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.

* The Problem With First-Past-The-Post Electing ( data from UK general election 2005 )

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 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.

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 his death, the Vice Presidency became vacant until Levi Morton became Vice President in 1889.

With the Vice Presidency vacant during the trial, the person next in line was Senate President pro tempore Benjamin Franklin Wade.

With that, he encouraged Megawati to run for the Vice Presidency.

With no dominant front runner at the time, Carter was able to use the publicity of his " win " to achieve victory in the New Hampshire primary, and then to win his party's nomination and eventually the Presidency.

With the Spanish Monarchy collapsing in South America and the uncertainty of constitutional rule in Spain, provinces of the Presidency of Quito began to declare independence.

With Church President Kimball and second counselor Marion G. Romney also ailing, the decision was made to add Gordon B. Hinckley as an additional counselor to the First Presidency on July 23, 1981.

With the advent of Indian independence on August 15, 1947, the Presidency was dissolved.

With the Vice Presidency vacant, Secretary of State Cordell Hull assumes the Presidency after Roosevelt's death, as he is the holder of the next-highest post.

With no President, Vice President or President Pro-Tempore of the Senate, the Presidency of Argentina was placed in the hands of the next-in-line: Eduardo Camaño, who was the Speaker of the House of Deputies.

With the election of Lyndon B. Johnson in 1964, Democrats controlled both the Presidency and the Congress, claiming a 2: 1 ratio to Republicans in the House and 32 more seats in the Senate.

With that in mind, the Vice Presidency became a crucial position.

With this final partition, the Bengal Presidency ceased to exist in all but name, and even this disappeared after the Montagu-Chelmsford reforms of 1919 reconstituted Indian Provincial Government.

With the reelection of Chen Shui-bian to the ROC Presidency, and the growth of Taiwan independence sentiment, a new Taiwanese identity appears to be emerging on the island as opposed to identification with China.

With his creation of the Alliance pour la démocratie au Mali-Parti africain pour la solidarité et la justice (" Alliance for democracy in Mali / African Party for solidarity and justice ," ADEMA-PASJ ), he became the Secretary General of the Presidency of the Republic following the 1992 election of Alpha Oumar Konaré.

With the return of Makarios to the Presidency and the Archbishopric in December 1974, the three defrocked bishops faded from the political scene.

In 1877, the First Presidency with Brigham Young as President sent out an epistle to the Church for the purpose of “ setting in order the quorums of priesthood ”; regarding the situation of the Salt Lake Stake having a " center place ," supervisory role, the epistle states that “ under the direction of the First Presidency and the Twelve Apostles the presidency of the various Stakes will have the general supervision of all matters pertaining to the church within the limits of their Stakes .” With that, any remaining vestiges of a standing presiding high council within the LDS Church disappeared.