Sentences with phrase «election year win»

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In November 2008, an election year that swept a barrier - breaking dynamo of the opposite party into the White House and pumped Democratic numbers in the chamber to 59 (and soon after, a filibuster - proof 60), McConnell barely eked out a win.

Since her father won last year's presidential election, the First Daughter's company has filed trademark requests with U.S. officials for branded lingerie, lounge wear and athletic apparel, Bloomberg reported this week.

In the 2016 election cycle, the average winning Senate candidate had spent $ 10.4 million through October 19 of that year, according to the Center for Responsive Politics.

But unlike Adams, who died several years before the 1825 election of John Quincy Adams, Bush saw her son run, and win.

Democrats said Republican leaders, flexing their new political muscle after big wins in the midterm elections that will give them control of both chambers of Congress next year, had gone too far in trying to roll back Dodd - Frank.

It has been a year since Prime Minister Justin Trudeau won the election, and the economy still sucks.

Fears that Democratic candidate Hilary Clinton would win the election and limit gun sales led to record purchases last year, but Trump's surprise victory has had a reverse effect, with 2017 sales falling and investors selling gunmaker shares.

His quick acceptance of the results eased tensions in the volatile nation where the latest presidential election, in 2013, narrowly won by Maduro, was bitterly disputed and where anti-government protests last year led to 43 deaths.

The left - wing organisation was only founded two years ago, but managed to win 21 % of the vote and come third in Spain's 2015 parliamentary elections.

Republican leaders have scrambled to push through major tax changes and earn a legislative win ahead of next year's midterm elections.

He predicted two years ago that Hillary Clinton would both run for the presidency and win, and he never lost faith in that prospect until Election Night.

While it remains to be seen whether Jones's win will lead to the same, Democrats appear to have every reason to be optimistic about what next year's elections hold.

Most importantly, the pro-democracy forces must win enough seats in the Legco in next year's elections to show that their cause is alive and well.

If Sanders, now 74, retires from politics at the end of his current Senate term two years from now, without having won the presidential election, he will be able to collect an annual pension of $ 71,340, MONEY calculated using the current Congressional pension formula.

He lost his bid to replace Harris as party leader in 2002, his seat in the 2003 provincial election, his bid for the leadership of the Conservative party in 2004 and his first attempt to win a federal seat later the same year.

The party made notable gains in last year's regional elections including in Tuscany where it won 20 % of the vote.

The Bud Light campaign, which leaned on a political theme in a presidential election year, in particular won high praise from the Wall Street Journal and other key publications.

And it might not matter much two years hence — surely Mr. Trudeau would be forgiven were he to look at recent history and conclude that elections could be won despite questions about the ethics of one's actions.

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.

No matter which candidate wins the election this year, there is already at least one clear loser: Americans» sanity.

An election year usually means limited action on the federal policy front, but 2016 holds prospective wins — and challenges — for entrepreneurs.The Kauffman foundation highlighted these areas of change:

An election year usually means limited action on the federal policy front, but 2016 holds prospective wins

Possibly the biggest upset was the Nov. 8 U.S. presidential election win for tycoon Donald Trump, whose economic and trade policies will shape next year's investment landscape.

In the immediate few days after Donald Trump won the Election, what we actually saw was the highest rise in the value of the dollar for nearly a year.

It is now almost two years since the BJP, led by Narendra Modi, won a landslide victory in India's parliamentary elections.

After 17 - years and many attempts, Calgary's political establishment finally managed to achieve their goal of denying Mr. Anders the party nomination he needs to win in the next election.

And August 30, 2014 will mark 43 years since the PC Party won its first election in 1971.

While I spent a considerable amount of time knocking on doors for candidates in Edmonton, I was also working with a group of MLAs, lawyers and former PC cabinet ministers on what would have been the plan to transition the Liberals into government if the party had won that election ten years ago today.

Although Mr. Dent did not win the by - election, the strong showing for the NDP foreshadowed that party's first federal electoral win in Alberta two year's later when Ross Harvey was elected in Edmonton - East.

By - elections were held in the same year, with Liberal Craig Cheffins winning Klein's former seat and PC Jack Hayden winning McClellan's.

That becomes likely only if Democrats win a majority in the House in this year's midterm elections, Mezey said.

The film is in the hands of Kathryn Bigelow and Mark Boal (the director and screenwriter of The Hurt Locker, which you may remember for winning every Oscar ever) and will hit theaters shortly before next year's presidential election...

After the debt ceiling fiasco in the summer of last year, Obama and his political team all but abandoned governing and subordinated everything to the imperatives of winning the 2012 election.

Today, Prime Minister David Cameron said if he wins the next general election, his government would reduce the maximum amount a household could claim in benefits from # 26,000 to # 23,000 a year.

If BO wins this election it means, God has abandoned USA... say hello to dark age the next 4 years, this is just the start, you ain't see nothing yet..

Despite the immense popularity the aged Argentine has won since his election last year, not a jot of doctrine has changed, nor has the Catholic Church swelled with American converts.

Four years later, he won the election again, this time with almost 64 percent of the vote — a state record.

Elsewhere at the conference, the shadow hancellor promised to cut ministers» pay by 5 % and to reduce child benefits in real terms if Labour wins next year's general election.

Veteran Israeli politicians expect the Obama administration to give Israel an ultimatum later this year to make peace with the Palestinian Authority» that is, with a political entity that is kept alive on the West Bank by an American - trained militia and the Israeli Army, and that is headed by a prime minister, Salam Fayyad, whose party won 2 percent of the vote in the last elections and who faces a constituency two - thirds of which tells pollsters that it doesn't want any deal with a Jewish state.

Southern Baptist conservatives won key presidential elections year after year, and after a final conservative presidential victory in 1989 in New Orleans, moderates gave up the battle and began taking steps toward forming their own moderate organizations, such as the Cooperative Fellowship.

South Australian Liberal leader Steven Marshall has promised a «new dawn» for South Australia after his party won the state election and ended 16 years of Labor Government.

The South Australian Liberals adopted the 10 - year moratorium as a policy cornerstone in late 2016, and aren't budging after a win in the March 17 state election by Mr Marshall ended 16 years of Labor government.

After winning the presidential election last week, Blatter was expected to serve as president for another four years, but has decided to step down presumably because of the negative reaction to his re-election.

In the end, though, this narrative just might win out, and Morris will get another shot at election next year if he isn't enshrined Wednesday afternoon.

As in past years, the top vote - getters from the town meeting will be expected to win the local election in April.

In three elections over just a few years, Walker's team seems to have built an operation that's primed to leverage digital tools to help win Walker the Republican presidential nomination.

Gillibrand is looking to win the election for the first time after she was appointed to the Senate by Governor Paterson early last year.

Having surveyed the terrain and realized that there is no way they could win this year's elections, the NPP is deploying its trump card — lies!

As the Democratic Party seems set to win Italy's general elections next year, and thus take control of the third largest economy of the Eurozone, such ideological adjustment is now particularly urgent.

But unfortunately, these deliberately concocted lies would not stop the NDC from winning this year's elections; they would not stop President Mahama from commissioning all these humongous infrastructure projects whose very undertaking have endeared him so much to the people; and they would definitely not stop the 74 year old Akuffo Addo and his impulsive lying Bawumia from losing this elections!