Sentences with phrase «held onto her seat of»

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This combination of a damaged personal brand, a lack of necessary electoral data, and local dissatisfaction over Brexit, meant that Goldsmith faced an uphill battle to hold onto his seat.

Rep. Sam Gejdenson, who had been in the House of Representatives for seven terms, managed to just barely hold onto his seat by a margin of 21 votes.

That's more than fans will say in St. Louis, according to Michael Morhaus, a CPA who is still holding onto his seat licenses even though his father, upset at the product on the field, got rid of his two years ago.

Your child holds the folding potty seat handles instead of holding onto a dirty toilet bowl for stability, security, and added hygiene.

Some babies don't like these, but if your baby does, a chest carrier is really nice because then you don't have to worry about holding onto your baby and trying to remember to hold and manage all of your carry - ons at the same time.This also lets your baby not have to be in the car seat while you walk around the airport.

Some of the bottle holders baby can hold onto themselves while others are designed in a sling like fashion to work well with car seats.

The latches are on the side of the car seat, which requires both hands at the same time while unlocking and therefore, you can not hold onto the handle during the process.

And if the rear child wants to stand, the seat folds up — which is also ideal for accessing storage underneath — and there are hand - holds, so the rear child does not have to hold onto the back of the seat in front.

Latimer, a former assemblyman, has been a top target of the Senate Republicans in the past, but has managed to hold onto the seat that he has held since 2012.

Legislator Shawn Doyle denies the charges and continues to serve in office, and he may be able to hold onto that seat regardless of the outcome of the trial.

Despite calls to replace all incumbents regardless of whether they are Democrats or Republicans, Political Analyst Jay Dedapper thinks most of New York's incumbents will hold onto their seats.

Labour needs to hold onto those 2m Brexiters, or the seven out of ten Labour - Brexit constituencies, at the very least, just to maintain its current 100 + seat deficit.

Union, WFP and Democratic leaders have been trying to no avail to get Padernacht out of the race, even going so far as to have the New Roosevelt Initiative commissioned a poll that showed Espada was far more likely to hold onto his seat if he faced two challengers rather than just one.

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.

Republican Rep. John Katko, the Central New York freshman who is fighting to hold onto his seat in one of the most competitive House races in the nation, is out with his fourth TV ad, which questions the ability of his opponent, Colleen Deacon, to act independently of the Democratic conference if she's elected in November.

She's had to overcome a LOT of obstacles to hold onto Hillary's seat.

According to my research at the beginning of this month, in an election tomorrow Nick Clegg would hold onto his Sheffield Hallam seat by the skin of his teeth, with 33 % to Labour's 31 %, and the Conservatives on 28 % — a swing of 17.5 % to Labour.

I don't put much store in opinion polls, but if true it would only indicate roughly what you would expect to happen at this point in the parliament - 32 % isn't that much lower than Labour got in the 2005 General Election and all it would suggest is that the Liberal Democrats are having a reversal - tactical voting could see them holding onto many of their current seats, indeed it is even possible that if they got 17 % of the vote that if it focused in an area that they could actually end up with more seats, where the switches in support are occuring is crucial - if they are focused then if the Conservative Party were to get 39 % then it might still result in them getting fewer seats than Labour or in extremis winning a 150 seat majority or so?

Plaid Cymru's vote share has gone up a bit, and it has done ok in terms of holding onto existing seats.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Rep. Richard Hanna said Thursday that Cazenovia businessman Steve Wells is the best chance Republicans have to hold onto his seat in Congress when he retires at the end of the year.

«He held onto his seat in a GOP wave, sure, but a lot of people did,» one national Democratic operative said.

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.

As part of our ongoing «Congressional Battleground» series here at CapTon, I sat down earlier today with Rep. Scott Murphy, the incumbent Democrat in NY - 20 who is trying to hold onto the seat he won in a special election following the elevation of Kirsten Gillibrand to the US Senate by Gov. David Paterson last January.

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.

And Carl Paladino, the former Republican gubernatorial candidate with whom the board's majority typically sides, narrowly held onto his seat by a margin of just 107 votes against union - supported high school student Austin Harig, according to preliminary numbers.

Marshall, trying to hold onto his seat representing Prince William County, southwest of Washington, repeatedly referred to Roem with male pronouns.

Under the first past the post electoral system, many Labour votes were «wasted» as part of large majorities for MPs in safe seats rather than into holding onto marginal seats.

If at a General Election the national figures were Conservative 44 % Labour 26 % Liberal Democrat 17 % then I rather suspect that actually the majority would be of over 150 - the Liberal Democrats might manage to hold onto as many as 40 seats, Labour would go way down though below 200 seats, the Conservatives would probably break through 400 seats, it does depend a lot on tactical voting, however the likliehood of a such a result in the next 10 years is virtually nil, in the longer term I would say it was quite probable at some stage in the future once the Labour government finally collapses.

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.

It was not an easy election for the party of Wales — early on, representatives were hedging their bets on the potential outcome, saying they were «just about» looking to hold onto their three seats.

But even Rangel has acknowledged that he will likely have to give up most of Manhattan if he wants to hold onto his seat.

Defeat would be a particularly wounding blow for the Prime Minister, who has personally spearheaded a concerted fight for a seat his party had claimed just weeks ago it had a good chance of holding onto.

Boucher aside, there are plenty of counter-examples: In Kentucky, a coal state that just elected Ayn Randian ubermensch Rand Paul to the Senate, Rep. John Yarmuth (D) and Rep. Ben Chandler (D) both voted for the bill and held onto their seats.

The engine becomes more urgent in delivering power to the rear wheels, the transmission likes to hold onto gears for a little longer to continue riding the linear wave of torque, and the seats hug you even tighter.

Hold onto your seats, this could prove mildly of interest to you!

He jumps onto the sofa and goes into a manic rage (scrabbling at the sides and trying to pull the seat to pieces) If you try to get hold of him he turns and tries to bite.

I'd rather people didn't hold onto award seats they are very unlikely to use so others can have a chance to book what might be the trip of a lifetime.

Hold onto your seats gamers, Sledgehammer Games has unleashed a Call of Duty game that brings back boots to the ground, and have gone back in time instead of all that future timeline BS.