Sentences with phrase «year the campaign drew»

Last year the campaign drew over 23 million impressions, attracting chefs, celebrities, good food advocates and parents from all over the country to share the real school food message.

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While Comey has drawn anger from Democrats since he reopened the email investigation in the closing days of last year's campaign, they didn't buy that justification for his firing.

The Romney campaign's response — which included whiny demands that the president apologize for his attacks — has unsettled GOP activists, causing them to wonder how prepared Mr. Romney and his team are for the mudfest they've entered.The attacks have drawn attention to the Obama campaign's demands that Mr. Romney release more years of tax returns.

Mr. Mulcair appears to be drawing lessons from this year's Ontario election campaign, where provincial NDP Leader Andrea Horwath was widely criticized from the left for not supporting a campaign for a $ 14 minimum wage in Ontario.

As the Wall Street Journal noted last year, Cambridge Analytica's role in Trump's campaign drew the scrutiny of special counsel Robert Mueller, the Department of Justice investigator looking into the alleged Russian plot to meddle in the 2016 elections.

The backdrop: Cohen was drawn into Mueller's Russia investigation last year for his contacts with Russians during Trump's 2016 presidential campaign.

The Christian politician also voiced frustration that his views on sexuality drew attention away from the Lib Dem's General Election campaigning last year.

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.

Or as Allen and Parnes put it, while a lot of insiders knew last year that the Clinton campaign's biggest liability was the candidate, «no one who drew a salary from the campaign would tell her that.

We get so bombarded this time of year with the whole new year — new you campaign, the other night I got a wave of motivation but when I sat down I drew a total and complete blank.

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.

It's been a mixed start to the campaign as they have taken five points from four games with one win, two draws and one defeat to show for their efforts so far, but there is certainly progress since their miserable season in the Premier League last year.

The 20 - year - old has attracted significant attention from Europe's big clubs with his form this season, as he took his tally to 12 goals for the campaign along with five assists in 28 outings in the 2 - 2 draw with Manchester City on Saturday.

Dortmund also had to contend with the drawn - out transfer saga surrounding Ousmane Dembélé «s eventual transfer to Barcelona, which stretched into the start of the campaign, with the 20 - year - old winger effectively going on strike to force the German club's hand.

Striker Jermaine Beckford became the first Leeds striker for over 30 years to score 30 goals in a season, and the campaign eventually ended with Play - Off heartache yet again after Millwall progressed 2 - 1 on aggregate in the semi-final, following a 1 - 1 draw at Elland Road.

Press Association Sport understands the 25 - year - old Italian tore an adductor muscle while taking a free - kick during Saturday's 1 - 1 Premier League draw at Southampton, his first appearance since the opening day of the campaign.

Brazil on the other are way ahead as far as their qualification campaign is concern and all they need is a draw to confirm their place in next years World Cup.

Spurs have been suffering customary heavy defeats against the top teams in recent years, but a goalless draw with Manchester United earlier in the campaign gives them a lot of confidence coming into the match.

This year's event drew roughly 1000 of us, many fresh off campaigns, and it was a true joy to get to learn from people who are applying online orgnizing principles in the Real World (i.e., we got to listen to actual practitioners rather than the usual loud voices that hog the stage at these things).

I arranged the VIP seating at that year's party conference and drew up the campaigning schedule for Blair's election tour around the country.

But despite having nearly $ 1.4 million in campaign funds on Dec. 31, the 41 - year - old congressman is not seeking re-election in the newly - drawn 6th District of Pennsylvania.

Senate Republicans have made sure to hug the governor quite close as they head into a re-election campaign that is also a presidential election year sure to draw out the state's Democratic - heavy base.

He said the last time there was a lack of foreign policy discussed in a national campaign was 12 years ago, right before the Sept. 11 attacks (and to be sure, I don't think King was trying to draw a direct correlation between Sept. 11 and a lack of debate on security).

The consulting firm, which spearheaded the anti-Quinn group, drew information from the Voter Activation Network databases of other campaigns they managed or advised last year and gave the data to the crusade to discourage New Yorkers from supporting ex-Council Speaker Christine Quinn's failed mayoral bid, a former operative for ABQ confirmed to the Observer.

New Yorkers for Clean, Safe and Livable Streets, a prominent animal rights group that helped propel Mayor Bill de Blasio to victory last year, has begun a Twitter campaign against Mr. Weprin after he introduced legislation that would curb the city's power to end the controversial horse - drawn carriage industry.

The governor also called the commission a «phenomenal success» for drawing interest to unseemly behavior and prompting legal changes earlier this year, including tougher enforcement at the State Board of Elections and a pilot program for public campaign finance.

The former «Sex and the City» actress drew cheers and laughter by referencing a scandalous 1970s campaign stunt that opponents have tried tying to Andrew Cuomo for years.

Liberal Democrats played a key role drawing up the plans for a Scottish parliament and campaigning for a yes vote in the referendum fourteen years ago.

Mindful of the fact that the conservative grassroots is still smarting from the same - sex marriage vote two years ago, and steaming over the SAFE Act passage, the Senate Republicans drew a line in the sand over the abortion plank of the governor's Women's Equality Agenda and also refused to budget on campaign finance reform.

Former NYC Mayor Mike Bloomberg has instructed advisers to draw up plans for a potential independent campaign in this year's presidential race, because he has been galled by Donald Trump's dominance of the Republican field, and troubled by Hillary Clinton's stumbles and the rise of Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont on the Democratic side.

The candidacy of a 34 - year - old Bronx assemblyman — and veteran of President Barack Obama's presidential campaign and White House — to become a vice chairman of the Democratic National Committee has drawn more enthusiasm nationally than in his native borough, where party leadership perceives him as an overly ambitious interloper using his local office as stepping stone on his way to glory in Washington.

McCain has been fighting with Bush for years - this episode while it may draw attention will be long forgotten by the fall campaign

In a year when threats from nuclear weapons seemed to draw closer, the Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, a Geneva - based advocacy group behind the first treaty to prohibit them.

Hinting at the attacks to come as next year's elections draw nearer, the Democratic House and Senate campaign committees both released digital ads lambasting supporters of the legislation.

Sunday's event drew more than 6,000 party activists who form the backbone of Iowa's presidential campaigns every four years.

The shadow energy secretary drew in # 8,000 in low value contributions in 24 hours, after issuing an online plea for funds along the style of that used by Mr Obama's team during his successful campaign for the Democratic nomination two years ago.

Mr. Recchia's raucous campaign kickoff a year ago drew current and former members of Congress; Mr. Gentile's launch, in comparison, was a more muted affair.

He will also continue to be the main draw in a fund - raising campaign that has a goal of taking in at least $ 750 million by Election Day, which would match his 2008 figure even though he does not face the long primary battle that he did four years ago.

First elected in 2000, the 47 - year - old Democrat has a relatively thin legislative record and drew the attention of the anti-corruption Moreland Commission for thousands of dollars in unitemized campaign expenses.

Lord Sainsbury of Turville, who has donated more than # 12 million over the past five years, was alienated by Mr Miliband's leadership campaign and subsequent comments apparently intended to draw a line under New Labour.

As the threat of nuclear warfare drew closer last year, it was announced that Beatrice Fihn and her advocacy group, The International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN), had won the...

But just weeks later, after their campaign drew support from celebrities, ex-presidents and Ivy - league universities, after they convinced numerous major corporations to end their partnerships with the NRA, and after 17 - year - old survivor Cameron Kasky publicly challenged Senator Marco Rubio to never again accept donations from the NRA, something shifted.

So as the year draws to a close, Michael Hoenigmann reflects on his first six months as API Chair and says: «I'm confident that as we move into 2014, the association's renewed energy will see its campaigning work gather further momentum as we work actively and collaboratively with committed, like - minded organisations to ensure that play takes its rightful place at the table.»

This year's campaign was supported by Indigo Books & Music, the largest book retailer in Canada, as part of its efforts to draw attention to the need for more environmental paper in book publishing.

HSI, one of the world's leading animal protection groups campaigning for an end to China's dog meat trade, has been on the ground in Yulin and other Chinese regions for the past few years, working with Chinese partner groups to rescue dogs from trucks bound for the dog meat markets, uncover the immense cruelty that takes place at the slaughterhouses, and draw attention to the plight of the animals.

The book is currently part of a giveaway drawing for donors to our end - of - the - year campaign.

After launching a crowd - funding campaign in early November last year, the project has managed to draw the support of over 21,000 space - adventure loving fans.

I understand that the draw of the Battlefront games isn't a campaign, however, I can't help but to remember another EA joint that released last year in a similar multiplayer only package.

His contribution to Documenta 14, the prestigious international exhibition in Kassel, Germany — and this year also in Athens — is the slyly subversive «Whispering Campaign,» featuring performers who walk the streets of both cities, confiding in strangers the artist's elliptical yet biting aphorisms about race and color from his word - based «Skin Set» drawings.

CANCÚN, Mexico — Over the weekend, I caught up with Bill McKibben, whose approach to environmental campaigning seems drawn from the «year of living strenuously» he endured training to reach peak performance as a long - distance skier.