Sentences with phrase «electoral victories»

He is currently a member of Parliament, a position he was first elected to in 1999 — at the time, his victory (with 92 per cent of the vote) was considered to be one of the most stunning electoral victories of the century.

As Donald Trump thanked the people of New Hampshire for his first of many electoral victories in February last year, the face hovering over his right shoulder was plastered with a broad smile, turning from side to side, seeming to soak up every second of the moment.

Its most likely that both Rudd and Obama, running on responsible but effective carbon emission cutting policies, will win resounding electoral victories in 2010 - 12.

The Humane Society of the United States led campaigns with coalition partners in both states, and these victories are the latest in a string of electoral victories in recent years through animal - protection ballot measures.

B4K's advocacy also led to electoral victories for reform - minded candidates across the state.

Barring an upset in Oldham, 2011 should be a year of electoral victories for Labour.

Their electoral victories give the Reform Party of the United States significant momentum going into the 2016 elections.

Los Angeles Times: Healthcare is a headache for GOP candidates in California Republican candidates across the nation are confident that opposition to President Obama's healthcare law will deliver them electoral victories.

And his speech put miles of clear red water between him and the man who led Labour to three electoral victories, the first a historic landslide, the third won in spite of taking Britain into profoundly reviled wars.

Clinton's electoral victories in KY and LA were ages ago, but his appeal should still play, especially in Kentucky where the race will probably be really close.

That is exactly what the Republicans need right away or their resurgent energy will drive internecine battles, not electoral victories.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Feeling the political wind at his back after years of reversals, Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer pointed to Tuesday's Democratic electoral victories and predicted a momentum shift against the GOP tax bill.

The WFP's strong campaign operations, ability to mobilize grassroots and institutional support, and impressive record of electoral victories at the city and state level make its endorsement highly sought - after by political candidates.

The «Buffalo Billion Squared» was announced in the same month as the impending inauguration of President - elect Donald J. Trump, carried to the presidency by electoral victories in Michigan and Wisconsin, Great Lakes states with large and restless working - class populations.

They are making serious gains in public opinion that could translate into significant electoral victories.

In the process, they contributed to a number of Democratic electoral victories.

George Weah, Romario and Cuauhtemoc Blanco have secured electoral victories by leveraging their name recognition and the remaining support from their playing days.

After three electoral victories and 13 years in office, New Labour had lost its appeal due to the legacy of the Iraq war, a series of burning scandals and endless backbenchers» rebellions.

However, these parties see few to no electoral victories.

But success in politics should not be measured purely by electoral victories.

Maduro's government has had success sidelining the country's political opposition, circumventing the opposition - controlled legislature, securing electoral victories with the help of fraud and dirty tricks, and working to block main opposition parties from future elections.

But right now, so soon after such a historic electoral victory and despite her centrality to Canada's most pressing issues, she has not yet presented a viable energy sector alternative — only answers with varying degrees of compromise and alienation.

The director of Industrial News Media, Kirk J. Torrance, summed up how important Facebook was for achieving the party's eventual electoral victory.

In his first address since his electoral victory speech, President - elect Donald Trump this week discussed which policies he planned to pursue immediately upon taking office.

Since Trump's electoral victory, various surveys of consumer confidence have shown that Americans» optimism about the labor market has improved.

The threat to limit imports of US soybeans is particularly astute; China buys 70 % of US soybean exports and the counties that are biggest soybean producers are located in states that were crucial to Trump's electoral victory.

The Liberal leader, who owes her thumping electoral victory in large part to fear of public - sector job cuts promised by the opposition Progressive Conservatives, has promised to govern from the «activist centre.»

«I had a call with President Putin and congratulated him on the victory, his electoral victory,» Trump said after the call last Tuesday.

cio Lula da Silva, Rousseff — still fresh from her Oct. 31 electoral victory — reiterated the Lula administration's line that Asian central banks» suppression of the value of their currencies was causing an «international currency war.»

Geert Wilders» far - right, anti-Muslim Party for Freedom (PVV) failed to secure an electoral victory in the Netherlands last week.

Although an electoral victory for Abe and his Liberal Democratic Party, or LDP, would be powered by geopolitical tensions, it would give Abenomics a boost, too.

Others see in Trump's electoral victory the end of neoliberal economic policy, which promoted free trade and free markets, and limited the scope of government.

Plunging downward from the exultation of a decisive electoral victory, it was a sickening, devastating night, and morning, and night again.

It is a moment of sensing both the possibility of political power, whether in an actual Revolution or a McGovernite electoral victory, and the possibility of the whole movement falling apart.

Prior to new elections the U.S. will work to create a military and paramilitary force capable of preventing or blocking a Sandinista electoral victory.

No single Person in NPP and outside NPP has the audacity to take the full or half credit for the 2016 electoral victory of President Akufo - Addo.

It is very important for members of NPP and any Vigilante Groups affiliated to NPP to carefully note that the unprecedented 2016 electoral victory of President Akufo - Addo was Not By The Efforts of Any Individuals or Groups.

Even before the electoral victory, the Brotherhood made clear that it would never recognise Israel [7], a move which will bolster the position of Islamist movements like Hamas and Hezbollah.

The MP said said contracts had, however, been given to members of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) who did not contribute anything to the NPP's electoral victory.

Mr Nketia indicated that agitations of party supporters for immediate rewards after electoral victory mostly put parties out of power.

Kaczynski is another who contributed to Tusk's electoral victory.

This was one of the many consequences of the electoral victory of the Fidesz Party and its Christian Democrat allies a year earlier.

Yet, one aspect of his electoral victory remains underappreciated: labour mobility.

A liberal would probably point to the fact that the so - called «neo-Ottoman» foreign policy in Turkey is a direct result of the electoral victory of the AK government, with its Anatolian roots and its Islamic ideology.

It is electoral victory which has helped make Boris such a winning personality in Birmingham; David Cameron, clapping slowly from the eighth row, knows he must come up with the goods in 2015 if he is ever to be as adored.

Much of the budget's impact would be felt in the states that supported Trump in his electoral victory this past November.

By most accounts, the task will not be easy, even for the highly popular Democratic governor, whose wide margin of electoral victory and long history in Albany has given him unusual influence within the slow - moving culture of the capital.

Gillibrand then cruised to an easy electoral victory over former Westchester US Rep. Joseph DioGuardi last year, winning the right to complete the last two years of Clinton's term.

And as a matter of fact, some of the battle men Buhari came into the warfront with may actually be more corrupt that those his electoral victory edged out of power.

It is difficult for one Party to win an absolute majority to form a government, and electoral victory goes to the party that can best manage its coalitions.