Sentences with phrase «line following a petition»

Brown, who was bounced off the Republican line following a petition challenge, ran on the Conservative and New Beginnings party lines instead and managed to beat Democratic candidate John Simek 359 - 277.

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More than 10,000 have signed a petition demanding that the London - Edinburgh line be run by the public sector, following the deal announced last month by the transport secretary, Chris Grayling.

Such a right would allow a vociferous minority to trigger a by - election for what might simply be political advantage; the threat of a recall petition could equally could be used to intimidate MPs who did not follow the party line.

In the days following that hearing, tens of thousands of people flooded the lines of congressional offices, numerous petitions with hundreds of thousands of signatures were circulated, and social media was set ablaze.