Sentences with phrase «end of their political career»

And considering that this may well be the end of his political career, he may be more willing to push for things that are seemingly unpopular within his party.

By the time the final result of the by - election was called, members of Goldsmith's family were in tears and the former Conservative MP could only look down at the floor as the end of his political career was confirmed to the room.

Let no one be in any doubt: the responsibility for the breakdown of Germany's coalition talks lies with Angela Merkel, and her failure has brought the end of her political career much closer.

Here's Rick Lazio's press conference officially ending his gubernatorial bid, which was supposed to be his grand return to the public stage and ended up being the likely end of his political career.

Huhne, once seen as a future leader of the Lib Dems, saw the final end of his political career this year.

Updated 4 p.m. Rep. Charles B. Rangel, D - N.Y., has averted the end of his political career again, securing a 23rd term in Congress after Tuesday's highly competitive primary.

Now towards the end of his political career Cameron becomes very interesting and in a way he could never have anticipated or planned.

As most of these antis were new - entry young Tories, it seems unlikely that they voted to secure a retirement home at the end of their political careers, in 30 or 40 years.

That does not mean the end of their political career.

The two other Democratic Senators who switched their votes and helped approve gay marriage will also not be returning to the Capitol for another term, but the end of their political careers had nothing to do with their same sex marriage vote.

It was the end of his political career but just the beginning of his legal problems.

In this fictional version of the end of his political career, Francois Mitterrand meets an ambitious young journalist named Antoine Moreau who draws the president into a conversation that soon evolves into a major discourse on life, death, politics and morality.

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We tend to forget that secret police, whether they want to or not, often end up wielding ultimate power over the careers of political figures.

Indiana University's Lenkowsky cited the experience of former GOP nominee Bob Dole, who once operated a nonprofit for employing people with disabilities that shuttered shortly after his political career ended.

My father considered himself an «irenic» minister, but managed to split 2 churches at the end of his career — conservative «theologically» and liberal in social and political concerns.

It's the tenth anniversary of the prostitution scandal that ended former Gov. Eliot Spitzer's political career.

There is a growing sense among New York political insiders that next month's primary could mark the end of 81 - year - old Rep. Charlie Rangel's storied Congressional career.

Stone is a veteran operative, known for his gleeful use of dirty tricks and for ending Eliot Spitzer's political career by leaking his patronage of prostitutes to the FBI.

Lane Hudson, the guy who helped bring Foley's political career to an end last Fall by anonymously posting transcripts of some of those...

If played correctly this could mean the end of Brown's political career and the destruction of any remaining chance New Labour have of winning the next election.

The election result would indeed change British politics, although not in the way that Cameron intended: the obliteration of the Conservatives» Liberal Democrat coalition partners cleared the way for the referendum that set Britain on a path to leave the EU and ended Cameron's political career.

Elected as MP for Bermondsey in a famous byelection in 1983 which saw the end of the conventional political career of the Labour candidate Peter Tatchell and has held the inner city seat ever since.

«When they know they're not running, they should wrap them up within months of ending their political careers,» said Blair Horner of the New York Public Interest Research Group, a government watchdog.

Several people the Observer spoke to had negative recollections of the late assemblyman, remembering either the scandal that ended his political career or the brusque and heavy - handed way he dealt with those who challenged his chosen candidates.

It seems to me that even suggesting any of these would result in the end of one's political career.

He then rehabilitated his reputation and began a political career which ended with the unilateral withdrawal of Israeli forces from the Gaza Strip.

This is the same type of political dirty trick that ended Anthony Weiner's political career — and he did not offer anyone $ 48,000 worth of no - bid contracts!

The former Treasury minister's career hit the rocks in 2012 after she was charged with defending a fuel duty u-turn on Newsnight — and she ended up being mauled by Jeremy Paxman in one of the most disastrous political interviews ever seen on TV.

It's a «devastating turning point» and possibly the «beginning of the end» of Gov. Andrew Cuomo's 30 - plus - year political career.

Buerkle said last month the appointment does not necessarily mean an end to her political career, and that she was still exploring the idea of a third campaign against Maffei in 2014.

Former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver was convicted Monday of federal corruption charges, ending the legendary Albany power broker's political career in disgrace and giving Manhattan U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara a signal victory in his crusade to clean up the Capitol.

WASHINGTON (AP)- Vice President Joe Biden will not run for president in 2016, he said Wednesday, ending a months - long flirtation with a third White House campaign and setting him on a glide path toward the end of his decades - long political career.

Speaking in between hymns and sermons urging people to accept Jesus, the embattled Senate candidate dismissed the allegations as an effort to derail his rise to the Senate and end his political career that included an effort to halt same - sex marriage in the state and install a granite Ten Commandments monument in the lobby of the state appellate courthouse.

Former energy secretary Huhne pleaded guilty last month to perverting the course of justice by passing his points to Pryce in 2003, ending his political career.

Having served at the head of the Democrat - controlled Assembly for over a decade, Silver's rule was iron - fisted and opaque - he could end a political career on a whim, kill a major policy initiative with a quiet grumble, and maneuver millions of dollars in state cash to recipients of his choice.

Hassell - Thompson will return to the New York State Senate where she is expected to finish her political career before retiring at the end of her term in 2016.

ALBANY — Dean Skelos, the former Republican leader of the State Senate whose political career ended this year when he was convicted of federal felony charges, has filed papers to collect his pension.

And that is why I am appealing to them that they should not see the election itself as the end of one's life or one's political career.

Mr. Levy's political career ended abruptly when, under the cloud of an investigation by Mr. Spota's office, he agreed not to seek another term.

The verdict is a fitting and long - overdue end to the career of a political titan who reveled in his power and his arrogant belief that he could line his pockets at the public's expense, with impunity.

But like John Major before him, and Margaret Thatcher before that, the running sore at the heart of the Conservative Party has brought a humiliating end to his political career.

David Thompson looked back at some of the headlines that have seen some high - flying political careers come to an abrupt end, and why people still want to join the cabinet.

The victory allows Rangel, 84, the face of Harlem politics for nearly a half century and at one time the most powerful elected black official in the country, to end his political career on his own terms.

The successful career of 1940s screenwriter Dalton Trumbo (Bryan Cranston) comes to a crushing end when he and other Hollywood figures are blacklisted for their political beliefs.

There's also Chappaquiddick, a retelling of the 1969 car accident that almost ended the political career of Senator Ted Kennedy (Jason Clarke) and resulted in the death of his brother's former campaign worker Mary Jo Kopechne (Kate Mara).

Having turned in a couple of ill - received films delving into the matters of political intrigue, Alfred Hitchcock went back to Britain and, practically at the very end of his career, made another great film on the trail of the works that had given him the title of the master of suspense and the macabre.

TRUMBO: The successful career of 1940s screenwriter Dalton Trumbo (Bryan Cranston) comes to a crushing end when he and other Hollywood figures are blacklisted for their political beliefs.

I also think there's still an interesting story here about how the process of television news broke down in such a way that people stopped asking if the story that ended Rather's career was true or not, focusing more on the political slant on both sides of the issue.

Previous sexting scandals had put an end to the political career of former Rep. Anthony Weiner, seen leaving his apartment building in New York in 2013.

But with rare exceptions — like Oliver Stone's W. — films about real - life politicians all have one thing in common: They arrive in theaters long after the political career of their central protagonist has ended.