Classic examples of this came in 1988, when Democratic candidate Michael Dukakis chose experienced Texas Senator Lloyd Bentsen, and 2008, when Republican candidate John McCain picked Alaska Governor Sarah Palin.

Winning the toss, Lancashire chose to bat first and amassed 259 thanks largely to a century by David Lloyd, who would later become Gower's co-commentator.

Dukakis considered Gephardt for his running mate, but chose Texas Senator Lloyd Bentsen.

When Harold was a child, his parents divorced and Lloyd chose to stay with his father.

The Labour Party chose Selwyn Lloyd partly because he was perceived as a weak figure.

The governing Liberal Party lost faith in Asquith in December 1916, over the conduct and huge losses of the First World War and chose the pro-Zionist Lloyd George to serve as Prime Minister instead.

According to Wisden in his debut series, Holding " had shown himself to be Roberts ' natural opening partner and indeed was timed to be faster than Thomson, Lillee and Roberts ", and considered that when West Indies captain Clive Lloyd chose to give Julien the new ball rather than Holding it was a mistake that cost the West Indies the match.

* As originally conceived, the plot device in which Laurie had faked her death was written explicitly to account for her reported " death " in Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers, and the original story treatment for H20 acknowledged the events depicted in the fourth through sixth films in the series, including the existence and death of Laurie's daughter, Jamie Lloyd ; however, the filmmakers ultimately chose to ignore the continuity of the previous three sequels.

The other was the fact that Marilyn Lloyd was the widow of Mort Lloyd, an anchorman at CBS affiliate WDEF-TV, who had won the Democratic nomination to face Baker and who had then been killed in a light-airplane accident on his way to celebrate his victory ; the Democratic Party then chose his wife to succeed him as Congressional nominee.

The colors that Frank Lloyd Wright chose for the Johnson Wax building are cream ( for the columns and mortar ) and " Cherokee red " for the floors, bricks, and furniture.

When liberal Democrat Michael Dukakis ran for president in 1988 he chose Lloyd Bentsen, a moderate, as his running mate.

The band Dennis chose in 2007 to continue his legacy with The Classics IV trademark consist of Tom Garrett as lead vocalist, Kevin Lloyd on bass, Tim Ridgeway on drums, Joe Sadler on guitar, Garard Motague III on flute and saxophone, and James Yoder on keyboards.

In 1979 Hal Prince chose Stephanie to take over the role of Eva Peron in Andrew Lloyd Webber's Evita from Marti Webb.

But in the end, Lloyd Webber chose to pursue the musical without Hill.

After weeks of selection and training P. Diddy chose the members of the band ( Sara Stokes, Dylan Dilinjah, Frederick ( Freddy P ) Watson, Rodney ( Chopper ) Hill, Lloyd ( Ness ) Mathis & Lynese ( Babs ) Wiley ) on the first season of Making The Band 2.

Lloyd refused and instead chose Andrew V. McLaglen, son of Victor McLaglen, a British-born American previously known mainly for making westerns.

Von Rebay chose the noted architect Frank Lloyd Wright to design the museum.

Lloyd later stated that Hartnell had approved of the choice, saying, " There's only one man in England who can take over, and that's Patrick Troughton ".

Producer Lloyd credited Troughton with a " leading actor's temperament.

His script for the BBC television series Doctor Who, The Underwater Menace, was commissioned by producer Innes Lloyd and recorded with Patrick Troughton in 1967.

In 1969, Judge Lloyd Francis MacMahon wrote a letter to Giuliani's draft board, asking that he be reclassified as 2-A, civilian occupation deferment, because Giuliani, who was a law clerk for MacMahon, was an essential employee.

Dolphin fans were furious because fan favorite Lloyd Mumphord was replaced with Stuckey.

* Professor Plum ( Christopher Lloyd ), a psychiatrist, who lost his license because he had an affair with a female patient.

They threatened to vote against the Budget unless they had their way ( Irish nationalists favoured tariff reform, and opposed the planned increase in whisky duty, but an attempt by Lloyd George to win their support by cancelling it was abandoned as the Cabinet felt that this was recasting the Budget too much, and because it would also have annoyed nonconformist voters.

They had to stop takes over and over on that segment because I was laughing at the banter between Lloyd and Lithgow.

* 2011 In September, Lloyd ’ s of London pulled deposits from European banks because of concerns that European governments may be unable to support lenders in a worsening debt crisis.

From 2006, Lloyd Aéreo had to cut flights because to its bad financial shape leased long-haul aircraft ( a random mix of Airbus A310, Boeing 757, Boeing 767 or Lockheed L-1011 TriStar at that time ) could not be paid for anymore.

Lloyd did not grant cinematic release because in the main most theaters could not accommodate an organist, and Lloyd did not wish his work to be accompanied by a pianist: " I just don't like pictures played with pianos.

Both the ruins and cave were visited and described briefly by John Lloyd Stephens at the start of the 1840s, but no detailed scholarly examination of the ruins was made until that of Eric von Euw in 1973 ( in part because Stephens and other early visitors failed to note that there were surviving inscriptions ).

Trigger ( Roger Lloyd Pack ) 1981-2003 — Trigger, apparently so called because he looks like a horse, was the principal supporting character throughout the show's run ; only Del Boy and Rodney appeared in more episodes.

Chamberlain joined the cabinet as Secretary of State for India and remained at the India Office after Lloyd George succeeded Asquith as Prime Minister in late 1916, but following the failure of various British campaigns in Mesopotamia ( undertaken by the separately-administered Indian Army ), Chamberlain resigned his post in 1917, not because of any failures on his part, but rather according to his principles: he was the minister ultimately responsible, so the fault lay with him.

According to Steinman in an interview, Andrew Lloyd Webber approached him to write lyrics for The Phantom of the Opera because Lloyd Webber felt that his " dark obsessive side " fit in with the project.

Luckily for Henman, Slater kept funding him while he was recuperating, because of insistence from Lloyd who believed in Henman's tennis abilities.

Lloyd George refused to formally declare martial law, not least because in July 1920 the Amritsar Massacre ( of April 1919 ) was being debated by Parliament.

who, along with Ms. Vance, wanted to create “ a building that sings from any viewpoint .” The theatre building has no right angles but does have wide bands and terraces and is “ reminiscent of Frank Lloyd Wright ’ s buildings .” Franzen selected the concrete exterior because he was inspired by Houston ’ s location and the warm weather of the Southwest.

This West Indian defeat is considered to be a watershed in the history of their cricket because it led to captain Clive Lloyd dispensing with spin altogether and relying entirely on a four man pace attack.

An Oberlin physics department head named Dr. Lloyd W. Taylor began writing a Gray biography, but the book was never finished because of Taylor's accidental death in July 1948.

Historically, his election as leader has been interpreted as a victory of the provincial NDP's " establishment " over its extreme left-wing Waffle faction, because Lloyd was trying to move the party more to the political left, which meant he supported the Waffle Manifesto at the October 1969 Federal NDP convention in Winnipeg.

The organisers did not invite Marie Lloyd, because of a professional dispute.

One of the most important members of this group is a type of voltage-gated sodium channel that underlies action potentials — these are sometimes called Hodgkin-Huxley sodium channels because they were initially characterized by Alan Lloyd Hodgkin and Andrew Huxley in their Nobel Prize-winning studies of the physiology of the action potential.

Sullivan's assistant Frank Lloyd Wright adopted and professed the same principle in slightly different form — perhaps because shaking off the old styles gave them more freedom and latitude.