Sentences with phrase «of a political career»

And considering that this may well be the end of his political career, he may be more willing to push for things that are seemingly unpopular within his party.

Perhaps, back then, he was weighing up the feasibility of his political career surviving this very risky move.

That does not mean the end of their political career.

Sworn in as prime minister on June 5th, for the third time since 1990, he has been recognized over the course of his political career as a principal challenger to the military's supremacy in governing Pakistan.

This was the beginning of my political career in Chicago.»

There were frequent reminders that de Blasio's interests for much of his political career have been national — de Blasio only decided to run for City Council at age 39, after running Hillary Clinton's campaign for U.S. Senate.

Unlike Corbyn, May has spent most of her political career avoiding publicity and with a reputation for working very hard and taking her time to make decisions.

After 43 years in Congress, Rangel faces the toughest fight of his political career in the June 24 Democratic primary.

Before he was governor, Mario Cuomo was a reluctant candidate for New York's mayor in 1977, and the defeat weighed heavily on the rest of his political career.

Gillibrand's campaign declined to comment, but said it would be sticking with Global, which has been with her since the beginning of her political career when she ousted then - GOP Rep. John Sweeney in 2006.

Clinton dubbed himself «the Comeback Kid», an apropos epithet for the remainder of his political career.

I think that was true when he was an academic, true when he was in the army and true of his political career as well.»

Koch, who is enjoying what he likes to say is the last hurrah of his political career by pushing budget, ethics and redistricting reform via his NY Uprising committee, also announced support for Cuomo's new reform plan, which, in keeping with the campaign's branding, has an official title: The «Clean Up Albany, Make It Work Agenda.»

Hurting Mr. Romaine's chances might be the losses he suffered in the two largest elections of his political career, a bid for County Executive and Congress.

Graham made them a staple of his political career, as is his daughter — Gwen Graham, the former U.S. representative and Tallahassee Democrat now running for governor.

It used to be that achieving the prime ministership was the pinnacle of any political career — the product of a lifetime of service to both party and public after which, former prime ministers, all passion spent, would shuffle off into the House of Lords and spend their golden years giving speeches few will hear.

This was the high point of a political career which was low - key but generally successful; though she endured controversies over select committee membership and over allegations of strong arm tactics with Labour dissenters over military action in Afghanistan.

And in Germany, Chancellor Angela Merkel has endured one of the most tumultuous stretches of her political career amid the migrant crisis.

His statement though makes it perhaps clearer than ever that her popularity is set to give Le Pen the biggest victory of her political career.

Abe has made the abductions a keystone of his political career, and has pledged to work until all 13 of the people North Korea admitted to abducting have returned to Japan.

Stephen Harper, former prime minister and Calgary MP, takes to the stage in the swansong of his political career, the end of the line for the longest - serving conservative prime minister since Sir John A. Macdonald.

A Christian charity has criticised David Cameron for naming the legalisation of same - sex marriage as one of the biggest highlights of his political career.

The bigger issue with his «Christianities» stem from the church he claimed to have attended for long is an imposter (what many call a church of hate), his conversion coincides with the start of his political career, he's never given any account of why he converted to Christianity (people who do convert invariably have very specific reasons), and in one of his books he vows that he will stand with Islam.

He told host of Abusua Nkomo Kwame Adinkra, the Vice Presidential Candidate is currently being hailed by his party for peddling all manner of falsehood to win votes for the party but warned that such a conduct could haunt him in the pursuit of his political career.

Setting aside Ed's natural desire to tell a positive story of his political career, the achievements of the Blair / Brown governments, and a defensive if not protective account of Gordon Brown, this memoir is an interesting and easy read — unlike many such memoirs.

In the press gallery, Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff noted that Miliband had now entered the «everyone loves you now you're no longer leader» phase of this political career.

An examination of his political career in Oklahoma reveals that many of the pitfalls he has encountered in Washington have echoes in his past.

So John, here we are in late July, but perhaps we're really in the Autumn of a political career.

Because Spitzer had made strict adherence to the law the guiding principle of his political career, he had no choice but to resign.

Oakeshott, who has issued a statement making clear the party is «heading for disaster if it keeps Nick Clegg», will have damaged his long - time ally Cable in the final act of his political career with the revelation.

Determined to stave off the death of a political career that ended just as quickly as it began, Clinton plotted his comeback meticulously, tapping Hillary as the mastermind of his victorious campaign just two years later.

Anyone who's spent time with the Premier since the early years of his political career knows he is no fan of the Commission, ever - closer - union and the Directives that order much of British life.

Updated 4 p.m. Rep. Charles B. Rangel, D - N.Y., has averted the end of his political career again, securing a 23rd term in Congress after Tuesday's highly competitive primary.

Johnson's return from journalism in Brussels — losing one wife and gaining another on the way — «to pursue his dream of a political career» is the first intimation that there has been any serious thought given to a political career, post Oxford student politics.

Gordon Brown's decision to agree to a TV leaders» debate could be the best - or the worst - move of his political career.

If the final job of my political career is Chancellor of the Exchequer, I would have had a pretty good career.

«Pray, why would Senator Kashamu go after a man who is at the twilight of his political career?»

Bill de Blasio captured the prize of his political career by framing himself as the antithesis of the billionaire mayor who drastically reshaped New York City during his 12 years in office.

Washington (CNN)-- Former President Bill Clinton may have taken on one of the toughest assignments of his political career... trying to help congress stay in the hands of Democrats.

Still, Latimer concedes that a race against Astorino would be the most difficult race of his political career.

The president is facing the most devastating scandal of his political career, with accusations that Liliane Bettencourt, the 87 - year - old L'Oreal heiress, is being investigated for giving Mr Sarkozy «envelopes stuffed with cash» just before he became president.

The usual trajectory of a political career is first to be a public servant and eat bread from the sweat of one's brow, and then after a time to leave office and cash in as a lobbyist.

Now towards the end of his political career Cameron becomes very interesting and in a way he could never have anticipated or planned.

The plan actually includes some significant victories for the powerful health care workers union, which has a long - standing relationship with Cuomo and played a big role in the resurrection of his political career through his election to the AG's office in 2006.

Alex Salmond has soundly lost the biggest poll of his political career, but somehow managed to find a form of victory in defeat.

The biggest windfall went to Cuomo's right - hand and, Joe Percoco, who started as an advance man with former Gov. Mario Cuomo and has been with the current governor's side through every step of his political career — from HUD to the failed 2002 campaign to the AG's office.

For an intelligent, experienced and talented man in the prime of his political career, the taste of defeat was bitter; all the more so when his forward propulsion was stopped dead in its tracks by his own brother.

Instead of thanking the PM for suspending collective responsibility over the referendum — so that she can in effect call her boss useless, a failure in the greatest challenge of his political career, and still keep her job — Patel says that his most senior official is stitching the whole thing up.

She's still deciding, she said on the Max & Murphy podcast, while also outlining key aspects of her political career thus far, her assessment of what's broken in our politics, what it means to be «a romantic about government,» her falling out with Cuomo, her assessment of Cynthia Nixon's candidacy, and more.