As a result of a successful season several players from the Wanganui squad were selected for the NZ Heartland XV to tour USA in late November and play matches against U.S .
In 2008 she was part of a small group of Western reporters who were allowed into Zimbabwe to report on that year's election in the country.
During the 2008 presidential election, Shapiro was a member of Hillary Clinton's campaign team, with his special focus being on foreign affairs.
Later, during violence of the 2008 parliamentary election, a gunman in Aračinovo opened fire on security police.
Because of this, it is remarkably similar-sounding to the electronic music duo Crystal Castles' "Courtship Dating" from their self-titled album, released the following year although performed live since December 2006.
On 1 June 2009, to celebrate their first anniversary, the Government of Karnataka and the Bangalore Metropolitan Transport Corporation sold off a pro-poor bus service called the Atal Sarige.
She defeated incumbent Republican State Auditor Les Merritt in the 2008 election.
He was first elected in the 2004 election as a Liberal in Edmonton Decore, but was defeated in his 2008 re-election bid by Progressive Conservative Janice Sarich.
In 2007 staffers from the Hillary Clinton presidential campaign were found to have pseudonymously created accounts.
This was largely by combination of factors such as the United States Subprime mortgage crisis and the political uncertainty caused by the 12th General Election.
Quebec Premier Jean Charest came under heavy fire when the $39.8 billion loss was revealed, with some accusing him of calling the 2008 snap election prior to the Caisse's troubles becoming public.
Telfer serves on the Bend City Council, and was elected to the Oregon State Senate in the November 2008 elections, to succeed outgoing Senator Ben Westlund.
This mechanism was first applied in the 2008 general election.
The Cook Islands are the only one of the three dependent territories of New Zealand to compete at the Olympic Games, Niue and Tokelau having not yet done so to date.
Running as a Liberal, he won the seat in a 2007 by-election, but lost the seat in the 2008 general election.
He has run four times for the Congressional seat representing New York's 26th congressional district, in 2004, 2006, 2008 and 2011; all bids have been unsuccessful.
Dingell and U.S. Senator Carl Levin (D - MI) were the proponents of moving up Michigan's Presidential Primary before February 5, to attempt to garner greater political influence for Michigan during the 2008 Democratic Primaries.
The last poll results on November 3 found Obama-Biden leading McCain-Palin by 5 points, coming within one point of the actual election results (in which Obama-Biden led McCain-Palin by 6 points).
In 2008, she ran as the Republican nominee for the 73rd State Assembly district against Democratic nominee Judy Jones.
In 2007, Holtz-Eakin was hired as chief economic policy adviser to U.S. Senator John McCain's 2008 presidential campaign.
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He is a former professor, former Director of the Congressional Budget Office, and former chief economic policy adviser to U.S. Senator John McCain's 2008 presidential campaign.
In 2008, the tenth Baronet ran in the 40th Canadian General Election as the Green Party candidate for Hamilton East—Stoney Creek, Ontario.
Ortíz was sworn in as Senator At-large after the 2008 general elections according to the Law of Minority.
Recounts in Minnesota are handled by the State Canvassing Board, as needed in the 2008 Senate election between Norm Coleman and Al Franken.
Electoral Compass USA provides information about the 2008 US presidential elections.
The previous member, state Nationals turned independent MP Rob Oakeshott, resigned from the seat in order to contest the Lyne by-election which he won.
Ellis County gave a plurality to Bill Clinton over Bush and Ross Perot in the 1992 presidential election, but has been in the Republican column in each of the past four elections, giving 66 percent to Republican John McCain to 32 percent for Democrat Barack Obama in the 2008 election, higher than the 57 percent McCain won statewide.
During the Quebec provincial election Independent candidate Kevin Côté made one of his platforms to force Canadiens into retiring the number.
Magnuson served on the State Canvassing Board for the United States Senate election in Minnesota, 2008.
For example, the group purchased $550,000 in advertising in the Mississippi 1st district special election in support of Republican candidate Greg Davis.
Kubatov served as campaign executive of the party during the Hungarian fees abolishment referendum in 2008 and the 2009 European Parliament election in Hungary.
She was the 2008 Democratic nominee for the 2008 Vermont gubernatorial election against incumbent Republican Governor Jim Douglas and Independent Anthony Pollina.
He was put in charge of President Saakashvili's PR campaign of January 5 Georgian presidential election.
The by-election followed a run of poor results since May, in the Crewe and Nantwich and Henley by-elections in England, English and Welsh local elections and losing the London mayoralty.
In 2007 when Jamhoori Wattan Party was divided in three parts, he resigned and joined the Pakistan Peoples Party and took part in the 2008 election.
The Serbia-sponsored local elections were held on 11 May 2008.
Chase ran for a second term in office in the 2008 Alberta general election, he was re-elected holding the electoral district with a comfortable plurality.
A graduate of Peter Vanleslie High School and Stanford University (1980), he served on the White House staff under both Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush and on each of their presidential campaigns and in January 2008 became a senior adviser to the Mike Huckabee 2008 presidential campaign.
Golden left the radio show in June 2007 to explore a candidacy for the United States Senate in the 2008 election.
Although Alabama as a whole voted for John McCain by double digits in 2008, Barack Obama carried Jefferson County with 166,121 votes (52%) John McCain received 149,921 votes (47%).
When Barack Obama announced his candidacy in 2007, Bird joined as the field director for South Carolina.
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Along with a team of mid-level field experts and data analysts, Bird conducted a study of the campaign starting only a month after the election took place.
Maçon was an unsuccessful senatorial candidate in the 2008 elections, however he was elected as a Deputy for St Saviour No. 1 district.
In the by-election Saward won 492 votes (2.1%).
He was an unsuccessful candidate for the Democratic nomination in the 2008 Pennsylvania Treasurer election, losing to Robert McCord.
In 2008 Baker aspired to higher office, running for US Congress in Missouri's 9th Congressional District to replace Kenny Hulshof.
In 2008, he was elected to the Oregon House of Representatives for District 42, representing inner Southeast and Northeast Portland.
Larva Mortus is an indie video game developed by Rake In Grass in 2008.
Alongside Harvard's Cass Sunstein, Tribe served as a judicial adviser to the Barack Obama's 2008 presidential campaign.
Fernández survived the August 2008 vote of confidence referendum, though he had over 14,000 votes against his governorship.
Leri Khabelov became involved in the Georgian politics in 2008, when he ran, unsuccessfully, in the parliamentary election on a ticket of the opposition Republican Party of Georgia .
Following the 2008 change of mayor, a new review was initiated in July 2008 and a new London Plan published in July 2011.
Republican Gordon Smith was defeated for re-election in 2008, and newly elected President Barack Obama restarted the judicial selection process for the District of Oregon.
She was elected to represent the Seventh City Council District in the 2008 election.
In November 2007, Reichel returned from France to work for the Dennis Kucinich presidential campaign, 2008 in Las Vegas, Nevada.
He has served as a senator from March 2003, but resigned on March 17, 2008, when he won the NA-17 Abbottabad-I National Assembly seat in the 2008 general election, held on February 18, 2008.
Merlien Institute was founded by Jasper Lim in 2008 with the mission to meet the needs of information and insight of marketing professionals.
The Oregon League of Conservation Voters and Willamette Week endorsed Dembrow during the 2008 legislative election.
Michel Pigeon (born 1945) is a politician in the Canadian province of Quebec, who was elected to represent the riding of Charlesbourg in the National Assembly of Quebec in the 2008 provincial election.
He was defeated in the 2008 election by Progressive Conservative David Xiao.
In the 2008 Oregon legislative elections, he was elected to the Oregon House of Representatives representing District 49 in Multnomah County, specifically the cities of Fairview, Troutdale, Wood Village, and a portion of Gresham.
On November 4, 2008, the US state of Oregon held statewide general elections for three statewide offices (secretary of state, treasurer, and attorney general), both houses of the Oregon Legislative Assembly, and twelve state ballot measures.
Robert McCord was elected Treasurer in the November 2008 general election and took office in January 2009.
In July 2008, she announced that she would be challenging Al Franken, who had been endorsed by the state Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party, for the party's nomination in the U.S. Senate election.
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She was a candidate for the Democratic nomination in the 2008 Minnesota U.S. Senate election.
The Nepalese monarchy was abolished in 2008 after the Constituent Assembly election.
Both the Respect Renewal faction, as 'Respect (George Galloway)', and Left List stood in the 2008 London Assembly elections.
Two weeks before the 2008 U.S. general election, Warren issued a statement to his congregation endorsing California Proposition 8, which would amend the California Constitution to say "only marriage between a man and a woman is valid or recognized in California," thereby eliminating the right of same-sex couples to marry.
McCain campaigned during her son's 2008 presidential campaign, and remains active despite her advanced age.
Parsley personally endorsed the presidential campaign of Republican nominee John McCain, who called Parsley a "spiritual guide".
The proposal was ostensibly shelved until after the general elections of 2008 and on 1 December 2008, Prime Minister Lawrence Gonzi revived the proposal with a budget of €80 million.
Sadrul Miya Haq is a Nepalese politician, who won the Saptari-5 seat in the 2008 Constituent Assembly election as an independent candidate.
In course of the Georgian presidential election in 2008, Salome Zurabishvili and many other politicians in opposition agreed to the Patriarch of Georgia Ilia II's indicated support to the establishment of a constitutional monarchy under the Bagrationi dynasty.
From April 2008 to September 2009, she was the John McCain presidential campaign's Senior Advisor to Treasury and Accounting.
In the 2008 general election party leader Silvestro Ladu was candidate for The People of Freedom (PdL) for the Italian Senate, but was not elected.
For the 2008 general election they tried to form an alliance with The People of Freedom, but talks failed.
In the 2008 Constituent Assembly election he was elected from the Nawalparasi-1 constituency, winning 17430 votes.
Concurrently with the album's release, Rhino also reissued two of the band's most successful albums, Faithlift and Open Heart Symphony.
It was used by Hillary Clinton during the United States' 2008 presidential election preliminaries.
In 2008, he was elected to the Oregon House of Representatives representing District 2, which encompasses portions of Douglas, Jackson, and Josephine counties, including the cities of Canyonville, Glendale, Myrtle Creek, Riddle, and Roseburg.
According to the government, the Catholic Herald would have its publishing permit suspended if it went ahead and publish an editorial on the Permatang Pauh by-election.
Balanoff gave a speech at the 2008 Democratic National Convention, supporting Barack Obama for President.
Other clients of Huck's have included Pabst Blue Ribbon and Art the Vote, for which he designed a billboard ad during the 2008 presidential election.
During 2008, the Kuomintang won both the legislative and presidential elections.
During his time at Boothferry Park, Hull completed a swift climb from the Fourth Division to the Second, and in 1986 finished sixth - their 2nd highest finish (they finished 5th in 1971) until they finally won promotion to the top flight 22 years later.
In the 2008 elections he was re-elected and became the Speaker of the Macedonian parliament.
The previous elections to the 10th Tripura Legislative Assembly was held in 2008.
United States House of Representatives elections, 2008
A special election to fill the seat for the remainder of the 110th Congress was held on November 15, 2008.
In 2008 Valley County voted 56% for McCain/Palin (GOP) and 43% for Obama/Biden (DEM) for president.
It was held at the same time as municipal elections throughout the province.
Elections included the gubernatorial, all state offices, including all state senators and representatives, the federal Congress and the presidential.
In the 2008 election, Hastings easily defeated challenger George Fearing (D-Kennewick).
Berman was a close friend of Senator John McCain and a supporter of his during his 2008 presidential campaign.
According to documents released by WikiLeaks, US president Barack Obama, who promised to oppose whaling during his presidential campaign, used diplomatic channels to put pressure on Norway during his visit for the conferment of the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize.
Hillary Clinton used this song during her campaign for the US presidency of 2008, baffling the band given the song's lyrics and controversial video.
He became affiliated with the new socialist party in Germany, Die Linke, in 2007, and was nominated as their candidate for minister-president in the 2008 Hessian state election.
Most recently it was represented by Republican Rick Renzi from 2003 to 2008, Democrat Ann Kirkpatrick following the 2008 election and Republican Paul Gosar following the 2010 election.
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The nine division winners were automatically promoted to Serie C2 for the 2008-09 season, while the two last-placed teams were automatically relegated to Eccellenza.
Fáilte Towers was broadcast on RTÉ One in August 2008, succeeding such shows as Cabin Fever and Celebrity Farm.
In December 2008, following a partnership with Cheshire County Council, BakerBus became one of the first operators to introduce ticket machines with Smartcard readers for the pensioner's free travel scheme.
Laurence Marvin, "The Occitan War: A Military and Political History of the Albigensian Crusade, 1209-1218", Berry College: Cambridge University Press, 2008, 175-195.
It was moved in May 2008 from the Dartmoor Railway to the Pontypool and Blaenavon Railway until August 2013, immediately prior to that railway's closure pending re-organisation.
In 2008, a proposal was initiated to construct a new railway line from Perungudi MRTS station in Chennai to Pondicherry via Old Mahabalipuram Road (OMR) and East Coast Road (ECR).
Logan was the CEO of USA Track & Field, the national governing body for track and field, long distance running and race walking from 2008 to 2010.
Samples from "Son of a Preacher Man" were used on Cypress Hill's cult-classic stoner-culture song "Hits from the Bong" on their album Black Sunday in 1993 and on Adil Omar's "Known to Kick It" in 2008.
The Poetry of Eavan Boland: A Postcolonial Reading. Bethesda, MD: Academica Press, 2008.
Fulton was prominently featured in a May 2000 show marking her and costar Don Hastings' fortieth anniversaries on ATWT, as well as in April 2006 during the show's 50th anniversary episode; and from January 2008 to August 2008, was seen in at least two episodes per week.
She was the Associate Dean of the University of Florida Division of Continuing Education and in 2008 she accepted the position as Interim Dean of the Division of Continuing Education.
They were then supported from 1999 to 2008 by the US National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners (NARUC), which, with the participation of USAID, arranged technical forums, meetings and study tours for mutual training and development.
David Floyd Weaver (May 12, 1941 – November 17, 2008) was a Major League Baseball pitcher who was born in Ben Franklin, Texas.
Kazumasa Sasaki (1989) - Asia League, World Junior Championship (2008)
On July 28, 2008, Hassan played the first half as part of a Singapore Selection side in a friendly match against the Brazil Olympics Team and made outstanding saves against Diego and Alexandre Pato's shots, letting in only two goals.
The “Gang of five”, as they were called when the pamphlet was presented in Washington DC (January 2008), consisted of General (ret.) John Shalikashvili (USA), General (ret.) Dr. Klaus Naumann (Germany), Admiral (ret.) Jacques Lanxade and Field Marshal the Lord Inge (UK).
In 2008 Hôtel Drouot was ranked fifth by sales amongst Paris auction houses, after Sotheby's, Christie's, Artcurial, and Tajan.
The song was recorded in 2008 by Australian singer Alfio for his album Classic Rewinds which pays tribute to Vic Damone, Al Martino and 13 other popular Italian-American singers.
Allen Hammond is Vice President of Special Projects and Innovation at the World Resources Institute: a Washington, DC-based, non-profit, environmental, think tank created in 1982 through a $15 million donation by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation of Chicago (World Resources Institute website 2008).
Iona Banks (20 Dec 1920; 20 May 2008) was a Welsh actress from Trelogan, Sir y Fflint.
He has been inducted into the Iowa Business Hall of Fame, is a recipient of the United Way of Central Iowa Alexis de Tocqueville Society award, a 2004 recipient of the Ellis Island Medal of Honor, a 2004 recipient of the Central Iowa Philanthropic Award for Outstanding Volunteer Fundraiser, and a 2006 recipient of the Business Committee for the Arts Leadership Award as well as a 2008 recipient of the American for the Arts Corporate Citizenship in the Arts Award.
She replaced Wijnand Duyvendak as an MP on September 3, 2008, after he left the Dutch House of Representatives.
On September 1, 2008, Sunshine was accepted as an apprentice to the rakugo storytelling master, Katsura Bunshi VI (then named Katsura Sanshi), and subsequently received the name Katsura Sunshine.
Konstantin burst onto the music scene in August 2008 as Winner of the Sydney International Piano Competition.
The club was founded in 1928, but they merged with GÍ Gøta 75 years later in 2008 to form Víkingur.
On television she had an ongoing role in 1950s-set detective series Jericho starring Robert Lindsay, and appeared in True True Lie (2006) and The Long Walk to Finchley (2008), along with a cameo in Rome (2006, "The Stolen Eagle"), and as a nurse in the BBC's Casualty 1909.
In Chuquisaca as well as Tarija, Morales enjoyed majority support in the 2008 referendum only in the rural areas, while the capital cities (Sucre and Tarija respectively) had a majority for recalling Morales.
On 5 May 2008, Dodik and Serbian President Boris Tadić inaugurated the Park Republika Srpska in Belgrade.
Donald made no appearances in the Eredivisie in the 2008–09 season under manager Marco van Basten after being badly injured in pre-season at the Amsterdam Tournament in a challenge on Inter's Adriano, but he reestablished himself in the squad following the appointment of Martin Jol.
Since his return at the 2008 Proms season, Perahia has been continually active on the concert scene.
At the time of the announcement, the Oshawa Truck plant was manufacturing the 2008 Silverado, Sierra, Sierra Denali Edition, and Sierra Texas Edition.
Brett wrote his 2008 novel The Painted Man (The Warded Man in the US) and much of his second novel on his HP Ipaq 6515 while on the New York subway.
The two are signed to the Belgian record label Dirty Workz, where they have been regularly releasing tracks since the year 2008.
Saif was finally transferred to Al Ain FC in the summer of 2008, after a long negotiation period with his previous club Al-Shaab, Al Ain finally got the youngster for 15 million AED.
In 2008, like in previous singles (a notable exception being Namida ga Tomaranai Hōkago), Michishige was given a relatively minor role both in Resonant Blue and Pepper Keibu, with the exception of a solo line in the latter.
"Dead By X-Mas" has been covered by the Japanese hardcore band The Piass in 1994, the US punk band The Hillstreet Stranglers in 2005, the British electro group Sohodolls in 2007 and the Finnish rockabilly band Big Daddy & Rockin’ Combo in 2008.
Storey was also the November pin up for the 2008 Clyde 1 Cash for Kids Charity Calendar which raises funds to support the most vulnerable children in Scottish communities.
She has since returned to the PSO as a guest artist as the title heroine in Lucia di Lammermoor (2004, 2008, and 2009), Rosina in Il barbiere di Siviglia (2005), Gilda in Rigoletto (2008–2009), Rosina (2009).
In July 2008 she was formally called for questioning by a French investigative judge, examining the April 2004 disappearance and presumed death in Abidjan of French-Canadian journalist Guy-André Kieffer.
Stanley Hay Umphray Bowie FRS (born 24 March 1917, in Bixter, Shetland - died 2008) was a Scottish geologist.
She was awarded an Honorary Degree (Doctor of Medicine) from the University of Bath in 2008.
She also produced the 2008 Christmas special, entitled "The Next Doctor".
TEMPO³ was selected as the winner of the Mars Project Challenge, run by the Mars Society in 2008, to determine the group's next major project.
A Road to Mecca - The Journey of Muhammad Asad, 2008 documentary on the life of Muhammad Asad, made by Austrian filmmaker Georg Misch
Entering the 2008 race, Walberg was identified by Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee chairman Chris Van Hollen as one of the most vulnerable Republican incumbents in congress.
The games were broadcast on radio during the first nine years of existence on WHWH, WBCB-AM, and WTSR, In 2008, the broadcasts switched to internet-only, and were handled by first-year play-by-play announcer Paul Roper, who was selected to broadcast the 2009 ECHL All-Star Game.
Cinderella: Masks, Magic and Mirrors (Sept. 2 - Mar. 31 2008) which included materials from Asia, Africa, Europe, and the Americas.
On April 1, 2008, the station switched to "Rush Radio," all day repeats of The Rush Limbaugh Show and a tape loop of Rush's theme song, the instrumental from My City Was Gone by The Pretenders, during times when the show was not playing.
In 2001 Ruthe B. Cowl (1912–2008) of Laredo, Texas, donated $1 million to create the Jack and Ruthe B. Cowl Center, which promotes "Yiddish literary, artistic, musical, and historical knowledge and accomplishment" at the Amherst headquarters.
On 31 July 2008 he scored his first goals for Cherno More in the second leg against UE Sant Julià on Estadi Communal in Aixovall.