After a series of debates in 1858 that gave national visibility to his opposition to the expansion of slavery, Lincoln lost a Senate race to his arch-rival, Stephen A. Douglas.

After a race between the monks of Tavistock Abbey and the men of Plymstock, the Abbey won.

After the vote was delayed because of a dispute between the players and the league, the race began again in 1993.

After a battle, Scarlet Witch again uses her powers to restore reality and, as a slight against her father, causes a large majority mutants to lose their powers, leaving the mutant race on the brink of extinction and causing the lost powers to become an energy mass, the Collective.

After 2 more years without a race the Dutch Grand Prix was back on the World Championship ( s ) calendar in 1958 and from then on remained a permanent fixture ( with the exception of 1972 ) until, when it was held for the last time.

After a season-long series of dismal results under John Wyer in 1964, the program was handed over to Carroll Shelby after the 1964 Nassau race.

After the death of Aegimius, his two sons, Pamphylus and Dymas, voluntarily submitted to Hyllus ( who was, according to the Dorian tradition in Herodotus V. 72, really an Achaean ), who thus became ruler of the Dorians, the three branches of that race being named after these three heroes.

After supporting Richard Nixon in his 1960 presidential race against John F. Kennedy, Robinson later praised Kennedy effusively for his stance on civil rights.

After withdrawing from the race, he was still considered a contender for the Vice President nomination.

After the 13th and final race of the season, the Mexican Grand Prix, Brabham did retire.

After going through a summer filled with mostly ties and losses, a four game winning streak at the end of August helped get them back in the playoff race.

After Doohan retired he went to work as a roving adviser to Honda's Grand Prix race effort.

After one Mercedes-funded race for the Jordan Formula One team Schumacher signed as a driver for the Benetton Formula One team in 1991.

After the declaration of weights for the Melbourne Cup, the winner of any handicap flat race of the advertised value of A $ 55, 000 or over to the winner, or an internationally recognised Listed, Group, or Graded handicap flat race, shall carry such additional weight ( if any ), for each win, as the VRC Handicapper shall determine.

After a historic race between Ransom Olds and Alexander Winton in 1903, the beach became a mecca for racing enthusiasts and 15 records were set on what became the Daytona Beach road course between 1905 and 1935.

After leading in national polls for much of 2007, his candidacy faltered late in that year ; he rated poorly in the caucuses and primaries of January 2008 and withdrew from the race.

After MLB's establishment of the three-division – Wild Card playoff format following the 1993 season, New York Times sports columnist Dave Anderson captured the feeling of many baseball purists regarding the thrilling ( and for Giants fans, heartbreaking ) winner-take-all outcome as the " last pure pennant race.

** 1967 Newark riots: After the arrest of an African-American cab driver for allegedly illegally driving around a police car and gunning it down the road, race riots break out in Newark, New Jersey, lasting six days and leaving 26 dead.

After that, id Software created a simple substitution cipher very similar to SGA for the Strogg race in Quake 4.

After drawing ninth place on the grid at the Italian Grand Prix, Nuvolari started the race in an Alfa Romeo shared with Baconin Borzacchini.

After Bill Clinton secured the Democratic Party's nomination in the spring of 1992, polls showed Ross Perot leading the race, followed by President Bush and Clinton in third place after a grueling nomination process.

After the Indianapolis Indians moved to Victory Field, a race track took its place and the race track owners stripped the ivy off of the walls.

After the 1852 election the Whig Party quickly collapsed, and the members of the declining party failed to nominate a candidate for the next presidential race ; it was soon replaced as the Democratic Party's primary opposition by the new Republican Party.

After racing both NASCAR Sprint Cup and Speedcar Series, Villeneuve was invited by the Top Race V6 chairman Alejandro Urtubey to join the series in its major event of the 2008 season, called La Carrera del Año ( The Race of the Year ), held at the Buenos Aires circuit.

After retiring as a driver, he continued his involvement in racing as a car owner of A. J. Foyt Enterprises in the CART series, then the Indy Racing League ( IRL ) and NASCAR.

After the NASCAR ban, Ford continued to produce the SOHC, selling it over the counter to racers and others who used it to power many altered-wheelbase A / FX Mustangs and supercharged Top Fuel dragsters.

After finishing second and third in the Busch Series ( now Nationwide Series ), he moved up in the NASCAR Winston Cup Series ( later NEXTEL Cup Series and now Sprint Cup Series ).

After obtaining the spring broadcast rights to NASCAR, Fox Sports announced that for their inaugural 2001 season, FX would serve as their cable partner.

After 2006, FX also no longer broadcast NASCAR, as sister channel Speed Channel became the new cable partner for NASCAR on Fox.

After retiring at the end of the 1992 season, he switched focus to his NASCAR team, Joe Gibbs Racing, which has won three championships under his ownership, one with former driver Bobby Labonte and two with Tony Stewart.

After ESPN became part of a new broadcast contract with the association, ESPN2 also premiered the new daily show NASCAR Now ( similar to the previous RPM 2Night, except only focusing on NASCAR ) in February 2007.

After discovering that Cole does not understand the common terminology used by NASCAR teams, Harry puts him in a series of rigorous training.

After a summer where the two subsequent superspeedway races were run with smaller carburetors ( 390 cubic feet per minute ( cfm ) instead of 830 cfm ) proved to be inadequate to sufficiently slow the cars, NASCAR imposed restrictor plates again, this time at the two fastest circuits, both superspeedways: Daytona for all NASCAR-sanctioned races and Talladega for Cup races.

After the 1992 season Buick ( as well as Oldsmobile ) announced their withdrawal from NASCAR racing, and the Buick teams moved to other makes.

After realizing that Ford's Talladega ( and its sister ship, the Mercury Spoiler II ) were much more effective as race cars, Dodge went back to the drawing board to create the Dodge Charger Daytona, which managed to win a total of 6 races during the 1969 and 1970 NASCAR seasons.

After the 1970 season, NASCAR effectively banned the " aero cars " by restricting all five of these limited aero " production " cars to having to compete with engines no larger than 305 cubic inches of displacement ( vs. the 426, 427, & 429 inches that the other cars could run ), and the competitive history of the Talladega ( and its fellow aerowarrior rivals ) was essentially over.

After its Cup series realignment plans, NASCAR turned to its second tier series, the Busch Series, for realignment in 2006.

After making a full recovery, Irvan returned to NASCAR in 1995.

After NBC lost rights to NASCAR following the 2006 season, Bestwick elected to not stay with TNT as part of its six-race summer broadcast package and moved to ESPN.

After retiring from driving a few years later, he created one of the most successful teams in IndyCar Series and NASCAR racing.

After 14 years of NASCAR as a driver and later a car owner, Richard Childress won his first NASCAR race in 1983, when Ricky Rudd drove his # 3 Piedmont Airlines Chevrolet to victory in the 1983 Budweiser 400k.

After discussions with Bishop, IMSA was born and Bishop was given the sole control of the organization ( like NASCAR, there was no board of directors ).

After high school, she moved to Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, where she performed a variety of jobs, among them, modeling aside the championship trophy after the annual NASCAR race held there was over.

After a fire in his house destroyed all of his trophies in March 2000, NASCAR presented Irvan with replicas of the lost trophies.