Sentences with phrase «went to election twice»

I served for ten years, went to election twice and served another eight years.

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«Where Labour needs to learn lessons is that twice now — and I say this with no personal animosity to either, I respect them both greatly, they're remarkable people — but twice in a row now we've gone into a general election campaign with leaders that we knew to be unpopular with the public, and people weren't prepared to speak out, and when they did they were attacked for disunity,» he says.

AARP officials say that in the 2010 midterm congressional elections, voters 50 and older went to the polls at nearly twice the rate of younger voters, accounting for 58 percent of all votes cast in New York State.

«Twice in a row now we've gone into a general election campaign with leaders that we knew to be unpopular with the public, and people weren't prepared to speak out, and when they did they were attacked for disunity...

Like many liberals, Nixon was shocked and shaken by the outcome of the 2016 election, and while she'd gone to the Women's March, wearing a pink pussy hat and saying Washington had «better think twice about messing with women,» it hadn't seemed like quite enough.