Najib's party has held power since Malaysia's independence in 1957.
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He also held power in the 1980s during Nicaragua's civil war.
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Quebec's Liberals held power for 13 out of the last 15 years.
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He held power until 1944, when he was defeated for re-election.
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The ruling People's Action Party has held power since before independence in 1965.
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Progress and the Conservatives have held power in a coalition government since 2013.
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Netanyahu has held power for more than 10 years, spread over four terms.
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The party he once led, the New Democrats, has never held power federally.
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Thatcher held power for more than a decade from 1979, reshaping British politics.
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"It was wartime then," he said of the years the Taliban held power.
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Figures such as Sheldon Adelson loomed large in national conversations about who held power.
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Consider Russia, where President Vladimir Putin has held power since New Year's Eve 1999.
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Mugabe, 92, has held power since the country gained independence from Britain in 1980.
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Nearly every official who held power at the time has since resigned or retired.
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Spain's Popular Party held power from 22016 to 2004, and again from 2011 onward.
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The Kingdom is currently ruled by the military junta, which has held power since 2014.
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It is fighting Los Salazar, the Sinaloa faction that has long held power in Sonora.
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But regimes that held power after Mubarak have also targeted social media, citing security concerns.
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Najib's United Malays National Organisation party has held power since Malaysia declared independence in 1957.
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Robert Mugabe, who held power in Zimbabwe for 37 years, was ousted in late November.
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I always knew that objects held power, simply because of who I am and my culture.
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Since the rally, nearly every official who held power at the time has resigned or retired.
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The subsequent runoff vote resulted in a unity government that held power until the 2013 elections.
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Relations between the two countries have sometimes been frosty, particularly when leftists held power in Brazil.
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Mr Berdymukhamedov has held power since the death of the previous eccentric dictator, Saparmurat Niyazov, in 2006.
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The National Action Party, or PAN, held power for 12 years at the turn of this century.
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It helped that quite often a single party held power both at the "centre" and in Delhi.
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Suharto held power until 1998; twice as much time to bury the truth as to unearth it.
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The 84-year-old Biya, who has held power since 1982, is expected to seek another term.
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The KMT developed closer ties with Beijing when it last held power, focusing on developing business ties.
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And their growing influence is challenging the long-held power of big-business lobbyists on Capitol Hill.
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The economy, Africa's most advanced, remains largely under the control of whites who held power under apartheid.
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The Democrats originally filed the lawsuit in 2017, before the party held power in the House of Representatives.
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Protesters rejected any election as illegitimate so long as the old ruling elite, including the military, held power.
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In a country where a military junta held power from 1964 to 1985, this is a big deal.
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Tripoli is controlled by a number of the armed groups that have held power in the capital since 2011.
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Mr. Bourguiba had held power for a quarter-century and was opening the door a bit to other parties.
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Legislator Jason Kenney, who handled the file when the Conservatives held power, said foreign workers' stay should be temporary.
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And, once again, people with the megaphone tend to be the same types of people who have always held power.
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The PDP was the inheritor of decades of military rule in 1999, and held power until Jonathan's defeat in 2015.
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His supporters say he has held power for so long in the East African country because of genuine mass support.
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Mugabe is 92 and Africa's oldest ruler who has held power since the country gained independence from Britain in 1980.
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The "party of fiscal responsibility" has reliably driven up the deficit whenever they've held power over the past four decades.
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In good times and bad, no matter which party held power, the squeezed middle class sank ever further into debt.
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Hosni Mubarak is another example of a leader who held power for years, stepped down — and ended up on trial.
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The country is sharply divided but the military, which has held power since a 2014 coup, remains firmly in control.
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Abe, who has held power for five years, has seen his popularity fall significantly in the wake of the scandals.
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Zuma, who has held power since 2009, has struggled to fend off opposition accusations of corruption and mismanaging the economy.
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Hun Sen, who has held power for more than 32 years, a said the military would file a lawsuit in response.
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He has held power at SQM since it was privatized under Pinochet in the 1980s and is still the largest shareholder.
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Only Medicare for all stands up to the long-held power of these multi-billion-dollar titans and says no more.
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Mr. Najib heads the governing United Malays National Organization, Mr. Mahathir's former party, which has held power since independence in 1957.
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The center-right party, which leads the government, held power in part by co-opting Mr. Wilders's message, particularly on immigration.
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During all these moments, no matter who held power in Seoul or Washington, it was a challenge to manage our alliances.
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During the years it held power before 2001, the Taliban closed schools for girls and confined most women to their homes.
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Zuma, who has held power since 2009, would have to relinquish office if he loses the vote expected once the debate ends.
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The party is led by Micheál Martin who has been in that position since 2011, just after the party last held power.
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Well before his death in 1997, he had picked out Hu Jintao, Mr Xi's predecessor, who held power from 2002 to 2012.
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But changing back to the party and the policies that held power just eight years ago is not enough change for them.
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In a vain effort to maintain its majority, the DLP, which has held power for the past decade, has resorted to mudslinging.
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For much of American history, the primary people women held power over were children, and those were the primary people they abused.
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It also touches on how older movies might have contributed to racist and sexist depictions of those who haven't traditionally held power.
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Suharto held power the same way he won it—via a concerted campaign of domestic terror and the violent suppression of dissent.
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Government and Western officials, however, had remained skeptical that any final decision could be taken as long as Mr. Mugabe held power.
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She anticipated the very question at the core of the #MeToo movement: What would the world look like if women held power?
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The election in May will choose a successor to President Pierre Nkurunziza, a former rebel leader who has held power since 2005.
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The second, represented by Trieu, involves forcefully removing those power structures and putting those who have not traditionally held power in charge.
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Yet hand-held power tools have had little effect on the debris, compressed into vast uneven mounds from the force of the fall.
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His Botswana Democratic Party (BDP), which has held power since independence in 1966, is facing its first real challenge at the ballot box.
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Opposition The military, which held power for decades, says that the position violates the separation of powers laid out in the country's constitution.
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The result was a shock victory for Hamas, as Palestinians voiced their anger at the corruption of Fatah, which had previously held power.
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Erdoğan has held power in Turkey for 235 years — first as the country's prime minister from 212 to 2400, and then as president.
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Mr Museveni has held power for 30 years and Mr Besigye, a former ally, has spent half that time trying to dislodge him.
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In the 1980s, Shi'ite-dominated Iran was at war with Iraq, where Sunni Muslims held power despite being a minority of the population.
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His parents lived separately for years, and he changed schools often, following them into and out of exile, depending on who held power.
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Fine Gael has held power over Irish politics since 2011, and has maintained that position with the help of Fianna Fáil, since 2016.
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The prime minister, a former Khmer Rouge fighter, has held power since 1985 and maintains close control over most of the country's institutions.
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Lee Hsien Loong has held power since 2004 and is widely expected to step down after elections set to take place within months.
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Desmond-Hellmann also held power as a lead independent director on the board of Facebook, which she announced she was leaving this fall.
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In particular, the DPP lost its stronghold of Kaohsiung, the southern port city where it had held power for more than 20 years.
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As Leo O'Bannon, an Irish crime boss and political puppeteer, Finney conveys the character's long-held power in every impatient look and gesture.
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He, too, was accused of manipulating the process in favor of the ruling coalition, which has held power since independence from Britain in 1957.
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Court records show the three applications were filed on June 30, and name Najib, who held power for about 10 years, as the applicant.
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Bashir, who had held power since 1989, is currently detained and being held in "a safe place," according to the country's Supreme Military Council.
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Malaysian bonds tumbled this morning after a surprise win for the opposition unseated a government that has held power for more than six decades.
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"Jeffries appealed to members who have been frustrated by how long current House leaders have held power," reports The Los Angeles Times's Sarah Wire.
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Employment is high and unemployment low, because Republicans have embraced the kind of deficit spending they claimed would destroy America when Democrats held power.
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Ratas, whose three-party coalition has held power for just four months, was supported by 55 lawmakers, compared with 40 who voted against him.
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Ferdinand Marcos declared martial law in 1972 and held power for 14 years until his removal in a bloodless, military-backed "People Power" uprising.
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Ayman said that many of the prisoners he met were from the Muslim Brotherhood, the Islamist political organization that briefly held power after Mubarak.
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Macri has promised to play nicer with Wall Street than did his predecessor, Christina Fernández de Kirchner, whose family had held power for 12 years.
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The Transitional Military Council (TMC), which has held power since Bashir's arrest last month, said it was suspending talks with the protesters for 72 hours.
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The DPP lost the mayoral election to the Nationalist party in the southern port city of Kaohsiung, where it had held power for 20 years.
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CAP, Brock, and the Clinton world have held power over the establishment for a generation; they've filled key staffing roles, crafted agendas, and chosen leaders.
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The Transitional Military Council, which has held power since Bashir's arrest last month, said it was cutting off talks with the protesters for 72 hours.
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" About: "Having lived under both communism and a Nazi occupation in Hungary ... Soros hoped to foster 'open societies' in places where authoritarian governments held power.
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Mr Odinga is from the Luo, a large group who have never held power (though one of their sons is president of the United States).
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Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who has held power for five years, has seen his popularity fall significantly in the wake of two corruption scandals.
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Kattouf said there's one area where Qatar could move to ease the dispute — its support of the Muslim Brotherhood, which had held power in Egypt.
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In May 2015, when the Conservatives still held power, IBM recommended pushing back the planned start-up of Phoenix at the end of that year.
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That means the tool that helped McConnell foil Democrats at every turn when they held power will be out of reach when the tables turn.
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All this ought to bode ill for the ruling African National Congress (ANC), which has held power since South Africa's first democratic vote in 20143.
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It bred disillusionment and distrust, especially with PSOE, which held power during the 22015 meltdown, and later with the PP, which won elections in 22018.
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A more favorable interpretation highlights how the Socialist party, which was banned under Franco, has held power more than any other party since his death.
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Indeed, perhaps the most decisive factor in the survival of American democracy thus far is that those who held power wanted American democracy to survive.
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The right-of-center Conservatives held power for nearly a decade under former Prime Minister Stephen Harper before the center-left Liberals won in 2015.
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When Law and Justice briefly held power before, from 2005 to 2007, its leader, Mr. Kaczynski, found himself stymied by the courts at every turn.
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There's only one other Chinese leader to have their "thought" enshrined in the constitution — Mao Zedong, the authoritarian communist who held power for over 30 years.
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Rada is one of the largest of the armed groups that have held power on the ground in Tripoli since the 2011 uprising that overthrew Gaddafi.
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Nazism arose in Germany, gained power in Germany, held power in Germany, and would ultimately fall at the end of the Second World War in Germany.
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It was just my first encounter with some who held power saying ridiculous things that reminded you who was in charge and how they saw you.
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Nigeria has been under civilian rule since 1999 after military dictatorships held power for the vast majority of the years following independence from Britain in 1960.
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This allowed them to move on the first two of those ideas when they held power and use the third to excoriate Democrats when they didn't.
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The former son-in-law of late Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet, he has held power at SQM since it was privatized under Pinochet in the 1980s.
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You might think such a revelation would unseat Mr Najib and spell ruin for his United Malays National Organisation (UMNO), which has held power since independence.
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Once again, I am part of a movement of people seeking to wrest control of their lives back from those who have historically held power over us.
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Mugabe, 93, has held power since Zimbabwe won independence from Britain in 1980 and critics accuse him of using the security forces to crack down on dissent.
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Hoyer, who's been in Congress for three decades and served as majority leader when Democrats last held power, passionately decried the idea of term limits this week.
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At no point was this greater than in 2007, when an army-backed caretaker government held power for two years in the run-up to national elections.
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He led the toppling in 2013 of Mursi, Egypt's first freely-elected president who briefly held power after the 2011 uprisings that toppled veteran autocrat Hosni Mubarak.
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Since its founding last year, NAMA has emerged as a rival to the Amhara party in the ruling coalition, which has held power in Ethiopia since 1991.
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She was disappointed by the Socialist Party, who held power for the past five years, saying François Hollande and his government did not live up to her expectations.
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The ANC has held power under three different leaders since the end of apartheid in 1994, but the party's electoral dominance is shrinking, making Ramaphosa's task more urgent.
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In a speech on Monday Hun Sen, who has held power since 1985, said he was not willing to talk to Sam Rainsy, citing the latter's criminal convictions.
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A coalition of the SPO and OVP has held power since 2006 but is unpopular because it failed to agree major reforms on job creation, investment and taxes.
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Democrats are also eyeing the installation of pay-as-you-go rules, designed to rein in deficit spending, which were also in place when they last held power.
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Taking over from Suharto, who had ruled the world's most populous Muslim majority country with an iron fist for 32 years, Habibie held power for just 17 months.
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Netanyahu's Likud party, which has held power since 227, has trailed in some election polls the Blue and White party led by the former military general Benny Gantz.
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The DPP lost its stronghold of Kaohsiung, the southern port city where it had held power for more than 20 years, during the nationwide vote Saturday for local posts.
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The Gambia held presidential elections in December last year, in which long-term incumbent Yahya Jammeh, who has held power for 20 years, lost to opposition leader Adama Barrow.
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Another point is that wherever fundamentalist Sunnis (from conservative monarchs to populist Muslim Brothers) have held power, they have generally been anti-Shia and anti-Christian in equal measure.
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Hasina's Awami League has held power since 2009 and dispensed from 2014 with a practice of letting a neutral caretaker government oversee elections, to the anger of the BNP.
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Both Meade and Anaya represent parties that defended closer economic integration and cooperation with the United States and are the only ones to have held power, Barrios Gomez noted.
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"I feel I have the strength to lead the fight at such a turbulent moment in our history," wrote the former president, who held power between 2007 and 2012.
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Hoyer of Maryland, who's been in Congress for three decades and served as majority leader when Democrats last held power, passionately decried the idea of term limits on Tuesday.
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The 89-year-old Brotherhood held power in Egypt for a year after a popular uprising in 2011, but was then removed by the army after mass street protests.
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A March poll by Reforma had shown del Mazo with a one-point lead over Gomez in the state, where the PRI has held power since the party's inception.
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It's possible the partisan divide reflects the tumultuous politics of the era — and the results could be reversed to an extent if a Democratic administration held power in Washington.
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Having lots of men who have never held power, held a job or held a girl's hand is a prescription for social unrest — especially when they're all on Twitter.
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It says any vote that takes place while the old guard, who have held power since independence from France in 1962, remain in place could not be considered fair.
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Though a fixture of France's political landscape for over 40 years, the National Front has never held power at the top, and so can position itself outside the establishment.
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It was published in 1979, but it's still one of the most comprehensive looks at the black elected representatives who held power in South Carolina from 1867 to 1876.
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When Law and Justice, the party he founded with his identical twin, Lech Kaczynski, first held power between 2005 and 2007, the courts blocked parts of their nationalist agenda.
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"This is a very polarized country, and some here really want to get back at the people who held power for 14 years" under Mr. Morales, Mr. Carvalho said.
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The hostile corporate takeover of our government has been spurred by four decades of destructive Republican policies and an inability of Democrats to right these policies when they held power.
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Rep. Joe Crowley's primary loss Tuesday night is already blowing open fractures within the Democratic caucus, increasing calls for fresh blood in a leadership that has held power for years.
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It would also bring to an end the 61-year rule of a party that Mahathir helped build, and which has held power since Malaysia's independence from Britain in 1957.
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In the latest installment of the series, protagonist Karyl Bogomirskiy once held power but was betrayed and resurrected by magical beings known as the Fae, for their own mysterious ends.
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Mr Najib presented himself as a liberal out to remake the sleazy system of money politics by which the ruling United Malays National Organisation (UMNO) has held power since independence.
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In the end, Cooke's argument is not that Obama laid a foundation for Trumpism; it is that Obama should have been more sheepish about his liberalism while he held power.
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Suharto, a strongman who held power from 1966 to 1998, reserved a fifth of the seats in parliament for the armed forces and appointed officers to important positions in government.
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But Mr. Agrizzi's testimony indicated that malfeasance has long been — and still is — an integral part of the A.N.C., which has held power since the end of apartheid in 1994.
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The P.R.I. lost elections in 7 states, including some where they had held power for more than 70 years, and Mr. Beltrones was forced to step down as party president.
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Right-wing reformers are rising where left-wingers ruled, progressives are rising where conservatives held power, and unconventional populists are gaining in countries where the traditional parties are especially weak.
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The Liberals have held power for 16 years and are dogged by a decade of surging Vancouver housing prices, political scandals and a continuing federal police investigation into political donations.
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He announced a truce in 2016 and a year later held talks with President Nyusi aiming at a reconciliation with Frelimo, which has held power without interruption since Mozambique's independence.
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The GNA has struggled to exert its authority in Tripoli and beyond, or rein in the militias that have held power on the ground in Libya since the country's 2011 uprising.
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Besides, he is the only plausible presidential candidate from his right-wing Colorado Party, which has held power for all but five of the past 70 years (including during the dictatorship).
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In fact, a recent study shows 25% of women say they've not only endured unwanted sexual advances at work but they've endured it from men who held power over their jobs.
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In a closely-controlled constitutional referendum held in Thailand on August 7th, 61% of voters endorsed a charter promoted by the army (which has held power since a coup in 2014).
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Asad Qaiser, a Khan loyalist, defeated Pakistan Peoples Party candidate Syed Khurshid Shah, who was backed by lawmakers from the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) that held power last term.
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What they do, according to O*NET: They grind, sand, or polish, using hand tools or hand-held power tools, a variety of metal, wood, stone, clay, plastic, or glass objects.
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The DPP, which distrusts Beijing and traditionally supports independence for Taiwan, took over the reins of government from the more China-friendly Nationalist Party, which had held power for eight years.
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Lee, the son of Singapore's founding father Lee Kuan Yew, has held power since 2004 and is widely expected to step down after elections that must take place by early 2021.
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The political party that held power for 23 years, before the new coalition was voted in, is already accusing the government of stacking the decks for the national election in 2020.
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Mugabe, who has held power since Zimbabwe gained independence from Britain in 1980, was attending a scheduled meeting on Wednesday of his party ZANU-PF's politburo, the party's top executive organ.
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He'd held power for so long — even after his nominal ouster from the presidency in 2011, he remained a dominant force in Yemen — that he seemed almost welded to the landscape.
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Zuma, who has held power in Africa's most industrialized economy since 23, has now survived nine no-confidence votes despite a record in office marred by allegations of sleaze and influence-peddling.
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Lee, the son of Singapore's founding father Lee Kuan Yew, has held power since 2004, and is widely expected to step down after an election that must take place by early 2021.
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But the United Malays National Organisation (UMNO) has held power for six decades and enjoys broad support from Malaysia's ethnic-Malay majority, some of whom resent their ethnic-Chinese and Indian compatriots.
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Lee, the son of Singapore's founding father Lee Kuan Yew, has held power since 2004, and is widely expected to step down after an election that must take place by early 2021.
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The Socialist and Republican parties, which have held power since the founding of the Fifth Republic in 1958, could be eliminated in the first round of a presidential ballot on April 23rd.
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On the outskirts of Loíza, several concrete pylons that once held power lines lie shattered on the side of the road, a loose tangle of metallic rebar sticking up from the wreckage.
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Zelenskiy has so far not publicly designated a prime minister or a preferred coalition partner, but on Sunday he appeared to rule out an alliance with parties that have previously held power.
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Despite doubts about Mr. Temer's government, many Brazilians place the blame for the country's economic woes squarely on Ms. Rousseff and her Workers' Party, which held power for more than 13 years.
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The very concept of elite private high school education was developed to provide whites an alternative to those public schools, with the effect of maintaining class divide and long-held power structures.
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First, the United States has never gone through a prolonged period of minority democratic rule — that is, when a minority of enfranchised citizens held power over a majority for years on end.
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The political establishment, as embodied by the governing Institutional Revolutionary Party, or PRI, which held power uninterrupted from 1929 to 2000, is perceived by many Mexicans as inclined to corruption and graft.
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Even if he had not, Mr. McKenzie said, Mr. Thomas, who held power of attorney for Mr. Indiana, fully understood the artist's wishes and had the authority to act on his behalf.
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Although Cambodia is nominally a democracy, Mr. Hun Sen, 65, has held power for 32 years and announced last week that he intended to continue as leader for at least another decade.
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The military, which has held power since a 2014 coup, rolled out some reforms after the European Union in 2015 threatened to ban fish imports from Thailand unless it clean up the industry.
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TURKEY'S president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, has held power for the past 13 years, first as prime minister and since 2014 as president, longer than any leader other than the country's founder, Kemal Ataturk.
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Some were hardened jihadists, but many were losers, misfits, adventure seekers and young men who had never held power, a job or a girl's hand and they joined ISIS to get all three.
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But even Diana, Princess of the Amazons, would tell you that long-held power structures tend to thaw slowly, especially in a world where dudes have controlled the camera's gaze for so long.
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In 22.5, the PRI—the Mexican party that had held power for 22009 years—got voted out in favor of the National Action Party (PAN), which took a hard line against drug cartels.
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The willingness of his onetime foes to line up behind Mr. Mahathir's candidacy illustrates the weakness of an opposition that has never held power and is fragmented by ethnic divisions and personal rivalries.
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The first was from 1981 to 2003 and the second since 2018, when he joined with Anwar to oust the party that had held power for 60 years over accusations of widespread corruption.
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The protesters opposed the election, arguing that any vote held while the old elite still held power was illegitimate, and tens of thousands still demonstrating each week have rejected his offer of dialogue.
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The Social Democrats, which have held power for long stretches since Lithuanian independence, have been looking for a way to reconnect with the voters after finishing a distant third in the 2016 general election.
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The court has yet to rule on the case, which for many has come to symbolize widespread corruption inside the A.N.C., the party that has held power since the end of apartheid in 1994.
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For their part, the Taliban, who famously banned opium growing in 2000, when they held power across most of the country, have suggested they will once again eliminate the poppies if peace talks succeed.
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One day, an art collector introduced him to a potential client, Count Sebastiano Bonmartini, whose family had held power in the region for six centuries, stretching back to the time of the Medici dynasty.
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Africa's oldest leader at 92 years, Mugabe has held power since independence from Britain in 1980 and says his heir must be chosen democratically and that his wife will not automatically inherit the role.
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Alberta, where the Conservatives held power for 40 years before the NDP unexpectedly took over, is home to Canada's vast oil sands and is the largest exporter of crude oil to the United States.
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Why it matters: The Independent Group now has as many members in the House of Commons as the Liberal Democrats, which held power with the Conservatives in a coalition government from 2010 to 2015.
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Recent opinion polls have shown Quebec's ruling Liberals, a centrist party, running neck-and-neck against the center-right Coalition Avenir Quebec (CAQ) of former business executive Francois Legault, which has never held power.
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The ANC has held power since it won an election at the end of apartheid in 1994, but it now faces a revitalized opposition and could be set for a tough battle next year.
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It is a belief that was reinforced when Mr. Kaczynski's Law and Justice party first held power, from 2005 to 2007, and he found many of his efforts stymied by the country's Constitutional Tribunal.
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"As former Time editor-in-chief Nancy Gibbs writes, this project is an exercise in looking at the ways in which women held power due to systemic inequality," the magazine wrote, quoting Gibbs's statement.
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The GNA has struggled to exert its authority in Tripoli and beyond, or rein in the militias that have held power on the ground in Libya since the country's 2011 uprising that toppled Gaddafi.
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It is no coincidence that many of the places where the insurgents have made their biggest gains have been in the northern provinces, where warlords have long held power — and often are deeply resented.
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Weekly demonstrations since February have demanded that the old guard who have held power since independence from France in 1962 leave power, resisting both pressure and concessions aimed at getting them off the streets.
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The defeat also powerfully captured the way the Democratic electorate has changed since the Clintons held power in the 1980s in Arkansas; in the 1990s in the White House; and through early 2009, when Mrs.
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The bodyguard unit is an elite force with thousands of troops which is seen as being deeply involved in internal security matters and especially loyal to Hun Sen, who has held power for three decades.
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The ruling coalition, which has held power since the late 214.9s, was broadly expected to keep its grip on power, despite a long-running scandal over allegedly embezzled funds from Malaysian state investment fund 22018MDB.
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In part voters are simply pleased to see the back of his predecessor (and former brother-in-law) Taib Mahmud, who held power for three decades and on whose watch Sarawak's precious rainforests were plundered.
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His return to Democratic Republic of Congo could dramatically shake up the political landscape ahead of the election, which is meant to choose a successor to President Joseph Kabila, who has held power since 2001.
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Historically, Democrats held power in Raleigh for so long that Republicans are still seen as the insurgent party, benefiting Mr. Trump, said Mac McCorkle, a former Democratic strategist now on the faculty of Duke University.
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From then on, Democrats generally held power at the state level, but North Carolina mostly went red in presidential elections; Barack Obama was the first Democrat to win the state's electoral votes in 32 years.
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Their combined score of 93 percent was the lowest for any CDU/CSU/SPD coalition - a combination that also held power in 2005-09 and 2013-17 - in Emnid's poll for the Bild am Sonntag.
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A charter member of Mayor John V. Lindsay's so-called kiddie corps, Mr. Kriegel played an outsize role as chief of staff and special counsel in an administration that held power from 21973 to 21975.
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More importantly, Mr Trump's victory—part of a global populist backlash against the political status quo—is an ominous sign for Mr Putin and his wealthy cronies, who have held power for more than 16 years.
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Lopez Obrador has promised to run an austere government and to combat corruption, aiming to contrast with the deeply unpopular ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), which has held power for most of the past nine decades.
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Across the world there has been a consistent shift to the political right, as voters abandon the center-left and centrist parties, which once held power in many democracies, after years of austerity and economic downturn.
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Political tension is rising in the southern African nation after protests in the last three months against the rule of 92-year-old President Robert Mugabe, who has held power since independence from Britain in 1980.
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Bongo retains institutional advantages accrued over the decades his family has held power as well as a close connection to France, the country's former colonial power, which plays a significant role in the country's economic life.
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Responsible for some of Britain's biggest postwar social advances, including the creation of a free health care system, Labour won elections in the 1960s and 1970s and then held power for 13 years up to 2010.
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President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi - like Mubarak a former senior military officer - has overseen a crackdown on dissent that has targeted liberal opponents as well as the Islamists who briefly held power after the Arab Spring.
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But even more significant: The predicted majority for Mr. Macron, 39, would put the finishing touches on the new president's dismantling of the parties that held power in France for 50 years until he came along.
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The first was from 1981 to 2003 and the second since 2018, when he joined with old rival Anwar Ibrahim to oust the party that had held power for 60 years over accusations of widespread corruption.
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NAIROBI (Reuters) - Former Kenyan President Daniel arap Moi, who has died aged 22013, held power for longer than any other leader since independence and left a legacy of corruption that still haunts the East African nation today.
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At a time of intense vitriol against the press in India, she was a fearless, sometimes reckless critic of the right-wing, Hindu-nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party, or B.J.P., which has held power in India since 2014.
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The surprise collapse comes less than four years after a coalition of Indo-Guyanese and Afro-Guyanese politicians, promising a new style of inclusive politics, defeated a party that had held power for more than two decades.
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Sunday's vote in Saarland state -- Germany's smallest -- isn't expected to have a major impact on the balance of power in Germany, and the Christian Democrats have held power in the area for the better part of two decades.
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But the government of Robert Mugabe, a 92-year-old who has held power since the end of white rule in 1980, has again been spending more than it collects in taxes, and importing more than it exports.
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News reports based on the documents have linked $2 billion in assets to a childhood friend of President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia, and disclosed the holdings of the Aliyev family, which has long held power in Azerbaijan.
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Gantz, a former military chief, was joined in his centrist Blue and White party by two other prominent Israeli generals, a phalanx of officers that failed to unseat Netanyahu, an ex-commando who has held power since 2009.
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After Robert Mugabe, the autocratic ruler of Zimbabwe who held power for nearly four decades, announced that he was resigning from office this week, questions quickly began swirling about what would become of the war hero turned president.
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When faced with the fact the old white men have historically held power, both candidates chose to deflect from it and highlight their own strengths, rather than acknowledge the need for a broader range of perspectives in leadership.
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The title refers to the 1831 massacre of the indigenous Charrúa people, but placed in a contemporary context, the entire installation was a veiled reference to the brutal dictatorship that held power in Uruguay from 1973 to 1985.
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Electoral boundaries were last changed in 2003, under the leadership of then-premier Mahathir Mohamad, who was also accused of manipulating the process in favor of the ruling coalition, which has held power since independence from Britain in 1957.
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The Islamists have been linked with the Muslim Brotherhood, which has individual branches in almost every Arab country and briefly held power in Egypt in 2012 and 2013 before being overthrown in a military coup supported by Saudi Arabia.
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But, Labour lost a seat in the north western English region of Copeland where they have held power since 1935, giving Conservative Prime Minister Theresa May the first gain for a ruling party at a by-election in 35 years.
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In the Obama years, that often entailed trying to work with Democrats who held power in Washington — spending months trying to negotiate a climate change bill in 2010 and being part of the immigration reform "Gang of Eight" in 2013.
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Capitalising on the fears among many poor Romanians that reforms come at a cost, the PSD has held power for about 17 years out of the 27 that have passed since communist leader Nicolae Ceausescu was toppled and shot in 1989.
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They are accused of accepting bribes from the state's transportation industry body in exchange for favorable legislation going back to the governorship of Sérgio Cabral, who held power from 2007 to 2014 and was arrested in 2016 on corruption charges.
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After a hard think, she concluded that, if anything, the lack of structure made the situation worse: Elite women who went to the right schools and knew the right people held power and outsiders had no viable way of challenging them.
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But with the Socialist party beset by squabbles and the newly-founded local branch of Podemos too small to run, IU's dogged opposition in city hall made it the main rival to a PP that had held power for 20 years.
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The election, which was marred by low turnout and isolated incidents of unrest in separatist Anglophone regions, has been widely expected to extend the rule of Biya — one of Africa's last multi-decade leaders who has held power for 36 years.
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What academics call the fundamentals of the race—the economy is performing modestly well, the same party has held power for eight years, and neither side benefits from incumbency—suggest a tie between an identikit Democrat and a generic Republican.
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Since Pelosi, Hoyer and Clyburn had already served two terms as speaker, majority leader and majority whip when Democrats last held power, they would be entering their third terms in 2019 and could run for one more term at most.
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Nearly every city official who held power at the time has resigned or retired, but Charlottesville's Confederate statues, whose planned removal by the city spawned the white nationalist protest, still remain, as do the local organizers who planned the rally.
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Having held power since 2004, he is widely expected to go after an election that must take place by early 2021, and the end of the Lee era will pitch Singapore into a rare state of flux at a sensitive time.
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New York might be considered a blue state, but Democrats have held power in our Senate for only three years since World War II. So now that the Democrats are in control in Albany, what can we expect them to do?
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The government inaction, aggressive security response and increased violence has led Iraq's Shiite spiritual leader, the highly influential Ali al-Sistani, to publicly oppose all mainstream politicians who have held power in recent years from involvement in Iraq's government formation.
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The candidates both present themselves as outsiders — Mr. Macron served in the Socialist government but is not a Socialist, while Ms. Le Pen's party has never held power — but the crowds at the two rallies were a study in contrast.
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Eventually, President Sukarno, with his anti-American talk and socialist sympathies, was replaced by Suharto, a general who held power for 32 years, instituting a policy he called the New Order to reinvigorate the economy through foreign aid and investment.
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The lack of a majority for the centrist bloc — the center-right European People's Party (EPP) and the center-left Socialist and Democrats (S&D) which has held power in Brussels for several decades — could further complicate decision-making at the European Union.
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At the height of the scandal in mid-2015, Attorney-General Abdul Gani Patail - who had led probes into 1MDB - was suddently replaced by Apandi, a former federal court judge with strong ties to UMNO, which has held power in Malaysia since 1957.
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Mr. Hunter, 2000, once boasted a glittering political résumé that touched all the right notes in his conservative district: war hero, father to three young children, scion of a political dynasty in Southern California, where his father held power for almost 22016 years.
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Al Jazeera wrote that the elections have been "marred by allegations of mass arrests and jailing of activists and critics, forced disappearances and extrajudicial killings" under the Bangladesh Awami League government led by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, which has held power for a decade.
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The Supreme Court in July disqualified Sharif because he did not declare a monthly salary, equivalent to $25,722, from a company owned by his son when the veteran leader, who had held power twice in the 1990s, became prime minister for the third time.
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The big picture: With Nazarbayev's surprise announcement, Algeria's Abdelaziz Bouteflika ending his re-election bid, and Sudan's Omar al-Bashir wobbling in the face of mass protests, the time feels ripe to take a look at the current world leaders who've held power the longest.
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Related: Fracking on University of Texas Land Is Poisoning the Air, Soil, and Water The former Progressive Conservative provincial government — which held power from 1971 to 2015 — was often known for its close ties with the energy industry and its generally industry-friendly policies.
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The Democratic Party, which only held power for three years and three months before Mr. Abe became prime minister in 2012, is still in disarray over what is widely regarded as a failed term that included the disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant.
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After nearly being voted out in 2013 by a new opposition party that counted many overseas Cambodians among its supporters and funders, the Cambodian People's Party of Mr. Hun Sen, which has held power in some form since 1979, began to aggressively target the diaspora.
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The October 2017 allegations against Hollywood's Harvey Weinstein were noteworthy not only for inspiring the "Me Too" movement of women sexually harassed or assaulted by men who held power over them, but for the number of perps who significantly acknowledged publicly their abusive actions.
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SAN SALVADOR — Salvadorans elected Nayib Bukele, the media-savvy former mayor of the capital, as their next president on Sunday, delivering a sharp rebuke to the two parties that emerged from the country's brutal civil war in the 1980s and have held power ever since.
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Najib was ousted from power in an election that saw the Barisan Nasional coalition that had held power for decades lose to a reformist coalition spearheaded by Mahathir, a former prime minister who had been a stalwart of the Barisan Nasional until turning against his former comrades.
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The 22012-year-old, who held power from 20173 to 22017, was told by investigators on Wednesday after two days of questioning in police custody that he was formally suspected of passive corruption, an offence that carries a sentence of up to 22011 years in jail.
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But the reality is that, for most of this country's history, one tribe has held power, deciding who was allowed to settle the land and who could be dispossessed, who was free and who was enslaved, who had the right to vote and who did not.
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Ardern is riding a surge in the polls just three weeks after her appointment to the leadership of the center-left Labour Party opened up what had been predicted to be a straightforward re-election of the incumbent center-right government, which has held power for a decade.
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The race between 13 candidates is too close to call but the winner faces an uphill battle to re-unite the right-of-center party that held power for nearly a decade under former Prime Minister Stephen Harper before the center-left Liberals won a shock majority in 2015.
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Zimbabwe's only ruler since independence from Britain in 1980, Mugabe led the country from the embers of civil war and repressive white-minority rule, and has held power since with a mixture of tactical cunning, obdurate African nationalism and, where necessary, the brute force of his security services.
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Polls suggest that voters, fed up from four straight years of slowing growth under the Democratic Party, are likely to award more seats to the MPP, which ruled Mongolia when it was a socialist one-party state and has held power most often since democratic reforms in 1990.
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Corruption in Atlantic City has long been a reality — the inspiration for the flamboyant political boss Enoch ("Nucky") Johnson on the HBO series "Boardwalk Empire" was a real figure who held power in the Roaring Twenties and the Depression, and later served four years in prison for tax evasion.
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That alarmed allies of Petro O. Poroshenko, the Ukrainian president, who is generally regarded as more pro-Western, and it emboldened his pro-Russian opponents, who had held power from 2010 to 2014 partly through the efforts of Mr. Manafort and his former right-hand man, Rick Gates.
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Park, the daughter of a military ruler who held power for 18 years after a 1961 coup, has been accused of colluding with a friend and a former aide, both of whom have been indicted, to pressure big businesses to donate to foundations set up to back her policy initiatives.
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The Brotherhood, which held power for just over a year, has been classified as a terrorist group by the government of Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, the president and a former military leader, and thousands of the group's leaders and members have been jailed or killed or have gone into exile.
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They were all out in full force for Nayib Bukele, the 215-year-old populist candidate who won a decisive victory to become El Salvador's new president Sunday night, landing a blow to the country's two dominant political parties that have held power since the end of the country's brutal civil war.
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They were all out in full force for Nayib Bukele, the 22019-year-old populist candidate who won a decisive victory to become El Salvador's new president Sunday night, landing a blow to the country's two dominant political parties that have held power since the end of the country's brutal civil war.
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The decision against Lula is a serious blow to the political survival of Brazil's first working-class president whose career from a factory shop floor to high office is sinking in the corruption scandals that have rocked the political establishment and especially his Workers Party, which held power from 2003 until mid-2016.
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Mr. Copley remembers the Democrats who held power here — men like Senator Robert C. Byrd, who died in 2010 and whose name is on buildings and roads built with the tax dollars he brought home — and wonders why they did not see the coal bust coming and work to diversify the economy.
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For decades, the religious right held power within the conservative movement and the Republican Party based on the idea that millions of voters cared deeply about religiously inflected issues: abortion, same-sex marriage, school choice and school prayer, and deeper problems with a hypersexualized mass culture that takes sex outside of marriage as a given.
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Mr. Moon's view of North Korea echoes the approach of the two liberal presidents who held power from 1998 to 2008 and pursued a so-called sunshine policy toward the North that included diplomatic talks, family reunions and joint economic projects, such as the Kaesong industrial park in North Korea, near the demilitarized zone.
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The following 15 occupations will experience the biggest decline over the next seven years, losing more than a fifth of all their workers: Median annual wage: $29,550Projected job growth through 2026: - 20 percent These workers grind, sand and polish a variety of metal, wood, stone, clay, plastic or glass objects using hand tools or hand-held power tools.
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Party control of a governor's office, however, does not guarantee a presidential candidate that state's electoral votes — in 2628, Democratic nominee Hillary ClintonHillary Diane Rodham ClintonThe exhaustion of Democrats' anti-Trump delusions Poll: Trump trails three Democrats by 28503 points in Colorado Soft levels of support mark this year's Democratic primary MORE won eight states where Republicans held power.
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Mr. Khan said the detained men were Rafiqul Islam Badsha, 50, the secretary of the local affiliate of Jamaat-e-Islami, an opposition party and the country's largest Islamist party; Jhontu Mia, a local activist with the Bangladesh Nationalist Party, another opposition party, which has held power in the past; and Moulana Aminul Islam, the principal of the local madrasa.
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