Sentences with phrase «victory at the polls in»

The hope among the NLD leadership is that economic and political life can be gradually opened over the next three years and that moderates will be entrenched enough by 2015 to allow the NLD's inevitable victory at the polls in that year's general election to be translated into some real political power.

The former House speaker, delivering the keynote address at a real - estate conference in Chicago, used Paladino's unexpected surge in the polls this week as Exhibit A in how Republicans would claim a sweeping victory at the polls in November.

Not exact matches

On the heels of President Trump's surprise victory in the U.S., the far - right French candidate Marine Le Pen has seen a surge in opinion polls — and yesterday's shooting at the Champs - Élysées is helping her case.

Opinion polls showed that voters had opposed privatization at the outset (as did the press and many Conservative back benchers), but the Conservatives pointed out that Tony Blair rode to victory in part by abandoning «Clause Four» of the Labour Party's 1904 constitution, advocating state control over the means of production, distribution and exchange.

The Reagan victories in the 1980s demonstrated that political liberalism could be defeated, at least in the polls.

In a moving speech to the sympathisers and supporters of the NPP at the Accra Sports Stadium Sunday, Akufo - Addo acknowledged the role they played in the party's victory at the pollIn a moving speech to the sympathisers and supporters of the NPP at the Accra Sports Stadium Sunday, Akufo - Addo acknowledged the role they played in the party's victory at the pollin the party's victory at the polls.

A majority of Americans think President Donald Trump will lose his re-election bid in 2020, according to a new CNN poll conducted by SSRS, similar numbers to those facing former President Barack Obama at this point in his first term ahead of his re-election victory.

It was a few hours before the primary polls closed in New York, and Paladino had called me from Manhattan, where he would be attending the campaign's victory party that evening at Trump Tower.

It's showed up in terms of the number of people who do come to the polls and vote, but take a look at that race in Delaware, for instance, with Christine O'Donnell, and here's someone who got a big victory over a moderate Republican that was supported by the party structure.

The NDC stalwart is of the firm believe Ghanaians have started regretting for voting for the NPP because they failed woefully in fulfilling the litany of promise laced with deceit and lies that propelled them to victory at the December 7, 2016 polls.

Crosby is a formidable operator who has not only delivered a national majority for the Tories, but also two decisive mayoral victories in London, at a time when the party were doing significantly worse in the polls than they are today.

Attorney Sean Coffey sent an e-mail to supporters today touting his «strong third place victory» at the Democratic Rural Conference straw poll in Niagara Falls this past Saturday, noting he received «almost as many votes as the fourth and fifth place candidates combined.»

Lamont was propelled to the front of the Democratic pack in early April following his victory in a straw poll at the AFL - CIO political convention.

President Mahama, who was speaking at that same durbar, remained confident of his prospects in the polls, as he has likened his expected victory to Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt's exceptional track and field exploits, on the first day of his Ashanti Regional Campaign tour.

David Cameron thanked local officials in his constituency when making his victory speech, but was angry at the disruption at many polling stations.

The two men reportedly fell out following what Tinubu and his loyalists saw as attempts to diminish his contributions to President Buhari's victory at the 2015 poll and erode his political capital in his South - West base.

A former Metropolitan Cheif Executive (MCE) of the the Accra Metropolitan Assembly and NPP patron, Stanley Nii Adjiri Blankson, urged the NPP supporters to put peace first in the name of victory at the polls.

Van Bramer, who along with Dromm will be the first gay councilmen representing Queens, said he was saddened by how the borough's representatives voted in light of his own victory at the polls last month.

Giwa had challenged Pinnick's victory at the poll, stating that he won an earlier election held in Abuja, which was not recognised by FIFA, which meanwhile okayed Pinnick's emergence as President.

But Fitch in a statement after Akufo - Addo's victory at the polls warned that efforts at achieving consolidation could prove more challenging if economic growth disappoints or oil production at new fields, precisely Sankofa - Gye Nyame fields, is delayed.

«This is the person our opponent is depending on at the polls for a victory,» Haber wrote in the email.

«Honorable Minister sir, we also appreciate the pivotal role you played in the emergence of Muhammadu Buhari as the APC presidential candidate as well as his victory at the polls.

«This is the person our opponent in the 60th is depending on at the polls for a victory.»

Mr Trump's lead in New Hampshire is the first time the New York businessman — who has never held elected office — has translated his widespread support in opinion polls into a victory at the polls.

The legal practitioner who spoke with newsmen in Akure, the state capital said he had written congratulatory letter to Akeredolu immediately after his Victory at the poll, pleading with him to carry everyone along.

Hours before President - elect Donald Trump delivered his acceptance speech Tuesday night — and prior to polls closing in states he won like Alaska, Montana and Idaho — the victory party was on at the Emporium in Patchogue.

The landslide victory was quite commendable and outstanding, considering the fact that this was the first time since 1999, the PDP in Enugu State went to the polls as an opposition political party at the national level and still won 100 percent.

Some persons affiliated to the party took over the administration of the recently constructed interchange at the Kwame Nkrumah Circle in the wake of the party's victory in the 2016 polls.

Hillary Clinton's surge in the polls over the past week has widened her path to victory in November and put Donald Trump in a deeper hole than recent losers Mitt Romney, John McCain or John Kerry faced at this phase of the campaign.

«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.»

Fayemi, in a congratulatory message by his Special Assistant on Media, Mr Yinka Oyebode, said Akeredolu's victory at the poll was victory for democracy as well as the people of Ondo State who have long clamoured for change.

In a letter issued by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Mr Turaki Hassan, the speaker described the new governor as «a learned colleague, whose dedication, commitment, determination and dogged spirit eventually earned him victory at the polls.»

As an outspoken Ranking Member, Mr. Hammond was seen by many as a natural future Energy Minister in the event of Nana Addo's victory at the 2016 polls.

On Saturday, persons reportedly affiliated to the NPP took over the administration of the recently constructed interchange at the Kwame Nkrumah Circle in the wake of the party's victory in the 2016 polls.

One would have thought that, with the LibDems trailing at 10 % in the polls and likely to end up after the next election with little more than 10 MPs, and with Labour leading the Tories by a solid 10 % in the polls, we should be going flat - out for an outright Labour victory.

Through his brain child, the NPP was able to predict victory for its presidential candidate, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo - Addo eight hours after the close of poll, at a time the Electoral Commission seemed not to have the full complement of the needed data at the national level as results were still trickling in from across the 275 Constituencies.

«We don't want people walking around in the aftermath of this election like they did on the morning of Nov. 9, wishing they had taken the time to go to the polls,» Hizzoner told the congregation at Maranatha Baptist Church in Queens, citing the surprise victory of President Trump last year.

In April last year, you said President Muhammadu Buhari's victory at the presidential poll was a new beginning for Nigeria.

But in the run up to Barack Obama's electoral victory, a poll from Maibach's group and researchers at Yale University suggested that the Republican stance on climate change was turning off undecided voters.

Such hopes have been buoyed by Obama's reference to climate change in his victory speech after beating Mitt Romney at the polls.