Sentences with phrase «after election defeat»

After an election defeat, the leadership must pass to a new generation.

Lamont gave her first post-election interview to The Politics Show Scotland on 18 December 2011, speaking of the «huge challenge» of rebuilding public trust in Scottish Labour after its election defeat of the previous May, and a general decline in support over the preceding decade.

Standing on your head on questions like the electoral system only the day after election defeat would not convince the public.

After the election defeat of 1992 a whole generation of Labour figures, who were to rise to prominence in the New Labour era from 1994 onwards, concluded that victory would only come if an intense and unyielding discipline on language and behaviour were maintained.

Not exact matches

The New Democrats have a choice: prop up a government hungry for their left - leaning supporters, or defeat the budget that they helped craft and force an election just 19 months after the last one.

Detailed reports and allegedly leaked audio paint a picture of an embarrassing defeat at the hands of the US military, and how the remains of dead Russian mercenaries are being held until after Russia's presidential election in March.

European markets closed higher on Thursday after the defeat of the populist anti-European Union candidate Geert Wilders in the Dutch election.

A former chief of staff to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell had the following assessment after Democrat Doug Jones defeated embattled Republican Roy Moore in the special election to fill a Senate seat in Alabama: Anyone out of the phone book — aside from Moore — would've won as a Republican.

«In an unusual bullish move for the non-yielding safe haven asset after a rate hike, this can be entirely attributed to the aforementioned USD weakness, as Wilders» Dutch election defeat eases some fears of a populist European backlash.»

After the election, part of the blame for Campbell's defeat went to Kinsella.

Friday's opposition vote to defeat the Conservative government for «contempt of Parliament» was an exercise in self - delusion, testosterone and faulty logic that will surely result in Stephen Harper returning after the May 2 election as prime minister — and likely with a majority.

At that time I wrote: «Friday's opposition vote to defeat the Conservative government for «contempt of Parliament» was an exercise in self - delusion, testosterone and faulty logic that will surely result in Stephen Harper returning after the May 2 election as prime minister — and likely with a majority.

Three months later, after the Meighen government was defeated in the House and another general election took place, King and the Liberals were returned with a majority.

After he was defeated in the 2015 federal election, Dykstra ran for the presidency of the Ontario Progressive Conservatives, winning by acclamation after his friend Brown brokered a deal where the other candidate, Jag Badwal, withAfter he was defeated in the 2015 federal election, Dykstra ran for the presidency of the Ontario Progressive Conservatives, winning by acclamation after his friend Brown brokered a deal where the other candidate, Jag Badwal, withafter his friend Brown brokered a deal where the other candidate, Jag Badwal, withdrew.

Defeated MPs still have flight privileges for a short time after an election, so they can return to Ottawa to clean out their offices.

Ontario Progressive Conservative leader Tim Hudak, right, announces next to his wife Deb Hutton that he will be stepping down as party leader after being defeated his election night campaign head quarters in Grimsby, Ont., on June 12, 2014.

Mr. Berger faced criticism after he landed a plum job in the public service after he was defeated in the 2012 election.

Thuan Pham, Uber's CTO, who escaped Vietnam as a child in 1979, pledged to «help defeat» the «deplorable» Trump and his «destructive agenda» in an internal email after the election, according to Business Insider.

If you went strictly by Stephen Harper's spoken record, he never resigned as Conservative leader after last fall's election defeat, and he's got no plans to do anything but carry out his full four - year term as MP for Calgary Heritage.

Since neither cynical liberal supporters of Clinton, nor idealistic liberal supporters of Sanders see much prospect of general election defeat, they are both willing to take more risks (both ethical and ideological) in order to get more of what they want after the 2016 election.

After Jimmy Carter defeated Jackson for the 1976 Democratic presidential nomination and bested President Ford in the subsequent general election, the Carter administration adopted the language of an assertive human - rights policy but filled it with New Left content, aiming its criticism primarily at authoritarian American allies rather than at America's totalitarian enemies.

In describing and accounting for the lives of the Religious Right, which we define simply as religious conservatives with a considerable involvement in political activity, the book and the series tell the story primarily by focusing on leading episodes in the movement's history, including, but not limited to, the groundwork laid by Billy Graham in his relationships with presidents and other prominent political leaders; the resistance of evangelical and other Protestants to the candidacy of the Roman Catholic John F. Kennedy; the rise of what has been called the New Right out of the ashes of Barry Goldwater's defeat in 1964; a battle over sex education in Anaheim, California, in the mid-1960's; a prolonged cultural war over textbooks in West Virginia in the early 1970's — and that is a battle that has been fought less violently in community after community all over the country; the thrill conservative Christians felt over the election of a «born - again» Christian to the Presidency in 1976 and the subsequent disappointment they experienced when they found out that Jimmy Carter was, of all things, a Democrat; the rise of the Moral Majority and its infatuation with Ronald Reagan; the difficulty the Religious Right has had in dealing with abortion, homosexuality and AIDS; Pat Robertson's bid for the presidency and his subsequent launching of the Christian Coalition; efforts by Dr. James Dobson and Gary Bauer to win a «civil war of values» by changing the culture at a deeper level than is represented by winning elections; and, finally, by addressing crucial questions about the appropriate relationship between religion and politics or, as we usually put it, between church and state.

The Real Madrid president moved away from Benitez to deny reports in Spain today that he could call premature elections to reassert his authority at the club after fans called for his head during the defeat to Barcelona.

The Central Region «Unity Walk» is the third edition which is aimed at bringing together over hundred thousand sympathisers of the National Democratic Congress in the region after its electoral defeat in the 2016 general election.

Returning to Chicago, where he first declared victory in 2008, Mr Obama delivered a mostly positive message to Americans after a divisive election campaign which saw Mr Trump defeat Democrat Hillary Clinton.

Clinton denounced people telling her to «shut up» after her 2016 election loss, arguing that people haven't made that demand of defeated male nominees.

This can only take place after the loser of the election has conceded defeat and tendered his or her resignation in person at the Palace.

Just hours after his candidate, Jane Corwin, was bitterly defeated by Kathy Hochul in a Special Congressional Election in 2011, many within his own party were calling for Langworthy's head.

The Democratic Senate Campaign Committee reported $ 191,283 in cash on hand after spending heavily in the special election, which ended with Democrat Todd Kaminsky defeating Republican candidate Chris McGrath last month.

Emmanuel Macron, a youthful former investment banker, handily won France's presidential election, defeating the staunch nationalist Marine Le Pen after voters firmly rejected her far - right message and backed his call for centrist change, according to partial returns.

Odinga's claims of rigging after defeat in the 2007 elections prompted rioting and retaliation by security forces, which tipped the country into its worst crisis for decades.

After Labour's election defeat in 2015, Khan announced he would run for the party's nomination for the London mayoralty.

The angry backers say that while they expect the former secretary of state and New York senator to defeat Sanders by a respectable (but not overwhelming) margin Tuesday, they contend she'll have done so after being forced by the leftist Vermont senator to take positions and act in a way that could haunt her in the general election.

The purpose of this Policy Network study, a sequel to the Southern Discomfort series carried out after the 1992 general election defeat, is to address the crippling weakness that Labour faces in Southern England following the 2010 defeat.

O'Donnell became the latest Tea Party - backed candidate this election season to defeat an incumbent candidate after she easily beat long - time Rep. Mike Castle in the contentious Senate primary.

Ed Miliband subsequently won the election, the result of which was announced on 25 September 2010, after second, third and fourth preferences votes were counted, achieving the support of 50.654 % of the electoral college, defeating his brother by 1.3 %.

Patrick Murphy defeated incumbent Allen West (R) in a race that was too close to call for more than one week after the election.

After the Labour Party was defeated at the 2010 general election, Brown resigned as Leader of the Labour Party; in September 2010, Miliband was elected to replace him.

This has combined together with a fatalism that has descended on the party after its May election defeat.

Crowley defeated former Councilman Anthony Como in the 2008 election after Como won a special election earlier that year to replace disgraced Councilman Dennis Gallagher.

Hayworth held a U.S. House seat in the 19th District from 2010 - 2012, and after New York's redistricting, was defeated by Maloney in the 2012 18th Congressional District election.

[479] Writing after the election, Professor John Curtice said that in only one constituency, (Edinburgh South); could it be said that tactical voting succeeded in defeating an SNP candidate.

The poll will add to pressure on Mr Cameron who has been the subject of speculation about his leadership after the Conservatives suffered a bruising defeat to both the Liberal Democrats and Ukip in the Eastleigh by - election.

Hillary Clinton will travel to Milwaukee on Nov. 9 — one year and one day after she lost to Trump on Election Day — to discuss «What Happened,» her upcoming memoir about her defeat.

His wife, Konadu Agyeman Rawlings, in an attempt to equalize her husband's feat, hurriedly formed the NDP in 2012, to contest that national elections after she was resoundingly defeated at Sunyani by the late president, John Evans Atta Mills at the NDC Presidential Primary.

An astonishing surge in membership after defeat for the Yes campaign in last year's independence referendum was followed by an SNP landslide in May's general election, when the party won 56 of Scotland's 59 constituencies.

Both Miliband and Kinnock took charge of their party after seismic election defeats.

But Higgins is suddenly perceived as vulnerable after last night's 145th Assembly District special election, in which another Paladino - backed candidate, Buffalo Common Council Member Michael «Mickey» Kearns, defeated the congressman's top aide, Chris Fahey, in a decisive upset win.

After Labour lost the Copeland by - election in February, despite defending a much larger majority over the Conservatives than in Barrow, Woodcock warned Labour was headed for a «historic and catastrophic» election defeat under Corbyn's leadership.

Gillibrand won her first statewide election last fall, easily beating former Rep. Joe DioGuardi, who defeated Bruce Blakeman and David Malpass in a GOP primary after he petitioned his way onto the ballot.