As a Jeffersonian and Jacksonian, Johnson refused to toe any party line throughout his political career – though he primarily ran as a Democrat, with the exception of his vice-presidency.

The story got around that he had refused to join the new party because he feared he would not be able to keep his Hamilton seat at a general election ; local Scottish National Party supporters nicknamed him " Chicken George ".

They had an argument over a party Eugene held, which Gauss refused to pay for.

In 2001, the party experienced a further crisis as some Green Members of Parliament refused to back the government's plan of sending military personnel to help with the 2001 invasion of Afghanistan.

Madison faced formidable obstacles – a divided cabinet, a factious party, a recalcitrant Congress, obstructionist governors, and incompetent generals, together with militia who refused to fight outside their states.

The remaining members of the BCP refused to accept their new status as the opposition party and ceased attending sessions.

She said that she refused to break promises made by the party during the election.

Exit polls showed the Left had a unique appeal to non-voters: 390, 000 Germans who refused to support any party in 2002 returned to the ballot box to vote for the Left Party.

On 16 September, the president nominated Yaovi Agboyibor of the Action Committee for Renewal ( CAR ) prime minister, snubbing the major opposition party Union of the Forces of Change ( UFC ) which in reaction refused to join the government.

The very citadel of spoils politics, the hitherto impregnable fortress that had existed unshaken since it was erected on the foundation laid by Andrew Jackson, was tottering to its fall under the assaults of this audacious and irrepressible young man .... Whatever may have been the feelings of the ( fellow Republican party ) President ( Harrison ) — and there is little doubt that he had no idea when he appointed Roosevelt that he would prove to be so veritable a bull in a china shop — he refused to remove him and stood by him firmly till the end of his term.

The incumbent, Martti Ahtisaari, refused to run in party preliminaries and thus announced that he would not run for a second term.

The major opposition party, Birlik, had been refused registration in time for the election.

Menzies proposed an all party unity government to break the impasse, but the Labor Party under John Curtin refused to join.

Pressured by Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, Khan refused to hand over the powers to the majority party, Awami League and situation in East-Pakistan ran out of government control, prompting Khan to authorized military operations, like Operation Searchlight, in the entire provisional state.

But Cyril refused to compromise and when he opened his attack ( 437 ) upon Diodorus of Tarsus and Theodore, John sided with them and Theodoret assumed the defense of the Antiochian party ( c. 439 ).

Following the definite end of the Cold War, Honecker refused all but cosmetic changes and was ousted by the party in late 1989 and removed from power.

He was, later events would prove, a Republican, but in 1948 he flatly refused the nomination of any political party.

Dewey was repeatedly urged by the right wing of his party to engage in red-baiting, but he refused.

The Rutte cabinet's parliamentary majority has been provided by Geert Wilders ' Party for Freedom ( PVV ), but this majority became unstable when Wilders ' party refused to support austerity measures in connection with the Euro crisis.

The party refused an electoral deal with the Socialists for the June legislative election.

This resulted in deadlock in Queensland ; the unicameral Queensland legislature twice voted against Colston, and the party refused to submit any alternative candidates.

Ben-Gurion refused to accept the compromise and viewed it as a divisive play within the Mapai party.

Later, for example, the Cuban association was refused because its statutes claimed to respect the leading role of the communist party in Cuba.

He also refused to consider SPD as a party of the coalition until he felt sure that they shared his anti-Communist position.

Johnson proved such a liability for the Democrats in the 1836 election that the party refused to renominate him for vice-president in 1840.

It had a gourmet's corner ( instead of a kitchen ), a breakfast room, a luncheon room, a dining room, a sitting room, a room for standing up, a party room, dressing rooms for everybody, even a room for mud.

The ALP was founded as a federal party prior to the first sitting of the Australian Parliament in 1901, but is descended from Labour parties founded in the various Australian colonies by the emerging labour movement in Australia, formally beginning in 1891.

It was the largest party in Dáil Éireann at every general election from the 1932 general election until the 2011 general election, when it suffered the worst defeat of a sitting government in the history of the Irish state, a loss described as " historic " in its proportions, where it saw its electoral support base diminished by 75 %, as a reaction to the intervention, and in the running of the Irish economy, of the International Monetary Fund and the European Central Bank in November 2010.

Support for the Nationals in the 2006 Victorian state election was considerable with the party picking up two extra seats in the Lower House to maintain its total representation of 11 sitting members ( two Upper House seats were lost, mostly due to a change from preferential to proportional representation ).

At the 1996 election, the Keating Government was swept from power in a landslide, losing 29 seats and suffering a five percent two party preferred swing -- in terms of seats lost, the second-worst defeat of a sitting government at the federal level in Australia.

Parliamentary party members and leaders who are part of neither the Government or Official Opposition frontbenches are known as backbenchers, and are relegated to sitting behind or perpendicular to designated frontbenchers.

Should a sitting prime minister today lose his seat in the legislature ( or should a new prime minister be appointed without holding a seat ), the typical process that follows is that a junior member in the governing political party will immediately resign to allow the prime minister to run in the resulting by-election.

Although Ms. May was the first elected Member of Parliament, the first seat was gained in the Canadian House of Commons on August 30, 2008 when sitting Independent MP Blair Wilson joined the party.

On the last night of the tour, Perkins attended a party that turned out to be for him, and ended up sitting on the floor sharing stories, playing guitar, and singing songs while surrounded by The Beatles.

As of the 2009 election, all three sitting county councillors are members of the Conservative party.

As of the 2011 election, all eighteen of the sitting borough councillors represent the Conservative party.

However, through the Tripartite Alliance and the sitting of many SACP members on the ANC's NEC, the SACP has wielded influence from within the ANC, often serving as an ideological opposition against the presidency and socio-economic policies of Thabo Mbeki ( 1999 – 2008 ); this became most apparent with the ouster of Mbeki from the presidencies of both the party ( 2007, by vote ) and the government ( 2008, by ANC party recall ) and his eventual replacement in both offices with Jacob Zuma, who is widely seen as being more conciliatory to the ideological demands of both the SACP and COSATU.

All three scenes are set in the sitting room of Guy's London apartment: during Guy's flatwarming party ( Scene 1 ); after Reg's funeral, some years later ( Scene 2 ); and after Guy's funeral ( Scene 3 ).

Given their standing in the party, only Chamberlain and Long had a realistic chance of success and though Balfour had intended Chamberlain to succeed him, it became clear from an early canvass of the sitting MPs that Long would be elected by a slender margin.

The name is a parody of King Arthur's round table reinforced by the truism that roleplaying aficionados often end up sitting round their host's dinner table as it is the only one large enough to accommodate the party ( 4 to 8 people typically ).

He indicated that he might stand against Hazel Blears in Salford ( the first sitting MP of a party other than the Conservative party against whom he expressed an interest in standing ) although in the end he did not stand in any constituency.

However, Hilda O ' Malley sought the Fianna Fáil nomination for the 1969 general election but Fianna Fáil gave the party nomination to the now sitting TD, Desmond O ' Malley.

Martin led the party into the 2011 general election, which saw Fianna Fáil swept from power in the worst defeat of a sitting government in the history of the Irish state. The party saw its first-preference vote more than halved, and lost 57 seats, representing a decline of 75 %, being the worst electoral performance in its 85-year history.

* Concepcion Valenzuela ( the real Connie Valenzuela, Ritchie's mother ) as the older woman sitting next to Ritchie at a party

Bob Morales and Connie Valenzuela came to the set to help the actors portray their characters accurately, and Connie makes a cameo appearance as an older lady sitting next to Ritchie at the family's first party.

When the advance party reached the marae at the centre of the village, they found 2500 Māori sitting together.