Sentences with phrase «first election victory»

Handing the Jackson, Miss., public schools their first election victory in the 21 years since desegregation, city voters last week approved more than $ 57 million in bond requests.

Arguably, this attempt at building a hegemony out of Sarkozyism failed as of yesterday with the first election victory for the Socialists since 1988.

Republicans experienced a similar surge in candidates after Barack Obama's first election victory and ahead of the 2010 midterms.

Not exact matches

The forum, it's worth pointing out, is viewed by many to embody the very ideals that led to the populist uprising, including the surprise victory of Donald J. Trump in the U.S. presidential election in November; it brings together the global elite, or those who are typically first to reap the benefits of wealth creation.

The French CAC 40 ended the trading week over 4.2 percent higher on the back of centrist presidential candidate, Emmanuel Macron's first round victory in the French election.

The call was first reported by the Financial Times, and Trump's transition confirmed in a statement that he had spoken with Ing - wen, who congratulated Trump on his election victory.

The victory of Emmanuel Macron in the first round of the French election could prove a loss for Russian President Vladimir Putin.

The Nikkei 225 dropped quickly when the first announcement of Donald Trump's victory was in Asian trading on Nov. 9, following the U.S. election and set the tone for other world markets.

Take a look at Poland, where the hard - right Law and Justice party became the first party to govern alone since the restoration of democracy when it swept to a resounding victory in October's parliamentary elections.

Patrick Caddell: The man who helped launch outsider Jimmy Carter to the presidency in 1976, Patrick was one of the first people to foresee Trump's election victory — forecasting as early as 2013 that the next election would be totally different from anything we had seen before.

Their stories first surfaced in the The Wall Street Journal four days before the election, but got little traction in the swirl of news that followed Mr. Trump's victory.

When Facebook was first confronted with the possibility that fake news and propaganda on its platform may have swayed the election for Donald Trump, just days after the candidate's surprise victory, CEO Mark Zuckerberg strongly denied the idea, calling it «crazy.»

There was a brief lull in Europe's crowded election calendar, but polls in the run - up to the first round of voting in France's presidential contest in late April suggested the centrist - candidate Emmanuel Macron was gaining support, which continued to soothe market concerns about a possible victory for the populist Marine Le Pen.

I left university and started work at around the time of the first Thatcher election victory in 1979.

It's been two and a half weeks since Doug Jones beat out Roy Moore in Alabama's special election — a surprise victory marking the first time the...

Returning to Chicago, where he first declared victory in 2008, Mr Obama delivered a mostly positive message to Americans after a divisive election campaign which saw Mr Trump defeat Democrat Hillary Clinton.

Republican Senate candidate Bob Turner is out with his first television ad this morning, calling attention to his upset victory over David Weprin in the special election to replace disgraced former Rep. Anthony Weiner.

First, there is the numerical victory of the 2010 parliamentary elections, in which — despite gerrymandering and other governmental shenanigans — the opposition won 48 % of the vote.

President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama sought to lift Hillary Clinton to victory while Donald Trump warned she was the «face of failure» and predicted he would blow her away in Tuesday's election.

He said that in 2010, too, and the three - way GOP battle to take on Gillibrand, which was eventually won by former Rep. Joe DioGuardi, didn't help the Republicans defeat Gillibrand, who sailed to her first statewide victory in the general election.

Following New Labour's landslide general election victory in 1997 he became the first blind person to take a seat around the Cabinet table, later resigning - twice - from Tony Blair's frontbench.

In contrast to the relatively trouble - free election victories in 2000 and 2004, Putin's election in 2012 occurred within the midst of the first serious popular political revolt against his rule.

Its victory in the Spanish national election of November 2011, was counteracted in Catalonia with a secessionist majority in its Parliament for the first time in democracy.

In her first major appearance since Wednesday's vote crowning her the second - most - powerful elected official in the city, the progressive firebrand told Mr. Sharpton's National Action Network in Harlem that this year's election victories signaled a sea change in New York that the mainstream media resisted.

BRUSSELS (Reuters)- Marine Le Pen's far right National Front scored a stunning first victory in European Parliament elections in France on Sunday as critics of the European Union registered a continent - wide protest vote against austerity and mass unemployment.

By contrast, Tony Blair charmed his way into Downing Street and the history books with three Labour election victories, but his desire to please meant much of the first term was wasted.

First Minister Nicola Sturgeon enjoys the sort of popularity ratings that should make her opponents weep, and the party is predicted to secure a third election victory (and second overall majority) in May 2016's Scottish parliamentary election.

Since its first Holyrood election victory in 2007, the SNP has done a great job of creating the impression that it's dynamic and radical in government.

For instance, Brown takes aim at Tony Blair who argued that he personally won three elections when factors such as popular discontent with the Major administration and artificial inflation of vote share via the first - past - the - post system may greater explain Labour's landslide victory in 1997 (pp. 67 - 72).

The victory of Louis - Napoleon Bonaparte in the first presidential election with universal male suffrage, the imperial impulse of the Bonapartist government, and, finally, the overthrow of the Second Republic following Louis - Napoleon's coup d'état in 1851, did not fail to raise doubts and questions.

Clinton was so confident she'd become the first female president of the United States that she only drafted a victory speech for Election Day.

A former military ruler, Muhammadu Buhari swept to a historic election victory in March 2015 when he became the first opposition candidate to win a Nigerian presidential poll.

It is an account, relying on contemporary vivid emails, of the minute - by - minute battle inside Downing Street in the first week of September 2006 to stop supporters of the chancellor, Gordon Brown, forcing Tony Blair to quit after nine years as prime minister and three election victories.

Adrian Kavanagh, 23rd June 2014 A month has now passed since the holding of the 2014 Local and European elections and the spoils of victory have now been fought over and divided in most cases (although the first meeting of... Continue reading →

The problem, as described by Lewis Minkin in The Blair Supremacy (Labour First «s secretary Luke Akehurst's «book of the year» in 2014), was that «Blair, despite a huge victory in his election as leader, had in practice only a narrow base of committed supporters of his full political project» [p663].

National Executive Committee, 4 November 2014 As usual the first meeting after conference was an extended session, setting strategy for the year ahead, with general election victory the over-riding objective.

Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said the local elections were an «emphatic» victory for the SNP, despite the Conservative's gains north of the border.

Former trade unionist Morgan Tsvangirai led his Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) to victory in 2008 parliamentary elections and won the first round of the presidential vote.

In 1991, as group leader, he led the Lib Dems to victory in the District Council elections and became the first ever Lib Dem leader of the Council, a post he held from 1991 to his parliamentary victory in 1997.

Clacton was UKIP's first ever general election victory but MP Douglas Carswell had a spectacular break - up with the party and quit Westminster.

Jon Krosnick has spent 30 years studying how voters choose one candidate rather than another, and says that «at least two» US presidents won their elections because their names were listed first on the ballot, in states where the margin of victory was narrow.

During the subsequent leadership election on 20 November, he polled 152 votes (40.9 %) in the first round of voting by Conservative MPs, enough to prevent an outright Thatcher victory.

Eric Pickles MP returns to Crewe and Nantwich for the first time since May's historic by - election victory.

The first, the Australian political strategist Lynton Crosby, had overseen the Tories» 2005 general election campaign and Boris Johnson's two victories in London mayoral elections.

The speech was equal parts victory lap for the off - cycle election success, touting of his first 11 months and a call to «think big» on issues like rebuilding the Tappan Zee Bridge.

Mychajliw, a former television reporter, has now won three elections in five years since his first victory in a 2012 special.

First, the Democrats» Election Night victories will have to be affirmed.

[164] Nevertheless, Blair's reforms led Labour to a landslide victory in the 1997 general election, resulting in the formation of the first Labour government since 1979.

Mr Salmond said: «This is a historic result for the SNP - up 10 points from the last European election - and the first time we have ever won a UK - wide election in Scotland, with a much greater margin of victory than even the Holyrood win two years ago.

He's scheduled to address a labor breakfast tomorrow morning to thank all the union members who played a key roll in his first statewide victory in Tuesday's election.