Sentences with phrase «death of a political career»

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In A Married Man (1979), the barrister (trial lawyer) John Strickland, after reading Tolstoy's The Death of Ivan Ilyich, feels that his life is becalmed and embarks upon both a love affair and a political career.

But perhaps unburdened by the death of Skelos» political career, sources are coming forward to offer more detailed accounts of what exactly happened in those critical years of 2013 and 2014 when campaign finance had one of it's best chances of actually getting approved in both houses.

So you can bounce between parties as much as you want in the United States until you decide to run for office... than you better be prepared to part with the party only on pain of death or (worse of an elected official) future political career.

There's also Chappaquiddick, a retelling of the 1969 car accident that almost ended the political career of Senator Ted Kennedy (Jason Clarke) and resulted in the death of his brother's former campaign worker Mary Jo Kopechne (Kate Mara).

In this fictional version of the end of his political career, Francois Mitterrand meets an ambitious young journalist named Antoine Moreau who draws the president into a conversation that soon evolves into a major discourse on life, death, politics and morality.

The only one of the children to escape virtually unscathed from the death of the family patriarch was More's daughter Elizabeth, whose husband William Dauncey's political career continued smoothly.