Sentences with phrase «year campaign against»

«I came into the job having just fought a four - year campaign against Nick Griffin in Barking and Dagenham and that really transformed how I chose to do my politics.

Conservatives in the House and Senate remain skeptical that the bill makes sufficient changes to the Democratic health care bill they have spent six years campaigning against.

The Conservative Party itself supported the European Parliament regions as the basis for the review areas, meaning the people of North and North East Lincolnshire, who spent the best part of 25 years campaigning against the artificial tie to Yorkshire in favour of the link with the rest of Lincolnshire, are now considered part of Yorkshire once again.

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Acton left WhatsApp late last year and joined in the growing backlash against Facebook, endorsing a campaign that encouraged users to delete their profiles from the social network.

Activist hedge funds are launching more campaigns against larger companies this year, according to ActivistMonitor, a division of research firm Acuris.

Newman, who had the backing of an array of national abortion - rights groups and two members of Illinois» congressional delegation, campaigned heavily against her opponent's voting record and promoted herself as a champion of «working families, healthcare for all, and everybody's rights,» she told Business Insider last year.

Trump finally closed down his years - long «birther» campaign against Obama in a speech in September of last year.

Now a political independent, Bloomberg considered making a third - party run for president this year before opting against a campaign, expressing worry he would siphon away votes from Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton and inadvertently help elect Trump.

One lobbyist, speaking on condition of anonymity because the proposal is still under discussion, said he believed that U.S. - sourced proposal would have to be at least 35 % to satisfy Trump, who railed against automakers for moving jobs to Mexico throughout his election campaign last year.

A specialist EU team that detects and counters Russian cyberattacks, the East Stratcom Task Force, has reported an increase in campaigns aimed at aggravating the crisis, in what is a clear echo of the charges made against Russia in the U.S. election campaign last year, and the French and German election campaigns this year.

In 2010 — the same year that NFIB joined the lawsuit against the health care law — the organization received $ 3.7 million from Crossroads GPS, a Republican campaign fund co-founded by former George Bush presidential aide Karl Rove, according to the Journal.

Under former president Barack Obama, Transcanada Corp's Keystone XL oil pipeline was rejected in 2015 after environmentalists campaigned against the project for more than seven years.

Federal investigators are reportedly looking into possible manipulation of Herbalife's stock and have interviewed individuals hired by hedge - fund manager William Ackman, who has been running a campaign against the nutritional - products company for over two years.

Earlier this year, President Obama had no qualms about using de facto scare tactics to campaign against Brexit.

Moore claimed he took the test shortly after losing the special election and that it «concerned allegations of sexual misconduct made against me during the last month of the campaign by Leigh Corfman, Beverly Nelson, and Tina Johnson for «alleged» conduct approximately 30 - 40 years ago.»

The Orangutan snack was a spoof on KitKat for a campaign last year against Nestle and HSBC over the two company's dealings with Indonesian palm oil producer Sinar Mas, whom Greenpeace accused of illegal deforestation.

«This is a really important article — the impression I get is that it's almost unethical to be lecturing if you have this data,» says Eric Mazur, a physicist at Harvard University who has campaigned against stale lecturing techniques for 27 years and was not involved in the work.

The last time the G - 20 issued such a firm statement against currency wars Japan was in the spotlight as its campaign of monetary stimulus pushed the yen to its lowest level against the dollar in about five years.

The affidavit described a year - long campaign of harassment by Shkreli against Doe, his family, and his new employer.

The House of Commons approved a motion late Monday to extend the campaign against the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant for a year, and expand airstrikes into Syria.

In the last 15 months, the 77 - year - old has taken positions in and then launched campaigns against 14 companies, a burst that has made him, at an age when he would have long been expected to fade away, the most disruptive individual in business, with a hand in almost every major corporate story in America.

Last year, Mr. Trump held off imposing tough trade measures against China because, he said, Mr. Xi was cooperating in his campaign to pressure the leader of North Korea, Kim Jong - un, over his nuclear and ballistic missile programs.

With only two full days left before the May 5 provincial election, the 43 - year long governing Progressive Conservatives and its supporters are waging a thick fear campaign against its electoral challengers.

It reflects a years - long campaign by liberal Catholic activists to push back against the leadership of their church on controversial political matters - and years of White House bridge - building with a spectrum of Catholic groups.

It is to sound like the anti-humanistic enemy against whom modernity has campaigned for three hundred years.

People for the American Way, a liberal advocacy group and dedicated Bachmann opponent, resurfaced the petition earlier this month after news that the congresswoman would remain on the high - profile panel despite spearheading a controversial campaign against Muslim members of President Barack Obama's administration last year.

Campaigning for the French presidency last year, Nicolas Sarkozy ran hard against what Europeans still refer to as 1968, describing the post-1968 New Left as «immoral» and «cynical» and defining the choice before the French electorate in stark terms: «In this election, the question is whether the heritage of May «68 should be perpetuated, or if it should be liquidated.»

People of color have voted and will continue to vote for Barak Obama... The only thing he has done for people of color is be of color and be the elected POTUS... When Obama's eight years is at an end the person who runs against the next democrat will only have to campaign by stating repeatedly «I am a Republican»... Whatever doesn't go right in his administration will be blamed on Obama just as he blamed his failures on Bush... His signature health care program exempts Muslims, Scientologists, Amish etc..

For over forty years The Tablet has remained vociferous in its campaign against the teaching.

For 20 years, Wilberforce campaigned in the parliament against the slave trade until the passage of the Slave Trade Act of 1807.

A stigma on racism, for instance, would hopefully exist even in a libertarian paradise, but it draws a great deal of its potency from the fact the American government has spent the last 40 years actively campaigning against racist conduct and racist thought, using every means at its disposal short of banning speech outright.

But papers like the American National Catholic Reporter (which has been on the warpath against Fr Degollado for years) have undoubtedly seen this not simply as a vindication of their stance in that particular battle, but as a victory in their general campaign against the way authority is exercised in the Church, and in particular against Pope John Paul II and his legacy.

American evangelicals» annual campaign against the supposed «War on Christmas» began early this year, with the president promising the perpetually oppressed faithful that we would once again be a nation...

The last 60 years or so have seen a co-ordinated world - wide campaign against motherhood, against the privilege and dignity, the beauty and fulfilment that it represents.

His second complaint is that the VFW's Political Action Committee «endorsed John P. Murtha, Pennsylvania Democrat, in his re-election campaign for Congress against «28 - year Army veteran Bill Russell, who had served in Operation Desert Storm, Kosovo and Iraq and heroically participated in rescue efforts at the Pentagon on Sept. 11, 2001.»

In recent years, Kirill and his «foreign minister,» Metropolitan Hilarion, have been mouthpieces for Russian president Vladimir Putin's efforts to reconstitute something like the old Soviet Union in the name of a «historic Russian space,» an exercise in Great Russian irredentism that has taken a particularly grave turn in Ukraine; concurrently, they've conducted a campaign of seduction in the Vatican and among American evangelical Protestants, putatively in service to a united front against western decadence and secularism.

Reuchlin, the great Hebrew scholar (Luther had studied his Grammar for some years) had recently led a campaign against the burning of valuable Hebrew manuscripts and against a regular anti-semitic programme of the Dominican friars at Cologne, in the name of what they saw to be doctrinal orthodoxy.

After fleeing to the United States for several years, she returned to Liberia to run for the office of president against Charles Taylor, a man who has since been convicted of war crimes.She lost that election, but through the campaigning process became known as Liberia's Iron Lady.

In the 1890s Sultan Abdul Hamid II sparked a two year long campaign of violence against the Armenian population of the Empire.

Fifty years ago, when the great campaign against single - sex education commenced under the banner of the sexual revolution, it was promised that by bringing the sexes into closer proximity, a healthier environment for relations between young men and women would form.

But a negative campaign against saturated fats in general, and coconut oil in particular, led to most food manufacturers abandoning coconut oil in recent years in favor of hydrogenated polyunsaturated oils that come from the main government - subsidized cash crops in the US, particularly corn and soy.

The announcement comes as Animals Australia, the group that uncovered the cruelty to Australian cattle in Indonesian abattoirs last year, launches a campaign against the factory farming of animals.

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The group, which has called itself the Australian Trade and Industry Alliance, is prepared to spend at least $ 10 million on its campaign, which will mimic that which was run against the mining tax a year ago.

Last year we started off our League campaign with a last gasp win over Palace at the Emirates, followed by draws against Leicester and Everton.

The 22 year - old scored against England in Turkey's recent 2 - 1 loss, and I expect him to play a key role in his side's upcoming Euro 2016 campaign, despite his young age.

However, there was a late sting in the tail for Nigeria — who dropped points against Tanzania earlier in the campaign to leave their participation at the continental showpiece early next year in doubt — as Salah, currently on loan at AS Roma from Chelsea, struck in the 90th minute to rescue a point for the Pharaohs.

Harry Kane didn't score in his any of his first eight games in all competitions for Tottenham Hotspur this season, but a first - half brace against Norwich City means that the 22 - year - old now has 13 for the campaign — 12 in his last 11 appearances.

The 19 - year - old started in Chelsea's first game of pre-season against New York Red Bulls and in Wednesday's night defeat to Fiorentina — on both occasions in midfield — and could be set for increased involvement in the west London giants» title - defending campaign.

With United opening their campaign up against Bournemouth on Sunday, new boss Jose Mourinho will hope that it ultimately doesn't act as a distraction for the 20 - year - old who will be under pressure to build on the success that he enjoyed on the pitch at Old Trafford last season.