Sentences with phrase «before winning the seat»

In an optimistic move, a Congressional candidate has registered a leadership PAC before winning a seat in Congress.

It took Tyner five elections before he won a seat in the Dutchess legislature.

The former federal prosecutor had never held political office before winning the seat in 2014.

Ferreras was Councilman Hiram Monserrate's chief of staff before winning the seat in a special election after he advanced to the state Senate.

He hosted his own radio show, The Al Franken Show, for several years before winning his seat in Congress in 2008.

This comes in the wake of concerns about will writers raised by Liberal Democrat MP Lorely Burt — who worked as a will writer before winning her seat.

She worked as a commercial manager for Shell, as an economics director for Cable & Wireless, and qualified as a management accountant before winning the seat of South West Norfolk for the Conservatives in 2010.

Not exact matches

Most early - stage VCs want to see you're capable of winning before they agree to back your seat at the poker table.

Mr Prentice won his seat but abandoned his constituents before all the votes were counted (not very CEO - like behavior by anyone's estimation).

Di Resta won the DTM title in 2010 and then spent three years with Force India, before returning to DTM after losing his F1 seat.

Further, AS report that he effectively said his goodbyes on Sunday when he was substituted in the 4 - 1 win over Sevilla in Madrid's last home game of the season as he applauded the entire ground before taking his seat on the bench.

There were a lot of empty seats at the ground for the West ham game but a protest planned for before the match was cancelled due to low turnout and we even heard some fans chanting the name of Arsene Wenger towards the end of our 3 - 0 win.

The British racing driver has had an unusual journey up the single - seater ladder, enjoying success in Formula BMW before winning the 2012 British Formula 3 championship and taking race victories in GP3.

I believe the carry on of some supporters last season and season before are to blame some here were looking for loses just so they can prove a point to me they are not Arsenal at all some have been even worse they embarrassed Arsenal in away grounds what a bunch of red necks I am frustrated at Mr Wenger but I will always respect him he is a legend I would love to see the academy win their tier We don't seem to pick the right players as most of them do nt make it luckily this issue has been addressed Once again I need to emphasize the importance of being united behind the club and very vocal sometimes it so quite I am surprised that players have not fallen asleep and now with the new trend of empty seats I start to believe we are going into a self destruct we need to wake up and shake down the bad dust and stand up to be counted before it becomes to late Wishing Arsenal a Prosperous successful New Year Happy new year folks

Liverpool Regaining Third Place Seat, Man United Lose Again Liverpool's bid to keep their top four spot in English Premier League seem to be heading into the right direction as they need one more win before securing it.

No I was talking about the Democrats lack of enthusiasm to form a majority before the budget and the vacant seats (or soon to be vacant seats) that they need to win / keep to achieve that goal.

Meanwhile, the geniuses at RNCC wrote off Bob Turner's chance of winning Anthony Weiner's seat long before it even started and offered neither money or in - kind support.

In short, the situation is largely unchanged from before Democrat Bill Perkins won an open seat on the city Council and left.

As politician, Romario served as a Federal Legislator for Rio de Janeiro from 2011 before being comfortably elected Senator in 2014, winning 63.4 % of the vote for the Rio de Janeiro seat.

These symposiums are normally held after the Congressmen - elect know that they are likely to be certified as winning their seats, but before their inaugurations.

Ceretto served as a Lewiston councilman and a Niagara County legislator before winning his Assembly seat as a Republican.

With help from friends, he launched a website the day before inauguration with a tool that matched liberals to their closest 2018 swing district — seeking their commitment to volunteer and donate to help Democrats win the seat.

Even if Democrats win the two open Senate seats and the party regains control of the chamber, there wouldn't be enough time for lawmakers to pass comprehensive legislation before the session ends on June 20, River said.

In December 2008, after winning a State Senate seat but before he was sworn in, Monserrate attacked his then - girlfriend, slashing her face.

Before 2011, the seat was solidly Labour with former First Minister Jack McConnell winning his seat in 2007 with 48.4 % of the vote (23 % more than his SNP opponent).

The nomination ultimately went to Michael McMahon, a Democratic councilman from the North Shore, who won the seat but held it only a term before being defeated by Mr. Grimm.

In 1984, the Progressive Conservatives came to power by winning more seats than any party had / has in any other election before or since.

Espaillat and his allies are paying close attention to Wright's moves as they hope to curtail any major challenges to his newly - won seat before they happen.

The last polls conducted before polling day show the Scottish National Party (SNP) is likely to win a lot of seats and hold the balance of power.

His first attempt for Westminster came when he fought the safe Conservative seat of South Kensington in 1959, before being selected for neighbouring Barons Court and winning the 1964 election with a small majority.

Mr Harpham had won the Sheffield Brightside and Hillsborough seat at last year's general election and grilled David Cameron over 100 job losses in Sheffield steel at Prime Minister's Questions just two weeks before he died.

Speaking on the Geraldo Rivera Show, Mr. Cox acknowledged the possibility that Mr. Grimm — who won a landslide victory over former Brooklyn Councilman Domenic Recchia Jr. last night — might have to give up his seat before completing his third term representing Staten Island and parts of southern Brooklyn.

Mr. Lopez failed to win a City Council seat after leaving Albany and even mulled a run against his successor, Assemblywoman Maritza Davila, before settling on petitioning for district leader and state committee, sources say.

He fought the Essex new town seat of Harlow twice before he won it at the last election.

These are just two examples of easily avoidable types of problems that District Leader Frank Gulluscio, who won the Democratic primary last month for the City Council seat currently held by Eric A. Ulrich, state Senator Joseph Addabbo (D - Howard Beach), and local community activist Betty Braton say could be avoided in the future if two bills currently before the New York City Council are passed.

Under the leadership of Tony Blair, the governing Labour Party was re-elected to serve a second term in government with another landslide victory, returning 413 of the 418 seats won by the party in the previous general election, a net loss of 5 seats, though with significantly lower turnout than before — 59.4 %, compared to 71.3 % in the previous election.

He also leaves his party before winning his battle to shift the British electoral system away from first past the post to a proportional representation system which would significantly push up his party's share of Commons seats.

Newton served most of his legislative career as the 124th District representative before winning the 23rd state Senate seat in April 2003 in a special election

Greenfield opened the account in 2013 when he was considering running for a state seat, his office said — one year before getting named chairman of the Land Use Committee, and the same year he was re-elected to his first full term after winning a special election in 2010.

This time around there was much talk by election «analysts» that Labour's majority would be reduced to less than 3,000 votes, and that Ukip might even win the seat, ending Corbyn's regime before it had even reached 100 days.

We managed to win back control of the Senate before apportionment; we had a net pick of of at least seven Assembly seats, and we won back some high profle seats, like John Hall's and kept a couple that could have gone the other way after unforced errors (Eric Mass's seat comes to mnd).

As a historical example, in 1854 it took 9 weeks and over 130 votes before a new Speaker was elected - prompting a change in rules to make winning easier (The winner only has to receive the most votes regardless of the number of ballots cast rather than an absolute majority of > 50 % of the congressional seats).

Some of the seats being won tonight have been Labour since before the Second World War.

The NDC's Emmanuel Akolbire Opam - Brown in 2008 (before the Bolgatanga Constituency was divided into the Central and the East) won the seat with 28,656 (57.7 %) votes.

In 1974, Labour supporters protested at Heath's attempt to hang on when he had not won the largest number of seats but Harold Wilson bided his time before forming a minority government.

Some of the legislators who are older than 65 may run, win and retire before the session begins Jan. 1, the way former Assemblyman William F. Boyland did in 2003 to help turn his Brooklyn seat over to his son in a special election, avoiding a difficult primary.

But the immediate task is to rebuild the Lib Dems as a campaigning party, continuing to grow the membership — which has jumped by 18,000 since polling day — and winning back council seats before attempting to get more MPs elected in 2020.

«Today's wins will once again give Democrats a numeric majority, and come November we will win even more seats,» Senate Democratic spokesman Mike Murphy said before the polls closed Tuesday.

As before, YouGov questioned people in the 60 Labour - Conservative marginals in those seats that Labour won by a margin of between 6 and 14 percentage points.

Earlier this year, Brown won a Senate special election to fill the seat held by Sen. Ted Kennedy before his death.