what was proposed by the Smith Commission after last year's independence referendum.

Sean Rad, chief executive of the mobile dating app, said Wednesday that the «Swipe the Vote» feature would appear again in next year's French presidential election after its debut in Britain's EU referendum in June.

Dating usually starts in the teenage years, although some kids at primary school age are now having boy and girl friends from the age of 8 years The deadlock over what the Irish border will look like after Brexit could be settled with a new referendum in Northern Ireland, a Conservative MEP has

A year after the EU referendum result revealed a deeply divided nation, the Guardian and Headlong theatre company present Brexit Shorts, a major new series of online dramas

After moving dramatically to abolish property taxes as a source of funding for the schools, lawmakers last year decided to give voters a choice for replacing the lost revenues: either a two - cent sales - tax increase, to be considered in a March 15 referendum, or an income - tax hike, which will go into effect automatically if the sales - tax rise is rejected.