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On the day of the Mid-Staffordshire by-election, Powell claimed that the government should admit that the community charge was " a disaster " and that what mattered most to the people of Mid-Staffordshire was the question of who should govern Britain and that only the Conservative Party was advocating that the British should govern themselves.
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On a bitterly cold day in January, 1895, accompanied only by Neal Brown as his deputy, Tilghman left the township of Guthrie and headed for Rock Fort and Dunn's ranch.
On Fridays, the day when many Persians relax with poetry, talk, and a samovar, people do not, it is true, stream into Chehel Sotun -- a pavilion and garden built by Shah Abbas 2, in the seventeenth century -- but they do retire into hundreds of pavilions throughout the city and up the river valley, which are smaller, more humble copies of the former.
On December 21, the day that the Irish House of Commons petitioned for removal of Sir Constantine Phipps, their Tory Lord Chancellor, Molesworth reportedly made this remark on the defense of Phipps by Convocation: `` They that have turned the world upside down, are come hither also ''.
On the very day that the parliamentary session began, another `` Infamous Libel '' appeared, entitled A Letter From The Facetious Dr. Andrew Tripe, At Bath, To The Venerable Nestor Ironside.
On that cold, but bright, April day we were guests of your government in the reviewing stand of Red Square to witness the poeple's celebration for Yuri Gagarin and later on that day we attended the somewhat more exclusive reception for him in one of the impressive palaces of the Kremlin.
On the fateful day in 1896 when the great waves approached Japan, fishermen at sea noticed no unusual swells.
On that first day, Blanche literally thought she was going to die, or, at the very least, go out of her mind.
On Thursday, the first day of the Masters, the contest between Palmer and Player developed instantly.
On Friday, a day as cloudless and lovely as Thursday had been gray and ugly, the plot of the tournament came clearly into focus.
On this day the wind had switched 180-degrees from the northwest to the southeast, and nearly every shot on the course was different from the previous few days.
On microfilm, headquarters also has a file of the New York Times from its founding in 1851 to the present day, as well as bound volumes of important periodicals.
On my first Guy Fawkes Day here, I found Catholics as well as non-Catholics celebrating with the traditional fireworks and bonfires, and was told that most Englishmen either do not know or are not concerned with the historical significance of the day.
On top of everything else they were two months behind on their apartment rent, and the day Wally received written notice that he was fired, they were evicted.
On June 12, 1776, a day after appointing a committee to prepare a draft of the Declaration of Independence, the Second Continental Congress resolved to appoint a committee of 13 to prepare a draft of a constitution for a union of the states.
" On July 27, 1868, the day before the Fourteenth Amendment was adopted, U. S. Congress declared in the preamble of the Expatriation Act that " the right of expatriation is a natural and inherent right of all people, indispensable to the enjoyment of the rights of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness ," and ( Section I ) one of " the fundamental principles of this government " ( United States Revised Statutes, sec.
On the day of his wife's death he wrote two verses from the Psalms, and the prayer, ' O Lord, God of Mercy, unite me in Heaven with those whom you have permitted me to love on earth.
" On April 10, 1833, the family moved to Philadelphia, where Alcott ran a day school.
On the same day he admits before the nation that he " misled people " about the relationship.
On his death Charlemagne's remains were interred in the cathedral and can be seen there to this day.
On the day that the Circus Games occurred, Caligula had a statue made of Agrippina ’ s image to be paraded in a covered carriage at the Games.
On the day that Agrippina married her uncle Claudius as her third husband / his fourth wife, she became an Empress and the most powerful woman in the Roman Empire.
On the day of the funeral, Peter sent Alexei a stern letter, urging him to take interest in the affairs of the state.
On the day before the Thesea at Athens there were annual sacrifices to the Amazons.
On 15 April, liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen propellants were pumped into the spacecraft, while the astronauts rested in anticipation of their launch the next day.
On and by-election
On the day of the by-election, 1 March 1984, The Sun newspaper ran a hostile feature article " Benn on the Couch ", which purported to be the opinions of an American psychiatrist.
On 9 June 1994 Fianna Fáil lost two seats in the Mayo West by-election and the Dublin South Central by-election to the opposition Fine Gael and Democratic Left.
On January 31, 2010, Chiarelli was acclaimed as the Ontario Liberal Party candidate in the by-election to succeed Jim Watson ( who became Mayor of Ottawa ) in Ottawa West – Nepean.
On the return of the Whigs to power in 1830 he became Lord Advocate, and entered parliament at a by-election in January 1831 as member for the Perth burghs.
On the same day, Patrick Kinane also won the Tipperary by-election for Clann na Poblachta.
On his return, Naunton was elected Member of Parliament for Helston at a by-election in 1606.
On 13 April 1945, shortly before the end of World War II, McIntyre won the Motherwell by-election, with a majority of 617 votes over his Labour opponent.
On the same day, Labour's Patrick Nulty won the Dublin West by-election, making the Labour Party the first government party in Ireland to win a by-election since 1982.
On October 22, 2006, Elizabeth May announced she would run in the federal by-election to be held on November 27, 2006, in London North Centre, Ontario.
On 1 February, Gorton resigned from the Senate to stand for the by-election in Holt's former House of Representatives electorate of Higgins.
On being elected, he resigned his Dáil seat and a by-election was held on 10 November 1994, which was won by Fine Gael.
On 25 May 2005, Donald Tsang, the Chief Secretary for Administration, resigned to stand in the ' by-election ' for Chief Executive.
On 23 October 2009, Hamilton was announced as the Australian Greens candidate for the by-election in the federal seat of Higgins.
On 14 May 1912, he was elected to the Legislative Council seat of East Province in a by-election.
On several occasions he has enabled the defeat of moves to reduce the number of weeks at which termination of a pregnancy can be legally performed in Britain by " talking out the measure " ( filibustering ), as on 20 January 1989, when he held up proceedings by trying to move a writ for a by-election in the constituency of Richmond.
On 12 March 1994, following the resignation of former Federal treasurer and member for Fremantle, John Dawkins, she won a by-election for the seat and entered federal politics.
On 13 July 2012 the Wales daily newspaper The Western Mail reported that an internal " row " had erupted in the Labour Party regarding the selection of a prospective candidate for the anticipated Parliamentary by-election in Alun Michael's Cardiff South & Penarth constituency.
On the eve of the Labour Party selection meeting to choose its Cardiff South and Penarth Parliamentary by-election candidate " party sources " ( unnamed ) were reported to have alleged that Michael had been " interfering inappropriately " in the selection process and had buttonholed senior party leaders to ensure his preferred candidate ( Stephen Doughty ) was included on the shortlist.
On 15 June 2008, with former Labour Cabinet Minister Tony Benn, Marshall-Andrews again rebelled in his support for Conservative MP David Davis ' campaign to step down as an MP and force a by-election in his constituency over the bill for a maximum 42-day detention without charge for arrested suspects.
On October 31, 1960, Walter Pitman won a stunning by-election victory in Peterborough running as a New Party candidate.
On November 12, a by-election was called for his riding of Whitehorse Centre on December 13, which was won by the Party leader Hanson.
On October 11, while attending a rally for the CCF's by-election candidate, Ford Brand, at Parkdale Collegiate Institute, a partisan audience member asked him about the rumour that he was offered the leadership of the federal Liberal Party.
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