Blaikie's closest election came in 1993, when the Liberal Party under Jean Chrétien defeated the Progressive Conservatives under new leader Kim Campbell to win a majority government.

Despite the Conservatives ' good showing across the province, they did not win a single seat in the old Metro Toronto area ; and, Kennedy won his seat with large plurality, with his closest rival, Castrilli, about 10, 000 votes behind.

Every legislator from Brasstown Bald to Folkston is going to have his every vote subjected to the closest scrutiny as a test of his political allegiances, not his convictions.

The debt arrangements have been personally negotiated by ( then ) Defense Minister ( and now President ) Serge Sarkisian, Kocharian ’ s closest political associate.

As the least specialized animal, human beings have maintained the closest connection to the archetypal form ; contrary to the Darwinian conception of human evolution, all other animals devolve from this archetype.

They show the closest relationship with the Slavic languages, and have, by most scholars, been reconstructed to a common Proto-Balto-Slavic stage, during which Common Balto-Slavic lexical, phonological, morphological and accentological isoglosses are thought to have developed.

After each competitor has delivered all of their bowls ( four each in singles and pairs, three each in triples, and two bowls each in fours ), the distance of the closest bowls to the jack is determined ( the jack may have been displaced ) and points, called " shots ", are awarded for each bowl which a competitor has closer than the opponent's nearest to the jack.

From then on, the side which does not have the ball closest to the jack has a chance to bowl, up until one side or the other has used their four balls.

Of all of Gauss's children, Wilhelmina was said to have come closest to his talent, but she died young.

The primary and secondary have a period of 80 years and will be closest to each other as seen from Earth in 2037 and 2038.

The purpose is to accumulate the highest score for a game ; points are scored for the stones resting closest to the centre of the house at the conclusion of each end, which is completed when both teams have thrown all of their stones.

When the ground became redeveloped, with the standing terraces replaced in 2003-4 ( during Fulham's exile to Loftus Road ) the club applied for a licence to have a designated neutral area, in the rows closest to the Cottage, ( affectionately nicknamed ' Little Switzerland ').

Paleontological classifications have yet to incorporate this new taxonomy, and continue to use Hydrochoeridae for all capybaras, while using Hydrochoerinae for the living genus and its closest fossil relatives, such as Neochoerus.

Although the comet had approached Jupiter closely before, the July 7 encounter seemed to be by far the closest, and the fragmentation of the comet is thought to have occurred at this time.

Not only does the ensuing crisis rank with the Berlin Blockade, the Suez Crisis and the Yom Kippur War as one of the major confrontations of the Cold War, it is generally regarded as the moment in which the Cold War came closest to turning into a nuclear conflict, or possibly World War III, where it is estimated that 100 million Americans and over 100 million Russians would have perished.

Although Dominican relations with its closest neighbor, the Republic of Haiti, have never been extensive, there are signs this would have changed with the government of President Hipólito Mejía.

Egypt and Sudan have enjoyed intimate and longstanding historical ties, seeing as they are each other's closest allies in the North African region.

Mary's closest confidant, Charles V's ambassador Simon Renard, argued that her throne would never be safe while Elizabeth lived ; and the Chancellor, Stephen Gardiner, worked to have Elizabeth put on trial.

The delegations from the more prominent nations argued that they should sit closest to the Pope, and there were also disputes over who was to have the finest chairs and who was to have their chairs on mats.

In this sense it is the western view of the Holy Grail which comes closest to the Sufic ideal ; for to the Sufis Perfection is the Grail ; and the Holy Grail is for those who after they become perfect by giving all they have to the poor then go on to become " Abdal " or " changed ones " like Enoch who was " taken " by God because he " walked with God ".

All Common Kestrels have a prominent black malar stripe like their closest relatives.

Also the Eastern European countries that have recently entered into the EU come closest to the Anglo-Saxon model.

Queen Anne was rumored to have a passionate relationship with Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough, her closest adviser and confidante.

The Sirenia are thought to have evolved from four-legged land mammals over 60 million years ago, with the closest living relatives being the Proboscidea ( elephants ) and Hyracoidea ( hyraxes ).

He was the best drummer I had ever played with and for many years, my closest friend.

The 1962 – 63 season would be the closest Banks would ever get to winning either the league or the FA Cup in his career.

Among these was the devout Catholic Antonín Dvořák, the closest Brahms ever came to having a protégé.

There are two portions of Manichaean scriptures that are probably the closest thing to the original Manichaean writings in their original languages that will ever be available.

It turned out, for certain temperaments, a seductive book .” For biographer David King Dunaway, The Doors of Perception, along with The Art of Seeing, can be seen as the closest Huxley ever came to autobiographical writing.

No Vice President has ever been impeached, least of all convicted ; in 1973, Spiro Agnew came the closest.

The Pakistan Airborne troops managed to occupy much of the Indian-held Kashmir and was only 6 mile ( 10 km ) away from Srinagar, this was the closest Pakistan airborne troops were ever got to capture the city.

* April 10 – Comet Halley passes approximately 5 million km from Earth – its closest ever approach to Earth.

The closest she ever came to preserving her stage performances were her famous television appearances as Peter Pan.

* February 20 – The " Comet of 1491 " comes away from earth, the closest ever recorded.

In 1972, Eastland was reelected with 58 % of the vote in his " closest " contest ever.

Their measurement is probably the closest ever made to one of the earth ’ s poles.

The album's music was probably the closest to ' hardcore punk ' Riot / Clone ever achieved.

Holmes was in fact a high-school dropout who never returned to school ; according to Bill Amerson, " the closest John ever got to UCLA was breaking into cars in the school's parking lot.

* In possibly the most dramatic duel of the games, Sweden's Thomas Wassberg edged Finland's Juha Mieto in the 15 km cross-country skiing by 0. 01 seconds, the closest margin of victory ever in Olympic cross-country skiing.

The closest the voting for the Hart Trophy has ever come was in the 2001 – 02 season, when Jose Theodore and Jarome Iginla tied in the total voting.

Danzig called the performances " the closest thing to a Misfits reunion anyone is ever going to see ".

Early in the afternoon of that Friday, the center of the bridge gave way to the relentless pounding of the highest water ever recorded on the Delaware, and all but the section closest to the New Jersey side floated down the river.

Ali would later claim that this was the closest to dying he had ever been, and also stated, " Joe Frazier, I'll tell the world right now, brings out the best in me.

He came second to George Weah for the FIFA World Player of the Year Award in 1995, the closest a defender had ever reached to winning the award, until Fabio Cannavaro, a fellow Italian won the award in 2006.

Some historians maintain Ferdinand had also been touched by the reformed philosophies, and was probably the closest the Holy Roman Empire ever came to a Protestant emperor ; he remained nominally a Catholic throughout his life, although reportedly he refused last rites on his deathbed.

The closest ethnographers can ever really get to reality is an approximate truth.

The closest they ever got was to the moon.

By the November 1982 election, it held only five seats fewer than Fianna Fáil ( their closest ever margin until 2011 ; at times Fianna Fáil was nearly twice as large ), with Fine Gael in the Oireachtas bigger than Fianna Fáil, who had been a dominant force in Irish politics for 40 years.