Sentences with phrase «years of his political career»

Anyone who's spent time with the Premier since the early years of his political career knows he is no fan of the Commission, ever - closer - union and the Directives that order much of British life.

Not exact matches

She's still building name recognition outside the world of tech and, with one House run behind her (she lost), the 40 - year - old has time to continue building her political career.

For a «backroom boy» who is supposed to avoid the press, Patrick Kinsella's name has turned up in a remarkable number of headlines during his 30 - year career as a political insider.

Counselor to the President Kellyanne Conway, a career Republican pollster, has continued as a principal Trump spokesperson even after being accused of violating the Hatch Act for partisan political activities last year in the Senate race in Alabama.

Putin is sixty - four years old and has spent his political career with Russia in the shadow of the United States.

He began his political career as a liberal Democrat (for 30 years), and admirer of Franklin D. Roosevelt.

The 42 - year - old Poughkeepsie, N.Y., native has worked every job the industry has to offer, cultivated a vast network of friends and admirers, and radiates the kind of megawatt charisma that launches political careers (or cults).

Huhne, once seen as a future leader of the Lib Dems, saw the final end of his political career this year.

But perhaps unburdened by the death of Skelos» political career, sources are coming forward to offer more detailed accounts of what exactly happened in those critical years of 2013 and 2014 when campaign finance had one of it's best chances of actually getting approved in both houses.

But Cuomo's press management has been a political success: His public approval ratings, two years into a job that destroyed the careers of his predecessors Eliot Spitzer and David Paterson, is at an all - time high at more than 70 % of New Yorkers approving of his job performance, according to a recent poll from the Siena Research Institute.

There is a growing sense among New York political insiders that next month's primary could mark the end of 81 - year - old Rep. Charlie Rangel's storied Congressional career.

A lifelong third - party activist and veteran of Dr. Benjamin Spock's 1972 presidential campaign on the long - forgotten People's Party ticket, the 61 - year - old Hawkins is hoping New York's 125th Street and Lexington Avenue — a familiar spot picked out by Credico — proves to be his lucky corner, just as 116th Street and Lexington Avenue proved to be the late Fiorello H. La Guardia's «Lucky Corner» during his long and colorful political career.

Bill de Blasio captured the prize of his political career by framing himself as the antithesis of the billionaire mayor who drastically reshaped New York City during his 12 years in office.

Hikind, of course, has had a much more successful political career, winning elections fairly routinely every two years.

The 42 - year - old Molinaro, whose political career began at the age of 18 upon winning election as mayor of the Village of Tivoli, admitted the outpouring of support led him to reconsider and then enter the race.

It used to be that achieving the prime ministership was the pinnacle of any political career — the product of a lifetime of service to both party and public after which, former prime ministers, all passion spent, would shuffle off into the House of Lords and spend their golden years giving speeches few will hear.

The president is facing the most devastating scandal of his political career, with accusations that Liliane Bettencourt, the 87 - year - old L'Oreal heiress, is being investigated for giving Mr Sarkozy «envelopes stuffed with cash» just before he became president.

«The closure of the Fresh Kills Landfill is, by far, the highlight of my 27 year political career,» Molinari said.

That bill fell due to lack of parliamentary time but Foulkes, who has served as both and MP and an MSP in a political career stretching 40 years, is determined to revive it after the polls apparently failed to predict Donald Trump's election victory in America.

As most of these antis were new - entry young Tories, it seems unlikely that they voted to secure a retirement home at the end of their political careers, in 30 or 40 years.

Kirwan was the beneficiary / victim of coattails twice in his 15 - year political career.

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork)-- Former senator Pedro Espada went on trial Wednesday nearly three years after CBS 2 began a series of exposes about his political career and the operation of his Bronx health clinic.

He has spent most of his career as a political operative, working on Mitt Romney's 2012 presidential campaign in Pennsylvania and leading Syracuse Common Councilor Joe Carni's successful race last year.

It's a «devastating turning point» and possibly the «beginning of the end» of Gov. Andrew Cuomo's 30 - plus - year political career.

There were also mutterings about a possible future political career when Thatcher's granddaughter, Amanda, confidently read out her passage from the Bible in front of a global audience, despite being only 19 years old.

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Last year, Faso resurrected his political career by capturing the upstate 19th Congressional District seat — representing all or portions of 10 counties from the Catskills north and east toward Albany — being vacated by Chris Gibson.

Democrats also have their eyes on the seat of 88 - year - old Sen. Bill Larkin, who began his political career in the Assembly, where he served from 1979 to 1990 before being elected to the Senate.

He's apologized for mischaracterizing portions of his 21 - year military career, and the Pentagon confirms that the candidate was counseled by the military twice in the last two years for violating rules that bar members of the armed services from partisan political activities.

President Mahama said as a Minister of State, Vice President and now President, his political career had been tried and tested and would rely on the good people of Ghana to retain him in power on account of his performance in his first four years of administration.

She is perhaps the most prominent high - tech executive to launch a political career this year, along with the ex-CEO of Hewlett Packard, Carly Fiorina, who is a potential challenger to Sen. Barbara Boxer (D - Calif.).

ALBANY — Dean Skelos, the former Republican leader of the State Senate whose political career ended this year when he was convicted of federal felony charges, has filed papers to collect his pension.

Most of Hevesi's political friends, accumulated over a 35 - year career, have drifted away; few even bothered to show at the celebration for his reelection.

Peralta, who worked with the city Central Labor Council and seven years in the state Assembly, said he has made an effort throughout his political career to work with many different types of people and leaders in the community.

He was born in Jarrow, into a family with links across the generations to the river and its historic industry and, after 30 years as a shipyard worker himself, he spent much of his subsequent political career unsuccessfully fighting to defend its continued existence.

Frank Field and Michael Portillo both said tat it would be better for Scotland to go independent, Michael gove was described last year in a spectator article as the greatest leader Labours never had, portillos first political hero was Harold Wilson, and black Tory lord John Taylor said of Portillo that he was just pretending to be Thatcherite to further his career in the 80's So to take the view that there are some non Blairite, non Corbyinsta, EU skeptics who appeal to the Socially conservative, yet Social democrat view of politics, what was needed was a 42 year old, Admirer of Frank field and Michael Portillo, who was against Iraq, voted leave, and didn't back David miliband for leader in 2010

His journalism continued during his political career, with earnings of # 250,000 a year for his Daily Telegraph column, which he once referred to as «chicken feed».

- raised in anticipation of this year's election before his political career derailed.

He ultimately didn't pursue a political career, but he did find a different platform a couple of years later: In 2009, he became the president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS, the publisher of Science, Science Translational Medicine, and Science Careers).

Steven Spielberg has been trying to set up a movie based on the political career of The Great Emancipator himself, Abraham Lincoln, for quite a while now, but ran into some complications earlier this year when Liam Neeson, who had been signed on for the lead role, dropped out of the project.

Her client, wealthy career politician Castillo (Joaquim De Almeida), is running for president of Bolivia, a position he won and then relinquished years earlier, and he's down almost 30 points from the frontrunner, a fiery political upstart promising major change.

A slow - building and unlikely blockbuster (the biggest film of 84 - year - old director Clint Eastwood's career), this electrifying PTSD war drama became a political football for its questionable handling of the real - life Chris Kyle.

Notable recently were the Gates Foundation's call for a two - year moratorium on tying results from assessments aligned to the Common Core to consequences for teachers or students; Florida's legislation to eliminate consequences for schools that receive low grades on the state's pioneering A-F school grading system; the teetering of the multi-state Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC) assessment consortium (down from 24 to 15 members, and with its contract with Pearson to deliver the assessments in limbo because of a lawsuit that alleges bid - rigging); and the groundswell of opposition from parents, teachers, and political groups to the content of the Common Core.

Having failed to right the ship of state, Malloy engaged in a desperate attempt to save his political career by telling Connecticut's voters that there was no state budget deficit this year and that he would eliminate the $ 1.4 billion dollar projected budget shortfall for this coming year without having to raise taxes, cut services or seek concessions from the state employee unions.

Meireles's investigation of ideological, economic, and political systems through sculpture, installation, and sensorial experience forms the cornerstone of his practice, which spans the artist's extensive forty - year career.

Throughout a distinguished forty - year career as both sculptor and teacher — he was Professor of Sculpture and Departmental Head at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka — El Anatsui has addressed a vast range of social, political and historical concerns, and embraced an equally diverse range of media and processes.

In a groundbreaking career surpassing 50 years of practice and encompassing many significant visual and cultural movements including Conceptual Art, Post-Modernism, and Feminism, Nancy Spero made the female experience central to her art and challenged aesthetic and political conventions.

The first comprehensive retrospective of the career of Danny Lyon in twenty - five years assembles approximately one hundred and seventy - five photographs and related films and ephemera to highlight the artist's concern with social and political issues.

The groundbreaking exhibition explores the vibrant and experimental years of Haring's early career when he started a diligent and vigorous studio practice, began making public and political art on the city streets and enjoyed a frenetic social life.

Addressing a vast range of social, political and historical concerns throughout a distinguished fourty - year career, El Anatsui's powerful assemblages have provoked wide international attention.