Sentences with phrase «election upstaged»
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The opposition Wildrose had hoped to win at least two of the by - elections, but were upstaged by the NDP in Edmonton - Whitemud and an insurgent Alberta Party in Calgary - Elbow.
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Just weeks after Haruhiko Kuroda, governor of the Bank of Japan, surprised the world with a bold plan to inflate Japanese assets and weaken the Japanese yen by buying 80 trillion yen ($ 680 billion) in Japanese bonds, exchange - traded funds and real estate investment trusts, prime minister Shinzō Abe upstaged him by calling a snap election for mid-December, two years ahead of schedule.
Cunningham had been upstaged by the OMRLP on the night of her victory at the ill - tempered Perth & Kinross by - election due to the death of Sir Nicholas Fairbairn.