Sentences with phrase «year campaign in»

After a hugely successful placement year campaign in 2017, 2018 is going to be even bigger and better.

In November, MBAE launched the three - year campaign in which Barber, along with his team of international education experts known as Brightlines, will report on the performance of Massachusetts schools and recommend actions for improvement.

The group spent $ 12.1 million supporting Cuomo, nearly twice as much as the next largest contributor and the fifth most ever spent on a single - year campaign in the state.

Members in seats like Pendle may well be concerned that they will have foisted on them a displaced sitting MP with no local connection rather than a local figure who has spent the previous few years campaigning in the area.

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At the time of his termination, Comey had been leading a federal investigation into whether the president's campaign advisors had colluded with Moscow in order to influence last year's election.

Ms McGowan said the 2003 ThinkSafe campaign brought the work from the previous two years together and would emphasise the importance of cooperation in the workplace.

Ford also tangled with President Donald Trump, who spent more than a year criticizing the automaker on the campaign trail for expanding operations in Mexico.

Pebble, the smartwatch maker that two years ago launched its business with a crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter, is making all kinds of waves in the world of connected devices, where brands such as Apple, Google, Samsung and Amazon.com dominate.

At 13 years old, Dias is the founder of # 1000blackgirlbooks, a campaign that she started in 2015 with the goal to collect and donate 1,000 books to her peers that featured black girls as the main characters.

After graduating with a degree in Architecture from Cambridge, she spent a year as Operations Manager aboard the record - breaking biofueled powerboat Earthrace, where she traveled 25,000 miles, visited 120 cities, and ran a campaign to promote the use of alternative fuels.

He had thought that launching in the holiday shopping spree might be a boon for his campaign, but «the obvious hindsight observation is that one of the coldest months of the year is not the time to trying to get people excited about coolers,» said Grepper.

But nobody in his camp was prepared for the outcome: Turnout in the off - year primary was nearly double what the Grayson campaign anticipated, as Paul piled up an eye - popping 23 - point margin across the state.

«Last year we did a Twitter campaign last year in the US to raise awareness, and people started doing crazy fun videos about the brand, and made it a lot of fun.

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.

The 41 - year - old Legrand — who was born in France but speaks both English and Spanish, according to USA Today — appears in a video uploaded to Dos Equis» YouTube account on Wednesday teasing the updated campaign.

One of the most popular Kickstarter launches of the last several years was the Glowing Plant Kickstarter campaign, which raised nearly half a million dollars in 2013 to create a genetically - engineered plant that could glow in the dark.

-- Ilya Rosenberg, co-founder and CEO of touch technology company Sensel, which has raised more than $ 10 million in funding and raised over $ 500,000 for its crowdfunding campaign last year

Procter and Gamble spent $ 7.2 billion on advertising in the year to July 2016, according to its annual report, including worldwide TV, print, radio, internet and in - store campaigns.

Since leaving the Trump campaign in June that year, Lewandowski has remained close to the president's inner circle.

This year, the startup measured a few star - studded standouts: an Amazon ad in which Alexa loses her voice and gets replaced by Anthony Hopkins and Cardi B; a joint Mountain Dew - Doritos campaign highlighting a rap battle between Morgan Freeman and Peter Dinklage; and a Tourism Australia spot starring Danny McBride, Hugh Jackman, Margot Robbie, and Russell Crowe.

«As the hottest year in history comes to a close, the success of the global fossil fuel divestment movement is undeniable,» said May Boeve, executive director of 350.org, the grassroots climate organisation that has played a leading role in the campaign.

Facebook has faced criticism that it did not do enough to prevent false information being republished on its platform during last year's U.S presidential campaign, and in response has set up measures to try to tackle the problem.

In first promise of the official 2015 federal election campaign, Stephen Harper said the Conservatives would increase the apprenticeship job creation tax credit to $ 2,500 from $ 2,000 and expand the program to include a third and fourth year of training.

A dealer - owned co-operative, Home Hardware has worked hard in recent years to stress its connection to the communities where it operates, by sponsoring local minor sports teams and tournaments, and playing up its «Home Owners helping home owners» ad campaign.

In August 2016, when the Trump campaign announced the hiring of Steve Bannon as campaign CEO and the appointment of Kellyanne Conway as campaign manager, its statement quoted Trump as saying: ««I have known Steve and Kellyanne both for many years.»

Gillibrand is often deemed a contender for the presidential election in 2020, although she said last year she is ruling out the possibility and focusing on her Senate reelection campaign.

«I'd be surprised if it wasn't,» said Terry Sullivan, a Republican political strategist who managed Marco Rubio's presidential campaign in 2016 and subsequently worked on his Senate race that year.

Meratla, who was briefly quoted in the B.C. Liberals» campaign platform last year, said there is no chance the province will see any LNG revenues three years from now.

For seven years Volkswagen's advertising campaigns flogged these vehicles» bogus eco-friendly credentials in print, media, and even Super Bowl commercials.

In the first year of the campaign, U.S. sales of Dove products increased by 6 % while the ads also earned Dove coverage on everything from CNN to The Oprah Winfrey Show.

Other political money flows through trade associations in the U.S. such as the American Chamber of Commerce, which has already spent more than $ 21 million in campaign advertising this year, including $ 1.5 million on ads accusing Democratic Senator Mark Udall of driving up energy costs, largely in response to his refusal to support Republican demands for immediate approval of the Keystone pipeline.

Before Trump fired him in early May, Comey oversaw the FBI's investigation into whether the Trump campaign colluded with Russian officials to interfere in last year's presidential election.

In March of last year, after another successful Kickstarter campaign for a touchscreen stylus called the Cosmonaut, they quit their fulltime - design jobs to focus on running Studio Neat.

With the Fed expected to being a campaign to hike rates in the coming years, «we expect the credit card interest rates to likewise be going up.»

U.S. intelligence agencies last year accused Russia of interfering in the 2016 election with a hacking and propaganda campaign supporting Donald Trump's campaign for president.

They are likely to charge you anything between $ 2,500 and $ 5,000 per month (or more), meaning you have to invest around $ 60,000 in a year to start your SEO campaign.

Two such companies, San Francisco - based fundraising site Rally.org and Los Angeles - based campaign organizer NationBuilder, have raised $ 14 million collectively in investment capital just this year, Bloomberg reports.

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

One «disinformation campaign» linked to about 80,000 Facebook posts in two years was run by the Russia - based Internet Research Agency (IRA), and the company estimates that 146 million people might have been served its content on Facebook and Instagram combined.

Consider: 20 years ago, the ad campaign judged most effective in America was about the perils of switching dog food.

Given the additional political scrutiny on the Pentagon in the aftermath of the Oct. 4 ambush in Niger that killed four Army Special Forces personnel, classifying vital metrics of progress in our 16 - year - old Afghanistan campaign doesn't cast the US military in the best light.

«My brain ended up deciding that instead of trying to avenge my son's life, I wanted to give life as a result,» says Gawdat, who published his book Solve for Happy in January of this year and has given several talks on the subject through a campaign he launched to make 10 million people happy.

The wounds from her most recent leading role were fresh: As the GOP nominee for California governor, the billionaire had spent 2 1/2 years campaigning and $ 110 million from her own pocket, only to lose decisively to Jerry Brown in 2010.

For the second year in a row, @REI promoted its #OptOutside campaign using Twitter tools, such as conversational video cards, to engage consumers.

In 2017, the campaign and two affiliated committees raised $ 32 million and ended the year with $ 22 million in casIn 2017, the campaign and two affiliated committees raised $ 32 million and ended the year with $ 22 million in casin cash.

In the 2008 campaign, it took us more than a year to reach that milestone.

Hammond's commitment to find the funds for Brexit preparations stands in sharp contrast to promises made by the Leave campaign before last year's referendum, which had assured Britons that leaving the EU would leave the country with hundreds of millions of pounds more a week to spend on other priorities such as its rickety National Health Service.

Keep in mind, however, that although crowdfunding campaigns may be trendy, there are hundreds of campaigns that go unfunded each year through this method.

Premier Colin Barnett has softened his position on the proposed privatisation of Western Power, saying it could be used by Labor as a scare campaign in the state election next year.

He has an interest in US prison reform because his father, Charles Kushner, served just over a year in federal prison after a conviction in 2005 for illegal campaign contributions and witness tampering.