Sentences with phrase «election over their failure»

Labor had to go through with it no matter how unpopular only because of the drubbing they received at the last election over their failure to follow through with their first plan they ballyhooed at the 2007 election that initially brought them in.

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The failure of coalition talks is unprecedented in Germany's post-war history, and was likened by newsmagazine Der Spiegel to the shock election of U.S. President Donald Trump or Britain's referendum vote to leave the EU - moments when countries cast aside reputations for stability built up over decades.

If my proxy solicitation results in Mr. Hagenbuch's failure to receive over 50 % of the votes cast for his election, then I believe the failure of the board to accept his resignation would be an egregious violation of proper corporate governance and in direct opposition to a clear shareholder directive.

It was their failure to win over these people that cost them an overall majority at the last election.

But the failure to deal with this perception allowed it to become entrenched — leaving Labour to play catch - up in the final weeks of the election campaign, with big questions of credibility still hovering over it.

There is no doubt that Labour's failure to win over enough voters in Middle England marginal constituencies cost it the election, and it is equally true that Tony Blair's New Labour project was successful in this regard in the 1990s and 2000s.

«They said their plan would balance the books by the next election, but their failure on growth and jobs means the deficit is now set to be over # 90 billion in 2015,» he commented.

Flanagan's statement was a scathing, if unsurprising, reminder that de Blasio's control over 1,800 New York City schools is largely dependent on a group of Senate Republicans that have seemed to encourage his political failure at every turn after the mayor tried and failed to unseat the Senate's Republican majority in the 2014 elections.

New York State Board of Elections officials received a verbal drubbing from commissioners on Gov. Andrew Cuomo's anti-corruption commission, during a lengthy hearing over their failure to pursue complaints about campaign violations during the past several years.

He was election campaign manager for the Tories and, like Cameron, could yet face a backlash over the party's failure to secure a majority.

State Board of Elections officials received a verbal drubbing from commissioners on New York State Governor Andrew Cuomo's anti-corruption commission during a lengthy hearing over their failure to pursue complaints about campaign violations during the past several years.

These two facts suggest that a new factor has been added to those which have destabilised the Party over the past 25 years or so (namely, the failure to win an election since 1992, divisions over the EU, and leadership election rules that encourage secrecy and cowardice: no wonder these have taken place at a rate of one every three years or so).

Security operatives at the Presidential Villa were said to have denied Sylva access to the President who is said to be unhappy over the security failures and loss of lives during the Bayelsa Governorship election.

The angry youth, known as the Party Royals, besieged a Pentecost Church where the election was taking place, and assaulted some Assembly Members, supposedly over their failure to vote for...

It was the Conservatives» failure to win these people over that cost them a majority at the last election.

Hawkins also said that Republican Astorino was being hypocritical for chiding Cuomo's over his failure to debate his challengers during the Democratic primary while he himself refuses to debate his challenges in the general election and holds a «debate» with only one of the challengers in the Democratic Party primary.

The Akwa Ibom state Liaison office in Abuja has been locked down by protesters over the alleged failure of Governor Godswill Akpabio to fulfill his promise to pay each staff N50, 000 for travelling home to vote for the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in the recent general elections.

Given that failure and his earlier defeat to Sadiq Khan in the London mayoral election, many thought Goldsmith's political career could be over.

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I'd quite agree that its relative bad performance compared to the early years was spun as failure, and that was what mattered in the election, but the economy then did worse when the next lot took over.

The failure over the years to systematically and consistently enforce sanctions against individuals who flout established laws during elections has encouraged the impunity and violence that often characterize electoral contest in Nigeria, Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof Mahmood Yakubu has said.

«Labour restores relations with extremist Muslim Council of Britain in time for General Election Main Tory frontbencher Greg Hands demands explanation from Gordon Brown over his failure to declare secret fund in Register of Interests»

Failure to predict Brexit and Trump has created a crisis for the polling industry, but actually errors in election polls have stayed the same over the past 75 years

Beneath the mudslinging and big money that dominated this week's school board elections, a serious battle is being waged over competing visions of local education: one sees progress and the need for stability; another sees failure and prescribes radical change.

Before the election David Cameron pledged to open 500 more over the next Parliament but high - profile failures, such as Durham Free School and Discovery New School, were both closed within an academic year.

The increase in gold premiums in China over spot gold prices in recent months may indicate Chinese investor anxiety over the election of Donald Trump or coincidently growing nervousness within China over the fragility of its financial system that is being tested with failures in the shadow banking sector.