Sentences with phrase «faced election disaster»

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In the face of all available evidence — in council elections, byelections and opinion polls — there was collective self - delusion, and the party was going to press ahead to disaster.»

The basic contrast in elections is «vote for us, or face disaster».

It is the latest (arguably quite redundant) evidence of a more fundamental truth about politics: The instinct that leads many people obsessively to pursue public approval and power through winning elections is closely linked to the instinct that leads many of these same people (and let's face it, they are all men) to sexual excess and disaster.

A new poll suggests Labour and the Liberal Democrats are both facing potential general election disaster in Scotland.

It's almost like we — the twenty - and early thirty - somethings — are coming of age at some weird potluck of every social issue staring us in the face: food insecurity, epic natural disasters, stock market crashes, three wars, droughts worse than the Dust Bowl, banks getting away with robbery, extreme poverty, corporate - purchased elections, rising childhood obesity, rising deficit, salmon run extinctions, flocks of birds dropping out of the sky, college debt surpassing credit card debt, you name it.