In his only attack on the Republicans, Hughes said, `` The three Republican candidates for governor are tripping over their feet for popular slogans to win the primary.

However, since the contras failed to win widespread popular support or military victories within Nicaragua, since opinion polls indicated that a majority of the U. S. public was not supportive of the contras, since the Reagan administration lost much of its support regarding its contra policy within Congress after disclosure of CIA mining of Nicaraguan ports, and since a report of the Bureau of Intelligence and Research commissioned by the State Department found Reagan's allegations about Soviet influence in Nicaragua " exaggerated ", Congress cut off all funds for the contras in 1985 by the third Boland Amendment.

Low numbers ( below 31 and especially below 12 ) are popular because people play birthdays as their so-called lucky numbers ; hence a win in which these numbers are over-represented is more likely to result in a shared payout.

As an example, on the Wheel of Fortune reel machine ( based on the popular Wheel of Fortune TV game show created by Merv Griffin ), the player must play 3 coins per spin to be eligible to trigger the bonus round and possibly win the jackpot.

This is therefore a popular way of gaining the points required to win the race and leads to many such attempts to gain a lap during the race.

* There is a variation on tic-tac-toe that is popular in Vietnam, in which the player has to get 5 in a row to win the game.

On November 5, 1996, President Clinton went on to win re-election with a substantial margin in the popular vote and electoral college.

Some systems are even more likely to lead to a two-party outcome: for example, elections in Gibraltar use a partial block vote system in a single constituency, so the third most popular party is unlikely to win any seats.

Usually this is done by eliminating participants one at a time, in balloon debate style, through either disapproval voting or by voting for the most popular choice to win.

The election of 1824 is often claimed to be the first in which the successful presidential candidate did not win the popular vote, however it is not always pointed out that the popular vote was not measured nationwide at the time.

Consequently, Cleveland joined Andrew Jackson and, later, Franklin Delano Roosevelt as the only candidates to win the popular vote in at least three U. S. presidential elections.

Despite his narrow win, the 1916 election saw an increase in Wilson's popular vote from his election in 1912 when he won in a landslide.

However, during the Prague Spring, he and other reform-minded Communists sought to win popular support for the Communist regime by eliminating its worst, most repressive features, allowing greater freedom of expression and tolerating political and social organizations not under Communist control.

Caracalla did manage to win the trust of the military with generous pay rises and popular gestures, like marching on foot among the ordinary soldiers, eating the same food, and even grinding his own flour with them.

He was eliminated on both games, but was so popular he continued to appear for the remainder of the season as a regular member of the mob until the program's cancellation, but didn't win much money.

However, the moderator, concerned about the contest ’ s low television ratings, offers Lisa free tuition (' and a hot plate ') at the Seven Sisters college of her choice if she will allow a more popular contestant ( who happens to be a boy ) to win.

Simon's come-from-behind win reflected both the GOP's dissatisfaction with Riordan's inability to appeal to the GOP base ( he had publicly insulted George Deukmejian, California's most popular Republican governor since Ronald Reagan, and it was revealed that he had supported Democratic Senator Dianne Feinstein with campaign contributions ) and support for Simon's straight-conservative image.

He vowed to win the battle in retribution for Gustavus or die trying, but contrary to popular legend tried to keep the king's fate secret from the army as a whole.

The election was marred with controversy, as two candidates from the ruling party split the conservative vote ( 38. 7 % and 19. 2 % respectively ), enabling Kim to win with only 40. 3 % of the popular vote.

The competition between Lien and Soong split the Pan-Blue vote and allowed his former rival Chen to win the presidential election with less than 50 % of the popular vote.

Even less popular than Mrs Proudie is the bishop's newly appointed chaplain, the hypocritical and sycophantic Mr Obadiah Slope, who decides it would be expedient to marry Harding's wealthy widowed daughter, Eleanor Bold, and hopes to win her favour by interfering in the controversy over the wardenship.

Robert Kennedy, like his brother before him, planned to win the nomination through popular support in the primaries.

This allowed the NDP, under the leadership of former Vancouver mayor Michael Harcourt, who had succeeded former leader Bob Skelly in 1987, to win with 41 % of the popular vote ( one percentage point lower than the share the party had lost with in 1986 ).

Interestingly enough, Ptolemy XIII sent Pompey's head to Caesar in an effort to win his favor, but instead secured him as a furious enemy.

Machiavelli argued that, had Cesare been able to win the favor of the new Pope, he would have been a very successful ruler.

This alone was enough to win the tank crews ' favor.

Most offered opulent gifts to win Tyndareus ' favor.

Having spent time with every contestant came back to work in her favor as a trivia contest about the contestants gave her the immunity win and placed a target squarely on Kathy.

* A " stop win ", " limit " or " take profit " will close the bet when the spread moves in a gambler's favor by a specified amount.

An overtime goal by Gary Dornhoefer in Game 5 turned the tide of their first round series with the Minnesota North Stars in the Flyers ' favor, as the Flyers got their first playoff series win in six games.

A frustrating loss of 1 – 0 followed in game 3, and a natural hat trick from Dirk Graham and stellar play from Dominik Hasek ( who showed indications of the goaltender he would later become ) could not secure a win in game 4, which ended in 6 – 5 final in favor of Pittsburgh.

The verb " to court ", meaning to win favor, derives from the same source since people traveled to the sovereign's court to win his favor.

Machiavelli also warns against using auxiliary forces, troops borrowed from an ally, because if they win, the employer is under their favor and if they lose, he is ruined.

After one more win over Federico Condori, Miranda returned the favor by travelling to Laciar's country and this time, Laciar won the South American title with a 12 round decision win.

Now, he could win favor with the Catholics within France while also controlling Rome in a political sense.

Independents, which are those who do not vote based on the endorsement of any party and are ultimately neutral, were influenced strongly in favor of the person expected to win ( Goidel and Shields 807-808 ).

He bought her expensive gifts and clothing to try to win favor with her.

Joan sent her four young children to their grandfather, in hopes that their sweetness would win Edward's favor, but her plan did not work.

An appeal to spite ( also called argumentum ad odium ) is a fallacy in which someone attempts to win favor for an argument by exploiting existing feelings of bitterness, spite, or schadenfreude in the opposing party.

Seeing how wildly popular Gaius was with the People, the Senate decided to fight fire with fire and endeavored to win the People's favor and thereby pull Gracchan supporters to the side of the Senate.

When Gaius proposed two colonies to be founded with reliable citizens, the Senate accused him of trying to win favor with the People before Drusus proposed twelve with three thousand citizens.

When Gaius granted the most needy small plots of redistributed land on the condition they pay a small rent to the public coffers, the Senate accused him of trying to win favor with the people before Drusus proposed to do the same rent-free.

Soon after, Pikachu shows great power that sets it apart from Pokémon, and other Pikachu, which causes Team Rocket to constantly attempt to capture it in order to win favor from their boss, Giovanni.