However, 18 months after Labour lost power in 1979, the staunchly left-wing politician Michael Foot was elected party leader, despite vocal opposition from Labour Party moderates ( including Owen ), sparking a crisis over the party's future.

He joined the Social Democratic Party shortly after its foundation in 1981, but left the party when David Owen resigned as the party's leader in 1987, describing Owen as " the best of them ".

The party's first leader was Wilfrid Owen, a businessman.

* Owen Badger ( 1871 – 1939 ), Wales national rugby player

The first film was James L. Brooks's romantic comedy How Do You Know, which starred Witherspoon as a thirty-something former national softball player who struggles to choose between a philandering baseball star boyfriend ( Owen Wilson ) and a business executive being investigated for white collar crime ( Paul Rudd ).

Robert Dale Owen, eldest son of Robert Owen, was a social reformer and intellectual of national importance.

Other notable poets who wrote about the war include Isaac Rosenberg, Edward Thomas, Wilfred Owen, May Cannan and, from the home front, Hardy and Rudyard Kipling, whose inspirational poem If — is a national favourite.

Owen made his debut for the England national B-team in a friendly against Belarus on 25 May 2006, as part of his return to match fitness ahead of the 2006 FIFA World Cup.

Hawarden High School is a high school which dates back to 1606 and was attended not only by Michael Owen, but also Gary Speed, the former manager of the Wales national football team.

A national tour took place the following year with Paul Shelley as Siegfried Sassoon and Stephen McGann as Wilfred Owen.

* Laurence Owen, national skating champion whose career was cut short by the plane crash that wiped out the national team in 1961

After four years of research, Owen led local and national debate to fight drug addiction problems in Canadian cities through a " Four Pillar Approach ", a comprehensive program with provisions for prevention, treatment, enforcement and harm reduction.

Separately, in 1994-96 David Owen Smith launched Top Marques, followed by other national titles inclduing Bike Trader and Truck Trader.

Owen Dudley Edwards suggests that the choice of surname and nationality of the twins derives from Blyton's desire to resist national stereotyping, following an Irish Republican Army bicycle bomb attack in Coventry in 1939

A national tour of Australia followed in December 2007 with a touring band featuring Drayton on drums, Jerome Smith on bass, Charlie Owen on guitar and newest member Clayton Doley on keyboards.

* 15 February-Senator Owen Sheehy-Skeffington introduces a motion calling for the prohibition of all corporal punishment for girls in Irish national schools.

Pizarro also revealed that his decision was largely influenced by the advice of his national team team-mate Nolberto Solano, who played in England with Newcastle, and West Ham United, as well as Owen Hargreaves, who at the time also played for Bayern Munich.

Owen argued that Greek Revival architecture — then the prevailing style in the United states for everything from churches to banks to private residences — was unsuitable as a national American style.

The school is famous for three ex-pupils who became professional footballers: Michael Owen of Manchester United, Andy Dorman of Crystal Palace and former captain and former team manager of the Wales national team Gary Speed.

in the past have included national acts in concert, such as Kid Rock, 3 Doors Down, O. A. R., Sister Hazel, VHS or Beta, Goo Goo Dolls, Tracy Lawrence, Jason Michael Carroll, Jake Owen, Jason Aldean, Eric Church, Clay Walker, Three Dog Night, Phil Vassar, Buddy Jewell, Emerson Drive, Finger Eleven, The Marshall Tucker Band, Little Texas, Blue October, Shiny Toy Guns, Gavin Degraw, Violent Femmes, Gretchen Wilson, Justin Bieber and many others.

The first president of this Committee was former Supreme Court justice Owen J. Roberts, who said he considers national sovereignty a " silly shibboleth.

The first chief executive officer of RCA was Owen D. Young ; David Sarnoff became its general manager.

* Owen Thomas, 1990, executive editor of Valleywag and VentureBeat, longtime contributor to Suck. com.

He was given greater responsibility in 1960 after two of the drivers, Graham Hill and Dan Gurney, went on strike and told Alfred Owen they would not drive again, and in early 1962 full executive authority was given to Tony Rudd.

He was a publisher and sales executive, serving as president of Owen Sound Herald Press Ltd., Sargent Reality Co. Ltd. and Eddie Sargent Promotions Ltd.

Charles Owen " Chuck " Prince III ( born January 13, 1950 ) is an American former chairman and chief executive of Citigroup.

In 1996, Owen moved from the legislature to the executive branch with his election as lieutenant governor.

Owen Clarke, the museum's executive director, said of the $ 4 million in losses, " This is unbelievably tragic.

Starchild ’ s sales never matched those of Cerebus or Bone, and Sim eventually dissolved ties with Owen — but not before responding to Owen's " Serbius " spoof by giving Starchild ’ s boggle-eyed barkeeper character Martin Humble a surprisingly substantial role in the graphic novel Guys.

After the community dissolved, Owen returned briefly to Europe, then moved to New York City and became the editor of the Free Enquirer, a socialistic and anti-Christian weekly, which he ran with Frances Wright from 1828 to 1832.

The band dissolved because Ken Owen suffered from a brain haemorrhage.

After a ballot of members and the passing of a motion at the 1987 Portsmouth conference, the party merged with the Liberal Party in 1988 to form the Liberal Democrats, although a minority left to form a continuing SDP led by David Owen.

A leadership election was held later in the year, Jenkins beating Owen in the ballot to become the first party leader.

Almost immediately after his election as leader he was faced with a serious crisis: the creation in early 1981 of a breakaway party by four senior Labour right-wingers, Roy Jenkins, Shirley Williams, David Owen and William Rodgers ( the so-called " Gang of Four "), the Social Democratic Party.

He led the new party from March 1982 until after the 1983 general election, when Owen succeeded him unopposed.

On Oliver Cromwell's death in 1658, Owen joined the Wallingford House party, and though he denied any share in the deposition of Richard Cromwell, he preferred the idea of a simple republic to that of a protectorate.

In March 1660, the Presbyterian party being uppermost, Owen was deprived of his deanery, which was given back to Reynolds.

Mary Banotti was the choice of the Fine Gael party to represent them in the election. She was the grand-niece of the former Irish leader, Michael Collins, and sister of the deputy leader of the party, Nora Owen.

Following the establishment of the SDP by the ' Gang of Four ' ( Roy Jenkins, David Owen, Bill Rodgers, Shirley Williams ), who had left the Labour Party in March 1981, the new party entered into an informal alliance with the existing centre party, the Liberals, led by David Steel.

Owen is widely regarded as having been, at the very least, a competent party Leader.

Owen rejected this notion outright, on the grounds that he and other Social Democrats wished to remain faithful to social democracy as it was practised within Western Europe, and it was unlikely that any merged party would be able to do this, even if it was under his leadership.

The party polled well at its first election, its candidate coming a close second in the 1989 Richmond by-election, but thereafter a string of poor and ultimately disastrous by-election results followed, including coming behind the Official Monster Raving Loony Party in the Bootle by-election of May 1990, prompting Owen to wind up the party in 1990.

Lord Holme later blamed Owen for the Alliance's failure to make a breakthrough at the 1987 general election, believing that a merged party would have performed much better and possibly gained more votes and seats than Labour.

Owen had a marked antipathy towards the Liberals though he respected Steel's prior loyalty to his own party contrasting it with Jenkins ' lack of interest in preserving the SDP's independence.

Meanwhile, the geeky Sherman ( Chris Owen ) mulls around at the party in a depressed mood, having abandoned his " Sherminator " mantra from the first film due to his abject failure with girls and being made fun of by Jessica ( Natasha Lyonne ).

Under the agreement the minority party would retain the power to filibuster a Presidential judicial nominee only in an " extraordinary circumstance ", and three Bush appellate court nominees ( Janice Rogers Brown, Priscilla Owen, and William Pryor ) would receive a vote by the full Senate, while two others, Henry Saad and William Myers, were expressly denied such protection.

Along with David Owen, Sainsbury opposed merging the SDP with the Liberal Party after the 1987 election, and provided office space for Owen to help him re-establish a separate political party, the " continuing " SDP, which was created in 1988.