Sentences with phrase «biggest victory by»

Corbyn's biggest victory by far came this week, however, when Labour forced the government to retreat on their planned cuts to tax credits.

Tony Blair won three big victories by persuading voters that he was a centrist leader who set his face against ideological politics.

Big victories by Kasich, Walker, Haley, Martinez, Haslam, Snyder, Brandstad, Sandoval, and others — many of whom could make K — 12 reform a key part of their pitches to voters — promise to make the coming GOP primary contest compelling.

Not exact matches

Government figures cited by the Associated Press indicate that just 1.7 million people — out of a total non-farm labor force of some 136 million workers — earned the minimum wage or less in 2006; still the increase was a big political victory for the Democrats, one that came at the expense of lobbyists from the National Federation of Independent Businesses and the Chamber of Commerce, among others.

A draft bill unveiled last week by Republicans in the House of Representatives, if enacted, would be the biggest restructuring of the tax system since the 1980s and the first major legislative victory of the Trump presidency.

On automobiles, the biggest source of trade tensions between the countries, the negotiation delivered modest victories that were likely to be welcomed by American carmakers who have long sought to sell more cars in South Korea.

Last night's victory by Premier Christy Clark and the BC Liberals will go down in British Columbia political history as one of the biggest upset victories ever.

My research on the 2016 election shows that Trump's victory was probably obtained by capturing a big swing among American Lutherans.

For its big victory, Texas A&M was rewarded by the voters with a No. 10 ranking after being ranked No. 14 last week.

In what was by far the biggest upset of Week 12, Team Jones got a shocking victory over Team Purimetla, 75 - 65.

They traded the lead back and forth all night and finally it was a big line drive by Captain «Clutch» Nick Abrahamson who gave his crew the walk - off victory!

Kansas Statesliced Missouri's conference lead to a game and a half by defeating Colorado65 - 58, as Ed Nealy pulled down 16 rebounds and Tyrone Adams scored 20 points.In their earlier victory over Nebraska, the Wildcats established a Big Eightrecord for field - goal accuracy (77.1 %) by sinking 27 of 35 shots.

In my own thinking as Arsenal supporter, if Le Prof is able to pull the hat out of the fire by knocking out Bayern Munich from the UCL at the Emirates Stadium in a fortnight time, that singular big game victory will be enough for the board and Le Prof to still buy time of continuing in their joint current position of Le Prof to continue to manage Arsenal up to the end of this season.

A big second half by Ty Lawson helped the Denver Nuggets earn a second straight victory and stay above the safe line for the playoffs Sunday night.

Ponderosa senior pole vaulter Kylee Trageser's season exemplified the ups and downs felt by a number of student - athletes who experience the thrill of victory and agony of defeat on the sport's biggest stages.

I can only hope that this attempt is taken more seriously than the largely muted and clearly unsuccessful protests of late last season... although the plane writing escapade brought some much - needed attention to the matter, it failed to resonate with fence - sitters and those who had just recently fell off the Wenger truck... without a big enough showing of support the whole endeavor appeared relatively weak and poorly organized, especially to the major media outlets, whose involvement could have significantly changed what was to follow... but I get it, few wanted to turn on their club, let alone make a public display of their discord... problem is, they are preying on that vulnerability, in fact, their counting on you to keep your thoughts to yourself... who are you to tell these fat cats how to steal your money... they have worked long and hard to pull the wool over your eyes... they even went so far as to pay enormous sums of cash to your once beloved professor to be their corporate spokesmodel so that the whole thing would be more palatable... eventually the club made it appear as if this was simply a relatively small fringe group of highly radicalized supporters, which allowed the pro-Wenger element inside the club hierarchy to claim victory following the FA Cup win... unfortunately what has happened to this club can't be solved by FA Cups or a few players coming in, the very culture of this club needs to be changed and that starts at the top... in order to change the unhealthy and dysfunctional narrative that has absorbed this club we need to remove everyone who presently occupies a position of power... only then can we get back to the business of playing championship caliber football, which should always be the number one priority of this organization... on an important side note, one of the most devastating mistakes made in the final days of this hectic and poorly planned transfer window didn't have to do with the big name players like Sanchez or Lemar, but the fact that they failed to secure Jadon Sancho, who might even start for Dortmund this season... I think they might seriously regret this oversight... instead of spending so much time, energy and manpower pretending that they were desperately trying to make big moves, they once again lost the plot due to their all too familiar tunnel vision

The Knicks came out firing against the Heat, even without Carmelo Anthony, and landed the biggest victory in Miami by a road team since LeBron, Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh assembled in South Beach.

Wisconsin won the rest of its regular season games, including victories over divisional contenders Nebraska and Minnesota, before being crushed, 59 - 0, by Ohio State in the Big Ten Championship Game.

Wenger Hasnt «Blown his last chance of winning anything because he NEVER had the chance, Im almost certain that the attitude is do nt aim too high (PL victory) because the fans expectations will be boosted (CL Victory) and that type of achievement costs money, BIG money and that is something that scares the Silver spooned, Merchant banking, elitist board more than ANYTHING ELSE on the planet (perhaps only eclipsed by the thought of a shady Uzbek millionaire owning thevictory) because the fans expectations will be boosted (CL Victory) and that type of achievement costs money, BIG money and that is something that scares the Silver spooned, Merchant banking, elitist board more than ANYTHING ELSE on the planet (perhaps only eclipsed by the thought of a shady Uzbek millionaire owning theVictory) and that type of achievement costs money, BIG money and that is something that scares the Silver spooned, Merchant banking, elitist board more than ANYTHING ELSE on the planet (perhaps only eclipsed by the thought of a shady Uzbek millionaire owning the club).

For Team Rijos — Many won't remember this Loss as they weren't expected to make it this far (or even close to this far really)-- what people will remember is their 2 Hoops Victories in the Opening Rounds highlighted by Randall «Mr. Big Shot» Pulfer's game winning 3 in 5OT to send 2012 Runners - Up Team Maione home early.

Villanova barely escaped Seton Hall in the semifinals but got a big late hoop by Josh Hart to seal the 55 - 53 victory.

Bayern's biggest victories this season had come over Hamburger by 8 - 0 goals and.

Yes, bigger, because this time we are playing a club, bestowed with success throughout its history, added to by last week's Carling Cup victory; unlike last week, where we had to show Spu * s, where they stand in the scheme of things.

In the big encounters this season, up against those expected to finish in the top - six, United have been very impressive as victories over Liverpool and Tottenham Hotspur, both at Old Trafford, as well as a 0 - 0 draw away to locals Man City, help give them the edge considering the Gunners failed to beat Liverpool at Anfield and were beaten by both Tottenham Hotspur at home and Chelsea away.

Despite their own lack of good form, Sevilla have the firepower to topple some of the world's biggest clubs as shown by their victory over Manchester United at Old Trafford last month.

1964 was a big one for another reason for Luis Suarez with victory in the 1964 European Championships, then called the European Nations Cup, with Spain, something La Roja wouldn't be able to match for another 40 years, with Luis Suarez being flown into Spain especially by the Spanish football Association from Milan whenever they had a game.

The Three Lionesses qualified for the semi-final stage of the European championship after they clinched a 1 - 0 victory over France which was watched by more than 3.3 million people — the biggest TV audience ever for women's football.

Owen Coyle will have no doubt hand - picked plenty of positives from a festive period which didn't exactly reap may rewards in terms of points, though even the potential manager of the season will have his fair share of concerns regarding his team's current frame of mind following ta three - match sequence without registering a win in the league, a run that probably wasn't remedied by a 2 - 0 FA Cup third - round victory over Conference side York City simply because it was scruffy and very fortuitous, not to mention required Coyle to draft in his big boys in the dyeing embers of the game.

The big negative for us is Tottenham's current away predicament in that their only away victory in all competitions since Christmas was their win at Elland Road against Leeds United in the previous round, although even that was by virtue of a replay.

Neil Warnock's men have won just two of their last eight games in all competitions, one of them a big 4 - 1 victory out at Mansfield in a replay after they were held at home by the League Two side 0 - 0.

I.e., yes, online social tools can be a big help for a nontraditional candidate (or one not favored by the political elite), but on their own they're no guarantee of victory.

The Democrats are predicting a big victory, assisted by a significant GOTV effort that, ironically, is being run with the assistance of the Working Families Party, putting it temporarily on the same side as Cuomo, whom it snubbed to endorse his Democratic primary opponent, actress Cynthia Nixon.

Add in the 11 seats won by the Conservatives in Wales, and the right would have taken 360 seats - an overall majority of 70, bigger than Blair's victory in 2005.

Progressive Democrats notched a big victory over their establishment counterparts in Pennsylvania's Democratic primary Tuesday as an insurgent candidate backed by Sen. Bernie Sanders (I., Vt.) upset the incumbent lieutenant governor.

It's showed up in terms of the number of people who do come to the polls and vote, but take a look at that race in Delaware, for instance, with Christine O'Donnell, and here's someone who got a big victory over a moderate Republican that was supported by the party structure.

His subsequent decision to stand as an independent, followed by his crushing victory over the New Labour machine still counts as the biggest strategic success for the Labour left in recent decades.

Grayson beat a little known Republican opponent by 25 points and touted his victory as «the biggest comeback in the history of the U.S. House of Representatives.»

So, after clinging on for a full five years Major goes to the polls, Smith wins with ease, presiding over a Labour majority of 150, an even bigger margin of victory than that achieved by Clement Attlee after World War II.

This is more than twice as big as the swing from Labour to the Conservatives in the 1978 Ilford North by - election (7 per cent), which preceded the Conservatives 1979 general election victory.

Those consultants recently circulated strategy memos explicitly warning that 2018 risks turning into an amplified version of 2006 — Democrats» last big midterm victory year — according to copies seen by POLITICO.

The Auburn Citizen looked at Helming's apparent victory in the Nozzolio seat, and found it was driven by big wins in Cayuga and Seneca counties.

But he added: «The victories we're about to achieve in November have not been earned by us, but rather given to us by an out - of - touch, big spending president.

One important conversation had already been check off by the time Mr. Cuomo got up this morning, however: He spoke last night with Sheldon Silver, the Assembly speaker and his biggest rival for power and influence in the Capitol, at the Democratic victory party at the Sheraton Hotel, aides to both men said.

The conference calls the ruling — which is going to be appealed by the Senate Republican plaintiffs, most likely — a «victory for democracy» but it's also a big win for them.

Ironically, Long is being advised by someone who is in a position to know just how difficult it is to take on the Schumer juggernaut: GOP consultant and businessman Jay Townsend, who lost big to the senator in 2010, handing him an easy third - term victory.

The victory by Doug Jones is big news but let's not get carried away.

While it doesn't look like comprehensive mandate relief is in the cards this year, local municipalities notched a big victory with the passage of a bill that will entirely shift payment for indigent legal services from the counties to the state by 2022.

NYC's Republican Mayor Bloomberg had a big victory, by a big margin, in November when Democrats were otherwise doing well in other places nationally.

Among Sanders» biggest margins were in the counties neighboring Vermont, including Clinton County, where he scored a 47 point victory, and Essex County by 46 points.

«I feel like it was a big victory,» said Harig, who was greeted by applause at the BTF celebration Tuesday night in the Pearl Street Grill & Brewery.