After the defeat of National at the 1984 general elections, Bolger and deputy leader Jim McLay challenged Muldoon for the leadership of the party.

In 1978, Prime Minister Robert Muldoon appointed McLay to the posts of Attorney General and Minister of Justice.

The two main candidates in the leadership race ( apart from Muldoon himself ) were Jim McLay and Jim Bolger.

The relationship between McLay and Muldoon deteriorated further as McLay outlined a major departure from Muldoon's interventionist economic policies.

Muldoon, apparently realising that there was little chance of him regaining the leadership, threw his support behind Jim Bolger, who remained opposed to McLay.

The National Party, now in opposition, experienced a number of leadership disputes, replacing Muldoon first with Jim McLay and then with Jim Bolger.

It has been stated that Beattie suggested to senior members of the National Party that he could dismiss Muldoon and appoint his deputy, Jim McLay, as Prime Minister before swearing in David Lange as Prime Minister ( McLay was to replace Muldoon as leader later that year ).

In Parliament, McLay was known as one of the more liberal members of the National Party, and had a particular focus on reforming laws that related to women's rights.

In the 2000 Scottish Junior Cup Final against Whitburn, goals by Colin Lindsay, who later had a spell as manager, and John McLay took the game to penalties after a 2 – 2 draw.

In the early 1980s, Minister of Justice Jim McLay suggested their abolition.

McLay succeeded, making Bolger his deputy, but in 1986 Bolger made another attempt and unseated McLay.

Today there are seven public golf courses ; the Balgove, Eden, Jubilee Course, Strathtyrum, New, the Old Course ( which is widely considered one of the finest, and certainly the most famous and traditional, courses in the world ), and the new Castle Course, sited on the cliffs a mile to the east of St Andrews and designed by the architect David McLay Kidd, which opened in June 2008.

James Kenneth McLay, CNZM, QSO ( born 21 February 1945 ), generally known as Jim McLay, is a former New Zealand politician.

McLay is currently New Zealand's Permanent Representative to the United Nations.

McLay was born in Devonport, Auckland.

McLay had joined the National Party in 1963, and held a number of prominent positions within the party's Auckland branch.

In early 1984, following the retirement of Duncan MacIntyre, McLay became deputy leader of the National Party, and thus Deputy Prime Minister.

McLay won the caucus vote with slightly over half the votes.

There was considerable media speculation that McLay would be deposed before the end of 1985.

The rumoured challenge, however, failed to eventuate, and McLay remained leader.

In early 1986, however, McLay made a fatal mistake – in an attempt to " rejuvenate " the party's upper ranks, he demoted George Gair and Bill Birch, both of whom were highly respected for their long service.

On 26 March, Gair, Birch, and party whip Don McKinnon presented McLay with a letter signed by a majority of MPs asking him to step aside.

McLay is the only leader of the National Party who neither became Prime Minister nor led his party to an election.

In contrast to the nuclear changes described above, another change in muscle nuclei was seen, usually occurring in fibers that were somewhat smaller than normal but that showed distinct cross-striations and myofibrillae.

Kant, by contrast, pushed the employment of a priori metaphysical claims as requisite, for if anything is to be said to be knowable, it would have to be established upon abstractions distinct from perceivable phenomena.

In contrast to most other nations, the United States considers the three types of agreements as distinct.

In contrast to real numbers that have the property of varying " smoothly ", the objects studied in discrete mathematics – such as integers, graphs, and statements in logic – do not vary smoothly in this way, but have distinct, separated values.

By contrast, nouns have no distinct nominative and objective forms, the two being merged into a single plain case.

He argued that in contrast to English and other SAE languages, the Hopi language does not treat the flow of time as a sequence of distinct, countable instances, like " three days " or " five years " but rather as a single process and consequentially it does not have nouns referring to units of time.

Hoysala temples have distinct parts that are merged to form a unified organic whole, in contrast to the temples of Tamil country where different parts of a temple stand independently.

In a distinct contrast to numerous examples of admirals and senior naval officers who would come to point their finger at individuals or groups of individuals in the fleet when something went seriously awry, Rickover adamantly took full responsibility for everything within the scope of the naval nuclear propulsion program ( NNPP ).

The microbial cells growing in a biofilm are physiologically distinct from planktonic cells of the same organism, which, by contrast, are single-cells that may float or swim in a liquid medium.

A later critic noted the sharp contrast between his hesitant conversations and his fluent speaking styles, adding that Calhoun " had so carefully cultivated his naturally poor voice as to make his utterance clear, full, and distinct in speaking and while not at all musical it yet fell pleasantly on the ear.

The de Broglie – Bohm theory, by contrast, requires no such measurement axioms ( and measurement as such is not a dynamically distinct or special sub-category of physical processes in the theory ).

In contrast, continuing the same journal thread, Leszek P. Słupecki argues that the Vanir remained distinct from the Æsir — except for Freyja and Freyr, whom he follows Snorri in seeing as having been born after Njörðr became a hostage among the Æsir, and thus regards as Æsic — and therefore that Ragnarök " no importance for their world ".

The groups sound is known to flow back and forth between ambient, experimental, major, positive melodies to aggressive, technical, heavy metal influenced single-note progressions with the vocals holding the same contrast between multi-voice harmonies and soulful falsettos to explosive, powerful, melodic shouting all being led by a distinct and unique, jazz influenced drumming style.

In contrast, SS7 signaling is termed Common Channel Signaling ( CCS ) in that the path and facility used by the signaling is separate and distinct from the telecommunications channels that will ultimately carry the telephone conversation.

But in contrast to Descartes, who considered it possible to form a clear and distinct idea of the mind, Malebranche argues in the Dialogues on Metaphysics, a dialogue between Theodore and Aristes, that we do not have a complete conception of the powers of the mind, and thus no clear conception of the nature of the mind.

This is in contrast to the priest, whom some Protestants see as having a distinct authority and spiritual role different from that of ordinary believers.

In contrast to the nascent Christian church, Marcion declared that Christianity was distinct from and in opposition to Judaism.

By contrast, the language has only two phonemically distinct vowels — which, however, have several allophones depending on the palatal and / or labial quality of adjacent consonants.

" The echoes of the dying controversy are thus distinct and not very distant in this book, though it also offers in its larger outlook, in the author's evident uneasiness under the burden of inherited beliefs, and his inability to reconcile them with his new standpoint and accepted principles, a curious forecast of his later development, while in its positive premisses it presents a still more instructive contrast to the conclusions of his later dialectic.

In general elliptical galaxies appear yellow-red, which is in contrast to the distinct blue tinge of a typical spiral galaxy, a colour emanating largely from the young, hot stars in its spiral arms.

This should be seen in contrast to the Anglo American common law approach which has distinct tort actions, each with their own peculiar elements which require satisfaction before an action is founded.

This belief of God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Ghost being physically distinct beings is in contrast to most denominations of Christianity which derive their beliefs of the relationship of the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost from creeds, such as the Nicean Creed, and early Catholic tradition.

As with other multiracial peoples seeking recognition as Native American tribes, the Ramapough Mountain Indians have encountered differences of opinion over the significance of ancestry in contrast to identity in being recognized as a distinct culture.

TRANSIT had the distinct disadvantage that it generated two possible locations for any given measurements, locations that were close enough together that traditional navigation methods were not accurate to determine which of the two was the actual location ( in contrast to Gee or LORAN ).

This stands in sharp contrast to the doctrine of three distinct and eternal " persons " posited by Trinitarian theology.