Sentences with phrase «losing her seat by»

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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».

The beaten Labour candidate, Alasdair Morrison, lost the seat by only 720 in 2007.

Mr Watkins lost the seat by just 103 votes in the general election.

The leader of the Lib Dem group on Bedford council, Nick Charsley, lost his seat by the narrow margin of just 48 votes.

Since losing her seat by just 417 votes in the general election, the former work and pensions minister has clearly not been short of job offers.

Despite losing the seat by just 103 votes at last year's general election and although the Tories are allegedly holding back their campaign at David Cameron's request, Nick Clegg's party trails by 17 points in two separate surveys of voters in the key marginal.

When Nick Clegg stood on the stage at Sheffield Hallam on Friday morning and heard the declaration that he had lost his seat by 2,125 votes, he was a long way from the moment of political euphoria that produced «Cleggmania» and caused David Cameron, Gordon Brown and voters across the country to declare: «I agree with Nick».

Other former Democratic incumbents who have closed down their committees include former Rep. Michael Arcuri (D - N.Y.), who lost his seat by six points in 2010, and former Rep. Joe Sestak (D - Pa.)

His resignation triggers a by - election in which Labour will come under massive pressure from the Conservatives - who lost the seat by 2,564 votes in 2015 - and Ukip.

Mr Galloway lost the seat by more than 10,000 votes.

Not exact matches

Republicans hold the Senate by the slimmest majority possible, at 51 to 49 seats, and losing even one or two seats could further hamper their ability to enact Trump's already slow - moving agenda.

The party lost a by - election earlier this month to the Conservatives for a Toronto seat that had long been held by the Liberals.

And a new Forum Research poll taken since Saturday's election call gives the Conservatives 41 per cent, Liberals 24 per cent and NDP 19 per cent — suggesting a seat count in which the Tories win 19 new seats for a majority with 162 seats, the Liberals lose 17 to 61, the Bloc rises by seven to 51 and the NDP drops two to 24.

Still, the biggest winner appears to be Hezbollah and its allies, who look set to scoop up at least some of the seats lost by Hariri's coalition, largely because of the expected fragmentation of the Sunni vote.

It is personified by Dr Evan Harris, the Liberal Democrat MP who lost his Oxford seat at the last election substantially because local church members drew voters» attention to Dr Harris» ulterior motives on a variety of issues from abortion to euthanasia.

For if, e. g., a man loses consciousness as soon as his brain is injured, it is clearly as good an explanation to say the injury to the brain destroyed the mechanism by which the manifestation of the consciousness was rendered possible, as to say that it destroyed the seat of consciousness.

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The fear of «losing» one's faith is the big stick that is generally used by paid ministry to keep bums on seats.

Thus, while Republicans lost seats, liberals didn't really gain seats, although veteran radical liberals gained power, in the form of congressional control, made possible by the victories of the moderate members of their party.

A few seats behind her Elise Etem, the powerful sophomore whose brother had been drafted by the Anaheim Ducks, thought perhaps her cox had lost her mind and brought the tiniest bottle of refreshment in the history of sports.

Some atrocious defending last night for sure we could have lost by a big margin ospina kept it together for us and cavani waisted a few Thank God we survived but this should be a wake call a call for tuning: -(analyze the pitfalls rectify and execute solution) we are not seating in mud but we need to adjust our posture so we don't slid into the mud hole.....

Exactly what Palmer will end up doing in 2018 is unknown at the moment, but it looks like Abiteboul is feeling a little guilty about the cut - throat nature in which Palmer lost his seat - after all, he did find out by reading it online...

Thursday night is Face Time at Harpo's, the appointed hour for a massive exchange of check - outs: J - schoolers in their Woody's wear, Ag - schoolers in their pointed boots, athletes in their motley styles, lady professors in their tight jeans — they all crowd in by nine, all the seats and booths taken and the waitresses lost in a hive of table - hoppers and minglers.

He lost motivation by not being treated first class in term of cash with rest of the league topping his salary ro seating on our bench.

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

And also remember that although seats are already paid for, Arsenal is still losing matchday revenue by not having anyone in the stadium buying stuff, and that does contribute a lot as well.

I don't know about you guys but the moment i saw the lineup for yesterday's match with Ozil, Wilshere and Cazorla starting the game i didn't bother about the formation we were going to use because i knew it was a 4 -1-4-1 formation with Ozil on the wings, Wilshere partnering Flamini and Cazorla in the middle i knew we had lost already but what i failed to do and i'm regreting was to get up from my seat and leave already by seeing the formation / lineup.

Ever since Sam Allardyce was booted out of the managerial hot - seat and replaced by Steve Kean I've not been at all interested in backing Blackburn, and I'm not budging on Saturday despite West Ham taking a fifth match losing streak into the game as Rovers look to build on their recent success over Bolton.

Your seat is also often carried by hand to a front compartment in the plane which means the risk of your seat being lost is very small.

Seats which Labour were expected by all and sundry to lose stayed red.

-- Nily Rozic, chief of staff to Manhattan Assemblyman Brian Kavanagh, who is running for the seat being vacated by Assemblyman Rory Lancman, who lost to Meng in the June 26 NY - 6 primary and is declining to take advantage of a political calendar loophole that would enable him to seek re-election.

Spano is the brother of former Sen. Nick Spano, who lost his seat in 2006 in a re-match against Democratic Sen. Andrea Stewart - Cousins after beating her by just 18 votes two years earlier.

For example, suppose that voters are evenly split between two political parties, but the nine equal population single member districts are drawn so that the favored party wins by just 5 percentage points in eight districts, while the disfavored party wins by 40 percentage points in another district, you've converted a 50 - 50 division of the population vote into 8 seats for the favored party (which gets a 0.45 seat rounding error in its favor in the eight districts it wins and a 0.1 seat rounding error against it in the one district it loses), and 1 seat for the disfavored party (which gets a 0.45 seat rounding error against it in the eight district it loses but only a 0.1 seat rounding error in its favor in the one district it wins).

Given the tiny majorities they lost by in seats such as Falmouth, AV may well have given them a significantly increased number of seats.

A New York City proposal to diversify middle schools on Manhattan's Upper West Side, by setting aside seats for children with low test scores, is facing stiff resistance from parents worried their high - achieving children might lose access to the popular public schools.

By contrast, 26 per cent of Conservative votes in 2015 were in seats that the party lost.

A separate poll conducted by Lord Ashcroft found the Lib Dem's economic spokesperson Danny Alexander is also set to lose his previously safe Inverness seat in a 29 - point landslide to the SNP.

It also seems near certain now that Phillip Davies, a Tory MP hated by left - wingers and especially feminists for his reactionary views, has lost his seats.

She lost to Republican Rep. John Faso for the open seat that was vacated by Republican incumbent Chris Gibson.

Her words were greeted with derision bordering on fury, not least by senior Conservative MPs who told her she must be more contrite and express sympathy for colleagues who had lost their seats.

The Cumbrian semi-rural seat of Copeland was seized by the Conservatives — the first time the main opposition party has lost a seat it was defending in a byelection since 1982.

In the most competitive half of the battleground — the 27 most vulnerable Republican - held seats, where Democrats lead the named incumbent by 6 points, 50 to 44 percent — two - thirds could lose their seats.

Trump carried this north - central Ohio seat by 11 points, but after watching Republicans lose a district that backed the president by 20 points (the old Pennsylvania's 18th) and struggle to win another that he won by 21 points (Arizona's 8th), that's enough evidence to move the Aug. 7 special election race in a more competitive district.

The seats lost by the Lib Dems to the Conservatives helped to boost the overall proportion of women, while the seats lost by Labour to the SNP and especially to the Conservatives had the opposite effect.

Tony McNulty - Labour Former home office minister Tony McNulty lost his Harrow East seat to Tory Bob Blackman by just over three thousand votes.

Maffei, who was first elected to the Syracuse - area congressional seat in 2008 with the Obama wave, lost the seat to Buerkle in 2010 by 648 votes.

By comparison with a tally of 331 seats in 2015, the Conservatives lost 27 seats to Labour and 5 to the Liberal Democrats.

And in July 2006, before Republicans lost 31 seats, the then - floundering Republican incumbents trailed their opponents by 6 points.

The president, whose party lost 63 seats in 2010, saw Democrats lose 12 seats and became the two - term president with the most midterm defeats, edging past Truman's 74 by one.