Sentences with phrase «electoral defeat of»

The electoral defeat of Canadian Premier Stephen Harper and ousting of Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott are strong signals of public dissatisfaction with anti-climate policies.

The report made damning conclusions on the role played by Mr Mahama and a few of his aides in the massive electoral defeat of the NDC last year.

Not since we gathered ourselves together for a further major push in modernisation after the electoral defeat of 1992 have we faced such a challenge,» the home secretary said.

The crushing electoral defeat of the Ethiopian opposition does not actually help the ruling party and encourages its slide into authoritarianism

Did nobody ask whether ScoMo could really wave the deal through right now given it would spell the certain electoral defeat of Deputy PM Barnaby Joyce in New England, and a host of other Nationals in battleground seats where foreign investment is a hot - button issue?

The electoral defeat of the Sandinistas in Nicaragua's February, 1990 elections has grave implications for the organized poor throughout the Third World.

• Second, ten years of destructive war made the electoral defeat of the Sandinistas possible.

The murder of Jesuit priests in El Salvador, the electoral defeat of the Sandinistas in Nicaragua, the invasion of Panama, the «war on drugs,» and changing East / West relations add urgent weight to our need to confront the U.S. strategy of «low - intensity conflict» (LIC).

In a nutshell, Fidesz is reacting to a not so distant past, when the socialist and liberal dominated domestic press, the mostly foreign - owned private TV stations, and a handful of high - profile international pressure groups have played outsized roles in the surprising electoral defeats of the Hungarian centre - right.

Not exact matches

But black votes for Obama were inconsequential in preventing Alabama's nine electoral votes from being delivered to John McCain and Mitt Romney, both of whom defeated Obama in that state with 60 % of the vote.

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.

They are absolutely certain that the «silent majority» of Americans are just like them, and that a punitive and judgemental God is on their side and against «the liberals,» and no electoral defeat or anything else will ever convince them otherwise.

The damage to democratic process is immense, as electoral defeats would come to be seen as a violation of a right to dignity.

Even after such a humiliating electoral defeat and the aftermath of Kwesi Botcwey fact finding committee report, Mahama loyalists are still living in the past.

The Central Region «Unity Walk» is the third edition which is aimed at bringing together over hundred thousand sympathisers of the National Democratic Congress in the region after its electoral defeat in the 2016 general election.

Given what happened next, with Blair resigning the following year, Gordon Brown leading Labour to electoral defeat, Ed Miliband doing the same, and the rise of Jeremy Corbyn... does he regret that letter?

The city comptroller campaign of the former governor has spurred monied interests in labor and business to form separate independent expenditure groups with the purpose of ensuring his electoral defeat.

«The Balls intervention perhaps highlights how there may be a range of different political responses to arguments about how and why part of Labour's electoral defeat was that it struggled with middle income, and particularly C2 voters, over issues like crime, welfare and immigration.»

For social democrats, it means reflecting on how institutional forms can be entrenched within the fabric of society, rather than swept away immediately in the wake of electoral defeat as may be the fate of Labour's social reforms in the United Kingdom.

Mr President, the desperation so far exhibited by your person and your government in manipulating sensitive agencies of state like the judiciary and now the electoral commission to further your bid to win the 2020 election is totally against the spirit of democracy and peace bestowed by the NDC in conceding defeat at the Presidential election.

Asked why she though she was capable of defeating Theresa May, Eagle responded «because she's a Tory» — a curious response given that being a Tory hasn't proven to be much of an electoral obstacle in recent years.

Clinton reacted to news of her electoral defeat with a resigned acceptance, claiming she knew victory was out of reach all along, and saying: «I knew it.

His time in Downing Street ended 20 years ago, when Major suffered a crushing electoral defeat at the hands of Blair's New Labour.

@Joe (54): Yes, the hypocrisy of the Beeb in explicitly calling the result a defeat for electoral reform WHEN THEY HAD REFUSED TO CALL AV ELECTORAL REFORM THROUGHOUT THE CAMPAIGN ITSELF was truly sickening and mind -electoral reform WHEN THEY HAD REFUSED TO CALL AV ELECTORAL REFORM THROUGHOUT THE CAMPAIGN ITSELF was truly sickening and mind -ELECTORAL REFORM THROUGHOUT THE CAMPAIGN ITSELF was truly sickening and mind - blowing.

As hinted at in Jon Cruddas» comprehensive review of the electoral defeat, the causes of New Labour's demise are well established.

Ed Miliband subsequently won the election, the result of which was announced on 25 September 2010, after second, third and fourth preferences votes were counted, achieving the support of 50.654 % of the electoral college, defeating his brother by 1.3 %.

Any party seeking to recover from electoral defeat must develop a coherent analysis of why it lost and how to put it right.

The Liberal Democrats lost the referendum on the alternative vote electoral system and proposals for House of Lords reform were defeated in the House of Commons.

Voters dislike this type of government because it defeats the purpose of electoral choice.

A more negative assessment is likely to contain reference to character flaws that inhibited his leadership credentials, his weak regulation of the City, the sell - off of the nation's gold reserves at the bottom of the market, and of course his electoral defeat in 2010.

Party secretaries have been weakened by the rising power of internal factions, used as scape - goats after electoral defeats and blamed for both lack of charisma (Pierluigi Bersani) and excessive protagonism (Massimo D'Alema and especially Matteo Renzi himself).

Fayose said President Buhari should have simply told the whole world that he hated the Nigeria Judiciary because he lost the petitions that he filed against his electoral defeats in 2003, 2007 and 2011, instead of hiding under the fight against corruption to ventilate his anger.

In the wake of the electoral reform referendum defeat Lib Dems were faced with the bitter reality of a complete failure to achieve one of their biggest constitutional reform goals.

In 2011, Scottish Labour suffered a major electoral defeat and the hands of the SNP who mobilised a coalition of voters far in excess of those who back their raison d'être, independence.

The hard - fought referendum on electoral reform was defeated by a huge majority of voters on a turnout of above 40 %, effectively ending the issue for a generation.

The level of defeat and retrial amongst female Labour MSPs in 2011 means that unless Labour reintroduces a strategy that secures gender balance in its constituency nominations, any future recovery in the party's electoral fortunes could well be accompanied by a reduction in the overall level of female representation.

The result was a series of races where Democratic incumbents were able to drag themselves from the brink of electoral defeat by going negative early and often against their Republican opponents.

Benn was only narrowly defeated by Healey in a bitterly fought deputy leadership election in 1981 after the introduction of an electoral college intended to widen the voting franchise to elect the leader and their deputy.

The Gentile, Recchia and Murphy defeats, and Mr. Donovan's all - but - assured 2016 victory, are part of a pattern: a pattern of ill - suited candidates, an idiosyncratic district and an incompetent national Democratic electoral apparatus that has failed to understand either.

First among them was the «very personal... story of the darkest, most difficult time» of his life around his 2002 electoral defeat and subsequent divorce.

[26] Suffering mass electoral defeat at the local elections, in London, Labour lost 15 boroughs, including Livingstone's London Borough of Lambeth, which came under Conservative control.

[58] Following the electoral defeat, Livingstone told Socialist Organiser that the blame lay solely with the «Labour government's policies» and the anti-democratic attitude of Callaghan and the Parliamentary Labour Party, calling for greater party democracy and a turn towards a socialist platform.

In the White House, electoral defeat gave way to a shifting series of explanations: Mr. Trump's first reaction was to savage Ed Gillespie, the defeated Republican candidate for governor in Virginia, on Twitter.

The 10 regional chairmen of the party, under whose leadership the party suffered the electoral defeat believe the former President's «thank you tour» will help in such efforts to ensure peace and unity within the party ahead of the 2020 polls.

John Woodcock, a member of Kendall's campaign team, told me: «We all shared a view, the mainstream of the Labour Party, that advocating Jeremy's route as a party spells sure - fire marginalisation and electoral defeat.

Analysts say the spread could see the Conservatives claim a 100 - seat majority at the next election, although electoral commentators maintain a hung parliament is the most likely result of a Labour defeat.

Following a crushing electoral defeat, the summer edition of the Fabian Review asks how Labour can flourish once again in Britain.

And if that becomes a salient part of liberal politics, liberals are going to suffer tremendous electoral defeat.

The NDC Member of Parliament for Yunyoo constituency in the Northern Region, Joseph Bipoba Naabu in a recent interview, accused former president John Mahama of being responsible for the party's historic electoral defeat.

Phillip Addison was the Lawyer of MrAkufoAddo in the latter's failed attempt to overturn his 2012 electoral defeat at the Supreme Court.