Sentences with phrase «term president»

Second term presidents have a brief window to affect a meaningful agenda.

Does that mean that no two - term president whose choice lost would have been able to win?

A graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Brent Simon is a three - term president of LAFCA, a contributor to Screen International and Magill's Cinema Annual, and film editor of H Magazine.

If Trump wins, he will be the oldest first - term president in US history.

The two - term president who met with Niger Delta militant leaders in 2006 to stop attacks on oil installations, said: «I don't see anything wrong in that [Buhari meeting with Kanu].

By 2010, Damon said he was dissatisfied with President Obama and a year later he told Elle magazine, «You know, a one - term president with some balls who actually got stuff done would have been, in the long run of the country, much better.»

Playing a pair of antagonistic one - term Presidents thrown together in a flimsy chase plot, Jack Lemmon and James Garner trade insults that aren't exactly in Lincoln's league.

Studying his rapid rise from a relatively unknown senator to a historic two - term president yields plenty of examples and takeaways.

At 70, Trump would be the oldest first - term president ever elected if he were to win in November; Hillary Clinton wouldn't be far behind — she'll turn 69 towards the end of October.

This public shaming is problematic for a final - term president interested in building his legacy.

Ergo, a President Romney would be more radical than a second - term President Obama.

Prior to the 22nd amendment, there were other two - term presidents followed by a successor from the same party, including: George Washington (John Adams); Thomas Jefferson (James Madison); James Madison (James Monroe); Andrew Jackson (Martin Van Buren); Ulysses S Grant (Rutherford B. Hayes); Teddy Roosevelt (William Howard Taft).

In an interview Thursday, Tyner invoked President Franklin D. Roosevelt, saying that like four - term president from Hyde Park, he would be a champion for the working class.

Spence defeated one - term President Susan Kent by a slim 127 - vote margin in an election that is still being contested due to a ballot mailing snag.

The vote will be held next year, with current president Sepp Blatter yet to decide whether to go for another term

Building on the boneless The Motorcycle Diaries template, Lula, Son of Brazil takes a complex, controversial political figure — in this case longtime Brazilian Workers» Party firebrand and two - term President Luiz I...

Cohan is playing the role of third - term President Franklin Roosevelt in Kaufman and Hart's I'd Rather Be Right.

Reagan (Director: Eugene Jarecki)-- Reagan examines the enigmatic career of one of the revered architects of the modern world — icon, screen star, and two - term president Ronald Reagan.

Eventually, the three enlist the help of aged one - term President John Quincy Adams (Anthony Hopkins) to try their case before the Supreme Court.

«At the beginning of the second term the president recognised that he had to both take domestic action to have credibility but also to begin bilateral negotiations with China to actually bend down the global emissions curve,» said Paul Bledsoe, a climate change official under Bill Clinton.

Within his four year term President Trump is likely to have the opportunity fill as many as four vacancies.

«As a ten year volunteer and two term President of Labrador Rescuers I am proud to say I have come to know Amy over the years, and our rescued Labrador Retrievers have benefited from her unconditional support.»

As a second - term president who knows the GOP House will not legislate on carbon control issues, Obama and his people are now speaking mainly to and for environmentalists,» said Theda Skocpol, a Harvard government and sociology professor.

The president, whose party lost 63 seats in 2010, saw Democrats lose 12 seats and became the two - term president with the most midterm defeats, edging past Truman's 74 by one.

2 Stars PLAYING A PAIR OF ANTAGONISTIC one - term Presidents thrown together in a flimsy chase plot, Jack Lemmon and James Garner trade insults that aren't exactly in Lincoln's league.

The NDC suffered a heavy defeat in the elections with President John Mahama losing by over one million votes to the NPP's Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo - Addo to become the first one - term president in the since 1992.

Top 5 Tech Initiatives for Obama's Second Term The president is expected to pour more funding into research and development, a move that could lead to increased technological advances in fields such as cybersecurity

A former two - term president, Bill Clinton is a known quantity, but Melania Trump remains an enigma.

The outspoken chairman, CEO, and president of the banking giant (who has said he expects Trump to be a one - term president) announced plans on Tuesday to stay on as J.P. Morgan's head for «approximately five more years,» or until 2023.

Ultimately, Clinton had far and away the best stock market results of the four most recent two - term presidents, followed by Obama, then Reagan, and, trailing far behind with negative gains, George W. Bush, whose presidency ended at the beginning of the Great Recession.

Pal also stated that, over the last 100 years, every president - elect that's succeeded a two - term president has been met with a recession.

The 21 % gain in the S&P in the year since Trump was elected compares favorably to the average of 6.1 % for the first year for other first - term presidents.

Midterm elections are less than 20 months away, and Trump could very well be a one - term president.

For a second - term president to be as progressive as Obama wants to be, he'd have to achieve a very atypical victory for his party in the 2014 election.

The Bush administration saw the biggest increase in the black unemployment rate of any of the four preceding 2 term presidents

There was a Republican Senator who stated from Mr. Obama very first days in office that his goals was to make Mr. Obama a one term president!

Just as the distinguish senator from Arizona said, «We think Obama will make a great second - term President!

«make him a one term president»..

And he has a congress that has blocked everything and made a public comment (McConnell) that their main goal is for Obama to be a one term president.

«I believe that this will lead to President Obama being a one - term president,» said NOM president Brian Brown, during a call with reporters.

Apparently enough people think like me Jim to have made him a two - term president.

Wallis noted that the bar was set for a vitriolic campaign when Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said his top priority was to make Obama a one - term president.

When Mitch McConnell said four years ago that his prime function was to make sure that Obama was a one term president, he went all in on yesterday not happening.

If these 2.5 years are a reflection of his executive ability he should surely be a one term president.

You mean like the present agenda of the GOP, with their pledge to make certain Obama is a one term president?

Obamanation «I'm pledging to cut the deficit in half by the end of my first term in office» and «If I don't get the unemployment rate under 7 %, I deserve to be a one - term president.»

A lot more could have been done if Republicans had allowed for a simple majority vote, but... Remember the words of Senate Minority Leader McConnell, [My number one goal is to make sure Obama is a one term President.]