Sentences with phrase «election defeat by»

By the end of the session, Labour MPs had reverted to open mockery of the Lib Dem leader, with the party's recent by - election defeat by the Bus Pass Elvis party, a repeated source of jokes.

Richard Milhous Nixon bounced back from election defeats by parlaying his legal career in New York City into a platform for the 1968 election, which he won as the Republican candidate.

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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.

So they forced an election they couldn't possibly win by defeating the Conservatives on a confidence vote in Parliament — and gave Prime Minister Stephen Harper something he couldn't get without their invaluable help — a majority government with no chance of being defeated for four years.

After he was defeated in the 2015 federal election, Dykstra ran for the presidency of the Ontario Progressive Conservatives, winning by acclamation after his friend Brown brokered a deal where the other candidate, Jag Badwal, withdrew.

By Eli Yokley Top Stories Debbie Lesko (R) defeated Democrat Hiral Tipirneni in a special election in Arizona's 8th District to fill the vacancy left by Republican Trent Franks, who resigned in December over sexual misconduct allegationBy Eli Yokley Top Stories Debbie Lesko (R) defeated Democrat Hiral Tipirneni in a special election in Arizona's 8th District to fill the vacancy left by Republican Trent Franks, who resigned in December over sexual misconduct allegationby Republican Trent Franks, who resigned in December over sexual misconduct allegations.

Quebec had suffered a blow in the 1917 election, when the Laurier had been defeated by the Union government.

MacDonald was defeated in the 1993 election by PC candidate Carol Haley.

Mr. Scott narrowly defeated Wildrose candidate and former Wood Buffalo mayor Doug Faulkner by 470 votes in the 2012 election.

Paul Hinman, who was narrowly elected in a 2009 by - election was soundly defeated by PC candidate Linda Johnson in Calgary - Glenmore.

During the nomination race, Edmonton - McClung PC MLA David Xiao was disqualified from the contest by the Conservative Party National Council (Mr. Xiao was defeated in this month's provincial election).

In an October 2014 by - election, Mr. Clark placed a strong second and came within 800 votes of defeating appointed Progressive Conservative Education Minister Gordon Dirks.

Mr. Nelson was his party's candidate in Calgary - Bow in the 2015 election and was defeated by New Democrat Deborah Drever.

-- Two - term MLA Tony Abbott was defeated for the PC nomination in Drayton Valley - Calmar by then - Drayton Valley mayor Diana McQueen before the 2008 election.

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).

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.

Analyzing the cases over the last six years in which competitive elections for the council resulted in dissidents defeating the nominees proposed by the nominating committee, Lupia generated a table, which he read in full, that bears close study.

Oregon has been a major battleground for this issue: a ballot measure sharply restricting homosexual rights lost heavily in 1992; a scaled - down version was defeated by several percentage points in this election.

The defeat of an incumbent President, the election of the first «baby boomer» by a slim plurality, and the extraordinary campaign of an independent candidate are only the more obvious reasons for the special attention that 1992 is likely to be paid in the history books.

If, for example, evil has been defeated from the very outset, and human history has already been secured by God in election, does this not render history a mere process by which God can effect the inevitable triumph of his grace, with human beings little more than the passive beneficiaries of his boundless and irresistible good will and grace?

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.

He wore a shirt which bore the phrase: «It's not my fault, I voted for Aécio», a reference to Senator Aécio Neves who was defeated by Dilma in presidential elections last October.

The proposal was put to a referendum and was soundly defeated in a campaign led by Gould, whose efforts won her election to the park board in 1993 in a special election.

In another closely watched election in Lake County, voters in Gurnee defeated by nearly a 2 - 1 ratio a referendum proposal that would have dissolved the village «s park district.

Conservatives are now throwing everything at defeating Reckless in the upcoming by - election, in a bid to stem the flow of Tory MPs willing to switch to Ukip.

Unlike with Castro, whom the feds allowed to stand for election three times, knowing all the while he was 1) a crook, and 2) splitting his time between representing his constituents and trying to catch fellow crooked colleagues in the act; Huntley only ran for re-election once, and was defeated in a primary by former NYC Councilman - turned - Sen.

These political challenges were not countered within the political process (ie, by defeating the challengers in elections, and so on) but by circumventing the rule of law to prosecute the oligarchs for fabricated crimes.

The 455 - page Report by the Professor Botchwey Committee that probed the National Democratic Congress 2016 election defeat must be of great value to the New Patriotic Party because the party is not «immunized» against the issues spelt out by the committee.

A third «no», Sen. Bill Stachowski, was defeated by a «yes», Erie County Legislator Tim Kennedy, in the Sept. 14 primary, but he remains on the general election ballot on the Independence and WFP lines.

He said that in 2010, too, and the three - way GOP battle to take on Gillibrand, which was eventually won by former Rep. Joe DioGuardi, didn't help the Republicans defeat Gillibrand, who sailed to her first statewide victory in the general election.

Both districts were only slightly altered by redistricting from the 2010 elections, when Ball won by a little bit more than 2100 votes, and Oppenheimer defeated Cohen by roughly 700 votes.

Nana Akufo - Addo and his lackeys sensing another excruciating defeat in the upcoming November elections have resorted to the beatings of war drums, preparing the minds of their supporters to arm them to resist what they say are «plots by Chairperson of the Electoral Commission, Madam Charlotte Osei to rig the impending election for sitting President John Mahama.»

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.

His endorsement of Turner isn't too terribly surprising, since he backed the Queens businessman in last year's NY - 9 special election in which Turner stunned the political establishment by defeating Democratic Assemblyman David Weprin.

In 2010, Oppenheimer defeated Cohen by roughly 500 votes in one of the closest elections in the state.

MPs have defeated William Hague's «grubby» attack on John Bercow by blocking a move to introduce secret ballots on Speaker elections.

Just hours after his candidate, Jane Corwin, was bitterly defeated by Kathy Hochul in a Special Congressional Election in 2011, many within his own party were calling for Langworthy's head.

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.»

Mr President, the desperation so far exhibited by your person and your government in manipulating sensitive agencies of state like the judiciary and now the electoral commission to further your bid to win the 2020 election is totally against the spirit of democracy and peace bestowed by the NDC in conceding defeat at the Presidential election.

Kenya goes to the polls in closely contested election — in pictures View gallery Odinga supporters interviewed by the Guardian in recent days said their leader had been robbed of victory in the last two elections, but that they would not take to the streets if they believed they had been fairly defeated this time.

Clinton left no doubt that she believes Russia contributed to her defeat by interfering in the election, condemning what she called Moscow's «weaponization of information.»

Kaminsky won the seat vacated by former Republican Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos, who was also convicted on federal corruption, in a special election last April, defeating McGrath.

The 145th AD special election has turned into a redux of sorts of the 2010 gubernatorial campaign, pitting a Democrat backed by Gov. Andrew Cuomo against a fellow Democrat (running on the GOP line) supported by Cuomo's defeated foe, Buffalo businessman Carl Paladino.

While the government could engineer its own defeat by instructing its MPs to pass a motion of no confidence in their own cabinet, that defeat would not be sufficient to bring about an election.

Odinga's claims of rigging after defeat in the 2007 elections prompted rioting and retaliation by security forces, which tipped the country into its worst crisis for decades.

According to FEC records, Becker, a cardiologist, gave $ 800 to then - GOP Rep. Sue Kelly in November 2005 when she was headed into what turned out to be a disastrous (from her perspective) election cycle in which she was defeated in a narrow race by Democrat John Hall.

Former Minister of State for Works, Prince Dayo Adeyeye, who was defeated by Ekiti State Deputy Governor at the Peoples Democratic Party primary election has dumped the ruling Party in the state