Sentences with phrase «electoral victory in»

Mr. Modi, who won a crushing electoral victory in May, declined [continue reading...]

It was expected that Trump's friends and foes would battle over exactly who was heading to the convention in Cleveland, but Trump's subsequent electoral victory in Indiana led rivals Kasich and Texas Sen. Ted Cruz to drop their bids.

It probably doesn't matter a great deal whether Gibson decided to leave after six years, rather than eight, as he had repeatedly promised after his first electoral victory in 2010.

Moving up to 2006, Mike mentioned an SMS - driven electoral victory in South Korea, a successful petition drive in South Africa and a movement to send peace messages to Iraqi cell phones (for a look at less pacific uses of cell phones in the war in Iraq, see this article from a couple of months ago).

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

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.»

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Not exact matches

For all the claims that conservative news outlets shape electoral outcomes, Kristol noted that the biggest conservative victories — of Ronald Reagan in 1980 and George Bush in 1988 — came before Fox News (fox) or Rush Limbaugh.

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.

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.

In 2012, Obama won Ohio with a slim 50.1 % of the vote, a victory that handed the incumbent 18 electoral votes.

In tandem, the campaign is investing heavily in next - door Pennsylvania, a more Democrat - friendly state whose 20 electoral votes would make Trump's overall victory all the more unreachablIn tandem, the campaign is investing heavily in next - door Pennsylvania, a more Democrat - friendly state whose 20 electoral votes would make Trump's overall victory all the more unreachablin next - door Pennsylvania, a more Democrat - friendly state whose 20 electoral votes would make Trump's overall victory all the more unreachable.

After a series of electoral missteps and concerns over the special Senate election in Alabama, the party — and Trump — needs a victory it can point to ahead of the 2018 midterms.

President Obama's convincing victory in the electoral college came in part from his promise to make the wealthiest Americans «pay a little more.»

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.

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.

In the 2012 presidential campaign, while other pundits predicted a Romney victory, he forecast a large Obama margin in the electoral college, ultimately missing just two stateIn the 2012 presidential campaign, while other pundits predicted a Romney victory, he forecast a large Obama margin in the electoral college, ultimately missing just two statein the electoral college, ultimately missing just two states.

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.

In 2004, the Rs managed a narrow victory around the country, with Bush winning the popular vote and electoral college but with the Rs essentially keeping the same number of seats in the HousIn 2004, the Rs managed a narrow victory around the country, with Bush winning the popular vote and electoral college but with the Rs essentially keeping the same number of seats in the Housin the House.

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

Although his book centres upon the UK, Goodhart explains that it can also account for the victory of President Trump: Trump consolidated the somewhere vote in key electoral college states.

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.

Under the electoral college it makes no sense for candidates to allocate scarce resources to states they either can not win or are certain to win, in which case, the size of their victory is irrelevant.

That is why the winners» camp would quake with savage growls over undelivered pork: who gets what in electoral war booty, after a thumping victory, resulting from spectacular electoral slaughter!

Commenting on his victory, he wrote: «This electoral scenario proves that the population is tired to vote for those born with a silver spoon, they rather want to see their mirror image in Congress.

Fidesz started immediately after its election victory in 2010 to reshape the electoral system to ensure its hold on power.

The president also touted his own 2016 victory in the electoral college, and informed the farmers gathered to hear him speak that they were «happy» to have voted for him.

I look at the particular challenges for Labour in reconnecting to disillusioned liberal - left voters as part of the task of rebuilding the broad electoral coalition which won it three election victories.

Labelled as the continuity Blair candidate, David's victory speech — secured across all three sections of the electoral college, albeit very narrowly with a higher - than - expected turnout from USDAW members in the trade union component, emphasised the need to capture economic credibility.

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.

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

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.

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

Not just for political influence that on rare occasions result in some electoral or electoral victory.

These barriers, and the subsequent victory of Donald Trump, a historically unpopular president, have spurred renewed interest from New York's top elected officials in modernizing the state's electoral system.

It was a landslide victory that should not surprise any keen watcher of the electoral process in Nigeria.

«We, therefore, call on all stakeholders of our party to put their hands on deck to ensure electoral victory for our great party come 2020,» they added in the communiqué.

[42] Had Nixon won both states, he would have ended up with exactly 270 electoral votes and the presidency, with or without a victory in the popular vote.

Despite victories in some local legislative races, the political and electoral revolution as hoped for by Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders is yet to come to pass.

In Illinois, Schlesinger and others have pointed out that, even if Nixon had carried Illinois, the state alone would not have given him the victory, as Kennedy would still have won 276 electoral votes to Nixon's 246 (with 269 needed to win).

The inspirational National Youth Organiser who was instrumental in the party's 2016 electoral victory is expected to spend some seven days convincing delegates in the northern regions on why his bid for the National Organiser be granted.

Navigating the Byzantine wiles of the electoral college, You Gov has picked perceived wisdom up by the lapels, given it a good shake, and dumped it in the recycling bin by predicting a wafer thin victory for Ed Miliband.

In Buhari's Chatham House 2015 Speech, before his electoral victory, he presented himself as a converted democrat «who is ready to operate under democratic norms».

'' The governor, also said he was aware of the high - wire plot to use the Supreme Court to upturn his electoral victory, insisting that nothing will stop him from speaking the truth concerning issues in the country.