Sentences with phrase «landslide election»

Analysts said his death at the age of 82 was a blow to Iran's pragmatist President Hassan Rouhani ahead of presidential elections in May as he played a key role in Rouhani's landslide election victory in 2013.

On the table is # 1,000 from a former prime minister who won three landslide elections for your party, a man who took the Labour party above 50 % in the opinion polls prior to 1997, compared to its current 32 % - 35 %.

I would be interested to see a historical analysis of macro-economic shifts from states supporting the loser to states supporting the victor after landslide elections involving party change.

In the end it did no lasting damage to Labour's reputation for competence, and the party went on to win a second landslide election victory nine months later.

Yet despite all the problems - not least the most accident - prone manifesto launch in history, complete with deputy prime minister John Prescott punching a voter - Labour won a second successive landslide election victory.

AUSTRALIA»S landslide election result seems to be bad news for the climate.

But this 18 - point landslide election was not about vouchers.

Landslide election victory of Prime Minister Abe sets stage for strong economic growth and robust corporate profits.

The latest sanctions come as President Donald Trump's relationship with Putin is under greater scrutiny since the American leader congratulated the Russian president for his landslide election victory last month.

On June 8, 1995, Mr. Harris became the 22nd Premier of Ontario following a landslide election victory.

Heng Swee Keat, Singapore's education minister and former central bank managing director, was named the nation's next Finance minister after a landslide election victory in September by the ruling People's Action Party and prime minister Lee Hsien Loong.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the Bharatiya Janata Party that he heads won a landslide election in May 2014, ousting the centre - left Congress party and giving India its most business - friendly government in a decade: one committed to boosting growth, creating jobs, and...

The landslide election victory of Shinzo Abe in 2012 provided the Bank of Japan with a stronger political mandate to overcome deflation.

But its story from then until now has been one of a steady, stealthy comeback, culminating in the landslide election of May 2014, which brought Narendra Modi (a former RSS higher - up) and the BJP party to power with a large majority in India's powerful Lok Sabha (lower parliament) and in many state assemblies.

Peter Mandelson1997 - 1998After his controversial role as campaign director in the Labour Party's landslide election victory in 1997, Mandelson was appointed Minister without Portfolio to ensure the party operated effectively.

He addresses a number of myths, not least that which became a convenient excuse for the Conservatives, defeated in the landslide election of 1945, that their party organisation had atrophied during the war whilst Labour's had strengthened.

The only way Labour could - and, indeed, should - remain in office for long is if it forms a partnership of principle with Clegg's party, as it should have done after the 1997 landslide election victory.

Since that time, Ponta's government came to power in a landslide election, unemployment levels have stayed stagnant, and the Rosia Montana mining project has regained its governmental support.

The SNP took Dunfermline as part of its landslide election win across Scotland in 2011, with a majority of 590.

Tony Blair today marked the tenth anniversary of the landslide election that returned a Labour government and made him prime minister.

A Labour MP was quoted this week as likening the financial meltdown to the 1982 Falklands War, which brought Margaret Thatcher's beleaguered Government back from the brink and helped secure her landslide election win of 1983.

The day after Labour's landslide election victory John Major told the crowds outside Downing Street that he was to stand down as leader of the Conservative Party.

Even at the height of New Labour's popularity, when it won two landslide election victories, he kept telling Blair when he was drifting away from Labour voters.

A year later she led the Conservatives to a landslide election victory.

On the night of Tony Blair's landslide election victory in 1997, nobody blinked at the defeat of a rookie candidate standing for the Tories in Stafford.

Fresh off a landslide election that he believes gives him a strong mandate, de Blasio is calling for sweeping liberal legislative action to close the gap between New York City's haves and have - nots.

Speaking following the SNP's landslide election, Robertson said his party was «better placed to hold the UK government to account» than ever before.

The landslide election for the dual - clutch box took Ferrari by surprise, but not for long.

Landslide elections, time machines, and Drake's infamous victory dances (we think)-- this has been a marathon week for peering into the future.

On the same day that Aung San Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy party won a landslide election in Myanmar last year, Berwin Leighton Paisner (BLP) launched its first office in the country.

Following the landslide election over the weekend of staunchly left - wing Corbyn to lead the Labour party, Falconer has confirmed he will continue in his role.