Drawing on his long experience as a celebrity and entertainment producer, Bono ( according to Maraniss and Weisskopf ) recognized that Gingrich's status had changed from politician to celebrity, and that Gingrich was not making allowances for that change:

LaHood was one of only three Republicans elected to the House that year who did not sign on to the Contract with America, Newt Gingrich's manifesto for a Republican majority, and was a member of the moderate Republican Main Street Partnership.

The Republican Party, united behind Newt Gingrich's Contract with America, which promised floor votes on various popular and institutional reforms, was able to capitalize on the perception that the House leadership was corrupt, as well as the dissatisfaction of conservative and many independent voters with President Clinton's actions ( including a failed attempt at universal health care and gun control measures ).

On the television interviews programme Porta a Porta, during the last days of the electoral campaign, Berlusconi created a powerful impression on the public by undertaking to sign a so-called Contratto con gli Italiani (), an idea copied outright by his advisor Luigi Crespi from the Newt Gingrich's Contract with America introduced six weeks before the 1994 US Congressional election, which was widely considered to be a creative masterstroke in his 2001 campaign bid for prime ministership.

She was criticized for what was perceived as insensitivity with regard to an interview about the Oklahoma City bombing and her tactics to get Newt Gingrich's mother to admit her unguarded thoughts about Hillary Clinton.

" Differentiating between Gingrich's adultery and his own admitted adultery, DeLay said, " I was no longer committing adultery by that time, the impeachment trial.

The new map shifted much of Gingrich's former territory south of Atlanta — including Collins ' home — to the 3rd District, which at the time was based in Columbus and represented by five-term Democrat Richard Ray.

He was Chairman of the Appropriations Committee from 1995 – 99, and he was chosen as Newt Gingrich's successor as Speaker of the United States House of Representatives late in 1998 but chose to withdraw and retire after an extramarital affair was discovered.

He was a member of the Republican " freshman class " elected in the 1994 midterm election and was part of Speaker Newt Gingrich's Contract with America.

Martin Gottlieb of the Dayton Daily News said " McEwen was collateral damage " to Gingrich's crusade.

Martin Gottlieb of the Dayton Daily News said " McEwen was collateral damage " to Gingrich's crusade.

He was one of Newt Gingrich's chief lieutenants during this time, and was a founding member of the Conservative Opportunity Society.

It was also noted that Michel's voting was nearly as conservative as Gingrich's.

The PSLRA was originally developed as part of Newt Gingrich's Contract With America.

The original charges were filed by Newt Gingrich in 1988 and their effect propelled Gingrich's own career advancement to the Speaker's chair itself.

As he also sees that Sandy is back by his side strictly out of greed, Hinkle decides to reveal the truth, thereby ruining Gingrich's get-rich plans.

On Election Night, as Clinton defeated Dole by nearly 9 points and Gingrich's House Republicans lost a net eight seats, Senate Republicans won open seats in Alabama, Arkansas and Nebraska, while losing South Dakota.

In the summer of 1997 several House Republicans, who saw Speaker Newt Gingrich's public image as a liability, attempted to replace him as Speaker.

In the summer of 1997 several House Republicans, who saw Newt Gingrich's public image as a liability, attempted to replace him as Speaker.

As a result of Gingrich's rising prominence which gradually attracted support from the caucus, Michel decided not to seek re-election in the 1994 mid-term elections.

However the caucus would have likely favored Gingrich over Michel as Speaker of the House, due to Gingrich's central role in the Republican Revolution that saw the party gain a net 54 seats.

Following Gingrich's announcement, Appropriations Committee chairman Bob Livingston of Louisiana became the presumptive Speaker-elect until December 1998, when, during House debate over its still-ongoing impeachment proceedings, he admitted to extramarital affairs himself and withdrew his name from consideration as Speaker.

During the impeachment process, Gingrich's private polls suggested that Clinton's scandal would result in the GOP gaining six to thirty seats in the US House of Representatives in the 1998 midterm election.

* Secrets of the billionaire bankrolling Gingrich's shot at the White House, Paul Harris, The Guardian, January 28, 2011

Bill Carter for the New York Times reported, " Ms. Chung had become the object of some of the most ferocious criticism, justified or not, ever directed at any network anchor as a result of her now infamous interview with Speaker Newt Gingrich's mother, Kathleen.

In December 2011, during Gingrich's bid for the U. S. presidency, Adelson spoke favorably of controversial remarks Gingrich had made about Palestinians, saying " read the history of those who call themselves Palestinians, and you will hear why Gingrich said recently that the Palestinians are an invented people.

Gingrich's successor as Speaker, Dennis Hastert, had stated his desire to return to Michel's style.

In their book Tell Newt to Shut Up, David Maraniss and Michael Weisskopf credit Bono with being the first person to recognize Gingrich's public relations problems in 1995.

As part of the 1994 Republican Revolution, he signed Newt Gingrich's Contract With America.

In late 2011 as the 2012 Republican Party presidential primaries approached Will became known as one of front runner Newt Gingrich's harshest critics.

The AdTI published Newt Gingrich's 2003 book, Saving Lives & Saving Money: Transforming Health and Healthcare.

`` Now, hold on, damn it ; ;

The dancer who never loosens her hold on a parasol, begins to feel that it is part of herself.

And when we consider the tenuous hold tradition has on existence, any weakening of that hold constitutes a crisis of existence.

At least I had been unable to lay hold on the experience of conversion.

When might Mary have had that moment to hold her child on her lap??

Since his Christ was to be life size, how was Mary to hold him on her lap without the relationship seeming ungainly??

He spent concentrated weeks putting his two figures together: a Mary who would be young and sensitive, yet strong enough to hold her son on her lap ; ;

A number of C clamps hold the pieces together on the jig until the glue sets.

The drill press consists of a vertical shaft ( spindle ) which is tapered or threaded on one end to hold a drill chuck, a tubular housing ( quill ) in which the spindle is mounted, a head in which the quill is mounted, a feed lever which moves the quill up or down, a power source, and a movable table upon which the work is placed.

`` We, the Subscribers, do agree, that as soon as a convenient Number of Persons have subscribed to this, or a similar Writing, We will present a petition to the Hon'ble General Court of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, praying for an Act incorporating into a Body politic the subscribers to such Writing with Liberty to build such a Bridge, and a Right to demand a Toll equal to that received at Malden Bridge, and on like Terms, and if such an Act shall be obtained, then we severally agree each with the others, that we will hold in the said Bridge the several shares set against our respective Names, the whole into two hundred shares being divided, and that we will pay such sums of Money at such Times and in such Manners, as by the said proposed Corporation, shall be directed and required ''.

Louise climbed onto a stool and clutched the hand with which I was trying to hold the phone, claiming my immediate attention on grounds of extreme emergency.

Somehow managing to get out a cool, poised, `` Won't you hold on a second, please '', I covered up the mouthpiece, and with more warmth and less poise, gave a quick lecture on crime and punishment, mostly the latter, including Devil's Island and the remoter reaches of Siberia.

But the farther out he moves, the thinner will be his hold on conclusive evidence, and the larger the speculative component in his inferences.

The result was an agreement that the Lublin Government should be `` reorganized on a broader democratic basis with the inclusion of democratic leaders from Poland itself and from the Poles abroad '', and pledged to hold `` free and unfettered elections as soon as possible on the basis of universal suffrage and secret ballot ''.

I hold, on the contrary, that we mean to assert something of the pain itself, namely, that it was bad -- bad when and as it occurred.

A week later the Daily Journal had discovered the initial plans of some Providence citizens to hold a meeting honoring John Brown on the day of his execution.

This instrument provides an electrical signal proportional to the angular deviations of the platform and can be used to automatically hold the platform on true heading.

To solve the problem of the wheat grains spilling on the floor and getting underfoot, a ball of maple syrup boiled to candy consistency was invented to hold the grains.

These were to be kept on, to hold in the 32 souls.

To hold a herd of cattle on a new range till they felt at home was called `` locatin' '' 'em.

God knows what the African nations, who hold 25 per cent of the voting stock in the U.N. were thinking -- they may, for example, have been thinking of the U.S. abstention when the vote on Algerian freedom was before the Assembly -- but I think I have a fairly accurate notion of what the Negroes in the gallery were thinking.

With few exceptions, the major denominations are rapidly losing their hold on the central city.