As a sitting President
I presided over an election in which I contested but lost.
Not exact matches
Believing that that customary
election prayer, hallowed by the auspices taken by a counsel, has the force and religious weight that the majesty of the Republic demands, I prayed too that the
election over which I
presided should bring to the successful candidates all good fortune and prosperity.
In fact, almost all
election law in the United States is state law and that is why we see
elections being carried out so differently from state to state with the state's Secretary of State
presiding over and certifying
elections.
Mr. Jammeh praised Mustapha Carroyol, the former Chairman of the IEC for
presiding over credible
elections in the past.
Heath went onto to lose two
elections in February and October of 1974 to the Harold Wilson and Labour governed for the next five years
presiding over industrial strife, inexorable decline, class conflict, an IMF - bailout and the «winter of discontent».
Labour's National Executive Committee (NEC) is a 33 - person body that internally
presides over the implementation of the party's rules, including for Leadership
elections.
When the leader of the country's largest union tells Labour's leader he's being dragged into a swamp, heading for certain defeat at the next
election and
presiding over the destruction of his party, then something's up.
Jim Murphy has just
presided over the worst
election defeat in the history of the Scottish Labour Party.
As chairman of the 1922 committee, he had the unenviable task of
presiding over leadership challenges and
elections.
However Kevin Lindsay, Aslef's organiser in Scotland, said: «Jim Murphy has just
presided over the worst
election defeat in the history of the Scottish Labour Party.
Pelosi is also pointing out that if Cuomo indeed has presidential aspirations,
presiding over a Democrat - dominated state that loses Democratic House members in a presidential
election year because he declined to get engaged in the House redistricting process will not play well with party insiders.
And Tory Cabinet Minister Chris Grayling attacked Mr Balls as «the man who stood alongside Gordon Brown through the crash, the man who lost his seat at the general
election, the man who
presided over Norwich City's football fortunes as they got relegated».
He and Mr Jackson called on Mr Miliband to emulate the approach which led to Labour
election victories in 1945, 1964 and 1997, all of which, they pointed out, involved attacks on a Tory party which had
presided over a period of economic decay.
Instead, it went ahead to
preside over a charade, for which it is now attempting to illicitly handover the vote cast for a dead man to another person, who did not participate in the overall
election.
And when the prime minister has just
presided over such a decisive
election victory, there is little motivation for Cameron to ever take it back to the sharpening block.
Less than a year after the heady celebrations of
election victory, David Cameron faces the possibility of losing the EU, losing Scotland and
presiding over the death of the British steel industry.
In an Observer article, the former Labour leader wrote: «In the leadership
election, we are not choosing the chair of a discussion group who can
preside over two years or more of fascinating debate while the Tories play hell with cuts in local services and public investment.»
It is now clearer than ever that those numbers will be blown out of the water at the general
election and that David Cameron will have succeeded in
presiding over the most radical overhaul of the gender and ethnic make - up of the Conservative parliamentary party.
The ECOWAS Network of Electoral Commissions (ECONEC) has held its second governing board meeting in Abuja
presided over by its President Prof. Mahmood Yakubu to agree on the accelerated implementation of the body's activities and action plan, ahead of a three - day International Conference opening on Monday, on the Opportunities and Challenges in the use of Technology in
Elections.
Christie
presided over net gains in Republican governorships in the 2014
elections, including for Republican gubernatorial candidates in three largely Democratic states: Bruce Rauner in Illinois, Larry Hogan in Maryland and Charlie Baker in Massachusetts.
Hochul, who
presided over an anti-campus sexual assault forum at the Capitol, says she's simply facing political realities, like the takeover of the state Senate by Republicans in the November
elections.
Nana Akufo - Addo said these are ethnocentric comments by a President who has no plans of
presiding over a unified country, and he is willing to say and do anything to win an
election.
A Federal High Court in Abuja
presided over by Justice John Tsoho, had in January 2017 ordered the Oyo State Independent
Election Commission (OYSIEC) not to proceed with its plan to conduct the election earlier slated for Febr
Election Commission (OYSIEC) not to proceed with its plan to conduct the
election earlier slated for Febr
election earlier slated for February 11.
In explaining the judgment of the seven - member panel of Justices of the Supreme Court, the
presiding Justice, Sophia Adinyira, said their decision was to enable the EC give hearing to all parties involved in the legal tussle
over the qualification, due to the limited time left for the
election to be held.
«While it's well - intentioned by them,» said Mike Reich, a member of the Queens party who
presided over the meeting, «the executive committee has voted to table this because the additional expenses would be astronomical and the restrictions on it would hamper the ability of the political party to operate in an
election time where you have to make quick expenditures in response to Republicans — as you know, Republicans can drop a million dollars in a district in a blink of an eye — and we have to be able to respond.»
But the 47 - year - old, who
presided over Labour's loss of the 2015
election, then read out «Nineteen... sorry... one and nine, nineteen.»
In the leadership
election, we are not choosing the chair of a discussion group who can
preside over two years or more of fascinating debate while the Tories play hell with cuts in local services and public investment, extend injustice and flatlining incomes, sustain or worsen private debt, and deepen the balance - of - payments, productivity, housing and poverty deficits.
We don't know who will win the
election but one thing we do know for certain though, is that whoever wins will
preside over a real terms cut in education funding during the next parliament.
154 Australian scientists demand climate policy that matches the science «While the Paris Agreement remains unbinding and global warming has received minimal attention in the recent
elections, governments worldwide are
presiding over a large - scale demise of the planetary ecosystems, which threatens to leave large parts of Earth uninhabitable.
Oversaw student government; organized annual
elections and
presided over student meetings.
Whether representatives should be chosen by
election or by delegation, or alternatively whether they should be chosen through a merit selection process
presided over by a panel of eminent Indigenous peers;