With a Democratic administration, party patronage would normally begin to flow to Mississippi if it had held its Democratic solidarity in the November election.

With the great Union victory at the Battle of Gettysburg in July 1863, and the defeat of the Copperheads in the Ohio election in the fall, Lincoln maintained a strong base of party support and was in a strong position to redefine the war effort, despite the New York City draft riots.

With only minor opposition in the primary and no opposition at all in the general election, Clinton was elected Arkansas Attorney General in 1976.

With the defeat of the revolution in mid-1907 and the adoption of a new, highly restrictive election law, the Bolsheviks began debating whether to boycott the new parliament known as the Third Duma.

With a general election looming, the Parliamentary Labour Party then appointed Attlee as interim leader, on the understanding that a leadership election would be held after the general election.

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With Cerezo's election, the military moved away from governing and returned to the more traditional role of providing internal security, specifically by fighting armed insurgents.

With almost 20 parties competing in the first round, the presidential election came down to a January 7, 1996 runoff in which PAN candidate Álvaro Arzú Irigoyen defeated Alfonso Portillo Cabrera of the FRG by just over 2 % of the vote.

With the election of a new Minister, the FCP is in the process of being wound down, despite campaigning to extend its terms of reference to make it a permanent advisory panel.

With Jackson's victory in the election Polk began to support the administration's position in Congress.

With Adenauer's fourth term election in November 1961 and the end of his chancellorship in sight, his " nuclear ambitions " began to taper off.

With this common touch and broad appeal, he subsequently led the party to victory in the election against the Progressive Conservative Party led by George Drew.

With the exceptions of the Presidential elections of 1956 and 2008, Missouri voters have elected the next President of the United States in every election since 1904.

With the election of Ronald Reagan in 1980, relations between the United States and the Sandinista regime became an active front in the Cold War.

With Norwegian independence and the first election held in Norway, in 1814, Søren Abel was elected as a representative to the Storting.

With the recent election of Benedict XVI in 2005, his personal coat of arms eliminated the papal tiara ; a mitre with three horizontal lines is used in its place, with the pallium, a papal symbol of authority more ancient than the tiara, the use of which is also granted to metropolitan archbishops as a sign of communion with the See of Rome, was added underneath of the shield.

With his death in 1130, the Church was again thrown into confusion with the election of two rival popes, Innocent II and the antipope Anacletus II.

With Callixtus II ’ s death on 13 December 1124, both families agreed that the election of the next pope should be in three days time, in accordance with the church canons.

With the election of Celestine, both Bernard and Theobald appealed to the pope, while Louis sent ambassadors to have the interdict lifted.

With the capture of Constantine II, Christophorus set about organising a canonical election, and on August 1 he summoned not only the Roman clergy and army, but also the people to assemble before the Church of St. Adrian in the area of the old Comitium.

With Constantine ’ s supporters largely dealt with, Stephen wrote to the Frankish king, Pepin the Short, notifying him of his election, and asking for a number of bishops to participate in a council he was seeking to hold to discuss the recent confusion.

With the lower house enlarged from 74 to 121 seats, the Menzies Liberal / Country Coalition won the 1949 election with 74 of 121 seats and 51. 0 percent of the two-party vote but remained in minority in the Senate.

With a Senate minority for the new Menzies government, Menzies introduced legislation in 1951 to ban the Communist Party, hoping that the Senate would reject it and give him a trigger for a double dissolution election, but Labor let the bill pass.

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.

With Barack Obama's nomination of Ken Salazar as Secretary of the Interior, Colorado's other Senate seat was vacated January 20.

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.

With Admiral Mike Mullen set to retire as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff in September 2011, President Obama needed to select his replacement.

During a press conference, Rush said, " With the resignation of President-elect Obama, we now have no African-Americans in the United States Senate, and we believe it will be a national disgrace to not have this seat filled by one of the many capable African-American Illinois politicians.

With the collapse of the discussions about extending the stay of any U. S. troops, on 21 October 2011, President Obama announced the full withdrawal of troops from Iraq as scheduled before.

With the America Invents Act of 2011, which was signed by President Obama on September 16, 2011 The law will switch U. S. right to the patent from the present " first-to-invent " system to a " first-to-file " system for patent applications filed on or after March 16, 2013 Many legal scholars have commented that such a change would require a constitutional amendment.

With the signing of the Geneva Accords, President Najibullah unsuccessfully sought to end the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan's isolation within the Islamic world and in the Non-Aligned Movement.

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 the encouragement of the " F Street Mess ", Douglas met with them and Phillips to ensure that the momentum for passing the bill remained with the Democratic Party.

With the Vietnamese Occupation of Democratic Kampuchea ( Cambodia ) on December 25, 1978, Thailand at once became the " real " front line state in fighting against communism, as the Kingdom was surrounded by three unfriendly, communist Indochinese countries and a socialist Burma under General Ne Win.

With the advantage of incumbency, Bill Clinton's path to renomination by the Democratic Party was uneventful.

With large Democratic majorities in Congress and a healthy economy, he promptly seized the opportunity to implement his agenda.

With support from Franklin D. Roosevelt on the national level, Cermak gradually wooed members of Chicago's growing black community into the Democratic fold.

With the election in 2000 of the Democratic Progressive Party candidate Chen Shui-bian, a party other than the KMT gained the presidency for the first time in Taiwan.

With Congress scheduled to adjourn that Monday, Democratic leadership arranged for the bill to be immediately considered in a special night session.

With a minority government in the House of Commons, Clark had to rely on the support of the Social Credit Party, with its six seats, or the New Democratic Party ( NDP ), with its 26 seats.

Lakoff wrote Moral Politics soon after the Republican Party's " Contract With America " takeover of Congress under the Clinton presidency, and his usage of the terms " liberal " and " conservative " is strongly resembles how those labels might have been used in the 1994 elections, the former having much to do with the Democratic party and the latter with the Republican party ; indeed, chapter 9, " Moral Categories in Politics ", presents Hillary Clinton as a prototypical " liberal " and Newt Gingrich as a prototypical " conservative ".

With Postmaster General James A. Farley and WPA administrator Harry Hopkins cutting deals with state and local Democratic officials, Roosevelt used federal discretionary spending, especially the Works Progress Administration ( 1935 – 1942 ) as a national political machine.

With the reorganisation of Sinn Féin The Workers Party into The Workers ' Party in 1982, the IDYM became simply Workers ' Party Youth, which continues today and has taken a role as an affiliate of the World Federation of Democratic Youth.

With its heavy African American population, Madison Parish remains a stronghold of the Democratic Party.

With help from the ROK Army, the United States ' military, under the command of General Douglas MacArthur, moved to set up a civil administration for North Korea in the wake of the presumed destruction of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.

With its large African-American electorate, Lake Providence today remains a stronghold of the Democratic Party, after many of the conservative whites have switched to the Republican Party.

With Democratic incumbents Marianne Bolduc and Steve Conti not running for seats in the November 2011 general election, Republican newcomers Theodore Davis ( 622 votes ) and Steven Schleim ( 568 ) defeated Democrats James M. Carroll ( 475 ) and William Connelly ( 542 ).

With a Democratic President ( Bill Clinton ) seeking re-election, there was no incumbent Republican with a lock on the ticket.

With the help of his friend, Senator Joseph Lane, he became editor of the Democratic Register in Eugene, a role he held from March 15 to September 20, 1862.

" 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 its success in gaining seats from the geographical constituencies through direct elections while retaining those seats in the functional constituencies, the party increased its seats from seven ( in the 2000 elections ) to ten, overtaking the Democratic Party for the first time since 1995 to become the second-largest political party in the legislature.