Sentences with phrase «political unknown named»

Twenty years ago a cocky, perhaps overconfident Cahill, seeking an all - but - automatic second term, faced a political unknown named John Guerin.

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In a deft synthesis of escapism and dreadful reality — like successfully mixing ice cream with Buckley's cough syrup — an unknown sports sophisticate and political junkie named Paul Kaplan (an Atlanta Braves fan, but that's not a crime) sent a letter to his congressman to protest the defeat of his baseball team in the National League playoffs and demand they be crowned the winners anyway.

From the get - go, the candidate faced an uphill battle as a political - unknown with little name recognition facing an incumbent mayor.

That becomes something of a crutch in The Cut, his decade - spanning, continent - hopping look at the aftermath of the Armenian genocide, because the film's narrative requires that its embattled protagonist, a refugee named Nazaret (Tahar Rahim), navigate a whole slew of unknown territories and political ideologies over the course of a few decades in the early 20th century.