Sentences with phrase «election defeat as»

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.

Not exact matches

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.

He lost a presidential election in 2005 to hardline Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the little - known mayor of Tehran at the time, a defeat that indicated resentment toward Rafsanjani as part of the elite and the perception he served few interests other than his own.

«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.»

Deep Root Analytics, a conservative data firm contracted by the RNC as part of a push to ramp up its voter - analytics operation in the wake of Mitt Romney's defeat in the 2012 presidential election, stored details of about 61 % of the US population on an Amazon cloud server without password protection for those two weeks.

«By contrast, federal tax law permits 501 (c)(4) organizations to spend money advocating the election or defeat of candidates, so long as such activity isn't the 501 (c)(4) organization's «primary» activity.

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.

But in November 2005, the three opposition parties combined in the House of Commons to defeat Martin's minority, as each calculated that a general election would strengthen their caucuses.

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. Shariff was first elected as the MLA for Calgary - McCall in a 1995 by - election and served until he was defeated by Liberal Darshan Kang in 2008.

He first ran for the PC Party in 1993, first in an unsuccessfully bid for the party nomination in Edmonton - Glenora and then as the PC candidate in Edmonton - Highlands - Beverly (in the election he was defeated by his Liberal opponent, Alice Hanson).

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.

Indeed, I still remember as a teenager being delighted and relieved at his defeat in the 1983 Bermondsey by - election.

These new devotees of evangelism are imperialistic, attacking those who deviate as secular humanists (read pagans) and demanding conformity of its adherents under pain of excommunication (read being targeted for defeat in the next election).

in which Wright badly mischaracterizes the response of the United States to the September 11th attacks, as well as the views of President Bush and then - Prime Minister Tony Blair, declared that the 2006 mid-term elections was an example of God «calling to account those who abuse powers,» showed a disturbing tendency toward moral equivalence between jihadists and those who are fighting to defeat them, and directed virtually all of his scorn against the United States and Great Britain rather than al Qaeda, the Taliban, and the regime of Saddam Hussein.

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.

Victories don't always come through political elections; sometimes, as has been said of John Ford movies, we may achieve «victory through defeat.»

Despite CNN's best efforts as the voice of the democrat party Obama will be defeated in the presidential elections.

A reader forwarded a photo of a mailer Becker sent out recently, in which he touts his endorsement by the New York Times and also puts himself forward as the «strongest Democrat to defeat Tea Party extremist (Rep.) Nan Hayworth» in the November general election.

``... I think the election defeat is a useful lesson that we have learned as a party and many of the elders and senior members of the party have come to me to say that if they had listened to my early signals about the way things were going, we might not have been in opposition.»

As Maggie Haberman reports, de Blasio has had discussions in recent weeks with Google on the heels of his successful effort to get Goldman Sachs to agree not to spend on political ads in this election cycle — even though a recent US Supreme Court decision allows corporations to drop unlimited amounts of cash to try to elect of defeat candidates running for federal office.

According to an article written by several people at Pew Research, «The results of Tuesday's presidential election came as a surprise to nearly everyone who had been following the national and state election polling, which consistently projected Hillary Clinton as defeating Donald Trump.»

The parliamentary tactic reflects David Cameron's effort to prevent any more Commons defeats ahead of the general election, as he desperately tries to present the image of a united party.

The defeat of Hillary Clinton and the election of Donald Trump, whether there is Kompromat on him or not, whether he is an innocent man or not, a useful idiot or the Manchurian candidate personified, is currently being perceived as another remarkable Russian triumph as the Kremlin again rewrites the rules of conflict.

As Bruno writes, «an election fought (and even won) on the Tories» terms is in a very real sense also a defeat».

We'll see whether the trend can survive the inevitable defeats that groups will endure, since not EVERYONE can win an election — donors may drift away if they don't see their work as effective.

Then, in January 2010, with the general election just four months away and Labour heading for a seemingly inevitable defeat, Geoff Hoon and Patricia Hewitt launched a desperate — and widely - viewed as hopeless — plot to unseat the PM before the country went to the polls.

Miliband was portrayed during Labour's 2015 election campaign as being genuine in his desire to improve the lives of working people and to display progression from New Labour, but was unable to defeat interpretations of him as being ineffectual, or even cartoonish in nature.

My Relationship With Buhari As former President Goodluck Jonathan prepares to give his own account of his historic defeat in the 2015 presidential election, more...

I bring you Larry, the No 10 cat, as evidence that David Cameron was braced for election defeat.

Following Labour's defeat by the Conservative Party at the 2015 general election, Miliband announced his resignation as leader on 8 May 2015.

Perhaps the Social Liberal Forum should see this as an opportunity to defeat the leadership and ensure we have Social Liberal Policies in the run up to the next general election.

Once touted as top recruits, these House and Senate candidates are headed for defeat on Election Day in all likelihood.

This was a reference to the events of late July and early August 2008 which followed Labour's defeat to the Scottish National Party in the Glasgow East by - election when, with a demoralised Gordon Brown on holiday in Suffolk, with Labour as many as 25 points behind in the polls, and with MPs insurgent and openly discussing a leadership challenge, Miliband made his move.

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.

The regulations cover express advocacy, such as ads that call directly for the election or defeat of a candidate, as wells as issue ads broadcast close to an election.

Daasebre Darko added that President Mahama has been ordained by God as a leader of the country and should not be afraid of a defeat in next year's election.

Taking the responsibility for the NDC's defeat in the 2016 elections, Mahama said: «Of course as the general who led us into battle, I take ultimate responsibility for our losing the election and so if it will satisfy those people, blame me for the loss.»

Gbese Mantse Nii Ayi - Bonte II, preceding the December 7 polls swore that he will renounce his stool if the outgoing President John Dramani Mahama is defeated in the elections irrespective of the fact that traditional rulers are not to participate in partisan politics as clarified in the 1992 constitution of Ghana.

He was chosen as the NPP's candidate for a third time in the 2016 elections and defeated Mahama in the first round (winning 53.85 % of the votes.

(As you'll recall, the two Democrats are slugging it out for the seat of former Assemblyman Jose Peralta, who defeated Monserrate in a March special election for the seat from which he was ousted by his former colleagues).

Marty Connor, an ex-Brooklyn state senator who was defeated nine years ago, is now considering running for the seat he once held, pitching himself as a «placeholder» until the 2018 election.

The deficit declaration may be dismissed as unwisely late by critics (my own doubts focus on the lack of ambition of shoestring socialism) yet it deflects Tory attacks in an election where 1 % this way or that might be the difference between victory and defeat.

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.

Donovan was selected by Republican leaders as the party's nominee in the resulting May 2015 special election, defeating Democratic Council Member Vinnie Gentile, and was elected to a full term in November 2016.

As former President Goodluck Jonathan prepares to give his own account of his historic defeat in the 2015 presidential election, more insiders are coming forward with their version of what happened.

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.

Their defeats in the election call into question their strategies and as is usually the case these days, when that happens, the person at the top pays the price.