Sentences with phrase «election defeat came»

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The lawyer also claimed in the letter that the timing of the Times article, coming less than a month before Election Day, is evidence that the report «is nothing more than a politically - motivated effort to defeat Mr. Trump's candidacy.»

The layoffs in Halifax come at an awkward time for the province, which witnessed the defeat of its NDP government in a provincial election Tuesday.

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.

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

States and consumer groups say coming state elections could give opponents of the scheme the numbers to defeat it

I was eating nachos when the presidential election results came in and now they only taste of bitter defeat to me.

``... 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.»

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.»

Tom Harris admits that Labour will be defeated in the up and coming general election?

By throwing his support to Jack Davis, he's hoping to give enough of an edge to Hochul to win the special; then, he expects he'll come back for the 2012 regular election and defeat her.

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.

The immediate past National Chairman of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Dr Kwabena Adjei has stated the party's defeat in the 2016 general elections did not come as a surprise to him as he knew the New Patriotic Party (NPP) would win.

In the opinion of CADA, election threats come in different forms and may include intimidation, registering minors and foreigners, multiple registration, etc. during voter registration exercise or targeting of election officials, intimidation or harassment of journalists, incitement to violence in the media or public, protecting, expanding, or delineating turf or «no - go areas», attacks on election rallies or candidates, intimidation of voters to compel them to vote or stay away, physical attacks on election materials such as snatching and destruction of ballot boxes, armed clashes among political parties, violent clashes among groups of rival supporters, vandalism and physical attacks on property of opponents, targeted attacks against specific candidates or political parties, attacks on rivals who have either won in elections or were defeated, violent street protests and efforts by armed police to maintain or restore order, tear gas, firing on protestors, attacks by protestors on property or the police, escalation and perpetuation of ethnic or sectarian violence.

Hoffman, running on the Conservative Party line in a special election last year, came within 4,000 votes of defeating Owens after Republican Dede Scozzafava dropped out of the race on the weekend before Electelection last year, came within 4,000 votes of defeating Owens after Republican Dede Scozzafava dropped out of the race on the weekend before ElectionElection Day.

Former President Mahama is coming off the worst election defeat of a sitting president in Ghana's democracy, where he recorded 44.40 percent of valid votes cast, losing to the New Patriotic Party's Nana Akufo - Addo, who was endorsed by 53.85 percent of the electorate.

After the election defeat of 1992 a whole generation of Labour figures, who were to rise to prominence in the New Labour era from 1994 onwards, concluded that victory would only come if an intense and unyielding discipline on language and behaviour were maintained.

The coming power struggle pits the neoliberal capitalist class — big business and the banks with their friends in the media and their governing allies in the Tory party — against a weakened Labour party pushed on the back foot by a big election defeat and a trade union movement still hamstrung by Thatcher's legal minefield.

(CNN)-- Sharron Angle, the Tea Party - backed underdog who in last year's midterm election came close to defeating Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, may be setting her sights on another high profile political job.

After defeating the G.O.P.'s preferred candidate, a former congressman named Rick Lazio who, like Skelos, comes from Long Island, Buffalo businessman Carl Paladino carried a dozen of New York's 62 counties in the November general election, most of them in his home base of Western New York.

[26] Suffering mass electoral defeat at the local elections, in London, Labour lost 15 boroughs, including Livingstone's London Borough of Lambeth, which came under Conservative control.

Defeat came as a shock to the highly complacent local Labour Party, which had expected to sail to victory in Bradford as it had done in all the previous elections there.

Another election like 1994, when Pataki, a state senator, came out of the woodwork to narrowly defeat a hugely unpopular Mario Cuomo, represents a stretch, but not an impossibility.

His comments come after fellow Labour MP John Mann appeared to lay the blame for election defeat squarely at the leader's door...

Cuomo's take on the election comes as liberals and progressive advocates are blaming the governor for Democratic defeats in state Senate and congressional races.

Abbott's comments come as Ed Miliband comes under pressure to take a «tougher» line on immigration following the party's near defeat in the Heywood and Middleton by - election.

Even before the Professor Kwesi Botchway - led committee comes out with its findings on the root causes of the party's defeat in the 2016 elections, it is an open fact that one of the key reasons for our loss was as a result of the failure of the party to deploy logistics and resources to the grounds for members to undertake effective campaigning.

Not about headline - grabbing policy defeats at the hands of the party grassroots — carefully constructed compromises had been hammered out in advance — or about any last - minute tilt at unseating Nick Clegg; even those unhappiest with his leadership have come to accept he'll lead the party into the May 2015 general election.

We have previously supported Taitt, a college instructor, who came close to defeating the incumbent in the last election.

It comes after a bitterly - fought campaign against Welshman Mr Smith, who claimed the sitting leader would lead Labour to an election defeat.

Coming off its comprehensive defeat in the 2016 elections, Mr. Rawlings said a cleanup and the «restoration of our integrity» is paramount.

John Mahama's comments came as the country marked a year following the 2016 general elections which saw the NDC lose power in what is widely seen as the worst defeat for a sitting President in Ghana's history.

[5][6] Three of the Conservative gains came at the expense of the Liberal Democrats who dropped to four seats on the council, [5][6] with the Liberal Democrat group leader Richard Andrews in Eynsham and Cassington being one of those who were defeated at the election.

Idleman said she has come to know Cobb and believes the former St. Lawrence County lawmaker is the best candidate to win the nomination and defeat Rep. Elise Stefanik (R - Willsboro) in the general election.

Bradley stood for the SDP at the election, but it was the Conservative candidate Peter Bruinvels who defeated Hewitt, who came second, by just 933 votes.

Mr Farage's comments came as Nick Clegg claimed Ukip exploited the same «politics of blame» as France's far - Right National Front, which inflicted heavy defeats on the ruling socialists in local elections at the weekend.

Hoffman, a Lake Placid accountant, made his first run for public office last year and came within 4,000 votes of defeating U.S. Rep. Bill Owens, D - Plattsburgh, in a three - way special election.

«We want him to come and continue because we want to defeat President Muhammadu Buhari in the 2019 election and not anybody else.»

The nod comes after Meng defeated Assemblyman Rory Lancman in June's democratic primary election.

Rawlings» outburst comes on the back of a call by a diplomat in the Mahama administration and a failed parliamentary candidate for Abuakwa North, Victor Smith, who believes that an overhaul of the NDC's executive structure is non-negotiable following the party's overwhelming defeat in the 2016 elections.

In 2006, Baldeo came within 800 votes of defeating Maltese in a close election that shocked the borough's political establishment.

They will not be serious with realpolitik thinking grassroot now, when election come again Fayose will defeat them again.

«As somebody who came into politics with the sole motivation of making life better for my city, my region and, by extension the country as a whole, I recognised that our election defeats in both 2010 and 2015 required a genuine and profound response from the Labour party,» the Newcastle North MP writes.

May 18, 2018 • The pre-dawn raid on a condominium belonging to former Prime Minister Najib Razak, who was defeated in last week's elections, comes in connection with a long - running corruption scandal.

Media Contact: Justin Pauly, Director of Communications, 770-962-6848, [email protected] November 9, 2016 — The 2016 elections have come to a close and among the many items that were on the ballot Georgia overwhelmingly defeated Amendment 1 / Opportunity School District with 60 % of the vote.

So, having defeated Al Gore in what the Democrats still insist was a stolen election, we have come full circle to George W. introducing legislation to lock into place the bogus theory of global warming, insuring that, as the Earth gives every sign of entering a cooling cycle, we shall continue to destroy the economy by reducing «greenhouse gas» emissions.

This relationship prompted criticism from some First Nations, and contributed to his defeat in the Assembly of First Nations (AFN) elections of 2000 by Matthew Coon Come, who adopted a more confrontational approach.

Furthermore, according to publicly available information, the Trump campaign was no longer using Cambridge Analytica as a «consultant» by the time of the general election, so while the manipulation of the private data of millions of voters goes a long way toward explaining how the general election came down to Trump and Clinton, it had no impact whatsoever on Trump's electoral victory or Clinton's embarrassing defeat.