Sentences with phrase «losing his seat because»

Do they really want to lose those seats because the members were asked to take a loyalty test for their Skelos?

«Hey Governor, politicians should pay their taxes or lose their seats because what's good for the goose is good for the gander!»

Even the NY Times editorial page points out how Daschle lost his seat because of partisan obstructionism of a minority party... hmmm... who's doing that today?

As many as five LIb Dem MPs may lose their seats because of changes to constituency boundaries.

«No senator wants to be the next Dede Scozzafava and lose their seat because of the issue of marriage,» McGuire said.

While reacting to this, the Senate Minority Leader, Godswill Akpabio, said Effiong had automatically lost his seat because he became a senator under the platform of the PDP.

«We don't know of a legislator in the United States who's lost a seat because of voting for gay marriage,» a New York Democratic strategist says.

Not exact matches

The third - largest U.S. carrier's seat count will fall an estimated 1.5 percent in the current quarter because of the storm, with little opportunity to recoup lost sales, Helane Becker of Cowen & Co. said in a report Tuesday.

Trump said Wednesday that it was «important» to vote on the tax bill next week, but not only because the GOP lost a seat in Alabama.

Well - qualified northeasterners, for example, have lost board seats and CEO positions because their manners and style did not play well to boards in the Midwest or South.

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.

No, the reason we lost is because they have a better team than us (ouch it hurts to admit that) and a better manager (I think we can all agree on that) also, very soon will have a better stadium than ours, bigger capacity, steeper sides, better facilities and a huge bank of steeply angled seats behind the goal.

there's a whole laundry list of minor changes that could save billions but no one wants to talk about them because they will lose their seat during the next election.

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 game...

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.

I lost a cousin in a train accident because their car stalled out on the track and they were not able to get her out of her car seat on time.

Those in the front passenger seat of a small vehicle may lose some legroom because of this.

If you're a safety - conquers - all kind of parent, remember this simple rule: Don't graduate your kid to the next type of safety seat until you absolutely have to, because «every time you transition, you're going to lose a little bit of protection,» Hoffman, the Oregon pediatrician and car seat specialist, says.

I had foolishly assumed that whether I liked them or not, people in government were there because they knew how to do their job but the last 12 months alone have included the decision to hold a snap election that then lost them more seats than a bad IKEA intern, Brexit talks that have mimicked that track Paula Abdul did with a cartoon cat, an offensive defence secretary, an international development secretary who had to resign in order to spend less time on holiday, Boris Johnson sadly continuing to be Boris Johnson and all of that and more culminating in an assurance that everything is fine because now our passports will be blue to match the depression everyone will have in 2018.

As we already know, New York is on tap to lose two House seats because it grew slower compared to other states.

«If I were them, I wouldn't feel very good because they spent about $ 150,000 on two weeks» worth of races and they lost three seats in the legislature and could lose a fourth with Tim Hogues,» Zellner said.

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.

As Anthony Wells points out, it is somewhat inevitable that Labour should be doing worse where they started stronger because there are some places where they didn't have 15 points to lose, but it might also be partly because Ashcroft only polled in Labour seats where the Yes vote was relatively strong in the independence referendum.

Just because some pundits thought Labour might lose 200 seats, it doesn't mean that «only» losing eighteen becomes a good result.

The LibDems aren't going to lose «a bit of ground» to the Tories, they're going to lose 30 - 40 seats to them (i.e. about half the Parliamentary Party), not least because they have their most ineffective leader since Clement Davis.

I would estimate the number of retirements yet to be announced on the Labour side to be between 30 and 40, partly because there are almost twice as many Labour MPs as Tories, and partly because many expect to lose their seats (so why go through the agony and humiliation).

Historically, on a good election night for the Tories, the Liberals always do badly — Clegg's only chance of gaining seats will be from Labour in the North because he will certainly lose seats to the Tories in the South.

In the Scottish Parliament elections yesterday the SNP lost 6 seats and their majority because their share of the list vote fell by 2 points.

«And then he said that, because he was losing ground to the establishment who wanted former Secretary of Labor Perez to be the chair, he said, well he would quit his seat, won't be a part - time chair, starts backing off on Israel - Palestine issue,» Nader continued.

«Any business that had done that would be looking very hard now at both its strategy and its management to see how we get some of that back - because otherwise we're going to lose a large number of seats at the next election.»

Then in 2011, Lothian's constituencies were engulfed in the SNP tidal wave, except Edinburgh North and Leith which the popular Malcolm Chisholm held for Labour with a slim majority over Shirley - Anne Somerville (who lost her seat on the list because of that wave of success but looks set to return as the representative for Dunfermline).

So Schaufler must have awoken with an epic hangover on the morning after the election, because he somehow managed to lose his seat.

Democrats don't have to worry about losing the senate seat because VA has a Democratic governor.

Their 5 - seat total remained the same though because they lost 2 seats in the proportional system.

-- Sen. Greg Ball reconsiders his decision not to primary Rep. Nan Hayworth in NY - 19 because he has little to lose, given his ability to run for his Senate seat if the House race doesn't go his way.

«I concentrate in the Congress of course because we lose two congressional seats, which means we are gonna have to pick up population to make up for the fact that we'll have two less, we'll only have 27.

But Dilan loses the congressional primary, so he then collects petitions to run for his Senate seat — unless he doesn't have to run because his son and Espinal back off.

Research from the Fabian Society predicts that Labour may lose five seats to UKIP and has identified 16 seats «that may turn blue» because of UKIP support.

The state will lose two of its 29 congressional seats under redistricting because other states grew faster in population.

It was mentally insane to keep her as leader that after she lost 63 seats and even more so now as she not only had minimal gains this time but she's probably going to lose seats again next time because you won't have African American and Latino voters coming out to vote in such large numbers which was Obama true assets, racial identity politics (not criticizing it, just saying he did it well).

Seats were lost because of votes in favor of marriage equality.

Is there any good analysis about how many seats were lost because of gerrymandering that happened after 2008?

According to new Census Bureau estimates, tt's likely that New York will lose one of its 27 congressional seats in the 2022 reapportionment because its small growth in population hasn't kept pace with the nation as a whole.

It's like»92 because of the late Tory surge and like» 97, in an inverse sort of way, because all the Lib Dem seats the Conservatives lost then — Twickenham, Kingston, Sutton, Colchester etc — have now been won back.

The former president said he had restrained himself from commenting on governance issues after losing the presidential seat to the NPP's Nana Akufo - Addo, because he believed that every new government needed time to settle in office, but «it looks like NPP is whittling away its honeymoon period with the mistakes that it is doing.»

In the video, Hochul says she lost her House seat to Republican Chris Collins in 2012 because of her support for progressive causes.

The Tories have lost a seat, but that's because Scotland only gets six seats this year, not seven as it did in 2004.

The Democratic House Committee is wise to put six - figure money into this open seat race, because it is theirs to lose.

Five seats are off the table because they are likely to be lost — Slough, Hartlepool, Birmingham Edgbaston, Wolverhampton South West and Middlesborough South and East Cleveland.