Sentences with phrase «years campaigned for»

Many people who want voting reform have spent years campaigning for proportional representation — which AV is not.

He decided after the election he wanted to write an account of five years campaigning for his three boys, to give them an understanding of what he had been doing, and why he was often away from home or distracted.

Few nits to pick, If Jinnah wanted to rule an independent nation, why did he spend a lot of years campaigning for Hindu Muslim unity as a member of INC?

► Guillermo Linares, the incumbent, announced he was running for his seat late in the race, after spending the early part of the year campaigning for Rep. Charlie Rangel's Congressional seat.

Several speakers at the rally noted that the state had this year not made the sizeable increase in school spending that it had committed to make as part of the resolution of the 13 - year Campaign for Fiscal Equity school funding lawsuit.

Einstein had many patents regarding home refrigeration, he was a pretty good violinist, and he spent many of his later years campaigning for peace.

Each kingdom has its own gallery of famous generals, warlords, and tacticians, their individual stories intertwining over the course of the fourty five - year campaign for unison.

Raul Yzaguirre, the president of the National Council of La Raza, which led a two - year campaign for the executive order creating the commission, noted that it took the Administration 13 months to appoint the advisory panel, something Mr. Bush himself told the...

It follows a four - year campaign for a secondary school in the village of Clare by parents whose children would otherwise have had to travel 10 miles to the nearest secondary school, as the local council rearranged local schooling.

This newly - recognised cloud was officially named asperitas by the World Meteorological Organisation in March, following a 10 - year campaign for recognition - read about the Society's involvement >>

The jury's conclusion that the 96 Liverpool fans who died at Hillsborough on 15 April 1989 were unlawfully killed marked the culmination of a remarkable 27 - year campaign for justice by the families of the 96.

Not exact matches

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.

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.

-- 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

Earlier this year for example, Viral Nation was preparing to launch a major Valentine's Day campaign for the Chinese internet firm Baidu, when Micheli received an unsettling call.

Over her 16 - year career at Maple Leaf Sports & Entertainment she's risen through the ranks, working on dozens of marketing campaigns for different franchises.

«People are mistaking this for a thing about the campaign,» Cohen told Vanity Fair earlier this year.

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.

At the start of last year's federal election campaign, Bardish Chagger left Waterloo, Ont., for an out - of - town meeting.

Although Ottawa and industry associations continue supporting it, a consortium of activist groups called the Canadian Network on Corporate Accountability has begun campaigning for an ombudsman reminiscent of that proposed by Mackay years earlier.

Economic inequality has been a top campaign theme for Democrats for the past several years, including for President Barack Obama.

Kenney spent most of last year driving cutting - edge brand marketing campaigns for Brooklyn, New York - based über - brand MakerBot, including the wildly successful #Robohand video that documented how MakerBot users developed prosthetic hands for disabled children.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

A lifelong Republican, Whitman switched her support to Hillary Clinton three months before last year's election — she was the only Fortune Most Powerful Woman to publicly campaign for a nominee — stoking speculation that the former gubernatorial candidate would reenter the political arena.

«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 conflict: On the campaign trail for Austria's upcoming election, 80 - year - old Frank Stronach doffed his shirt for a photo op, declaring that he needn't be ashamed of his body.

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.

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.

It took less than a year for Sterling's company to go from a Kickstarter campaign to the shelves of Toys R Us.

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.

For example, the «Fight Poverty Like a New Yorker» campaign run by the poverty alleviation group, The Robin Hood Foundation, was conceived at The Feast last year, says Chou.

You might have only one campaign a year that requires marketing support, for instance.

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.

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.

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 Liberals made a few big - ticket election campaign spending promises, but, on the tax side, they also indicated they intend to pad revenues over the next few years with higher tax rates for personal and corporate income.

The subject of a seven - year - long campaign by the association, its elimination removed administrative hurdles for foreign investment and raised hopes that venture capital from private and sovereign wealth funds would soon stream across the border to buoy Canadian startups.

«It will be of immense value in areas where we have already completed some initial drilling as part of our 2017 exploration campaign, such as Monwezi and Katete, and it will potentially identify completely new targets for testing later this year and beyond.

Three years after her speech, her campaign and pro-Clinton super PACs have raised nearly $ 59 million from financial investors, according to data collected by the Center for Responsive Politics.

But the biggest push for Minuum came during an Indiegogo campaign last year, which Walmsley worked on with friends (and now fellow Whirlscape employees) Xavier Snelgrove and Severin Smith.

Kraft Heinz says it is doubling the marketing budget behind Oscar Mayer this year to support the «For The Love of Hot Dogs» campaign.

Team Penske debuts this weekend at the season finale — Motul Petit Le Mans — in preparation for the team's full - season campaign next year.

The campaign launches amid flat national rail ridership, with Amtrak reporting just above 30 million passengers for the last six years.