Word: regained
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...electorate considers itself Republican, that independents are trending Democratic and that as few as five states have solid Republican pluralities. And the electorate is getting less white, less rural, less Christian - in short, less demographically Republican. GOP officials who completely controlled Washington three years ago are vowing to "regain our status as a national party" and creating woe-is-us groups to resuscitate their brand, while Democrats are publishing books like The Strange Death of Republican America and 40 More Years: How the Democrats Will Rule the Next Generation. John McCain's campaign manager recently described his party as basically...
...Sherzai had continued with his campaign he would have had to step down from his presidential-appointed post as governor - a prestigious and influential position he would be unlikely to regain if he lost to Karzai. A spokesman for Sherzai said his boss "decided Karzai would be a better leader for Afghanistan." Sherzai's campaign manager was stunned. "This is an absolute betrayal of everything we worked on," spluttered Khalid Pashtoon...
...about safety. This sort of conflation serves as a good metaphor for the action in Amidon’s novel. Each inhabitant of Amidon’s sleepy college town is in the process of losing agency over his or her own life, and is desperate to regain it: Kathryn, the town’s musician-turned-music teacher, feels that she is slowly losing touch with her son Conor but doesn’t know how to help him; Walt Steckl, the town’s loitering electrician, can’t help drinking and falls into unruly lewdness...
...consecutive Ivy North title. In a similar trajectory, Harvard scored first yesterday but relinquished its lead in the bottom of the third. And while the Crimson looked to rally in the later innings—it narrowed the Terriers’ lead in the fifth and was primed to regain the lead in the sixth—things just didn’t fall Harvard’s way as the team came up just short in its effort to close out its season with a win. “It was a good game,” co-captain...
...which came within a half-percentage point of winning the presidency in 2006, is a distant third. If Calderon's federal government, and the Mexico City administration of PRD Mayor Marcelo Ebrard, don't contain this epidemic to Mexicans' satisfaction, the PRI may position itself this summer to regain the presidency in 2012. (See pictures of the swine flu outbreak in Mexico...