Sentences with phrase «landslide election victory»

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.