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A campaign for a Cornish Assembly has been running since July 2000, and attracted the support of a petition signed by 50, 000 Cornish residents and visitors, which was presented to 10 Downing Street on 12 December 2001.
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`` They were supposed to meet Thor at nine PM for a conference concerning the ad campaign for their soap, a new angle based on this SX-21 stuff ''.
After the collapse of that desperate and ill-fated campaign the character of the king degenerated for a time into a futility that was not merely pitiable but often ridiculous.
When some question arises in the medical field concerning cancer, for instance, we do not turn to free and open discussion as in a political campaign.
They were repelled by his noisy newspapers, his personal publicity, his presumptuous campaign for the Presidential nomination, and by the swelling cloud of rumor about his moral lapses.
Just when it was needed for the campaign, Hearst Paper No. 8, the Boston American, began publication.
The alternative to this is that if a conservative candidate is nominated the national committee will have to appeal to the trusts for their campaign funds, and in doing this will incur obligations which would make a Democratic victory absolutely fruitless.
Thomas tried hard to have his cavalry ready for the test it was to meet, but his plans were wrecked when it was forced into a campaign without optimum mobility and with its commander stripped from it.
Shunted aside by the rampant organizers for John F. Kennedy last year, who relegated it to a somewhat subordinate role in the Presidential campaign, the CDC plainly intends to provide the party's campaign muscle in 1962.
It has arranged a campaign for governor.
Needless to say, strong hands are not eager to be joined by weak hands, for this increases the risk that they will have to absorb what these weak hands unload on the way up, at higher prices, during the run-up phase of the campaign.
The Conference called for a vigorous campaign against the open or secret sale of contraceptives.
Shortly after the beginning of Sherman's Georgia campaign, an ailing Yank wrote his homefolk: `` the surgeon insisted on sending me to the hospital for treatment.
As part of the same arrangement, Torrio had, in the spirit of peace and good will, and in exchange for armed support in the April election campaign, bestowed upon O'Banion a third share in the Hawthorne Smoke Shop proceeds and a cut in the Cicero beer trade.
But contrary to what was implied during the campaign, prestige is surely not important for its own sake.
Sam Caldwell, State Highway Department public relations director, resigned Tuesday to work for Lt. Gov. Garland Byrd's campaign.
When the gubernatorial campaign starts, Caldwell is expected to become a campaign coordinator for Byrd.
Sandman, state campaign chairman for Jones, was addressing a meeting in the Military Park Hotel, Newark, of Essex County leaders and campaign managers for Jones.
Emcee Jack Herbert insists Dick Nixon's campaign slogan for governor of California is, `` Knight Must Fall ''!!
A year ago today, when the Democrats were fretting and frolicking in Los Angeles and John F. Kennedy was still only an able and ambitious Senator who yearned for the power and responsibility of the Presidency, Theodore H. White had already compiled masses of notes about the Presidential campaign of 1960.
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Following a nine year campaign by the Cornish Pasty Association, the trade organisation of about 50 pasty makers based in Cornwall, the name " Cornish pasty " was awarded Protected Geographical Indication ( PGI ) status by the European Commission on 20 July 2011.
In 2010, Langage Farm in Devon started a campaign for " Devon cream tea " to have protected designation of origin similar to " Cornish clotted cream ".
* Cornish Fighting Fund, a campaign for Cornish recognition.
The campaign has the support of all five Cornish Liberal Democrats MPs, Mebyon Kernow and others ; they stated that the SW regional assembly was undemocratic and unaccountable, and believed Cornwall should be able to take decisions about local services in its own directly elected and accountable assembly.
Cornish subsequently allowed his name to stand for re-election as mayor of Winnipeg, but paid little attention to the campaign.
Its primary cause was a response of people to the raising of war taxes by King Henry VII on the impoverished Cornish, to raise money for a campaign against Scotland motivated by brief border skirmishes that were inspired by Perkin Warbeck's pretence to the English throne.
Some sources, notably the Cornish antiquary William Borlase, state that the expulsion of the Britons from Exeter was the first act in a military campaign against the West Welsh led by Æthelstan.
In 2003 a campaign group was formed called Fry an Spyrys ( free the spirit in Cornish ) which is dedicated to disestablishing the Church of England in Cornwall and to reconstituting the Diocese of Truro as an autonomous province of the Anglican Communion.
A manifestation of this is the campaign for a Cornish assembly, along the lines of the Welsh or Scottish legislative institutions.
In Cornwall there has been a campaign since 1998 for a devolved Cornish Assembly, along the lines of the Scottish Parliament, National Assembly for Wales and Northern Ireland Assembly, which would operate independently of Westminster.
Cornwall Council backs the campaign for the Cornish to be recognised as a National Minority in the UK.
Goldsworthy is a supporter of the Facebook Cornish Tickbox for the 2011 Census campaign.
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That March he began his political career with his first campaign for the Illinois General Assembly.
Following his return, Lincoln continued his campaign for the August 6 election for the Illinois General Assembly.
It succeeded in getting attorney Otto Guevara elected to the Legislative Assembly in its first campaign in 1998.
Their agreed " One Wales " programme included a commitment for both parties to campaign for a ' Yes ' vote in a referendum on full law-making powers for the Assembly, to be held at a time of the Welsh Assembly Government's choosing.
The Bite ' Em Back campaign also intended to recall then-Speaker of the Assembly Willie L. Brown, and then-President Pro Tem of the state Senate, David Roberti.
Belfort's left-wing Catholic Deputy Émile Keller now conducted a similarly forceful political campaign in the National Assembly.
Heinlein had a cynical view of politics from his experiences on the Upton Sinclair 1934 campaign for Governor of California and his own at the receiving end of dirty tricks during Heinlein's failed 1938 election campaign for the California State Assembly.
A local campaign to save the shop was initiated, including a petition initiated by Owen John Thomas, Assembly Member for South Wales Central, and supported by members of the Welsh Assembly, the Manic Street Preachers and Columbia Records.
In the 1960s, he entered journalism and politics, losing a campaign for a seat in the California State Assembly ( one reason for the loss may be that he ran under his much less well known real name ).
He led the campaign on 16 October 1981 by breaking in, with five other 79 Group members, to the Royal High School in Edinburgh which had been converted to be the Scottish Assembly.
The plan did not take into account the necessity dealing with the Town of Frankfurt, the home of the Frankfurt Assembly, in order to establish an All-German character to the military campaign for the German constitution.
He was a prominent figure in the Congress campaign for the 2007 Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections ; Congress, however, won only 22 seats with 8. 53 % of votes.
The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe has condemned Russia's campaign against Yukos and its owners as manufactured for political reasons and a violation of human rights.
He put in long hours for the Goldwater campaign, earning the friendship of local Republican boosters so necessary for a political career, and in 1966, at the age of thirty-three, he ran for, and won a seat in the California State Assembly, succeeding Clair Burgener.
Holden met his wife Lori Hauser Holden during his first campaign for the Missouri General Assembly and together they have two boys, Robert and John D.
Colebatch encouraged Mitchell to stand for parliament and, in 1905, he managed Mitchell's successful campaign for election to the Legislative Assembly seat of Northam.
He is credited with being the ' architect of devolution ' in Wales and led the campaign to create the National Assembly for Wales.
They also report accusations that were made in 2006 by former members of Baca's Washington staff that they were sent to California in 2004 for a staff retreat and pressured to work on Joe Baca, Jr .' s campaign for the state Assembly on their paid time for the senior Baca.
The Assembly also passed a budget for the remainder of the biennium, abolished the state's public campaign finance laws, and passed new school nutrition guidelines.
In the midst of the primary campaign, the 2007 General Assembly convened.
Jones was the campaign director during Plaid Cymru's first elections to the Welsh Assembly in 1999.
She had secured the Democratic nomination after her long years in the General Assembly, as Lieutenant Governor and her demonstrated ability to run a campaign by her large statewide victory margins in 1992 and 1996.
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