With the election of Barack Obama and Democratic gains in both houses of Congress, Pelosi became the first speaker since Tom Foley to hold the office during single-party Democratic leadership in Washington.

With the election of Barack Obama to the Presidency of the United States, the new administration of the Marshall Islands, and the looming deadline for signing the Land Use Agreement ( LUA ), at the end of 2008, President Litokwa Tomeing wrote a letter to George W. Bush asking that the deadline for the LUA be lifted.

President Barack Obama expressed his concern over the Supreme Court's decision during his 2010 State of the Union Address, delivered January 27, saying, " With all due deference to separation of powers, last week the Supreme Court reversed a century of law that I believe will open the floodgates for special interests –- including foreign corporations –- to spend without limit in our elections.

In 2010, during British prime minister David Cameron's first visit to Washington, President Barack Obama presented him with a signed lithograph by Ruscha, Column With Speed Lines, chosen for its red, white and blue colours.

Speaker of the United States House of Representatives | House Speaker Nancy Pelosi hosts the 2009 Friends of Ireland luncheon held annually in Washington D. C. With her are President Barack Obama and Taoiseach Brian Cowen.

Jairam Ramesh With Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, during a multilateral meeting of U. S. President Barack Obama with Singh and the other leaders of the G4 bloc | BASIC Bloc: Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao, Brazilian President Lula da Silva and South African President Jacob Zuma during the United Nations Climate Change Conference, 18 Dec. 2009

Also on April 9, presidential candidate Barack Obama termed Imus's comments, " Divisive, hurtful, and offensive to Americans of all backgrounds ", saying " With a public platform comes a trust.

With the growing importance of the Internet and New Media in terms of Presidential communication, the Office of Communications is having to branch out, and this have been given an added impetus by the election of Barack Obama who made large use of the internet, and more specifically social media sites such as Facebook and Twitter to reach out to his supporters in order to solicit donations and spread his campaign message.

Jim Messina, President Obama's campaign manager, stated: " With so much at stake, we can't allow for two sets of rules in this election whereby the Republican nominee is the beneficiary of unlimited spending and Democrats unilaterally disarm ".

With President Obama's continued promotion of the initiative and commitment to expand and institutionalize it, many initial opponents of the initiative have reduced their negative comments and begun efforts to explore joining the initiative in order to be recognized as a player in global non-proliferation efforts.

With a split in the state Republican party, 1882 looked to be a Democratic year, and there were several contenders for that party's nomination.

With aspirations of support from right-wing voters, all candidates with low levels of poll support for the nomination took this same " sabre-rattling " stand.

With improving ties in 2012, the White House planned Ambassador nomination, the first since 1990.

With Moríñigo's backing, González used the Guión Rojo to cow the moderates and gain his party's presidential nomination.

With the 34th ballot, Wisconsin began the break to Garfield that would end with his nomination as the party's Presidential candidate.

With President Coolidge choosing not to enter the race, the race for the nomination was wide open.

With Hoover disinclined to interfere in the selection of his running mate, the party leaders were at first partial to giving Dawes a shot at a second term, but when this information leaked, Coolidge sent an angry telegram saying that he would consider a second nomination for Dawes, whom he hated, a " personal affront.

With Eisenhower refusing to run, the contest for the Republican nomination was between New York Governor Thomas E. Dewey, former Minnesota Governor Harold Stassen, Ohio Senator Robert Taft, California Governor Earl Warren, General Douglas MacArthur and Arthur H. Vandenberg of Michigan, the senior Republican in the Senate.

With Edwin Jaeckle leading his campaign, Dewey pursued the Republican nomination in 1944.

With Eisenhower headed for another landslide, few Democrats wanted the 1956 nomination.

With her first talking film, Anna Christie ( 1930 ), she received an Academy Award nomination.

With his first sound film, The Love Parade ( 1929 ), starring Maurice Chevalier and Jeanette MacDonald, Lubitsch hit his stride as a maker of worldly musical comedies ( and earned himself another Oscar nomination ).

With Reagan having reached his two-term limit, the Republican nomination was open to a variety of primary contenders.

In 1993, he received his first Oscar nomination for his portrayal of Ike Turner in What's Love Got to Do With It.

Other credits Off-Broadway include Travels With My Aunt ( Drama Desk Award / Lucille Lortel Award / Outer Critics Award ), Privates On Parade, The Taming of the Shrew, The Invisible Man, The Music Man, Comedians ( Drama Desk Award nomination and a Lucille Lortel Award nomination ), A Christmas Carol: The Musical, Address Unknown and The Threepenny Opera ( Drama Desk Award / Outer Critics ' Award / The Richard Seff Award and a Tony Award nomination ).

It included a cover of the song " It's My Life ", which had originally been a hit for synthpop group Talk Talk in 1984, and earned No Doubt a Grammy nomination for Pop Performance by a Duo or Group With Vocal.

With real infrastructure in place, in 1968 GODA made another bid for the 1976 Winter Olympics, and this time the joint Vancouver / Garibaldi won the Canadian nomination.

With an Oscar nomination on her resume ' Scott found steady movie work for the next four decades, appearing in some major epics like The Ten Commandments, Ben-Hur, The Desperate Hours, and Airport 1975.

With this nomination she became the first Puerto Rican female singer to be nominated to the Grammy Music Awards, joined by fellow Puerto Rican singer Lunna, as well for the same nomination.

" With this victory, he realized his father's dream: Cap Graham had run unsuccessfully for the Democratic nomination to be Governor of Florida back in 1944.

With the support of McNutt, Minton won the nomination on the third ballot with 827 votes to Peters ' 586.

From the 1980s she began to appear more regularly in films, including Enchanted April ( 1992 ), for which she won a Golden Globe Award and an Academy Award nomination, Dennis the Menace ( 1993 ), a cameo in Last Action Hero ( also 1993 ), and Tea With Mussolini ( 1999 ).

With the coming of free agency after the 1976 season, and with team owner Finley unwilling to pay the higher salary that Jackson would ask for, Jackson was traded on April 2, 1976 along with minor leaguer Bill VanBommell and Ken Holtzman to the Baltimore Orioles for Don Baylor, Mike Torrez, and Paul Mitchell.

With the exception of a handful of decent players such as Ken Schinkel, Keith McCreary, agitator Bryan Watson and goaltender Les Binkley, talent was otherwise thin, but enough for the Penguins to reach the playoffs in both 1970 and 1972.

With Ken McIntyre

With ten seconds left, down 20-14, quarterback Ken Stabler fumbled the ball forward to avoid being sacked at the Chargers ' 15-yard line.

The mockumentary " Groovin ' With Ken '", which was created to generate interest in Toy Story 3, received over 2 million views on Youtube.

With Desperate Dan's revamp when the Dandy got a facelift in September 2004, both were drawn in the same style ( as opposed to the ' old ' Desperate Dan where Ken drew things more detailed ).

Like the first series, Ken Ashby collaborated with Mackay for series two's closing credits song, " Back With the Boys Again ".

With his diminished success in Britain, he toured regional theatres and recorded as often as possible to make a living, moving from orchestra to orchestra, including those of Sydney Lipton, Geraldo, and Ken Johnson.

With Martin Lilley now being in charge of TVR Engineering ( him and his father had rescued TVR from bankruptcy ) Gerry's racing plans for 1967 seemed to naturally revolve around TVR, the TVR Griffith seemingly ideal, especially with the planned 400 bhp 5. 3 litre Ford V8, the possibility of the 1-litre TVR Tina ( named after Gerry's eldest daughter and one of the two prototypes is owned by the Marshall family ), the TVR 18010S a Lotus Elan and there was also a plan to go into partnership with Ken Ayres in a hot Mini 850.

With Ken Dryden, Jacques Lemaire, and several other key players retiring after the conclusion of the 1979 season, the Canadiens ' dynasty came to an end, losing in the second round of the 1980 playoffs to the Minnesota North Stars in seven games.

With partner Ken Opstein, he won the 1982 Sixty Sails Handicap with Targa, and the 1993 La Brea Stakes with a daughter of Targa, Mamselle Bebette, which he raced under the name of his Big Train Farm, a stable he named for Hall of Fame baseball pitcher, Walter Johnson, In the 1980s, John Forsythe served as the regular host for the annual Eclipse Awards.

The chief change was the appointment of former Chancellor of the Exchequer Kenneth Clarke as Shadow Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Secretary, David Cameron stating that " With Ken Clarke's arrival, we now have the best economic team.

With the Glorious Revolution which speedily followed this impolitic trial, new troubles encountered Ken ; for, having sworn allegiance to James, he thought himself thereby precluded from taking the oath to William of Orange.

Founding Executive Director, Ken Sehested, advocated an explicitly Baptist peace organization because ; " With some exceptions, progressive movements -- those dealing with justice and peace issues -- have few entry points into the subculture of Baptist institutions.

With Ken calling after him, Godzilla returns to the sea, but not before glaring threateningly at the surviving humanity whose pollution spawned Hedorah.

With 35 seconds remaining in the game, Ken Stabler was in the process of being sacked by Vern Den Herder.

With Ken Evans, Pat Hallock, & Bill MacLean.

With little or no support from the American or British armed forces for any venture to recover remains or dedicate a memorial to the incident, Devon resident and civilian Ken Small took on the task of seeking to commemorate the event, after discovering evidence of the aftermath washed up on the shore while beachcombing in the early 1970s.

With the aid of the tablebase, Krush and IM Ken Regan were able to prove that the position after the World Team's 50th move was drawn with best play on both sides.

With negotiations at a standstill, the Buccaneers traded the following season's first-round draft pick to the Cincinnati Bengals in exchange for Jack Thompson, a backup quarterback who had been unable to unseat Ken Anderson, as an insurance policy should Williams prove impossible to sign, or have trouble recovering from offseason knee surgery.

With Baji he searched the forests, eventually encountering Ken, who had run away from the droids.

With his side-kick ( Vincent Kok ), Jimmy steals a personal diary belonging to a Yakuza leader Ken Sato ( Masaya Kato ) intending to use its details as a platform for blackmailing and to extort money.

With the help of stage manager Ken Robbins, the performers Mia Guillem and Anna Heart, young Marion Begnini, as well as a lot of hard work and determination, Sora begins to earn the respect of those around her.

With two outs, Ken Griffey reached second when Stanley threw wildly past first after fielding his slow bouncer.