Sentences with phrase «election defeats between»

If the Right of the Tory Party think that the Party is losing the battle of ideas because it is insufficiently Right - wing, the the eight years of modernisation under Cameron and the three election defeats between 1997 and 2005 has been lost on them.

Not exact matches

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.

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.

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.

There is no dividing line between local election leads before a victory and those that preceded defeat.

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.

After its defeat in the 1979 general election the Labour Party underwent a period of internal rivalry between the left represented by Tony Benn, and the right represented by Denis Healey.

In a tight election, it could make all the difference between victory and defeat.

The near - defeat of the microstamping bill yesterday may very well signal the end of the long — and lucrative - relationship between Mayor Bloomberg and the Senate Republicans in a crucial election year when the minority can ill - afford to lose the billionaire mayor's financial support.

In between the last election and this one he had run an appalling Islamophobic campaign to be London mayor before being roundly and humiliatingly defeated, with even members of his own family publicly disassociating themselves from it.

The 13 - member Kwesi Botchway committee set up by the National Democratic Congress (NDC) to probe the party's election 2016 defeat, cited rifts between Parliamentary candidates and constituency executives as a major failing, according to the NDC MP for Odododiodioo, Nii Lante Vanderpuye.

How conflicts are resolved between these different bodies of opinion, each with different claims to legitimacy, will determine how well Labour recovers from the trauma of the general election defeat, with consequences for all those people who look to the party to create a fairer and more just society.

After an election, a prime minister in office might well wait until parliament met and only resign once defeated in the Commons, which is one reason why every government between 1837 and 1874 fell following a Commons vote.

That defeat created serious divisions between him and Mr. George, who eventually went on to win the elections.

She did very little fundraising between the November 2010 election, in which she easily defeated her GOP opponent, former Rep. Joe DioGuardi, and the end of the year, bringing in just $ 19,634 while spending just short of $ 290,000.

But in close elections, they can mean the difference between victory and defeat.

It admits that the overall increase of 25 in the coalition's number of working peers, compared to Labour's extra five, will reduce the number of defeats Labour is likely to be able to inflict between now and the next election.

Between the primary and general election, just two of the approximately 95 legislators in both chambers who supported school choice were defeated.

Lord Bach held a succession of ministerial posts while Labour were in government between 1998, when he was created a life peer, and leaving office after the general election defeat in May 2010.