The housing bill is expected to encounter strong opposition by the coalition of Southern Democrats and conservative Republicans.

Both Progressive Democrats and other commentators have suggested that the party had a greater influence on government policy since 1997 than might be expected from its size.

With a vote scheduled for January 23, 2006, many New Democrats expected Layton to deliver substantially more seats than he did in 2004.

In the 1970 campaign, Rockefeller expected to face Orval Faubus, who led the old-guard Democrats, but the previously unknown Dale Bumpers of Charleston in Franklin County rose to the top of the Democratic heap by promising reforms.

The first general election to the Scottish Parliament overall produced few surprises with the Labour Party still enjoying high popularity following their landslide UK general election win two years earlier as widely expected was the largest party winning 56 seats, mostly in their traditional Central Belt heartlands, which was nine seats short of an overall majority and a coalition was then formed with the Liberal Democrats who won 17 seats.

It was widely expected that Brennan would join the Progressive Democrats when they were founded by O ' Malley in 1985 but instead he remained within Fianna Fáil.

Sihanouk was more determined than ever to defeat the Democrats ( who, on the basis of their past record, were expected to win the election ).

Ultimately, not only did Kerry win the state, but Republicans lost five seats in the state legislature, reducing their presence to near single-digits and causing the Democrats to consider Lingle more vulnerable than they initially expected.

It works to elect Democrats to the U. S. House and it plays a critical role in recruiting candidates, raising funds and organizing races in districts that are expected to yield politically notable or close elections.

In January 2008 Bushell stepped down as the Mayoral candidate due to work commitments and Fathers 4 Justice founder Matt O ' Connor was selected by the English Democrats in his place with his campaign expected to start on 14 February.

6, 000 Democrats show up at the caucus in Las Vegas, Nevada, far more than the expected 1, 000, forcing the caucus to be held outside on the high school's football field.

The 2nd district race is not expected to be competitive for Democrats.

A Home Office minister, Meg Hillier, said that they would be a " convenient " way for young people to prove their age when going to bars and that at £ 30 they are cheaper than purchasing passports, although the total cost including processing fees was expected to be up to £ 60, more expensive than a passport cost before the introduction of the ID card and database scheme — the Tories and Liberal Democrats have criticised the increase in passport costs as being needed for the ID card scheme.

" Edwards also stated how the Democrats expected to pay for their agenda: " We're going to roll back – we're going to roll back the tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans.

Butterfield will be seeking re-election in 2012 ; the district is expected to strongly favor Democrats.

The Democrats and Republicans in the Ohio General Assembly struck a deal to eliminate one Democratic and one Republican district, as one congressman from each party was expected to retire.

The Democrats and Republicans in the Ohio General Assembly struck a deal to eliminate one Democratic and one Republican district, as one congressman from each party was expected to retire.

The general election on November 4 was expected to be close, but Gregoire benefited from a large turnout among Democrats to vote for Barack Obama in the United States Presidential election and ended up defeating Rossi 53 % to 47 %.

In a legislature divided between 50 Republicans, 49 Democrats, and with a Democratic governor, Jore's alignment was expected to determine the partisan alignment of the state house.

Observers with a sense of irony would have noted that many Australian Democrats, including lead Democrat Senate candidate Ian Gilfillan, were former Australia Party members and the Democrats had initially expected Australia Party preferences.

Martin O ' Malley, Mayor of Baltimore City, who was expected to run for governor almost as soon as the 2002 election was over, was initially expected to be a shoo-in for the Democratic nomination, but he was challenged by Montgomery County Executive Doug Duncan, who then unexpectedly dropped out of the race, citing a recent diagnosis of clinical depression, saving Democrats from a costly and potentially divisive primary.

It was expected that this would benefit the Liberal Democrats in this marginal constituency, however, in a shock result, when the seat was first contested on its new boundaries in 2010, the Labour incumbent Andrew Smith managed to quadruple his majority.

As I had expected, he insisted that my visits to the hall would do nothing to further the process of my application.

But he never expected to do that.

It was what anyone who had ever seen her had always expected her to do.

Even though I have always had a genius for `` throwing myself '' into every role and `` playing it for all it's worth '', no actress can be expected to do her best work when her fortune, her reputation, her livelihood, her home and her nation itself are all imperilled.

We do know that he was not expected to succeed to the throne after his brother king Agis II, largely due to the fact that he was crippled from birth, and since the latter had a son, named Leotychidas.

Moreover, those failing to do their duty are expected to make up planting requirements, provide funds equivalent to the value of labor required or pay heavy fines.

The bishop does not deliver sermons at every service ( generally asking members to do so ), but is expected to be a spiritual guide for his congregation.

Latter-day Saint bishops do not wear any special clothing or insignia the way clergy in many other churches do, but are expected to dress and groom themselves neatly and conservatively per their local culture, especially when performing official duties.

Further themes are also present: the " sovereign freedom of Yahweh " ( God does not always do what is expected of him ); the " satirisation of foreign kings " ( who consistently underestimate Israel and Yahweh ); the concept of the " flawed agent " ( judges who are not adequate to the task before them ) and the disunity of the Israelite community ( which gathers pace as the stories succeed one another ).

If a mutual is large, or is expected to grow if it can raise capital by a conversion, its managers derive more value from a conversion but do not suffer much loss of perks than if the bank were small.

Two of them are naturally radioactive, and three are expected to decay but have not been experimentally confirmed to do so.

* Ana Castillo: " marginalized, brown woman who is treated as a foreigner and is expected to do menial labor and ask nothing of the society in which she lives.

This enables the experimenter to find the position of a particle not when it impacts the screen, but rather, when it passes through the double-slit — did it go through only one of the slits, as a particle would be expected to do, or through both, as a wave would be expected to do?

It is generally expected that an embassy of a Commonwealth country in a non-Commonwealth country will do its best to provide diplomatic services to citizens from other Commonwealth countries if the citizen's country does not have an embassy in that country.

For example, former field hands ( during the early days of Reconstruction ) are described behaving " as creatures of small intelligence might naturally be expected to do.

One confusing aspect is that medications that lower the immune response do not improve sIBM symptoms, as would be expected in the case of an autoimmune disorder.

Women in Pakistan are expected to marry men ; those who do not are ostracized.

These tests do not give criterion-based judgments as to whether students have met a single standard of what every student is expected to know and do: they merely rank the students in comparison with each other.

The term " dead money " is also used in a derogatory sense to refer to money put in the pot by players who are still legally eligible to win it, but who are unlikely to do so because they are unskilled, increasing the expected return of other players.