Sentences with phrase «election defeat with»

The Conservatives are heading to a crushing election defeat with only 31 % support according to a YouGov poll for the Sun and the Sunday Times.

Not exact matches

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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.

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.

Three months later, after the Meighen government was defeated in the House and another general election took place, King and the Liberals were returned with a majority.

With the French election ending in the defeat of Le Pen, one more risk factor has been removed from the table and low volatility has returned.

Additionally, the election coincided with a provincial referendum on electoral reform, in which the proposed change to a BC - STV system of electing representatives was defeated.

Despite the rough first year, Premier Redford's Tories still have at least three years left until the next election to fulfill the promises made and mend fences with the bloc of moderate voters who saved their party from defeat one year ago today.

With the defeat of the Conservatives, and the election of a new government in October 2015, we were led to believe that these concerns would finally be taken seriously, and that the text could be amended.

Plus, Special Counsel Robert Mueller charges 13 Russians with interfering in the 2016 presidential election to help Donald Trump defeat Hillary Clinton.

After Jimmy Carter defeated Jackson for the 1976 Democratic presidential nomination and bested President Ford in the subsequent general election, the Carter administration adopted the language of an assertive human - rights policy but filled it with New Left content, aiming its criticism primarily at authoritarian American allies rather than at America's totalitarian enemies.

If there is enough reaction to defeat the present administration in the 2004 elections, the probability is that the result will be a return to the less blatant imperialism of the recent past and greater willingness to work with our allies.

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.

When the Australian Federal Labor government was defeated in national elections in March, the incoming Liberals replaced the two Federal Labor members of SOCOG with their own nominees.

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.

The party's 400,000 selectorate, an incredible half of whom signed up for a vote since May's crushing election defeat, must decide whether to Stick with Andy Burnham and Yvette Cooper or Twist with Jeremy Corbyn or Liz Kendall.

With days to go until the run - off election, Alvarado Quesada is frantically trying to cobble together an alliance strong enough to defeat his opponent.

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.

In both instances their party was left to simultaneously cope with a catastrophic election defeat, the search for a new leader and the search for an explanation for their electoral failure.

The Democratic Senate Campaign Committee reported $ 191,283 in cash on hand after spending heavily in the special election, which ended with Democrat Todd Kaminsky defeating Republican candidate Chris McGrath last month.

Fidler has insisted he will be running for re-election — assuming he defeats his GOP special election opponent, David Storobin — regardless of what ultimately hapens with the lines.

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.

Golden defeated Gentile in 2002 with the help of nearly $ 4 million from the Senate GOP, and Gentile, who spent about half a million dollars on his Senate campaign, subsequently won a special election for the NYC Council seat Golden vacated to move up to the Senate.

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By contrast, Yvette Cooper, Andy Burnham and Liz Kendall — the three «real» contenders of Labour's leadership election — struggled to find points of disagreement between themselves, and none of them explained with clarity their analysis of the causes of Labour's catastrophic defeat.

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.

A TV debate would create an unneeded association with the General Election, it would prolong contemplation on that defeat and appear reflexive rather than reflective.

This has combined together with a fatalism that has descended on the party after its May election defeat.

Optimistic partisans digging through the data have even found reason to cheer some of the special election defeats: In one of the Democratic losses, a race for a Connecticut seat held by Republicans for more than a century, the GOP candidate won by 10 percentage points, compared with a 22 - point GOP victory margin in an election for the same seat just three months earlier.

With a General Election looming, the Labour government was unable to reverse that defeat in the Commons.

With barely a year since John Dramani Mahama lost the 2016 elections, there has been heated debates from both sides of the political divide over whether or not the defeated president will consider contesting the 2020 presidential race.

In ancient times, the death of a leader in battle would mean slavery or worse for the defeated side; likewise, in a presidential - style election battle if Cameron were caught with his trousers down, or suffered a catastrophic failure in authority, there are 303 Conservative MPs whose careers depend on him.

Clinton's upcoming book will double down on Russia's interference and James Comey's involvement in her stunning election defeat, according to sources familiar with the memoir.

Needless to say, Buhari never accepted defeat nor congratulated anyone who defeated him in an election but was indirectly associated with post electoral violence.

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.

ALBANY All seven Democratic candidates seeking to defeat Rep. Elise Stefanik (R - Willsboro) have met the deadline to file petitions with the state Board of Elections.

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These departures will result in a less experienced House for the 116th Congress, and if they are coupled with a wave of defeats in the November elections, it could leave the chamber at a level of inexperience not seen since the 1990s, according to a Roll Call analysis of tenure and election data.

He was bracketed with Joseph Malone, III (R) and defeated Democratic challengers John Kocubinski and William Spedding in the November 3, 2009, general election.

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.

For God's sake, how can a man who has never defeated the governor and his party in any election in the Senatorial District be credited with helping Aregbesola to win the 2014 governorship election?

He urged them to forget the defeat in the 2016 elections, so that they could press on and achieve success with the party.

«Ultimately, their smear campaign allowed them to defeat the last Republican who voted for marriage equality and gun safety, replacing him with Senator - elect Panepinto, who was convicted of election fraud a few years ago,» the memo says, referring to a 13 - year - old case.

[2] In the general election, Dilan won the seat with 87 % and defeated three third party candidates.

But in the wake of a disastrous general election defeat, and with a huge rebuilding job to be done for Labour to stand any chance in the 2020 election, it seems now is not the time for platitudes.

Labour's real problem is that Ukip might establish itself as the clear challenger in dozens of Labour seats across the North, with a chance of squeezing the residual Tory and Lib Dem votes in 2020, and defeating a number of Labour MPs in that election.

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.

«I don't think we have enough guidance counselors to deal with this,» UFT President Michael Mulgrew said of the disappointment following Hillary Clinton's defeat to Donald Trump in the presidential election.