Sentences with phrase «as electoral defeats»

The damage to democratic process is immense, as electoral defeats would come to be seen as a violation of a right to dignity.

Not exact matches

It is possible that we will see Jeremy Corbyn accept defeat in the electoral war but seek to make significant progress on what the left will see as crucial cultural battles.

For social democrats, it means reflecting on how institutional forms can be entrenched within the fabric of society, rather than swept away immediately in the wake of electoral defeat as may be the fate of Labour's social reforms in the United Kingdom.

As hinted at in Jon Cruddas» comprehensive review of the electoral defeat, the causes of New Labour's demise are well established.

Party secretaries have been weakened by the rising power of internal factions, used as scape - goats after electoral defeats and blamed for both lack of charisma (Pierluigi Bersani) and excessive protagonism (Massimo D'Alema and especially Matteo Renzi himself).

Progressive fervor over President Donald Trump's election has catapulted Murphy's standing among Democrats, who are looking for energetic young leaders as they recover from a humbling electoral defeat.

What defeated the SDP was not so much Thatcherism as the first - past - the - post electoral system.

The UMP is bitterly divided, especially over the Schengen issue while the Socialist Party has kept a low profile a few weeks after a severe electoral defeat in city council elections and as president Hollande hit rock bottom, being identified as the most unpopular president ever.

WASHINGTON (CNN)- White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs dismissed Democratic electoral defeats in New Jersey and Virginia as «two very local elections» that say nothing about President Barack Obama's standing with the American people right now.

John Woodcock, a member of Kendall's campaign team, told me: «We all shared a view, the mainstream of the Labour Party, that advocating Jeremy's route as a party spells sure - fire marginalisation and electoral defeat.

The National Organiser of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Kofi Adams, has described persons blaming former President John Mahama for the party's election defeat as «uninformed», and has called on them to «stop talking anyhow» about the party's electoral loss.

Matthew Elliott, who played a key role in defeating Nick Clegg's plans for electoral reform in the No to AV campaign in 2011, will serve as chief executive.

Flt Lt Rawlings who spoke from both a prepared speech as well as extempore said so much fire was burning inside him but confessed that he had been compelled to hold back by some leading members of the party who feared his heavy criticism will affect the party adversely after a bad electoral defeat.

The Alabama Senate primary last month, in which a far - right challenger defeated a more establishment Republican whom the president had endorsed, served as a warning flare for Trump's team, highlighting the risk he could run if he alienates the core supporters who helped lift him to electoral victory.

Whitlam resigned as ALP leader after the party suffered its second successive electoral defeat in 1977.

It took Tony Blair just three years from his rise to the Labour leadership in 1994 to turn these years of habitual defeat into a moment of colossal, crushing victory in which the same Labour activists who had soldiered so miserably for so long became all - conquering electoral troops who, as Blair puts it in one of the phrases that make his book A Journey so readable, «scattered our enemies in the imaginations of their hearts».

While some have suggested that the proposal's defeat in the polls was the last nail in the coffin of electoral reform, others have interpreted it as the first step in a longer journey.

Gordon Brown's dismissal of Gillian Duffy as a «bigot» was one of the defining moments of the election campaign, and Labour leadership candidates are now queuing up to blame their electoral defeat on the party's failure to address immigration on the doorstep.

All of the coverage has been distinctly negative, portraying Jeremy's politics as automatically destined to consign Labour to electoral defeat.

If a candidate or party is slightly ahead in a bare majority of electoral divisions but a long way behind in others, they can win even if a competitor gets more votes overall — as happened most notoriously in recent history in the US presidential election of 2000, when George W. Bush narrowly defeated Al Gore.

But while Rhee's head - cracking, heresy - spouting attempt to revamp the school system was a major contributor to Fenty's electoral defeat, she left in a blaze of martyrdom, reveling in the extravagant admiration of national opinion - makers, as well as her commanding role in the polemical pro-charter-school documentary Waiting for «Superman.»

The source pointed to the 2003 Blume story as evidence that the reformers have consistently failed to learn lessons from past electoral defeats.

Few politicians have the courage to stand up to them, and when they do, they tend to get defeated (as in the electoral massacre of environmental Senators here in 1976 - 78).

Furthermore, according to publicly available information, the Trump campaign was no longer using Cambridge Analytica as a «consultant» by the time of the general election, so while the manipulation of the private data of millions of voters goes a long way toward explaining how the general election came down to Trump and Clinton, it had no impact whatsoever on Trump's electoral victory or Clinton's embarrassing defeat.