Sentences with phrase «lose their seats when»

Lopez was forced from the legislature after the scandal, and Silver lost his seat when he was accused in an unrelated federal corruption case, which is being retried this year.

These are both signs that Labour MPs - forbidden by Labour rules from «chicken running» to safer seats - are, perhaps, fearful of losing their seats when opinion polls are putting the Conservatives so far ahead.

Many more ermine parachutes could of course be available to Lib Dem MPs who lose their seats when the -LSB-...]

He served on the committee briefly a decade ago but lost his seat when Democrats lost control of the House in 2010.

In the 1992 general election Evans retained Welwyn and Hatfield with a slightly reduced majority (8,465), but lost the seat when Labour came to power five years later.

Not exact matches

Given that the opinion polls at the moment have a small Conservative lead and given that four years ago when most of the seats were up for grabs there was a small Labour lead, if indeed the Labour party is gaining ground in London it must be losing ground somewhere else.

But while history may also be on the Democrats» side — the party in power often loses Congressional seats after a President's first two years in office, even when that President is not as controversial as the current occupant — they actually face a very difficult Senate map.

That's what the carrier ultimately offered Allison Preiss on Thursday when she lost her seat on a full morning flight from Washington Dulles to Austin.

Roy Moore, the party's candidate for what had been one of its safest Senate seats, lost after allegations arose that he had sexually assaulted a 14 - year - old girl when he was in his mid-30s and had pursued other teenagers.

OPINION: If Rio and BHP thought their political troubles ended when Brendon Grylls lost his seat at the recent election, they had better think again.

On Thursday night when Prasad Panda, 50, won the Wildrose its first urban seat since its previous two were lost in the May general election, Rachel at least got a partial reading of the zeitgeist of...

Hamilton was also involved in an incident on July 7th, when he flipped a foul ball toward the left - field bleacher seats and spectator, Shannon Stone, lost his balance trying to catch it.

There's a chance Vergne is still a little bitter at getting left out of the team - when he started racing in Formula E in at the end of 2014 (once he'd lost his F1 seat) he seemed pretty miffed about the whole thing.

I still go with same six mates I went with in the late fifties when it was two bob to get in and would lose touch if I didn't go anymore, great seats, behind the TV camera, a meal before the game, a drink after the game, so as you can see it's very difficult to give up plus if I give it up with the waiting list for a S / T I'll never get it back and the thought of not going to Arsenal every week I couldn't contemplate.

If you were on the pitch and you make back passes, lose the ball easily, don't charge down at opponent when in position, then you look at your manager / coach and he's seated, relaxed, not even bother about your abysmal display, the player wouldn't even be bothered to make any improvement

Although I've found it very cathartic to speak, vent and end occasionally rant about all things Arsenal, we need to act carefully and intelligently right now or we're going to get played by this club even worse than at present... the pro-Wengerites and the suits, who represent a considerable proportion of the season ticket holders, don't want to believe that there is no plan and that Wenger has mailed it in for several years now or that things are going to get much worse before they get better... why would they... many have spent a considerable sum buying some of the highest priced tickets in the World... they want to have a front row seat to see something special and to be seen doing so, which simply provides ample justification for the expense and the time invested... to many of them, Wenger is the sun in their soccer universe... his awkward disposition, misplaced arrogance and his utter lack of balls makes him a rather unusual cult figure, but the cerebral narrative seemed to embolden those who already felt pretty highly of themselves... many might not even of really liked football that much before his arrival and rarely games they weren't attending... as such, they desperately believe that Wenger, and only Wenger, can supply them with their required fix... if he goes, they were wrong and that's a tough pill to swallow... they would have to admit that they were duped... they will definitely resent whoever made them feel this way, but of course it will be too late by then... so when we go overboard with ridiculous comments bordering of anarchy, it scares the shit out of them and they shift their blame towards us rather than at those who really perpetrated this act of treason... we aren't the enemy... we simply woke much earlier and the reason our comments have gotten more vile in recent years is out of utter frustration... in order for any real change to occur at this club we need to bring as many supporters as possible with us or the big money interests will fade and our ultimate objective will be lost... so it's time to focus on the head instead of the heart for now

Arsenal are being punished for blocking the stairways to the away supporters stands and or seats which if true is similar to the same thing that happened at Hillborough all those years ago when lives were lost.

The polls have them losing about half their seats, which could well render them largely irrelevant when it comes to hammering out a governing coalition.

Statement is Partially correct that we dominated Man Utd but we were certainly not unlucky... When you do such 2 school boy errors and when you miss seater Like Xhaka missed it then you don't deserve to win... We certainly don't deserve to win that game because it's criminal to do such mistakes in defence and that too against top 6 clubs... Xhaka should have buried that one in... We dominated the United Side but were not unlucky... We lost game because of our own impotency in the gamWhen you do such 2 school boy errors and when you miss seater Like Xhaka missed it then you don't deserve to win... We certainly don't deserve to win that game because it's criminal to do such mistakes in defence and that too against top 6 clubs... Xhaka should have buried that one in... We dominated the United Side but were not unlucky... We lost game because of our own impotency in the gamwhen you miss seater Like Xhaka missed it then you don't deserve to win... We certainly don't deserve to win that game because it's criminal to do such mistakes in defence and that too against top 6 clubs... Xhaka should have buried that one in... We dominated the United Side but were not unlucky... We lost game because of our own impotency in the game...

It basically confirms that Massa didn't want to retire at all, but when faced with losing his seat at Williams he decided to bow out on his own terms to avoid his F1 career trailing off like his countryman, Rubens Barrichello.

When you don't need the harness straps while in the booster seat mode, you can store them in the harness storage compartment built into the seat so you won't lose them.

My granddaughter wanted to graduate from her five point harness seat when she turned six, I did not want her to lose the protection of what she called her «baby seat».

Councillors that won marginal seats on a tide of national popularity for their party are most likely to lose them when the tide ebbs.

A son of the late Bafuor Osei Akoto, the Chief Linguist to the Asantehene and founder of the National Liberation Movement during the 1950's, Dr Afriyie Akoto first contested the Kwadaso seat in 2000 when it was still part of the Bantama constituency but lost his party's parliamentary primaries.

James Wharton, who shot to fame when he tried to pilot the first EU referendum bill from the backbenches, lost his Stockton South seat and his job as an international development minister on 8 June.

But come January when the legislative session begins, the Democrats are expected to lose two members — Ruben Diaz of the Bronx who won a City Council seat, and George Latimer of Westchester who beat Republican incumbent Rob Astorino for County Executive as part of that previously mentioned «Blue Wave.»

Dugdale had some cause to celebrate in June when Scottish Labour won back six of the Westminster seats it had lost to the SNP in 2015 but even her dearest friend wouldn't argue that she had saved the party.

But Murphy's plans were derailed less than a year later when he lost his seat, leaving a vacancy at the top of the party.

«You're not going to fool them with the nonsense about being the curator for the Post Office and putting up pictures,» said former Congressman Michael Grimm, who is running for the seat he lost when he went to prison.

Pennsylvania's congressional delegation already had a 12 - 7 Republican advantage over Democrats heading into the last round of redistricting, when the state lost a congressional seat because of lagging population growth.

There appeared to be no fixed laws of political gravity when these two took voters from Labour, as the 40 Scottish Labour MPs who lost their seats might attest.

In 2014, the last damage occurred when Democrats lost 4 U.S. Senate seats in the South (in West Virginia, North Carolina, Arkansas, and Louisiana) that they had previously held.

Jim Knight - Labour The work and pensions secretary became another high - profile casualty when he lost his seat of Dorset South with a 9.3 per cent swing to the Conservatives.

Claims that Corbyn «embarrassed his critics» by losing council seats are facile, even on their own terms; there was a 3 % swing towards the Tories compared with when the seats were last fought, in 2012.

California Republican Paul Chabot could barely get national GOP strategists to acknowledge his existence last cycle when he lost to Democrat Pete Aguilar, 52 - 48 percent, in the 31st District open - seat race.

Dennis Saffran, who lost a bid for the same Council seat in 2001 when he ran against Tony Avella, who is now a state senator, said he would be filing for another run at the spot within the week.

Local government's four - year electoral cycle means that the baseline with which to compare these elections was 2011, when most of the actual council seats up this year were last won and lost.

When he lost his seat by just 888 votes in the 2017 general election, Tory peer Lord Ashcroft described him as «one of the brightest of the younger generation».

International development minister Lynne Featherstone, campaign manager for Chris Huhne when he fought Clegg for the leadership and whose London seat would likely be lost if these election results were repeated, praised him to the hilt: «He is brave and capable, and taking us into government has achieved remarkable progress.»

Watch: the extraordinary moment when The Labour Party campaign chief Douglas Alexander realised he'd lost his seat to Scottish National Party (SNP) 20 - year - old politics student Mhairi Black by six thousand votes.Watch more: Douglas Alexander's concession speech here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o7-ZMZeR6a4

«At a time when millions of New Yorkers are fearful of losing their health insurance as well as worker and women's rights, the Democratic chair is busy arranging a patronage job to ensure Republicans win this Assembly seat,» Lipton said.

Mejias lost his local seat in 2009 when his friend and ally, ex-Nassau County Executive Tom Suozzi was also bounced from office and the Democrats lost control of the Legislature and all but one office (the DA's spot held by AG hopeful Kathleen Rice).

Relief that it hasn't lost more council seats when this is the first time for more than 30 years an opposition didn't gain is the low expectation of a stalled party.

The last round of comparable elections were held in 2013 when Labour picked up 291 seats, UKIP gained 139 and Tories lost 335 and the Lib Dems shed 124 seats.

A statement from Unison Scotland's Labour Link said: «It is unprecedented for a party leader not to stand down after such a defeat, particularly when he loses his own seat.

Asiwaju Tinubu said the Biafran episode, the civil war and Ojukwu's role in the Second Republic when, fresh from exile when he dived head - long into the ruling National Party of Nigeria (NPN) to contest a senatorial seat, which he eventually lost, was still a subject of historical analysis.

The Democrat automatically lost his Assembly seat Monday when he was convicted on charges of corruption, extortion, money laundering and collecting nearly $ 4 million in kickbacks and bribes.

Senate Democrats lost their supermajority last month when Los Angeles - area Sen. Tony Mendoza resigned rather than face an extremely rare expulsion vote over sexual misconduct allegations, and he's running again for the same seat.

The previous Exchequer Secretary was Phillip Oppenheim, who held the post from 23 July 1996 to 2 May 1997, when he lost his seat in the general election that brought Tony Blair to power.

Yet that Ukip dividend for the Conservatives — on a night when the party Nigel Farage once led lost 123 seats and held just three — could become a curse as well as a blessing, at least for those Tories who fear the consequences of an all - singing all - dancing hard Brexit.