Sentences with phrase «won subsequent elections»

Jerry Rawlings, r, seen with US President Bill Clinton, came to power in a coup but won subsequent elections

Sadly, and for reasons other blogs on this excellent site make clear, Labour is in no positon to take advantage of the situation and the Tories would win a subsequent election.

Not exact matches

Trudeau's Liberal Party under a former leader swept to power in 1993 and won three subsequent elections — all of them while interest rates were stable or falling and the economy was relatively strong.

In describing and accounting for the lives of the Religious Right, which we define simply as religious conservatives with a considerable involvement in political activity, the book and the series tell the story primarily by focusing on leading episodes in the movement's history, including, but not limited to, the groundwork laid by Billy Graham in his relationships with presidents and other prominent political leaders; the resistance of evangelical and other Protestants to the candidacy of the Roman Catholic John F. Kennedy; the rise of what has been called the New Right out of the ashes of Barry Goldwater's defeat in 1964; a battle over sex education in Anaheim, California, in the mid-1960's; a prolonged cultural war over textbooks in West Virginia in the early 1970's — and that is a battle that has been fought less violently in community after community all over the country; the thrill conservative Christians felt over the election of a «born - again» Christian to the Presidency in 1976 and the subsequent disappointment they experienced when they found out that Jimmy Carter was, of all things, a Democrat; the rise of the Moral Majority and its infatuation with Ronald Reagan; the difficulty the Religious Right has had in dealing with abortion, homosexuality and AIDS; Pat Robertson's bid for the presidency and his subsequent launching of the Christian Coalition; efforts by Dr. James Dobson and Gary Bauer to win a «civil war of values» by changing the culture at a deeper level than is represented by winning elections; and, finally, by addressing crucial questions about the appropriate relationship between religion and politics or, as we usually put it, between church and state.

But perhaps the greatest «betrayal» was Cameron's failure to win the 2010 general election outright and his subsequent move into coalition with the Liberal Democrats.

Despite the scandal, both Peter Robinson and the DUP won resounding victories in the subsequent 2011 Assembly elections.

Conversely, whatever the result of the referendum, Boris coming out in favour of Leave places him at the helm of the increasingly dominant faction in the Tory party and well placed to win the subsequent leadership election.

Republicans, who won back control of Congress in subsequent elections, continued to savage the law.

The Tories only won one of the subsequent general elections (2010).

Despite admitting of erring in a subsequent post, a concerned Ghanaian George Krobea Asante and an NPP member has lashed out at the presidential staffer for disrespecting «our party members for their selfless service to the party» that won the 2016 elections.

It was a defining issue in the 1969 elections, as a result of which they were able to form a government, though with a very narrow majority, and the issue in the subsequent 1972 elections which they won comfortably.

[1] Miller won the subsequent 2010 general election with 69 percent of the vote.

Labour won the seat on a 17 per cent swing (and won the subsequent general election on a 10 per cent swing).

This humiliation was repeated at the subsequent Newark by - election, although the majority of coverage has focused on congratulating the Tories on winning a safe seat and not enough on the fact that the Lib Dem candidate lost his deposit.

Conservatives won the seat on a 7 per cent swing (and won the subsequent general election on 5.5 per cent swing).

After all, many businesses were probably quite pleased to see the Conservatives win a majority in last year's elections and welcome the subsequent effort by leading Tories to reclaim the centre - ground: the best of both worlds, many may feel.

I wouldn't be at all surprised if they topped the poll in the next round of European elections, and won 4 - 5 % of the vote in any subsequent general election.

It is still well known that any political party that wins the Presidency is most likely to enjoy the ripple effect or what we call the bandwagon effect in subsequent elections.

In the 2005 general election the Conservative, Daniel Kawczynski won back the Shrewsbury and Atcham seat from the subsequent Labour candidate, Michael Ion.

The subsequent Labour defeat was significant for several reasons: the party polled almost a quarter of a million votes more than the Conservatives and their National Liberal allies combined, won the most votes that Labour has ever won (as of 2017) and won the most votes of any political party in any election in British political history, a record not surpassed until the Conservative Party's victory in 1992.

«I do plan to win the primary soundly, for those of you who are not [Green Party Members],» Brisport added, in referencing to the subsequent general election.

Although both were on the winning side in the EU referendum, they famously fell out rancorously during the subsequent Tory leadership election.

Respect's George Galloway won the seat in the subsequent by - election.

The subsequent by - election was fought under the shadow of the Iraq war and won by the Liberal Democrats from third place, making Parmjit Singh Gill the only Liberal Democrat MP from an ethnic minority.

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He won two subsequent elections, both by narrow margins.

Polls showing that the UNC - led opposition coalition was likely to win the election were confirmed by the subsequent results.

In 2012, she was appointed attorney general of Oregon and has won two subsequent elections to retain that position.

Although one may have to wait and see what the pragmatic result of the «win» is, homeowners certainly voided the election and HOA's subsequent postjudgment actions can not attempt to nullify the significance of the past relief obtained by homeowners.