Example sentences of "[be] returned to power " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Tories would be returned to power under Prime Minister Clarke , with a handsome majority . |
| 2 | They now hope that Danish or British opposition will scuttle the Maastricht treaty , because they know that the economic austerity required by ‘ convergence ’ will be unpopular — and they , Italy 's least popular politicians , will never be returned to power . |
| 3 | If the people of Leeds want a Labour Government to be returned to power , they can be sure that property in Leeds , particularly that sought by young people , will have devastatingly raised valuations . |
| 4 | In the unlikely event of an alternative Administration being returned to power and seeking to get talks started , on the basis of my experience over the past two years I wish the hon. Gentleman well . |
| 5 | This ‘ charter ’ was put in place shortly after the Conservatives were returned to power . |
| 6 | The Conservatives were returned to power for the fourth election in a row with 42 per cent or more of the popular vote . |
| 7 | While he was in opposition , Ted Heath had asked me if I would go to Rhodesia on behalf of the Conservative Party if they were returned to power . |
| 8 | Partly as a consequence , the Tories were returned to power under Margaret Thatcher in 1979 . |
| 9 | His difficulty is that his party has nothing to tell him about what it would spend if it were returned to power , which it will not be . |
| 10 | Does my right hon. Friend agree also that the last Labour Government introduced such swingeing real cuts in the health service that , if they were returned to power , it would represent a real threat to those who require advanced orthopaedic treatment ? |
| 11 | In a general election in June 1989 [ see pp. 36739-40 ] the Christian Social Party ( PCS ) and the Socialists , which had governed in coalition since June 1984 [ see p. 33298 ] , were returned to power . |
| 12 | The Prime Minister 's own majority in his constituency increased by more than 12,000 , and all the outgoing government ministers were returned to power except the Minister of Defence , Tengku Ahmad Rithauddeen , and the Minister of Science , Technology and Environment , Datuk Amar Stephen Yong . |
| 13 | However , these latest elections confirmed the existing schism between republics : the ruling communists were rejected in favour of nationalist parties in Bosnia-Hercegovina and Macedonia ( as in Slovenia and Croatia in April ) , but in Serbia ( with over 40 per cent of the country 's population ) and Montenegro the communists were returned to power with huge majorities . |
| 14 | The last general election was in June 1989 when the Christian Social Party and the Socialists , which had governed in coalition since July 1984 , were returned to power [ see pp. 36739-40 ] . |
| 15 | Given Labour 's stormy internal debates on foreign and defence issues since 1951 and despite the recent defeat of the unilateralists on nuclear disarmament , Washington was understandably anxious to gain some advance impressions of Labour 's likely behaviour if it were returned to power . |
| 16 | Will the hon. Gentleman give a categorical assurance that if , unfortunately , the Conservatives are returned to power in a general election , value added tax will not be extended to any of the goods or services upon which it is not already levied ? |
| 17 | The Minister has an obligation to tell us whether the Government intend to implement Rothschild if they are returned to power . |
| 18 | If the Government are returned to power , because of the inadequacies of this place there will be no scope for public debate on further education . |
| 19 | Memorandum on classes of business not regarded as appropriate for Cabinet discussion ’ is a minute from Brook to Bridges dated 21 April 1950 , two months after Labour had been returned to power with a slim majority of six and two months before the Korean War stimulated a huge increase in defence spending . |
| 20 | It was no accident that when I was writing this , the Conservatives had just been returned to power in the 1983 election , and one of their first moves was to try to disguise popular discontent with the police by the restoration of the rope . |
| 21 | It was the first time in more than quarter of a century that the socialists had been returned to power . |
| 22 | VOTERS like me are surely one of the reasons why the Conservative Party was returned to power . |
| 23 | There is little doubt that the coalition was returned to power mainly on Unionist votes , although this was not widely recognized at the time ; the Unionists had never won so many votes before , and it was perhaps natural to attribute their success to their new asset . |
| 24 | The Liberal Democratic Party ( LDP ) , which since its formation in 1955 had ruled Japan , was returned to power on Feb. 18 in elections to the House of Representatives , the lower chamber of the bicameral Diet . |
| 25 | The Liberal Democratic Party ( LDP ) , which has been in office since its formation in 1955 , was returned to power in the general election of July 1986 . |
| 26 | According to the official results of a general election held on Dec. 9 , 1985 [ see p. 34162 ] , the ruling People 's National Congress ( PNC ) was returned to power winning 42 of the 53 seats in the National Assembly ; the principal opposition party , the People 's Progressive Party ( PPP ) , withdrew from the election on polling day alleging widespread ballot-rigging by the government , but was subsequently declared to have won eight seats . |
| 27 | A coalition government of the Communist Party ( Partito Communista Sammarinese ) and the Christian Democratic Party ( Partito Democratico Cristiano Sammarinese ) , formed in July 1986 , was returned to power in a general election on May 29 , 1988 [ see p. 36231 ] . |
| 28 | In August 1986 the governing multiracial National Front ( Barisan Nasional ) coalition was returned to power in the House of Representatives with 148 seats , and also retained an absolute majority in simultaneous elections in all 11 Peninsular Malaysian state assemblies [ see pp. 34742-43 ] . |
| 29 | In the general election of Nov. 29 , 1987 [ see pp. 35909-10 ] , the Motherland Party ( Anatavan Partisi — ANAP ) led by Turgut Özal was returned to power with an overwhelming majority in the GNA ( newly enlarged from 400 to 450 seats ) under a new system of proportional representation . |
| 30 | At the last general election in January 1987 the coalition comprising the Christian Democratic Union ( Christlich-Demokratische Union — CDU ) , the Christian Social Union ( Christlich-Soziale Union — CSU ) and the Free Democratic Party ( Freie Demokratische Partei — FDP ) , which had been in power since October 1982 , was returned to power with a reduced majority [ see pp. 35014-15 ] . |