* Anything But Conservative, or ABC campaign, 2008 Canadian federal election political campaign

During the 2008 Canadian parliamentary dispute, two of Canada's opposition parties signed an agreement to form what would become the country's second coalition government since Confederation if the minority Conservative government was defeated on a vote of non-confidence ; unseating Stephen Harper as Prime Minister.

The 2008 Federal Election saw the Conservative Party of Canada take the seat with former New Maryland MLA Keith Ashfield taking this seat with 42 % of the popular vote.

The 2008 and 2012 elections were both won by Boris Johnson, the Conservative Party candidate.

He was touted as a possible Conservative candidate for the Mayor of London elections in 2008, but turned down an offer from Conservative leader David Cameron.

Because of the split-off of the Conservative Democratic Party from the Swiss People's Party in 2008, since then the latter holds again only one seat in the Federal Council as of 2011.

Conservative hosts Limbaugh, Ingraham, Bennett, Prager, Hannity, Beck, Levin and Hewitt coalesced around endorsing former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney for president at the end of January 2008 ( after Fred Thompson, the described favorite of some of the hosts, dropped out ), in an effort to oppose the nomination of Sen. John McCain ; however, Romney suspended his campaign in February of the same year, and endorsed McCain.

In 2008, the Conservative Party formed a pact with the Ulster Unionist Party to select joint candidates for European and House of Commons elections ; this angered the DUP as by splitting the Unionist vote, republican parties will be elected in some areas.

Conservative Boris Johnson has held the position since 4 May 2008.

In 2008, Conservative politician Sayeeda Warsi stated that a future Conservative government would ban khat.

During the 2008 London mayoral election the newspaper and particularly its correspondent Andrew Gilligan published articles in support of Conservative candidate Boris Johnson, including frequent front-page headlines condemning Ken Livingstone.

Hanwell is in the London Assembly constituency of Ealing and Hillingdon which has one assembly member: Richard Barnes ( Conservative ), was re-elected in May 2008 but lost his seat to Labour in May 2012.

Northolt comes under the London Assembly constituency of Ealing and Hillingdon which has one assembly member, currently Richard Barnes ( Conservative ), who was re-elected in May 2008.

Southall is in the London Assembly constituency of Ealing and Hillingdon which has one assembly member: Richard Barnes ( Conservative ), who was re-elected in May 2008.

As of October 2008, the current membership of the Council is Conservative Party 33 ; Residents ' Association 12 ; Independent Local Residents 2 ; Labour Party 2 ; Hornchurch Residents 1 ; Rainham Residents 2 ; British National Party 1 ; Liberal Democrat 1.

After the 2005 General Election, Erith and Thamesmead is represented by a Labour Party MP while the remaining two seats were held by the Conservative Party ; although on 29 January 2008 the Conservative Party whip was withdrawn from Old Bexley and Sidcup's MP Derek Conway following alleged misuse of funds, leaving him as an Independent MP.

Again, the area was strongly represented as a Conservative hold from 2000-2012 with the conservative candidate Richard Barnes winning the 2000, 2004 and 2008 elections by quite a large margin.

He sat as Conservative Member of Parliament for Haddingtonshire and Ipswich and served as Lord-Lieutenant of Haddingtonshire from 1918 to 1937. the titles are held by the thirteenth Earl of Wemyss and ninth Earl of March, who succeeded in 2008.

He also spoke for about 6 hours during the February 5, 2008 and February 7, 2008 at the Canadian House of Commons Standing Committee on Procedure and House Affairs meetings to block inquiry into allegations that the Conservative Party spent over the maximum allowable campaign limits during the 2006 election.

Crosby was later re-hired by the Conservative Party to run their successful campaign in the 2008 London Mayor election.

Conti considered running as the Conservative candidate in the 2008 London mayoral election.

During the 2008 United States presidential election, she branded the Republican Party vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin as " stupid " and a " disgrace to women ".

Cuba has been ruled by Castro's Communist Party of Cuba, although Castro himself formally stepped down as leader in 2008, to be replaced by his brother Raúl Castro.

In South Australia and Western Australia the two parties compete separately, while in the Northern Territory and Queensland the two parties have merged, forming the Country Liberal Party, in 1978, and the Liberal National Party, in 2008, respectively.

On August 15, 2008 Chen resigned from the Democratic Progressive Party and apologized thus: " Today I have to say sorry to all of the DPP members and supporters.

For example, in the 2008 United States presidential election, a politician and actor named Fred Thompson ran for the Republican Party nomination.

Communist Party of Great Britain ( Marxist – Leninist ) contingent at London May Day march in 2008, carrying a banner of Stalin.

Voight endorsed former New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani for the 2008 Republican Party nomination.

Spacey at HBO Post Emmys Party, 2008

The law concerned was Section 63 of the Criminal Justice and Immigration Act 2008, brought in by the Labour Party government of 2005-2010.

Third parties have failed to score any electoral success: in the 2008 election the Alternattiva Demokratika ( Democratic Alternative-a Green Party established in 1989 ) and the Azzjoni Nazzjonali ( National Action ) managed to secure only 1. 31 % and 0. 5 % of the first preference votes nationwide respectively.

The first elections after membership were held in March 2008 resulting in a narrow victory for the Nationalist Party with 49. 34 % of first preference votes.

XIII Congress of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation in 2008

In September 2008, Gorbachev and billionaire Alexander Lebedev announced they would form the Independent Democratic Party of Russia, and in May 2009 Gorbachev announced that the launch was imminent.

Defying political pundits, who had predicted it to be trounced in the April 2008 elections, the Communist Party of Nepal ( Maoist ) became the largest party amidst a general atmosphere of fear and intimidation from all sides.

In 2008, Nayak left the party to rejoin the Congress Party.

It was the major coalition party in Queensland between 1924 and 2008, when it merged with the junior Queensland Division of the Liberal Party of Australia to form the Liberal National Party of Queensland ( LNP ), an organisation dominated by ex-Nationals – seats listed in this article do not include the LNP.

In Queensland the National Party merged with the Liberal Party forming the Liberal National Party in 2008.

Merger plans came to a head in May 2008, when the Queensland state Liberal Party gave an announcement not to wait for a federal blueprint but instead to merge immediately.

The new party, the Liberal National Party, was founded in July 2008.

The development of the chemistry of alkaloids was accelerated by the emergence of spectroscopic and chromatographic methods in the 20th century, so that by 2008 more than 12, 000 alkaloids had been identified.

In spring 2008 a Calandra Lark was identified in April, and in May a Caspian Plover was observed, only the fourth such record for the UK.

At the beginning of July 2008, a network upgrade forced users to stop using ICQ 5. 1-applications that identified themselves as ICQ 5, such as Pidgin, were forced to identify themselves as ICQ 6.

One painting, Portrait of a Youth by Dosso Dossi at the National Gallery of Victoria, was identified as a portrait of Lucrezia in November 2008.

In 2008, It was further revealed that CTCF binding sites act as nucleosome positioning anchors so that, when used to align various genomic signals, multiple flanking nucleosomes can be readily identified.

Since 2008, the IUCN Red List has listed it as Panthera uncia, with Uncia uncia identified as a synonym.

In 2008, a 50-million-year-old fossil, Amphistium, was identified as an early relative of the flatfish and transitional fossil.

Another DEFRA report, in February 2008, confirmed the existence of these two sites as ' established breeding areas ' and identified a third in Gloucestershire / Herefordshire ; in the Forest of Dean / Ross on Wye area.

Sommer ( 2008 ) classified historical accounts related to vitamin A and / or manifestations of deficiency as follows: " Ancient " accounts ; 18th-to 19th-century clinical descriptions ( and their purported etiologic associations ); early 20th-century laboratory animal experiments, and clinical and epidiomologic observations that identified the existence of this unique nutrient and manifestations of its deficiency.

A CNNMoney. com article in 2008 identified Tooele as the U. S. county experiencing the greatest job growth since 2000.

Landscape architecture has been identified as an above-average growth profession by the US Bureau of Labor Statistics and was listed in U. S. News & World Reports list of Best Jobs to Have in 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2010.

In a 2010 press release, the Centers for Disease Control ( CDC ) reported that between 1998 and 2008, 1 out of 25 foodborne illnesses in the United States with identified food sources had been traced back to restaurant salsa or guacamole.

The 2008 book Exercising for Excellence, published by The British Standards Institution identified three types of exercises that can be employed when testing business continuity plans.

According to the U. S. Census Bureau, in 2008, Finney County became a minority-majority county, where 50 percent of all people identified as minorities, mostly Hispanic and Asian.

In retrospect, Schreiber said in a 2008 interview, he appreciates his mother's influences, saying, " Since I've had Sasha, I've completely identified with everything my mother went through raising me ... And I think her choices were inspired.

As of 2008 only 300 corpses were identified and 600 in 2009.

Stephen Yeates ( 2008, 2009 ) has interpreted the name as meaning " cauldron ; sacred vessel " and linked to the shape of the Vale of Gloucester and the Romano-British regional cult of a goddess with a bucket or cauldron, identified with a Mater Dobunna, supposedly associated with West Country legends concerning the Holy Grail ..

In a 2008 report he identified complexity and herd behavior as central to the global financial crisis of 2008.

German authorities identified 676 sex-trafficking victims in 2008, compared with 689 in 2007.

It is now anticipated that by year 2008, 90 % of such objects that are 1 km or more in diameter will have been identified and will be monitored.

According to a study looking into immigration patterns, Wisbech was once identified as the seventh " most English " town in Britain by Sky News However, on 16 February 2008 a report in the Daily Express titled " Death Of A Country Idyll " wrote about how the influx of Eastern European immigrants may have caused the increase of crime and other illegal activities.

The following are amongst the challenges as identified by Hall ( 2004 ) and the Department of Rural Development and Land Reform ( 2008 ):

The following are amongst the challenges as identified by Hall ( 2004 ) and the Department of Rural Development and Land Reform ( 2008 ):

The new model, identified by the internal type numbers 137 or 1K8, is based on the PQ35 platform of the Golf V and was unveiled at the 2008 Geneva Motor Show.