Sentences with phrase «presidential election defeat»

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Detailed reports and allegedly leaked audio paint a picture of an embarrassing defeat at the hands of the US military, and how the remains of dead Russian mercenaries are being held until after Russia's presidential election in March.

He lost a presidential election in 2005 to hardline Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the little - known mayor of Tehran at the time, a defeat that indicated resentment toward Rafsanjani as part of the elite and the perception he served few interests other than his own.

Deep Root Analytics, a conservative data firm contracted by the RNC as part of a push to ramp up its voter - analytics operation in the wake of Mitt Romney's defeat in the 2012 presidential election, stored details of about 61 % of the US population on an Amazon cloud server without password protection for those two weeks.

On May 7, Marine Le Pen's defeat in France's presidential election secured an integrated EU and had many investors breathing a sigh of relief.

Plus, Special Counsel Robert Mueller charges 13 Russians with interfering in the 2016 presidential election to help Donald Trump defeat Hillary Clinton.

After Jimmy Carter defeated Jackson for the 1976 Democratic presidential nomination and bested President Ford in the subsequent general election, the Carter administration adopted the language of an assertive human - rights policy but filled it with New Left content, aiming its criticism primarily at authoritarian American allies rather than at America's totalitarian enemies.

The election was also somewhat of a replay of Indonesia's 2014 presidential election, when the current president, Jokowi, defeated Prabowo, son - in - law of the last dictator Soeharto and a former general suspected of human rights abuses.

Despite CNN's best efforts as the voice of the democrat party Obama will be defeated in the presidential elections.

I was eating nachos when the presidential election results came in and now they only taste of bitter defeat to me.

He wore a shirt which bore the phrase: «It's not my fault, I voted for Aécio», a reference to Senator Aécio Neves who was defeated by Dilma in presidential elections last October.

Then, when Havelange triumphs over Rous — sorry, Sir Stanley — in the 1974 presidential election, the defeated Englishman is even less circumspect.

According to an article written by several people at Pew Research, «The results of Tuesday's presidential election came as a surprise to nearly everyone who had been following the national and state election polling, which consistently projected Hillary Clinton as defeating Donald Trump.»

Mr President, the desperation so far exhibited by your person and your government in manipulating sensitive agencies of state like the judiciary and now the electoral commission to further your bid to win the 2020 election is totally against the spirit of democracy and peace bestowed by the NDC in conceding defeat at the Presidential election.

Emmanuel Macron, a youthful former investment banker, handily won France's presidential election, defeating the staunch nationalist Marine Le Pen after voters firmly rejected her far - right message and backed his call for centrist change, according to partial returns.

My Relationship With Buhari As former President Goodluck Jonathan prepares to give his own account of his historic defeat in the 2015 presidential election, more...

His wife, Konadu Agyeman Rawlings, in an attempt to equalize her husband's feat, hurriedly formed the NDP in 2012, to contest that national elections after she was resoundingly defeated at Sunyani by the late president, John Evans Atta Mills at the NDC Presidential Primary.

With barely a year since John Dramani Mahama lost the 2016 elections, there has been heated debates from both sides of the political divide over whether or not the defeated president will consider contesting the 2020 presidential race.

In ancient times, the death of a leader in battle would mean slavery or worse for the defeated side; likewise, in a presidential - style election battle if Cameron were caught with his trousers down, or suffered a catastrophic failure in authority, there are 303 Conservative MPs whose careers depend on him.

As former President Goodluck Jonathan prepares to give his own account of his historic defeat in the 2015 presidential election, more insiders are coming forward with their version of what happened.

Jameh had rejected the result of the last month's presidential election after he had earlier accepted defeat.

President Trump on Sunday accused former Democratic presidential nominee Hillary ClintonHillary Diane Rodham ClintonTrump Jr. met with Gulf adviser who offered help to win election: report Voters Dems need aren't impressed by anti-waterboarding showboating After year of investigation, Trump can rightly claim some vindication MORE of colluding with her party to defeat her primary opponent Sen. Bernie SandersBernard (Bernie) SandersSunday shows preview: Lawmakers weigh in after Texas school shooting Voters Dems need aren't impressed by anti-waterboarding showboating Primary win gives resurgent left a new shot of adrenaline MORE (I - Vt.).

The National Organiser of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Kofi Adams, has said that the founder of the party, Jerry John Rawlings, can not be blamed for the party's defeat in the recent presidential elections.

According to him, the positive responses he gave and developments after the December 7 general election when he called the winner, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo - Addo, to concede defeat to him, even before the Electoral Commission (EC) announced the results of the presidential election, constituted a major reason the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) requested him to participate in two missions to Banjul, The Gambia to get Yahya Jammeh to accept the will of the Gambian people and hand over power to Mr Adama Barrow, but which he refused.

Still, in a presidential election year, defeating Schumer would be a heavy lift for any Republican seeking to run statewide in a Democratic - heavy state.

Information reaching The aL - hAJJ indicates that the twice defeated presidential candidate, having now regretted instigating the removal of National Chairman, Paul Afoko; General Secretary, Kwabena Agyepong, and 2nd vice chairman, Sammy Crabbe from office, is frantically working to suppress any threat their suspension may pose to his chances in the November elections.

Lamido also predicted that the APC will cease to exist after the March 28 presidential election after the defeat it will suffer.

A statement issued by his Special Adviser on Media, Uche Anichukwu, in Abuja on Friday quoted him as saying, «Former President Goodluck Jonathan put Nigeria on the global map as a leading democratic nation when he put in everything to ensure free and fair elections (in 2015), in which he did not only lose the presidential poll as an incumbent but also willingly conceded defeat.

«I don't think we have enough guidance counselors to deal with this,» UFT President Michael Mulgrew said of the disappointment following Hillary Clinton's defeat to Donald Trump in the presidential election.

Democrats the Observer spoke to described Mr. Reichard as «likeable» and «brilliant,» but gave him small odds of defeating Mr. Donovan, even in a presidential election year.

The president of Austria's constitutional court, Gerhart Holzinger, annuls the result of the country's presidential election, which saw a narrow defeat in May for rightwing populist Norbert Hofer over Green - backed Alexander Van der Bellen

The opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) has called on President John Dramani Mahama to concede defeat in the 2016 presidential election.

Against the backdrop of claims in some quarters that former President Goodluck Jonathan conceded defeat after the 2015 Presidential elections out of pressure, the former president...

Meanwhile, leaders of PDP in the North - East will meet in Gombe tomorrow to endorse a new national chairmanship candidate to replace the former National Chairman, Alhaji Adamu Muazu, from Bauchi State, who resigned following the defeat of PDP at the presidential election.

«KANU's dominance ended in the 2002 general election, when its Kikuyu presidential candidate Uhuru Kenyatta defeated by a fellow Kikuyu, National Rainbow Coalition (NaRC) presidential candidate Mwai Kibaki, supported by Luo leader Raila Odinga.

By Julius Oweh Since the 2015 defeat of the Peoples Democratic Party in the presidential election and the exit of President Goodluck...

The president - elect, who is a national sporting hero, defeated 21 other presidential candidates in the October 10 general elections with 38.4 per cent of the total votes cast.

Yahya Jammeh, who lost a December 1 presidential vote to opposition leader Adama Barrow, is refusing to step down, despite international condemnation and a threat of a military intervention by West African countries to enforce his election defeat.

Seven months after Barack Obama defeated him in the U.S. presidential election, the Republican senator from Arizona said Sunday he thinks his former Senate colleague is making things happen in the White House.

2011 July - President John Atta Mills chosen as ruling National Democratic Congress party's candidate for the 2012 presidential election, defeating Nana Konadu Agyemang - Rawlings, wife of former President Jerry Rawlings.

They also endorsed the ticket of presidential electors nominated by the Anti-Masons, who — if they won the election — should vote for Henry Clay if this would help to defeat Jackson, otherwise for Wirt.

The insider squealed that the Presidency was aware of the foregoing hence its worries that aside possibly being the sole candidate of the North and being believed by most Nigerians to be a liberal Muslim without ethnic bias or other sentiments, the former Number Two citizen stood a better chance to defeat Jonathan at next February's presidential election.

Kenya opposition leader Raila Odinga said on Wednesday he would go to court over the August 8 presidential election results, ignoring calls by some election observers that he concede defeat to President Uhuru Kenyatta.

A former presidential spokesperson, Doyin Okupe, has said the Coalition for Nigeria Movement will present a credible candidate who will defeat President Muhammadu Buhari in the 2019 presidential election.

He also defeated her in a close race two years ago when she was the incumbent and her was the upstart challenger, bouyed by a boost in turnout in a presidential election year.

«If Nuhu Ribadu is yet to face the reality that EFCC is a Federal Government agency and not a personal estate of anybody eight years after, I find it compelling to remind him, otherwise one day he would wake up to blame me for his defeat in the 2011 presidential election and even his pathetic outing in the 2015 governorship election in Adamawa state despite the slush funds deployed to ensure his victory at the polls.»

Less than a month after Hillary Clinton lost the presidential election, the lists went up: Ten Potential Democratic Candidates for 2020; 11 Democrats Who Could Defeat President Trump in 2020; Which Democrats Will Run for President in 2020?

The brochure opened with the photograph of Buhari acknowledging cheers from a crowd as he visited Kano to attend the coronation of the Emir of Kano, Muhammadu Sanusi II on February 7, 2015 and his photograph while talking on the telephone with former President Goodluck Jonathan who called to concede defeat in the 2015 presidential election.

He defeated Samura Kamara of the ruling All People's Congress in the runoff vote of the 2018 Sierra Leone presidential election with 51.8 per cent of the votes to Kamara's 48.2 per cent.

In a historic breakthrough for Nigerian democracy, President Goodluck Jonathan conceded defeat Tuesday in a hard - fought presidential election, signaling that he will peacefully turn over power to his victorious rival, Muhammadu Buhari.

While we appreciate President Jonathan's timely act of conceding defeat in the presidential election, we hasten to assert that this single act alone is not enough to obliterate his litany of abnormalities in governance.