Sentences with phrase «through defections»

Glasgow did have a Labour majority, but has lost it through defections, and how well Labour does in its heartland of Glasgow given the SNP's success there last year will be one of the main things to watch.)

That majority was progressively whittled away through defections and by - elections defeats, the most notable of the latter including those in Newbury, South East Staffordshire and Wirral South, resulting in the eventual loss of the Major government's majority in Parliament.

Not exact matches

I am happy to count among my own friends a rather remarkable number of men of high intellectual distinction who have returned to the full Christian outlook after years of defection from it, and I should say that in practically every case the renewed hospitality of their minds to Christian truth came about through their awakening to the essential untenability of the alternative positions which they had been previously attempting to occupy.

Debate, polarization, defection, daring bold action, and mistakes marked the life of the organized church; but through it all the church once again laid claim to the entire world as its legitimate domain.

A five - star prospect who stuck with his Penn State commitment even through the NCAA sanctions and defections, Hackenberg is officially undefeated for his career following a 23 - 17 win over Syracuse in East Rutherford.

The possible addition of two more Democrats through special elections on April 24 will still leave the party just shy of the magic 32 needed for a majority because of the continued defection of State Senator Simcha Felder, a Brooklyn Democrat who caucuses with the Republicans.

The election saw the Liberal Democrats extend their majority through a couple of gains from Labour, with both parties recouping seats where aforementioned defections had taken place.

In the first place, the All Progressives Congress, except for some defections into it immediately after the 2015 presidential elections, is to all intents and purposes, an incarnate or clone of the ACN which has always suffered defeats in our hands through the little known Labour Party.

After nearly two decades of studying the rise of cooperation in populations, Nowak sees the entire world through the prism of the prisoner's dilemma: He is always looking at the tension between cooperation and defection.

Its defection leaves seven of eight districts seeking to extend a waiver from the federal accountability law through the California Office to Reform Education, a nonprofit that they formed.