Sentences with phrase «from holding onto his seat»

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I look out over Austin as I'm writing about San Francisco but that's how tour is - time just spirals away from you until the best you can do is hold onto your seat and hope that it's a seat on the correct plane at least.

Dohney went on to accuse Hoffman of breaking his word by agreeing to run on Row D even if he didn't get the Republican nod, thereby improving Democratic Rep. Bill Owens» chances of holding onto the seat he won last fall, wresting the district from GOP control for the first time since Reconstruction.

Exactly how they asked this is unclear from Lord Ashcroft's report, but the ultimate effect is that the Conservatives hold onto an extra 12 seats in Con - v - Lab marginals (implying that Lib Dems and others» second preferences broke in the Conservatives favour), and the Lib Dems hold onto an extra 11 seats in Con - v - LD marginals.

If Mayer wins and Democrats hold onto another seat up for special election in the Bronx, where they're heavily favored on Tuesday, they would still need to convince Sen. Simcha Felder, a Democrat from Brooklyn who conferences with the Senate Republicans, to rejoin their conference.

In addition to facing prison time, the conviction means Mr. Silver has been automatically expelled from the State Assembly, where he'd held onto his seat even after giving up his leadership position earlier this year.

But moved last August from the sliver of Brooklyn included in the district and onto Staten Island, which makes up the bulk of the area represented by whoever holds this seat.

The party also only won 3 constituency seats: holding onto the Dumbarton and East Lothian constituencies and gaining the Edinburgh Southern constituency from the SNP, losing eleven of its 2011 constituencies to the SNP and two to the Conservatives.

Some Democrats had expressed concern to the Observer that Ms. Harris would be unable to hold onto the seat in the higher turnout regular election next year, with potential challenges from a white Democrat or white Republican.

Their numbers were previously boosted by the defection of two sitting UKIP councillors whose four - year terms were coming to an end; they held onto their seats in these areas whilst also gaining a seat from UKIP and another from an independent in Rugeley, leaving them with four net gains.

Labour won the seat from Jonathan Aitken in 1997 and held onto it until 2010.